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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Feb. 19, 1970—PAGE 3 REVIVAL SET AT HOLINESS CHURCH A weekend revival will be held February 20, 21 and 22 at the Newberry Pentecostal Holi ness Church at the corner of Pope and Nance Streets. Rev. Leon 0. Stewart, evan gelist from Franklin Springs, Georgia will be guest preacher. He is former superintendent of the Alabama Conference and is now one of four assistant Bis hops of the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Services are each night at 7 p.m.; also at 11 a m. Sunday morning and a special service at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The pastor Rev. William H. Sorrow, invites the public to attend. Indians whip Falcons, 81-76 The Newberry Indians came back with a hot ten free throws in the final 2:48 of Saturday’s basketball game against t h e visiting Pfeiffer Falcons to de feat them 81-76 after trailing by 11 points with 12:12 remaining in the game. The Carolinas Conference vic tory gave the Indians a firm hold on fourth place in the nine-team league with a 784 mark; the season’s record was boosted to 19-6. Newberry led during most of the first half, but hit a three- minute cold streak to allow Pfeiffer to take the lead and went to the dressing room at half-time with a one-point defi cit, 40-39. The lead changed hands twice early in the second half before Pfeiffer took fire to capture a commanding 11-point lead over Coach Nield Gordon’s men. Newberry’s Buddy Moore and Tommy Miller teamed to pro duce a Newberry rally which resulted in a 71-70 lead with 2:48 left on the clock. For the remainder of the game Moore and Miller pumped in the char ity tosses to give the Indians the 81-76 victory. Moore was high man for the Indians with 24 points, followed by Steve Hollingsworth's 21, by Charlie Gilroy’s 15, Tommy Mil ler's and Bill Sullivan's 10 and Charlie Neal’s 1. The loss gave Pfeiffer a 3-12 conference mark and a 6-19 re cord for the season. The Indians closed out the home season Wednesday night with the Wofford Terriers. Newberry travels to Wilson, N. C. Saturday to meet confer ence member Atlantic Christian for the final game of the regu lar season. Tournament play begins next week with eight of the nine Conference members participat ing in the league’s tourney at Winston-Salem. Then the In dians wall complete in NAIA District 6 Tournament March 2 and 4. The opponents of the two tourneys and the site of the NAIA meet will depend upon the results of the remaining games this week in the regular season. Receives thanks for packages The GUNG—HO Club (Great er Understanding of Nation’s Government—Here and Over seas), Newberry College affi liate of Young Americans for Freedom, has recently received letters of appreciation from U.S. servicemen stationed throughout South Viet Nam; recipients of GUNG—HO gifts at Christmas time. The club sent 22 individual 5-pound packages to service men whose names were sub mitted to GUNG—HO by stu dents and individuals associat ed with Newberry College. Each package contained soap, comb, toothbrush, toothpaste, face cloths, towels, stationery, pens, pencils, hard candy, chewing gum, plastic bags, soft drink powder, mixed nuts, etc. In addition to individual gifts the GUNG—HO sent 23 five-pound packages to Sp4 Donald Crowe and Company D of the 101st Airborne Division stationed at Cam Ranh Bay in South Viet nam. Packages for GUNG—HO newly adopted unit (the club's former unit, Echo Company, 2nd Bn., 9th Marines of the 3rd Marine Division, went inactive after two years) included the items previously mentioned a- long with insect repellent, cough drops, socks, flashlights, books, magazines, table games, etc. According to F. A. Williams, contributions treasurer, “gung- ho” supporters of the club's Christmas Contributions Drive include Mrs. Marty Mathis and the Civinettes of Newberry high school, Newberry Girl Scout Troop 71, Mrs. Lois Huckaby of Silverstreet, many merchants and citizens of Newberry, LSA of Newberry College and sev eral professors and individuals of Newberry College. GUNG—HO Chairman, Ellen Greening recently commented, “Our club’s annual Christmas Contributions Drive has become increasingly successful, and our thanks go out to those people who have