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KEEP FAITH \with US—\ \by buying i WAR BONDS ********** * * * Those Boys Needm# WmBMU VOLUME 8; NO. 23 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1945 With THE BOYS In Service LITTLE NEWS ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST FARM WOMEN ARElROTARIANS,GUESTS HERE SATURDAY RALPH HIGGINS, who volun teered for the Navy on September 4th is now stationed at Bainridge, Md., where he is receiving his boot training. Ralph has lived with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Higgins since a small boy. GRACE MOWER, Staff Nurse at John-Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. and Katherine Adams, a mem ber of the WAVES, stationed in Washington, D. C., are expected to spend a month with relatives. SGT. WILLIAM MAX KING, who received his honorable discharge from the army at Camp Gordon, Au gusta Ga., on September 17th. is now visiting his mother, Mrs. B. W. Gardenhire on College street, prior to resuming his college work. Max was in the service approxi mately three years, and was on du ty in the European theater 21 months with the 441st Airborne Troops. He was awarded the group Presidential citation besides other ribbons. STROTHER PAYSINGER, who received his discharge from the Ar my Air Corps at Camp Gordon, Au gusta, Ga., last Monday with 61 points, has arrived at his home on Johnstone street. Strother, who rose to the rank of Lieutenant, was in the service two years and ten months, 8 of which he spent overseas stationed in Eng land with the 8th Air Corps. ^ He was awarded the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the ETO ribbon with three Battle Stars. Strother will be at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Pay- singer for a while before resuming his College work. TiSGT. GENE HIRES, Mrs. Hires, and their daughter, Rebecca, have returned to»their home on Main St. after a week’s visit in Lexington with Sgt. Hires’ parents, Rev. and Mrs. Joe. Hires. LIEUT. JAMES RAY BOUK- NYGHT writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bouknight, Drayton street, from France where he is now stationed, saying that he would sail from there about the first of Nov ember and hoped to be at home with them on a leave by the middle of Nevember. Lieutenant Bouknight, a member of the 101st Airborne Division, has been overseas a year. Coast Guard Cadet NORMAN P. ENSRUD, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Ensrud of 1844 Turner, Allen town, Penn., is a member of a square trigged Isailfng vessel* which is a large training ship attached to the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, New London, Conn. The cadet, who was recently on a training cruise in the Atlantic, and his mates will receive their Bachelor of Science degrees and regular Coast Guard commis sions upon completion of their coi-rse at the Academy, participate in training cruises to acquire prac tical knowledge of the manifold functions of the CoaWt i Guard in peace and war. LARRY T. SMITH, Chief Radio Technician, serves aboard this fleet repair ship, USS Xanthus, which as sisted in the occupation of Ominato, Honshu, in Japan. The Xanthus was commissioned in May, 1945, and served in the Hawai ian area and the Aleutians before joining the 4th Fleet under command of Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletch er. The ship is equipped to make ex tensive emergency repairs for any type vessel in the fleet, as well as carrying on routine maintenance. PETER JOHN PAPPAS, Ship’s Ceok, First Class, 1401 Main street, is a member of the crew of the USS Europa, the former German trans- Atlantic liner SS Europa, which is being converted to a troop transport by the Navy. The vessel was to start her first voyage to the United States in mid- September carrying several thou sand troops home. The ship was seised as a war prize her# in June, and since has un dergone drydocking and overhauling by Germa nworkers. She will have bunks for 10,000 men, some in her luxurious salons and lounges. The Europa, third largest ship afloat, was built in 1928 at