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It THE CLINTON CHRONICLE -4- dinton, S. C., Thuraday, April 29, 1965 West Clinton News ... Florida Visitors Here Last Week Rowe Staj with her Mr. an< ander of MBS. M. W. ADAMS OorrespendeHt-Repreeentative Dial 8S3-2624 Mrs. William Coffee and Mrs. Nannie Orlando, Fla., visited Mrs. Tony Rowe and ire last week. Mrs. for a longer visit illdren. Mrs. Woodrow Alex- iurens visited Mr. and Mrs. Dessie Webb Saturday. Miss Velda Farmer and Mrs. Ruby Bryan attended the South • Carolina Assoc., of Insurance Agents at Forest Lake Country Club in Columbia last Tuseday. Mrs. Henry Russ was called to Shelby, N. C., last week due to the death of her aunt, Mrs. Maggie Howell. Those who at tended the funeral were: Rev. R. L. Russ and Mr. and Mrs. Shannon Russ of Joanna; Mrs. Truman Leopard, Mrs. W. J. Reece. Mrs. Ed Nelson, Mrs. Frank Deadwyler, Mrs. Lydia Todd, and Mrs. Henry Russ. Captain and Mrs. Hannon Al ford and daughter, Leslie, of Al- bany, Ga., visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sexton of GGreenwood. Mr. and Mrs. Luke Fuller and Mrs. Jimmy Sexton of Green wood were recent visitors of Mrs. Ada Center and daughters. They also visited Mrs. J. W. Ful ler who is a patient at Bailey Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Ott Thomas left Sunday aboard a jetliner for Connecti- cutt to visit her daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Davenport and family. She will also vsit another daugh ter, Mrs. Frances Reed and family in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomas and sons. Rod and Ryan, accompanied her to the Greenville airport Mr .and Mrs. Arthur Sanders and Mrs. Annie Mae Caughman were last week visitors of Mr. R. D. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Caughman in Augus ta, Ga. Mrs. Arthur Davis was called to Delaware due to the illness of her grandson. She is visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Blackweller there. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Easley of Winston-Salem, N. C., Mrs. Kitt Robinson and daughter of Wal- terboro and R. L. Lawson of Thomasville, N. C. were guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Lawson over the week-end. Mrs. John Word was a recent guest of Mr. and Mrs. Van Gar rett in Greenville. Bill Adams of Maryland visit ed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Adams last week. Andy and Angela Howe of Gaffney spent the week-end with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Freeman. CHURCH GROUP HAS BARBECUE SUPPER The Young People of Bailey Memorial Methodist Church had a barbecue chicken supper at Mr. and Mrs. Ray Caubles’ cabin at Greenwood Lake Satur day night. Mrs. Bill Snelgrove and Mrs. Cauble were hostesses. BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES Steve Jackson had a birthday April 28. Kim Lowery and Bruce Shep ard celebrated their birthdays the 29th. Willie Klnard the 30th Ollie Patterson, Ovell Woody, Dewey Gregory, Joe Spillers, and Roy Blackwell the 1st of May. Sylva Kernel, Claude Hughes, Ben Williams, Jenny Pitts, Mrs. R. H. Littleton the 2nd. Barry Whitman, James La ne y, Brian Blackwell and Wil liam Woodward May' 3rd. Sammie Holtzclaw, Mrs. W. O. Harris, Claude Farmer, and Meredith Hanely May 9th. Truman Adams the 0th. Mr. and Mrs. Walter will cele brate their wedding anniversary May 2. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Evans May 5th. rather distasteful opportunity to see the real “men and women of distinction” — the akohoUcs, the bums, the prostitutes, the wreck victims, the shooting an stabbing victims, the delirium tremens, the poor wretches liv ing in their own vomit and ex creta on the floor of the city jail cell. We see the broken homes, the orphans, the broken hearted and disgraced praents,. and diseased minds and bodies, the poverty, the rapes, the preg nant high school girls, the ruin ed lives, the blasted ambitions, the needless and senseless high way deaths — all because of drinking. Yes, it’s “smart” to drink all right—about as smart as taking rat poison or playing Russion roulette! Many teenagers drink because it provides a quick and easy path' to sociability by removing moral and ethical and conver sational inhibitions. One of the characteristics of a human be ing which makes him different from an animal is this matter of inhibiUons. Without them he tends in many ways to act very much like an animal, a fact ‘ which can be observed at any gathering where there is drink ing. When a teenager or older person subjects himself to the effects of alcohol, he voluntarily throws aside his natural respec tability and becomes as a lower form of life, a high -price to pay for a fleeting period of sociabil ity. Others may drink in order to escape some problems in life only to awaken to the sordid fact that through drinking their original problem has become compounded, with a few new problems thrown in besidse. Parents, we are told that as many as two-thirds of all teen agers who drink, learn to drink LETTER TO YOUTH NO. 2 at home where they can be taught “the right way to drink." THERE IS NO RIGHT WAY TO DRINK! We as parents should instead be teaching them at home the dangers of alcohol and the principles of life and Christian living which will lead them to turn away from this poisonous curse and all of its evil consequences. Our schools and our churches can exert lit tle influence in this direction un less we as parents are willing to lead the way, both in precept and in example. Teenagers, remember that ev eryone ISN’T doing it—only the ignorant, the misinformed, the weak-willed, the young people of