The Gaffney Ledger from Gaffney, South Carolina • Page 1

I the THE GAFFNEY LEDGER 14 Special Registrars Named for Cherokee Harold Smith to Preach in Temple Church Series The Rev. J. Harold Smith, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fort Smith, will assist the Rev. Joe Belcher, the pastor, in conducting a series of revival meetings at the Temple Baptist Church from, April 19 to April 24. Services will be held at 7:30 p.

m. daily. James McCraw will be song leader, Mrs. McCraw organist, and Mrs. Evelyn Blanton pianist.

The Fort Smith church has a resident membership of average Sunday school attendance of average Training Union attendance of 598. Over 200 for baptism and 261 by letter and statement were received during the past year. Born in Woodruff, South lina, June 14, 1910, Mr. Smith is married and he and his wife (Continued on Page 2) A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD Gaffney, Postmaster Job At Kings Creek Open for Exams An examination for fodrthclass postmaster for the post office at Kings Creek at a salary of $2,304 a year, will be open for acceptance of applications until May 13, the Civil Service Commisison has announced. Applicants must actually reside within the territory supplied by the post office and must be.

at least 18 years of age. There is no maximum age limit. However, persons who have passed the age of 70 may be considered only for temporary renewable appointments for one year. Complete information about the examination requirements and instructions for filing applications may be obtained at the post office for which this examination is being announced. Application forms must be filed with the U.

S. Civil Service Commission, Washington 25, D. and must be received or postmarked not later than the closing date. Drake Ties State Record As GHS Track Team Wins Gaffney's High Cecil Drake tied the all-time state record for the 220-yard dash Thursday afternoon! as the Black and Gold won a triangular track meet at Wofford Cillege. Drake sprinted the 220-yard distance in 22.9 seconds, which Coach Stuart Brown said tied the state prep school record.

Bobby Blanton, also of Gaffney, tossed the discus 127 feet, only 14 inches short of the AA state record. Gaffney won the meet with 67 points. Woodruff was second with 65 and Byrnes High trailed with 20. Coach Brown said Woodruff picked up 16 points in the low and high hurdles because Gaffney has not been running those events. Gaffney trailed by three points at the opening of the final event, the mile relay.

The GHS team Bradley, George, K. Harrill and E. McCraw -won the race easily in three min- Smith Opponent Fails to Show For Fight Here Marvin Smith, one of the U. S. Navy's top heavyweights, won his scheduled fight here by default Thursday night when his opponent, Ted Eaves, of Kings Mountain, N.

failed to show up. Roy, the Turner, Gaffney coach Boxing and Team, manager which Smith was a member several years ago, said Smith was "very disappointed" after traveling from Norfolk, for the bout, The Gaffney boxers topped Kings Mountain by winning seven of the eight matches. One bout ended in a draw. The event, staged at the National Guard armory, was for the benefit of the Cherokee County Boy's Club. About $100 was netted.

Gaffney winners included Joe Sullivan, Woodrow Bridges, Billy Brown, Bumpy White, Thomas Medley, Roger Harris and Johnny Stephenson. The draw was fought by Mike McAbee. Pastor Hardin To Speak At 12th Service Dinner Five new members will be added to the Gaffney Manufacturing Company's Quarter Century Club at the company's 12th annual service dinner Tuesday evening. The dinner will be served at 6:15 p. in the Limestone College dining room, Some 200 employees and guests have been invited.

The Rev. E. Wannamaker Hardin, pastor of the Buford Street Methodist, Church, will be the principal speaker. New Quarter Century Club members who will be presented with gold watches by J. J.

Norton, treasurer and general manager of the company, are Mrs. Grace S. Black, Mrs. Stella D. Bolin, Mrs.

Ruth I. Davis, Clar- February 16, 1894 REV. HAROLD SMITH Forced Landing Made Here By Army Airplane A light army plane en route from Ft. Benning, to New York made a forced landing here late Thursday afternoon. City firemen said the plane developed engine trouble srohtly before dark and made an energency landing on the Civil Air Patrol field on highway 29, north of here.

