COLUMN: A Look Back

50 years ago
(October 16, 1958)

Foxes get sixth in a row
Hartsville High's Red Foxes racked up their sixth win of the season by defeating Camden Bulldogs 6-0 last Friday night, October 10.
Guard Woody Barfield and halfback Tommy Huggins copped the "Lineman and Back of the Week" honors.
Barfield had one of his better nights on defense, accounting for nine tackles, and Huggins picked up 130 yards on the ground, and he broke away for a 60-yard run in the first period.
Coach Bill Seigler said, "I'm happy that we won, and the whole team played well. Our defense was down a little, and our offense was good. I think that if we had not fumbled at the six yard line, it would have broken the game wide open for us."
The Red Foxes' powerful running attack gained for them 274 yards and 40 was gained through the air.
In the middle of the first quarter, Tommy Huggins received a handoff from quarterback Jimmy Bell, swept around left end, and raced 60 yards for the lone touchdown. Woody Barfield's kick swerved outside the uprights, but the 6-0 tally was all the Foxes needed for the victory.

'Just a plain girl'
Betty Lane Cherry says, "Y'All" just as a true Southerner would do.
The attractive Miss Cherry, speaker at the Optimist Club's regular meeting yesterday (Wednesday), said, "I'm just a plain girl, from Orangeburg, S.C., and never had to work so hard in my life 'til I won these beauty contests."
Formerly Miss United States of America, and currently the National Peach Queen, Miss Cherry's appearance in Hartsville was on behalf of WIS-TV of Columbia, which is building a new television tower to enable it to transmit a stronger signal in this area.
She also did a good job in promoting the peach crop of South Carolina, which "is first in the nation in the shipping of fresh peaches." Miss Cherry attracted nation-wide attention during the past two summers as a special goodwill ambassador for the South Carolina Peach Council, promoting S.C. peaches in New England and in such Mid West markets as Chicago and Detroit.
In international beauty competitions, the South Carolina girl was crowned Empress of Beauty of the World in Puerto Rico last summer. In the Miss World contest in London several years ago, she was accorded first runner-up honors after mistakenly having been crowned as the Miss World winner.
The Optimist speaker was introduced by Ted Saleeby, Darlington County Representative-elect. President Ivan Scott presided at the noonday luncheon, which was attended by a number of invited guests and town officials.

Women: better lawyers
Women are better equipped for law careers in certain fields than men, Mrs. Sidney Tison told Coker College students in an Oct. 14 assembly talk on women in law.
The local lawyer's wife, herself a trained lawyer, listed domestic relations and juvenile delinquency as fields in which women legalists exist. She said that women are also well equipped to serve as contract lawyers, court recorders, and legal researchers.
With more and more women in business and owning property and with women the chief child rearers, legal training is a growing asset to women in general, Mrs. Tison added. She said that there is no prejudice against women law students, but that there still is a prejudice against women attorneys.

Births: Adrain Mark Hall, 9/28; Dorothy Jean Jordan, 9/29; William Lucan Griggs, 9/30; Marcus D. Bullard, 10/1; Sandy M. Brigman Jr., 10/3; Brenda Evelyn Cappell, 10/5; Michael Carl Gainey, 10/6; Margaret Olivia Bryant, 10/6; and William Mitchell Timmons, 10/12.

Engaged: Jo Anne Howle to Lyndal Edward Gibson and Cathryn Boren to First Lt. John Burden Weaver.

25 years ago
(Oct. 15, 17, 1983)

Coker organ encore
Kenneth L. Wilmot, chairman of Coker College's music department, will present an encore performance of the recital he gave at the dedication of the new Ruth Lawton Wilds Organ in the Music Building at Coker.
The repeat performance will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 30.
Wilmot will perform works by William Selby, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Krebs, Areangelo Corelli, Johann Sebastain Bach, Tomaso Albinoni, Goeffrey Robbins and Max Reger. He will be accompanied on trumpet by his son Kenneth L. Wilmot Jr.

Local chewer wins
As far as world tobacco spittin' champion Gordon McCutcheon is concerned, the competition might just have been spittin' in the wind.
The 19-year-old Lake City resident, projected a spray of Workhorse chewing tobacco a distance of 22 feet, 4 inches to decisively claim the World Tobacco Spittin' Championship. It was slightly short of his record spit of 23 feet, 11 inches.
McCutcheon and 30 other spitters competed for the title, sponsored by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. during the annual Danville Harvest Jubilee Oct. 8.
Cheered on by a tuxedo-clad group of supporters calling themselves "The Committee for Spittin' 'Baccer," McCutcheon displayed his secrets to success - two finger pucker power and a wicked back neck snap - in winning form.
McCutcheon, a student at Francis Marion College, said he had been preparing for the occasion since he began chewing tobacco.
The brass spittoon McCutcheon won makes the fifth he's received in competition. "I don't have a lack of places to spit," he admitted.
McCutcheon's victory was especially sweet for the eight-member Committee for Spittin' 'Baccer. Dressed in white tuxedos, toting long walking sticks, chomping stogies and chewing tobacco, the group arrived at the competition in a late model blue Cadillac convertible.

Lamar High news
Lamar High held its annual Spirit Week last week in preparation for homecoming. Monday was Hat Day; Tuesday, Dress-up Day; Wednesday, Color Day; Thursday, T-shirt and Jean Day; and Friday, Black and Gold Day.
The week was capped off by the homecoming parade. Tommy Suggs, an alumni of Lamar High and the University of South Carolina, was the marshal. In addition to being marshal at the parade, Tommy was also honored by having Friday proclaimed Tommy Suggs Day here in Lamar.
At halftime the crowning of Miss Homecoming took place. The 1983 Homecoming Queen for Lamar High was Annette Durant, the 16-year-old daughter of Miss Delia Durant. The first runner up was Pam Amerson and the second runner up was Sherri Goodman. These following girls were contestants: Tonya Sansbury, Cheryl Cannon, Nadine Clark, Fannie McCollough, Hope Davis, Shannon Parnell, Sarah Griffin, Sherrie Lane, Penny Best, and Teresa Lisbon.
At the pep rally Friday, Oct. 7, Mr. Homecoming was crowned. The 1983 Mr. Homecoming was Darrell Price. The first runner up was Jay Huggins and the second runner up was Darren Tutt.