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lad 13 A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES, DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF TUB PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY, ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1948 J5-00 YEAR IN ADVANCE DEMOCRAT WARDEN VOTE AND TO HOUSE MEMBER 'Beautiful Legs' eceive Bids At Baptist Church CALLS RED TEACHER 'UNBALANCED' 2nd Primary Will Be Held Final Rites Arranged For Five Soldiers 4 --m Game Warden Reports 678 Quail Hatched Since June 18 when 50 pairs of Missouri bred quail were placed in stccia'. breeding coops at the farm of County Forest Ranger B. T. White, 678 quail have been hatch Next Tu esuav I ml I 1 it? i i I- rrl ill It 1 I4 mi WiW mi wWi REPORTERS SURROUND Soviet Consul General Jacob Lomakin (arrow) in New York after he released the first written statement "explaining" Mrs.

Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina's leap from a third-story window of the Consulate. In his statement, Lomakin declared the Red teacher was "unbalanced" and was suffering from a "nervous breakdown" brought on by her "kidnaping by White Russian guards." (International) Non-Support Charge Upsets Marriage Plans of NC Pair For Cherokee Roads, Bridge State highway department reports published Thursday showed W. A. Fuller and Sons, of Greenwood, submitted the low bid for surfacing approximately 27 miles of Cherokee county farm-to-market roads and that Ridlehuber and of Greenwood, was low bidder for the construction of a reinforced concrete bridge over the tracks of the Southern Railway Company in Blacksburg. The Fuller company's bid on the road surfacing was $121,501.

The Rid'ehuer company's price for the bridge was $39,608. Bills were c.oened by the state highway commission in Columbia Wednesday. Whether or not the contracts were to be awarded on the basis of the bids was to be determined later. The commission reserves the right to reject bids if it sees fit. The Cherokee county work, included in 17 road, five bridge and three beach erosion projects, was described as follows: "Cherokee: Bituminous surfacing of 1.72(i miles on Road 57 from the Spartanburg county line to Route 11, of 2.418 miles on Roads 58 and 4(5 from Road 28 (Route 110) to Route 11, of 5.047 miles on Road from Route 11 to the North Carolina line, of 3.899 miles on Roads 59 and 39 from Road 28 (Route 110) to Road 38 (Route 299), of 5.1 miles on Road C3 from Road 34 (Route 167) to the North Carolina lino, of 1.728 miles on Road 48 from Route 150 to Road 03, of 1.51 miles on Road 71 from Route 150 northeasterly, of 2.170 miles on Road 70 from Route 11 to Route 17, and of 2,828 miles on Road 00 from Route 221-A to Road 29; W.

A. Fuller and Sons, Cherokee: Route 198, construc tion of a 120-foot reinforced concrete bridge over the Southern railroad in Ridlehuber and Mrs. Meadows Taken by Death; Funeral Is Held Mrs. Emma Gentry Meadows. 04 widow of Albert Meadows, die'' about 0:47 o'clock Wednesday ht at her home at Limestone Mills.

Mrs, Meadows, who was a tritive of Madison county. North Carolina, was a member of the Paco-let Mills Baptist church. Funeral services were conducted at that church Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'c'ock bv the Rev. Joe Belcher, pastor of the Ban-tist church, and the Rev. W.

T. Tate, of Pacolet. Interment was in the White Rose at racolet with the Conyiany, morticians, in charge. The pall bearers were HeJiry Cuvton, Bill Porter, Bill Holmes. Wiilio Crotts, Roy Bright and Walter Hall.

Mrs. Meadows is survived by two daughters, Miss Bertie Meadows and Mrs. Claude Fowler, of Gaffney; three sons, Roy, Earl and Burlin Meadows, of Gaffney; four sisters, Mrs. Laura Earley and Mrs. Fred Lee, of Pacolet, Mrs.

Lula Ledford, of Gaffney, and Mrs. Maude Millwood, of Spartanburg; a half-sister, Mrs. Lidie Rhodes, of Spartanburg; four brothers, J. W. Gentry, of Gaffney, Joe Gentry, of Hot Springs, N.