low moral and spiritual in tegrity, those with no respect or regard for their parents or their community—these are the ones who drink. Don’t be a member of this unsavory crowd! Shakespeare To Coach Tennis And Teach At College Jim Shakespeare, former Presbyterian College tennis star and Woodrow WUson Fellow, will return to PC next fall as net coach and instructor in fresh man English. He succeeds Gor don Warden on the tennis front. Shakespeare, who received his MA from Duke on- a Woodrow Wilson fellowship after flni»hing PC in 1999, has been a teacher of English for the past four years at George School, highly tparat Bucks Cunty, Pa. He coached regarded prepyatory school in Warden, who has accepted a director of intramurals at PC. coaching position at the Univer- His teams of 1982-84 compiled sity of the South, is completing an outstanding record of 48 wins four years as tennis coach and against 14 defeats. tennis there, too, and maintain ed his status as a ranking ama teur. Official ratings of the United States Lawn Tennis As sociation currently list him as the fourth-ranked player in the men’s singles division of the Middle Atlantic States. And he and Harry Hoffman, former PC teammate of Philadelphia, rank number one in the men’s doubles division. Jim Shakespeare starred for four years, 1996-99, on some of the best tennis teams ever pro duced at Presbyterian College. He was captain of the squad his senior year. In addition, he made the deans' list every se mester, served four years on the student council and was named to “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Uni versities.’’ Patronize The Chronide Advertisers From menus to We print everything right Cards to catalogs, bilb to broadsides .. . what ever your printing needs, you can count on us for quality workmanship, dependable service, reasonable cost. Free estimates. a- . Chronide Publishing Co. 109-111 Gary Street Phone 883-0541 BIRTHDAY DINNER Mrs. James Copeland Jr., hon ored her husband with a birth day dinner Sunday at her home on the Whitmire Highway. Help ing him to celebrate were Mrs. James Copeland Sr., and Rich ard, Mrs. Mattie Simpson, Mrs. Alice Copeland, Mr. and Mrs. Don Longshore and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Dey- ton Sr. WITH THE SICK Toni Wooten has the chicken pox. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson have re turned home after being a pa tient at Bailey Memorial Hos pital. Lawrence Leopard is a patient at Bailey Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Andy Horne is home aft er being a patient at South Caro lina Medical Hospital . A DOCTOR WRITES A LETTER TO YOUTH By Richard E. Hun ton, M.D. Dr. Hunton was bom in Boonville, Indiana, but for the past eleven years has practiced medicine in Green wood with the Scurry Clinic. His letter to youth first appeared in the Greenwood Index-Journal of December 24,1984. Since then it has re ceived wide notice in that city, having been duplicated for distribution to all high school youth with the re quest that it be read and taken home for parental reading. YOUR CHOICE THIS FAMOUS MARK DELUXE 30" QA8 RANGE A8 LOW A8 75 *1 A WEEK after small down payment OR THW DELUXE 2 OVEN OAS RANGE POR AS LITTLE AS 67^ AWEEK MORE. . . N«4M Z-MOt-W-MA Pricee include delivery and connection to Suburban Pro pane Qae Service " ess THtm TODAY SUBURBAN PROPANE GAS Highway C. Ph. 9*44107 I have become greatly alarm ed and distressed by recent re ports of teenage drinking here in our city, a situation, which I have been assured has existed publicly and secretly for many years. I am alarmed because many of these young people, from whom will come the future leaders of our community and our country, have chosen to fol low the path of least resistance in subjecting their minds and bodies to a poisonous influence from which most of them will never completely recover. I am alarmed because many of these same young people will bring death on the highways to some of our dearest friends and relatives because of driving while drinking. I am alarmed because some of our teenagers will not be alive at this season of next year because of automo bile accidents caused by drink ing. I am alarmed because one of every ten of our teenagers who takes his or her first drink, no matter how innocently, will eventually become an alcoholic, with no possible way of predict ing who this one will be. I am distressed because these teenagers have chosen to bring sorrow and disgrace to their families and community through drinking. I am distressed be cause teenagers from many of our finest families have chosen to celebrate the birth of Christ with drinking and dancing par ties which have had to be ter minated by police officers. Many of our young people drink “because everyone else is doing it.” This is one of the very poorest of excuses. No one has ever built character and respec tability by “going along with the crowd.” It takes, a person of real integrity and moral stabil ity to do that which is right when everyone else is dniwg wrong. It requires no more a spineless moral weakling to drink Just so as to not be dif ferent or not to be “chicken,” and to perhaps avoid the ridi cule of others, who through their ignorance and conceit attempt to magnify thier own small so cial and intellectual image by drinking. Others drink because it is the “smart” thing to do. They are attracted and seduced by beau tifully presented slick-paper col or adverstisements portraying well-dressed and attractive “men and women of distinction’’ drinking their cocktails and highballs fts some taxarkms sct- J ting. 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