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4 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Harvey To Speak Here Tonight Raymond Harvey, a second-year student at Colum bia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga., will be the speaker at a meeting of the Men of the Church of the First Presbyterian Church this evening (Thursday) at 7 o’clock. Before his conversion and decision to enter the min istry, Mr. Harvey owned and operated a nursery and fertilizer business in Bradenton, Fla. Prior to his conversion, he had no interest in relig ion or church affairs, being motivated by a self-cen tered, materialist, atheistic philosophy. The story of his conversion, which he will tell tonight, involved an hour-long battle with the eight-foot shark shown in the accompanying picture. Harvey is the fisherman on the right. ' Jimmy Pitts Is Star Basketball Player at Georgia The following was taken from Jim Anderson’s column in The Greenville News this week: FITTS IS CLINTON NATIVE Jimmy Pitts began playing basketball in the fourth grade at Clinton. When he was 10, his family moved to Smyrna, Ga. The William R. Pitts have sev eral relatives in this section. Jimmy is now the high-scoring senior forward at Georgia, with a 90.4 average that is second best in the Southeastern Confer ence Only trouble is, the Bull dogs started the season by win ning three of their first four and it looked like they would have the first winning season at Ath ens in 14 years. Now they’ve lost six of their last seven. Jimmy is planning a career in dentistry. And A1 Thorny writes in the Atlanta Times, “He would make a good dentist for be has a chairside maimer of painlessly extracting points from the oppo sition ... He glides, or soft- shoes it, whether set-shooting from the outside or driving in close for the lay-up. He Jumps, too. High . . . Jimmy is so de pendable it is hard to believe he is a left-hander." Pitts credits his basketball coach at Smyrna with providing the incentive for his develop ment. He bays BIO Bennett gave him the confidence and advised him to stick to basketball. He’ll go down in the Georgia athletic annals as one of their best basketball players. Walter Pot Wise Dies Near Joanna Joanna — Walter Pat Wise, 61, died of a sudden illness early Monday morning at his home near Joanna. A native of near Prosperity, he was a son of the late William B. and Victoria Long Wise. He had lived near Kinards for a number of years and was em- p'oyed by Joanna MQls. Surviving are his/wife, Mrs. Viola Johnson Wise:\three sons, Alfred C. Wise of Joanna, Joe L. Wise of Atlanta, Ga.; and John Pat Wise of Joanna; three daughters, Mrs. Dempsey Mor ris of Joanna, Mrs. James S. Danielson of Newberry and Mrs. WilUe Ray Sutton of Whitmire; one brother, W. R. (Bill) Wise of Newberry; two sisters, Mrs. N. L. Wessinger and Mrs. E. W. Fanning of Newberry; and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services were con ducted at 4:30 p. m. Tuesday at Summer Memorial Lutheran Church by Rev. A. W. Hewitt. Burial was in Newberry Me morial Gardens. Mrs. Ralph Arnold Laurens — Mrs. Lou Dellas Golden Arnold, 98, of Rt. 1, Laurens died early Saturday morning at her home after several years of declining health and a week of illness. A native of Laurens County, daughter of Mrs ."Dora Lee Gol den of Rt. 1, Ware Shoals, and the late Jacob D. Golden, she was a member of Mr. Gallagher Baptist Church and the Ada Chapter of the Order of the East ern Star. Her husband, Ralph D. Arnold, died in 1999. Surviving in addition to her mother are five daughters, Mrs. John R. Coats of Laurens, Mrs. Haskell Huffman of Columbia, Mrs. John B. Patton of Sterl ing, Va., Mrs. N. J. Marbois and Miss Jane Arnold of Wash ington, D. C.; three sisters, Mrs. Clyde B. Smith of Hodges, Mrs. Gray Lollis of Greenville .and Mrs. Floyd Blakely of Laurens; and 20 grandchildren. Funeral services were con ducted Sunday at 3 p.m. at Ken nedy Mortuary by Rev. Alvin S. Boone. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Baptist Brotherhood Meeting Tonight The January meeting of the First Baptist Brotherhood will be held tonight, Thursday, at 7r30 at the fellowship hall of the All men of the church are in vited to attend and may contact J. C. Thomas for tickets. " Bin. Patte have apodal relation ship with their “hoys" of the choir. She accompanies them on trips and serves as mother- away-from-home for each indi- vlduak Although they return at regu lar Intervals to their native Eu rope, Dr. and Mrs. Patte—along with son Chris—became natural ised Amedican citizens In 1980. Chris, who received ’his degree from PC and a master's from the University of Alabama, is now an army captain stationed in France. The Pattes have given much to the culutral life of the college and of Clinton. They are espec ially pleased with their latest addition, the fine arts studio, for it has brought an added dimen sion of creativity to the com munity. And not the least among the canvases and scultpures dis played during the two past an nual exhibits were the oil works of this versatile couple. CMaka, & C, Thandar, fmna *1, IMS eftat Pattes Add to Cultural o>m^.Uo n Life of Clinton Notes Dr. and Mrs. Edouard rtute are an important part of the cul tural life of Clinton through their encouragement of good music and other areas of the fine arts. He is now serving his 18th year as conductor of the Pres-* byterian College robed choir, recognized as one of the leading collegiate singing groups in the