LIBRARY DRAWER D g^^jia^jauuffift liiflS^M Mid-Week Edition ESTABLISHED 1 797 IN COUNTY $7.00 INSTATE 18.00 Georgetown, S.C. 29440 Thursday,January23, 1975 Vol.179 No. 17 OUT OF STATE $9.00 Widening U.S. 17 Goodstein And Payton To Charleston Special Primary n Is Requested Federal Highway Ad­ Plowden Construction Co., ministration approval of the Inc., of Sumter, was awarded South Carolina Highway the $1.9 million contract in June Ends In Runoff Department's proposed location 1973. for improvements to a 41-mile George A. Payton and Arnold Payton said, "The young kids didate to go to the South section of U.S. 17 in Georgetown S. Goodstein will face each took to the streets, knocking on Carolina Senate." and Charleston counties is other in a February 4 runoff doors for me. I am grateful to The winner of the special expected at any time, a Andrews election for the Democratic them and to all the people." April 8 general election will fill « A • Department spokesman said Party nomination for the Goodstein said he was the vacant senate seat of Gov. Charleston-Georgetown senate "delighted with the returns." James B. Edwards. Tuesday. seat. The spokesman said surveys He said there were fine can­ Payton and Goodstein will on the proposed project, in Democrats Voting in Georgetown County didates in the race. face each other in the February- which the section of U.S. 17 was slightly heavier than an­ Goodstein said he would 4 run-off. The winner will face between Secondary Road 23 ticipated as 2,987 voters went to continue to campaign, "as Republican nominee Arthur south of Georgetown and tiie polls. This figure represents vigorously as I know how. I feel Ravenel, Jr., who paid his filing existing four-lane roadway To Meet only 40 percent of the total I am the best qualified can­ fee without opposition. north of Mount Pleasant would number of votes cast in the be upgraded to four lanes, have Congressional race between Ed *s been completed. Preliminary A reorganization of the Young and John Jenrette in plans have also been drawn up. Democratic Club of the Town of November's general election. Unofficial Results Of Andrews has been scheduled for Goodstein was top vote-getter this Friday night at 6:30 p.m. in in Georgetown County with After FHWA approval on the the Town Hall court room, while 1,248 votes, according to the location has been received, the the general election for mayor unofficial results. He took 19 of Democratic Primary public design hearings on the and three of the town's coun­ the county's 33 precincts. section will probably be cilmen has been set for April 22. Payton, however, was the scheduled within four to six real surprise of the election. weeks. These design hearings Though he came in second in will most likely be held at A reorganization of the club Precincts | occurs before every general Georgetown County, with 1,087 | Georgetown and Awendaw, the votes and 10 of the county's ».-'1 same sites at which location election, and the date of the 2 primary will be determined at precincts, he was the top-vote- hearings on the project were getter in Charleston. ANDREWS 1 20 36 53 23 held. that time also. By law, the primary this year must take Payton's combined ANDREWS 1A 12 24 62 16 place on or before March 11. Georgetown-Charleston vote At the northern end of the was 6,228. Goodstein's was BETHEL — 14 5 — proposed project, the contract 5,573. for widening the 7.2-mile section The general election is for the Gordan Stine received 403 BLACK RIVER 8 6 — 3 of U.S. 17 between U.S. 17-A at office of the mayor, currently votes in Georgetown, and the BROWNS FERRY 7 88 51 15 Georgetown and Secondary held by J. W. Moody. The three Georgetown vote for James "• Road 23 to four lanes is now councilmen whose terms will Condon was 249. The total CARVERS BAY — 14 3 2 about 55 per cent complete, expire at that time are James Charleston-Georgetown vote CHOPPEE 32 5 — according to Department F. Fell, Wallace M. McKnight was 4,766 for Stine and 3,246 for 1 engineers. and Tom T. Cox, Jr. Condon. FOLLY GROVE — 27 6 10 Stine actually polled 38 more GEORGETOWN 1 34 51 49 36 WELL, WHADDA Y'KNOW?-Bill Falor. veteran Times employee comes votes in Charleston than Goodstein did there. However, GEORGETOWN 1A 13 36 29 25 across a reference to himself as "Brutus, the Office Devil" in an old Goodstein's large vote from Georgetown Times dated, September 18, 1936. Georgetown placed him over GEORGETOWN 2 1 15 158 1 Stine and into the runoff with GEORGETOWN 3 49 63 11 Payton. 