Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 2

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1967 A Arwe NEW POSTMASTER O'Harra Man of Varied Experience By GREGORY MARTIN the Morning News Staff Writer Florence's new postmaster, Robert L. O'Harra, brings a varied field of experience ranging from military to ath- Mrs. letic to political into the post office. The 44-year-old Florence businessman is a veteran of two wars and three years on the University of South Carolina football team. He is presently a member of the Florence County Council but says he will give up that responsibility when he takes over as postmaster in mid-June.

O'Harra was appointed postmaster Thursday by 6th District Congressman John R. McMillan from among the top other two contenders were Hart Spears and B. B. Gilbert. He succeeds acting postmaster W.

P. (Billy) Barefoot who has accepted another position with the postal service in Atlanta, Ga. O'Harra is a white-haired man with an athletic build and the self confidence of someone with a great deal of experience in dealing with other people. "I am privileged to be appointed to this position and I will try to do an outstanding job as postmaster." he said. "I am looking forward to into this new type of going work and I think it will be an interesting and challenging: assignment.

"I am not very familiar with the position as yet and I don't have any immediate plans for handling it. However, I think I can work with football scholarship and was the starting quarterback for the Gamecocks in 1942. He took time out to serve in the Air Force in the latter part of World War II and spent 15 months in the Far Eastern Theater as a B-29 pilot. 'O'Harra returned to Carolina and played two more years of football while picking up a degree in education. He is now a major in a civil affairs unit of the Army Re- My Tr serve.

He has been in the insurance business since leaving Carolina and has been very active in civic affairs. Besides being a member of Council, he be- W. the County longs to the First Baptist Church, the Veterans of Foreign O'Harra Wars is and on the the Masons. board of MHS directors of the Florence dent of the Greater Florence Country Club, a past presi- Civitan CIVITAN CLUB (Staff Photo Smith) D. RENTZ CITES SYBIL RIMER" She's Top Civitan Essay Winner MHS Senior Captures Civitan Essay Award A senior at Florence's McClenaghan High School has been named first place winner in the citizenship essay contest sponsored by the Florecne Civitan Club, it was onnounced Thursday by William D.

Rentz. Civitan essay committee chairman. She is Sybil Rimer, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.

J. Rimer of 1301 Pinckney Ave. Miss Rimer took top honors for an essay on the official 1967 Civitan topic: "Building Good Citizenship For Democratic Living Today and Tomorrow." She received a $50 savings bond from the club. Second and third place honors also went to Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Board of Directors for three years. He was chairman of the Florence County welfare board for four years, a past president of the Florence Lions Club and a member of its board of directors for three years.

He is a director of the United Fund, a member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board and a chairman of the Fund Drive for the University of South Carolina at Florence. McMillan cited O'Harra's record with service clubs in making the appointment. His active interest community is one of outstanding features of the new postmaster, McMillan said. (Staff Photo by Sonny Smith) NEW FLORENCE POSTMASTER BOBBY O'HARRA Already Urging Use of ZIP Code DE DEATHS AND FUNERALS ALS Church Saturday at 11 a.m. Bur- ro and Dillon Counties' schools.

Carroll Jones Mrs. Julia M. Gainey James T. Eason Mrs. C.

Barrington ial will be in McLucas Ceme- Surviving are the widower, Southside Slates May Day Festival Senior Sue Stalvey will reign over the 1967 "May Day" festivities at Florence's Southside High School which will be held Friday. The May Day program will be presented at 1 p.m. for SHS junior high school students and at 2 p.m. for senior high school students. Both programs will take place in the school auditorium.

Donna Huggins will be maid of Honor. CLIO Mrs. Cheves Easterling Barrington, 63, died at Marlboro General Hospital Thursday morning. Funeral services will be conducted in Trinity Methodist Entertainment will be provided by "The Blue Notes," a girls' ensemble; the Falcon Band, Gayle Greer and Ernie Davis. Attendants of the May Day court will dance the traditional "Mav Pole" dance in honor of the queen and maid of honor.

A "Southern Plantation" theme is being used for the stage setting. tery. Rev. Risher Brabham will officiate. A daughter of the late Lawrence H.

