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THE GREENVILLE NEWS, GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA THK2B 1 Red Cross Volunteer Workers Get $7,500 In War Relief Campaign THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1942 VEHEZUEU FIRM MOBIL TOWN TALK Girl Scout Council Sets Annual Meet Wednesday NEW SEED BATH UPS LINT YIELD fii DNE-THIRD SIHPH WILL NOT BE YIELDED, CHURCHILL SIHS Says Axis Too Hard Up 10 Waste Paper And Ink On 'Peace Feeler' only and Miss Treva Tilley, local director, will make her annual report. Other routine business will THE PUTMAN FAMILY is all out for the Rotary Boy Choristers. Arnold E. Putman of the music department of Furman university is a member of the men's section and his two sons. Billy and Allen, are in the boys' choir.

Mrs. Putman is a member of the recently organized auxiliary of the choristers. The only member of the family who doesn't take an active interest in the famous boy choir of Greenville is Mary Helen Putman. She celebrated her second birthday two ('ays before Christmas. Election Of Officers, Report Bv Miss Tilley Slated The annual meeting of the Greenville Girl Scout council will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at the city Y.

W. C. Mrs. J. Warren White, commissioner, announced last night.

Officers for the council will be elected at the meeting. The session will be for business Workers Still Long Way From Goal Of $40,000, But Continue Efforts PROGRAM SET TONIGHT 1 Officials of the special $40,000 war relief drive of Greenville county's I Red Cross chapter reported last 20 Boy Scout Troops Will night that they have received the first three days of the Receive Membership Awards two-week campaign. Still a long way from their goal, the 500 volunteer workers continued their efforts to collect the funds throughout the city. Reports filter- ed in general headquarters yester-Q dav. but they were not complete.

to me volunteers win continue 10 tx give reports on tne success 01 tneir ft work today. I MOBILIZE DOLLARS Officials of the drive called on Greenvillians to mobilize their in support of the men and women wno are ngnung me uaiwe for freedom. Thls appeal came as the announcement that some $2,500 was collected during the day to raise the total for the drive to $7,500. A'. "Tnis drive 13 tne flrst tests we fhave had since hostilities began." 1 they said.

"None of us wanted this I war, but now that we have it, the only thing to do is pet busy and do 1 everything we possibly can to win TVile 4c rttir fircf roll in srvirp Wp Hnrp Tint, lac or fall. I Give now. The men who fighting this war to defend the United States could not wait. They answered the first call to service. Give quickly 1 and give more than ever before." Tonight a special radio program of an hour in length will be car-ried over both radio stations of this city.

Bill Bivens, former WFBC an-i nouncer and now master of cere-5 monies on the Vox Pop program i heard weekly over a coast-to-coast be taken up. A nominating committee, composed of Mrs. M. R. Pickler.

Mrs. Frank Kitchen and Mrs. Mordecai Nachman has been working for some time preparing nominations lor tne omcers. Plans for the meeting were com pleted yesterday morning at the monthly meeting of the council in the Girl Scout office. President Ferguson Gives Awards To Green vale Troops Twenty Boy Scout troops of the Greenville Boy Scout district will receive R.

E. Ferguson membership awards at the annual meeting Jan uary 15, it was announced jester day The awards are presented to troops lor having net increases or four boys to the troop since September 1 or to troops which have 32 or more boys. Mr. Ferguson is president of the Blue Ridge Boy Scout council. Following are the trooos.

their scoutmasters and the membership now: Troop 1, joe L. Clement, 22: troop Fred Langford, 42: troop 6, R. Alfred Milam, 20: troop 8, Earl Ma-zo, 17; troop 9. Roy W. Oureton, 31: troop 11, W.

C. Rhoades, 39: troop 12, Yancey Glikerson. 10: troop 18 Charles D. Smith, 26; troop 19. Roy M.

uuiuck, uo; troop 20, J. Grady Traynham, 24: troop 23, C. C. Ack er, is; troop 44. James H.

Ogiesoy, 17: troop 48, Ted J. Green, 41: troop 56. Don K. Curry, 20; troop ioi. J.

M. Mosteiier, 18; troop 112 Metz L. Gresham, 12; troop 118 (negro). Dr. e.

a. e. Huggins, 11: troop 7, M. O. Duncan, patrol iub, K.

m. Stoddard, 4, and troop 120. R. M. Smith.