8 IP Payton attributed his surprise GEORGETOWN 3A 4 25 46 9 strength to the efforts of his 'Brutus'Resurfaces In Print campaign workers. GEORGETOWN 4 21 28 3 48 "I am elated and thankful to GEORGETOWN 5 12 64 14 20 the people," he said. "They did it. I didn't. I was off the streets GEORGETOWN 6 4 8 23 3 for eight days," he said GEORGETOWN 7 1 101 133 2 After Lapse Of 40 Years referring to the fact that he was > the attorney in a murder trial GRIERS — 95 — — S.17 during the past week. KENSINGTON 17 30 1 16 Proposed By ETHLVN MISSROON ' In 1936 the editors were the for his famed flair for the fast W. D. Bourne, Georgetown late J. P. LaBruce and the late retort--but he still thinks MURRELLS INLET 22 15 20 10 Improvements L. H. Wallace who were of­ Western Union is cowboy un­ councilman, does not Permit Asked MYERSVILLE 68 24 5 customarily go around picking ficially listed as "proprietors". derwear. 1 up things that do not belong to A newsy little column, A front page story by PAWLEYS ISLAND 16 54 36 21 "Times Tattle" was authored Alexander Hume Ford is him. 4 But when he spied an old by "I. D. Clare", a pseudonym headlined "Georgetown Has For Pawleys PENNYROYAL 4 7 2 for Wallace, behind which he Perfect Site For Riverside Georgetown Times that was PLANTERSVILLE 1 96 29 1 evicted from the "Old Glad­ took piercing but clever pot­ Park", a fact now being pur­ stone House" now being torn shots at the Georgetown sued by Georgetown planners PLEASANT HILL 12 22 20 21 citizenry. who eye the open area on down to make way for more Water Main POTATO BED FERRY 54 6 5 formal buildings, he departed It was he who dubbed present Sampit where the old Fire Hall 2 his honest ways. day Times shop employee, Bill was razed, as the "perfect The Georgetown County SAMPIT 5 23 100 7 Dr. James B. Edwards Falor, as "Brutus, the Office site". Water and Sewer District has The reason was--he was SANTEE 88 41 struck by the many similarities Devil", then a mere lad of 19. Ford said "everyone seems applied for a permit to con­ 1 4 of times, programs and aims set His pithy comment con­ interested in this little park and struct a water main across a SPRING BRANCH 10 14 — 16 forth in the Georgetown Times cerning "Brutus" was "Billy in building of a native pine creek at Pawleys Island, ac­ To Head Medical Group back in September, 1936 as Thomas telling Brutus, the pergola at the entrance from cording to a notice by the Army SPRING GULLY 5 10 1 7 Office Devil, that he was so Front Street. The lumbermen, Corps of Engineers. those that are now being SNOW MILL 2 23 83 43 Dr. James B. Edwards, HI Elected vice-president was eagerly and earnestly dumb, he though Western Union Frank Johnstone and J. Frank The proposed main will be was elected president of the Dr. William F. Fairey and propounded in Georgetown now. was cowboy underwear...". Tyson offered all the pine tree adjacent to the west bridge WINYAH BAY 4 20 19 7 , Today, Bill Falor, the only columns needed for the pergola, along State Highway 266 leading Georgetown County Medical secretary-treasurer for the So he brought it back to its YAUHANNAH 11 — Society during a recent meeting coming term, Dr. C. Lide one-time locale on Front Street- surviving member of a Times hauled to and delivered at the to Pawleys Island. 1 14 at the Georgetown Moose Lodge Williams. -a place one must aver, has staff of this era, is considerably old City Hall while the WPA The proposed work consists of GRAND TOTAL 249 1246 1087 408 here. He succeeds out-going Dr. Harry C. Tiller was greatly changed over the past 39 more settled, a little more offered the labor, free of an eight-inch pipe which will president, Dr. Harry C. Taylor. CONTINUED ON PAGE I years. skilled and much appreciated charge. provide water service to the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LitehfieH-Pawleys Island area. Santee-Cooper Facility Plant Dedication Monday The South Carolina Public with 200,000 average residential The Authority's two oil-fired emergency and peak demand Service Authority's new electric users. The plant will supply plants in Moncks Corner periods. generating station on Pen­ most of the power used in the previously supplied" most of the The first steam was run nyroyal Road will begin official three county region of power for this area, but now through the system Dec.