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Dec. 22. 1953 THE INDEX-IOURNAL, CREENWOOD. S. Pz2 I cm Clothes For Needy In Saluda County Lions Provide Toys For Christmas Stockings PaintingPwdaware Crossing Again Enjoying High Favor, Historians Say 'is tract until 1957 for exhibit' at the park here.

Since then millions of visitors from all psrts of the world have been drawn to the park. 1- r. In the last yesr or two, Mrs. Hutton said, reproductions of the painting again have 'appeared on magazine covers, postcards, souvenirs, Christmas cards, pocket- book medallions and even on fash it: tonably decorated living room walls. Campaign On To Cut Dec, 24 Traffic Deaths By Rl'SSELL LAKDSTROM WASHINGTON CltOSSINO, Fa.

on The painting Which dramatizes America's own Christmas story Washington's crossing of the Delaware tr 1778 enjoys high favor again, hlstoris'ns say, after a long lapse Into neglect and even ridicule. For the first 100 yesrs sfter the event, on that Christmas night 179 years ago, the story was national favorite." said Mrs. Ann Hawkes Hutton, member of the Washington Crossing Park Commission. Among those impressed by it was a young man named Emanuel Leutre. Born In Germany, he spent most of his early yesrs In Virginia and was educated there snd in H4 steeped himself in the Washington story.

He went to Valley He came to this crossing and visualized the preparations for the passage across the river which culminated in the Battle of Trenton. In-' 1851, after studying art in Oerroany. he put his big Inspiration on big canvas 21 by 12 feet. Many critics derided the painting. They said Leutze was too Teutonic to interpret so basic an American theme, that his river resembled the Rhine more than the Delaware, that even allowing an artist the of arranging his By RAM DAWSON NEW YORK i-Just ahead lies the day when more Americana than in any other 24-hour period will check In their identities and Become a vital statistic.

Business knows It gets smeared The Higglns Orange of Saluda County collected these clothes for the needy of tne county, be distributed Christmas. The committee, left to right, consists of F. O. Scurry, Mrs. Harold Coleman, Mre.

Rudolph Mitchell. Mrs. Sue Mitchell and Mrs. Heyward Rankin. Rudolph Mitchell.

Orange master was nol present when the picture was made. The Orange has placed boxes about the county for the collection ol clothing. Some of It will be distributed Christmas, and the other when the boxes are taken up aoou Jan. 1. (Photo by D.

Johnson). with some of the blame. Many firms and some whole industries are striving to curb the carnage The National Safety Council ssys that more persons are killed In traffic accidents on Dec. 24 than any other day. Weekend TV Shows Loaded Office Christmas parties often hve preceded accidents so, .5" 'J 7 1 figures for purposes of compost msny companies this week are ion Leutze shouldn't have had striving to tone them down.

The liquor Industry has long known It With Christmas Washington standing in the boat, that he used the American flag be fore It was sdopted, that the Ice First Presbyterian Church Hat Program At Ware Shoals WARE SHOALS The First Presbyterian Church of Ware Shoals will observe the following program Sunday morning, December 25: At 10 a. Sunday School classes will be held for the roll call and at 10:15 a. Christmas sermon will be delivered In the auditorium. The Rev. J.

N. Ashenfelder, pastor, has requested that all families sit together as a group during this service- By CHARLES MERCER NEW YORK HV-By the time the Christmas weekend Is over It will cakes in the river were too big. For all that, the public acclaimed Leutze'a work. By the turn of the century the painting had become the best known historical work of Its kind both In Europe and in North America. Yet even then Its general pop- be a very unhappy person Indeed who doesn't realise there is Canadian Buyers Crowding Stores TORONTO Canadian shoppers have been storming the stores with bulging wallets this year.

A survey shows retailers through out the country look for their total business this season to be 10 per cent above any year's since World War II. and most shoppers, they say, are operating on the luxury level. Television set sales are brisk la B. C. One dealer ordered "all the $2,000 color TV sets we can get." A Toronto shop sold four mink coats before 10 a.m.

one day. A Vancouver store owner says he can't keep up with the demand for electric organs price about 11.200. You can buy an old-fashioned street organ that plays 12 tunet for $395 in Toronto, or a 8128 doll in Montreal. Other merchants are offering $46 "Kiddillacs" and $33 toy diesel engines. Santa Claus sfter all.

This Is the theme of msny ulsrity was falling off. Partly be-, Members of the County Welfare Department staff this mornlnf finished filling stockings and made final deliveries of toys provided by the lions Club for around 300 white children In the county. The Wel- fare Department supplies the names of needy families for the Lions Club in their annual Yule project. Pictured with some of the toys and two stockings are Mrs. Joyce McKlnney, left, and MIm Jo Anne Duncan, members of the Welfare Department staff.