Charles and Dave Gen try, of Pacolet; and nine grandchildren. Former Buffalo Citizen Observes His 95th Birthday Rock Hill Joe E. Mint-, of Snruce street today observed his 85th birthday at his home. Because of the polio situation no formal observance of the day took place. Mr.

Mintz enjoys average health for one of his ag'j. He makes his homo with his daughter, Mrs. Sam Workman. lie has one living sister, Mrs. D.

D. Gaston, 90, of Blacksburg. Other children are W. I). Mintz.

of Hill, Rivte Mrs. O. G. Scruggs of Rutherford-ton, N. and Mrs.

G. Hardin of Forest City, N. Mrs. John Bell of Blacksburg and J. V.

Mintz of Texas. Mr, Mintz spent most of his life is the Buffalo section of Cherokee county and came to Rock Hill to live about 12 years ago. lie is a retired farmer. vffh 1 mm The Rev. J.

Lester Lane, pastor of the First Baptist church of Suffolk, Virginia, will preach Sun day morning and evening at the First Baptist clufrch of this city. Mr. Lane is a native of Geori'a, and was for eleven vears of the First Baptist church of Greer. He has also held pastorates in Georgia, Kentucky and North Carolina. He was a member of for ten years, serving as president for two years.

Funeral Is Set For lewis Jones At East Gaffney Funeral services for Private rLewis D. Jones, 28, Gaffney sol dier killed in action in France, will he held at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the East Gaffney Baptist church. The Rev. L. N.

Epley, the pastor, and the Rev. J. A. Brock, of Shelby, N. will officiate.

Interment will be in' the Draytonville cemetery with military honors. The Gordon-Mabry Funeral Home, morticians, of PVT. LEWIS D. JONES will be in charge. The pall bearers will be Garland, Howard, Bobby, Malcolm, GiLbes and Winford Jones.

Private Jones, who entered the service February 29, 1944, was killed in battle with the Germans in France November 11, 1914. He w'as a machine gunner in Company 134th Infantry. 35th Division. A medal for heroism was awarded to him. He was employee of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company for three years before he entered the army.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Kathleen Gordon Jones Hugheyj a son, Dean Jones; three daughters, Frances, Linda and Carolyn Jones; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oakley Jones, of Shelby, N. route and four brothers, Theron Jones, of Gaffney, Fred Jones, of Shelby, route 2, Adoiphus Jones, of Washington, and Thomas Jones, of Charlotte, N.

C. Felons Flee Pulmetto, Aug. 19. Six Negro convicts overpowered guards and escaped in an auto-moliile from a road gang near Palmetto today. The convicts were said to be "heavily armed." A state-wide alarm was broadcast a few minutes after the prisoners, working on a quarry, commandeered an automobile from a passing motorist and made their way out of the area.

Max Tyree, warden of the Stonewall Prison Cmi where the Negroes were assigned, said that he did not yet know the exact number of weapons they had seized from their A Military funerals for five Cherokee county soldiers who lost theii lives on foreign soil in World Wai 2 will be held Sunday afternoon between the hours of 3 and 5 p. m. Two were killed in Italy, one in Luxembourg, one in France and one in Germany. The rites have been scheduled as follows: For Private First Class Walter R. Webster, 24, son of Mr.

and Mrs. W. G. Webster, of route ti. at 3 p.

m. at the Corinth Baptist church. For Private First Class Wesley T. Whelchel, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs.

W. L. Whelchel, of route 5, at 5 p. ni. at the Corinth Baptist church.

For Private First Class Logan Manson Jolly, 33, of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Jolly, of North Logan street, at 4:30 p.

at the Cherokee Avenue Baptist church. Interment will be in Oakland cemetery. For Staff Sergeant Wi'liam R. C. Robinson, 27, at 4 p.

m. at the Kehoboth Baptist church cemetery. For Private Lewis D. Jones. 28, of Gaffney, at 4 p.

m. at the East Gaffney Baptist church. Interment will be in the Draytonville cemetery. The first four funerals listed above will be handled by the Shu-ford-Hatcher Company, Gaffney morticians, while the Gordon-Mab-ry Funeral Home, of B'acksburg, will be in charge of the Jones' rites. Private Webster's funeral will be conducted by the Rev.

