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Ga.-Pacific
site chosen
Georgia-Pacific Corp. has an
nounced the purchase of appro
ximately 200 acres here on
which the company plans to
locate a modern chipping head-
rig sawmill.
Preparation of the site, which
is located two miles south of
Prosperity on U.S. Highway 76,
has already begun and construc
tion will begin immediately.
The new sawmill will be serv
ed by both the Seaboard Coast
Line (C.N.&L.) and Southern
railways, and Interstate High
way 26 which is only three
miles to the southwest.
Construction plans were an
nounced by G-P in January and
the new sawmill is expected to
go on line early in 1973.
The 36 million bd. ft. annual
capacity sawmill will employ
approximately 100 persons with
an additional 75 to 100 employed
by supporting logging operations
which will generate a $1 mil
lion annual payroll.
Eason is new
County Agent
Henry Eason, who last week
began his duties as county
agent in Newberry County, is
a native of Sumter.
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Eason, he was born and
reared on a farm. He graduat
ed from Edmunds High in Sum
ter and in 1951 graduated from
Clemson University with a de
gree in animal husbandry.
After graduating from col
lege, Eason was herdsman at
Caimwood Farm in Byrn Athyn,
Pa., and later was manager of
Cornwell Farm at Forestville,
Va.
In 1956 he returned to South
Carolina as assistant county
agent in Laurens County and
remained in that position until
July of 1967 when he trans
ferred to Chester as an area
agent in livestock doing edu
cation livestock work in the
four county area of York, Lan
caster, Fairfield and Chester
counties.
He is married to the form
er Miss Frances Rickmond of
Asheville, N. C., and they have
three children, Linda, a rising
senior at Winthrop College; Bob
16; and Joe, nine.
They are members of Bethel
Methodist Church, where Eason
is a member of the Official
Board, president of the Pete
Wylie Sunday School Class and
a member of the church choir.
He also is a Mason.
He is a member of the South
Carolina County Agents Asso
ciation.
The Easons will locate in
Newberry at the end of the
current school term.
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SPEAKER—William J. Haile, Jr., center, of Columbia, was speaker for the regular meeting
of the Exchange Club Tuesday night. Haile has been active in work of the Cancer Society since 1966
having been successfully cured of cancer himself. At right, club president Wm. Smith presents Haile a
Certificate of Appreciation for his activities, and at left is Jerry Ayers, staffer of the American Cancer
Society. (Sunphoto)
AT EXCHANGE CLUB . . .
Cancer victim is speaker
Judy Shealy
will reign
Judy Shealy, Leesville senior
at Newberry College, will reign
over this year’s May Day fes
tivities at the College. Jan Cro
mer, Newberry senior, will
serve as Maid of Honor for the
annual springtime event.
Senior attendants in the
Queen’s court are Carole Hutch
inson, Camden, S. C.; Judy
Wise, Newberry; and Manning
Odom, Jacksonville, Fla.
These five coeds were elect
ed to the May Court in student
body balloting March 21 and
28. The remaining class repre
sentatives will be chosen im
mediately after Easter vaca
tion, according to Sadie Crooks,
acting dean of women and or
ganizer for the May Day ac
tivities.
William J. Haile, Jr., retired
paper company executive of Co
lumbia, was guest speaker for
the Exchange Club of Newberry
Tuesday night.
Haile, a native of Union, in
his remarks, stressed the mes
sage of early detection as the
best hope for cancer cure.
In the past four years he has
traveled to 41 of the state’s 46
counties with his message. His
audiences range from youths to
adults and has addressed in ex
cess of 50,000 persons.
Haile has spoken in buildings
ranging from country clubs to
sawmills. In all cases, his mes
sage has been one of hope,
stressing the high cure rate in
cancer when the disease is de
tected and treated in its early
stages. He knows the value of
early detection, because it
saved his life from cancer. He
State bond sales
over 2 million
Joe M. Roberts, County Sav
ings Bonds Chairman, today re
ports that Newberry County’s
February sales of Series E and
H Savings Bonds were $14,560.
Combined sales of E and H
Bonds for February in the state
were $2,927,740, reports Mr. Ro
bert G. Clawson, State Chair
man of the U.S. Savings Bonds
Committee.
In the Nation, February
sales of E and H Bonds totalled
$537 million, a 24 percent in
crease over sales in February
of 1971, further reports Mr.
Clawson.
had cancer of the larynx, but
is alive and well today because
he went to his doctor in time.
Haile has been active in the
American Cancer Society since
1966 having held numerous of
fices with the society. Because
of his hard work and long hours
in the society, the American
Cancer Society awarded him
the coveted National Divisional
Award, the highest award given
to any person working with the
society on the state level. The
presentation was made by Go
vernor John West in January.
Haile is a native of Union.
He graduated from The Citadel
and in 1944 founded the Pal
metto Paper Co. in Columbia
and later merged it with Dil
lard Paper Co. He remained
as President of the Columbia
Division until his retirement in
1968. He is an active Mason
of the 33rd degree.
Scheduled for April 30, the
spring celebration will be an
all-day affair. “We’re going to
make it a family day with a
special morning service in Wiles
Chapel, dinner on the grounds,
and the ceremony starting at
2:30 p.m.,” said Mrs. Crooks.
Miss Cromer is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Cromer,
1922 Harper St., Newberry. Miss
Wise is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Wise, Route
3, Newberry.
rfcv rl* 'i r " ass,st ? nt Professor of music at Newberry College, at 8:30 p.m. Mo
day, April ! 0 in Wiles Chapel is the second program in the College’s Spring Festival of Music Kinard w
cnnSZ, e ' gh r “ H be,S | ran k g "' 8 f r D om P|; ce f by Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn to tl
contemporary Gordon Jacobs and Peter Hurford.