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PAGE 10—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Oct. 15, 1970 J. Alan Eargle rites Thursday J. Alan Eargle, 67, died Tues day at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital after a cri tical illness of several months. Mr. Eargle was born in New berry County, the son of Char lie O. Eargle of White Rock and the late Mrs. Lucia Sligh Eargle. Prior to his retirement, he was employed at the Mollo- hon Plant of the Kendall Com pany. He was a member of Summer Memorial Lutheran Church and was a member of the Lutheran Church Men. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Linnie Belle Derrick Ear gle; four daughters, Mrs. Char les B. Rister of Walterboro Mrs. David E. Wicker of Hamp ton, Virginia, Mrs. Larry Cro mer and Mrs. Ned Kesler, both of Newberry; one brother, Her man C. Eargle of Newberry; five sisters, Mrs. Mary Lindler of Chapin, Mrs. Lawrence Bean of Jenkinsville, and Mrs. Cecil Ringer, Mrs. Claude Suber and Mrs. Oscar Morris, all of New berry; and four grandchildren. Funeral services were con ducted at 4 p.m. Thursday at Summer Memorial Lutheran Church by Rev. Pierce Evans. Interment was in Newberry Me morial Gardens. RITZ THEATRE THURSDAY FRIDAY and SATURDAY I WALK THE LINE Gregory Peck Tuesday Weld MONDAY AND TUESDAY BARQUERO Lee Van Cleef Forest Tucker CLOVER LEAF DRIVE-IN FRIDAY and SATURDAY DUNWICH HORROR Sandra Dee Dean Stockwell SUNDAY First Run REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE Eliabeth Taylor Marlon Brando Always A Color Cartoon The Drive-In Will Be Closed On Monday Tuesday Wed nesday Thursday For The Winter Months. BY THE WAY . . . (Continued from Page 1) the Tricentennial Observance in Newberry County beginning No vember 8. The County Tricentennial commission has just published an attractive brochure outlin ing events planned for the week, and it is going to be a busy week around here. Incidentally, the pamphlets are available for the asking and have a space on the back for mailing. The commission would like very much for you to secure some of these leaflets and send them to friends and relatives in other places, urging them to attend our centennial celebration. You can contact any member of the commission: Martyn Cava naugh, acting chairman; Wil liam Carter, Mrs. Aubrey Har ley, Owen Holmes, Mrs. Price J. Padgett, Keitt Purcell or C. M. Smith. They will tell you where you can get the brochure. Briefly, Sunday November 8 will be Religious Heritage Day; Monday, Industry Day; Tues day, Historical Sites Day; Wed nesday and Thursday, Tour Days; Friday, Merchant’s Day; Saturday, Newberry College Day. On Friday, Saturday and Sun day of the Week, there will be a hobby and antique show and sale at the National Guard Armory. Mark the week of November 8th on your calendar and plan to take in all of the events. The commission originally chaired by the late Dr. James C. Kinard, is making every ef fort to put Newberry County in the limelight. Your word-of- mouth publicity will help. SOUTH CAROLINA 4—H JERSEY WINNER Boyd Parr has been selected as the 1970 4-H Jersey project winner for South Carolina. For his award, Boyd attended the 16th Annual Dairy Conference in Madison, Wisconsin on Octo ber 3-6 along with other 4—H dairy project winners from all over the United States. His trip to Madison was sponsored by the S. C. Jersey Cattle Club. Boyd, 16, has been an out standing 4H club member for the past seven years. He lives on a 1000 acre dairy farm with over 300 Jerseys. Boyd owns 17 jerseys as a part of his 4—H dairy project work and is a Junior member of the Ameri can Jersey Cattle Club. Boyd has shown his Jerseys at many county, district and state dairy shows. For the past two years he has participated in the Na tional Jersey Show. In addition to his 4H club activities, Boyd has also been active in various church and school activities. Boyd is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parr. WANT ADS H. Grady Ballard BALLARD for Congress P. O. Box Easley 1970 S. C. 29040 AVON CALLING YOU . . . for an excellent earning op portunity in your own neigh borhood. High earnings, many new friends and plea sures. Call collect Mrs. Brand 754-7123 or write 3823 Hum phrey Dr. Columbia. FOR SALE Siegler Oil Heater .with fan, G. E. Refrigerator, electric range, color T. V., oval glass china closet cream puff condi tion. Comfortable terms. See us before you buy, sell, or trade anything. J. J. Langford & Son Newberry, S. C. 3tc