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Funerals Deaths And Funerals complete and will be announced by Harris Funeral Home. MRS. L. G. ELLEDGE GREENVILLE Mrs.

Martha Guest Elledge, 85, widow of L. Con Elledge, died at a local hospital Sunday after a long a serious period of declining health and illness of three weeks. Mrs. Elledge was born May 7, 1875 in Banks County, daughter of the late W. A.

and a Arminda Brown Guest. She lived at Route One, Cross Hill for 12 years prior to coming to Greenville and had spent the greater part of her life here. She was living with a daughter, Mrs. Dora E. Story, at 211 Westview Fair Heights.

Her husband died July 19, 1935. She was a member of Cross Hill Baptist Church. She is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. Lucille E. Holtzclaw, also of Greenville, and Mrs.

Idelle E. Dowling of Charleston; two sons, Otis 'H. Elledge of E. M. Smith Dies; Funeral Not Set Yet Ed M.

Smith, 55, of 800 Calhoun died early this morning in Columbia hospital following a long illness. He. was born in Athens, March 12, 1905, son of the late John Smith and Mrs. Roxie Faulkner Smith, both natives of Athens. He was member of West Side Baptist Church and Baracca Sunday School Class of the church.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Vera Hensley Smith of the home; two daughters, Miss Mildred and Miss Nancy Smith, both of the home; two sons, Ronald Smith of the home and James E. Smith of Detroit, four sisters, Mrs. Lucy Weeks of Greenwood, Mrs. Nettie Griffin of Greenwood, Mrs.

Isabelle Weeks of Callisc.a and Mrs. Mary May of Greenwood and two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later. Thomasor Boy Dies; Funeral Set Tomorrow Lawrence Woodrow Thomason, seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Luther W. Thomason of 501 Pelzer died Sunday morning at the Medical College Hospital in Charleston after a brief illness. He was born in Clinton, and the family has lived here for five years. Surviving are his parents, three brothers, Kenneth, James and Lonnie Ray Thomason, and a sister, Patricia Ann Thomason. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m.

from Gray Funeral Home in Clinton by the Rev. J. B. Abercrombie. Burial will be in Rosemont Cemetery at Clinton.

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J. J. T. AT CORRIERIES Obituaries McCORMICK John Thomas Moore died at the home of his son here Saturday night after an extended illness. He was a faithful member of Shiloh AME church where at one time he was a class leader.

survived by three sons, Wistar Moore of McCormick, Roy Moore of Bradley; Chicago and Theodore 'one daughter, Mrs. Johnnie Mae Gerald of Washington, D. grandchilder and three great-grandchil- arrangements are' incomplete and will be announced by Walker Funeral Home. WILLIE MAE BOOKER DIES: RITES WEDNESDAY Mrs. Willie Mae Booker of Kirksey died Saturday of a heart attack.

She was born and reared in this county, was member of Flint Hill Baptist Church and the Mt. Pisgah Herolines of Jericho. Surviving are her husband, Tom Booker; four daughters, Mrs. Maude Watson, Norfolk, Va. Mrs.

Florine Baylor, Washington, D. Mrs. Eloise Carroll and Mrs. Minnie Goodman, Greenwood; four sons, Mance Williams, Douglas, P. Wallace P.

and Sammie Williams, all of Greenwood; her mother, Mrs. Lizzie Williams; a step son, James Williams, nine grandchildren, an aunt, several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. from Flint Hill Church by the Rev. A.

C. Carter. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Members of Mt. Pisgah Lodge 419 will be pallbearers.

The body will be taken the home at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to await the service hour. Percival-Tompkins in charge. VILLAGE Today and Tuesday CIRCUS OF HORRORS SPECTACOLOR Young People Ring Doorbells For UNICEF Members of the Interdenominational Youth Group will ring doorbells throughout Greenwood tonight seeking contributions for the United Nations Children's Fund, usually called UNICEF. The doorbell ringing campaign will begin at 7 o'clock and will mark the fifth consecutive that the young people of Greenwood churches have solicited for the world's needy children.

Each UNICEF collector will be wearing a UNICEF identification tag and will be carrying UNICEF cartons. Mrs. Woodhurst Dies After Brief Illness ABBEVILLE Mrs. Annie Lee Hagen Woodhurst, 64, Abbeville County treasurer, died Inside night at Abbeville Memorial Hospital. Mrs.

