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TEN-A THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, ORANGEBURG. S. C. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1963 General Sessions Jurors Announced 'Oklahoma' On For Two Nights "Oklahoma" will be in burg Thursday and Friday night. This particular Oklahoma is the Orangeburg High School's Mixed Chorus presentation of the famed: operetta originally presented, on the New York stage 3.

1943. Under the capable direction of Frederic Ulmer the mixed chorus annually presents a finished production of a well-known operetta. This years' production will be Mrs. Garrick Rites Scheduled Today COPE, S.C. Mrs.

Rhoda Hutto Garrick, 67. widow of Floyd W. Garrick of the Two Mile Swamp section of Orangeburg County, died at 9:10 p.m. Tuesday in a Columbin Hospital. She had been in declining health for several months.

Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Two Mile Swamp Baptist Church, with the Rev. W. H. Ollerich and the Rev.

Elbert Hutto officiating. Burial, directed by the Thompson Funeral Home, will be in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Colie Whetstone, Grady Hutto, Legare Garrick, Jimmy Hutto, Tracy Garrick, and Hubert Garrick. Honorary pallbearers will be dea. cons of Two Mile Swamp Baptist Church and the Men's Sunday School Classes.

The body will remain at the Thompson Funeral Home until time for the service. The family will be at the residence of her son, John P. Garrick, on the Rowesville Road. Mrs. Garrick was born April 26, 1896, a daughter of the late John and Lee Hutto of Branchville.

She was a member of the Two Mile Swamp Baptist Church. Her survivors include one daughter, Miss Sue Garrick of Cope; one son, John G. Garrick of Orangeburg; one sister, Mrs. Eva Whetstone of Cope; two brothers, Ben Hutto of Smoaks, and Harry Hutto of Cordova, two grandchildren and one great grandchild. FRED M.

HEWITT State Farm Insurance Auto Life Fire 702 Russell St. DANCE Friday Night Elloree Jaycee Building 9:00 til 12:00 DO YOU Want To Buy A House With A Reasonable Down Payment? Sensible Monthly Payments, We Have It. -CallHOME REALTY CAROLINA BUILDING JE 4-7850, Night Sunday JE 4-5237 given at S. p.m. at the Carolina Theatre.

Here the audience will thrill to well polished renditions of such popular tunes as "Oh, What A Beautiful Morning," "'The Surrey with Fringe on Top," Cain't Say and "People Will Say We're in Love." not to mention the famous title song itself. The annual production is very professional with a large cast of well rehearsed and talented youngsters appearing in authentic costumes and settings. The excellent choreography lends to the production's professional air. The story is that of the courtship of pretty Laury by the manly, but bashful, rancher, Curly, and the attempts of the villain, Judd, to break up the romance. Adding zest to the story are Aunt Eller, Ado Annie (the girl who "caint" say no) cowboys, pretty girls, traveling salesman and city slickers.

North Jaycees Will Sponsor Contestants NORTH, S. C. A "Miss North" beauty pageant, under the sponsorship of the North Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be held i in the North High School auditorium Fri. day at 8 p.m., according to Clarence A. Dunn, Jaycee secretary.

There are four entries for the "Miss North" title. They are Miss Linda Fogle, Miss Edith Tindall, Miss Linda Whetstone, and Miss Peggy Williams. Winner of the contest, which will be judged on the basis of evening gowns, swim suits and talent competitions, will receive an official "Miss America" trophy, and there will also be other prizes. "Miss North" will represent this town in such events as the Greer Peach Festival, the Miss South Carolina pageant in Greenville in July and the Water Festival in Beaufort. Last year's "Miss North" was Miss Susan Fogle of Wolfton.

May Court Set In School Gym ST. MATTHEWS, S. C. A successful Junior-Senior Prom held last Friday night will be followed by the second event in the graduation exercise series at the St. Matthews Public Schools when a May Court will be held in the school gymnasium Friday at 8 p.m.

Ronnie Barnes will be crowned King of May and Anne Matthews will be crowned his queen. Preceding the May Court, the seniors will serve turkey supper from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the school lunchroom. Other events in the commencement series include the annual piano recital at 8 p.m. May 17, the senior class program, "Attic Memories," at 8:15 p.m.