Literary Study Club hears book report The Literary Study Club of Newberry held its first fall meeting on Tuesday, Septem ber 15, at the home of Mrs. R. A. Buddin on Harper Street. Thirteen members were pre sent. After refreshments and a brief business session Mrs. Ge rald Paysinger introduced Mrs. Charles Shealy, who presented an intriguing review of a re cent best-seller, Eudora Welty’s Losing Battlos. Miss Welty, a Jackson, Mis sissippi native with paternal lines from Virginia, was nurtu red by understanding parents, attended public schools, read widely, fancied pursuing a paint ing career, attended Mississippi State College for Women, and was graduated from the Univer sity of Wisconsin with a B. A. degree in English. After studying advertising at the school of Business at Colum bia University, Miss Welty, un able to find suitable employ ment due to the depression, re turned home to Mississippi. For the next nine years she worked at various jobs in advertising and publicity, as well as her own literary pursuits. Her tra vels throughout Mississippi af forded Miss Welty many op portunities to photograph, talk with, and observe the many faceted native life. Hoping for acceptance, she offered her sto ries with unposed photographs and candid verbal exchanges to various New York publishers. The usual rejections did not de ter Miss Welty, whose love of writing was eternal and flower ing. Miss Welty’s first story to be published appeared in a small magazine, Manuscript, in 1936, and within three years Robert Penn Warren published six others in the Southern Review. Some of her stories have ap peared in Harper's, the Atlan tic Monthly, and The New Yorker. In 1942 and 1943 Eudora Welty received the O. Henry Memo^ rial for short stories The Wide Net and Lusvie. She held two Guggenheim Fellowships and her novel The Ponder Heart won her the William Dean Ho wells medal awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This award was for the most distinguished work of American fiction during 1950- 1955. In 1952 Miss Welty was selected to the National Insti tute of Arts and Letters. Miss Welty’s Losing Battles is the sum of years of minute social observation. The surprise is that the attention she lavi shes is neither frustrated nor satiric, but whole-hearted. This style is seen in the author’s other works. . • Losing Battles depicts rural Mississippi in the 1930’s. The action covers two days, prima rily the hot, dry first Sunday in August at a family reunion at Granny Vaughn’s in Banner, Mississippi. This occasion is to celebrate Granny’s 90th birth day. Great tale tellers present much of the past as well as the present action. Although the dialogue and ac tion are marvelously funny, wildly so, underneath there are somber tones. Granny lives with her granddaughter Beulah Ren fro, the mother of various off spring, the most noted being Jack, whom all are awaiting to arrive from his most recent prison term. The numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and neighbors are speculating about Jack’s appearance. Jack had been convicted of robbery UDC Chapter has meeting The October meeting of Cal vin Crozier Chapter UDC was held in the Community Room of the Newberry Federal Build ing, Tuesday evening, Oct. 6, at 7:3ft. The hostesses were Misses Juanita Hitt and Jose phine Shannon, Mrs. L. W. Be- denbaugh, Mrs. Judson Bishop and Mrs. E. B. Hume. As the members arrived they were served delicious refresh ments consisting of chicken sa lad sandwiches, cheese wafers, lemon tarts, nuts and fruit punch. Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, presi dent, called the meeting to or der and Miss Dorothy Buzhardt, chaplain, led in the pledge to the flag and the ritual. Each member present parti cipated in a most interesting and informative program, “My Confederate Ancestor.” Every member of the chapter has been asked to submit a short bio graphical sketch of her Confede rate ancestor. These sketches will be sent to the Division Ge nealogy chairman by May 30, 1971. Miss Juanita Hitt, his torian, outlined the program for the year, announcing that the study of the states would be continued and that the Novem ber program would be on “South Carolina”. The chapter will observe the Tricentennial at this program and Mrs. W. W. Parr is to be the program leader. A portion of the program was a discussion on “The Confede rates Who Went to Mexico.” It was surprising to learn that some 2500 Confederates were scattered over Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil in 1866. It was the opinion of Generals Lee, Beau regard and Forrest, that the Confederates should remain at home and re-build a new South. Southern newspapers re-empha sized this same feeling, espe cially The Charleston Courier. In one issue of this paper a portion of the editorial read— “Let every young man deter mine that he will succeed here, and refrain from enlisting in the wild and adventurous colo nization schemes in Mexico and Brazil.” Some of the Confederate ge nerals, soldiers, and ex-gover nors who thought their lost for tunes could be more easily for gotten or retrieved in Mexico, Cuba, or Brazil were the follow ing: Gen. Sterling Price, who built a. thatched hut of bamboo in a mango grove of the Mexi can jungle and raised tobacco, cotton, sugar and coffee. Gen. Hindman of Arkansas opened a law office in Cordoba. Gen. John Magruder, Gen. Joe Shel by, Phillip Nelson Page, Mat- though what he actually com mitted was “an act of gallan try.” Many past experiences are retold for the benefit of Aunt Cleo, the newest bride of Granny’s son Noah. The man who sentenced Jack- mean Judge Moody-“bom and bred in Ludlow, never heard of a one of us,” says Beulah- be comes an unwilling participant in the family reunion when he racks up his beloved Buick near the Vaughn household. The Judge is accorded twice the kindness he deserves. Finally the throng hears that old Miss Julia Mortimer, an ele gant schoolmarm who taught them all, is dead. The remainder of Losing Battlos is devoted to remembering and burying Miss Julia, who left detailed instruc tions for her services. These treat the reader to an unre hearsed portrayal of a seg ment of “rural Mississippi — 1930.” thew Fontaine Maury, Gen. Ju- bal Early, Gen. Kirby Smith and many other famous Con federates were among the re fugees. At the close of the program, Mrs. Wm. Tedford read a clip ping from “The Charlotte Ob server” on the granddaughter of Stonewall Jackson. Mrs. Ju lia Preston is a resident of North Carolina and is an ex cellent conversationalist. The chapter remembered the birthday of Mrs. Robert D. Wright, Honorary President Ge neral, UDC. . A memorial service will be held at the November meeting for Mrs. Vanessa Holt and Mrs. Geneva T. Dickert Bickerstaff. Mrs. A. T. Neely, past presi dent of the chapter, reported that her chapter president’s re port for 1969-1970 averaged more than 300 points. Mrs. Neely’s report was awarded first place at the State UDC Convention in Greenville. The Newberry Kiwanis Club will sponsor another of their famous annual Pancake Sup pers. Friday, October 16, from 5:30 to 7:30 P.M. in the Speers Street School Cafeteria. Pan cakes, sausage, syrup, coffee all you can eat for $1.50. Come out, enjoy a delightful supper and also help a worthy cause. UNITED FUND BREAKFAST (Continued from Pago 1) blic education, public employees and residential area. Serving under Dick Britt, Ha rold Folk will be in charge of the commercial division with Dave Summer, Gene Tuggle and Tom Halfacre as his assis tants. Dave Morrison will be in charge of the industrial group with Hilton Parsons, Bryan Boyce, Bobby Hawkins, Otis Taylor and Dan Hamm, Jr. as sisting. Special projects will be as signed to Wyman Shealy. The outlying lieutenants are as follows: Whitmire Highway to Long Lane School: Steve Floyd, of the Mentally Retarded Children Foundation Kinards, Bush River and Win- sboro Highway to Mount Bethel Garmany Road, and Greenville Hwy: Bo Sanders along with the individual members of the Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad Prosperity and Little Moun tain: Prosperity Rescue Squad volunteer members under J. T. Long Peak, Silverstreet and Chap pells: Hospital and Red Cross with M. L. Richardson and Mrs. J. M. Pool Helena and Jalapa area: Pomaria: Council on Aging under the supervision of Tom Leitzsey Lieutenants under William Ki- bler are: Financial: Bill Dehihns Professional: Dr. E. M. An derson, Sr. with Gordon Henry overseeing Newberry College Public Education: Hubert Be- denbaugh Public Employees: Ed Mc Kinney Residential area: adult scout leaders under the direction of Bill Monroe and Mrs. Hilton Parsons Mr. Coggins adjourned the meeting stating that the first report would be Monday, Oc tober 19th. Again he urged the citizens of Newberry not to let themselves or Newberry County down. “We feel that $30,000.00 is a very realistic goal, and if everyone does his part, we should go over the goal by a good margin,” the chairman said.