Woodhurst suffered a cerebral hemorrhage about 9 a.m. yesterday at her home on West Pinckney St. She was the daughter of the late Robert Gordon Hagen and Emma Holliday Hagen and had lived in Abbeville all her life. Her husband was the late Miles Woodhurst. She was a member of the Abbeville Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. Woodhurst was elected treasurer of Abbeville County two years ago after serving as clerk in that office for a number of years. She succeeded the late Will John Evans. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Reid Ashley of Level Land, Miss Daisy Hagen and Mrs.

Neva Minor, both of Abbeville; five brothers, J. Harper, Robert and Walter Hagen, all of Abbeville, and Alex Hagen of Bon Air, Va. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Harris Funeral Home in Abbeville. Burial will be in Long Cane Cemetery.

PLEADS GUILTY BOSTON (AP) Miss Mildred Paperman, secretary of industrialist Bernard Goldfine, today pleaded guilty to a federal indictment charging her with personal income tax evasion. Tonight 6:50 and MI- DRIVE- IN and WAY Tuesday -25 THEATRE 8:40 OR 9-7456 They Used A Weapon No Badman SEX! McCARTHY GLENN presents M.I Five BOld JIM PRODUCTION ROSS EASTMAN COLOR JEFF MORROW MERRY ANDERS JIM ROSS GUN BOY' MUNG KONY A Exotic rituals bring the dead The to life One IN BLAZING ULTRASCOPE COLOR! THE GREATEST FREE VOODOO FILM VOODOO EVER MADE DOLLS To the First 100 Adult Admissions. 6:50 and 8:50 Starts Tonight auto THEATRE IT IS THE TALK OF GREENWOOD ALL THE HOT HATES AND HUNGERS OF SOUTHERN TOWN THAT HAD REACHED THE BOILING POINT OF ITS PASSIONS! Based on The Sensational Novel by Harry Whittington THE A RAYMOND MARTHA JOAN IN BURR- HYER-BENNETT KEN SCOTT BRETT HALSEY JACK GINS FEATURES 12:52 2:59 5:06 7:13 9:25 More TODAY TUESDAY Entertaining For ADULTS! Pins STATE CARTOON NOVELTY Funeral Service Held Today For H. D. Milling Hugh David Milling, 49, route man with Emerald City Laundry, died Saturday night 11:45 o'clock at his home, 1119 Edgefield following a sudden heart attack.

Mr. Milling was born in the Mt. Moriah section, Sept. 16, 1911, a son of Mrs. Bessie Cook Milling.

native of Troy, and the late David M. Milling, native of Fairfield County. He had lived his entire life in Greenwood and was a veteran of World War IT, member of the American Legion, Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and the men's Bible Class of the church. In addition to his wife, Mrs.

Lou Ashley Milling, a native of Honea Path, Mr. Milling leaves two sons, James and Hugh Ashley Milling, all of the home; his mother of Greenwood; two brothers, James A. Milling of Indianapolis, and Robert L. Milling of Columbia; three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Johnson of Columbia; Mrs.

David R. (Helen) Shands, a twin sister; 'and Mrs. Jim (Ethel) Neel Bermini, both of Greenwood; his grandmother, Mrs. Mart Milling of Greenwood. Funeral services were held Blyth Funeral Home this afternoon at 4 o'clock conducted by the Rev.

W. M. Corley and the Rev. Roy Durst. Burial was in Mt.

Moriah Church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Clifton, Claude and Edwards, Billy Milling, John John Bowen, H. T. Warner and J. H.

Griffin. The honorary escort was composed of Charles Snoddy, Ray Snelling, J. H. Chiles, J. T.

Cordell, James E. Marse, Boyd Parks, J. D. Parks, P. W.

Anderson, S. T. Strom, Dr. W. G.

Bishop, G. H. Siebert and members of the Men's Bible Class of the church. Mrs. Lewis Dies; Funeral This Afternoon Mrs.

Lula Bledsoe Lewis, widow of Goody Lewis, died Sunday morning at 1 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Grady Bell, 1174 South Main following several months of declining health. Mrs. Lewis was born in Saluda County, Oct. 6, 1884, a daughter of the late Rufus L.

and Ellen Eidson Bledsoe, both natives of Saluda County. She had made her home in Greenwood since 1952 and was a Mathews Methodist Church. Surviving are three sons; George Lewis of Gaffney; J. C. and Albert R.

Lewis, both of Greenwood; four daughters, Mrs. Frank Anderson of Charlotte; Mrs. C. B. Pitts Mrs.

Bell and Mrs. W. F. Simmons, all of Greenwood; three sisters, Mrs. Will Turner, Warrenville; Mrs.

