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fttMM&to! Hi Vietnam Prom, a recent letter sent by Major Chris Patte in Viet nam to his parents, Dr. and Mr?. Edouard Patte we de tach the following excerpts: “The little Vietnamese boy had bfen waiting for hours at tile orphanage door. He had beta posted there by the nuns a watch for our convoy’s ar rival. It was the day before Christmas. Thirty miles north of Saigon, at the edge of the Juggle. Temperature 98 de grees. Finally he had detect ed a cloud of dpst 500 yards away and ran to the school. With wild gestures, since he watt deaf and dumb, he sig- haled our arrival and from the naarby cabins three hun dred young orphans, all of thfm deaf-and-dumb also, beaming and excited rushed toward opr convoy. Some con voy/ 15 U.S. Army vehicles: personnel carriers, five trucks loaded >vith gifts, jeeps, a Wagon for cameras, movies i : 0 “You’ve got to win that sales contest—I've told the neigh bors you would.” and recorders,’then an armed tank regdy to protect us from tile Vieicong snipers. Final ly there war-h strange car, like a float, ail made-up with Christmas wrapping;* papfr and a huge red ribbon aad bow. We stopped at the gdte, placing guards on duty. Then the party began: there was ice-cream, goodies; candy and fruit punch for every child; I signaled for the float to fn- ter .the compound, took a lit tle girl by the hand and had her pull at the ribbon and bow. She pulled hard, and out popped Santa Claus, wityi red suit, beard . and bonnet. The children, stunnd at first, swarmed all over him as they saw his gifts. Thirty GIs Un loaded the other trucks and distributed toys for every body, and began playing with the boys and girls. It was an amazing sight of Christmas Joy for all: the Vietnamese children, the American sol diers and the French nuns*! And yet the war was on. The armored tank had been cal led by radio for an err|ergen- cy operation two miles “to the west. In the late afternoon, we returned to our base, the Had^uarters of the 701st Bat talion of the First Division, leaving at the orphanage hun dreds of packages, school sup plies, clothing and enough money to buy thirty new beds for the dormitory.” All this was made possible by the gifts of Clinton and Florence friends who thus helped Ma jor Chris Patte and his men bring some Christmas cheer to disinherited Lai Thieu, ra vaged by a cruel war. H V • siill Views . Of Our Readers pc tym Saturday To the Editor: The Presbyterian College I am wishing you a HAPPY basketball team will entertain Senator Hollings Seeks Protection t and Profitable 1987 Erskine College this Saturday Washington — Sen. E. F. letter written earlier to jthe The past year has not been . n . ^ ftrsU^me game Hollings (D-S.C.)' went to the Pi——* exactly uneventful. Late in . . to, meet competition. The agreements. .... _ tential_ forgot_ topJEjoj plant employs more than' 300 “I don’t want Joanna Mills said because it is the worker/ offered up as a sacrificial grower of long - staple ^ _ I ft j | ^ mg imports come Hollings contended that, at nr Joanna Produc! *** *>* * ^ *•* ******* tp one million square industry in general and yardf a year under the Gene' na Mills in particular shauid January, a run-away pick-up truck made both a frontal and since days. i ln its first home game ® • • HoiliMs theorised that the va long4erm agreement on be given the chance for a before Christmas hoU- White kouse Wednesday to Pwinas titoorljed W he text iies, but competi- f u n hearing before the Tariff try to ward off some foreign ^datiM^SWbe part^of tion is looming now from Commission to prove the posterior attack on my an- J he Blu ® Hos ®> h amp^ed compet i t i on w hich he sees as th# administration’s efforts Mexico, The Netherlands, and damage from such competi- cient, but just-as-yood-as-new potentially rJifTTfiSL » fi an Switterland, Hollings noted. tion it. car. After the dust of the red tape settled, I had another car. It seemed very necessary. disastrous 3-10 record and to avenge the Greenwood Mills. 66-69 victory Erskine scored The junior South Carolina io 0 , Mav i Hrnvp tn over PC last week • 11 was °” e Senator asked the White The last of May I drove to of the begt games turned in House not to aDnr0 ve an im- Ft. Wayne, Indiana, remaining b th Hosemen this season. House not to appro a there two months. An event fL wh^he™ Erskine sTop me<,,a % * a . rl " “ was attending the H. S. Alum- ^ ore rmissed that «ame but ‘ y , pewrlter " b ,' ,on ni Banauet in the small town f c ? rer ’ mls *®? I k 8 k L i« cloth 01 tVPO manufactur- m- Banquet in me sman town h , g expec ted to be back in . . nrpenwnod’s locnna where I once lived. s»*„rdav niaht e ? n s J ^ fi n na for to lower trade barriers as an Switzerland, incentive to new international Egypt is also a strong po- the duties are loiter ed. Before leaving Ft. 