South. And he and Mrs. Patte preside over the PC fine arts studio, which they established in the upstairs of their home to exhibit the works of students and faculty members. Both their home and their way. of life, rooted in pre-war Europe, lend a cosmopolitan air to the community and offer a gracious ness in keeping with the best Southern tradition. Edouard Patte and wife Ay- mee both were born in Geneva, Switzerland, and educated at the College de Calvin and the Uni versity of Geneva there. After receiving his BA degree at 16, he went on to obtain graduate de grees in theology and sociology. Before her marriage, Mrs. Patte studied art and painting in Italy. After being graduated from the school of theology, Dr. Patte accepted the general secretary ship of t’he Geneva YMCA, then in succession, other positions in the ministry, and during World War II became one of the execu tives of the War Prisoners’ Aid of the YMCA in Europe and America. In this capacity, he had charge, spiritually, of the ministry of prisoners of war throughout the Southeastern United States. With the end of the war, he established the Fairview Pres byterian Church in North Augus ts and served this pulpit until coming to PC in 1947. Paralleling his academic stud ies through the years, Dr. Patte had pursued advanced studies in music, with emphasis upon or gan and choral work. His special talents moulded the Presbyte rian College choir into a finely disciplined singing organization, widely acclaimed for its per formance of sacred classical music. Critics have been espec- tally complimentary of the choir’s renditions of difficult li turgical chants, chorales and an thems of the early church. During the 18 years under Dr. Patte’s direction, the robed choir has made more than 600 appear ances throughout the South and in the national capital. Most of the performances have been be fore church congregations, and the choir also has sung over ra dio and television on numerous occasions. • In addition to this duties as minister of music, Edouard Patte has served as professor of sociology at PC after developing this department. He has also taught courses in art and music appreciation. The teaching responsibilities he shed only last spring after reaching the retirement age of 65, but he continues his effec tive work as .conductor of the robed choir. He and the gracious By J. B. O’DELL Work Unit Censervatioitlst Thirty more farm ponds in Laurens County received blue gill and red ear bream recently in the Initial stocking of these new ponds. Delivery was made by tank truck from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service hatch ery at Orangeburg. The applica tions for the fish were placed through the Board of Supervis ors of the local Laurens County Soil Conservation District. Thirty-nine thousand blue gill and 16,000 red rear were receiv ed by the local pond owners. The largest number, 10,000 went into the newly constructed flood water retaining structure on the Whitten Village farm of the Dim- can Creek Watershed. To complete the stocking of these ponds large mouth bass will be delivered by this same hatchery about the first of May. * * • Tree planting in the county is now getting underway. One hun dred thousand loblolly pine feed- lings were received last week from the Piedmont Nursery in Pickens County. The tree plant ing crew of the local soil conser vation district is again helping landowners in planting their pines. Also, many farmers are doing their own planting. Thous ands of acres in the county have been planted to pines In recent years. However, we still have many acres of steep, eroded and gullied land that is better suited to pines than any other use. Put theta idle acres to work hy planting to pines this season. Plenty of seedlings are avail able. ACP cost-sharing payments will go a long way toward pay- ing the cost The following iandwoners wars recently assisted hy the district in planting pines: R. A. Patton, J. B. Pinson, Mrs. Clyde Chap man, Mrs. Eldora Livingston, F. C. Kelly and C. D. Waldrep. e e • E. S. Chapman of Route 1, Laurens, had terrace lines sur veyed on forty acres of cropland this week. Grass waterways in keeping with the natural drain age pattern of the land were es tablished on these fields last year. Chapman is now ready tor the district’s terracing machine to build the terraces. The estab lished waterways will provide e safe place to empty the new ter races without washing. Chapman also completed 800 feet of drainage ditches on a wet area of bottomland pasture the last week in December. These practices were laid out by the technicians of the Soil Conserva tion Service as a part of the complete conservation plan on the farm. ACP cost-sharing as sistance will be used to help pay the cost of application. AH BILLFOLDS $2.88 jwiiQfl ^ a ettaw to south caao SOME AS HIGH AS 7.95 8. G. Holiday Special r OUTSTANDING SAVINGS ON THESE FAMOUS TOWLE STERLING ■ ■ < •j , -v PATTERNS one of theee twenty- Towle patterns? N ie the time to com at subetentM 4-pc. place eetUegs from $40.00 Check From County Shriners Alien D. Cotoman (toft), preddent of the Laurens County Shrine Club* prwnta a $1,01&50 check to Ed Hart for the Shrine Hoopftal for Crippled Children in Greenville. The funds were raised by the county Shrin ers at their annual New Year's dance. The presenta tion was made at a meeting in Greenville for election of officers of Hejax Temple, held at Manorial Audito rium. 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