Hamburg, Germany, and set a transatlantic speed record in 1933. CAPTAIN FRED KEMPSON ar rived at his home in Silverstreet Thursday night to spend a 36 day leave with his mother, Mrs. F. H. Kempson, after being on duty in the European theatre as a membei of the 3413th Ordnance company 7 months. Prior to going to the European area. Captain Kempson was on duty in Alaska 16 months. He wears the ETO, Asiatic, Am erican Theater and Pre Pearl Har bor ribbons. His wife, the former Margaret Bailey of Kansas, accompanied him home on a visit with his relatives during his leave. SGT. BENJAMIN ANDERSON, son of Mr and Mrs. Ben Anderson, Johnstone street, who has been a petient in a general hospital in Fog- gia, Italy, for the past three weeks, is improving according to informa tion recently received by his parents. NIPS IN THEM THAR HILLS. “We are maintaining about 70 or 80 miles of road here in the mountains. This will be our job until all troops are out of the mountains. . .1 have seen many truck loads of Japs being brought down to PW camps. They all look filthy and they smell plen ty! TMly are also bringing down the Jap women (camp follower) with them. . .We still don’t know what will happen to us when we finish our job here. Most of the outfits which were here before we came are going to Japan. I sometimes wish that we were going there, too. I don’t thing the boys going there will be over here any longer than we will and since we are over this side, I’d like to see what Japan is like.”— Sgt. Frank Armfield, in the Philip pines. HARRY BEDENBAUGH, who was honorably discharged from the Army on Sptember 18th at Camp Maxy, Texas, after five years in the ser vice, two of which he spent in the European theater, is now in New berry and connected with the Hayes Motor company. Harry, who rose to the rank of corporal, is making his home with Mr. and Mrs Dave Hayes on Main street. He was stationed in Eng land, North Africa and Italy during his service overseas. He was a- warded the ETO ribbon and two Bat tle stars. DAVID CHILDERS, B.M. 2|c, who arrived in the States on September 28th, is now spending a 30 day leave with his sister, Mrs. M. E. Gold smith and Mr. Goldsmith at Helena. Dcvid received shrapnel wounds in the right foot in action on Iwo Jima on February 19th and was hos pitalized in a base on Guam prior to returning to the States. He has been a member of the Na vy four years, and spent three and one half years in the Pacific thea ter. After his leave he will report to Macon, Ga., for further orders. SGT. JOHN W. COWARD has re turned to Union after spending a few days with his brother, William D. Coward and other relatives in Newberry. Sergeant Coward was discharged from the Army Septem ber 23 at Camp Gordon, Augusta, Ga„ after being in service 36 months 21 months being spent in the Euro pean theater with the 4th Infantry Division and 783rd M. P. Bn. He participated in the Normandy Invasion, Capture of Cherbourg, Bat tle of St. Lo, Liberation of Paris, Battle of the Hurtgen Forrest, and the Battle of tha Bulge. Sergeant Coward wears the ETO ribbon with four Battle Stars, Pur ple Heart, Presidential Unit Cita tion with Cluster and the Combat Infantryman badge. He is a nephew of Mrs. T. S. Har mon and Mrs. W. T. Edwards. LIEUT. C. D. “Pete” COLEMAN, Mrs. Coleman, and their small son, Pete, Jr. arrived in the city Sunday to make their home with Mrs. Cole man’s xsrents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Purcell for the present. Lieutenant Coleman was released from the Navy on September 26 at the Naval Air Station in Jackson ville, Fla, and will be on the inactiye list until the 18th of November when he will receive his discharge. He was in the Service 39 months, 20 of which he spent on sea duty. Mr. Coleman resumed his business connection here Monday morning, where he left off prior to volunteer ing for the service. WILUAM R. BOUKNIGHT, who was recently promoted from aviation machinist mate l|c to Chief Petty Officer, on Saipan, was a member of the aircraft carrier USS Pertrof Bay which played an important part in the invasions of Leyte, Lin- gayen Gulf, San