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Jan. 18 v The greatest comedy of all time: TTtimroi oer PANAvtsaoir /non wARtwit moi. 3:15, 5:30, 8 p, m. the lineup Saturday night. . p j ant began work on “Afission to for Presbyterian, they took rhe Tariff Commission has Spain,” a project initiated a another turn for the worse recommended to President few years ago, to get an ear when freshman Forward Johnson tha t an escape bob to match the one I did not Beecher Hale, team’s clai *se provision^ covering lose, which was brought by number, two sdorer, failed to suc k ‘ m PprUi be eliminated my sister over six years ago make it scholastically with Jaa * ,* 2 without lurtber near- from Toledo, Spain. < the end of the first semester ing instead of being delayed The NRTA/AARP Travel j n mid - December. When he October. < Service had a cruise-land-tour .left school, he carried a 16 Under the ‘‘escape clause,!’ scheduled, Morocco, Spain, points-per-game average with an iiubistry can call for high Portugal, Gibraltar, to begin .him. duties ion foreign-made goods October 18. New York, return Coach Art Musselman does when i/t shows that imports there December 15. have one blazing bright spot, are disrupting domestic pro- I saw a play years ago in however, in junior Forward duction. New York, “BY THE SKIN Richard ^Quillen. This 6-1 Hollings contended that this OF OUR TEETH WE MADE team captain has blistered thie would be the case with Joan- IT »> That can be said about ne t s for an average 21.5 ppg na Millis, which now makes this trip. What happened? i n 13 games for a total 279 about § per cent of the do- Briefly, the MICHAELANG- points. He also tops the re- mestica/ly produced typewri- ELO could not tak e us back to bounding department, having ter cloth. The annual U. S. New York as planned. The pulled down 106 errant shots output is ia about five million square yards. -■w DEPOSIT INSURANCE HAS BEEN INCREASED TO Four other mills have al ready been forced out of that business under the import sed that more than $2 million was spent recently at Joanna for improvements enabling it PUIMBINC OS HEATING Cal 833-0061 ^ Travel Service re-arranged f 0 r a 8.1 average, after consulting, by mail, all Immediately behind Quillen oi the over a hundred expect- s i n ce Hale’s departure is jun- ing to go. Then the SS HAN- for playmaker Ken Martin SEATIC, cruise ship to Casa- w i t h a 10.8 average and fresh- he'~noted“ and'^rel- blanca, burned at the pier in man Guard Woody Carter August. The step-by-step re- with 7.5. arranging will not be revealed here. On October 24th (not , . * ki}|4 October 18th) we sailed from .MI'S* ^ '▼•HIS New York on the Leonardo Da Laurens — Mrs. Arrie Es- Vinci, bound for Gibraltar telle Smith Mills, 86, of' 101 Straits. Also on that day. Oak St., widow of Wilbur A. Spain closed the road to Gi- Mills, died at her home Satur- braltar, the British Crown day afternoon ■ after several Colony since 1702. I had my years of declining health, troubles getting to New York, A native of Spartanburg Sunday; October 23rd *. . . low County, daughter of the late visibility, missed the first William and Lillie White tour . . . New York. Smith, she was a charter W e began our tour of Mo- member of Central Methodist rocco Wednesday, November Church. 2nd, crossing by ferry from Surviving are a daughter, Algeceras, Spain, to Tangiers, Mrs. W. P. (Ruby) Dagnell then driving three hundred of Laurens; five sons, James, and fifty miles to Casablanca. Henry, Clyde and J. D. Mills We saw many unique and de- of Laurens and Earl Mills of lightful cities where mystery Fayetteville, N. C.; a grand- and intrigue of the ancient son, Donald Good of Green- Arab world is still preserved vine, raised in the home; a . . . Marraketch, Menkes, Fez, sister, Mrs. Pink Robertson Rabat (eapitol), Tangiers. I of Enoree and 15 grandchil- find it difficult to restrain my- dren and 13 greatgrandchil- self. I want to write about the dren. Kasbahs, the Medinas, the Funeral services were con- Mellahs, the Souks, the don- ducted at Central Methodist keys, camels, the people Church at 2 p.m. Monday by tramping the roads ,in their Rev. F. H. Gossett and Rev. long garments, women with Grange S. Cothran. Burial their faces covered, the call of was in Patterson Chapel Me- prayers heard from the Mina- thodist Church cemetery at rets in the beautiful Mosques, Landford. the French influence seen in ^ architecture, gardens, l a n - guage, the marks left by the Romans, Berbers, Arabs of Promoted n Texas the