The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

aefney Ledger A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES, DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF TIIE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1949 $5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE NEGRO SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS IN ATTEMPTED RAPE CASE FTrJ ASKED TO PLUG UP A-BOMB LEAKS Regains Daughter Bags a Big Bear Postage For Yule Cards Mrs. Fowler GetsTwo Years For Slaying 1 r4 3 3 3ft) I 4' I v7 I I U.

S. ATTORNEY GENERAL J. Howard McGrath (left) and Sen. Brien McMahon chairman of the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, leave the White House after a closed-door conference with President Truman The latter directed McGrath to crack down on indiscreet Congressmen or anyone else who divulges secret information about the atom bomb and other weapons. (International Soundphoto) Santa Claus Parade Will Be Held Today Santa Claus will pay an official pre-Christmas visit 10 Gaffney Tuesday.

In his honor, the Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce has prepared a monster celebration which will be staged at 4 p. m. "More than 50 units, including six high school bands, will appear in the line of march. With Santa Claus bringing up the rear, the parade will begin its move south on Limestone street from Railroad avenue to Rutledge avenue at 4 3. in.

Police Chief William Hill has requested that no vehicles be parked on Limestone street between tnese two parade points after 2 p. m. Traffic Committee Chairman C. C. Hubbard will be assisted by 50 national guardsmen, 20 highway patrol, 15 city officers and 7 county policemen.

The highway patrol cars and a Color Guard will lead the procession and immediately behind these units will be the official car wilh Mayor W. O. Johnson md J. B. Hatcher, president of the Chamber of Commerce, as occupants.

Probable order of other units was announced Saturday by Richard Bernstein, float committee chairman, as follows: Shelby High School Band, Brownie Scouts, Girl Scouts, Star Cab, Mormon Church and Vassey-Baber Feed Store. Kings Mountain High School Band, Western Auto, Radio Cab, Underwriters Vine-sett Flower Shop, Red Men Marching Unit, Efird's, National Guard truck, Granard High School Band, Sympathy Club, Gilmore Funeral Home, Granard High School float, Foster Funeral Home, National Guard Medical Unit and Ellis Bicycle Shop. Also: Forest City High School Band, Boy Scouts, "Troop 58 Boy Scout float, McArthur Woode Chevrolet John Graham Stores, Bonner Brothers, Veterans' organization and auxiliaries, Business and Professional Women's Club Auto, Rotary Club flojit. Also: Blacksburg High School Band, National Guard Marching Unit, National Guard truck, Lions Club float, Becker's Bakery, Junior Chamber of Commerce float, GafTney High School float. Clary and Hammett, Blacksburg High School float, GafTney High School Band, National Guard 'Escort, and National Guard truck.

N. H. Bell is general chairman and Capt. Paul Wilkerson, parade marshal. The Business and Professional Women's Club annual Christmas Court Enters 2nd Week; 1st Time In Many Years Now 2 Cents Don't try to mail Christmas cards this year with lVi cents stamps, Postmaster John C.

Fowler, warned Monday. By way ot explanation he pointed out that the postage rate on unsealed greeting cards, which travel by third class mail, was raised to 2 cents last January. So don't try to mail this year's Yule "greetings with cent ctamna loff nvar fvnm lust nias, he cauiioned. All sorts of embarrassing things may happen. Your mail carried may return the cards to vou stamped, "Insuf ficient Postage." Or they may be held until the addressee supplies the additional postage required by the new law before the mysterious envelop which turns out to be your "Merry Christmas" wish may be delivered to him.

Or your cards may be shunted into the Dead Letter Office, if they're deposited at the peak of the Christmas mailing rush and thev bear no return address. To preserve your cherry Christmas cards from these indignities, the Postmaster recommends sending them all by first class mail. That means with a 3 cents stamp or two IVi cent stamps. First class mail rates "directory service," by which skilled post office clerks try to trace down addresses who have moved. Your card may be forwarded from one address to If the addressee isn't located, the card will come back to you if the envelope bears your return address.

Christmas cards carrying 2 cents stamps are third class mail. They must not be sealed and must not contain personal messages. Only one effort is made to deliver them. If the address proves incomplete or incorrect, your warmhearted Christmas greetings land in the Dead Letter Office. "One of the saddest sights on Christmas Eve," says the Postmaster, "are the many Christmas cards.