Narcisco, Iwo Jima and Okinawe, and the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, where the pi lots shifted from land targets to ships of the Jap Fleet. During the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea she was attacked by four suicide planes, but emerged unscathed. On the wings of the ship’s bridge are painted thirty Jap flags, denot ing the twenty-five Jap planes downed by her pilots and five more by her gun crew, together with five ships showing the damaging of three Jap cruisers and the destruction of a destroyer and a merchantman. Bouknight writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bouknight, Drayton street, that he expects to arrive in the States some time this month to spend a leave with them. Mrs. Ben T. Buzhardt and Mrs. J. H. Summer were business visitors in Columbia Tuesday. Mrs. R. W. Frick and Mrs. Mattie Bruce of Chapin were business visi tors in Newberry Wednesday. Miss Mattie Adams spent Sunday in Columbia with her sister, Mrs. Nell Browning, who is a patient in the Providence Hospital there. Mr .and Mrs. Jake Wise spent the past weekend in Saluda with Mr. Wise’s sister, Mrs. W. N. Padgette and Mr. Padgette. Weekend and first of the week visitors in Newberry were: Mrs. Dan Hamm, Jr., Prosperity; Mrs. Leslie Hartman.Prcsperity; Mrs. M. C. Mosley, Ninety Six; Mrs. R. S. Sigmond, Peak; Mrs. Boyd Beden- baugh and Mrs. H. J. Shealy, Pros perity; Mrs. Guy Webb, Jr., Colum bia; Mrs. Joe Webb, Hartsville, and Mrs. Guy Webb, Sr., Saluda; Mrs. Henry Suber and Miss Carolyn Young, Whitmire; Miss Elizabeth Boozer, Newberry county; Mrs. Dar- cus Fant Babb, Whitmire; and Mrs. Mary T. Shedd, Montecello. Miss Cornelia Mayer of Columbia was a weekend visitor in the home of her mother, Mrs. O. B. Mayer on Main street. Mrs. E. W. Yates has returned to her home : n Winnsboro after a visit with her mother, Mrs. Mary West and other relatives on Main street. Mrs. D. J. Williams was called to Spartanburg the first of the week on account of the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. George Hendrix, who was taken ill while on a visit there with relatives. Mrs. O. L. Hill, Sr. and son, Cpl. O. L. Hill, Jr. and his wife, of Char lotte, N. C., Mrs. H. S. Culclasure and two children, Jackie and Jerrie, of Danville, Va., and Mrs. Charles Shealy of Aiken, were weekend visi tors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Setzler and other relatives on Harrington street. F. M. Ewart of Ocala, Florida, spent the past weekend here with his sister, MSrs. Douglas' Hornsby on Johnstone street. Mr. and Mrs. j. E. Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. Drayton Nance spent last weekend at Rock Hill with their daughters, Julia Nichols and Emma Riser Nance, who are students at Winthrop College. George Spotts returned to Charles ton over the weekend after spending two weeks at his home here on Pope street. Miss Eva James Davis spent last weekend in Lyman an Henderson ville, N. C. with relatives. Miss Janie Davis, RN, who gradu ated from the Spartanburg General Hospital in September, spent the past week here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Davis, prior to going to Arlington, Va., where she will nurse in the Arlington Hospital. FOUND—Black zipper pencil kit with several pencils, lip stick, foun tain pen and other articles in it.— Call at THE SUN office and identi fy and pay for this advt. Miss Lelia Norris and Miss Jane Goodman, members of the Columbia city school faculty spent the week end at their respective homes here. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Long of Salu da, Mrs. C. H. Chumly and Mrs. C. N. Timmerman of Atlanta, Ga. were weekend visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Dawkins, on Harrington street. Miss Ruby Dennis, a teacher in the Inman schools spent the past weekend at her home in the county. Miss Ruth Wilson, teacher in the Columbia city schools was a week end visitor at her home near the city. Mrs. S. J. Wooten returned to her home in Columbia Monday after spending a week here with her sis ter, Mrs. O. B. Mayer, on Main street. Mrs. Wyche Dickert spent Tues day in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Bowers. Mrs. Hoy Aull and daughter, Miss Dot Aull, Misses Dot Smith and Rosalin Werts, were Sunday guests in the home of Mrs. Aull’s mother, Mrs. Wingard, in Lexington. Mrs. O. W. Long, now resident of Florida a nd her son Doyle Long, re cently liberated from a Jap prison camp, are spending a couple of weeks in Newberry with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Riddle and family spent the past weekend here with Mrs. Riddle’s parents, the Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Harman. Mrs. W. H. Spivey (Rachel Mow er) and son. W. H. Spivey III, of Co lumbia, spent a few days the first of the week in the home of Mrs. Spiv ey’s mother, Mrs. Frank Mower on Johnstone street. ASKS SUPPORT IN WAR FUND DRIVE To the People of Newberry County: We have come to the time of year wehn we are called upon in another War Fund and U S. O. Drive for funds. I wish to thank the people of New berry County for the way they have stood behind our fighting men in all of the drives that have been put. on during the War. Our country has been outstanding in all these under takings. We have come to the last drive for funds for the War Fund and U. S. O. Now, let’s stand behind the boys un til they come home. We do not want to have a black mark on our county, and have it said that we failed in the last drive. I have confidence in the people of our good county, and I know we will go over the top as we have in the past. We have had quite a number of our boys who have paid the supreme sac rifice the least we can do is to put this drive over as a monument to them, and also give comfort and en tertainment to those boys who have not reached home. I am sure that a great many peo ple tvill a sk this question: “The War is over, why have this drive?” The answer is: They are out of the fox holes and the battlefields, and are in the camps with lots of time on their hands. They want something— they want to come home to their na tive land, their home-folks and loved ones. J. Y. Jones, Chairman. PATIENTSJN HOSPITAL Peggy Hipp, Whitmire Curtis Chapman, Rt. 4 E. J. Shealy, Prosperity Mrs. Elizabeth Middleton, Rt. 4 Mrs. James C. Lindler, Chapin Lester Cody, Whitmire Mrs. Jim Stewart, Rt. 3 Mrs. Mamie Devore, Wiseman Ho tel Mrs. Anna P. Dennis Miss Lottie Reed, Whitmire Mrs. Helen Kiblew‘/)T)2 Wright St. Mrs. J. W. Suber, 930 Cline St. Willie O. Hawkins, 1202 Second st. Mrs. Mable McCullough, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Mrs. Cora Foster, Whitmire Mrs. Francis Ringer, Pomaria Thompson Reeder, Whitmire , Mrs. Ruth Frick, 1813 Rivers St. Mrs. Lillie Metts, Prosperity Mrs. Margaret Lipscomb and Baby Girl, Rt. 3 Mrs. Sadie Summer and Baby Girl, 1904 Harper street, Mrs. Marise Devore and Baby Girl, Kinards. FOY RESUMES PAINTING TRADE HERE C. C. Foy, who saw three years service with the fleet in the Pacific has been returned to civilian life and has again taken up his trade of painting. Mr. Foy followed the painting trade here before entering the service. Anyone wishing the services of this young ex-service man should see bi n ‘ at his home, 709 Caldwell, or leave calls at R. M. Lominack’s Hardware store. CRIMINAL COURT JURORS Jurors to serve in criminal court which opens here Monday, October 15 with Judge Grimball presiding, are as follows: J.J M. Wilson J. H. S. Wicker A. T. Henderson F. M. Setzler Earl Boozer W. J. Leitzsey W. A. Cromer W. O. Pitts F. K. Jones R. M. Minick E. T. Long, Jr. McFall Bedenbaugh DeWitt C. Boland J. E. Mayer R. S. Long Poteat Long G. F. Thompson C. G. Wicker F. H. McConnell R. D. Hawkins A. J. Bowers, Jr. F. E. Shealy B. T. Gibson! J. F. Wheeler Tommie M. Folk R. N. Hill Raymond H. Ruff Lester Werts Q. L. Shealy H. W. Harman J. Allen Dominick B. J. Kibler Hayne Wilson Wyche Moore Frank W. Anderson William Ballentine GILLIAMS ENTERTAIN Sunday dinner guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Gil liam on Cornelia street were, Mrs. John Marlowe and two children, John and Lynda; Mrs. O. W. Long, and son Doyle, recently