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I I ¥ 6 THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C, May 2 1%8 Bell Street _______________________ Shop in your home community IN SONG PROGRAM — The Trav’lers vAW be featured in a son? program Saturday at Bethel Temple Assembly of God at 114 North Owen;* St. in Clinton. The program will start at 7 p.m. The group shown above is been featured on Bob program. from Greenville and has Poole’s Gospel Song TV C. R. Workman Is Honored In Resolution COLUMBIA - A resolution ex pressing sympathy to the famil) f the late'Charles R. Workman was intr duced in the General Assembly last week. The measure, sponsored by the Laurens County delegation, said in part, “the people of Laurens County have lost a devoted and public-spirited citizen who gave unselfishly of his time for the welfare of the people of hi. c county.’ Workman, who lived in Laurens, w r as at the time of his death serving as a member oi the Laurens County Fire Pro tection and WarningSystemStudy Committee. W. L. White PIEDMONT-—William Luther White, 68, father of Mrs. Robert Smith of Clinton, died Thursday night at his home on Route 3, Piedmont. Funeral services were con ducted Saturday with burial in Greenville Memorial Gardens. I Other survivors include his i wife, four other daughters, a | son, two brothers, four sisters, 22 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. H J. HH1 Reps. W. Paul Culbertson and David S. Taylor presented Mrs.i LAURENS—Hilliard J. Hill, Workman with a copy of the 61 of Route 1, Laurens, died Sat- resolution. jurday in a Columbia veterans hospital. # « * A native of Laurens County, Last year, 12.2 per cent of tt* steel used in the U. S. was im- he was a retired machanic and - —- - -• -■ member of Rocky Springs Pres ported from foreign countries, byterian Church. He was a vet eran of World War II and was the last member of his immediate family. He was a son of the late Byrd B. and Essie Bell Hill. Funeral services were con ducted Sunday at Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church and burial was in the church cemetery Mrs. McCarley NEWBERRY—Funeral serv ices were held Saturday for Mrs. Nannie lola McCarley, 14, oi Newberry. She was the widow of Clyde McCarley who was a brother of I. C. McCarley of Clinton. Mrs. McCarley died Friday afternoon in a Newberry hospital. Survivors include two brothers. T. B. Whitmire Who says you can't have fun on a lawn mower? LAURENS - Thomas Burt Whit mire, 77, brother of Mrs. Lillie Young of Clinton, died Sunday night at a Columbia hospital. A son of the late George Fred rick and Mary Meadors Whit mire, he lived in Clinton prior f.o his Illness and was employed >y Clinton Mill. He was a member bf Calvary Baptist Church. Other survivors include his vile, Mrs. EttaSatterwhlte Whit mire; a daughter, Mrs. Blake Doris) Hoover of Troutman, N. C.: another sister,Mrs. Annie Coats of Laurens; a brother, |Ben A. Whitmire of Laurens; and a grandchild. j Funeral services were con ducted Tuesday at Gray Funeral Home in Clinton with burial in Calvary Cemetery. # # # Tina Arrowood PC Freshman Wins Honors At Festival Carrie Sue Pierson, a Presby terian College freshman from Gainesville, Fla., captured Best- in-show honors, a first place and two seconds in the judged art ■xhibit held as part of Clinton’s 'ommunity Fine Arts Festival. Her black and white drawing of “Man and Woman’won first place .n that category and also the 'lest-in-show choice. In addition, viiss Pierson had a second in he black and white field and in .he color drawing category. The art exhibit, on display in the PC library building through Saturday, was open to all area residents over 16 and was judged by Yancey Robinson of Winthrop College, Felix Bauer of Ersklne and John McNeil of the Univer sity of South Carolina. Other winners include: Painting--Kristi King, Skip Taylor and Gail Smith; Water- color—Marion Prater, Grace Cook and Richard Gantt; Posters and College—James Howard, Frederick Harrison and Gordon Wilson; Photography — James Howard, winner in both black and white and color divisions. Chip Moore earned third place in the black and white drawing category in which Miss Pierson finished first and second. The color draw ing in which she also finished second was won by Gordon Wilson, with Tommie Nelson get ting third place. The Fine Arts Festival is an annual affair sponsored jointly by the Clinton Music Club and Presbyterian College. Bell Street High School Band went to Orangeburg, S. C. on April 24 to attend and partici pate in the South Carolina All- State Band clinic and concert. The morning session was filled with clinics for each section ol the band including French Hon Clinic and a baton clinic for majorettes. The afternoon and evening sessions were devoted to rehearsals and concerts by the Clinic Band, Red Stage Band, Blue Stage Band, Junior All- State Band and Senior All-State Band. Gregory Stoddard, a member of Bell Street Band, earned second chair 1st Trombone on the All-State Band. He was the second best trombone player se lected from all participating high schools in the state and per formed with the Senior All-State Band the evening which climaxed the day’s activity. C. V. Troup Jr., band director of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., was guest conductor for the Senior All-State Band Concert. Louis J. Stout, professor of music Michigan State University and a recording artist on french horn was guest soloist. The Bell Street High School Band will play most of the numbers used by the Junior and Senior All-State Band in their concert on Sunday, May 5, which will be presented in the school auditorium at 5 p.m. Admission will be free. i siyPSL - Johnson Honored Staff Sergeant Alfred E. John son, whose wife, Doris, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simp Wyatt of Bell Street, Clinton, has been recognized for helping his unit earn the U. S. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. Sergeant Johnson, a machinist, in the 7101st Air Base Wing at Wiesbaden AB, Germany, will wear the distinctive service rib bon as a permanent decoration. The wing conducts a variety of functions such as providing essential security, civil en gineering, and personnel, food and supply services at U. S. Air Forces in Europe head quarters. The 7101st also fur nishes similar support for 128 activities in the Wiesbaden area in addition to units of three other major commands and two other branches of military services. Sergeant Johnson, a graduate of Whitmire High School, served during the Korean War. Proper diet may help avoid heart attack, the South Carolina Heart Association says. Write for a free copy of ’Diet and Heart Disease’ to P. C. Box 5937, Columbia, S. C. 29205. J CCOPYRICHT 1968 V It’s more fun to do business with people you know This is likely one of the big reasons you choose to live where you do. You know our hometown businessmen. They know you. You are only minutes away if you need their goods or services. You don't have to hurry. You don't have to worry about being pressured into unwanted buys. Local businessmen have made long-term business invest ments in our community. They know you will be as important tomorrow as you are today. They value a last ing friendship. M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers \ Established 1886 Member FDIC Clinton, S. C. gets the job done... adds to the FUN! Make yard care a family affair, with a Comet . . . even the ladies can handle this mower with ease! Powerful 5 to 8 HP engines, let you climb grades of 45% or better, while you ride. Fully enclosed transmission; 5 speeds forward, plus reverse. 26", 30" and 41" models. Loaded with fea tures . . . and the biggest one is the EASE OF HANDLING. Specially designed grass catcher accessory bags up to 3 bushels of clippings. TRY THE SNAPPER COMET ON YOUR LAWN . . . f CALL FOR FREE DEMONSTRATION WE FINANCE OUR OWN ACCOUNTS COX Home & Auto Supply “Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed” 205 N. BROAD ST. CLINTON, S. C. JOANNA - Funeral services vere held Tuesday for Tina darie Arrowood, 8-week-old daughter of George Franklin Arrowood and Mary Oswald lArrowood of Whitmire Highway. The Infant died Monday morn ing at a Newberry bpspital. < Services were conducted at Whitmire Pentecostal Holiness jChurch with burial in Whitmire Cemetery. Survivors include a grand- smother, Mrs. Daisey Arrowood of Whitmire; grandfather, John C. Oswald of Clinton; a sister Lori Ann Arrowood of the home; and three brothers, Daniel Ray, Thomas Gerald and John Allen Arrowood, all of the home. i Joye Promoted Aviation Boatswain’s Mate ^Second Class JerryH. Joye, USN, l son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Joye jof Rte. 1, Clinton, and husband of the former Miss Sadie Dobson of Central, S. C., was advanced to his present rate at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, 1 Lakehurst, N. J. Winn-Dixie Has ‘S.C. Products Week’ ‘South Carolina Products Week’ is being observed to era- ihasize the fact that the state’s approximately 3,000,000 citizens are eating better today than at any time in history — and at a relatively lower cost. Hundreds of Winn-Dixie super markets throughout the South are observing the eight annual Dixie Products event April 29 - May 4. Full displays of home-grown pro ducts are being shown in the stores. “Producers of South Carolina farm products are to be highly, commended for their improved production and marketing prac tices,* said G. R. Kay, manager of the Greenville division. “Recognition is also deserved by growers, processors, hand lers, markets, marketing organi zations and food distributors and retailers in our state, who are continuously striving to put more and better foods on the family dinner table at competitive prices. ‘Sustained cooperation is needed from all state and federal agencies, producers and their or ganizations, and all elements of the food distribution system in order to maintain and Insure free enterprise in the economics of food production and marketing.* The company last year spent: $88,214,746 on salaries, $T,14 5,251 an occupancy cost*, $3,620,225 ’on local taxes (excluding social (Security taxes), $12,055,570 on advertising and $7,459,224 on futilities. ovvw l-pc. Mt m*.N Kina Size i-pc. Ml S3M.M The Perfect Sleeper Imperial mattress and box spring is the new standard of excellence in sleep ing comfort. 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