May 24, the commencement sermon at 8:15 p. m. May 26 and the presentation of diplomas at 8:15 p.m. May 28. The students will return to school May 29 to check over examination papers and receive reports cards.

The 1963-64 school session will begin at 8:15 a.m. August 29, cording to H. F. Garris, superintendent. MUST BE SOLD AT ONCE! BRICK HOME AT 920 BERRY, N.

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Convenient Location: ONE BLOCK TO HIGH SCHOOL, SHOPPING CENTER, BANKING. Call Today. HARLEY CUTTINO JE 4-1655 Coast to Coast NEWSPAPERS SELL THE MOST! ORANGEBURG LOG Circuit Judge Louis Rosen Will Preside The names of a panel of 40 jurors, with four hold-overs, who will serve during the first week of Orangeburg County court of general sessions. beginning Monday were announced Wednesday by the office of Clerk of Court James K. Westbury.

The clerk pointed out, however, that the jurors will not report for duty until Tuesday at 10 a.m. since the first day of the term will be devoted to organizing the court and the presentment of indictments to the grand jury. For Circuit Judge Louis Rosen, it will be the second time since his appointment that he will have sat on the bench at a regular term of court in his home town. Solicitor Julian S. Wolfe will represent the state.

The four holdover jurors are Julian A. Ott. John G. Rousseau and John A. Ruple, all of Orangeburg, and Williams F.

Stokes of Rowesville. Of the jurors drawn, 26 have Orangeburg addresses. They are Lawrence R. Wells Allen Craig, Gleston Thomas, Charles H. Hutchins, Sam T.

Mitchum, Cecil W. Smoak, John L. Fairey, Wallace T. Austelle Watt McCain Charles E. Huchet, John A.

1 A. Copes, Livingston, William E. Paul A. Cuttino Atwell, John Marion S. Smith, William E.

Harper, Wallace L. Styles, George C. Mackey, Virgil C. Hutchins, John Henry Gaffney, Marion R. Waltz, Peter L.

Lea, Aubrey C. Shuler Ruben A. Brunson, Thomas B. Salley and Warren L. Clark.

Others are J. Luther Ballentine, Nathaniel Irick and B. C. Dantzler, all of Elloree; C. G.

Cannon and J. H. Gleaton both of North: Miller Williamson of Norway; James E. Thompson of Branchville, Thomas J. Hart and R.

C. Cignilliot, both of Holly Hill; h. e. Smoak of Cope; Mike G. Shuler and C.

H. Steppe both of Santee; O'Neal Barr of Springfield and Bill Martin of Woodford. S. C. Lake Levels COLUMBIA (AP) -Lake levels reported Wednesday by the Columbia Weather Bureau for freshwater fishermen: Clark Hill 331.8 feet, about 2 feet over full stage.

Lake Marion 74.8 feet, 2 feet below full stage. Lake Moultrie 74.9 feet, about 2 feet below full stage. Lake Murray 356.9 feet, about 3 feet below full stage. Lake Greenwood 438 feet, feet below full stage. Hartwell Reservoir 662.1 feet, about 2 feet over full stage.

Lake winds will be northeasterly, 7 to 13 knots. STOP POLICE DOGS AMSTERDAM (AP) Two Dutch action committees against South Africa's segregation policy report they have asked the government to prevent delivery of Dutch police dogs to South Africa. A South African policeman arrived here last week to pick up trained and breeding dogs presumably to use in newly toughened security measures. Convicted Rapist Not To Appeal On Death Sentence Attorneys for Louis Moorer, chester County Negro convicted of the rape of a white woman on April, 1962, have served notice to the state Supreme Court that they do not intend to file an appeal, Solicitor Julian S. Wolfe of the First Judical Circuit said Wednesday that he had been advised.

the case October, 1962, and The state Supreme Court that time sustained the verdict of the lower court. ed a stay order from Chief Moorer's attorneys later tice Claude R. Taylor of the Supreme Court in February of this year which was in effect for 90 days but which has now been cancelled. Solicitor Wolfe said that an order is now being prepared to be sent to other Supreme Court justices dismissing the petition and stay order. Within a period It's May Day In Norway On Saturday NORWAY, S.