8. President Ferguson will issue awards to troops throughout the council for the increase at the annual meeting. Farm Coop To Be Discussed Meeting Is Set For City Hall Saturday Morning At 11 O'clock Organization of a Greenville county farmers' cooperativce will be discussed at a mass meeting of farmers, farm leaders and the county delegation the council chamber of City hall at 11 a. m. Saturday.

Several state farm leaders have been invited to attend. Under present plans, the enabling legislation will be introduced in the general assembly this month and an appropriation to organize the cooperative would follow immediately, officials said. SON IS ANNOUNCED GREER, Dec. 31. Mr.

and Mrs. James Campbell of Greer announce the birth of a son, James Larry, on December 7. Mrs. Campbell was before her marriage Miss Doris Bar-nette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

T. Q. Barnette. the county, Hallman one and three were tied. Sugar Beet Production Is Tripled By Treatment, Science Unit Says OTHER CROPS TO BENEFIT DALLAS.

Dec. 31. (JP Chances for anv sugar shortage receded today with report of a new seed bath which triples the production of sugar beete. The bath increases cotton yield by one-third and other important crops by large percentages. The bath is a cheap chemical In which seeds are soaked before planting.

Scientific laboratories have been trying the new method for several years, but this is the first time it has been applied to farm crops. SUGAR BEET OUTPUT JUMPS The report was made to the American association for the advancement of Science by Dr. J. C. Ireland, of Oklahoma A.

Si M. college. The sugar beets in the Oklahoma test plots increased their yield from 5.6 tons per acre to 16.8 tons, merely by soaking the seeds about four hours. The acid was naphthalene acetamide and calcium mono phosphate. Dr.

Ireland said this bath was extensively used on beet farms this year in Indiana and Iowa. He said there was every reason to expect the same increase in yield on all the sugar beet areas as found in Oklahoma, which ordinarily does not grow sugar beets. Three chemicals have been used with great success. Best results in the largest number of crops have come from levulinic acid, which industry uses to make plastics. This acid makes the seed coats more permeable to soil nutrients, which accounts for the increased yield.

Second on the list is the new human gray hair vitamin, p-amino-benzoic acid. Third is naDthalene acetic acid. This latter is the main chemical in the bath that tripled the sugar beet crops. AND USED ON COTTON On cotton levulinic acid was used. In addition to the seed bath, the acid was mixed with soy bean flour and dusted three times on the growing cotton.

This dusting kept tne cotton boils rrom failing on. The same acid increased production of cow peas more than half. Corn rose from 28.75 bushels an acre to 41.5 by the naphthalene acetic acid seed batn. Oats in the same acid increased from 30 to 48 bushels an acre Soybeans went up from 12.3 bushels to 19.3 an acre. One of the grain sorghums, white darso, rose from 2.411 pounds of seed an acre to 3,807.

Levulinic acid Increased alfalfa from 3.700 pounds an acre to 5.160. Mung bean hay for cattle rose from 1,050 pounds an acre to 1,610. Bailey To Explain Civilian Defense Mass Meeting In Simp-sonville Slated Tomorrow Night County Defense Director Broadus Bailey will explain in detail the civilian defense program at a mass meeting of citizens of Simpsonville and surrounding area tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in the school auditorium. The Simpsonville civilian defense organization will register volunteers present, securing data on their qualifications for various duties and their preferences. BRITON IS CONFIDENT OTTAWA.

Dec. 31. a Wins ton Churchill predicted with suprema surety today that the British and their allies will hold Singapore, the. naval base so essential to major operations of allied warships In the Far East. Beneath a green and white striped canopy in the "tent room" of Canada government house, the British prime minister, puffing a six-inch cigar sent to him by President Batista of Cuba, spoke with glowing confidence to a long press conference attended by some 20O British Empire and American newspapermen.

FILIPINO STAND LAUDED He talked with feeling of the courageous stand of the Philippine army and predicted the Japanese, before the fight ended, would get some surprises. Asked, then, if he could say when the allies would bomb the Japanese, he replied more grimly that he could not say when but "they have something coming to them one of these days" Meticulously. Churchill called them "the Japanese," explaining with an impish smile: "I don't like to call them Japs. It's a bit too familiar." A London correspondent asked him: "Do you think we will hold Singapore?" Churchill hesitated not a moment. "I sure do!" he said.

