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Weather Wednesday: high 71,
low 57, hum. 22%. Thursday
morning was cool and cloudy.
Benfield Chemicals, a
chemical packaging plant at
Hazelwood was destroyed by fire
Wednesday night. Thousands of
people were evacuated from the
area as large amounts of
flamable chemicals stored in the
plant shot flames hundreds of
feet into the air. The company
sells a variety of paints, solvents,
varnishes, lacquer thinner,
turpentine, etc.
Dozens of Israeli jets hit
Lebanon Wednesday blasting
guerilla bases and downing two
Syrian MIGs in a raid that
shattered a 9-month-old truce
with the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
The Atlanta Braves make it
13-0 as they beat the Cincinnati
Reds 4-3 Wednesday night.
Saturday is the Spring Baseball
Festival in Landrum at Palmetto
Field.
Steal Meat
A thief or thieves broke into the
Landrum High School cafeteria
between 9 p.m. Saturday and 7
a.m. Monday and took 4 cases of
processed cheese, 4 cases of
cheddar cheese, 9 cases of ground
beef, 3 cases and one stick of
ground pork, 6 turkeys and one
meat slicer.
Landrum Police Chief Neal
Ayers said that the investigation
into the robbery was continuing.
Burglar Caught ;
Held For Law
Willard Pennington, who has a
shoe store in the Sandy Plains
Community, has had his store
broken into twice in the past and
decided that he would sleep in the
store to prevent break-ins.
Wednesday about 8 p.m., the
store was broken into again, but
this time, Mr. Pennington was
there with a .45. He told the
burglar to freeze and Mrs.
Pennington called the Sheriffs
Dept. Deputy James Carter was
patroling in the area and was on
the scene in a matter of minutes.
Captured was Fred Dimsdale.
48, of Rt. 2, Inman, S.C., who was
still inside the store being held at
gun point by Mr. Pennington
The Sheriff’s Department
located Dimsdale's pickup truck
parked behind a hedge at the rear
of an unoccupied house near the
store. He had apparenUy already
broken into the house and taken
copper tubing and plumbing
Continued On Back Page
Saturday is the Spring Fling at
Mill Spring Elementary School.
The races begin at 8 a.m. and
activities will continue all day.
Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. is the
PTA Ham and Chicken Supper at
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Stotts Buy
Frazier. Foster
Motors
Harold Stott, Bobby Joe Stott
and James Hugh Stott have
bought Foster-Frazier Motors
and it is now Stott’s Ford, Inc.
The officers are: Harold Stott,
president; Bobby Joe Stott, vice
president and James Hugh Stott,
sec.-treas All three have been in
the automobile business for many
years.
Harold Stott has had many
years experience as a mechanic
and in 1975 went to Madrid and
Malaga, Spain to work on a
Corvette Sting Ray automobile
owned by Timanmin Maritersa.
Mr. Stott rebuilt the engine on the
Corvette. He is married to the
former Barbara Morris of
Landrum and they have two
children, Robbie and Debbie, who
are students at Landrum High
School. They are members of
Hickory Grove Baptist Church.
Bobby Joe Stott is former
owner and manager of Stott's
Chevrolet. He has served as a
member of the St. Luke’s
Hospital Board He has served
as president of the Columbus
Chamber of Commerce,
chairman of Polk County
Republican Party and served as
an alternate to the Republican
National Convention in Kansas.
He is a past member of the
Green Creek Fire Dept, and is a
former District Finance
Chairman of the Boy Scouts of
America He has had various
business and farming interests.
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Green Creek
Class Of 1932
Floyd Blackball ofGreen
Creek, a member oi ^^
graduating class of Green ^
High School thought it
nice to list the n ® 1 *” “
class on their 50th
They are unable to h
reunion this y ear - _ a
McLean, who later becam
Superior Court Judge was the
principal and the facul ^ e
Mrs. W. K. McLean, Fannie
Temple Collins and Eunice Butts
Shields.
The living members are
Woodrow Giles, Ray Watson and
Floyd Blackwell, all of Green
Creek; Mamie Bostic Stott of
Stott’s Corner; Beryle Davidson
Miller of Sunny View; Clarence
Shytle, Valdese; Emma Boyd
Kemp Katto, Tampa, Fla.;
Esther Dick McCurry, Spindale;
Mildred Giles Rowland,
Aberdeen, Md. and William Earl
Barnett, Green Creek.
The deceased members of the
Class are Pauline “Polly"
Bridges McGinnis, Talmadge
Scoggins, Roy Greene, Eugene
Home, Lila Walker Huntley and
Alice Millard.
The class graduated on April
25th,1932.
Randy Foster of Saluda scored
from 2nd base on Darin Hill',
infield single in the botbm X
7th to give East Henderson a
Big Mac win over Tuscola Fm? 1
scored the Eagles'n^ Fosler
the fifth when Todd Cnrie'^k, 111
single was thrown aw^^