Each represents a bit of lost Yuletide sentiment. Practically all are the result of carelessness. Especially illegible handwriting, inadequate and stamps that fall off en route because they weren't affixed properly. "Please address plainly and completely," he emphasizes. "Give the full name, house number, street, name of city, zone number and state.

Many emergency clerks anil carriers are required to handle the heavy Christmas load, and they haven't time or experience to figure out scrawled addresses that would puzzle a bill collector." And don't forget to write your return address on the envelope. The Postmaster said return addresses on Christmas cards has the warm approval of the highest authorities on etiquette, because it helps friends keep their address books up-to-date. Cards receive more considerate handling if they're mailed before the peak Christmas rush, the Postmaster pointed out. Greetings for out-of-state delivery should be posted by December 15, and for local delivery at least a week before Christmas. A.

B. Yeargin Taken by Death In Austin, Texas A. B. Yeargin, 57, former Gaffney resident and automobile salesman, died about 4 a. m.

Monday in Austin, Texas. He had been living in Texas for the past 19 years. His body will be shipped to Gaffney. Arrangements for the funeral services and interment will be announced later by the Shuford-IIatcher Company, morticians, in charge. Mr.

Yeargin is survived by three daughters, Mrs. C. A. Waters and Mrs. Amos Childers, of Gaffney, and Miss Margaret Yeargin, of Lockhart; three sons, Harry Yeargin, of Gaffney, and Marshall and A.

B. Yeargin, of Spartanburg; and nine grandchildren, Found Guilty Of Attacking Young Nurse Man Jret B. Wilkins, 23-year-old Gaffney negro found guilty of assaulting a young white nurse with intent to ravish, Monday morning was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Circuit Judge J. Robert Martin, imposed the sentence which could have ranged from five to 40 years at the discretion of the presiding judge.

A motion by Wilkins attorneys for a new trial was technically marked heard by Judge Martin, who, at the request of the defense, scheduled a hearing at the December term of court at Union. The defendant showed no visible signs of emotion as the court passed sentence. "I am satified in my own mind" that Wilkins was the attacker, Judge Martin said, adding, however, that "there is more than one inference" as to the question of the defendant's intent. "I am very glad the jury recommended mercy I could hardly have sent this boy to the chair in this case," the jurist declared. Wilkins, a veteran of two years army service, was convicted Friday night by a general sessions court jury after four hours and 45 minutes deliberation.

The jury returned its verdict, with recommendation to mercy, at 10:10 p. m. and Judge Martin postponed sentencing until Monday. The state's case during a dramatic day-long trial Friday revolved principally around a shoe heel lost by an intruder who forced his way into the Cherokee County Hospital nurses' home on South Limestone street shortly before 2 a. August 2 and seized a nurse, in bed in her upstairs sleeping quarters, by the throat.

Witnesses said the heel came off the prowler's shoe as he fled down a flight 0 stairs after being frightened off by screams of the attacked purse. and her roommate. A local shoe repairman, W. R. Bradley, testified the heel fitted a shoe city police found two weeks later in the rear of a soda shop then operated by Wilkins.

The attractive 22-year-old nurse told the court she could, not identify her assailant other than that he was a negro wearing a shirt. Defense attorneys Sam Burts, of and H. R. Swink called no witnesses, thus allowing them two arguments to the jury before it retired to consider a verdict. Wilkins did not take the stand.

Solicitor Sam R. Watt, of Spartanburg, prosecuting attorney, asked the death penalty which would have been mandatory under the law had the jury returned a verdict of guilty without a mercy recommendation. A defense motion for a directed verdict of not guilty, followed by a motion to reduce the charge to assault and battery a high and aggravated nature were denied by Judge Martin after the state rest-, ed its case. The iury retired for deliberation at 5:25 Friday afternoon and rendered its verdict nearly five hours later. At one point the jury requested to be briefed again by the judge on the death penalty charge and asked the nurse testimony be read back.

Harold R. Boulware, Columbia negro attorney, was present as a spectator during part of the proceedings. Members of the jury were Ferguson Clary, the foreman, and G. B. Smith, Edward W.

