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fywirmtm-rwrn Gaffney A NEWSPAPER IS ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES. DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. 55.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1949 Ledger COUNTY SUPPLY BILL CHANGES TO BE DEBATED IN HOUS DISCUSSED ATOM BOME 'STORAGE' CHINESE ON WAY TO NEW 'FRONT' $1 yfPi IiH ill jf jfp wild Vo 13 Transfers Of Property During Week Thirteen real estate transfers were recorded at the office of Clerk of Court J. Conrad Jones last week.

They were: W. F. Burgess to Eddie Bennett, one acre in Cherokee county, $75. Ruth P. Cooper to Robert A.

Cooper lot sq. ii.) on northeast side of West Smitn street, $5 and love and affection. O. S. Lipscomb to Urgel II.

Lovingood, 2.5:5 acres on east side of highway No. 11, $i00. W. M. Wyatt to Dean II.

Millwood, 134i acres in Draytonville township, $1,602.48 and assumption of $1,192.52 mortgage. J. L. Blanton to David V. Blanton, land in school district No.

20, $100. Fred W. Coyle, et al, to' A. W. Bland, lot fronting on northside of East Montgomery street, $700.

A. W. Bland to Beryle B. Robinson, lot fronting on north side of East Montgomery street, $750. E.

M. White to Bill White, 22'i acres in Limestone township off Pacolet road, $500 and assumption of mortgage. L. E. Blanton to J.

E. Randall, acres vicinity Stillhouse branch, $240. Frances Benjamin Harris to Boyd Spurlin, 25.4 acres in White Plains township, and assumption of mortgage. B. Salmon to Henry McDaniel, land three miles northwast of I 2 HORSE-DRAWN FIELD ARTILLERY pieces pass through one of the streets in Shanghai's business district.

The Nationalist Army detachment is on its way to take up new defense position on the outskirts of the city. The latest movement of Communist ATOMIC ENERGY Commission Chairman David E. Lilienthal (left) and Sen. Brien McMahon head of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, are shown in Washington after they attended a closed session of the two groups on the atomic program. One of the subjects they discussed was atom bopib "storage." (fruernational) After-Dinner Speaking To Open High School Contests on the alert for an attempted river crossing in the Kiangyin area, midway between Nanking and Shanghai.

(International Soundphoto) 10 True Bills Returned At First Court Session Mass Survey For Hidden TB Is Begun Blacksburg, March 21 Cherokee county's mass tuberculosis case finding survey Rot under way here today following the arrival of a mobile X-ray unit of the state department of health. Two clinics were held on the first day, including a check-up for Blacksburg Rotarians and Rotary Anns. The Rotary club is sponsoring the project in Cherokee township. Other clinics will be held in Blacksburg Wednesday and Thursday morning from 9:30 to 11:30 anil from 1 to 4 o'clock in the afternoons. The unit will remain in Blacksburg through Friday for making retake pictures.

The mobile truck is parked in front of the community house on Shelby street and is accoinpaniei by two technicians and a clerical worker from the state health department. The unit will be moved to Gaffney nejt Monday and parked for the day in the street between the Cherokee Finishing Company plant and I'aola Mills, and on Tuesday will be stationed in front of Wilkins-Watson Hardware company on East Frederick street through Friday, with clinics morning and afternoon. Last year a mass X-ray survey was conducted at some eight or ten textile mills. The mobile unit will not visit these mills in the present survey, as it is a- policy not to make a return survey in less than twelve months. However any of the employees of these mills may visit the unit at HIV IlllfOl, IMIIH IIILIII MHU-, The unit will be used in X-raying citizens generally who to avail themselves of the opportunity of getting a chest X-ray check-up.

The mobile unit used in this survey is a big white panel truck which will be parked alongside the sidewalk wtieiit will be convenient and of easy access. It is not required that clothing be removed from the waist in: in former years, but the picture is taken through the clothing. Only a few minutes is required for the routine of getting an X-ray examination. A chest X-ray will help prove one of two things; it will probably show that the examine person's lungs are free of tuberculosis, or it may show that there are suspicious signs of the disease and that further tests should be made. The mobile unit is capable of taking 100 pictures an hour.

