LIBRARY DRAWER D -n.c..:4i.j.u,.H !.;.,,,. iuiMmtl iiiB6tU Mid-Week t (Ceorijcf ottm Sitnco Edition ESTABLISHED 1797 IN COUNTY $7.00 INSTATE $8.00 Georgetown, S.C. 29440 Thursday, May 29,1975 OUT OF STATE $9.00 15' Per Copy Vol.179 No. 51 650 County Students Graduation Plans Set By ETHLYN MISSROON But, William C. Young regards to job markets and schools. Prof. D. H. Drayton, principal Georgetown County's overall Georgetown County prospective careers. Andrews High School will of Howard High School and graduating class of 625 youths Superintendent of Education, However, with youth behind hold its exercises at 7 PM on assistant principal A. H. Doyle and 31 adults will be facing offers reassuring remarks and them indeed, along side of Friday, June 6 in the school's will pesent diplomas to 144 challenging and perhaps solutions. them, today's graduates will be gymtorium with the principal. students during uncertain conditions as they He said that the large number able to forge their own M. Webber Rowell and assistant commencement exercises at leave the safety of "Hallowed of students winning diplomas in destinies, if they work hard and principal, Jonathan Moultrie, the school on Sunday, June 1 at 5 Halls" at this 1974-75 the County this year is a clear apply the necessary industry presenting the diplomas to 100 o'clock in the afternoon. Commencement time. indication that the current and diligence. graduates. Howard's Adult Education An unusually large number, school term has been a In addition, Young also had Choppee High School's program will also see some 22 collectively speaking, of young productive one. words of commendation for the graduating class of 133 students adult students winning people from over Georgetown But, he cited the fact that 31 adults who have pursued and will receive their diplomas on diplomas for completion of high County will receive diplomas this year's crop of graduates won high school diplomas in Sunday, June 1 at 4 PM in the school educations. and certificates during must surge more than ever, into order to better their life school's cafetorium. Pleasant Hill High School will graduation exercises. higher education with courage chances. Diplomas will be awarded by hold its exercises on Sunday, These will be entering a world and determination. Meanwhile, graduation Principal Alvin R. McKenzie June 1 at 4 PM in the school staggering under negative Specialization, he noted, will schedules have been announced and assistant principal, auditorium. social and economical be the keynoting factor towards by the respective heads of the Jonathan Moultrie. Forty-seven students will be conditions such as even most of success and a most necessary presented diplomas by Pleasant their parents have never prerequisite in facing a world Hill Principal Ellery L. Little. experienced. undeniably on the down-trend in Andrews Academy will Coast Guard graduate 12 students with diplomas being presented by the headmaster, George E. Hinson. The ceremonies will take place on Sunday, June 1 at 5 PM Rescu«3sFishermen in the First Baptist Church with the headmaster, George E. The Coast Guard's assistance firm quoted a price Hinson, presenting the Georgetown station on North of over $100 an hour for towing diplomas. Island had a busy weekend in a craft, a total bill in this case Winyah Academy's assisting boaters in distress, about $1,000. graduation exercises are set for reported Bill Redditt, officer in The group aboard the Fiesta Friday, May 30 at 8 PM on the charge. said they would wait for the school's Parker-Pyatt Athletic They reported a total of six Coast Guard to come to their Field or in event of inclement boats that had engine problems aid. weather, in Duncan Memorial or ran out of fuel. A 95-foot Coast Guard cutter United Methodist Church. One was a 23-foot sports was called in from Savannah, Thirteen students will be fishing boat, the Fiesta, which where it was involved in presented diplomas by the experienced engine failure another case. headmaster, Larry L. Biddle at about 22 miles southeast of The cutter took the Fiesta in the conclusion of the program. Georgetown. tow that afternoon and brought Graduation exercises for • Four people were aboard. it into Winyah Bay, where the Winyah High School have been Phil Hoffman of West Columbia Fiesta was finally docked about planned for Wednesday, June 4 was listed as the boat's owner- 10:30 P.M. at 8 PM in the school's new operator. Redditt explained that in gymnasium, the principal, They were located about cases where property or life is Harvey I. Rice, Jr. said. three miles east of the City of not in immediate danger, the R. Linwood Altman, Richmond, a