The pilot, whose identity was not learned, summoned a mechanic from Shelby, V. and was to resume his flight Friday. Lee Serving As Army Private, Not As General Fort Bliss, El. Lee is in the Army again--not as a general on horseback, but as a private, learning to be an operations end intelligence specialist. A descendant of the famous confederate General, Private Robert E.

Lee recently began his advanced training at Fort Bliss' Antiaircraft Artillery Training Center. He is the son of Mrs. Lena Lee, of 306 East Fairview. Like his renowned ancestor, Lee is a riding enthusiast and a member of the American Quarter Horse Association. The most recent military member of Lee's family was his father, the late Lt.

Col. Bevin D. Lee, who was a member of the 32nd "Red Arrow" Infantry Division in World War II. Twenty-year-old Lee entered the Army under the Reserve Forces Act and completed basic training at Ft. Jackson, S.

C. During his stay at the South lina post, he was present at the unveiling of a bust of General Lee an event which received national TV publicity. Lee is scheduled to complete, his six months of active to return home in June. The graduate of Gaffney High School said recently, "I like the Army and I hope, in performing my duties, I can reflect the pride implied by my name." (Continued on page 2) REV. E.

W. HARDIN IMPLIES, DEVOTED TO THE South Carolina, Will Issue Certificates For Voting Fourteen persons have been recommended by the Cherokee county legislative delegation for appointment as special registrars. The number included one woman. The appointments will be made by Governor George Bell Timmerman. Recommended for deputy registrars were C.

B. Patrick, of 303 South Limestone street, who has been serving as clerk for the registration board; Bonner Sarratt, of route Oscar White, of route W. J. Jolly, of route D. E.

Evington, of 602 Beech street; Paul C. Guthrie, of 401 Elm street; Joe C. Greene of Chesnee, route Berl Byars, of Blacksburg, route Francis E. Patterson, of route Columbus C. Moorhead, of Blacksburg, route Mrs.

Corinne Melton, of 808 Beech street; June White, of route Woodrow Cash, of Cowpens, route and James C. Garner, of 802 Railroad avenue. The deputies were recommended by Senator George W. MeKown and Representatives E. Fort Wolfe and Bill Blanton.

Mr. Wolfe said the persons recommended were chosen from a large number of applicants and vere. selected with a view of giving representation to all sections of the county. The registration board consists of C. C.

Melton, chairman; W. C. Vinesett, of the Grassy Pond area, and Gill White, of Blacksburg. The deputies will assist the board in issuing new registration certificates prior to May 10, which will be the final date for, qualifying for voting in June 10 primary. Chairman Melton stated Friday the new registration total at that time was 8,048.

This compared with more than 16,000 on the old books. Moorhead Quits Hospital Board For School Post C. C. Moorhead, Blacksorchardist who was elected April 1 as a trustee of Cherokee county school district No. 1, has submitted his resignation to the legislative delegation as a memher of the Cherokee County orial Hospital board.

Mr. Moorhead's resignation leaves three vacancies on the ninemember hospital board. No successors have been appointed yet for R. B. Hallman, former chairman, and the Rev.

C. E. Hampton, pastor of the Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church, who resigned several weeks ago. The board members are appointed on recommendation of a majority of the county legislative delegation. A.

Love, of Kings Creek is board chairman. Today our contribution comes from one of our leaders in the field of finance. In no other phase of community and business life is more emphasis placed upon the personality and integrity of the people. By Albert L. Midyette Previous articles have brought out the friendliness of the people of Cherokee county and I heartily agree with all that has been written.

My wife and I came to Gaffney a little over two and one-half years ago, and immediately were accepted by the people. of Gaffney. Good and friendly people just naturally make for a good and friendly town. And that is just what Gaffney is. The cooperation of the citizenry is unsurpassable.