Dining the 40 clinic hours it will operate in this county it can take 4,000 pictures. Citizens of the county are urged to take full advantage of the opportunity. Mrs. Carroll Is Taken by Death; Funeral is Held Mrs. Georgia L.

Carroll, 40, wife of Mark Carroll, of Dirch street, died about p. m. Friday following an illness of two months. Mr. and Mrs.

Carroll lived at Blacksburg for about 18 years. They moved to Gaffney about years ago. Mrs. Carroll had been a member of the Primitive Baptist church on Ninth street for the past five years. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at o'clock at the Hopewell Car-list church near Blacksburg by the Rev.

Will Home, pastor of the Primitive church, and the Rev. Leon Wat-kins. Interment was in the Hopewell cemetery with the Gordon-Mabry Funeral Home, of Blacksburg, in charge. The pallbearers were Herman Floyd, Grady Harris, Milton Broome, A. Z.

McDaniel, Alex Allen and Ben Boheler. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Carroll is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mary Harris and Miss Ruth Carroll, and two sons, Leonard and Garrison Carroll, of Gaffney; three sisters, Mrs. Pearl McDaniel, Mrs.

Ruth Lanning and Mrs. Ethel Boheler, of Blacksburg; two half-brothurs, Ingerson and Mozclle Moore, of Chester; and her step-father, Mose Moore, of Blacksburg, route 2. 'Howard White Finds Self On Political 'Spot' Representative J. Howard White, Cherokee's junior delegate to the General Assembly, is "on the spot" politically speaking. And whether or not this county will get an appropriations act this year will largely depend on which camp the young University of South Carolina law student lines up with that of Senator George W.

MeKown or Jeff D. Parris, Cherokee's other House member. At the present time, the 1940 supply bill is back in the House Representatives with 23 amendments talked on by Senator Mc-Kpwn. The amended bill is scheduled for debate in the chamber Wednesday afternoon. Mr.

Parris has stated he will fight several of the changes injected by Senator Mckown into the original bill. This mean that Mr. McKown would, have to have the support of Mr. White if he expects his changes to be passed by the House. Ordinarily the House? will ta in favor of the majority of the delegation should there not he complete agreement on the suiipU bill.

Mr. has gone on vocrd as being oppoM-d to at least three of Mr. McKown's amendments. These include: creating of a supply clerk's post for checking chain gang and road department purchases; requiring the sheriff und his officers to keep more detailed recoids; and payment from the county contingent fund of fees of lawyers retained by private citizens and taxpayers in connection with pending law suits of Sheriff Roland T. Clary and former Sheriff Lee Allison.

In view of this strong opposition to Senator McKown's changes, it appears that the fate of the supply bill lies in the hands of Mr. White, whose first venture into politics has admittedly brought on a "nest of headaches." Mr. White stated over the weekend that he may try to strike harmony between Mr. McKown and Mr. Parris by adding some compromise amendments of his own.

What these might be he said he had not yet worked out. He did say, however, that he thought some of the senator's amendments were practical and necessary but. on the other hand, he was doubtful about others. Mr. White stated he was not in complete accord with Senator McKown's proposal that the county pay for lawyers' fees of private citizens in the sheriffs' suits.

The senator has been made a party to the litigations as a private citizen and has retained the Spartanburg law firm of Osborne, Butler and Moore as attorneys. Speaking of the new post of supply clerk, the youthful Mr. White stated he favored the proposal. He also added he was inclined to think it would be better "to leave the sheriff's department alone" at the present time and not make any changes regarding the office in the 1949 bill. Mother of Mrs.

Stowe Taken By Death Saturday Mrs. T. H. Merritt, of Rock Hill, mother of Mrs. G.

C. Stowe, of College Drive, died at her home in Hock Hill Saturday night. She was a native of Fort Mill and hail been living at Rock Hill since 1912. Her husband, a former Rock Hill police chief, died in' 1 939. Surviving are five sons and four daughters.

