The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 6

6 Th lnd-Jeumol, Greenwood, Mofch 28, 1978 People Jobs, honors and business news County Bank promotes two Mary W. Dowis has been named assistant vice president and Jean H. Strickland assistant cashier at The County Bank. The promotions followed action by the Board of Directors March 8, according to R.T. Dunlap president of The County Bank.

Mrs. Dowis, who a lso serves as corporate secretary of the bank has various responsibilities in the areas of trust, investments and cash management, corporate records and sonnel. She has been employed at the bank since 1957 and was first elected an officer of the bank in 1974. WGSW will be 25 April 15 By BETH PADGETT Staff Writer Radio station WGSW is kicking off its month-long "Silver Celebration" that will culminate April 15 when the station is 25 years old. WGSW, the second oldest radio station in Greenwood, signed on the air at 5 a.m.

on April 15, 1953, according to Mel Riley, who joined the station in 1961 and is now manager. The station is owned by W.C. Woodall Jr. of Dawson, and George B. Cook Jr.

of Greenwood, who is also general manager. In the 1950s WGSW primarily played country music, Riley said. "We played a little pop music at the time, but rock and roll hadn't come in then. I guess the station was about three-fourths country." i Mrs. Dowis is a member of the Greenwood 'Chamber Of Commerce where she nresentlv 4.

mr'iF I serves as chairman of the Education Commit- tee. She is a member and past president of Emerald Chapter, National Secretaries Association, International. She presently serves as chairman of the EducationCPS Committee of this organization. A graduate of Ninety Six High School, she at DOWIS I'C I tended Greenwood College of Commerce and has successfully completed a number of courses offered by the American Institute of Banking. She completed the Executive Secretary Program at the University of South Carolina in 1977 and is presently enrolled in the Correspondent Study Division of that school.

A resident of Ninety Six, Mrs. Dowis is a member of Temple Baptist Church where she serves as director of a children's department and a choir member. She and her husband, F. Donald Dowis, are the parents of two children. Mrs.

Strickland has been employed by the bank since 1962 and has served in various capacities including bookkeeping, teller and However, the station decided to change to a "top i rfiii srA. v. loan department administration. Her present duties include training activities associated with her future appointment as branch manager of the bank's present main office which will be retained as a branch location upon the succes vr m. I sful completion of the bank's new main office jcomplex presently under construction in down Playing the hits town Greenwood.

Radio station WGSW has been broadcasting for Miller's afternoon show. WGSW has switched from a .1 It -J ll a. I 25 and will celebrate 4' id! Mrs. Strickland is a graduate of Greenwood High School and has also completed several courses of the American Institute of Banking. almost years its silver anniversary country music station to a "Top 40" station within the past It I I .1 ft I STRICKLAND 's ac'ive in community affairs including the Chamber of Commerce, the Industrial Management Club and the Salak Community Club.

She and her husband, Vernon Strickland, attend Harris United Methodist Church and are the parents of one son. April 13. Mel Kiley (left), manager, and Gary Miller, announcer and music director, pick out a record to play on Gilmer joins Self Memorial Robert (Bgbl E. Gilmer has joined Self Memorial Hospital as manager of security and safety services. A Greenwood native, Gilmer attended Abbeville High School and Piedmont Technical College, receiving his AS degree in 40" format in 1972 shortly before a third radio station was established in Greenwood.

"Top 40 is now no longer one" type of music," Riley said. "It is a spillover of rock, soul and country. "There are no set lines as to what is country or soul or rock," he said. "Now an artist realizes that if he wants to sell a lot of records, he has to be popular in all the fields." WGSW had remote control when it first went on the air, Riley said. The broadcast station was in the old Edward Arms and the transmitter was on Kateway Road.

In 1975 the broadcast station was moved to a new facility near the transmitter on Kateway. Riley said he has witnessed several changes in radio during the past two decades. "Music has changed," he said. "There was no such thing as rock and roll when we started." Radio stations now are playing "more liberal" music, Riley said. "What was radical years ago is now common place.