Ag an example, the last two Community Chest BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE Saturday, April 19, 1958 'MISS GAFFNEY" CONTESTANTS in the "Miss Gaffney" pageant to be Seated, left to right, are Norma Betty Wilder, Jimmie Sellars, OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. Fourteen of the 15 finalists held here May 2 are shown above. Jean Dobson, Shirley Littlejohn, Patricia Turner, Sandra McBee, Jan Blacksburg High Chorus Receives Highest Rating (By Cecelia Moore) Blacksburg, April 18. The made Blacksburg the highest High School possible at the State Musical Festival being held at Winthrop College this week. The chorus, made up of 23 girls under the direction of Mrs.

Ramona Ross, received a rating of one. The Blacksburg Chorus was among the many others from high schools throughout South Carolina that were judged Wednesday. The chorus sang "Morning Now Beckons," and "Ava Maria." Members of the chorus are as follows: sopranos, Jean Day, Brenda Wylie, Brenda Anglin, Nancy Gaffney Soldier Helps Fire Army Missile in Texas Fort Bliss, Tex. Specialist Third Class Marvin C. Phillips, of Mr.

and Mrs. Talmadge S. son Phillips, 1003 West Smith street, Gaffney, S. recently pated in the firing of a Corporal surface-to-surface missile at the Army Air Defense Center, Fort Bliss, Tex. Specialist Phillips arrived in the U.

S. from Germany with his unit, the 531st Field Artillery Missile Battalion, to take part in this annual missile maneuver. The battalion is scheduled to return to Germany this month. He entered the Army in December 1955 and was stationed in Fairfield, before arriving in Europe in May 1957. The 25-year-old soldier attended Gaffney (S.

High School and was employed by Cherokee Frozen Foods, Gaffney, in civilian life. New Plant For Selma Collingdale, Pa. -A precision instrument maker, the Shalleross Manufacturing plans to move into a new plant at Selma, N. after it closes its factory here. The company said about 12 of its 150 employees would move to the new location, 28 miles south of Raleigh, to manufacture resistors, rotary switches, instruments and attenuators.

The CHEROKEE STORY One of a series published by the Advertising and Publicity Committee of the Gaffney Chamber of Commerce. 0. M. Mullinax, Chairman. paigns, both of which went over the Geographically we are located in one of the best spots in these United States, At the foot of the mountains, we enjoy a good all around climate.

Our natural resources are bountiful. We have plenty of good water; electrie power is supplied in abundance, and our people are willing to give a day's work for a day's pay. Our transportation needs are served by good highways, fine train service, and we're only minutes away from air service. Our spiritual needs are taken care of by the finest pastors and churches that could be found anywhere. Our schools are among the best in the state.

What's good about Gaffney? It isn't perfect, but you'd have to look a long time to find a town that would surpass it. Price 5c Per Copy Danner, Rachel Hawkins, and Louette Thornton. Standing, left to right, are Barbara MeSwain, Jean Carroll, Carlton Moore, Carolyn Daly, and Jackie Linder. Tallulah Kirby was absent when the picture was made. Photo by Curry's Studio.

Band Takes 13 Ratings At Festival Love, Myrtle Bolin, Anne Hamrick. Priscilla Moss, Shirley Cochran; second sopranos, Anne Ceci Moore, Betty Jo MeDaniel, Linda Bridges, Flora Taylor, Marilyn Porter, Zubelee Patterson; altos, Dottie Ledbetter, Brenda Batchelor, Imogene Byars, Marilyn Martin, Dianne Wilson, Darlene Hardin and Niniver Patterson utes, 48 seconds, only five seconds above the state record. The Gaffney team's next meet will be held as Gastonia, N. Monday. The final home event will be against Byrnes High next Thursday at 3 p.

m. York Firm Gets Road Contract For This County A contract for grading and bituminous surfacing of 8.698 miles of secondary roads in Cherokee county been awarded by the State Highway Department to York Construction Company, of York. Announcement of the contract was made April 16 in a letter of award from Chief Highway Commissioner Claude R. McMillan. The award was based on a low bid of $94,206.39 submitted when bids for the work were publicly opened in Columbia March 18.