B. L. Hoke, the Rev. E. W.

Lybrand and the Rev. Hugh C. Hamilton. The pall bearers will be Marvin Gris-som, W. S.

Jolly, James Burgess, Elzie Tate, Raymond Millwood, Keenan Kennedy, Everette Sanders and Wayne Long. His survivirs include, in addition to- his parents, his wife, Mrs. Margaret Idclle Kennedy Webster; a son, Walter Benny Webster; four sisters, Mrs. F. N.

Snead, of Charlotte, Mrs. Worth Freeman, of Forest City, N. Miss Catherine Webster, of Rock Hill, and Miss Evelyn Webster, of Gaffney; and two brothers, M. M. and Nilos Webster, of Gaffney.

Mr. Hoke and the Rev. H. Ha-dock will officiatp at the funeral of Private Whelchel. The pall bearers will be Johnny Pennington, John C.

Wright, Royce Humphries, Kenneth McCraw, Earl D. Wright, Carroll Hawkins, Howard Spencer, and James W. Wrilliams. T-To is Knwivn.fl tnr V-ia nnvnn' r)six sisters, Mrs. Viola Mayfield and' Misses Mary, Lucille, Nola Mae, Ila Lee and Sara Frances Whelchel; three brothers, John Whelchel, of Columbia, and Roy and Troy Whelchel, of Gaffney; his paternal grandmother, Mrs.

Sara Whelchel, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Nola Robinson. Private Jolly's funeral will be conducted by the Rev. C. A.

Kirby, the Rev. C. E. Hampton and the Rev. W.

H. Poindexter. The pall bearers will bp Herbert Clary, I. A. McCraw, Winfred Bierly, Joe Hoylc Turner, Shell Wilson, Cot-dell Lee, Jack Blanton and Wad? Poole He is survived, in addition to his parents, by his wiiiow, Mrs.

Winnie Ilammett Jolly Bonner. The Rev. J. L. Painter and the Rev.

Mr. Haydock will officiate at the rites for Staff Sergeant Robinson. The pall bearers will be Mendel Goudclock, James Littleton, Paul Baines, Ralph Harris, Glenn Harris, Thomas Morris, J. D. Gibson and Edward Hughes.

Surviving, in addition to his parents, arc his widow, Mrs. Margaret Lipscy Robinson Bolin; a daughter, Linda Kay; five sisters, Mrs. J. A. Burgess and Misses Hallie, Geraldine, Faye and Peggy Robinson; and two brothers, Woodrow and L.

G. Robinson. Ground Is Broken For Erection Of Temporary School County chain gang prisoners broke ground Friday morning for Ithe construction of a temporary Ichoolhouse adjacent to the Gaffney Uligh School for rural eighth grad ers who will be unable to attend the tnain building because of space imitations. Grading of the site for the three-classroom structure, to be rectcd on a lot adjoining the southeast property line of the high school, was to be completed lyesterday afternoon, Stipends J. 10.

Daniel stated. Under provisions of a contract kvith the Roebuck Construction Company, of Roebuck, the nuonset- l.ypo steel building will be tm- blcted within three weeks after trading is according to Jonathan Z. McKown, county upcriiUendent of education. Cherokee county's will have a i.p,.-trinity to go ti ivx. to vote for seat in the house of -tives and for Cherokee county game warden.

All other nominat'nns "fr this time were sett'ed t' primary held August 10. The candidates to next Tuesday wi'l P. and J. Hownr-! for the house of J. T.

Baines rH. I. V. game warden. Only 60 per cent of tue 1 enrollment of more than 11000 ed in the first primary.

The of the expected vote next Tnodny is problematical. H. Sw'nV fVprnVpn fr.Vr Democratic chairman, has arrived the election boxes with tV-ri and other suppbeo ynn-i-- distribution. He said the exemtivn of the vpr'n'" r-vpipnt v. ten anthnri'st'in bv committeemen, from Mrs.

Edna Kar'e FivVy, secretary, in the offioe of Count J. I of tb? court house. The hours fr retributing' the boxes will be from 9 a. m. to 1 ra.