CRACKS AT DUCE Churchill's questioners sounded the prime minister out from many angles. Did he think Italy would be soon knocked out of the war? "Unfortunately, the organ grinder seems to have too firm a hold on the monkey's collar." Have the Allies received any peace feelers recently? "The Axis must be hard pressed for materials of all kinds, and cannot afford to waste the ink and paper." Catholics To Honor Gwynn On Sunday Monsignor A. K. Gwynn will ba honored by the men of St. Mary' Catholic parish at high mass and a communion breakfast Sunday morning at 9 o'clock.

The breakfast will follow at the Ottaray hotel at 10 a. m. Monsignor Gwynn will complete his 42nd year as head of the Greenville church this month. SCHOOL OPENING SET WESTMINSTER. Dec.

31. Oak Grove graded school will resume work on Monday, January 5, after a two weeks vacation. HITS HEAD COLD MISERY FAST PutS-eutpoaeVa-tro-nolupeach nostril. It (1) shrinks swollen membranes, (2) soothes irritation, (3) helps clear cold- mmmmm clogged nose. Follow VICEIS VATRO-KOL i hookup, will direct the program.

UUUIWU ft The A o'clocl i it wt of The clock INTERVIEW PROGRAM Droeram will beein at 10:30 and continue to 11:30 o'clock. ill originate from the corner Main and Washington streets. Elected J. CLAUDE FORT Fort Wins Race For House Seat Complete Unofficial Returns Give Attorney Cherokee Post GAFFNEY, Dec. 31.

With the issue in doubt until the final precinct was reported, J. Claude Fort, city attorney and farmer, was declared winner by an eleven-vote margin in a special general election for the house of representatives, according to complete unofficial returns from the 37 Cherokee county precincts today. The final election box, reported this morning, gave Mr. Fort 344 votes to 333 for H. R.

Swink, attorney and democratic party chairman, and 67 for A. L. Hallman, real estate dealer and former member of the Gaffney aldermanic board. Mr. Fort will succeed J.

Curtis Moore of Blacksburg, who resign ed sometime ago to take a position with the probation and parole board. He will serve during 1942. Mr. Fort is a former member of the house. The total vote in the election yesterday represented ten per cent of the normal ballot for this county.

One precinct did not register a single vote. The heaviest voting was In Gaff ney where Fort captured four of the six wards. Swink took the lead in 14 rural precincts and four oth ers in suburban areas. Fort lead in 14 boxes throughout 4 2 1 1 1 Persons on the street will be inter-' vlpweri In the same manner as those 1 on the famous Vox Pop show. Cars with radios win cruise throughout the city with Bov Scouts 1 readv.

Telephone calls to the radio 3 station may be made and persons in cars will be notified, after which cars will be dispatched to pick up contributions. 'M Mr. Bivens directed a program 'u-hirh raUpH Rpvpral thousand dol lars some years ago during the Red Cross flood relief drive. J. E.

Sirrlne is general chairman of the drive. Headquarters are in the Capers huildine directly across from the AFirst Baptist church. 18 Land Sales Are Recorded In City GIVES MONEY TO LI 10 Per Cent Of Commissions Received To Be Turned Over To Red Cross AGENT OF CITY FIRM That Venezuela and the people of that country are behind the" United States in their fight against Japan and Hitler has been brought closer to Greenville through a letter ceived this week by officials of Southern Shuttles. division of Steel Heddle company from their South American agent. Herbert JZander of Caracas, Venezuela.

In the letter in sympathy for this country and assurance that the United States will win this war. However, that is not all the letter carries. To the Greenville county Red Cross chapter it carries the best news since it opened its special war relief drive. One paragraph reads as ioIIows: "Pay to the American Red Cross or war relief organizations. 10 per cent of the commissions earned on orders taken for vour esteemed firm from now on." (The letter was dated December 8, 1941.) Mrs.

Addie Q. Mayo, executive secretary of the chapter, last night expressed her "heartfelt appreciation" for the act by Mr. Zander and extended thanks "not only from myself, but from everyone of the Red Cross. The letter received by Ray Norman, office manager of Steel Heddle company, is as follows: "Dear Sirs: "You will understand that we and the Venezuela people are deeply grieved about the news of the brutal Japanese aggression on your territory. We are certain that your country will come out of this conflict fully victorious and we take the liberty to send to your country and to your good selves our very best wishes.