Funeral services were conducted at Rock Hill ut 3 o'clock Monday afternoon. Among the Gaffney people attending the rites were the Rev. and Mrs. T. E.

Jones, Mrs. F. E. Wilson, Mrs. Charles Boyd, Mrs.

J. R. Sparks and Mrs. F. L.

Baker. 2 Cars Overturn On Shelby Road Occupants Unhurt A 1937 Ford and 1937 Plymouth overturned following collision Saturday afternoon on the Shelby highway about six miles northwest of Gaffney but apparently the occupants of the cars were unhurt, according to Sheriff Roland T. Clarv's officers. The Plymouth, driven by Guy Mellon, of Shelby route 4, was totally demolished and the Ford, operated by Bobby Spangler. of near Shelby, also was heavily damaged, police said.

1 Two passengers in each of the vehicles escaped injury with the drivers, investigating officers To Set 600 Quail Free In Cherokee Quail hunting prospects in Cherokee county are likely to be the best in the aiea's history during the next season. Approximately (00 birds, all raised through Cherokee's quail project, will be set free beginning this week, L. J. P. Stone, assistant county farm agent, disclosed Monday.

Eighty pairs will continue to be kept at B. T. White's farm in the Draytonville section for breeding purposes. At a special meeting Friday night, some 50 farmers and 4-H club members were told they can stait releasing quail which they had raised from infancy in connection with the program here. They were warned, however, that extreme care should be taken to guarantee that lood is available to the young game, which average about eight months in age.

It was recommended the fowl be released on farms where proper feeding taeilities exist in oiaer that the project will end successfully. The following instruction-; were issued regarding setting the birds free: Birds may be released on your farm or a neighbor's or friend's farm in Cherokee county. 1. Release near feed. If ncces-saiy, plant milo or bijolor.

Do not depend on lospedezu and native feed. Proper feed is absolutely necessary for success. 2. Release near good cover and water. 3.

If birds are released in pairs, wait until they begin to tight. 4. It is better to release 2 or II pairs in one place. If this is done they may be releasej earlier. 5.

Ask neighbors to pu up cats and dogs for a few days. Carry birds to the place where they will be released in a small box with a door in the side or end. 7. Scatter several days' supply of grain in cover. 8.

Set box in cover (under edge of brushpile or in briar patch, or other good cover). 1). Open door gently anil walk quietly away. 10. Return in a few days and scatter more feed.

Former Cherokee County Resident Is Fatally Burned A 45-year-old former Cherokee-an was burned to death Monday morning about 5 o'clock in his blacksmith's shop near Boiling Springs, N. ('. Hal Sherry Mintz, who at one time had worked for B. W. Humphries in the Grassy Pond community where he was well-known, was trapped and burned beyond -recognition after some electrical equipment apparently ignited the cement block building.

Mr. Mintz' shop was located about four miles south of Boiling-Springs on the road to Gaffney. The victim, a resident of Cliff-side, N. is survived by many relatives in Gaffney and surrounding area. Cleveland County Sheriff Hugh Logan, and Coroner Ollie Poole were investigating the tragedy.

Funeral arrangements were still incomplete Monday at noon. In addition to his wife, Mrs. Ruby Poole Mintz, the victim is survived by four sons, Jack, Joe, Knox and Shelve Mintz; five daughters, including Mrs. J. D.

Robinson, Mrs. Hoyt Hawkins and Mrs. Bennie Scruggs and Emily and Bonnie T. Mintz, of Cliffsidc; six sisters and three brothers. Three sisters and a brother residing in the Cherokee area include: Mrs.

General Ellis, Mrs. Guy Humphries, of Gaffney, Mrs. Morris Mabry, of Cowpens, and Oscar Mintz, also of Gaffney. Believe 'Fire Bug' Is on the Loose In Cherokee Area County forestry officials Monday were hunting a "fire bug" who is believed to have set fire to the lands of J. B.