C. May Day exercises will be held at Norway Saturday beginning with baseball game at 2 p.m. and a carnival featuring hot-dog stand, fishing games and other forms of entertaimnent. Miss Beverly Adams will be crowned the May Queen at ceremonies beginning at 5 p.m. Joyce Sheppard will serve as her maid of honor.

During the coronation, little Miss Mary Beth Williamson will be the princess with Diane Thomas as her maid of honor. Entertainment for the court will be furnished by the fifth and sixth grade choral group along with out-of-town talent. At 6 p.m., a barbecue and fried chicken supper will be held in the school lunchroom. meet The the "Community "High School Hic-Billys" Hot will in a basketball game at 8 p.m. All of the events will be under sponsorship of the Norway Matrons Club.

Soybean Production NORWAY, S. C. A program on Soybean Production will be presented at a meeting of the Norway chapter of Young Farmers of America in the Norway High school auditorium Thursday night, it was announced Wednesday. The speaker will be a representative of the Edisto Experiment Station at Blackville. A Dutch supper will be served.

Both members of the chapter and no are invited to attend, a spokesman said. TRAFFIC KILLS 65,000 ROME (AP) About 65,000 people are killed in traffic accidents in Western Europe every year and about 1.5 million are injured. This was reported to the first congress of the International Association of Doctors specializ-13, ling in traffic medicine. Jury Says Hughes' Death Was Unavoidable Accident A Coroner's Jury found the death of 18 year old Johnny Gary Hughes, a former employe of the Orangeburg Department Public Utilities, an "unavoidable accident." in which no criminal charges are involved. Hughes was killed Tuesday, April 23, when the jeep in which he was a passenger lost a wheel AS it attempted to make a left tart 14 Arthur St.

from Whaley St. and overturned. Hughes ap parently was killed instantly when he was thrown from the jeep and struck his head. The accident happened at 2:30 p.m. when the axle of the jeep broke.

The car was being driven by Jimmy Wayne Wolfe. Passengers in the car, Henry Metts Jr. and Clinton Kemmerlin, testified the jeep was being driven at A reasonable rate of speed. The four young men were meter readers for the Public Utilities Department and were riding in the city jeep on their way to their individual routes. Coroner Joe A.

Dickey conducted the inquest with Solicitor Julian S. Wolfe appearing for the state and examining the witnesses including City Pa- Orangeburg Cadet Elected To Office CHARLESTON. S. C. Citadel Cadet Frank J.

Griffith Jr. recently was elected to the office of vice president in the Methodist Student Movement at the military college. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J.

Griffth. 102 min le Or- so year, Griffith is majoring in civil engineering and dis enrolled in the Air Force ROTC program HOSPITAL CENSUS North, a daughter, Shelia Anne. of approximately 30 days, the clerk of the Supreme Court will designate a date for carrying out the sentence death in the electrie chair. South Carolina Area And Trade Wins Four Honors DENMARK, S. C.

Nine South Carolina Area Trade School students participated in the Southeastern States Regional American Youth Industrial Education Association's Trade Tournament at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. April 18-19. South Carolina Area Trade School competed against other trade schools from six other states, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Mississippi. There were six trades offered in competition and South Carolina Area Trade School won top honors in four of them. Of the six, the SCATS placed first in four trades namely: Brick Masonry, Cooking and Baking, Cosmetology, and Radio and Television Repairing.

The SCATS placed second and third in Carpentry and Auto Mechanics respectively. Honors were won in the following trades by the SCATS students: auto mechanics, Walter Nelson and ClaBarnwell won third place honors; brick masonry, Sammie Robinson won first place honors; carpentry, Robert Travick and Ralph E. Green won second place honors; cooking and baking, Robert Davis won first place honors; and cosmetology, LaNette Redmond won first place honors. Stella Mills served as the cosmetology model. radio and television repairing, Elmore Ridges woh first place honors.

This was the second year the South Carolina Area Trade School participated in the tournament. Interment Today For Mrs. Phillips SPRINGFIELD, S. C. Mrs.

Ruby Stevenson Phillips, 57, wife of Thomas J. Phillips of Springfield died at 10:45 p.m. Tuesday in an Orangeburg nursing home. She had been in declining health for some time. Funeral services will be held at the graveside in Rocky Swamp Methodist Church Cemetery at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, with the Rev. L. G. Payne, the Rev. Lynn Corbett, and the Rev.