"As we are desiring to do our very best to assist the democratic cause wherever and whenever possible and not only by expressing our sympathy, we have decided that we will pay to the American Red Cross or war relief organizations, 10 per cent of the commissions earned on orders taken for your esteemed firm from now on. "When shipping orders taken aft er December 8. 1941, please retain 10 per cent of the commissions due us, accumulating these amounts and paying same to the above mentioned organizations from time to time. "This procedure shall be observ ed as long as the war may last. "At the same time we already beg to send you our best wishes of the season.

It is hoped that the year 1942 will bring the desired victory and peace to the democracies for tne Denent or tne worm. "With best regards, we are "Yours sincerely, "Herbert Zander and company. (Signed) ZANDER." The letter, it is understood, is not only being sent to Steel Heddle company, but to all companies the zander company represents. License Fees Will Be Taken At Hall $140,000 In City Business Licenses Fees To Be Collected Collection of in 1942 city business license fees will get under way this morning at city hall. Fee notices nave been mauea to approximately 2.500 firms and in dividuals required to purchase the licenses under the 1942 city supply bill recently passed by city council.

ine urst penalty win oe aaaea to the firse installment of license fees unpaid by February 1 and will increase to 5 per cent on February 15, and 10 per cent Marcn 10. 1,200 Americans Held In Hong Kong CHUNGKING, 29 (Delayed) (Wide World) About 1.200 United States nationals were trapped in Hong Kong by Japan's conquest of that British corwn colony. But after the Japanese attack on the colony began, more than 500 Chinese slipped out in nsning boats or Junks and landed safely on the coast in Chinese-occupied territory. They made their escape in the dark, as British and Japanese guns exchanged fire, reaching safety through the skill of nerveless Chinese boatmen farmiliar with every inlet and village on the coast. However, scores upon scores of other Chinese who tried to escape by the same means were killed by gunfire or drowned when their craft sank.

Officers Cut 3 Stills In County Sheriff's officers in cooperation with federal alcohol tax unit agents yesterday cut three stills and destroyed 2,550 gallons of beer mash in Greenville county. Two of the stills were in the Beaver Dam section-and the third was in the River Falls section. Deputies participating in the raids included C. L. Abercrombie, Frank Reld and W.

V. Robinson. Class To Sponsor Prayer Services The Men's Bible class of Pendleton Street Baptist church will sponsor prayer meeting in the Hahn memorial building of the church tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Speaking on the prayer-for-vic-tory program will be Dr. J.

Dean Crtin, pastor of the church, and Thad Adams, teacher of the class. A. A. Green, president of the class, will preside, Waymon Edwards Is Safe In War Area Waymon Edwards of Taylors has been found safe and Is R. M.

Edwards, his mother, reported last night. Mrs, Edwards said she had received a card from her son to th effect: that he was well. 1 JCAL CHAPTER PSale Of Real Estate Con- tinucs At Fast Pace Throughout County Eichteen realty deals were placed Aon record yesterday by workers in nf mocna nnn HOLY. COMMUNION will be celebrated at Christ Episcopal church at 11 a. m.

today. Prayers for peace and victory will be said at Rabbi Samuel Wrubel will speak on Searching for Truth and Peace" tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock at Beth Lsrael congregation on Towhes street. Miss Ella Glickman. A. Wolfe Davidson and Leon Campell will participate in a quiz program.

HOPEWELL Tuberculosis association officials are preparing follow-up cards to be sent persons in the city who have not returned the money or the seals which were sent them prior to the opening of the annual Christmas seal sale. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Simmons, -xecutive secretary, said yesterday that the cards would be mailed soon and represented the clean-up of the annual drive which ended Christmas day. BOY SCOUTS of the Greenville district are aiding greatly in the Red Cross war relief drive by running errands and doing odd jobs for the campaign workers.

This is another of the scouts' community services The Philathea class of St. Paul Methodist church will meet this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the church. A special prayer service will be observed. THE WOMAN'S Missionary society of Berea Baptist church will hold its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. A.