old days. Navy Lieutenant (junior Spain, beautiful Spain high Rrade) James . R Sextont USN> Congress has recently raised the insurance provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from $10,000 to $15,000. As a member, we can now ^ provide your hard-earned dollars with greater safety than ever before. No one has eyer lost a dime in an insured savings account." . That old adage, "there's nothing like having money in the bank" never had greater njeaning. Make it OUR bankl * M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers Established 1886 Member FDIC Clinton, S. C. V/ 2 % INTEREST PAID ON ONE YEAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES Lieut. (JG) Sexton mountains, lands covered with son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. olive trees, orange groves Scxton of Browning Ave j0 . everywhere even as decora- anna was promoted to hls lions in the gardens and p reS ent rank while undergoing r n ^ ' ' .•. To]edo ’ advanced jet instruction at waUed-m city once cap.tal of lhc Kin g svlll Texa Naval Spain, where to this day they Air stat j 0T1 do the Damascene handicrafts A ‘ memb( , r of , Tralning brought there by the Arabs s adron 21 he is studyjng centuries ago. (I lound the aM . wcather lnstrum e„ t night, ear bob there') Then Portu- advanced a i r .,o-air and air-to- ga , w,th charming , fishing aad w ryi tactics for . villages, houses w,th fancy mation J a c . arrier operations . chimneys, .pany former pal; This phase of hls , raini als0 aces now used as hotels, heau- includes s t . wing jet ta _ h,lls ' mountains and mUiarization . Upon completion of training with Squadron 21 he will be designated a naval aviator Itoybe our ’67 Pontiac is breaking sales records because people don't want to wait until’68 fbr a copy. *-v tiful charming houses, great beaches on the Atlantic. We enjoyed Gibraltar, no place like it around the world. ; nd ra a W Trded"hirNavy“;irgs‘. Arrived in New York, Pan Am School Liinch Menu Week of January 15-19 MONDAY Milk, fish, tartar sauce, from Lisbon, Tuesday, Decem ber 13. After a week came to Columbia by train. Was dis appointed because opera tick ets were not available; even at the time I left, a friend tried steamed cabbage, creamed to get them. I did hear a potatoes, corifbread squares, piano concert at PHILHAR- but t er) ra isins. ' MONIC' HALL, following a TUESDAY tour of three buildings. I was Milk> hot dog witll chiu> very glad to get back here mustard, onion, cole slaw, po- and be mobile again. My next tato stiX( hot dog bun butter> trip to New York will be under apricot spice cake, quite different circumstances. . WEDNESDAY I was very happy to see three Milk> vegetable soup, pim- fnends who came in from lento cheese sandwiches, hot Montclair, N. J., with whom cornbread, butter, chilled I traveled in Scandinavia in pears. 1964 THURSDAY This explains why I could Mi i k> spaghetti with meat not wish you a Merry Christ- saucet tossed vegetable sal- mas - , ad, hot rolls, * butter, Whole Sincerely, apple. , Norma Hallett FRIDAY Miss Hallett who now re-' Country hash on rice, speck- sides in Columbia was a mem- | cd ii ma beans, carrot sticks, her oi the staff of Whitten ho t biscuit, butter, doughnut. Village for a number of years. t :■ ■ rf* Patronize Chronicle % Advertisers OFFICE SUPPLIES THE CHRONICLE PHONE 833-0541 Our engineers have become used to seeing their ideas show up on other cars. Two years late. And apparently so hfve a lot of car buyers. Because 1967 Pontiacs are selling faster than 1966 Pontiacs. And more people bought Pontiacs in 1966 than ever before. When you think about it, why should you wait around for somebody else to corpe up~With innovations like our . disappearing windshield wipers? Or for imaginative options like our exclusive hpod-mounted tach? Especially when you consider that our engineers wouldn’t turn a Pontiac loose with anything less than a • standard 400 cubic inch V-8. Or a Tempest with any thing less than our revolutionary Overhead Cam Six. (Not to mention all those new safety features like GM’s new energy absorbing steering column and a dual master cylinder brake system with warning lamp.) And as for the Pontiac features^ other carmakers have already tried to copy—like our split grille, our stacked headlights, even Wide-Track (is • nothing sacred?)—why should you settle for anything less than the real thing? In short, our engineers seem to have done it again, they may even start asking for royalties on the copies. V. MAMt or f acruiNc/ fontiac Motor Dmimos SEE THE REAL THING AT YOUR AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALERS. f . ' . ’ . - SMITH MOTOR CO, 229 E. MAIN ST. — LAURENS, S. C.