Saturday ird from 9 a. to 5 m. Monday. Mr. Swink stated the "ame who conducted the first pri-niaYy have been annointed to in the second primary.

The managers are requetv to send or telephone results of fh voting to The Ledger office. No. 186, as quickly accounting is completed aftp ti boxes are opened late Tuesdav. R. B.

Hallman, commander of Post No. announfed tV American Legion will again operate an election bulletin board 'i the city park. Mr. Ha'lman askp that box managers telephone reports of the voting to No. 451 for posting on the bulletin board.

Progressive To Open Next Term September 2nd Cherokee Progressive hnc! will open for the 194S-'49 se-si-r Thursday, September 2. at :39 o'clock, Miss Mary Anthony, the principal, has announced. Pupils entering the first grade must have reached their sixth birthday on or before November 1, 1948. This is a ruling by the County Board of Education and State JJoard of Education. The following will be the teachers for the coming session.

First grade, Miss Annette Poole; Second grade, Mrs. Park Sarratt: Third grade, Mrs. Furman Martin: Fourth grade, Miss Junaita Cash, Fifth grade, Mrs. Pat Strour-e; Sixth grade, Mrs. Tom Cooley; Seventh grade and principal, Mi Mary Anthony.

The trustees are Messers E. Gibson, June White, and Oscar White. Curry To Attend National Meeting Of Photographers Curry's photographic studio in the Baker building on Limestone street will be closed next wef while H. G. Curry, the owner, attends the national convention of the American Photographers Association in Chicago.

Mr. Curry is one of six South Carolina photographers holding membership in the association, which is an organization of professionals. Accompanied by his wife and Mrs. M. A.

Duncan, his studio assistant, Mr. Curry will leave Gaffney late today for Chicago. The convention, which will last through next Saturday, will be he'd at the Stevens hotel. Harry Bolick To Coach Ford High Anderson, Aug. 29 Jack former football player, will assumi his duties as coach at Seneca High School next Monday, according to Sunerintendent J.

N. Kellett. The 20-year-old ex-Marine succeeds Harry Bolick former Presbyterian star, who has accepted the job as coach ot Ford High School in Laurens. Bolick is a former Gaffney High School assistant coach. Ross has been a professional wrestler since his graduation from Clcmton lust spring.

ed with afliroximately 500 more incubating at the present time, T. E. Stroup, county game warden, disclosed yesterday. The young birds were distributed within 24 hours after hatching to various Cherokeeans who have agreed to raise and not release them until the end of the next hunting season. Mr.

Stroup reported that incubation and, hatching have been about 90 per cent perfect. Persons who received a number of new-born quail about two weeks ago have reported exceptionally good luck in raising them, the game warden said. Anyone interested in obtaining young quail and who have the facilities and proer equipment necessary for their care shou'd make application to Mr. Stroup, Mr. White or T.

B. Lee, county farm agent. Mr. Stroup further stated that persons raising birds should have in their possession a ''Quail Proposition Manual" which can be obtained through the county agent's office at 20c per copy. He warned that great care fhould be exercised in feeding young birds and only a special formulated game bird feed should be used.

"Cherokee county should have njore game birds in the next few years than in any other section of the state," Mr. Stroup stated. Nurse At County Health Office To Continue On Job Granted an increase of $500 per year in salary, Mrs. C. C.

Moorhcad, of Blacksburg, has withdrawn her resienation as I chief nurse of the Cherokee Coun ty Health Department and will continue to serve in that position. Announcement to his effct was made yesterday by Floyd L. Baker, chairman of the Cherokee County Board of Health. Mrs. Moorhead, who has been with the department 18 years, had tendered her resignation about three weeks ago to become effective September 1.

Mr. Baker said two members of the county legislative delegation agreed for the county to pay one-half of the increase in Mrs. Moor-head's salary. The other half will be paid by the state health department. Mrs.

Moorhead was urged to reconsider her resignation by Dr. H. G. Callison, the state department's director of local health service, and Mrs. Hattie H.

