Lib Defeats Pollution

A headline in a lowcountry newspaper gave hint first that women’s lib had defeated pollution.

“GEORGETOWN Women Defeat Muddy Creek,” the two column-head reported but upon further inspection the reader learned: that, the Georgetown Women’s Softball Team beat, their nearby neighbors, Muddy Creek, 11 to 6.

WORLDTRIP

Kathy Roggenkamp of NORTH AUGUSTA, has won a trip around the world for her science interests in high school, reports the North Augusta Star.

She will attend the International Science School for high school seniors in Sydney, Australia, in August.

She is officially named a President’s Australian Science Scholar and has received many honors through the National Merit Scholarship program.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Roggenkamp.

She plans to enter MIT this fall.

SENDS BUS

DARLINGTON Presbyterian Church helped buy a specially equipped bus for a doctor-minister, Dr. Rion Dixon, to use in his missionary work in Haiti.

LAST CADET

John P. Wilmeth of HARTSVILLE, the last Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps graduate of Yale University, has been given a commission as ensign and assigned to duty aboard the minesweeper USS Fearless.

LINCOLN’S KIN

The late Dr. George Rogers Clark Todd, brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln, who came to BARNWELL after the War Between the States, was the subject of a feature in The People-Sentinal by Joyce O’Bannon.

The doctor, who took issue with Lincoln’s stand and became a Confederate surgeon, later practiced medicine in Barnwell and employed an usual plan: he offered a flat rate of $50 a year for taking care of an entire family’s needs.

THANKS

Lightning ran into an electric range in the home of Early Watson of DUNCAN, recently, and knocked out the range clock.

Watson could not fix it.

A month later, lightning ran into the range again and this time it made the clock start working again.