Included in the project are the grading and surfacing of 1.744 miles on Road S-80 from Road 34 to S. C. Route 150; of 2.598 miles on Road S-97 from Road to the North Carolina line; of 0.809 mile on Road S-13 from Road S-17 to the Broad River; of 1.590 miles on Road S-206 from Route 105 to Road S-166 S-116; of 1.278 miles on Road from U. S. Route 29 to Road S-31: and of 0.679 mile on Road S-171 from Road S-166 to Road S-31.

Race Track Will Open Season At 8 P. M. Saturday A NASCAR sanctioned limited sportsman race program will open the Gaffney Race Track's third season Saturday night at 8 o'- clock. Jack Phillips, the track manager, said some 30 or more entries are expected for this event which will be the first NASCAR sanetioned race held here. Mr.

Phillips said the track, located just off the Pacolet highway south of Gaffney, has been reconditioned and is expected to be in fine shape for the races. Gaffney To Be Shown Sunday On Television A Gaffney Chamber of Commerce program will be presented over Spartanburg Television Station WSPA, Channel 7, Sunday afternoon from 3 to 3:30 o'clock, is was announced yesterday by 0. M. Mullinax, publicity chairman. Mr.

Mullinax said the program will be built around the showing of 300 feet of film taken by J. N. Lipscomb, who will serve as narrator. The film will present views of Limestone College, various schools, public buildings, textile plants, churches, main street views, etc. Glenn White's Son-in-Law Is Fatally Injured Vernon Perry Crosby 41-vearold Kings Mountain, N.

filling station operator, was killed Thursday afternoon when the rim of a truck tire he was fixing blew off and struck him in the face. Mr. Crosby was the son-inlaw of Glenn White. also of Kings Mountain, who is a former superintendent of Alma Mills in Gaffney. The accident occurred about p.

at Mr. Crosby's filling station at Kings Mountain. A veteran of World War 2, Mr. Crosby was a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Kings Mountain where funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Ottie White Crosby and one son. Christopher. West End Plans Reyival Series Starting Sunday Revival services will begin Sunday night at 7:45 o'clock at the West End Baptist Church, the Rev. Hoyle B. Alexander, the pastor, has announced.

Mr. Alexander will be assisted in conducting a series of meet- REV. E. B. HICKS ings through next week by Rev.

B. Hicks, pastor of the Shelby, N. Eastside Baptist Church. That church sponsors a 30-minute Sunday morning devotional program over a Shelby radio station. Mr.

Alexander said the West End services will begin at 7:45 o'clock each evening. The series will close with the 11 a. m. service Sunday, April 27. Glenn Bemisderfer, the church's minister of music, will be in charge the music.

Miss Porter will be organist with Mrs. Edward Long as pianist. RUNNER- UP Annette Grigsby, (above), Gaffney High School senior who is a member of the Grassy Pond Baptist Church, was runner up Thursday, Union night in the Baptist state convention speaker's tournament held in Charleston. She is the daughter Mr. and Mrs.

J. R. Grigsby, of Lansdell drive. Mary Austin, of Monks Corner, was the winner and will represent this state in a southwide competition at Ridgeerest, N. in July.

Annette will be alternate. Alonzo Bolton Taken by Death; Rites Set Today Alonzo Bolton, 55, textile worker, died unexpectedly Thursday afternoon about 5 o'clock at his home in the Pleasant Hill community near Cherokee Falls. He had been ill for several days. He was a member of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church where funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The Rev.

T. A. Knight, the Rev. Carl Allen, the Rev. B.

R. Elmore and the Rev. M. P. Hampton will officiate, Interment will be in Pleasant Hill cemetery with the Shuford-Hatcher Company, morticians, in charge.