Rick-ett, state consultant of nurses, as well as by local health officials. Mr. Baker said members of the county board of health were much "gratified by Mrs. Moorhead's decision to continue with her work. "She is very capable and efficient, and with the scarcity of nurses now existing we would have a difficult time in securing a satisfactory replacement for Mrs.

he stated. The Chcrokep Countv Health Department needs an additional nurse at the present time, mr Baker said, but so far the state board of health has been unable to find one for assignment to the local office. North Carolina Man Suicides In Lancaster Jail Lancaster, Aug. 19 A man identified as Worth Wilson, 39, of Hickory, N. hanged himself in the Lancaster county jail at 0:30 tonitrht.

Wilson, employed as a steward in a Hickory hotel, was arrested for driving under the influencs of alcohol at 'about 3:30 this afternoon on highway 521, four miles south of Lancaster. Jim Hunter jailor, said that be had offered Wilson food and water about 40 minutes before the incident occurred and found him all right then. When he went to lock up at Hunter found Wilson lying on the floor by his bunk, strangled with a necktie. He had tied the necktie to the bunk chain, and had then rolled off the bunk, according to Hunter. N.

C. Polio Toll Raleih, N. Aug. 19. TIvj state's total of eases for the year in the current polio epidemic reached 1,555 today with reports of 35 additional cases to tho state board of health.

A MODEL, Pat Hall, 21, was chosen for "the most beautiful legs in the world" in a tournament held in Santa Monica, Cal. She won over 75 other contestants. Pat was awarded a film contract, a trophy and a complete wardrobe. (International) 2 New Cases Of Paralysis Are Reported Two new cases of infantile paralysis the county's ninth and tenth were reported yesterday by the Cherokee County Health Department. These were the first cases since July 28.

The victims, one a seven-year-old boy of Vernon street, Gaffney, and the other a 15-month-old Blacks-burg girl, are both patients at the Spartanburg General Hospital, health officials said. The boy was admitted Thursday and the girl Friday morning. The new cases increased- to two each, the number of polio victims reported this year in Gaffney and Blacks'burg. Health department records slnw that five of the county's ten cases occurred in Cherokee township and a like number on the Gaffney side of Broad River. Mayor W.

O. Johnson said Wednesday morning that Gaffney officials did not contemplate reinstating a ban of youngsters under 17 from public gatherings. The ban was lifted Monday after having been in effect about two weeks. Cases in Cherokee county were reported from the following sections: Kings Creek, Antioch, Cherokee Falls, Blacksburg, Gaffney, Goucher, and Draytonville 1. i Suspect Held In Theft of Autos At Spartanburg Spartanburg, Ausr.

A man listed as Charles Edward Whitner, 42, of Hickory, N. is being held in jail here on a charge of violation of the national motor vehicle theft act. C. W. Brown, agent in charge of the Carolinas division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said an investigation disclosed that Whitner was involved in six automobile thefts in the Carolinas and Georgia.

Three cars stolen in Lexington, N. Columbus, and Spartanburg have been recovered, Brown said. Others stolen in Lynchburg, Atlanta, and Anderson are being sought. Bond for Whitner was set at $2,500 at a hearing here before U. S.

Commi.ssioner Bobo Burnett. Textiles Lag New Yorn, Aug. 19. Interest in cotton textiles lagged, with prices on some print cloth constructions easing today. Buyers, however, continued to defer commitments on goods, with the large cotton crop prospects the principal influence.

The wool goods market was quiet pending the opening of additional spring lines. Ten Spots New Orleans, Aug. ID. The average price of middling 15-1 Cths inch cotton today at ten designated Southern spot markets was unchanged at 31,13 cents a pound; average for the past 30 market days 32.95; middling 7-8ths inch average 28.19. Flans of a Marion, N.

couple, who came here to get married, were upset Thursday morning when Sheriff Roland T. Clary's officers arrested the man on a charge of non-suprirt of his wife. Frank Alvin Pritehard, 24, accompanied by a shapely 19-year-old woman, arrived in Gaffney Wednesday night and sought out Probate Judge Roy C. Cobb for a marriage application. Signing the necessary papers about 8 o'clock that night, the pair planned to return to Judge Cobb's home Thursday-night-after waiting the required 24 hours before they eou'd legally take their vows.