Wilkins in the Goucher community Sunday afternoon. Fire Warden Lester Skinner said two blazes, which destroyed 14 acres of timber and sage, were deliberately set by an unknown person on opposite sides of the home. Warden Skinner with some eight volunteers battled the blaze for two hours, preventing it from spreading to the building. Officials suspect the same or another "fire bug" is responsible for a series of other woods blazes which have occurred in the county during the past two weeks or so. forces has placed the Nationalists bieaking and petty larceny; Aino Hemphill, non-support; Winfrei Davis, assault and battery of i high and aggravated nature; Leo Smith, assault and battery with intent to kill Howard Cash, grand larceny.

Mrs. Wilkins Of boucher Dies At County Hospital Mrs. Florence Clinkscales Wilkins, wife of J. B. Wilkins, of the Goucher community on route 4, died about 2 o'clock Saturday morning at the Cherokee County Hospital, where she had been a patient for several weeks.

Mrs. Wilkins, who was a native of Anderson county, had been The Ledger's Goucher community correspondent for about 25 years. She rarely missed a week in sending a news letter regarding happenings in "the community. She was a member of the Goucher Baptist church where funeral services were conducted at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon by Dr. R.

Cranberry, the supply pastor. Interment was in the Cowpens cemetery with the Shuford-Hatcher Company, morticians, in charge. Nephews served as pall bearers. Mrs. Wilkins is survived by her husband; three daughters, Mrs.

Thomas Brown, of Pacolet, and Mrs. Walter Brown and Mrs. Charles Mathis, of the Goucher community; a son, J. B. Wilkins, of Gaffney; a stepdaughter, Mrs.

C. A. Martin, of Tryon, N. a step-son, II. B.

Wilkins, of Ininan; three sisters, J. C. Ligon, of Iva, Mrs E. W. Masters, of Columbia, and Mrs.

Wilbur Strom, of McCormick; two brothers, Dr. G. S. Clinkscales, of Anderson, and Harold Clinkscales, of Starr; and 23 grandchildren. Boyd Brown, 51, Taken by Death; Brother is Here Winnsboro, Mar.

11 State Highway Commissioner Boyd Brown died at his home Friday night after several weeks' il'iiess. He was 51. Brown, theater operator here, has represented the sixth judicid circuit on the commission kince hut year. He served in the General Assembly from 1037 through 1044 and again in 1047 and DM. He was a former vice president of the North and South Carolina Theatre Association, He was Fairfield County Democratic executive committeeman for two terms.

Funeral services were held at 4 p. m. Sunday. Dr. W.

K. Gunter, of Gaffney, a member of the state highway commission, was one of the honorary pa 11 bearers. Survivors include his wife, one son, Walter Boyd Brown of Winnsboro; two sisters, Mrs. G. Banner-man of Beaufort and Mrs.

V. 15. Sweetings of Coral Gables, and four brothers, W. R. of Gaif-ney, J.

of Winnsboro, It. of Ridge-way and C. Brown of Columbia. Gaffney on Shelby highway, $455.48 and assumption of $219.52 mortgage. Bessie T.

Eison, et al, to J. J. Huffstetler, et al, lot on west side of South Limestone street, $1,480. Lee R. Baker to Mrs.

Era Baker, land in school district No. 28, $100 and assumption of mortgage. Students Exhibit Enthusiasm Over Tiny Tots' Parade Gaffney Nigh School student? yesterday received with enthusiasm plans for the "tiny tots' Easter parade," sponsored by the Business and Professional Woman's Club. Immediately after the plans had been explained by Mrs. Norma Shef tall, club president, and Mis.

Edna Earle Kirby, publicity chairman, at the chapel exercises, several home rooms responded by nominating candidates for king and queen within a short time. All of the 27 home rooms have been asked to complete nominations by Thursday. The parade is to be staged at the high school the evening of April 8 with Dr. J. N.

Lipscomb serving as( master of ceremonies. Each room will select one boy and one girl of pre-school age as candidates for king and quuen. The children so nominated will also be co-sponsored by various Gaffney business firms. The winners will be determined by votes at one cent each. A container for each child will be placed in the sponsoring business house, with the picture of the candidate attached to the receptacle.

