By Iris Creswell DeMates

Mrs. Earl J. Jacobs and her daughter, Eloise, from Pontiac, along with Mrs. Lurline Brown are leaving Firday for Florida for a week’s visit with Mrs. Monnie Jordan who is orginally from Richland county but now lives in Bartow, Fla.

Melvin LeGrand, Harris Jacobs and Ronnie Jacobs left Friday to drive to Kanas to visit with Melvin’s son, Sgt. Wayne E. LeGrand, who is stationed at Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka. They returned Monday night and said with the three of them driving, the trip wasn’t so rough.

Wayne, who was operated on last week, gets out of the service three weeks from Friday after serving his four-year tour of duty.

He plans to come back to Columbia to live and work with his father in the electrical business.

Wayne’s wife, Brenda Lee, and their 19-month-old daughter, Pamela, left Tuesday morning for Kansas to spend the last three weeks of Wayne’s service with him.

OTHER TRAVELERS

Amont the many Columbians who are visiting Las Vegas are Lena and Bob Newman who have been out several times within the last few weeks.

The Bill Maples and their two boys, Mike and Rickey, recently spent several days in the North Carolina Mountains visiting Cherokee and Maggie Valley.

Carl R. Bowen and Raymon Hunter returned last week end after a drive through the Sunshine State. They went down the west coast and back up the East Coast, stopping in Tampa for a visit with Carl’s cousin and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Micheal Clementi and their son Maurice. Mrs. Clementi is the former Melba Koon of Columbia.

Miss Anita Grannis, director of the Town Theatre, is back in town after a busy summer at Flat Rock Playhouse in North Carolina, Miss Grannis is in rehearsal for the Theatre’s first show, “Under the Yum Yum Tree” which opens soon for a week’s run.

The Howard Derricks and their children, Rene, Jeanne and Coy were in Charleston over the weekend visiting Howard’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Derrick.

While there, they toured many of the home in the city which have been opened to the public during the Tricentennial.

Mrs. Peter van Aiken from Providence, R. I., was in town over the weekend visiting with Mrs. Gerald Lawson, formerly of Rhode Island. Mrs. Aiken was enroute to her winter home in St. Augustine, Fla.

LEAVING TOWN

“It makes you wonder if the promotion is really worth pull up roots and moving on,” remarked Wayne Floyd who recently received word of a step-up in his firm but also a moving form to go along with it.

“Let’s stay,” his 5-year-old son Jerry, remarked Sunday when they were discussing the move. “I don’t want to leave,” he said.

“Columbians were good to us from the very moment we hit Columbia a couple of years ago,” Floyd said. All three of us love it here and I am afraid if we don’t quit talking about it, we’ll end up staying and I’ll probably be out of a job.”

Neighbors of the Floyds and several close friends who live in the vicinity had a cook-out for them Saturday and gave them a hand-carved lazy susan from the Phillippines.

Fagan Edwards who recently celebrated his 16th birthday was surprised when his parents gave him a round trip ticket to California. The ticket is to be used during Thanksgiving for a visit with his sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey E. Shuford, who live in Los Angeles where he is connected with an advertising firm.

In addition to the surprise gift his parents invited some of his friends to come by for a luau supper.

Fagan’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Ward of Washington, D.C., are coming in this weekend for a week’s visit with the family. “This has been the greatest birthday I have ever had,” Fagan remarked.