made it possible. This year in particular, we were for tunate to receive the enthus iastic support of Newberry high school’s Civinettes who contri buted the majority of items GUNG-HO sent to U S. ser vicemen in South Vietnam.” Art exhibit at Little Theatre Art by South Carolinians as well as nationally and internat ionally known artists will be featured in the Contemporary Art Exhibit from February 12 to February 20 at Newberry College. The Show will open Thurs day evening in the Wiles Chapel Little Theatre. An Art Forum has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 17, in the Theatre; it will be led by Carl Blair of the Bob Jones Univer sity Art staff and Bill Halsey and Come McCallum, husband- wife team on the faculty of the host school. The trio will dis cuss the 32 pieces on exhibit. Area artists who will have work on display include faculty and staff members at Bob Jones University, Charleston Art Richland Art School and Jasper Johns, a native of Allendale, in addition to Halsey and Miss McCallum. The media used by the 30 art ists represented in the collect ion on loan from the Greenville County Museum of Art includes work done in acrylics, aqua tints, oils, and watercolors to drawings, etchings, wall sculp tures, and wood cuts. Mrs. Fulmer, 80, service held Mrs. Louemma Davenport Fulmer, 80, of 85 Glenn Street, widow of C. S. Fulmer, died Monday. Born in this county, she was a daughter of the late John and Sallie Hendrix Davenport, and was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church. Surviving are a son, Herman Fulmer of Swansea; three daughters, Mrs. Eula Rae Strib- ble and Mrs. Edith Kibler of Newberry, and Mrs. Mabel Smith of Gardner, Me.; two brothers, Leo Davenport of New berry and John C. Davenport of Florida; a sister, Mrs. Bessie Foy of Newberry; 13 grandchild ren and nine great-grandchild ren. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Trinity United Methodist Church. Burial was in the church cemetery. H.L Cannon dies in Florida Harry Lee Cannon, 62, died Friday in Miami Springs, Fla. after several months illness He was born in Chapin but had made his home in Miami for a number of years. Amont his survivors are the following brothers and sisters who live in this area: Forrest, Henry and Roy Cannon, Mrs. Elton Frick and Mrs. Nettie Frick. Funeral services were held Monday from St. Peters Luth eran Church with Rev. John Zeigler conducting. Burial was in the church cemtery. Kendall men at Charlotte meet Kendall’s Textile Division is holding its annual Management Conference February 17 and 18 at The Red Carpet Inn, in Char lotte. This Conference brings to gether management personnel from the Division’s Southern Executive Office in Charlotte, headquarters of the Textile Div ision; from the Sales Offices in New York City, from the Cor porate Headquarters in Boston; and from the Division’s plant locations in North Carolina and South Carolina and Alabama. The Conference serves as a means of bringing all manage ment personnel up to date on current trends and operating conditions and a review of plans for the remainder of the year. The Textile Division is head ed by George McQuilkin 3rd, Vice President and Divisional Manager. In attendance at the Conference from Newberry are W. H. Tedford, Manager, and G. R. Hawkins, Superintendent, of the Mollohon Plant; L. Hart Jordan, Manager and W. A. Fun derburk, Superintendent of the Oakland Plant; along with H.E. Wessinger, Manager of the Cot ton Buying Office, also located in Newberry. HAMMET TO SPEAK AT WILES CHAPEL The Rev. Charles J. Ham- met, pastor of the Westminster Fellowship at the University of South Carolina will be the Guest Preacher at the 11:15 a.m.wor- ship services Sunday, in the A.G.D.Wiles Chapel on Newber ry College campus. His ser mon topic is “Stick with it.” He has served as the advisor to Presbyterian students at the University since 1962; he was also the Chaplain for the 169th Signal Battalion, South Carolina National Guard when the unit was called to active duty in 1961, and was pastor of the Rock Presbyterian Church in Green wood. A native of Kingstree, he stud ied at Clemson University and received his seminary work at the Columbia Theological Semi nary, Decatur, Georiga. 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