Girl Scout filled stockings for around 200 colored children with toys which they collected and Greenwood firemen repaired, ilnden-Juiirnal photo by Haralwont. Christmas television snd radio pro gramsand it's a pleasant one. It will be the weekend of the happy ending. ecause "modern" art critics were unrelenting in their assaults. But a change became apparent In the 1940's, Mrs.

Hutton said, and a regrowth of patriotism during World War II obviously helped to bring it about. For example, a friend just PERSONALS tagged me into a projection room for a showing of the Christmas Mrs. Hutton a few years ago Sentiment Fails To Move Judge JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. 4 Circuit Judge Sam C.

Blair was surprised yesterday to receive a Christmas card from an inmate at the Missouri State Penitentiary- A close look showed the convict was attempting to appeal to the compassionate side of the law. J. program of -rs A Oreat Life" FROM CHARLOTTE (NBC-TV, Sunday, 7 p.m.,. Eastern helped persuade the Metropolitan Museum of Art hi New York to lend the Leutze painting on con Mr. and Mrs.

Bill Swearlngen of Charlotte, N. are expected Sun time). Quite appropriately, next Sunday's show Is called "There Is A Santa Claus." It won't win any day to spend several days with Mrs, Edwards Gives Talk To Azalea Club Azalea Qarden Club met Wednesday at the Oregon Hotel. Mrs. Wade Harrison, president, opened the meeting with a poom, "Let's Keep Christ In She welcomed the visitors, Mrs.

Mobley Williams. Mrs. W. K. Charles.

Mrs. W. K. Charles. is accused of providing the cause for many traffic accidents snd is Increasing its appeals for temperance before getting behind the driving wheel.

The auto Industry knows that the very number of the cars it sells means crowded holiday highways and in its new models Is stressing safety devices to cut down the number of fstalities. The Fraternal Order of Police, with 40.000 member officers across the nation, is urging upon wesry shoppers ss well as upon party-goers this slogsn: "For holiday safety. If you take 'one for the make It coffee." From its Philadelphia headquarters, the order stresses that coffee combats fatigue and drowsiness, to which last-minute shoppers especially are The National Licensed Beverage with a membership of 50,000 tavern owners and and the National Retail Liquor Package Stores with 30,000 retail liquor stores as members, have joined with Seagrams Distillers in pluclng ads in 76 newspapers with an estimated 16i million readers, urging that coffee be the for-the-road drink. The distilling company says hundreds of thousands of packets of instant coffee are being distributed vide free cups to drivers about to its retail accounts so that bars local police In many areas to pro-cau offer a free cup to departing patrons. Coffee companies cooperate with to take to the highway, or already showing signs of fatigue.

Mrs. Swearlngen's mother, Mrs. Joe prises, but it's the kind of show I H. Payne. FROM LIMESTONE think youll enjoy reviewing after the turkey on Christmas Day.

pSS 1 Television Set Blamed habeas corpus on the back of the For marriage Breakup South Main Baptist Choirs Entertained Miss Claudia Durst, student st Limestone College, is spending the Christmss is a time for good earn. Judge Blair was Untouched by the sentiment. He denied the writ. stories. Sam Oallu.

creator and producer of "Navy Log (CBS-TV) Mr. and Mrs. David Undsey en Tuesday evenings, told this one the tertained the senior and junior other day: During World War II there was a Navy officer who got mighty tired of being a physical fitness Instructor in stateside bases. So Hong Kong Farmers Plant Food Parcels HONO KONO UH Ingenuity of Hong Kong Chinese farmers was displayed when food parcels were and Mrs. W.

A. Williams of Manchester, Oa. Mrs. Cecil Browning reported on the junior garden club Christmas meeting held at Connie Maxwell Children's Home. The girls were given gifts of dolls and the boys were given trucks, and refreshments of cookies, candy and punch were served.

Mrs. Preston Thompson reported on the Christmas arrangement for the children's ward at the hospital. Mrs. Frank Edwards gave a program on, "Our American Christmas." She said that America it be volunteered for something called "underwater demolition." Next thing he knew he found him LOS ANOELES UH Her living room television set couldn't legally be named corespondent in a divorce suit, but Mrs. Annette Stoica, 33, blamed it for the breakup of her marriage.

She testified yesterday in winning a divorce from Eli M. Stoica, 38, on cruelty grounds Ciat he: 'Watched TV constantly. I begged him to pay some attention to me, but when the set was on I was forgotten. "He spent so much time watching that he had no time to change his clothes. He even fell asleep watching TV.