A group display of large size pictures of all of the entries will be posted in the downtown area. The standing of the candidates will also be posted daily during the contest which will begin officially March 30. Silver loving cups will be presented to the winners in the king and queen contest, with desirable prizes being awarded to the runners up and honorable mention the third nlace candidates. The contest will close with a coronation ceremony at the high school at which the First Baptist church kindergarten children will give a program. Mrs.

Sheftall and Mrs. Kirby both were delighted with the co-operation extended by the high school officials and by the enthusiastic response on the part of the school students. The purpose of the contest is to obtain funds with which the Business and Professional Woman's Club will make one, or more college scholarships available for Gaffney High School girl graduates. The method of awarding, the value of the scholarships, nnd the number to be made available will be decided later, The value and number will be determined by the proceeds received from the entertainment. Many Home Untold Chicago.

More than 15,000 new houses in 46 cities are standing unsold, an Associated Press survey showed today. The bulk of the 15,083 were priced above Very few, unless obviously undesirable, were unsold below that fiiiure. Generally, the in dustrial Midwest showed the largest numbers. The rest were scattered throughout the nation. Elimination contests in after-dinner speaking, declamation, orai interpretation and debating will lie held at the Gaffney High School between today anil the end of March in preparation for district contests to be held at Newberry April 12, Principal G.

T. Myers has announced. With all contests set for p. the schedule has been announced as follows: after-dinner speakingj---Tuesday-- March 22; declamation, Wednesday, March oral interpretation, Tuesday, March 20; and debate, Thursday, March Contestants in the various events will be as follows: After-dinner speaking, Gene Jackson, Gary Poole, Walter Dobbins, Berl Stowe, Jimmy Clary, Bobby Pennington and Judson Smith. Declamation, Dan Smith, C.

A. Black, C. W. Branch and Kenneth Patterson. Oral interpretation, i 1 e-y Swofford, Mary McCulloch, Betty Phippins, Laura Sossamon, Kath-erine Hodge, Ann Sanders, Margaret Moore, Mary Ann Porter, Merle Willard, Ellen Clary and Jeanie Lipscomb.

Debating, T. K. Vassy, James Blanton, Walter Parris, Bobby Blancher's Hand Blasted by Shot; Brothers Accused A shotgun blast ripped off the thumb and tips of two fingers James Blancher's right hand Saturday morning, Sheriff Roland T. Clary's office reported. Blancher, 44, of highway No.

20, was admitted to the Cherokeo county hospital wlx're approximately 100 stitches were taken to close his wounds. Warrants charging assault and battery with intent to Kill ere sworn out before Magistrate Hurley L. Wooten against Kirk and Bud Coleman in connection with the shooting. Blancher was reported to have been wounded about 1 a. m.

Saturday outside cf Kirk's home in the Goucher community, police said. Sheriff's officers suid Blancher had been visiting in the Coleman home. He went outside for awhile during which time he was wounded by the blast, they reported. Music Program Planned Friday To Help Scouts A musical program will be presented by three local quartets and the Smoky Mountain Ramblers at Cherokee Progressive school at o'clock Friday-night under sponsorship of Alma Mills Troop No. 50, Boy Scouts of America, it has been announced.

Admission will he 50 and 25 cents. The troop's share of the proceeds will be used to buy Scout uniforms for the boys. E. R. Pierce, the scoutmaster, suid the troop has 22 members.

The Petty, Strnuo and Purris quartets, alt well-known local singers, will take part in the The Match term of criminal court got uivler way Monday morning with Circuit Judge J. Henry Johnson, of Allendale, on the bench. Following a two-hour charge by Judge Johnson, the grand jury returned 10 true bills before adjournment of the opening session at 1 p. m. W.

E. Lnvicoinb was appointed to serve as chairman of the grand jury during the next year. One guilty plea was taken in the case of Logan Mullinax, 39, indicted for violation of the liquor law. Judge Johnson postponed sentence until later in the day. A bench warrant for Lloyd Sub-er, indicted for housebreaking and larceny, in one case and larceny, in another, was issued at the request of Solicitor Sam R.

