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The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 2

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The Index-Journali
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Sept. 25, $SZ i wo CThiE INDEX-JOURNAL. GREENWOOD, S. v. They'll Keep The Dog York OnClearir uarc Brick And Paving In Depot Area Is Offered For Sale 'Sculli Greenwood Llan Toiraded In Laurens Affray Frank McKelly, 24-year-old South Greenwood man, was shot i I The city Is offering for sale some cf the brick from the Southern Railway depots which formerly stood on the Square.

Laurens Man Convicted In Wingard Death LAURENS, S. C. UV-Lutber Nel-son, 31,. was convicted of involun-tary manslaughter and drunken driving in General Sessions Court here yesterday. The charges grew out of tha accident in which Miss Barrie Jean Wingard was Injured fatally at Clinton last April 24.

Miss Wingard, Miss South Carolina in the 1950 Atlantic City Miss America contest, was a passenger in a car Involved in a collision with Nelson's. Circuit Judge Bruce Littlejohn planned to sentence Nelson later. Involuntary jnanslaughter carries a sentence of from three moths The brick will be sold at (30 a thousand the purchaser to load and haul them away, City Manager R. E. Froneberger said.

Some of the brick has been used as a filler In the walls of the recreation building 1 I fy i I hcn ii 1. A being erected by the new municipal swimming pool, but some remains for sale. .1 I I A Charlotte, N. man already yesterday afternoon at a Laurens County home following an argument over an alleged $2 debtr He was reported in "fair condition-this morning at Self Memorial Hospital. 3.

Willis, Laurens County deputy said Mrs. H. W. Sweat of route one, Waterloo, near the Saluda River, admitted shooting HrKelly with a shotgun. She and her husband came Into the sheriff's office to report the, shooting, Mr.

said. The Sweats told the officers that McKelly, with two other men and woman, came to their home and McKelly asked Sweat for $2 he claimed Sweat owed him. Sweat denied the debt and the men started cursing, the officers were told. Kirs. Sweat came out and ordered them to leave, whereupon, she said, McKelly put his hand in hU pocket and said he had a gun; she then fired the shotgun, hitting McKelly in the stomach.

Mo charges have been brought gainst Mrs. Sweat, Deputy Willis aid. McKelly was brought to the hospital here by the group accompanying him. 1 has bought 30.000 brick, Mr. Frcneberger said.

Anyone wanting to buy brick should call S. L. Col-vert, city clerk and treasurer at the City HalL to three years. The penalty for drunken driving is up to 30 days or $100 fine. Mr.

Froneberger said city official- had hoped to exchange the old brick for new to use on the re creation building but arrangements i or me exenange could not be made in time. Also to be available to contractors or individuals will be some broken Concrete pavement from the area around the passenger depot. Anyone wanting the paving will have to break it up and haul it out. KIDNEYS REMOVE EXCESS WASTE Nafting baektelM, lo of ftp BdnrtT, kmdacha and diiiinm nur du to ilow. down of kidney function.

Doctors but good kidiM? function it Ttrr important to food health. When nmt cvtrydajr condition, lueh aa atren and strain, eauact thia Important function to alow down, many folka auffcrnac-ting backachefeel miMrable. Minor bladder irritationa due to cold or wrong diet may cause getting up nighti or frequent paaaagea. Don't neglect your kidneys if these eondi. tlons bother you.

Try Doan'i Pill-a mild diuretic Used successfully by millions for over (0 years. It's amasing how many timet Doan's give hsppy relief from these discomfortshelp the 1 milcsnf kidney tubes and fil. te rs flush out waste. Cat f1 na'aFiUatoaayt Here's "Checkers," the cocker spaniel given to Sen. Richard Nixon by Mrs.

Louis L. Carrol of Belton, shown with the Nixon youngsters, Julie, 4, and Patricia, 6, at their home In Washington. In his broadcast to the nation. Senator Nixon told of receiving this dog as a gift, and said, "regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it." (AP Wlrephoto). ij Boeing Field B-50 Is A 'Bottle Baby' SEATTLE, Was.

(Si At Boeing Field there's a B-50 "bottle baby" that gets fed only in midair. This B-50 is refueled in flight to check the refueling equipment. On a chance to use up the fuel, which is syphoned off to supply other planes. The B-50 has made about 100 such flights since the first of the year. each flight it takes on between 500 and 600 gallons, of fuel.

The "bottle baby" returns to the field immediately and never gets International Harvester Will Consider Talks CHICAGO International Har-tester Co. officials say they will consider a union request to termi nate through new negotiations A State Highway Department crane this morning Nfas digging a ditch along the railroad tracks ap five-weeks strike by 30,000 of the 16 company's workers. expected to take about two weeks. However, before it is finished, workmen will start laying curbing on the lower end of the Square. A city force has begun grading, putting in storm sewers and a timber guard rail for the alley along the railroad tracks behind stores on the 'west side of North Main Just beyond the Seaboard overpass.