O. Nichols this afternoon at 3 o'clock Furman Keys, who has been confined to his home because of illness of the last week and half, was reported greatly Improved James Farmer of Clinton was a visitor in the city yesterday. ALFRED T. SMITH was a business visitor in Asheville early this City Policeman Roy E. Goodson was confined to his home at 506 Rutherford street yesterday with a throat infection Miss Margaret Wood is able to be out again following an extended illness.

A. L. THORNTON plans to return to his home in Washington after spending the Christmas holidays with relatives and friends in the The office of the county health department will be closed today at 1 p. m. in observance of New Year's dav.

MISS FLORA McKELVEY, county attendance officer, is expected to return to the city this week-end from Lydia where she has been spending the holidays with rela tives City firemen were called to 304 East Cofee street yesterday to extinguish a bed reportedly set afire by a cigarette. SEVEN MEN were sent to navy duty by Greenville recruiting officers yesterday. They were Leroy Faust of Anderson, G. H. Harrill, E.

G. Herron. P. L. Ledford and C.

T. Coates and E. R. McDonald and H. D.

McDonald of Easley Gordon Walker, Clemson graduate who is now Southern editor for the Tetile World, will receive a physical examination this week in connection with his application for enlistment in the V-7 class of the naval reserve. This class is for reserve officers. THE POSTOFFICE will be open from 8 to 10 a. m. today for stamp sales and other business.

One city delivery will be made by mail carriers this morning, but no rural deliveries will be made today. Most federal offices will also be closed. The recruiting offices of army and navy, however, will rc. open all day. THESE DAYS IN HISTORY: On this day last year a man named Schickelgruber (later changed to Hitler) told the German people that 1941 would be the victory year for naziism.

In a speech to his nation and the world be screamed that Christmas of 1941 would see great Britain and everything it Hands for erased from the face of the earth. Historians will probably say that Schicklegruber was the biggest liar of all time. Dr. George Truett Speaks On Program Dr. George W.

Truett, world-famous Baptist preacher, will be heard Sunday morning, from 8:30 to 9 o'clock in an independent South-side network broadcast known as the BaDtist hour. Dr. Truett's message will be broadcast from Dallas, his home city, and will be heard in this area over statlbn WFBC. This Is the first In a series of 13 broadcasts on successive Sundays by outstanding Baptist preachers and laymen throughout the South at the same hour every Sunday morning. Dr.

T. F. Adams of Richmond, will speak on the following three Sunday mornings on the subject, "The Home." Other prominent speakers will be heard in February and March. Each message is to be accompanied by singing $52,000 Collected In Police Fines Fines totaling $52,089.54 were collected by the Greenville police department during 1941, a check of records showed yesterday. The sum was the second highest amount to be collected in the last 10 years.

Collections for fines in December amounted to $5,022.53. A total of 038 cases was preferred. Anders Arrested On Liquor Charge A man listed as Jessie Anders yesterday was charged with transportation of 50 gallons of contraband whisky in a warrant Issued by Magistrate Charles Batson. The warrant was signed by Deputies C. L.

Abercrombie, Pralo Wood and J. A. Bayne. Alfonte Appointed Area Quartermaster ATLANTA, Dec. 31.

Col. James R. Alfonte, Fort Benning quartermaster, will succeed Brig. Gen. James L.

Frlnk as fourth corps area quartermaster, the army announced today. General Frlnk has been named deputy quartermaster for the nation. Candidate A. W. WILLIAMS Williams' Hat In House Race Travelers Rest Cafe Operator To Run For Legislature A.

W. Williams, 57. operator of Williams' cafe at Travelers Rest, yesterday announced himself as a candidate for the seat in the house of representatives from Greenville county made vacant when Rep. P. Bradley Morrah, resigned.

Mr. Williams said he stood for economy in government and the equalization of taxes, and said that it was his desire to be the representative of all the people. He was Bates township magistrate in 1939 and 1940. Except for those two terms as magistrate, he is new in Greenville county politics. The election will be held January 13.

Ethel Smith Buys Interest In Lot Pays S3 And Assumes Part Of $80,000 Mori-gage On Building Ethel Smith yesterdav purchased one-third interest in the building now occupied by W. T. Grant company for considerations totaling $3 and partial assumption of an mortgage, according to a deed Hied in the county register of mesne conveyance office. The interest in the lot was bought from Paul Browning. The deed listed the site or tne building at the northwest corner of the intersection of Main and Coffee streets.

