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2 THE FLORENCE MORNING NEWS, FLORENCE. S. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1958 Negro Rolls Up in County Enrollment edged above 1957 opening day totals in Florence County Negro schools yesterday as students registered for the 1958- 59 school year. All county Negro schools and white schools in District 3, which includes schools in Lake City, Scranton, Coward and Olanta, opened yesterday. A similar increase is expected in other county white schools opening today.

School officials estimate that the county's student load will be up 2 to 3 per cent over last year when about 22 22,000 students were enrolled over the county. District 1, including schools the Florence area, 4,558 Negro pupils registered yesterday. Enrollment by schools was: Carver, 753; North Vista, 667; Holmes, 559; Willow Creek. 441; Savannah Grove, 376; Mars Bluff, 263: 1 Wilson Junior High, 894; Wilson High, 602. District 1 Supt.

John M. Harllee said enrollment in Negro schools is expected to increase about 750 during the next few weeks. Total enrollment in District 1 this year is expected to nudge the 12.000 mark. Last year's enrollment was 11,450. White schools in District 1 open at 9 a.m.

today and dismiss at noon. Both White and Negro schools in the district will open at a.m. and dismiss at 2 p.m. the OPTIMISTS TOLD Area Deaths and Funerals Mrs. Willie Thomas LAKE CITY Mrs.

Minnie Lee Matthews, 75, of Coward died Sunday night in a Florence hospital following a long illness. Funeral services were conducted at 4 p.m. Tuesday from the Coward Pentecostal Holiness Church by the Rev. Ray Rumsey, pastor Coles Crossroad Free Will Baptist Church and tor, the Rev. Robert Stewart.

Burial directed by the ton-Epps Funeral Home was in the Matthews Cemetery near Coward. Mrs. Matthews who was born and lived all of her life near Coward was a daughter of the late Sherwood and Millie Miles Lee and the widow of the late Johnnie O. Matthews, who died in 1942. She was member of the Coward Pentecostal Holiness Church and the ladies auxiliary of her church.

Though she had no children of her own. she reared two boys Ernest Miles. Coward, Julian Miles, Scranton, three girls, Mrs. Gertrude McElveen, Florence. Mrs.

Eloise Hudson. Lamar, and Mrs. Lolie Tilton, Scranton. She is survived by one brother. Leland Lee, Timmonsville and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers Leland Wilkes, Buno Lee. Olee Lee, Larue Gause, Lamar McGee and Jim Prosser. remainder of the week. Most county schools will begin operating on regular schedules Planning Commission Needed in Florence "What Florence needs is a ning commission" said Mayor protem L. O.

Yarborough, one of a panel of four discussing the need of an auditorium at the meeting of Optimist Breakfast Club and the Optimist Club members at the Garden Gate Tuesday morning. Around 50 Optimists heard the councilman assert that "Florence was in great need of an auditorium but that it would take a great deal of money to build the kind of structure suitable to the The meeting was programmed as an "auditorium discussion" affair and the other three members of the panel, Hugh Leatherman, representing the Florence Concrete Joe Griffin, of the Griffin General Contracting and Charles Mitchell, of the Bank of Florence, gave short talks on concrete, contracting and financing respectively. All three offered cooperation. NEATNFE MUREAU FORECAST--Thundershowers are forecast tomorrow for the mid Mississippi Valley, Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, lower Lakes and the Gulf Coast states. Showers are also slated for Montana and mountainous regions of Arizona.

It will be warmer in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys and in New England. Flue-Cured Leaf Prices Strengthen By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Most average prices for fluecured tobacco were higher Tuesday on the South Carolina-Border North Carolina Belt and were unchanged to a little higher on the Eastern North Carolina Belt. The markets were closed Monfor Federal Labor Day holiday. "'The Market News Service reported that increases in most instances on the Border Belt were $1 to $3 per 100 pounds compared to Friday's quotations. A few scattered grades were off $1 to $2.

Volume was heavy on practically all markets. Quality was better because of a decrease on practically all markets. Quality was better because of a decrease in the percentage of nondescript. Volume of sales continued heavy on the Eastern Belt. Gains chiefly amounted to $1 to $2 per 100 pounds.

Companies paid up to $73 a hundred for good quality leaf. Auction bid averages for a limited number of grades on the Eastern Belt were: Leaf Fair lemon 64, low lemon 59, fair orange 64, low orange 59, poor orange 51. Lugs Good lemon 69, good orange 69. fair orange 67. Primings Good lemon 66.

fair lemon 64, good orange 66, fair orange 61. low orange 45. Nondescript 8 best thin body 30. MULLINS Sales on the Mullins market were in excess of one million six hundred thousand los. for one of the highest auctions of the season.