Long, C. H. Clary, R. C. Moorhead, W.

C. White, Dortch Bland, J. H. Seig-ler, J. W.

Jolly, F. C. Martin, Drayton Clary, and Virgil Allison. Wil burn Clary Pilots Another Top-Notch Team Wilburn Clary, phenomenal coach of the Winston-Salem, N. Children's Home, has piloted his crew to another undefeated regular season on the gridiron.

The quiet soft spoken skipper himself a former Gaffney High School and University of South Carolina football great in the past ten seasons, since taking over the athletic reins in 1940, has come up with one of the strongest scholastic elevens in the Tar Heel state. Noteworthy of the Clary-coached teams is the fact that during an average year the high school enrollment will include a total of 40 boys or less, no more than half of them athletic material. Clary's records as baseball and basketball coach at the Methodist are equally impressive as those of his grid squads. A son of Ju'l Clary, of Cherokee county's Macedonia section, Wilburn went to Winston-Salem as assistant coach after a meteoric care-er at South Carolina U. where he was named to all-state, all-conference and all-Southern lineups plus in his senior year mentioned in ail-American ratings.

7A- STANDING beside the Bruin that fell to his rifle in a hunt at Speculator, N. is John Hensen of Albany, New York. The black bear weighs about 610 pounds. Hensen brought it down with a 30 caliber rifle at 42 feet. It took nine men three hours to haul the giant carcass back to the camp.

(International Soundphoto) 14 Transfers Of Property During Week Fourteen real estate transfers were recorded last week in the office of Clerk of Court Conrad Jones. They included: Helen H. Ezell tq J. F. Ezell, lot in or near Chesnee, $1,200.

K. A. Coyle to J. M. Greene, lot (21,875 sq.

ft.) between Fourteenth street and Filter Plant read, $150. George W. Mosley to Ernest Spencer, acres in Cherokee county, Lawrence D. Sherer to Carl F. Neal.

two lots in Blacksburg, $800. S. J. Cobb to Carson S. Caveny, lot in Blacksburg, $55.

Dewey Wilkie to J. B. Wilkie, 13 acres in Cherokee county, $300. Charlie Prazlie to Louvenia Mc-Brayer, lot in Blacksburg, foi lands of equal value. E.

B. Mosley to W. G. McArthur and Sam G. Service, lot on eas'4 side of Sixth street, $1,250.

John Wesley Crawford to E. H. Self, lot 011 Monticello and Arlington avenues, $350. J. F.

Ezell to Harold B. Henderson, land (34,500 sq. ft.) in Morgan township, $(500. George Peeler to Whitener Lumber timber rights on 100 acres in Asbury school district No. 35, $1,500.

Hugh Sanders to Flovd D. Byars, lot in Blacksburg, $1,400. Sallie II. Robbs to Mrs. Evelyn II.

Swofford, one-quarter acre near Rutledgo avenue, $2,000. J. R. Evans, et al, to Paul O. Rippy, 2.12 acres in Cherokee township, $337.

Car Leaves Road, Overturns While Boy Lights Smoke Trying to light a cigarette while an automobile can lead to unforeseen and costly happenings, an 18-year-old route 2 youth has found out. James E. Sellars was driving a 1930 Chevrolet along the Mc-Kown's Mountain road Saturday night when he decided to light a cigarette. Before he knew it, he had lost control of the car which left the road and subsequently overturned in a field. Sellars was treated for slight injuries at the Cherokee County Hospital and the vehicle was heavily damaged, Corporal M.

Gregg King, of the highway patrol, reported. Three other mishaps on Cherokee roads during the week end were reported by the patrol. Two North Carolina cars, a 1040 Ford and a 1939 Pontiac, collided on highway No. 221 near Chesnee Saturday about (5:40 causing $300 damages to each of the vehicles. Two persons wero treated for injuries by a Chesnee phvsieian.

Sunday afternoon on highway No. 29 about four miles north of Gaffney, two 1947 Fords were in collision but no one was reported injured. Total damages to the two machines, both out-of-state, were estimated at $225. No one was reported hurt in a two-car crash Saturday night on highway No. 18 near Cherokee creek.