John Timmerman, Ware Shoals, and Mrs. H. H. Quarles, Saluda; two half-sisters, Mrs. 0.

E. Martin, Joanna, and Mrs. Ruby Murrell, Columbia; one brother, Summers Bledsoe, Johnston; 22 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Her husband died Jan. 27, 1958.

Funeral services were held at Mathews Methodist Church this at 3 o'clock conducted by the Rev. J. G. Stroud and the Rev. John W.

Shaffer. Burial was in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers were Wayne Lewis, Boyce Goldman, Morris Lewis, Rayford Anderson, Buddy Simmons, Dan Smith, William Griffin and Herman Lewis. The honorary escort was composed of Jesse Altman, Archie Stedman, George Blake, Clarence Kay, P. R.

Underwood; Dr. Roland McKinney, Wiley Smith, Zonnie Dorn, J. L. Devore, C. B.

Pitts, T. G. Roach, J. C. Ginn, George H.

Webb, Thomas Harvin, Ransom Southerland, W. Deason and E. W. Lollis. Mail Carriers Get Awards SALUDA Five Saluda rural mail carriers received National Safety Council awards here this morning.

John Jennings, according to Postmaster W. W. Cone, recelved an award for record of no automobile accidents in the past 30 years; H. T. Nichols was cited for no accidents in 13 years; A.

J. Nicholson, nine years; J. R. Webb, four years, and B. H.

Herlong, three years. Certificates were presented to each of the five carriers at brief ceremony this morning the post office. FREE! FREE! Ladies' Shoppers Matinee movie party every Wednes day morning 10:30. 50 Silver Dollars will be given away. Get your FREE tickets from the following downtown merchants: Gallant Belt Co.

J. C. Penny Co. Jones Tire a Appliance Co. The Style Shop Thayers, Ine.

Efirds Dept. Store The Vogue W. L. Leary Firestone Store The Grill Cafe Smith Drug Stores Maxwell Bros. Furniture Co.

Griffin's Jewelry Store Rhodes, Furniture Store Dixie Hardware Mill Supply Rosenberg's Clothing Store Winn's Shoe Store W. E. BOLT Wiley Eugene Bolt, 66, of Bakersfield, died there last Wednesday. He was born in Laurens County, a son of the late Samuel P. and Ophelia Hill Bolt.

He worked for the railroad for many years until retirement 15 years ago. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Fannie Burdette Bolt of Greenville; two sons, Samuel James Bolt of Greenwood and Ralph Eugene Bolt of Augusta, sister, Mrs. Sally Gray of Gray Court; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday in Baker field in veteran's cemetery, Doughty, Calhoun and O'Mera Mortuary is charge.

MRS. EVA PURSER ABBEVILLE Mrs. Eva Kind Purser, 77, Abbeville resident, died unexpectedly Sunday evening while visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ursuela Kind in Greenville. Mrs.

Purser was the widow of Thomas D. Purser and ber. of Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Surviving are four sons, Mike M. E.

R. Purser, both of Abbeville; J. Harry Purser, Charleston, and Thomas Purser, Imperial Beach, California; two daughters, Mrs. Sue Larkin, Abbeville, and Mrs. W.

L. Hughes, Las Cruzes, New Mexico; one sister, Miss Kind. Funeral arrangements are in- Brief News Coronaca Program Plans for entering a community beautification and improvement contest will be discussed at covered dish supper to be held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Coronaca Community Center. Miss Louise McColl, county home demonstration agent, will preside.

Lions Club The Greenwood Lions Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Oregon Hotel. J. E. Chaffin will show slides and discuss a recent trip to Europe and Russia.

Mathews Carnival A Halloween carnival will be held at 7:30 tonight at the old Mathews Community Center. A parade for children 12 and under will be held just prior to the opening of the carnival and prizes will be awarded to the boy and girl with the most outstanding costumes. Phoenix Meeting Phoenix Community Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the community center. Community development plans will be discussed.

Class Officer Peggy Aull of Ninety Six is new secretary-treasurer of Coker College's junior class. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther B. Aull of Ninety Six.

Five-Day Forecast North Carolina and South Carolina: Temperatures will average a little below normal. Cooler Wednesday, warmer about Friday and cooler at end of period. Precipitation will average about onethird of an inch occurring Tuesday and near the end of the period. 20 Court Cases Recorder's court dsiposed of 20 cases today on these charges: drunkenness 'ten, assault three, violation of garbage ordinance, disorderly conduct, speeding, discharging firearms in city and trespassing, one each. Two charged with assault were found not guilty, and one case was continued.