Sheriff Clary, meanwhile, had J. W. Patterson Taken by Death; Rites Set Today J. Walter Patterson, 74, retired farmer, of the Draytonville com-' munity, died about 1 :30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the home of his son, Nesbitt Patterson, on route fi. He had been in declining henHh more than six years.

i Mr. Patterson was a son of the1 late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Patterson, He had lived in the Draytonville community practically all of his life and was a member of tho 1 Draytonville Baptist church. Funeral services will be con- ducted at 4 o'clock Saturday af- ternoon at the Draytonville church by the Rev.

B. L. Hoke, the pas- tor, and the Rev. E. Gray Jones, I pastor of the Grassy Pond Baptist church.

Interment will be in the Draytonville cemetery with the Shuford-Hatcher Company, mor-i ticians, in charge. The pall hearers will be J. C.i Barnhill, Boyd and Charles Parris, Ed Schumpert, Roland Parker and Finley Whelchel. An honorary escort will include Ed and Bill Parris, Charles, E. and Tommy Spencer, C.

and Tom Phillips, Dave Blanton, A. C. Parker, Killian Barnhill, John Childers and Mason Coyle. The body will be taken to the church at 3 p. in.

Mr. Patterson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Delta Kitchens Patterson; a daughter, Mrs. Grady Randolph, of Gaffney; seven sons, Nesbitt, Johnnie, Otis, Grady, Mason, Hugh and Charles Patterson, of Gaffney; a sister, Mrs. Annie Sistaire; and 21 grandchildren.

Blacksburg, Alma Play Final Tilts For County Flag The Cherokee County League pennant race is scheduled to end Saturday with Broad River and in a dead heat for first place honors. Both clubs have 20 wins and 9 defeats. In their final regular contests, Broad River is slated to meet As-bury while Alma takes on Draytonville. Should both clubs finish the regular season in a tic, a playoff for the flag will be held Monday nieht at the Gaffney High School field, Paul Wilkcrson, secretary of the loop, said. Regular post-season r'ayoffs for the county championship arc slated to begin Tuesday night with the four top clubs Broad River, Alma, Cherokee Falls and Draytonville in the running.

I received a call from Marion authorities that Pritehard was in Gaffney contemplating marriage while facing a charge filed there by a woman who claimed to be his wife. Acting on information supplied by the North Carolina jiolice, local officers took the man and his pretty companion into custody and awaited the arrival of a Marion police officer. Pritehard, who claimed he' had divorced his wife in Florida a short while ago, did not oppose returning home with the North Carolina officer when he arrived. Pritehard's would-be bride went with them. Book Club Ends Today; Party To Be Held Thursday A reading club for children, operated through the summer at the Cherokee County Library, will close Saturday.

Miss Nell Garrard, librarian, has announced a party for the members will be held at the library next Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Refreshments will be served, fames will be played, and the children will be given the clocks which they used during the summer to keep records of books lead. One hundred and eighty-four children enrolled i the club, Miss Garrard reported. Members who read as many as 12 books during the summer will be presented with certificates and those who had five or more additional books to their credit will have gold stars added. Miss Garrard said the certificates will be given the children at chapel exercises in the various schools after the next session opens.

Greenville Man Enters Race On Rights' Ticket Greenvile, Aug. 19 William B. Martin, of Greenville." a former Tarker school district teacher, has announced he would run for sheriff of Greenville county in the general election November 2 on the States' Rights ticket. Martin, a native of Greenville paid that plans for his race and his proposals for operating the office, if elected, will be made pub-He later. Martin was born in Greenville in 1907.

was graduated from Clem-son college in 1932 and taught in the Parker schools until 1942. He entered the army then. Previously he secured his Master's degree in physical education and recreation from George Peabody college in 1940. He said that in addition to teaching he had five years experience in police work and military intelligence while in the army. He was discharged in January, 1940, as a second lieutenant.

Publish Prper Columbia, Aug. 19. The first printed edition of The South Carolina Fed, official publication of the South Carolina Federation of Post Office Clerks, lias been printed for the month of August. E. S.

Owens of Columbia is editor of the small newspaper. The publication was formerly mimeographed..