liberated from a Jap prison camp; Eugene Wicker of Camp Croft and Miss Dorothy Son. Farm women of the Piedmont dis trict will be guests of the Newberry county council Saturday, October 6. The sessions will be held in the high school building. Mrs. William E. Senn, of Newberry, director of the Piedmont district, will preside. Principal speaker on the day-long •program will be Dr. Jas. C. Kinard. The address of welcome will be by Mayor E. B. Purcell. The theme of this meeting!! of the farm women is “The Farm Women’s Responsibility in Peace.” The tentative program follows: Registration at 10 a. m.; call to order at 10:30 a. m. Assembly singing “America, the Beautiful”, led by Mrs. C. D. Sowell. Flag salute. Led by Mrs. D. S. Halfacre. Invocation,, by Mrs. J. E. Smith. Creed of the South Carolina Coun cil of Farm Women. Welcome Address, by Mayor E. B. Purcell. Response, by Mrs C. E. Massey. Appointment of committees. Introduction of guests, by Miss Juanita Neely, Asst. Home Demon stration Agent. Greetings, by Miss Lonny I. Lan drum, State Home Demonstration Agent. Special Music. Introduction of speaker. Address, by Dr. James C. Kinard, president of Newberry college. State President’s Message, Mrs. C. D. Sowell. County Council President’s mes sage, led by Miss Virginia Mauldin, District agent. Business session. Report of Committees. Awarding of Attendance vase Announcements. Assembly singing “Carolina.” Council Chairman Training meet ings. Adjournment; Lunch at 1:15. 12:40 Council Chairmen Training meetings. Agriculture, Mrs. B. F. Parrott, chairman. Consumer Education, Mrs. Thos. E. Hook, chairman. Housing and Beautification, Mrs. J. Edgar Hankison chairman. Health, Mrs. T. W. Livingston, chairman. Meeting of Council Presidents, Miss Juanita Neely. Every member of_the Newberry County council of Farm Women is urged to attend the meeting. The proceeds from the lunch will foe donated by the council for the enlargement of the Newberry hos pital. GENERAL BRADLEY SHOW- ING HE’S MAN FOR THE JOB Gen. Omar Bradley loses little time in reforming the Veterans Ad ministration of which he has been made the boss. It has been a haphazard affair up to now, without much of a program. The veterans haven’t been helped much; hindered, rather. So here is what Gen Bradley pro poses to do: 1. Decentralize supervision and control ‘over veterans’ facilities into thirteen branch offices that will have absolute control over the .facilities and offices in their area. 2. Raise the medical establishments to rank equal to other departments, add a planning section and break in surance away from general finance. 3. Separate vocational training from other activities and make it a specialized produce equal in impor tance to medical care. 4. Reform veterans’ hospitals to ally them with the teaching institu tions and where and when possible incorporate residences and intern ship in these hospitals. 5. Make each branch office a min iature duplicate of the central of fice in Washington. 6. Remove administration of in surance claims from the central of fice in New York and death claims from the single office in Washington which handles them, giving the branch offices full authority to han dle "hese claims. Urder Gen. Hines’ administration concessionaires had been permitted to sell cigarettes, candy and similar items at some of the hospitals. Gen. Bradley is cutting concession- aii'es off at the pockets. Instead, there will be a duplicate of the Post Exchange idea as used by the Army, the profits going back into the fund for the benefit of pat ients. On the theory that “the best Hos pitals in the United States are teach ing hospitals,” the veterans’ hispi- tals will all be made teaching hospi tals. It looks as though Gen. Bradley will prove himself to be the right man for the huge task he has under taken. He has been badly needed.