W. M. King officiating, directed by Thompson Funeral Home of Orangeburg. The body will be taken to the residence in Springfield Wednesday afternoon and will remain there until the service time. Active pallbearers will be Roy Hollman, Robert Stevenson, Maxie Stevenson, John Douglas.

Hamp Stevenson, and Lindsey Hollman. Honorary pallbearers will be Kay Garvin, Ed Burgdorf, Olin Burgdorf, J. M. West, Ira Gleaton, Leon Hollman, Doyle Corbett, Ed Morgan, W. E.

Bennett, Charlie Salley, and Colie Hollman. Mrs. Phillips was born January 1906, a daughter of the late John Hattie Garrick Stevenson of Norway. She was a member of the Springfield Baptist Church. Her surviviors include her band, Thomas J.

Phillips; one daughter, Miss Jane Phillips one daughter Miss Jane Phillips of Springfield; three sisters, Mrs. Odell Douglas of Orangeburg, Mrs. Addie Lou Stevenson of Springfield and Mrs. Mike Smith of Norway; three brothers, Spurgeon and Jake Stevenson, both of Columbia, and Heyward Stevenson of Denmark; one half-brother, Emmett Hutto Stevenson of Columbia, and a number of nieces and nephews. Do you know that we are interested in good loansWhy not check with us? This is also a good place to SAVE your money.

We have been doing business in Orangeburg 64 years and have never missed a dividend. Current Dividend RateThree Year Certificates Regular Savings 4 Home Building Loan Assn. S. CLYDE FAIR, -Treas. 142 Church, N.E.

Phone JE 4-4311 Number of patients in the Orangeburg Regional Hospital as of midnight Monday: General, 196; New Born, 6. Number of patients admitted to the hospital Tuesday: General, 29; New Born, 3. TOTAL: General, 225; New Born, 9. Number of patients discharged from the hospital Tuesday: General. 25; New Born, 2.

Number of patients in the hospital as of midnight Tuesday: General, 200; New Born, 7. BORN IN HOSPITAL To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gant of Orangeburg, a son. To Mr.

and Mrs. Bobby Joe McElroy of Orangeburg, a son. To Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Davis of Neeses, a son.

BIRTH CERTIFICATES Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Halter of Branchville, a son, Carleton Keith, born April 27. Mr. and Mrs.

Gerald Martin of Red Cross Students Receive Certificates In Home Care Graduation exercises for a of volunteers successfully completing the course in Red Cross Home Care of the sick and injured were held recently at the South Carolina Community Center located on Magnolia Avenue Extension. The class was composed of 18 students, four of whom were men. The course is a 14-hour course that offers students an opportunity to learn what to do when illness occurs and how to adapt knowledge and skills learned to home nursing in emergency situations. It was taught by Mrs. Rosa Lee Rush, volunteer qualified Red Cross instructor for the colored people of Orangeburg County.

During the graduation exercises, Mrs. Martha L. Barksdale, executive director of the Orangeburg County chapter, presented home nursing certificates pins to the following: Mrs. Zettie Spignes, Mrs. Eddie Bell Jacobs, Mrs.

Delrean Funchess, Mrs. Creala Gaskin, Mrs. Ogaretta Walker, Mrs. Ella Mae Curry, Mrs. Rosa L.

Hubbard, Mrs. Dorothy Maple, Mrs. Katherine Ellase Mack, Samuel Williams, Mrs. Eva Mae Frede- SUPERINTENDENT--The Rev. Aaron Tyner, above, has been appointed superintendent of missions by the executive committee of the Screven Bapist Association, effective Wednesday, it has been announced.

The association is composed of 32 churches in Orange burg, Dorchester, Charleston and Berkeley Counties. Mr. Tyner, a native of Hartsville, will make his home in Holly Hill. He has previously served churches in California and' North Carolina, and comes to South Carolina from a pastorate in Harrisburg, N. C.