1 i r.i i 1 in I Circuit Judge J. Robert Martm, Monday morning sentenced Mrs. Ruth Mullinax Fowler, 25, to two years imprisonment for shooting her husband to death on September 6 in the yard of their White Plains community farm home. The young mother had pleaded guilty to involuntary, manslaughter which carries a maximum sentence of three years. Mrs.

Fowler admitted she unknowingly killed her 32-year-old huaKanH fnlp I. Fowler, with a .22 calibre rifle after a drinking party. Three shots were fired from the weapon, one bullet striking the victim in the abdomen. He died in the Cherokee County Hospital. Attorneys J.

Z. McKown and A. Ray Godshail were appointed by the court Monday morning to represent James W. Cash, 41, Gaffney textile worker indicted on charges of attempted rape of an 11-year-old girl. The case is not expected to be called during this term.

TViirfoon nthpr rnsps were dis posed of before noon Monday as the second week of general sessions court got under way. Among these, with all defendants entering guilty pleas, were: Winfred Davis, assault and buttery of a high and aggravated nature, 12 months, suspended and defendant put on 12 months probation; Albert Stroupe, violation of the liquor law, 18 months, suspended on payment of $50 and put on probation for three years. Also: Boyd Earls, violation of the liquor law, .12 months, suspended on payment of $50 and placed on probation for 18 months; Cline Dover and John Henry Moore, each six months, suspended and put on 18 months probation. Also: John Sapoch, violation of the liquor law, 18 months, on payment of $100 and placed nc two years probation; Willie Huffman, violation of the liquor law, 12 month.sugpcjndfid on payment of $50 and put on probation for three years. Also: Joe Green, disposal of property under lien, 12 months, suspended under special conditions, and put on probation for two years'! Monroe Jolly, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, three years, suspended after service of one year and to be put on four years probation.

Also: James L. Calvert, disposal of property under lien, 12 months, suspended under special conditions and payment of $50, laced on probation two years; eo Smith, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, two years, suspended after service of nine months and to be put on probation for three years. The case against J. Parker, indicted for driving under the influence, was ordered continued to the March 1950 term of court. Judith Thomas Taken hy Death; Funeral is Held Judith Karen Thomas, seven-months-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. P. Thomas, died about 6 o'clock Sunday morning at the home of her parents at 315 Holmes street. Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Monday at the West End BaptiHt church by the Rev.

Louie Wynn, the pastor. In terment was in the Beaverdam cemetery with the Shuford-Hatch--er company, morticians, in chargt. The pall bearers were John and Richard A. Martin. Claude W.

Wilkie and Gary Thomas. In addition" to her parents, the little girl is survived by a sister, Joyce Gayle, and two brothers, William and Charles Thomas; her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C.

Wilkins, of Gaffney; and her maternal grandfather, J. J. Thomas, of Blacksburg. i ii Election Is Set Greenville. City council last night set a referendum December 20, at which city voters will determine under general election rules whether Council will be empowered to issue up to $1,490,000 in general obligation bonds for improvements in five departments.

Buy Christmas Seals Htlp Stamp Out TB AWARDED the custody of her three-year-old daughter, Marguerite Mary McGahey, who was bom out of wedlock, Mrs. Anne Sazynski smiles happily at her husband, Edward, following court's decision In Albany, N. Y. Mrs. Sazynski charged that her child was taken by Mr.

and Mrs. William Sabott when she was nine days old' and was being held for a debt which she owed them. TheSabottsemphatically denied charge, (international Soundphoto) Chiefs Blank Augusta, 38-0, In Dixie Game Tightening its hold on first position in the Dixie semi-pro grid league standings, the Gaffney Big Chiefs whitewashed the Augusta, Rockets here Saturday night in a one-sided tussle. The Chiefs tallied six. times during the encounter, threo times each in the second and lut.i period.

Norman Ramsey tarried far two thdowns and A. L. Curtis ran one and threw a touchdown pass to Oscar Thompson for another tally. Ramsey and Curtis were ilub-t 'bed the "touchdown twins" when they sparked the Gatfney High School backfield a few years ago. The victory gained without flashy former Clemson backfield ace Jack Miller, sidelined becaused of an injury kept the local grid-ders in first place in the second half of loop play.