— An derson Independen. Mrs. Giriffin Coleman, who has been a patient in a Columbia hos pital for the past several months, returned to her home on Walnut St. Monday and is doing nicely HEAR R. M. COOPER The Rotary club, Frank Sutton, president, presiding, had a large number of business men as guests at its regular meeting Friday last to welcome and listen to a talk by R. M. Cooper, head of the South Carolina Planning and Development board, and former manager of the Santee-Coaper water power develop ment. Mr. Cooper made a sound, sensible talk, uttering gospel that South Carolinians have long needed to hear. Mr. Cooper said that South Carolina needed more than anything else the right attitude toward industry wish ing to locate here. He noted an awakening among men of money in the state and finds that they are willing and anxious to put their cap ital to work. Mr. Cooper told of one town which raised $29,000 to clinch an industry which had decid ed not to locate in the state on ac count of an incident of unpleasant ness over securing a building. The money was tendered the company to buy a site and build a building and as a result of this gesture of coopera tion the company decided to locate all seven of its plants in the state. The speaker said that Smrth Caro lina had an “inferiority complex” dating from defeat in the civil war. This, he said, we had to overcome; confidence and the right attuude to ward business Mr. Cooper believes will carry South Carolina far aleng the road to a satisfactory industrial- iation. Mr. Cooper did not think, however, that industry to the exclus ion of farming was to be desireo. The state should remain a great agricul tural unit, properly balanced with industry, a condition which would offer employment for all our boys and girls. Mr. Cooper decried the fact that so many young people had to go to other states to find em ployment and also that *o much of South Carolina’s raw material had to be sent into other states to * be processed. Mr. Cooper’s talk was received with a noticeable degree of enthu siasm. MRS. PEERY WITNESSES SON’S ORDINATION SUNDAY Mrs. J. C. Peery, former member of the faculty of the city schools, now of Detroit, Mich., spent the weekend here and attended the ordination ser vices of her son, William P. Peery, on last Sunday evening in the Luther an Church of the Redeemer, of which he is a member. The Rev. Mr. Peery, a son of Mrs. Pearl Powlas Peery and the late Dr. J. C. Peery, D. D., lived here during the ministry of his late father as pas tor of the church of the Redeemer, and was graduated from the local schools; from Newberry College, where he received his AB degree and from the Lutheran Southern Theolo gical Seminary in Columbia with the Doctor of Divinity degree. After his commission in the Luther an church of the Reformation, Wash ington, D. C., he wilt leave for India as a missionary from the ULCA, and where he joins his brother, the Rev. John C. Peery, who has been in mis- 1 sionary work there for a number of years. NICHOLS FAMILY TO MOVE TO ORANGEBURG R. F. Nichols and family will will move about October 15th to Orangeburg where Mr. Nichols has accepted a .position as maintenance engineer of the Hamilton Veneer bompany’s plants. The Nichols family moved here eleven years ago and Mr. Nichols has been plant engineer of the New berry cotton mills during that time. MR. AND MRS. "DEE” SUMMER ANNOUNCE BIRTH Mr. and Mrs. “Dee” Summer an nounce the birth of a daughter, Lila Elizabeth. She was born at the county hospital Thursday, Septem ber 27. KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN PARISH J. B. HARMAN, Pastor Bethany: Sunday 10 a- m., church worship with sermon; 11 a. m., Sunday school, Mr. E. B. Hite, Supt; 12M Luther league. Summer Memorial: Sunday 10 a. m., Sunday school, Mr. M. E. Shealy Supt; 11 a. m. the service of the Holy Communion; 6 p. m. meeting of church officers, Women’s Society and Luther leagues. RADIO SYSTEM FOR PATROL MEN COLUMBIA, Sept. 28—Plans for a postwar radio communications sys tem for the state highway paticl call for nine transmitting stations and two-way radio equipped patrol cars. ■Chief Highway Commissioner J. S. Williamson said a 1942 federal communications commission license to the patrol might have to be revised to meet changed needs and war de velopments in radio. $1.00 PER ANNUM Looking Down MEMORY Lane