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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, July 8, 1971 COLORFUL DISPLAY — Postmaster took over operation of the post office. Ex- James W. Counts and Mrs. E. D. Randolph h'biting collections were Dr. Frank Hos- examine stamp collection displays at the kins, Dr. Conrad Park, Foster Farley, Mrs. Newberry Post Office last Thursday morn- Randolph and Gordon Leslie, ing when the U. S. Postal Service officially (Sunphoto) Greenville star signed by Tribe A four sports-star from Green ville’s Carolina High School, Danny Ballard, has signed a basketball grant-in-aid to attend Newberry College this fall, Nield Gordon, Newberry’s bas ketball coach has announced. Ballard, who is 6’4” and weighs 190 pounds, participated in basketball for two years, football for two years, golf for three years and track one year while in high school. A forward on the basketball squad at Caro lina, he averaged 15 points each game during the past season; on the football field, he played defensive end and caught 35 passes for 580 yards when he was a senior; on the golf course, the young athlete was a medalist on the golf team and consistently shot in the low 70’s. The coaching staff at Caro lina High School selected Bal lard as the school’s “Outstand ing Athlete of the Year,” for the 1978-71 school term. He also made the Region 2, 4-A All- Conference team as defensive RITZ THEATRE THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY P1N0CCHI0 Adults $1.00 Child 50c (G) MONDAY AND TUESDAY COLD TURKEY Dick Van Dyke Bob Newhart (GP) WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MONDAY AND TUESDAY LITTLE BIG MAN Dustin Hoffman Martin Balsalm (GP) CLOVER LEAF DRIVE-IN FRIDAY AND SATURDAY FLARE UP Raquel Welch James Stacy SUNDAY SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE Michael York Angela Lansbury Always A Color Cartoon The Drive-In Will Be Closed On Monday Tuesday Wed nesday Thursday For The Winter Months. end and was an honorable men tion offensive end. Scholastically Ballard has al so received several honors: he is a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist, a Furman scho lar, and a member of the Na tional Honor Society. He also attended Boys State and the Lions Club International Youth Camp. Lou Golden, Ballard’s high school basketball coach, said of the versatile athlete, “He was one of the most consistent shoot ers on the team from the field and the free-throw line. He handled the ball well on a press and was a very accurate passer.” Coach Gordon said in com menting on his basketball play er, “I have watched Danny Bal lard since he was in the tenth grade; his improvement each year has been remarkable. He will be an asset to Newberry’s basketball team and an out standing student for the College. I am looking forward to work ing with him.” Ballard, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Ballard of 8 Yown Road in Greenville comes from a Newberry family. His father attended the College be fore entering the service dur ing World War II; his sister, Susan, graduated from New berry in January, and his bro ther, Steve, will be a junior this fall. Cheerleaders to be on campus The cheerleaders are coming! The cheerleaders are coming! And when they arrive at New berry College the last two weeks of this month, the campus will explode into a beehive of acti vity when about 400 junior and senior high school cheerleaders from South Carolina’s schools invade the campus for two one- week sessions of intensive train ing in the art of cheerleading. The sessions at Newberry Col lege are only two of 87 similar training camps that the Ame rican Cheerleaders Association AC A) is sponsoring this sum- WANT ADS AVON CALLING FEEL TIED DOWN? Free yourself! Get out and get more out of life by being an Avon Representative. Earn money for all those “extras” you want. Win prizes. Call 276-2252 Newberry or call collect Barbara Brand, 754-7123 in Columbia or write 3823 Humphrey Dr. Columbia. mer on college campuses throughout the country and at its headquarters in Leesburg, Fla. The AC A was founded in 1949 by its present director, Bill Horan. During their week-long train ing camp, the young cheerlead ers will learn the latest rou tines, formations, starts, jumps, and endings so they will be able to help lead their junior or senior high school teams to victory this fall. But the training is not limit ed to the drill field, the cheer leaders will also spend time in the classroom learning about crowd psychology, pep rally or ganizations, history of cheer leading, and faculty-student re lations. This is the fourth year that Newberry College has hosted one of the summer cheerlead ing camps. WWI AUXILIARY 'Continued from Page 1) Michigan, will be the National Representative in attendance. She and her husband, Buddy Harold Sessions, will arrive July 9th. Preconvention Committee and Executive Board Meetings will convene on the afternoon of July 9th and a joint social hour will follow that night. July 10th the registration starts at 8:00 A.M., with the joint session at 10:00 A.M. when the Veterans of World War I and their Ladies Auxiliary will be welcomed by Councilman Jesse T. Reese. Department Ju nior Vice Commander, Bennie B. Sprouse will give the re sponse. MRS. SESSIONS Honor guest of the Depart ment and the Auxiliary will be introduced by Commander A. B. Stribble and President Lena Courtney. National Quartermas ter Charles R. Law will address the convention. The first business session of the Auxiliary will open at 1:00 P.M. Sixth Region President Madaline Sessions will be their guest speaker. Congressman W. J. Bryan Dorn will be the speaker at the joint banquet that night. Sunday, July 11 at 9:00 A.M., a joint Memorial Service will be conducted by Department Chaplain S. F. McAuley and Auxiliary Chaplain Sister Oneida Lorick. Following this there will be a second business session at which time the election and in stallation of officers will take place. The installing officer will be Madaline Sessions, 6th Re gion President. WWI veterans meet July 9-11 The Department of South Carolina Veterans of World War I and the Ladies Auxiliary in Columbia will hold their annual convention at the Wade Hamp ton Hotel July 9, 10, and 11. National Quartermaster Char les R. Law will address the July 10 morning joint session. At that time Madaline Sessions, 6th Region President, National Representative of the Auxiliary will bring greetings. In the afternoon business ses sion of the Ladies Auxiliary Sis ter Sessions will be the speaker. Congressman W. J. Bryan Dorn will be the speaker for the Joint Banquet that night. A joint memorial service will be held on July 11, as will the elections and installations of of ficers. Ira J. Koon dies Tuesday Ira Jesse Koon, 69, of 605 O’Neal St., died Tuesday. Born in Lexington County, son of the late Timothy and Jessie Lindler Koon, he was a retired employee of Newberry Mills Inc. and a member of Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Narvice Bishop Koon of New berry; three sons, Roy E. “Doc” Koon of Newberry, Haskell O. Koon of Greenville and Everette D. Koon of Pickens; his step mother, Mrs. Martha Koon Bar bery of Clinton; a brother, George Koon of Newberry; two half-brothers, Levi Koon of Clin ton and C. J. Koon of Saluda; four half-sisters, Mrs. Lonnie Dowd of Charleston, Mrs. Bel ton Kinard of Prosperity, Mrs. Levi Longshore of Saluda and Mrs. Madison Longshore of New berry; seven grandchildren; 10 stepgrandchildren; and a great grandchild. Funeral services were at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Mayer Me morial Lutheran Church. Burial was in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church cemetery. 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