Gaffney has won three and lost none in the second round. The Chiefs' first tally came in the second period on a 40-yard sprint by Norman Ramsey. A 20-yard touchdown aerial by Curtis to Thompson accounted for another tally and Curtis raced 13 yards for the third touchdown of the period. GafTney led 19-0- at the half. The third quarter like the first went scoreless but Gaffney steam-rolled to three more six-pointers in the final canto, the first of which was an 18-yard sweep by Norman Ramsey.

Ray Clanton and Olin Bonner racked up the other two TD's for the Chiefs. The Rock Hill Red Raiders will invade GafTney this coming Saturday night for a league tilt. Lineups and summary: Augusta LE Yeargin J. Dodgen LT Wood Avery LG W. Bonner Beorckle Clanton Walker RG Clary G.

Dodgen RT Lackey i. Sims RE 'Thompson Seaver QB N. Ramsey Beale LII Coyle Thompson RH J. Ramsey Weeks FB Curtis Jordan Gaffney 0 IS) 0 lit 38 Augusta 0 0 0 00 Gaffney scoring: Touchdowns, N. Ramsey 2, Thompson, Curtis, Clanton, Bonner.

Points after TD, Curtis, Spencer. to Cherokee; turn right on Cherokee to York street; turn right across York, proceed one- block to Lime, turn right for one block where the two bands and the Rosemary Book Club float bearing Santa Claus will drop out, and the other units will disband in the next block. Members of the Blacksburg ami Gaffney High School bands will be given supper by the Rosemary Book Club at the grammar school building. A band concert will be presented at the community house following the parade. Several extra highway patrolmen will be unsigned to assist in handling traffic.

years, suspended on service of nine months and defendant to be placed on five years probation; Haynies drew a straight nine months sentence, to run concurrently with the first sentence, for a second indictment charging violation of the liquor law. Also: A. G. (Ike) Martin, violation of the liquor law, 18 months, suspended of three months or payment of $200 fine, defendant to be put on probation for three years; Otis Blanton, violation of the liquor law, sentence same as Martin's except suspension provided service of four months or payment of $200 fine. Rhctt Sparks, indicted for issuing a fraudulent check, drew a 00-day sentence, suspended on payment of $30 to cover the value of the check and $10 for court costs.

Girl Scouts To Appear In Yule Parade Tuesday Girl Scouts and Brownies of Cherokee county are invited to march in the Christmas parade in Gatfney Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. T. B. Lee, council assistant, said Monday. The girls have been assigned to a place near the front of the parade.

They are requested to line up for a parade by 3 :30 p. m. in front of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company's office. The West End Troop and the Cherokee Avenue Troop will meet at their usual meeting places at 3:15 Tuesday afternoon and their leaders will see that they get to the starting point. The parade will end at Rutledge avenue.

It is suggested that all Scouts and Brownies go from there back to the County Library to meet their parents. All Girl Scout Troops of the county (no Brownies) will march in the Blacksburg parade Wednesday afternoon. Troop No. 1, led by Mrs. Ann Phillips, Troop No.

1(5, led by Mrs. Paul Summey, and Troop No. 9, led by Mrs. Robert McElveen, will meet at the Girl Scout hut in Thomson Park at 3 p. m.

Wednesday to go to Blacksburg. Members of other troops will contact their leaders to arrange transportation to Blacksburg. Bond Forfeited By Man Charged Assault On Cop R. A. Webb, 28-year-old Gaffney man booked on five charges including assault on a city policeman, forfeited $150 bond Monday morning by failure to appear in mayor's court, Police Chief William Hill said.

Webb was booked on charges of disorderly conduct, drung, resisting arrest, assault and damages to personal property in connection with an incident last Friday night at a local restaurant. Webb was alleged to have cut through Officer B. L. Grubb's overcoat, uniform coat and the top layer of his vest with a pocket knife as the policeman attempted to take him in custody, Chief Hill said. The November term of general sessions court with Ii8 cases still remaining on the docke went in-tc its second week Monday morning, the first time in a number of years a criminal court session was not ended in the first week.