Two Fire Calls Firemen answered two alarms the weekend, at 12:40 p.m. Saturday to extinguish a small blaze in a trash bin on Maxwell Avenue and at 6:55 a.m. Sunday to Brooks Street home where heater was flooded. No damage was reported. Four Autos Damaged In Two Collisions No one was hurt, but four cars were damaged in two weekend traffic accidents in the city.

1961 Ford was damaged an estimated $175 and 1959 Ply. mouth an estimated $125 in collision on Reynolds Avenue Pelzer Street Saturday at 10:45 p. m. The police report said M. S.

Patterson of Route Four, driving the Plymouth, made a left turn into Pelzer and was in collision with the left front of the Ford, driven by M. D. Lee of Laurens. A collision on South Main at Taggart Avenue Friday morning caused an estimated $200 damage to a 1960 Ford, driven by Glenda Galphin, and $75 damage to a 1955 driven by Margaret C. Hesson.

Mrs. Hesson was making a left turn from the railroad crossing and was in collision with the right side of the other car. Youth Killed At Laurens LAURENS Robert Wayne Teague, 17, Route One Clinton was killed 'about 8:50 p.m. Saturday in a two car collision on ByPass 76 inside the City of Laurens. Officers said Teague was riding in a car with another youth and two girls.

The four were traveling east in a Ford and had slowed down in prepari.g to turn into a service station when the vehicle was struck from the rear by a truck, officers report. Greenville and Clarence E. Elledge of Route One, Cross Hill; a sister, Mrs. J. E.

Hollingsworth of Greenwood; four brothers, L. B. and E. N. Guest of Elberton, Ga.

and Joe J. and Mack Guest of Route One, Cross Hill; ten grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren and one daughter. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. J. Sparks and the Rev.

James Stewart at Thomas McAfee Funeral Home Tuesday at an hour to be announced. GROVER SEYMOUR ELBERTON, Ga. William Grover Seymour, 75, of Deep Creek com.nunity of Elbert County, at 12:50 p.m. Saturday in Elbert County Hospital. He had been in declining health for some time, and seriously ill two weeks.

He was a son of the late Ira and Elizabeth Parham Seymour, and a lifelong resident of this section. He was a retired farmer and was a Baptist. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Delrey Shaw Seymour of the home; three daughters, Mrs. Lester Vaughn, Mrs.

Robert Dunn, both of Dewy Rose, and Mrs. Raymond Prather, Macon; four brothers, John Seymour, Dewy Rose; Howard Seymour, Bowman; Clarence Seymour, Elberton, and Oles Seymour, Union, S. three sisters, Mrs. Mary Booth and Mrs. Clara Seymour, both of Greenwood, S.

and Mrs. A. H. Key, Rutherfordton, N. seven grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held from Rehoboth Baptist Church Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The J. C. West and the Rev. Johnny Slocum conducted the services.

Burial was in the church cemetery. W. G. HOLLINGSWORTH William Grover Hollingsworth, 75, died at 8:30 a.m. today at the home of his sister, Mrs.

W. D. Addie in Savannah, after long illness. He was born at Due West July 18, 1885, a son of the late M. E.

and Janie Holcomb Hollingsworth, both natives of Abbeville. He spent most of his life in Abbeville and was a merchant and real estate dealer before retirement. He was member of the Abbeville First Baptist Church. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Addie and Mrs.

Corrie H. Creech, Smithfield, N. one brother, J. L. Hollingsworth, Greenwood; a number of nieces and nephews, including Mrs.

Randolph Grier, Greenwood. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m. from the Abbeville First Baptist Church by the Rev. Horace Benjamin and the Rev. T.

P. Stanfield. Interment will follow in Long Cane Cemetery." Active pallbearers will be George Cartledge, John Beckwith, Mark Hagan, Jim Mars, Ralph Syfan, Al Carlisle, E. L. Wilson and Adger Martin.

Deacons of the church will be honorary. pallbearers. The body will remain at Harley Funeral Home in Greenwood until 2 p.m. tomorrow when it will I be placed in the church. Dorn Tells Mathews Masons They Must Be Ambassadors For S.