wreck in the area, Coast Guard generally gives an chairman of the City school OLD FRIENDS-Organ grinder, Joe Ldpefc and his monkey Sonny have where they had planned to do opportunity to commercial board of trustees will present some fishing. assistance firms to come into diplomas to 176 students at that been entertaining people for quite awhile. Both have traveled throughout the They had left Georgetown for the case. time. country, but will be at the Hammock Shop for the next three months. the area about 9 A.M. Monday "We try to get commercial ,1 but developed engine trouble assistance (in such cases) about 10:30 A.M., Redditt said. because there are people trying They radioed the Coast Guard to make a living at their station for assistance. Redditt business," Redditt said. Wandering Organ Grinder asked if they would accept The Fiesta was only one of six commercial assistance. ships the Coast Guard aided last FIRE LOSS-The family of Richard Sinickly lost They said they would, but weekend. The other five had quickly changed their minds either developed engine trouble their possessions in a fire Friday which gutted their when one commercial or ran out of fuel inside Winyah two-story residence on North Merriman Road. Bay or the jetties. Believes In "His Thing" The Georgetown Coast Guard station was able to assist the By BOB GORMAN Apparently, few follies of this "This kind of monkey is good Although in constant motion, others without delay or When Joe Lopez makes up his world seriously affect the life of to work with," be continued, Sonny will allow strangers to mind to do something, you can an organ grinder. Joe has "They are real friendly with the pick him up. Most of the time incident. believe he'll get it done. It may Fire Damages Home "It was an unusually busy weathered world wars, children. It takes about two however, he is busy pocketing take him awhile, but in the end weekend," Redditt said. depressions, natural disasters, years to train them (Sonny is 13 small change, tipping his hat to Joe will be right where he etc., and his life has changed years old) and then they are say "thank you" or playing A fire inflicted heavy damage the rest of the house suffered which broke out about 8:15 wanted to be from the little during those years. just like a little child." peek-a-boo around trees. His on the home of Whit Hane on heavy smoke damage, a fire A.M.Friday. beginning. Getting started in the business Joe has five other monkeys repertoire includes smoking a Cypress Court Tuesday, the department spokesman said. Snake Film The fire started in the kitchen Take the sacred art of organ though was a different story. that travel with him in his pipe and getting sudden Georgetown Fire Department The cause of the fire was grinding for instance. In 1925 camper and travel trailer. His reported. undetermined. and swept to the second story. "Even though I decided I "headaches". No one was home at the time of while working as a laborer for wanted to become an organ wife also accompanies him "He '• on the go constantly, " The fire, which broke out Last Friday a two-story Scheduled Ringling Bros. Circus, Joe everywhere and helps care for frame house . on North the fire. grinder," recalled Joe, "it still commented Joe about his pet, about 6:20 P.M. Tuesday, became captivated by the sound took me 15 years before I and train the other monkeys "He even likes water. When we started in the den, the Fire Merriman Road was gutted, the Though the Georgetown Fire the organ grinders produced during the day. Although he has department reported. Department quickly brought Here Tonight actually got going. I wanted to go home, he'll jump right into a Department reported. and the smiles they brought to start working for myself; but I a home in Tampa Fla., Joe tub of soapy water and start One room of the house, the The famiy of Richard Sinickly the fire under control, it gutted "The People Who Take Up the faces of children. Right still, as he has done most of his lost their possessions in the fire almost all the house. couldn't even find an organ. It washing himself." den, was totally destroyed and Serpents" - a documentary film there and then Joe Lopez took me five years just to find days as an organ grinder, Joe and his wife feed their six dealing with the use of snakes in decided he would pursue the one. Then there's the kind of spends the majority of his time monkeys "almost anything we religious services - wiU be vocation and fifty years later, monkey you need. When I barnstorming around the would eat ourselves" such as shown at the Prince George, Joe is still making his own kind started I didn't know what kind country.