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Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 20

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of of 10-B FLORENCE MORNING NEWS. FLORENCE. S. C. FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1950 Beer $1.65 A Bottle TEL Israel -Some barmen along Tel Aviv's "Gold Coast" the long series of bars, cafes, restaurants and hotels bordering the Mediterranean--tired of hearing customers complain that Israeli beer was almost as weak as water.

The barkeepers imported some Czechoslovakian beer. Price: 65 per bottle. Broiler type chickens range in live weight from 1 1-2 to 3 pounds. The Transvaal district is around Johannesburg, South Africa. HATE TO GET RID OF THOSE OLD SHOES? WE KNOW But do you know that "Doc" Gamble at: TRIBER'S SHOE SHOP Can make them like new and as good as new? Your shoes will come back to you with That New Look And That Same Old Feeling Dial 9141 for prompt pickup and delivery TRIBER'S SHOE SHOP 171 North Dargan Street ASK "DOC" ABOUT NEOPRENE FOR THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE Cavalier Cedar Chests -in walnut or Mahogany SPECIAL Southern Cross Sofa Bed, regularly $89.50 value for $79.50 (FREE-one Cocktail Table with each Sofa Bed) PALMETTO FURNITURE CO.

139 N. Irby Street, Dial 8361 WJMX To Begin Night Broadcasting Tonight State Funeral Directors Elect Florence Man President At Myrtle Beach Meeting Joe P. Waters, manager of the ral years, a past president of the Waters Funeral Home of Pee Dee group, vice president of ence, was elected president of the the association, and this year South Carolina Funeral Directors chairman of the general convenAssociation Thursday morning at tion committee. the 52nd annual convention in the Waters was born in Florence Forest Hotel at Myrtle and a graduate of the Florence Beach. High School, class of 1922, and hiS Waters is son of the W.

Furman University, class of 1926. M. and Laulie Howle Waters. His He took an active part in athletics, father was a pioneer funeral di- being a member of the football, rector of this section, being a basketball and baseball teams. charter member and serving as 1937 he attended -Jones president during 1902 of the South School of Embalming and was Carolina Funeral Directors Asso- graduated at the head of his class.

ciation. He is a member of the First Waters has served on many Baptist Church, a deacon, superdifferent committees of the asso- intendent of the Sunday school, ciation. He has been a member of and a former trustee. He was the executive committee for seve- elected by the South Carolina Baptist Convention for the years, 1949-1952 as a trustee of the Rumor Of Kelley's Connie Maxwell Children's Home of Greenwood. Race Withdrawal He is a member of the Florence Isn't Confirmed This paper is unable to confirm or deny rumors that Representative G.

Mood Kelley has withdrawn his candidacy as a Florence county representative to the state General Assembly. Kelley announced this month that he would seek re-election to his House seat. Constant rumors since that date report he will not run for this office. Repeated efforts to contact Kelley to confirmation denial rumors have met receiese ver with no response. An early experiment in photograph consisted of reproducing crude silhouette shadows on chemically treated paper with the aid of the sun.

That was in 1802. writer and Mrs. Celeste B. Carnes is bookkeeper. Chief Engineer Jenne supervised the installation of all equipment required for night broadcasts.

Among the new ABC programs to be added with night broadcasts are Walter Winchell. Chanda the magician, Counter Spy, the Lone Ranger, Blondie, Date with Judy, and the Fat Man. Deaths And Funerals Edgar D. Sexton JOE P. WATERS riety of local, transcribed and ABC network programs.

It will be the most powerful radio signal ever heard in Florence, Benson said. When the call letters for WJMX were selected, Gene Stone, president of the Atlantic Broadcasting Company formed to operate the station, requested that the middle letters be JM out friendship for the late Dr. James McLeod. Officers of the company are, Stone, president; Smith, vice president; and Benson, secretary-treasurer general manager. The station now has a staff of 16, including five announcers and four engineers.

Announcers are Sam Latimer, program director, Bob Forbes, Graham Caddell, Dave Thomas and Robert Banks. Engineers are Frank Jenne, chief, John Parker, Don Bridges and Don Ashcraft. The sales staff consists of Herman Smith Stone Miller and Mrs. Winona "Carter. Mrs.

Bill Williamson is traffic clerk, while Mrs. Margarite Eaton is continuity DARLINGTON-Edgar D. Sexton, 52, business man of Society Hill, died late Wednesday at his home. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock at the Welsh Neck Baptist Church cemetery, Society Hill. The rites will be conducted the pastor, the Reverend Floyd, Syrles, assisted by Dr.