It was as if his life depended on it." Superior Judge Samuel Blake awarded her the family home, including the television. distributed by Christian agencies in choir of South 'Main Street Baptist Church at their home on Cothran Street Sunday night after the cantata given at the church. Joe Walsh, music director at the church, was presented a gift. Refreshments of chicken salad sandwiches, creamed cheese sandwiches, fruit cake, assorted cookies, cheese straws, apricot balls, pickles and hot punch were served. Mr.

and Mrs. H. D. Llndsey, Sylvia Hoi-loway and Susan Jones assUted in entertaining and serving. Around 69 choir members and their guests were present, pr self in England, a year before the Normandy Invasion.

holidays here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Durst. IN NEW ORLEANS Mrs.

W. P. Durst is spending Christmas in New Orleans with Dr. and Mrs. J.

K. Durst. IN HOSPITAL T. L. Coleman Is getting along as well as Is expected at Self Memorial Hospital where he has been patient for several days.

He is not allowed to have visitors. LEA VIS HOSPITAL John DeVore, who has been a patient in Self Memorial Hospital for several weeks, has returned to his home on North Church Street in Ninety Six. FROM ASIIEVILLE Mr. snd Ous rvllnand children, Jim Durst and Ann Foster, of Asheville. N.

will come tomorrow to spend the holidays with relatives here. The English instructed him in Hong Kong. In each parcel was a pound of beans. Instead of eating the beans, the farmers have. planted them and are waiting' for a crop.

two things: psychology and how to paddle a kayak. One night they put him and his kayak on a small swift boat and shot him cross the Channel. "Take, your kayak," ordered the skipper, "paddle called the melting pot of the world, therefore our Christmas traditions are a blend of many English and European traditions. The word O. H.

Moore, church pastor, and Washing! spinach leaves? Lukewarm water may remove the sand better than cold water. Mrs. Moore were special guest. ashore and come back with a ITOM DELAWARE Dr. John M.

Watklna. of Wilmington, Is expected to ar- rive tomorrow or Saturday ta spend Christmas holidays' with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wat- kins.

HOLIDAY GUESTS Charles Fuller of Qulrcy, Is the guest or his parents. Dr. and Mrs. C- C. Fuller, for the holidays.

and Mrs. Scott Rlgby and fa-' 1 mlly of Manning will come Saturday to spend Christmas with the Fullers. VIP TORS EXPECTED Mrs. O. C.

Jeffords of Darlington and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Johnson of Rome, will arrive Saturday for a visit with Mf.

and Mrs. Julian They will be In Greenwood until HERE FOR HOLIDAYS Miss Vivian Young is visiting her parents', Mr. and Mrs. Frsnk Young, for the Christmas holidays. She is school social worker in the-Chatta- nooga.

city schools. Also expected for the holidays re Mr. and Mrs. Allen Wright of Greenville. Mts- Wright is the Joyce Young.

TO FLORIDA 7 Mr. and Mrs. 8- M. Youngblood of Hodges and granddaughter, Martha Youngblood, of Columbia, will leave Saturday for a week's trip to Florida. They plan to visit Miami and other points of interest.

FROM MISSISSIPPI Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Henry of Bl-loxi, are expected to spend the holidays with Mr.

and Mrs. J. McCord. Mrs. Henry is slater of Mrs, McCord.

FROM STAUNTON Cadet Bobby H. (Wild BUI) Johnson of Ninety Six, a student at Staunton Military Academy, Staunton. is at home for the holi- days. f. COME FOR CHRISTMAS Mr.

and Mrs. Bill Plnson and daughter. Ginger, of Columbia and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Plnson sjid children, Connie and Ricky! of Bamberg will be holiday guests of Mr.

and Mrs. A. T. Plnson. "merry" originally meant blessed, peaceful and pleasant, she said.

The English word "Christmas" bucket of sand." Well, It was a Program At Church Of God Of Prophecy At Ware Shoals WARE 8HOAL8 The Church of Ood of Prophecy will have its Christmas play Saturday night at 7:30. The publlo ta Invited to attend the program Christmas Eve. screwball war, our hero figured. comes from the Latin word. Crlstes Maesse, meaning mast for Christ.

Some sources attribute the Christ mas tree to Martin Luther, Mrs. Edwsrds said. The custom of decorating homea it world-wide, she explained, and evergreens are used So he paddled ashore, was shot at by but returned safely from the beach with the bucket of sand. The only landmark he remembered teeing was a church steeple. When he returnd to England he was ordered back to the States.