At one time we would take a record and cut out certain words because they were too radical for this area. Now things are more accepted." WGSW began celebrating its anniversary last week with a special broadcast from Greenwood Plaza Shopping Center. The station will highlight its "anniversary week" by giving away prizes April iq-15. The grand prize, a motorcycle, will be given away April 15. Other prizes to be given away include four tires, an outboard motor, a stove, a lawnmower and a 10-speed bicycle.

Tew years. (3tan pnoro Dy Bern raagett) Wooley gets post at Erskine DUE WEST Robert Monty Wooley, a teacher and coach in Myrtle Beach the past 11 years, has been appointed director of alumni affairs at Erskine College, Erskine President Stanyarne Bell has announced. He will succeed Lee W. Logan, appointed vice president for development of Erskine Jan. 27 after serving as alumni director Thackston promoted by Abney Fred L.

Thackston of Anderson has succeeded William R. Mathis of Greenville as Abney Mills' director of safety, health, and workmen's compensation, according to Jesse A. Boyce, president of Abney Textile Manufacturing Division. Mathis resigned his position with Abney Mills on March 24 to accept a position with another company. Prior to his promotion, from 1968 to 1978, criminal justice in 1975.

He was previously employed by the city of Greenwood as a police officer. He is a member of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Association and the National Crime Prevention Officers Association. for five years. Woolev. a 1967 craduate of Erskine.

has taught mathematics, oceanography, biology, and 1 "4: rTj English at Myrtle Beach High School and coached junior varsity and varsity basketball, riV junior varsity football, and golf at that school. T7K As manager of security and safety services, he I ejll I II 1 Thackston served as Abney Mills' director of I will direct the hospital security officers in the enforcement of procedures established for the employee relations. From 1956 to 1968 he served He received the 1971 yearbook dedication at Myrtle Beach High School, earned Horry County Basketball Coach of the Year honors three St a tumucnacuiuii nanus ciujusitM wiui rcinneis Loan and Trust a company formerly af- protection of patients, the public and employees. Also, he will assume the responsibility of coordinating the hospital's safety program. He and his wife Julia M.

Gilmer, and their I filiated with Abney Mills. GILMER straight years 1974-76 and served on the staff of the Frank McGuire Basketball School from 1973-76. His golf teams won one lower state In his new position Thackston will serve the WOOLEY seven Abney plants located in upper South rfl 1: II ri I I r'i When Selling fls Your Home REM'OR four children, Dale, Robbie, Linda and Keith, reside at 111 Milton St. in Greenwood. BIG PLANS NEW STORE NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Kuhn's-Big Store Corp. (AMEX: KBK), a Nashville-based discount department store chain with units in eight Southeastern states, has reported sales results for the first month of its 1979 fiscal year and announced the execution of a lease for a new Big discount department store. Jack W. Kuhn, chairman and chief executive officer, and Gus D. Kuhn president, said sales for the 4-week period ending March 3, 1978.

reached $14,991,000. up from the $11,688,412 recorded in a comparable period a year ago. According to the two senior executives, the new Big store will be in Cheraw, and is expected to open in early 1979. BALLENGER COMPLETES COURSE Arthur Blease Ballenger of Greenwood Branch office ot Liberty Life Insurance recently completed a course in sales skills and customer service at the company's home office in Greenville. Libery Life offers representatives a number of professional life insurance courses each year.

championship and two conference titles. He is a native of Conway and grew up in James Island, graduating from James Island High School in 1963. During summers of 1967-77 he has served in managerial positions with Myrtle Beach business establishments. He holds membership in numerous professional and civic organizations. He is married to the former Julia Wallace Payne of Greenville.

Wooley's duties at Erskine will include directorship of the Erskine Living Endowment, an annual fund that has earned the college eight national awards in alumni-giving while providing close to $250,000 in current operating income for Erskine each year. RIEGEL TO PURCHASE SHARES NEW YORK Riegel Textile Corporation's Board of Directors has authorized a program under which Riegel will purchase in the open market up to 149,000 shares of its outstanding shares of common stock over a period of time. Shares so purchased will be held in the treasury and used to satisfy obligations under Riegel's incentive shares plan or for other proper corporate purposes. Use the services of a professional, a full-time specialist in Real Estate. It's one of the mostjmpQrtant decisions in a lifetime.