TWENTY YEARS AGO George W. Hill and children left Tuesday for his home in New Orleans' after a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tabor Hill and Mary Hill ac companied them to Greenville, where they caught the train. Mrs. O. B. Mayer and Misses Cor nelia and Harriet Mayer are spending a few days in Laurens with relatives. Congressman Fred H. Dominick re turned home Sunday from a trip to Washington and Atlantic City. Mrs. J. Y. McFall, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Toohey and little daughter, Mrs. John M. Kinard and Mrs. W. S. Mobley motored to Ninety Six on Tuesday to visit relatives and friends. Dr J. E. Stokes had as his guests on Tuesday, his mother, Mrs. T. E. Stokes of Denmark, and sister, Mrs. R. A. Goolsby and Mrs. T. E. Stead man of Denmark and Mrs. W. R. Latta of Orangeburg. Miss Florence Kibler of Summer- land college spent the past weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Kibler. She was accompanied by two of her college mates. Miss Catherine Smith, who teach es music in the Clifton schools, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Smith at the Nation al hotel. Mr. a nd Mrs. Thomas Hayes and David Hayes spent Sunday in Green ville with Miss Isabel Cheatham. U. S. CLAIMS OIL, MINERAL RIGHTS WASHINGTON, Sept. 2f).—Tie Untited States today laid claim te whatever oil or other mineral depos its exist in the submerged continen tal sholf off all coasts #f this coun try and its territories. President Truman proclaimed U. S. jurisdiction in a move which push ed American claims beyond the tra ditional three-mile limit of national jurisdiction. He did so on recommendation of the secretaries of state and interior after petroleum geologists expressed belief that valuable oil deposits ex ist in portions of the continental shelf beyond the three mile limit. The proclamation has no connec tion with the federal state contro versy over tidewater oil rights. “It is concerned solely with estab lishing the jurisdiction of the United States from an intenjational standpoint,” the White House said, explaining that the move will make possible the development of a 750,- 01J0 square mile area covered by hot. more than 600 feet of water. A second presidential proclama tion estalblished conservation zones for protection of fisheries on the high seas contiguous to the United States. The White House emphasized that jurisdiction over mineral deposits in the continental shelf in no way changes the right of free and unim peded navigation of waters over the shelf. Nor does it extend the present three mile limit of the ter ritorial waters of the United States. Mrs. J. L. Coward, Sgt. John W. Coward, Olin Coward and Mrs. Geo. E. Coward and children, have re turned to Union after spending sev eral days with Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Coward and Mr. and Mrs. Tom S. Harmon. ABOUT TOWN BETH ATCHISON riding about town with her dad, E. M. ATCHI SON while he makes deliveries.— WILL WATERS fuming because WHITE FANT gave BUD MOORE a nice, soft chair to sit on while furnishing him one with slatted bot tom and WHITE giving as reason an attempt to keep Will awake.— MRS. HOWARD CLARK thinks the Sunpaper “cute.”—MRS. CLAUDE SLATON and MISS ANNIE ABR AMS walking down College street, arms laden with packages.—MRS. W. R. REID and aunt, MRS WOOT EN sitting in car waiting on a bus three hours and finally deciding to go and come another day.—DORO THY SHEALY and EDITH KIL GORE conversing with two lieuten ants on the street Monday afternoon. TILLA WEST looking attractive in a light blue dress with red acces sories.—PETE COLEMAN back on the job at his Pure Oil place after 39 months in the navy and about the happiest .person in town.—ANN BOWERS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bowers looking cute in a chic red striped dress.—MRS DEL LA KOON assembling a jig saw puzzle. Birthday Anniversaries through Friday, October 12: Smiley Porter and Frank Wilson, Jr., Octeber 9; Mrs. Sarah D. Wallace and Mr*. J. D. Wicker, Oct. 10; Mrs. Frederick Gardiner, Oct. 11, and Mrs. W. J. Swittenburg, October 12.