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News of Joanna BY MRS. W. J. HOGAN Correspondent-Representative 697-6949 AFTER LONG HALL—SD-40 3009 ter the lonjr haul from Envin on rests in Elkhorn City. Kentucky, af- Train 95 through the snow and sleet. Diesel Safari To The Coal Mines BY BILL CANNON Old fashioned steam heat, warm covers, a good bed, and sleet chattering against the win dows - all ingredients to make a fellow stay in bed on a winter’s morning. But the insistent knock of the hotel clerk shatters the silence and breaks the hold of sleep. Railroading starts at most any hour, and for us, it starts at 5:15 AM as train 95 is to continue our trip trough the mountains to the coalfields. We'll ride the engmes again on the Clinchfield Railroad from Erwin, Tennessee, north to Elkhorn City, Kentucky. A typical breakfast, ham, eggs, grits, and trimmings, will fortify us for the trip on this cold day. Even walking is risky on the little pebbles of ice in the street, but we can get on SD-40 number 3009 with our friend Trainmas ter Bob Rice, and there find engineer Bob Peeples waiting to go north. Railroaders are a breed of people all their own, and Peeples is one of those unique even among railroaders. With several thousand horsepower and untold thousands of dollars worth of equipment and lading under his control, he is fuming over the outcome of last night 's ball game. The rumblings of the diesels stir the whole town as they get under way, pulling hard at the 107 cold, cold cars behind them. One •lip and the slack action in the train willfenr out coaling knuck les. Steady yet unrelenting power urges the reluctant cars out of town, and soon the edge of John son City is in sight. Sneaking around a sharp curve, Number 95 inches through downtown Johnson City and then out past Barrett towards Kingsport. Setting cars off at Kingsport, the train then climbs out towards Frisco Tennessee, and then Waycross, Virginia. Trainmaster Rice chuckles to himself and suggests that you not try to get off the engines around the next curve, and when the train bolts out on to the 188 foot high Copper Creek Bridge, over a quarter mile long, It’s easy to see why no one gets off. “Watch that top step. . ." Beyond Copper Creek, the rail road clings to the sides of Boul der Bluff, some 240 feet above the valley floor. Once years ago, Mr. Rice’s father’s train hit a big rock on the track right along here and off he went down the side of the bluff and turned over on the Southern Railway tracks down below, getting nothing from his wild ride but a few minor in juries. The errant diesels were put back on the track on the Southern and taken home the long way around for repair. Better than trying to go back up that bluff with a diesel, indeed’ Die sels off their feet without the aid of tracks are a mess! Clickety-clacking along through Dungannon and St. Paul, Virginia, the train soon noses through Dante, Virginia. This is the home of local operations for the area, and there are two branch lines to coal mines over which trains run out of this terminal. A long climb up Sawmill Hollow and the train ducks into the long est of the 55 tunnels on the line, tlie Sandy Ridge Tunnel, 7854 feet long. Of the 277 miles of railroad owned by the Clinch- field, some 10 miles (4 it are underground in those 55 tunnels, and the Sandy Ridge is one of the longest in this country. It seems endless, but the 3009 breaks '>ut into the open and the snow again passing through Trammel, Virginia. From here to Elkhorn City it is downhill all the way, and the regenerative brakes <*i the diesels snarl as they hold the train back on the descending grade. (Regenerative brakes make use of the diesel’s traction motors as a braking de vice - sort of like putting an auto into a lower gear coming down a mountain to hold it back). Rice points out the new six mile Haysi Railroad, being built to tap new coal resources, and then the engine noses into the State Line Tunnel between Virginia and Kentucky. This is one of the few tunnels anywhere around that has a “window" in the middle of it. The center line of the track came so close to the outside of the mountain that the builders blasted a hole in the wall to throw de bris over theside while they were working in it. Back in steam en gine days, it was a relief for the crews to pass the opening and get a bit of fresh air after being penned up with the steamers in the bores. Across Pool Point Bridge, 115 feet above the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River, after hav ing gone through the Breaks of The Big Sandy (called the Grand Canyon of the East), the engine peeps around through one last tunnel and enters the yard at Elkhorn City, Kentucky. Two hun dred and seventy-seven crooked, mountain miles ago, we climbed on an engine in Spartanburg, and passed over some terrific rail road construction. Railroaders work hard,andeat hearty! After a big mead and a night’s sleep, there’ll be other miles to ride, and maybe even a ride on the general manager’s private car complete with fried chicken and all the trimmings going back down the Blue Ridge. Long trip? Yep' But lots of fun, and most of all, different. . . for the Clinchfield is a different railroad in every way, from its friendliness to its modern ef ficiency in operating through some of the most difficult but spectacular country in the United States. Spioz HOT MUSTARD NECTARINES 2 to 4 fresh nectarines '4 cup butter or margarine ■2 cup brown sugar, packed 3 tablespoons prepared mustard 2 teaspoons cornstarch 1 tablespoon vinegar Slice nectarines to meas ure 2 cups. Melt butter or margarine in saucepan Combine sugar, mustard and cornstarch; stir into butter. Bring to boil, then stir in vinegar and nectar ines; cook 2 minutes longer. Serve with ham, franks or pork chops. Makes l 3 ^ cups. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Earney of Charlotte spent last weekend with Mrs. Frank Templeton. Mr. and Mrs.J. E. Boyce visit ed Mr. and Mrs. Guy Misen- hiemer on Sunday afternoon in Chester. Friends will be interested to know Mrs. Clarice Young is a pa tient at the Charleston Medical Center. Danny Thomas, student at Ce dar Springs in Spartanburg is confined to his home with mumps. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Thomas. Mrs. S. A. Mode, Paul Mode and Mrs. Claude Burns visited relatives in Pineville, N. C. on Saturday, going especially to see Mr. J. D. Lavender who is a patient in the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Jenkins and family was in Greenwood on Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Otis Graham. Mrs. W. B. Adams and child ren visited Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Simmons in Due West on Sunday afternoon. Dinner guest on Sunday of the W. B. Adams were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. JackSim- mons, in celebration of Mr.Sim mons birthday which was Feb. 21st. Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Johnson were Mr. and Mrs. Carodine Johnson and Mr. Donnie Ray Johnson of Columbia. While here, Mrs. Carodine John son, Mrs. A. R. Johnson, Miss Bar bar a J ohnson and Mrs. C hamp Johnson attended a miscellaneous shower in honor of Mrs. Hazel Cox in Honea Path on Saturday night. Scott Melton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Melton of Spartan burg spent the weekend with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.A. J. Gosnell. Also guests on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Della- mera of Charleston. A/lc and Mrs. Bruce Chalk of Shaw AFB spent the weekend here with Mr. and Mrs. Junior Tucker and Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Chalk. On Sunday, Mrs. Chalk, Kenneth Chalk and Eric and A/lc and Mrs. Chalk visited Mr. and Mrs. Lou Murray in Swainborough, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Foster of Union were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Junior Tucker. Billy Attaway who is stationed in England was a Thursday guest of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Motes. Mr. and Mrs. George Morse visited SEC and Mrs. Bill Moore in Columbia last Sunday, going especially to see Vickie Moore, who is a patient in the hospital there, due to a recent automobile accident. This Sunday they visit ed Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Kibler and Stacy in Mauldin. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Boyce of At lanta, spent the first part of last week with his parents, Mr. and Customers are all millionaires at BA1 LEY’S BANK That’s because every family is worth at least a million to each other — and to every one of Bailey’s customers, his or her money is just as important as any real millionaire’s. So Bailey's people go all out to help you — from a loan for the purchase of appliances to the in vestment of retirement funds, from the birth of your first child to the college education of your last one. And in between, you have the best checking, savings, Christmas Club and safe deposit box service we know how to give. Feel like a million: Bank at Bailey's! M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers • Member F.B.I.C. Mrs. Marion Boyce. Mr. Boyce returned on Saturday from the Self Memorial hospital where he was a surgical patient, last week. Here for the latter part of the week were Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Boyce and Amy of Greensboro, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Thompson visited Mr. and Mrs. Billy ■ Thompson in Taylors and | Mr. and Mrs. Steve Craig in : Woodruff on Sunday afternoon. ■ Betty Stroud of Fayetteville : spent the weekend with her mo- j ther, Mrs. Clara Godfrey and Mr. : Godfrey. CARD OF THANKS Many thanks to all of our friends for their many acts of kindness during the illness and death of our loved one. May God bless you. The Family of Bill Prater ON DEAN'S LIST Miss Jean Abrams, student at Clemson University has made the Dean’s List for the first semester. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Abrams. RETURNS TO FLORIDA JOSN Debbie Prater has re turned to Pennsocola, Fla., af ter being here for several days due to the death of her father, Mr. Bill Prater. WOMAN’S CLUB TO SHOW SLIDES On March 5th, at 7:30 p.m. at the Joanna Club House the Joanna Woman's Club will show slides of the beautiful Callaway Gar dens. The members are en couraged to bring their husbands and also, the club extends an in vitation to the public. The club members will remain for a brief meeting afterwards. BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES Birthday greetings today go to Frank Bodie, Hugh Roy Johnson, Bo Yarborough andStellaCotney. Happy birthday to Margaret Bozard, and Lillian Seawright on Feb. 27. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Prater and Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Shealy will observe a wedding anniversary on Feb. 27. Birthday celebrants on Feb. 28 will be Janet Reeder, J. K. Walts, Nick Kramm, and Cleo Tinsley. Kathy Douglas, Donna Connor, Barron O’Shields, and Robert Crolley will have birthdays on March 1. Karen Davenport, Dollie Owens, and Jeri Peay will ob serve a birthday on March 2, ^l-Xv.-XvX^ THE CHRONICLE. Clinton, S. C., Feb. 26, 1970—S-B LOSE WEIGHT THIS WEEK t Gal axon can help you become the trim slim person you want^ to be. Galaxon is a tablet and easily swallowed. Contain*'' no dangerous drugs. No starving. No special exercise. 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