Official reports 64. Average. Tobaccos the from warehouses were topping, a most part consisted of medium and good quality leaf and nondescript type ranging in price from 60 to $77. The common types were selling from 40 to 65 dollars per hundred. PAMPLICO Pamplico Tobacco market had the largest day of the season Tuesday.

It sold 796 lbs. for $240,293.66, for an average $61.49. LAKE CITY Sharp advances on many grades of tobacco highlighted sales here today as the market resumed auctions after the Labor Day recess. Price increases, coming esI pecially in leaf grades, ran from one to three cents a pound generally. A large quantity of quality leaf brought prices 71, 72, and 73 cents with more 70's in evidence than at any time in the past ten days.

Types included fair to good cutters and poor to fair nondescript. A sprinkling of primings and lugs still are appearing. Officials stated the market had perhaps its best day of the past two and a half weeks. Cooler weather is predicted for upper third of nation, west of New York state. (AP Photofax Map) Pee Dee Weather Facts FORECASTS SOUTH CAROLINA: Fair and change in temperature Wednesday; high, 84 to 88.

Data from the United States Weather Bureau in Florence for the 24-hour period ending at 5 p.m. yesterday. Highest, 83; Year ago, 95 Lowest, 63; 72 Mean, 73; ago, 84 Year 7 a.m., 65; 5 p.m. 80 Rain, none; Year ago, none Total this month, none Gause Wins Prize: Nassau Holiday LAKE CITY Mrs. Willie J.

Thomas, 73, of the St. John munity near, Lake City, died al the home her son, Hagood Thomas, late Monday night after a illness. Funeral services will be held. at 3 p.m. Wednesday from the St.

John Methodist Church conducted by her pastor, the Rev. W. T. Waters, assisted by the Rev. Fleetwood Baker Interment will follow in the family plot of the church cemetery, directed by Price and Thomas Funeral Home.

Nephews will serve as pallbearers. Nieces will assist with floral arrangements. Mrs. Thomas was, the former Stella DuBose, a daughter of the late Jim 1 and Careen Floyd DuBose and was born and reared in the St. John community where she spent her entire life.

She was a charter member of the St. John Methodist Church where she was active in church affairs. She was a member of the Ladies Bible Class and Women's Society of Christian Service. She is survived by her husband, Willie J. Thomas: a son, Hagood Thomas of Lake City; an son, Garland T.

Floyd of Coward: a brother, Pearley Floyd of Lake City: four grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews Abner Harrington FAIRMONT, N. C. Abner Harrington, 91, died at his home in Mariette. N. Monday night after an illness of five and one half months.

He was a farmer of South Robeson and a life long member of Olivet Methodist Church; also a mason. He is survived by five sons, Hoyt Harrington of the home, Welton Harrington of the home, Charlie Harrington, Pamplico, Coke Harrington, Florence, J. T. Harrington, Lumberton, N.C.; six daughters, Mrs. Edna Henley, Fairmont, Mrs.

Claude Grantham, Lake View, Mrs. Henry Atkinson. Proctorville, N. Mrs. Vivian Page of the home, Mrs.

Charlie Pearce, Marietta, N. Mrs. C. H. Farmer, Wrightsville Beach, N.C The funeral will be held at 4 p.m.

Wednesday conducted by his pastor, the Rev. W. C. Teachey, assisted by the Rev. E.

G. Purcell of Pikeville, C. Burial will be in Olivet Cemetery, Marietta, C. Samuel McGill Samuel McGill KINGSTREE Samuel Davis (Dave) McGill, 59, Williamsburg farmer, died Tuesday morning in Kelly Memorial Hospital in Kingstree after a long illness. McGill was a director of the Kelly Memorial Hospital and of the Williamsburg State Bank, He was engaged in farming and in the tobacco warehouse business.

having been connected this season with the New Warehouse in Kings. tree. He had servd as Superintendent of Bernard M. Baruch's hunting preserves in Williamsburg County for over 30 years. Mr.

McGill was born Feb. 20, 1899, a son of the late Emma Scott and John Yancy McGill of Williamsburg County. He was a veteran of the Mexican border campaign and was one of the first Williamsburg County volunteers in World War I. He was a member of Williamsburg Post No. 8 of the American Legion and was a Mason of Kingstree Lodge He was a trustee of the Cedar Swamp Methodist Church.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Jennie McCutehen McGill of Indiantown: a son, avid McGill a student at Clemson College: a daughter, Miss Elizabeth McGill, of the home; his stepmother, Mrs. J. Y. McGil! 01 Kingstree; a brother, Frank McGill of Kingstree; and three sisters, Miss Julia McGill, Mrs.