The body will lie in state in the church from 2:30 to 3:30 Mr. Bolton is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Bolton: a daughter, Miss Jewell Bolton, at home: three sons, Charles Bolton, of Blacksburg, Don Bolton of Union, and Private Eugene Bolton, of Fort Jackson; five sisters, Mrs. Fraymond Parker, of Rock Hill, and Mrs. C.

M. Ligon, Mrs. George Black, Mrs. Roni Martin and Miss Flora Bolton, of Blacksburg; two brothers, Andrew Jack Bolton, of Gaffney, and James Bolton, of Blacksburg; his mother, Mrs. Martha Ingram Bolton, of Blacksburg; and three grandchildren.

The Gaff'ney High School Band Department under the direction of B. H. Walker received eight top ratings of superior, four ratings of excellent and one rating of good for the thirteen events entered Thursday on the State Music Festival at Winthrop College at Rock Hill. The events which rated superior were trombone solo, Ben Skinner; trombone solo, Tommy Bratton; Sousophone solo, Eugene Walker; cornet solo, Bennie Sanders; clarinet solo, Mary Louise Walker (3rd grader from Central School;) cornet trio, Bennie Sanders, Woodrow Bridges and Elbert Parris; snare drum solo, Donnie Hyatt; and snare drum solo, Sanny Wolfe. Events rated as excellent were trombone trio, Ben Skinner, Mike Ramsey and Tommy Bratton; trombone quartet, Ben Skinner, Mike Ramsey, Tommy Bratton and John Westbrooks: clarinet Julia Clary, Mary Louise Walker" and Joe Sullivan; and clarinet quartet, Julia Clary, Mary Louise Joe Sullivan and Robert weblker, The drum ensemble composed of Donnie Hyatt and Sanny Wolfe, snare drums, Mike Vassey, bass drum, and Mary Ann Martin, eymbals and bells, was rated good.

Adjucators for the instrumental solos and ensembles entered in the festival were Lieut. Col. W. F. Santelmann, retired director of the U.

S. Marine Band, and William T. Verran, director of the Caro, Georgia, High School Band, Both men are members of the American Bandmasters Association, the highest honor attainable for a band director. Several these honor winners will be featured in the Gaff'ney High School Band concert next Friday night, April 25, in the high school auditorium. Tickets are on sale by members of the band department, Mr.

Walker said. Duncan's Store On Highway 11 Is Broken Into Mrs. A. M. Duncan's Store on the Chesnee highway was broken into Thursday night and a quantity of merchandise stolen, according to Sheriff Julian B.

Wright's office. The store was entered through a side door, officers said. Among the stolen items were cheese, cigarettes, canned meat, preserves, headache powders, pickles and other foodstuff's. Enoree Presbytery Elects Rev. Brown as Moderator The Presbytery of Enoree met this week in the Limestone Presbyterian Church.

Enoree Presbytery is composed of representatives, an elder and a minister, from each of 50 churches in the area, and comprises the counties of Cherokee, Union, Spartanburg, and Greenville. The retiring moderator, Hugh A. Lane, of Roebuck, opened the meeting with prayer which was followed by a sermon by the Rev. J. Benson Sloan, of Union, on the subject, "The Nature and Mission of the Church." Mr.

Sloan emphasized the "universal fellowship of the Kingdom of Christ" and the necessity to practice true brotherhood. A memorial to the late Rev. P. S. MeChesney, of Roebuck, was presented and adopted by the Presbytery.

The Rev. Charles W. Brown, of Spartanburg, was elected moderator of the Presbytery. The welcome to Gaffney and to the Limestone Church was given by the host pastor, Dr. Robert Bluford, Jr.

The Presbytery heard a report of its Committee on Camps and Conference Grounds and after lengthy discussion approved a plan to obtain funds to begin work on buildings and equipment at Camp Goodhope. This 200 acre campsite was recently given to the Presbytery for the purpose of developing 8 camp for Enoree Presbytery. The Presbytery was entertained at lunch in the Limestone Church by the Women of the Church, and the meeting adjourned at 3 p. m..