Work on the square is a joint city, county and State Highway Department project. (Index-Journal Photo). proaching the Square for installation or storm drains as the first step In clearing the area for a wider streetand additional parking space where the Southern Railroad depots formerly stood. Workmen wereNexpected to start laying the 18-inch concrete dralnXplpes this afternoon. The new storm drains will extend from below Court Ave.

to the Intersection orOak Ave. This part of the work is- In a telegram yesterday to John P. McCaffrey, company president, the Independent United Electrical and Machine Workers of America (FE-UE) said it was willing to use the wage contract in effect before the strike as a basis for negotiating an end to the walkout. Harvester workers in eight plants ttruck Aug. 20 to enforce a demand for a 15-cent hourly, pay raise.

Three Chicago area plants are involved in the dispute. The others are in Eiast Mollne, Rock Island and Rock Halls, 111.. Richmond, and Louisville, Ky. A company spokesman said wages for workers now average an hour. IsolatedCommunity Remains toy al To U.

S. TV Executive Says No Censor Board Needed NEW YORK (JPyk television executive and a congressional subcommittee say there should not be "a super board of censors in Washington. The executive, Jack L. Van Vol-kenburg, president of Columbia Broadcasting System television, appeared yesterday before the subcommittee, which is probing signs of immorality in TV programs. After Van Volkenburg made his statement the committee members agreed.

a rr? T. IS" it Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark), sub-i committee chairman, agreed with OXJn VALUES'-' IN. -EVERY DEPT. Van Volkenburg and added that he College President HitsU.

S. Morals NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -President Benjamin P. Wright of Smith College says the United States today is faced with low moral standards, especially in Public life, such as prevailed after the Civil War and the First World War. Welcoming 2,200 students, he said the country needs men in public life for whom it need not make excuses.

"Today we are faced with a period of generally low moral standards, in public life particularly, but not only there." President Wright said. "It was true after the Civil War, and after World War and it Is not surprising- that it Is so now. "Since that moral climate does exist, we need men in public life of whom we can be proud, for whom we need not make excuses or apologies. "We need men whose standards and whose actions are equal to those of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, not men who have a 'dull sense of ethcis'." LADIES' 30 DENIER ALL NYLON TRICOT SLIPS "tfzes: Small, Medium and Large. Assorted Colors.

A Reg. $2.98 Value SPECIAL! SPECIAL! 18" 36" CHENILLE LOOP RUGS Assorted Colors A Reg. $1.19 Ea. Value would disapprove of any legislation out of line with freedom of the pres. Alsq against such censorship I were committee members Rep.

F. Ertle Caryle (D-NC), and Rep. Ar- thur G. Klehi (D-NY). On the question of video beer i ads entering homes where county and state legislation makes the sale of the beverage Illegal, Van Volkenburg said' such, advertising Is "detrimental." On the subject of theplunging neckline," the CBS executive said I his network had received halet- ters of complaints in months.

For a time, he said, there seemed to be a fad among some performers "tox be careless." aWK MfejssfcjMIila'Wi Look! Look! Look! Floral and Colonial Design TABLE LAMPS With vinyl plastic shade and one 100 watt bulb. A Reg. $7.95 Value ONLY 4 Complete Limit: 2 per customer ISOLATED from the United States by land, this is part of a 6-square-mlle area that adjoins Canada, but Is separated from the rest of the state of Washington by water. EA. ONLY NOW 89' $1.98 Iwerson.

Convenient for Canadians A glance at the map shows how available Point Roberts is to Canadians. The Vancouver area is only 18 air miles away and Ladner and New Westminster are closer. On a1 recent Sunday, Deputy Walter C. Davis at the U. S.

port of customs entry, reported 2,596 cars brought 11,196 persons across the AP Newsfeatures POINT ROBERTS, Wash. The Icelandic people of this geographically freak community 6 square miles cut off altogether by land from the United States are strong supporters of Uncle Sam. But their pockets are lined with Canadian dollars as the population this sumemr has been largely Canadian. And merchants and resort owners rejoice, exchangewtse, as Dominion greenbacks are worth more than United States dollars for the first time in many years. Old Treaty Decided Fate OLDEST IN SOUTH GREENVILLE Established in 1826, Furman University is the oldest Baptist college In the South.

owned. As an addad attraction, a new horse-racing oval built last year now has wel'-attended thoroughbred racing every Sunday during the summer. BOYS' WHITE RIBBED KNIT ATHLETIC SHIRTS Sizes: S-M-L boundary line. Of some 250 or more cabins and summer homes, aboul70 per cent are Canadian- 22x46 CANNON BATH TOWELS In lovely assorted colors A Reg, $1.00 Value now 68c Limit: 3 per customer A Reg. 3 for $1.00 Value NOW A For $1.00 Beauty Operator Heads Paraplegics WINSTON-SALEM (J A Mocks-ville beauty shop operator heads the Winston-Salem chapter of the National Paraplegia Foundation the first chapter of its kind in the Carolinas.