C. Masons, and Ladies ladies attending, Banquet Night of Mathews Lodge 358 were told Saturday night that South Carolinians should be ambassadors of the South Carolina philosophy. Speaker for the occasion was Congressman Bryan Dorn. Dorn told the more than 150 persons attending that South Carolinians should be proud of the state and should boast of it on every occasion. He said northern industrialists have told him that the primary reason they are moving to his state is because "your people still believe in giving an honest day's work for an honest day's pay." The same industrialists, he said, told him that it takes twice as long to build plants in the North as it does in South Carolina.

stressed the importance of teaching the children of South Carolina how to be courteous and polite and to think of others. "I don't care if our children are educated formally, unless Seaboard Uses ACL Tracks Here Today The Seaboard's Silver Comet passenger train came through the square this morning around 9 o'clock on Atlantic Coast Line tracks. This is believed to be the first time the Seaboard had ever used the ACL tracks through the city. derailment on the Seaboard track at Carlisle, near Union, caused the detour of the train. About 18 cars of a freight train, en route from Birmingham, to Monroe, N.

went off the track at Carlisle about 1 a.m. No one was injured in the derailment; but several cars caught fire, threatening to ignite tanker filled with butane gas. Firemen got the blaze under control, and the possible explosion was averted. HE LOSES NOTHING MILWAUKEE (AP) Thomas Little didn't lose much when the County Election Commission took his off the ballot because of insufficient nominating tures. Little sought the job of county surveyor, a position that carries no pay and has no duties.

YOU HAVE LEFT SCHOOL YOU CAN FINISH HIGH SCHOOL AT HOME nd to FREE SOOK. work. LET. TELLS. YOU HOW.

American School of Chicago Eastern Dist. Office, Dept. KA-105 216 Center Bldg. Upper Dirby, Pa. City they think of others more than themselves, they are not educated at all," he said.

Dorn was introduced by R. Underwood, lodge treasurer. Ladies attending the buffetstyle dinner were presented gifts. Worshipful Master Harold Witt welcomed the ladies and visitors and Secretary J. H.

Price introduced guests. Guests attending included L. R. Smith of Starr, junior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina and Mrs. Smith; H.

Royce McKee of Greenwood, district deputy grand master and Mrs. McKee, J. L. Kemp, honorary member of Mathews Lodge and the Rev. and Mrs.

J. H. MoPhearson. The Rev. J.

G. Stroud, pastor of Mathews Methodist Church, gave the invocation and the Rev. David Jeanes, pastor of New Market Baptist Church, gave the invocation. SKULLDUGGERY NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) -A human skull found in the furnace of a liquor store started a police investigation.

Police discovered medical student once lived at that address years ago. Contacted, the person, now doctor, identified the skull as one he brought home from medical school and misplaced. Index-Journal-5 GREENWOOD, S. C. OCT.

31, 1960 Need Money I For NEW FURNITURE? Call Fast, Friendly LOANS 111 North Main St. Greenwood Phone OR 9-8341 EXPRESS YOUR IDEAS before persuasively conversation a in on and ability deal THESE SKILLS HELP YOU GAIN RECOGNITION, MAKE DALE CARNEGIE' COURSE IN EFFECTIVE SPEAKING, HUMAN RELATIONS, FREE DEMONSTRATION! 7:27 P.M. Thursday, Nov. 3rd American Legion Building Greenwood, S. C.

DALE CARNEGIE COURSES Sponsored By Greenwood Junior Chamber of Commerce More Thru Schedules To More Cities, More 4 Departures Daily to Columbia and the Coast Comfortably and More WAYS Often on 4 Departures Daily to Augusta and South TRAILWAYS The Route of the Thruliners 3 Departures Daily to Spartanburg Connecting With Thru Buses to All Major Cities We invite you to visit our new Trailways Bus Terminal for Bus Schedule Information, Speedy Parcel Express and Charter Coach Service to any part of the United States. 4 Departures Daily to Anderson and Southwest GREENWOOD BUS TERMINAL 508-10 South Main St. Phone OR 9-4266 Complete Food Vending Bar Sparkling Clean Waiting in Both Waiting Rooms Rooms and Rest Rooms Complete Line Daily News- Plenty Parking Space papers and Magazines 4 Departures Daily to Greenville and North Cab Stand On Premises confidence assurance, to with peoplel. MORE MONETI: MEMORY TRAINING 10 DALE WAYS THE CARNEGIE COURSE WILL HELP MEN AND WOMEN New Self-Confidence and Poise Speak Effectively Sell Yourself and Your Ideas Be Your Best With Any Group Remember Names Think and Speaks on Your Feet Control Fear and Worry Be A Better Conversationalist Develop Your Hidden Abilities Win That Better More Income.

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