and Mary Dixon Easterling, she was born in BenI nettsville and attended Marlbo- Student Body President Jimmy Ridenhour will crown Miss Stalvey. Southside's "Junior Senior Prom" will follow the May Day festivities Friday night in the school gymnasium. O'Harra (Continued from Page 1A) McMillan is making the announcement of O'Harra's nomination which needs only routine confirmation, said the selection was made after "careful consideration." He said it was "the toughest decision I have been called to make since I have been serving." McMillan called O'Harra's record of service with various civic clubs outstanding and said he feels the new postmaster "will render excellent and courteous postal WIDE VISION SCREEN PALMETTO PHONE TONIGHT BOTH IN COLOR metro- goldwyn-mayer presents "penelope" in Panavision the world's most. and Metrocolor beautiful bank-robber! natalie wood as ian bannen dick shawn peter talk lila kedrowa lou jacobi jonathan winters In and Metrocolor PLUS NO. 2 A Man With A Brand Burned In His Chest This Is The Night The Tiger Comes Back COLUMBIA PICTURES PRESENTS CHUCK CONNORS RIDE BEYOND VENGEANCE STARTS A Goodson COLOR Fenady Production AT 7:25 T-O-D-A-Y AT FLORENCE 2ND DON'T WEEK BIG Capri MISS IT! the men at the post office and contribute to the service it performs." O'Harra is married to the former Cathrine ne Stone, a daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. H. G. Stone. They have Funeral services for Mrs.

Julia Munn Gainey, 61, of Rt. 3, Darlington, will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Stoudenmire Chapel by Rev. Laverne Gandy and Rev. J.

R. Aiken. Burial will be in the Bethel Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery near Mars Bluff. Pallbearers will be George Gainey Willard Gainey, Elliott Munn, Herbert Munn, Jesse Munn and Rudolph Munn. Honorary bearers will be members of the Florence Police Department.

Mrs. Gainey died Tuesday night in a Florence hospital after a short illness. William H. Medlin CONWAY William Henry Medlin, 83, of Conway, died Thursday in a Loris Nursing Home after a long illness. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m.

Friday in Goldfinch Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park in Bennettsville at 3:30 p.m. Mr. Medlin was born in Marlboro County and spent most of his life in Bennettsville. For 44 years, until retirement in 1954, he was an agent for the ACL Railroad Co.

He was a member of Trinity Methodist Church in Conway, a member of the Masonic Order and Woodmen of the World. Surviving are a son, Dr. L. M. Medlin of Conway; a daughter, Mrs.

Fred (Mattie) Ritter of Ahoskie, N. seven grandchildren. a 16-year-old son and two younger daughters. The new postmaster is a graduate of Florence's McClenaghan High School and the University of South Carolina. He attended Carolina on a TONAL ZIP CODE DIRECTORY CATATES POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT BENNETTSVILLE James Theodore Eason, 81, died at Dundee Nursing Home Thursday morning.

Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 4:30 p.m. in Whitner Funeral Home. Burial will be in McCall Cemetery. Rev. Lane W.

Erwin will officiate. Mr. Eason was a son of the late J. T. and Betty Virginia Stubbs Eason of Marlboro County.

He was twice married, first to the late Iva Wade, and then to the late Mrs. John Clifton Wells Eason who died last fall. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Bessie McCullough; and five step-children, Clifton Wells and Mrs. Dorothy W.

Crosland, both of Bennettsville, Dr. Carl Wells of Berkeley, Mrs. Marjorie Ford of Maxton, and Mrs. Clara Hollingsworth of Modesta, Calif. Ira L.

Barrineau OLANTA Ira Leonis Barrineau, 35, of Sumter, and formerly of the Barrineau community near Lake City, died Thursday afternoon in Shaw Air Force Hospital. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Floyd Funeral Home. H. Norman Perkins HARTSVILLE Funeral services for Hi. Norman Perkins who died in Talihina, Monday, will be conducted Friday at 4 p.m.

in Emmanuel Baptist Church by Rev. Milton Frazier. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery. Surviving are the widow, five sons, three sisters, and five brothers. WATCH FOR OUR ARTICLE ON APRIL 30TH "WHO ARE THE REAL QUACKS!" DR.

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REBECCA COOPER Funeral services for Mrs. Re- becca Cooper of 610 S. Gaillard Florence, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in Salem Methodist Church by Rev. R.

B. King. Burial, directed by Smith Funeral Home, will be in the church cemetery. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Harrison of New York.

Victor C. Barrington; son, C. Barrington Jr. of Clio; a daughter, Mrs. Cheves Hilton of Dallas, a brother, Edmund Easterling of Hamlet, N.

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Surviving are the parents. Lonnie and Juanita Matthews Jones; and two sisters, Miss Lonnie Faye Jones and Miss Slyvia Ann Jones, all of the Old Marion Highway in Florence. Rev. Oliver Crawford TURBEVILLE Rev. Oliver Hampton Crawford, 75, died Wednesday at home.

Funeral services will be conducted in Floyd Funeral Home at 11 a.m. Friday by Rev. George H. Nichols Jr. Burial will be in Olanta Baptist Cemetery.

Rev. Crawford was a son of late James M. Crawford and Mary Coffe Crawford of Amhurst, Va. He was a theology graduate of Emory University. He served in the Virginia and S.

C. Methodist Conference. After retirement, he moved to Turbeville. Surviving are two sons, Ronald Crawford and Douglas Giles Crawford, both of Sumter; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Gochenov of Lexington, and four grandchildren.

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