Simpson and the Reverend H. W. Morgan of Hartsville. The body was carried yesterday afternoon from Kistler Funeral Home in Darlington to the residence of the deceased. Mr.

Sexton was born reared in Darlington county and had lived here all his life. He was a Mason and a deacon in the Baptist Church at Society Hill, where he had been active for many years. Surviving, are his widow, Mrs. Clara Layton Sexton; his mother, Mrs. E.

P. Sexton of Society Hill: three brothers, Maxie Sexton of Edgewood, Maryland, George Sexton of New York City and Henry Sexton of Timmonsville: five sisters, Mrs. J. S. McCall of Society Hill, Mrs.

Eugene Hood of California, Mrs. S. L. Jennings of Orangeburg, Mrs. Frank Streetlette of Haden de Grass, Maryland, and Mrs.

Bessie Bryant of Darlington, and a number of nieces and nephews. Marvin D. Mixon Jr. OLANTA Marvin Donald Mixon. 2 months, son of Donald and Annie Faye Lee Mixon, died at a Florence hospital Wednesday night after several days' illness.

Funeral services will be conducted by the pastor, the Reverend Ed Hinson, assisted by the Reverend T. H. Vickery, Friday at 4 p. m. in Bethel' Baptist Church near Olanta under direction of the Floyd Funeral Home.

Besides the parents, survivors include the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Mixon and Mr.

and Mrs. Troy Lee. Mrs. W. A.

Snellgrove Mrs. W. Arthur Snellgrove, formerly of Florence, died Wednesday at Savannah. Funeral services will be held at Swainsboro, where she resided, Friday afternoon. Mrs.

Clara B. Tedder -Mrs. Clara B. Tedder, 75, died at the home near Coward of her son, Ingram TedThursday at 11 a.m. "Funeral services will be conducted by her pastor, the Reverend Ed Hinson, at noon at the Matthews Cemetery near Coward, under direction of the Floyd Funeral Home.

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. John Lee and Basi: Smith of Coward, and Mrs. Jessie Conyers of Charleston: five sons, Hubert, Myers, Eugene and Ingram of Coward and Clarence Timmonsville. FRIDAY and SATURDAY "Red Stallion In The Rockies" Arthur Franz Jean Heather DUAL DRIVE-IN Darlington Highway COLONIAL EAST SIDE WEST SIDE Barbara Stanwyck James Mason Ava Gardner CAROLINA WA DYNAMITE PASS Tim Holt Richard Martin James Boys No. 3 2 Cartoons 2 NOTICE! WE WILL BE CLOSED MAY 29 THROUGH JUNE 3 To Give Our Employees A Vacation MASSEY-HITE GROCERY CO.

CANDIDATE WITHOUT A VOTE A candidate for sheriff in Monroe County, Indiana, couldn't cast a vote for himself in a recent primary he was in jail for public intoxication. 'Guess we'll have to go to jail, too cause we're intoxicated with that fresh HOLSUM Enriched Bread flavor. HOLSUM ENMENED BREAD Prophecy No. 747: As long as there is legislation to be passed, there will always be someone trying to exert pressure at the right spot. Mayor To Throw Switch For ABC Station At 7:15 switch which radio onto unlimited casting Company Paul Benson, Tonight at 7:15 o'clock, Mayor Haskell M.

Thomas will pull cuts Florence's station WJMX American Broadnetwork time. general manager of station, said the first 15 minute will be of a dedicatory nature, with the Lone Ranger to follow at 7:30 at the first network program. The station has been connected with ABC since the first of the year but tonight marks the beginning of night broadcasts. Opened on July 13, 1947, the station has broadcast continuously since that date a daytime broadcast permit. Night broadcasts will be on a signal.

Daytime broadcasts will continue on a signal. Installation of night broadcasts necessitated the erection of two directional antennae to prevent nation's leading stations. The diinterference with, several of the rectional antennae were erected on either of the original antennae immediately to the rear of the studios on the DarlingtonFlorence highway. Benson said daily broadcasts will extend from early morning until midnight with a broad va- Drive-In Theatre ACE Route 76-West Tonight The greatest drama co heroism to emerge crom the WIt Danyl Zanucks THE PURPLE HEART MA MORE IS CONTE FAMET CONDONE ME WE O' SOLA DORALO SANDY SAD LEVERE DON'T NEED ANY. AT 25 MY AT 15 WHEELS FRIEND, I SEE JUDGE, ITS ALL SPEEDYS FAULT.

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