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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, October 1, 1970—PAGE 5(
Larry Wicker, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wicker of
Route 3, receives the award for “Best in .Show” and
“Grand Champion” in the 4-H Pullet Show last Satur
day. Assistant County Agent Ollie Donkle makes the
award. Larry is a member of Bush River 4-H Club.
(Sunphoto)
Indians to face
Lenoir Rhyne
Bears Saturday
composed of four paper mills,
twenty box plants, two plywood
plants, four fiber can plants and
owns, leases, or has cutting
rights to 1.4 million acres of
timberland.
S. E. Wilson
rites Monday
Samuel Ernest Wilson, 67, of
1307 Second Street, died Satur
day afternoon at the Newberry
County Memorial Hospital after
several years of declining
health.
Bom and reared in Spartan
burg County, he was a son of
the late William Franklin and
Lizzi° Meddlin Wilson.
He had n.adc his heme in
Newberry for a number of years
and was a retired employee of
Kendall Mills.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Pearl Brewington Wilson, New
berry; four sons, William Wil
son and Ernest Wilson, both
of Gastonia, N. C.; Samuel C.
Wilson, Newberry; and Tommy
Wilson, Nashville, Tenn.; a
stepson, Jame' A. Cisson, Sum
ter; one daughter, Mrs. Paul
Jones, Newberry; one brother,
Buddy Wilson, Anderson; two
sisters, Mrs. Mattie Lynn, Rock
Hill and Mrs. Lillie Furr, Shel
by, N. C.; an 16 grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at
3 p.m. Monday from McSwain
Fun3ral Home with Rev. R.
J. Roberts conducting the ser
vice. Burial followed in Rose-
mont Cemetery.
R. C. Thrift
dies Monday
R. Claude Thrift, 64, died
Monday morning at the Bap
tist Hospital in Columbia.
Mr. Thrift was bom in New
berry, the son of the late George
Washington Thrift and Mrs.
Mary Dora Rankin Thrift
Morse. Before his retirement,
he was Newberry County Jailer
and was a member of O’Neal
Street Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Johnnie Bledsoe Thrift;
two daughters, Mrs. Allen Li
vingston and Mrs. Billy Smith,
all of Newberry; one brother,
Charlie Thrift of Columbia;
one sister, Mrs. J. H. Cook Sr.
of Newberry, one half-sister,
Mrs. Lizzie Shealy of Newberry;
two step-sisters, Mrs. Pet Mc
Carty of Ward and Mrs. Mattie
Eidson of Saluda; and four
grandchildren.
Funeral services were con
ducted at 5 p.m. Wednesday at
O’Neal Street Methodist Church
by Rev. Elbert Johnson and
Rev. Ralph E. Rhyne. Inter
ment was in Newberry Memo
rial Gardens.
Voters of
District Two
ELECT
W. Hunter
Caldwell
Board of Education
November 3, 1970
16 years experience on School
Board
16 years work with Boy Scouts
Member of Holy Trinity Luth
eran Church, Little Mountain
Member of the Church Council
Married, four children
My life’s ambition is to help
our youth in every way pos
sible.
Newberry Mills and Owens-
Illinois employees will have
their turn Saturday night as
Newberry College continues its
“Special Night” programs at
the home football games. Em
ployees and their families of
the two local firms will be able
to purchase tickets for $1.50 for
the Newberry-Lenoir Rhyne
football game Saturday, Oct. 3.
The tickets may be purchased
from the employers before noon
Saturday.
The 500 employees of New
berry Mills and 120 of Owens-
Illinois are the third group to
participate in the S p e c i a 1
Nights. Saluda County residents
will be honored at the Wofford
game, Oct. 17, and residents of
Lower Newberry County at the
Samford game Nov. 14. Earlier
in the football season employees
of Kendall Company and resi
dents of Whitmire were honored.
Newberry Mills, an indepen
dently-owned textile plant, was
acquired by the present mana
gement in 1949; the firm has
been in Newberry since the
1880’s when the physical faci
lities were constructed. The lo
cal textile manufacturer produ
ces print cloth and yarn at the
plant on Newberry’s west side.
Owens-Illinois is one of New
berry’s newer manufacturing fa
cilities; the building was con
structed in 1965 to produce all
types of corrugated boxes for
industry.
The company’s primary ma
chine at the Newberry plant is
longer than a football field.
Within one year it produces, in
terms of length, approximately
10,800 miles of corrugated
board.
The local plant is part of the
Forest Products Division of
Owens-Illinois. The division is
Announcements
FOR COUNCILMAN
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for re-election to the
office of councilman and pledge
myself to abide the results of
the general election.
CECIL E. KINARD
FOR COUNCILMAN
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for re-election to the
office of councilman and pledge
myself to abide the results of
the general election.
L. D. GARDNER, JR.
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