We need your listings RrVfi R. M. Brown Associates insurance Consultants Real Estate 223-8742 Ronald M. Brown Broker-in-Charge Suite 112 Park Plaza P.O. Bon 97S Greenwood, s.C.

ucrMcerAv ami Jvitumtouni win Li ALL YOU CAN EAT! SPAGHETTI Ifl alulula as weu a5 rageiana screen rnniers, i Inc 3 wholly-owned subsidiary of Abney Mills ti in Pageland. THACKSTON Thackston attended Anderson College and Clemson University. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the public relations committee of the South Carolina Textile Manufacturers Association, and the communications action committee of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute. He is also a member of the Anderson Rotary Club, a member of the board of directors of the Anderson Chamber of Commerce, and the United Way of Anderson County. He serves on the textile management advisory board of Tri-County Technical College, in Pendleton.

Thackston is married to the former Mildred Ann Beaty, of Anderson, and they are members of St. John's United Methodist Church. The duties performed by Thackston as Abney Mills' director of employee relations will be assumed by Abney Mills' personnel department, under the supervision of Edgar W. Davis Jr. personnel director.

He likes to see red when he's on a job When Mike Chumley is on the job, he likes to see red. It's his favorite color. Chumley is a part-time auto body repairman from Laurens who likes red, specifically red Volkswagens. Although he drives a bright red El Camino rather than a Volkswagen, Chumley says the round body of the small foreign car is a challenge in his business. "It's easy to get runs in the paint on round surfaces.

I have to be careful, but I really enjoy that type of work. It's more difficult to paint a Volkswagen than most other cars, so I guess that's one reason I feel good about working on one," he explained. He says he recently painted a Vokswagen "African Red." On a full-time basis, Chumley is a second shift supervisor in the printing department at St. Joe Paper Company in Laurens. His interest in auto body work dates several years when he became friends with Danny Sherer, who operates Sherer's Body Shop in Laurens.

Chumley emrolled in Piedmont TEC's Auto Body program to learn more about this field. After graduating about a year and a half ago, he and his older brother Leonard built a shop which they run both on as a part-time job and as a hobby. Chumley says he is now teaching his brother many of the skills he learned at TEC. As an Auto Body student, Chumley says he could always count on his instructor, Earl Owens, for advice and assistance and he still calls on him even though he has completed the program. "When I was in class, I knew I could depend on him to drop what he was doing to help.

He had the attitude of someone who wanted to help. Besides that, he knows the auto body business. I've never asked him a question that he couldn't answer," Chumley added. Chumley is now enrolled in career and personal development courses in TEC's Human Services curriculum which he says are benefitting him in both his full-time job and his auto body work. "Learning to get along ith others is really the basis of most jobs.

These courses have helped me realize this fact, and I use what I have learned in dealing with people nearly every day," he said. Chumley became interested in the additional course in career and personal development to increase skills used in hisposition at St. Joe. He is also enrolled in a Dale Carnegie course in Greenville. He said he has been promoted to department supervisor since he began taking professional development courses.

The Laurens native is a 1970 graduate of Ford High School and served two years in the Navy. He has been employed at St. Joe for eight years. I ff iimi in mum in nun i umir Getting advice Mike Chumley, right, frequently seeks the advice of his former auto body instructor, Earl Owens, at Piedmont TEC, Chumley, a graduate of TEC's Auto Body program, and his brother Leonard own a repair shop in Laurens which they operate as both a hobby and part-time job. Chumley is also a supervisor at St.

Joe Paper Company in Laurens. 79 HWY. 72 BYPASS GREENWOOD, S.C. For everything you need in office supplies, machines, furniture and equipment. INTERIOR PUNNING DESIGN 615 S.

Main St. Greenwood, S.C: 223-1361.