NEW CO-OP DIRECTOR- -Walter A. Clark, above, has been appointed a director of the Tri- County Electric Co-Op to fill the unexpired term of the late C. M. Hart of Holly Hill. He is an active member of the Young Farmers Club, is an ASCS committeeman for Orangeburg County, is a Shriner and is worshipful master of his Masonic Lodge.

He and Mrs. Clark, with their two sons, Walter Jr. and Richard, live near Vance on S. C. Highway 6.

VISIT CAMBODIA TOKYO (AP) President Ho Chi Minh of Red North Viet Nam has accepted an invitation to visit Cambodia this year, the New China news agency reports. L. C. Carson to Jack M. Lippo and Roberta M.

Lippo, a lot on Honeysuckle Drive about two miles east of the City of Orangeburg in Orange Township, School District No. 5 (outside), $14,600. The Acme Corporation to Thomas Riley and Gussie Mae Riley, property on Myers Road in Whittaker Heights Addition, near the City of Orangeburg, $11,500. Hudson Martin Jr. to Cohen F.

Banks and Sara H. Banks, property on Stuart Avenue in Pecanway Terrace in the City of Orangeburg, $1,650 and assumption of a mortgage with an outstanding balance of $6.984.84. J. LeRoy Myers and Betty A. Myers to Williams Furniture Corporation, a lot on the southwest side of U.

S. Highway No. 176 about one mile from Holly Hill, $164. Wilbie K. Brown to Giles C.

Brown, a one-half interest in fee simple to a lot on an unnamed street leading from U.S. Highway No. 601 to Goff Avenue School District No. 5. and a lot about one mile north of the corporate limits of the City of Orangeburg on an unnamed street leading from Goff Avenue to U.

S. Highway No. 301 in Orange Township, School District No. 5, $5, love and affection. C.

C. Berry to Katharyn L. Scoville, lot on Middleton also lot on Onange Court, also lot on Glover also lot on Doyle City and County of Orangeburg, $10. REAL ESTATE Hazel Williams, Mrs. Ruth Stroman, Gary Paul, Miss Pansy Mack, Robert Hunter, Miss Albertha Ulmer and Miss Virginia UImer.

A special feature of the graduation exercise was a Red Cross Certificate of Honor presented to Mrs. Rosa Lee Rush for her outstanding Red Cross volunteer work as instructor in home nursing among the colored people of the county. Chapter Chairman J. Nates Blanton, presenting the certificate to Mrs. Rush, praised her for her enthusiastic volunteer work in home nursing instruction.

Mrs. Rush, has been a Red Cross home nursing instructor for more than 20 years, concentrating her activities in Orangeburg for the past five years. Mr. Blanton said Mrs. Rush has taught sevenal hundred students in the home nursing program.

He cited an unusual instance where Mrs. Rush taught two blind people in the home nursing course and they were presented Red Cross certificates. LOOKING FOR A HOME? We Have Several For You To Choose From -CallL. C. CARSON COMPANY 301 North JE 4-7985 Escape test set for Apollo capsule model.

FOR SALE Near U. S. Fish Hatchery 3 Bedroom Home with duct heat, living room, dining room. House in excellent condition, garage, large double lot near new school. Only $10,000 Call Us To-day! Orangeburg Realty Co.

JE4-4211 FOR SALE BY OWNER Located just outside City in Glen Gloria. 3 Bedroom Brick House. Carpeted L. R. and D.

R. combination. Family room, built-in kitchen, two baths, duct heat, city gas. Lot has 7 large nut bearing trees. F.

H. A. financing. Excellent neighborhood. Call 534-4518 trolman E.

A. Brant, J. 1. H. Zeigler and Dr.

A. B. Wolfe who described death. the injuries and cause Patrolman Brandt testified the top of the jeep apparently hit Hughes as it rolled over. Hughes was the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Gary Hughes of the Canaan section of Orangeburg County. FOR SALE IN CLUB ACRES 3 Bedroom "Crab Orchard House" with 2 full baths, duct heat, air-conditioned, modern built in kitchen with large built in eating area, big screened porch, L. R. with fireplace, double carport enclosed with cement floor (would make an Exc.

family room) and utility room. W. to W. carpeting in L. R.

hall and bedrooms, T. V. antenna, dishwasher, gas logs and many other extras. A quality house in every detail. Wonderful neighborhood.

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