Wallace D. Connor and Mrs. Guy Adams, all of Kingstree. Funeral services will be conducted at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Burgess Funeral Home in Kingstree by the Rev.

William K. Cross, pastor of Cedar Swamp Methodist Church, and the Rev. J. M. Aiken, a former pastor, assisted by the Rev.

E. G. Beckman, pastor of Indiantown Presbyterian Church. Buria! will be in the family plot in Indiantown. Active pallbearers will be R.

E. Harrell, McBride S. McFadden, Pickey Arrowsmith, Willie Rogers, Jimmie McCutchen and Lucius Rogers. Victor Goeller CHARLOTTE Victor Russell Goeller, 63, local advertising manager of The Charlotte News, died Sunday in a hospital after a month's illness. He was a brother-in-law of J.

Boone Aiken of Florence. Funeral services were held Tuesday with the Rev. Dr. Claude U. Broach, pastor of St.

John's Baptist Church, officiating. Goeller was born in Louisville, and spent his youth in Columbus, Ina. Survivors include the widow, the former Miss Jo Aiken of Greenville. S. his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Harry L. Goeller of Columbus, three daughters, Mrs. Herbert Armstrong of Tupelo, Mrs. John T.

Moore of Nyack, N.Y., and Mrs. J. Furman Daniel of Greenwood, S.C; a son, Dr Victor R. Goeller Jr. of New Orleans, and four brothers.

THE ASTHMATIC By DR. J. D. YOUNG About this time of year asthma sufferers are looking desparately for some relief from the wheezing and heavy chest and sleepless nights. They gasp for breath and cough, nature's way to try to get air through constricted bronchial tubes.

Many theories have been propounded as to the cause of asthma of which allergy seems to be the most popular today; allergy to dust, ragweed, various pollens, wheat germ, certain foods, etc. But why, then doesn't everyone have asthma or hay fever: Did you ever stop at that consideration? You see, everyone has a weakness in some part of the body. Just like there are no two of us who look alike, there are no two of us who have idential manifestations of disease. In asthma there is a constriction of the bron chial tubes which cause difficult breathing. Life is partially blocked at some point in the spine causing a spasm of the bronchial tubes.

Many patients suffering find great relief and in time complete relief from their fatiguing attacks. Children respond almost immediately; some often because of the shorter term. There is no need to suffer when you have within your body the components of health. (A public education article written by Dr. J.

D. Young whose clinic is located at 415 W. Palmetto St. in Florence. Telephone 2-2991.

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Gause, manager of the CIT Credit Corp. branch in Flor. ence, has been named a first place winner in the southeast in a "get more contest staged by his company. Gause and his wife will be given an expense-paid holiday in Nassau. Deviation from normal, minus .28 Total this year, 35.62 Deviation from normal, plus 09 Sunrise, Sunset, 6:44 Myrtle Beach Tides Highs, 10:15 a.m.; 10:25 p.m.

Lows, 4:11 a.m.; 4:34 p.m. River Stages at 8 am Wateree (Camden) 15 falling Great Pee Dee (Pee Dee), 11.6 rising Lynches 5.2 rising You rely on him -for courage, inspiration, guidance and help. Instinctively, you place your trust in him--and your faith makes possible his equal devotion to all men. Count on us, too -for that same desire to be truly helpful in every possible way. We wish to offer even more than the high ideals, ethical practices and business integrity, which our membership National Sclected Morticians guarantees.

WATERS FUNERAL HOME 65 Years of Service Past president Joe Foster, introduced the panel after giving a brief resume of the status of the project. Jack Ammons acted as moderator. President David Bass. of the Breakfast Club, told the group that five acres of land had been donated to the club and that the deed had been recorded. This had been tagged for a youth recreation center.

Following a round table discussion. Councilman Yarborough remarked that he felt certain that the city and county would be willing to cooperate in the building of a youth center. The consensus of opinion among members of the Breakfast Club and the Optimist Club was that it would be best for the Breakfast Club to go ahead with the youth center project and drop the auditorium idea for the present. The youth center, according to reports, could be built for a sum of around $25,000. SCHOOLS 'DRIVE with CARE! SLOW children everywhere Needless tragedies can and must be prevented.

Drive carefully, especially near schools. A little caution may save a child's life so play.