What a war) But on Normandy D-Day our hero found himself on a ship off you're on the right scent Mr. Mrs. Jones Be Wed 61 Years with aa a symbol of eternal life. Mrs. James A.

Bowers returned thanks and a delicious luncheon was served! Decorations were blue and silver Christmas trees, candles and angels. The hostesses were Mrs. Bowers and Mrs. Jack Scurry. the beachhead.

There was a haunt- GROOMING ESSENTIALS On Christmas Day Mr. and Mrs. M. A Jones of the Abbeville Highway will observe their 61st wedding anniversary on Christmas Day. They were married In 1894 in Pelzer.

The couple plan to observe the Btrflis Thrallalll Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thrallklll of 345 W. Creswell Ave. announce the birth of a daughter, Susan Carol at Self Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Thrallklll the former Edna Smith of Johnston. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Val Dean Smith of Due West announce the birth of a ton, Ricky Alvtn, Dec.

19 at Self Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Smith Is the former Lou Ellen Magaha of Due West. Shoemaker Mr. and Mrs.

W. M. (Dick) Shoemaker of 203 Hutson 8t Harris announce the birth of a daughter, Susan Diane, Dec. 18 at Self-. Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Shoemaker la the former Beth Hollis of Greenwood. I vie Mr. and Mrs. Quentlne Ivle of 1308 Anderson St.

announce the birth of a daughter; Debra Rynn, Dec. 18 at Self Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Ivle Is the former Frances Whaley of Elberton, Oa. Correction: She Wat Driving 90, Not 60 ROSWELL, N.M.

GrW A 74-year-old California woman driver paid a fine for speeding and still thinks she got off easy. After paying it to Justice of the Peace R. Perry Bean, she asked: "Is this case closed now I mean nothing can change Four verdict?" Bean assured ber It was closed. "Well, in that case." the woman said with a grin, Just want you to know that the officer who arrested me was wrong. "I wasn't doing 80 miles an hour.

was doing BO." day quietly with no special celebra tlon. lngly familiar church steeple. Then a fellow officer told him: just heard a craiy story. They say about a year ago the British sent some nut shore along here to get a bucket of sand. From that sand they determined all kinds of things what type of tank treads to use In the invasion, what type of assault boats, even what kind of shore defenses to expect.

Isn't that a crazy story?" It will be the theme of a forthcoming "Navy Log" drama! SPOITSMAN SHAVINO IOTION rtw MMnc of mcvlifiitt ll.SOi H7i seoertMAN coiooni roe mm 4i.llUlM,iiN plot M. Im Mr. and Mrs. Jones have five children: Clifton and Jesse Jones of Greenwood. Houston Jones of Oak Ridge, Floyd.

Jones of Baltimore, Md and Mrs. John Spelts of Laurens. They also have five grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. Before her marriage, Mrs. Jones wss Miss Janie Wood of near Ware Shoals.

NINETY SIX NINETY SIX Mr. and Mrs. James Osborne and family of Little Rock. will arrive this weekend and be guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Ben Osborne and Mrs. Sam Sherard. Mr. and Mrs. Charles HJnton and little daughter, Dana Maree.

of Montgomery. are expected to arrive Saturday and spend the weekend with Mrs. Hinton't parents. Mr. and Mrs, Eugene Palmer, and Mr.

Hinton't mother, Mrs. Charles Hinton. Julian Pratt, of Newberry College, is home for the Christmas holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Pratt.

Mr. and Mrs. John Slrother and little sons, of Talledega. and Dr. Fred Kennedy, of Augusta, will spend Christmas with Mrs.

I4ni v.iy iiiwwiri. n. it Oeorge Kennedy. SPOCTSMAN Ml-f ItCTSIC M4AVI MMalim miiw 4 ii.ea fW. tmm Mr.

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Tom La Roche is spending several days in Walterboro with 'hit uncle Bumey Klnard. Marriages And Engagements Kemp-Anderson The following invitations of social interest have been Issued: Mr. and Mrs. James Louis Kemp request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Carolyn to Walter Eugene Anderson Saturday evening, December thirty-first at seven-thirty o'clock SPORTSMAN (Also Thursday and Friday Nights) CMAM PtISilMIZW SHA I $ef Sflseeeeess' PtISilMIZW SHAVf sm.si.sa tATMf MA VINO CM AM SRUSHUM SMAVtM CM AM SJa TO STOPS I 4J k4M fM( SWi South Main Street Baptist Church And Still Hovt Lorgt Quantities off CHOICE GIFTS for Your Selection! xveccpnon i following Immediately 108 Davis Avenue SPoersMAN a sum stNous. UOVIO BfOOORANT ti es Met iitvtUwtt J.

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