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Hicks retires as president Security Corp. On July 16, 1921, fifty-one years ago, Mr. Hicks moved to Newberry from Cheraw, South Carolina where he was district manager for Pilot Life Insu rance Company of Greensboro, North Carolina. The capital stock of the Se curity Corporation at that time was only $12,500.00. In two years a 100 percent stock dividend increased the capital stock to $25,000.00. In 1944 he purchased all the company and increased the capital stock to $100,000.00 Later in 1946 he chartered Se curity Fire and Casualty In surance Company with assets over $100,000.00. In 1922 Secu rity entered the auto finance business and is today the old est local finance company in the state. For the past 30 years these two companies have been leaders in this county as fi nance and insurance compa nies. In announcing his re tirement Mr. Hicks states he has sold his interest in both companies to C. Kenneth Brown of Columbia, South Carolina,-' and he will continue in an ad visory capacity until December 31, 1972. Vol. 36-No. 24 Newberry , S. C. 29108, Thursday, November 9, 1972 $3.00 PER YEAR County voter turnout large I M. i Thanksgiving services set The annual “downtown” Com munity Thanksgiving Service will be held on Wednesday evening, November 22 at 7:30 P.M. at the First Baptist Church. The Reverend John Younginer, pastor of Central United Methodist Church, will preach the Thanksgiving ser mon. For a number of years, the service has been held on Thanksgiving morning. This year’s service is being planned for Wednesday evening in an attempt to make the time more convenient for more people. A much larger attendance is an ticipated on Wednesday even ing. The downtown community ser vice is being sponsored again this year by the following churches: Aveleigh Presbyte rian, Central United Methodist, First Baptist, Redeemer Luthe ran, Newberry ARP, and St. Luke’s-St. Monica’s Episcopal churches. The public is cordially invit ed to attend. NEW COUNCILMAN—L. Bruce Wessinger, winner in the County General Election Tuesday, was sworn into office by Mrs. Mildred R. Harmon, clerk of court, Wednesday morning as County Council Chair man, Carman Bouknight observes the ceremony. Wessinger fills the unexpired term created by the death of John Schumpert. He represents District 2 on the council. (Sunphoto) Odd Couple production to be sta£ed The Newberry Community Players will begin their 1972- 73 season with Neil Simon’s de lightful three act comedy, “The Odd Couple”. The production will be staged November 9, 10 and 11th at the Drayton St. Community Center with curtain time at 8:15 p.m. The curtain opens on a group of boys assembled for cards in the apartment of a divorced fellow, and if the mess of the place is any indication, it’s no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is another fellow who, they learn, has just se parated from his wife. Since he is very meticulous and tense, they fear he might commit sui ODD COUPLE-This is a scene from the Newberry Community PLayers production to be staged at Drayton St. Community Center tonight, Friday and Saturday. Curtain time is 8:15. (Sunphoto) cide, and so go about locking all the windows. When he ar rives, he is scarcely allowed to go to the bathroom alone. As life would have it, the slob bachelor and meticulous fellow decide to bunk together—with hilarious results. The patterns of their own disastrous mar riages begin to reappear in this arrangement; and so this too must end. Also introduced into the action are two kooky sisters who have left their re spective marriages behind. The odd couple—Oscar, the slob and Felix, the meticulous, will be played by Jim Wilson and Steve McCutcheon, both of whom have some professional credit to their names. Jim Wilson, who is head of Newberry College’s history de partment, worked as a stunt man and an extra in his native Missouri after being discharged from the Navy. He did stunt horseback riding in a film on the life of Jesse James starring Robert Wagner and made in Big Spring’s National Park in south eastern Missouri. This is Jim’s third appearance on stage with the Players. He and his wife, Pat, have two children. Steve McCutcheon, who star red in a variety of roles with the Newberry College Players during his four years as a stu dent, has also appeared in sum mer stock. He was a member of the cast of Paul Green’s out door drama, “Trumpet In The Land”, which played at New (Continued on Page 4) In spite of threatening wea ther with intermittant drizzle during the day 70.7 per cent of Newberry County voters turn ed out Tuesday for the Gene ral Election, with a total of 9,455 ballots cast. Not unexpected, and in line with national trends, the Nixon- Agnew ticket carried overwhel mingly in the county. Another hard-fought contest was between Sen. Strom Thur mond and State Sen. Eugene Zeigler. The county gave Thur mond 6663 votes to Zeigler’s 2788. Thurmond carried the state with about the same per centage of the vote. In the District Senatorial race, with Democrat R. C. Lake, Jr., incumbent being chal lenged by newcomer W. Glad den Smoke, Jr., of Gaffney, Re publican, Lake emerged with 7144 votes to Smoke’s 1925 in Newberry County. Final tabu lation from Cherokee, Union and Saluda counties were not available at press time Wed nesday. However, with approx imately 10,000 votes cast in Cherokee and with one pre cinct still unreported, Sen Lake had a lead of 83 votes. In Sa luda County with 4,000 voting and Union County with about 10,000 voting, Lake was carry ing each county with about 79 percent of the vote. Smoke has conceded the election to Lake. Congressman W. J. Bryan Dorn coasted to victory in the county over his Republican op position Roy Etheridge. He re ceived 7305 votes to Ethridge’s 2036. Incumbent County Council-1 man Curtis E. Shealy defeated his Republican opponent Lind sey Bedenbaugh 2444 to 1748. Republican candidate James F. Cummings was defeated in his bid for School Board Dist. 1. Incumbent member Rev. E. E. Gaulden was relected with 2415 votes, Mrs. Cheryl Folk Bannister, a newcomer, was elected with 2889 votes. Cum mings polled 1673 votes Other county officials were reelected without opposition. Lions “Candy Day” is success The Newberry Lions Club is quite appreciative of the sup port the people of Newberry gave to the Candy Day. These contributions went to the aid in the Club’s Sight Conserva tion Program. Thanks to each who gave and also thanks to the merchants and individual citizens who helped underwrite the cost of the candy that the Club gave away. The underwriters for the pur chase of the candy were: Clamp Clothing, Shakespeare Indus trial Products, Cyril Hutchin son, Whitaker Funeral Home, Bowers and Floyd Insurers, Kaywood, Carter-Holmes Or chids, B. C. Moore & Sons, Inc., Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association and Purcells.