Watt, of Spartanburg. The following true bills were returned by the grand jury: Larry Blanton, housebreaking and larceny; Kenneth Gowan, larceny, I. I). Knuckles, arson; Clyde Scates, and Mickey Wiley, housebreaking and larceny; Lloyd Sober, housebreaking and larceny; Lloyd Sober, larceny, Logan Mullinax, Nerow Wilson, Delitha Griffin and Barney Griffin, all violation of the liquor law. Ten additional new eases-bringing the total for the term to (ilx-were turned over to Solicitor Watt Monday morning.

The charges and respective defendants included Lloyd an I grand larceny; assault and battery aggravated nature; housebreaking W. H. Russed, of a high and James Howard Waddell, larceny from the person; Mickey Wiley and Clyde Scates housebreaking and petty larceny; T. ('. Clary, non-support; James Edward Willard, house- E.

M. Collins Is Taken by Death; Funeral is Held Moral, 91 The Col body of 4(-year-old Edwin lins, leading Carolinas' merchant, arrived here Sunday for final rites, A native of Spartanburg, he died Friday night in Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia after a long illness. Collins was merchan-! dising manager for about 25 Col- lins' Department Stores. I He moved his headquarters from i here to Lumberton, N. several months ago.

His father, the late John Duran Collins, founded the chain of stores. Final rites were held at the Floyd Mortuary Monday at 1 1 a. con-I ducted by the Rev, R. L. Alexander, I pastor of the First Presbyterian I Church of Lumberton, N.

and Dr. Lewis H. Wright. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Mary Hudson of Spartanburg; four brothers, William H. of Myrtle Beach, Francis E.

of Lumberton, N. Harold A. of Southern Pines, N. nnd Robert L. Collins of Spartanburg, and six sisters, Mrs.

W. K. Davenport of Sarasota, Mr. Robert Prid-more of Lenoir, N. Mrs.

Mildred Morgan of Elizabethtown and Misses Dorothy, Miriam and Lillian Ethel Collins, all of I Heavner and Bobby Barnhill. One student will be selected to represent the high school in each of the following contests: after dinner speeches, declamation, an. I oral interpretation. An affirmative and a negative team of two pupils each will represent the school in debating. The winning puvls will represent the Gaffney High School at the district elimination at the Newberry High School April 12.

The public is invited to attend these contests, Mr. Myers said. Two Cars Collide On River Bridge; 4 Escape Injury Three men and a woman escaped injury Friday night about 6 o'clock when two out-of-town automobiles collided on the highway No. 29 bridge over Broad River. Both vehicles involved in the mishap, a 1049 Lincoln and a 1041 Pontiac, were heavily damaged, countv police reported.

W. T. Self, a resident of Alabama, was charged with' driving the southbound Lincoln while under the influence. He forfeited $100 bond Saturday by failing to appear in Magistrate Hurley L. Wooten's court for a hearing.

The Pontiae was owned and operated by E. Glenn Cox, of Greenville. He was traveling north with his wife. Mr. Glenn filed in the clerk of court's office here Saturday a civil court suit seeking $700 in actual damages as a result of the mishap.

I). B. Pearson, also of Alabama, was a passenger in the Lincoln. No Draft Calls Will Be Issued In Next Month i No men will be drafted in April, according to official notice receiv-, ed by the Cherokea county Selec-I tive Service Board from state I headquarters, it was announced yesterday by Guy M. Queen, the I executive secretary, i Drafting under the selective ser-! vice law had been suspended pre-i viously for the months of Febru-' ary and March.

Mr. Queen said he desired to re-I mind youths becoming IS years old that they are required to register with the board within five days after their birthdays. Daughter Is Born AtLoca IHosp it a I To Child Mother A negro gill, not quite 13 years old, Saturday became the youngest mother recalled in the history of the heiokee County Hospital. The youthful, 140-pound negrcss pave bi th to a seven-pound, four-ounce daughter at the local Saturday morning at 1:20, it was reported. The mother, who will be 13 on March 31, ami her child were dis.

missed from the hospital Sunday..