Liquor Stores To Be Closed Today The governor's office announced yesterday that all liquor stores in the state would be closed today, New Year's day. Gov. J. E. Harley said that in view of the fact President Roosevelt had declared New Year's day one of prayer because of the war, he considered it appropriate to close the liquor stores for the day.

Local Men Take Hawaiian Posts ShiDfitter helpers and third class welders all trained in defense classes at Greenville and Parker high schools, will leave soon for posts at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, it was announced yesterday. The group will include 10 ship-fitter helpers trained at Greenville and 16 helpers and six welders trained at Parker high. Seneca To Observe Period Of Prayer SENECA, Dec. 31. In keeping with President Roosevelt's proclamation of New Year's day as a day of prayer, Seneca will officially observe 10 o'clock Thursday as a period of prayer with services to be held at that time at the Presbyterian church.

Newberry Rationing Group Is Selected NEWBERRY. Dec. 31. The Newberry county defense council has named the committee to handle the rationing of automobile tires in the county after January 5. The committee is composed of J.

D. French, chairman, R. Harmon Wright and Dr. T. Boyd Jacobs.

Theft Of Watch Is Rep orted To Police valued at $75 was reported to city police yesterday by Mrs. J. D. Hatch of 9 Alta Vista avenue. Details of the theft were not given.

Charles B. Coates Is Safe In Hawaii Mrs. Mollie Coates, of 12 McCall street, yesterday received word from her son, Charles B. Coates, who Is stationed at Schofleld barracks, Hawaii, that he is safe. MISS STONE NAMED GREER.

Dec. 31. Miss Dorothv Stone of Greer has been named teacher at Apalache school, succeeding the former. Miss Mary Bailey whose marriage to Lieut. Dan Rlggs took place shortly before Christmas.

Miss Stone has taught for the past few years In Easley. 1 If Ji veyance office. The deals included: i M. S. Merritt to Melle W.

Mer-i ritt. for $1 and other considerations, lot on Crescent avenue. Arizona Runyan. et al, to Law- ij-ence Ellison, lor fi ana otner lot in Austin township. one-third interest in lot at northwest corner of Main and Coffee streets, for $3 and partial assumption of $80,000 mortgage.

E. Inman. master in equity, to Charles Turner, for $880, lot in Ch hick Springs township. A. E.

Fisher to Matthew I. Sloan and Kate E. Sloan, for $3,700, lot on Carolina avenue. 9 L3 S. C.

Officers 4 REDDY iuaue colonels Th Nfw Rurcau, 1054 Prm Bldj. By Lfwd Wire WASHINGTON. Dec. 31. The promotion of three South Carolina colonels in the regular Qirmy to the temporary grade of coionei was announced today Dy the War department.

The three new temporary colonels are: Ernest C. Bomar. ordnance, of Spartanburg; Robert E. Wysor, infantry, of Cilton; and Charles S. jjrice, of Spartanburg.

These promotions, the War department said, are designed to equalize rank and responsibility and to give the selected officers their mobilization rank as contemplated by mobilization regulations. Spartanburg Port Road Grant Okayed The Ntwt Bureau, 1054 Fresa Bldf. Br Leaned Wire WT A CUTWClTftW Plo. 41B-ael-! i vential approval of a WPA grant of To stay on the job 365 days and nights, never lagging, never shrinking in his service to his customers. 2 To bring more Light, and therefore more Happiness, to more homes than ever before.

To be a Silent Partner in the many household tasks that face you from breakfast until midnight. To do far more for far less pay than any servant in all history. Ej To co-operate in every phase of community life and living, putting a whilling shoulder to the wheel wherever and whenever he can. (21,372 tor tne construction or access roads in the vicinity of the Memorial airport at Spartanburg was announced by Senator May-bank's office today. Other WPA grants to South Caro- Ina rnmmnnities awarded tnrlav In.

lude: Lancaster will get a grant of to improve the building and grounds of the Lancaster high school. Sponsor of this project is the county boardof education. Tuten To Speak At Optimist Meeting An address by R. O. Tuten, executive director of the Greenville authority, will feature the dinner meeting of the Greenville optimist ciuo at the Cttaray hotel tonight at 7 o'clock.

President Robert Ritchie will pre' side. r.i tr AND HE WISHES EVERYONE A BUSY, HAPPY, WORTHWHILE NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-TWO Duke Power Company PHONE 4000.