Miss Jo Cooley was named president of the group at an organizational meeting yesterday. Cletus E. Jackson, a Greensboro bookkeeper, was elected vice president. Miss Louella Redmon of Winston-Salem, a- piano teacher, was named secretary-treasurer. Miss Cooley said the chapter was organized to give paraplegics an opportunity "to help one another by helping She added thst membership is open to all r-araplepics 'within a 100-mile ra-diu? of further if they'd like tc ulom Georgraphy and an old treaty created this unusual Northwestern Washington community.

When the United States-British treaty of i I860 settled the boundary between the two countries along the 49th parallel. Point Roberts, a little nubbin of land sticking down Into the Strait of Georgia below i the parallel, was cut off. Canada i lies adjacent to the north. BOYS' WASH CLOTHS White Knit Briefs Enjdy a houseful of hat with to little fuel -Furnace volume heat for the price of a heater MONEY BACK GUARANTEE! TO MATCH CANNON TOWELS A Reg. 25c Value Sizes S-M-L.

A Reg. 3 for $1.00 Value NOW 15c NOW 4 $1.00 Weather Records CJIAHLOITE -Pi Offlcinl Weath PATtNTIDeT AUTOMATIC 3219- WMl. OIL or GAS HEATERS SIMMS' -V 4 sssK jKcitJ' Pf But loyalty to the United States remains. Community leaders say that if you suggest substituting Canada's maple leaf for the bald eagle you'll get told off in a hurry. 4 Community boosters such as Eg-gert A.

Burns, store and restaurant proprietor, also pooh-poth what many call handicaps to Point Roberts. Her 15 schoolchildren above the fourth grade must travel more than 60 miles a day through Canada to attend classes in Blaine, in Washington State. Her 16 miles of roads havent received Washington state funds. They cant be tied In with the rest of the state highway system. Freight rates and customs restrictions prohibit farm prosperity.

Food and other suplpies come bv er Buieau records oi tempera- I'r. Special Assortment Men's Fancy Sport Slack Socks A Reg. 4 pr. for 1.00 Value Special Piece Goods Assortment In stripes, checks, plaids and percales. A Reg.

59c Yd. Value ndiup at 7:30 a. m. STATION Asheville Atlanta Augusta 13 7i CI HO 57 Birmingham Boston fis .3 NOW Yd. NOW 4 79c 44c Mare and hetter beat eve 67 52 6 9 47 54 t7 the floor than my Move Cliarleston 75 Charlotte r.

f'i Chicago Columbia 9 Denver so Detroit et, Galveston hi Greensboro 74 Jacksonville 78 bonded truck over the round-about i 56.4-mile route from Bellingham, I Wash. Good Fishing Nearby Special! Special! Close-Out Jewelry Values Up To 79c 1 Taaty, Fre.h Fresh j7 Orange Slices Cookies I Par. on. tu If 2 69 ,89 50 62 48 75 76 65 37 IVfcmCDY VANT ff-ONlY tllOlrK HAS IT- GITS 10 IHI TH COLA ftOOt NKMiM) 12 i ic- Zbc" WHILE IT LASTS Little Rock .,74 Los Angeles 74 Memphis ...77 Meridian 83 Miami 85 Mobile 84 Mt. Mitchell 57 New Orleans 83 New York 70 Raleigh .1 74 San Francisco 78 Savannah 77 Spartanburg 75 Tampa 88 Washington 74 Wilmington 73 Only Siegler's OKduiivo potnld TWON-ONI HEATMAKER does it-Compars bofort you buy any hoatsrl Evtty cent of your MONEY BACK if your new SkRhr heater doesn't deltver more and hotter heal at the floor outlet than any other comparable sue And finally, although some of the richest fishing grounds in northwest watersTIe'just off shore in the path of the big sockeye sal-man runs to Canada's Fraser River.

Point Roberts benefits little. There is no harbor, and seiners are supplied and relieved of their fish by tenders from Bellingham or Ana-cortes. It was the fishing which first attracted the Icelanders many of whom had settled in Canada to the point almost 60 years ago. Today nine out of 10 of the approximately 2C0 year-round residents are of Icelandic descent, One of them, Asta Norman, 69-year-old farmwo-man, Is a painter of note. She has studied in Germany and received medals.

In an old cemetery, whose graves 71 58 52 52 66 54 74 1.29 51 63 heater regaraient man or pncel III VQUI MIAMI? ftUUI OS Wtin WeiSS. CIKTVJUIA. Plus Many. Many More Values Bought Especially For This Sale wm MOVED THREE TIMES GREENVILLE Since opening at Edgefield, 8. in 1828 as "The Furman Academy and Theological InsUtutlon," Furman University has moved three times.

The 960- r-iaaijar wn i Gambrell Hardware Co are approximately covered with in, acre site for Its new campus, on Icclan tue Main -Street Dial 3M1 or Greenville business Will lie id names of old Icelandic1 families such as Linblore Simundson, Groa Magnusdotter and! Gustav Jl T. fifth site..

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