The term began November 21 with 15 holdover cases from last July. The grand jury, in returning "2 true bills, swelled the docket to 77 cases, aaetsord high for the past several years. Presiding Judge J. Robert Martin, of Greenville, disposed of five cases Friday, defendants in each entering pleas of guilty. Court was adjourned Friday night for the week end.

These sentences were handed down Friday: Edgar Red Haynies, violation of the liquor law, two Mrs. Scruggs Is Taken by Death; Rites Set Today Mrs, Sallie Vassy Scruggs. 80, widow of C. F. J.

Scruggs, of the State Line community, died Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at a Matthews, N. C. hospital. She had been living with r. daughter, Mrs, J.

C. Alien, on Tuckaseegee road, for the past 22 years. Mrs. Scruggs was born July 23, 18(ii, in Cherokee county. She was a daughter of the late Robert Dennis Scruggs and the bite Emily Vassy Scruggs.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 2:30 p. at the State Line church. If.ie Rev. Raymond Long, pastor of the Enderly Fark Baptist church of Charlotte, the Rev. Marvin Dam-eron, of Marion, N.

and the Rev. Jeta Baker, State Line pastor, will officiate, Interment will be in the State Line cemetery, with grandsons serving as pallbearers. 1 She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. B. T.

Moore, Rt. 3, Gaf-ney and Mrs. J. C. Allen of Charlotte; two sons, Guy G.

Scruggs of Route 3, Gaffney, and Joe J. Scruggs of Greenville; four sisters, Mrs. J. W. Hamrick, Gall'ncy, Mrs.

Vertie Cooper of RoutJ 4, Gatfney, Mrs. J. W. Camp, Forest City, and Mrs, W. C.

Lawson, Chesnee; one brother, L. R. Scruggs of Route 3, Gatfney; 27 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren. Club Market To Open Saturday On W. Rutledge A negro home demonstration club market will bold its opening Saturday, December 3, on West Rutledge street near Anderson's Sweet Shop, it has been announced.

The market, which wil be operated every Saturday morning from 10 a. ni. to noon, will offer farm produce, cakes, candies and homemade pies, and other things. Christmas decorations will be on sale during December by the members of the County Council of Negro Farm Women. The public is invited to attend the opening and to patronize the market, a statement said.

square dance will be held Tuesday night at 8 at the American Legion Hut, Olin Bonner's Band will furnish the music. Tickets for this event are on sule for $1 and may be obtained from any of the following members of the Ticket Committee: Miss Mary Huggin, chairman; Miss Kate Osborne or Mrs. Edith Lamb. Mrs. Edna Earl Kirby will have charge of the cake walks.

Christmas Seal Sale Brings In $707 First Week Residents of Cherokee county contributed a total of $707 during the first week of the 1949 Christmas Seal Sale, and returns continued to come in Monday morning as the second week of the campaign got under way, Paul N. Coggins, county Seal Sale chairman, reported. The Seal Sale, which will continue until Dec. 25, is the main annual appeal made by the Cherokee County Tuberculosis Association for funds to support its tuberculosis prevention and control program. With the quota for the Seal Sale for Cherokee set at $5,000, the first week's total returns represent 14 per cent of the goal, Mr.

Coggins pointed out. If the present rate continues, he added, the second week may equal, or even "fop," the first. Blaze Destroys Frame Dwelling; Fireman Injured A Gaffney fireman was slightly burned Sunday morning while fighting a blaze which destroyed the home of Roland Pennington in the Draytonville section. Fireman John Huffstetler suffered minor burns about the face and neck, it was reported. Although the frame building, located about three miles outside the city limits, was a total loss, some furnishings were saved.

Blacksburg Parade Route For Santa Claus Listed Blacksburg, Nov. 28. -Nearly 20 1 units hud been listed today to take I part in Blaeksburg's Christmas parade and more were expected I before 4 p. m. Wednesday, which is the time for the event.

Miss Ann Hogue, daughter of Postmaster and Mrs. Grady Hogue, who was chosen queen for the celebration, will ride in the official float entered by the town of Blacksburg, The parade is being sponsored by the Rosemary Book Club with the co-operation of several other clubs and local agencies. The route of march will be as follows: assemble on Lime street in front of the Blacksburg High School; pruceed on Chester street i.