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PERFECTION IN TEXTILES—A SLATER FAMILY TRADITION SINCE 1790

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Old Slater Mill
PAWTUCKET, R. I.
EST. 1790

THE SLATER NEWS
Vol. 4 Slater, S. C., August 7, 1947 No. 37

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Slater Mill
SLATER, SO. CAROLINA
1943

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Community Party
Enjoyed By All

On Thursday night, July 18,
1947, the Slater Community
Association sponsored a party
for both children and grown-
ups of the community, which
was held at Slater Hall at 8:00
o'clock.

The evening's entertainment
began with the group singing
both old and popular songs.
Many thanks go to Misses Doris
Hargrove and Patricia Summey
for the musical service they
rendered so willingly.

Various types of relay games
and contests were enjoyed. Mr.
Robert H. Atkinson received
the prize for the Baby Bottle
Contest. The participants of
the Bubble Gum Blowing Con-
test were divided into three
groups. In the beginners' group,
the prizes were won by Sammy
Johnson and Peggy Scarce.
Awards for the middle-aged
group were presented to Dean
Vickers and Joyce Garrett,
while those for the grown-ups
were won by Pearl Ledford and
Sambo Knight.

During the evening, two cake
walks were held. In the child-
ren's group, Madge Robinson
and Max Vickers were the two
fortunate ones to draw the
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SOUTHERN COUNTRY
IS GOOD CUSTOMER

To many Americans, the
name Panama suggests only the
famous Canal, and the Canal
Zone lying adjacent thereto.
Actually, however, Panama is
an independent, busy and pro-
gressive republic, and one of
our steady customers, the Mid-
dle America Information
Bureau reports. At a recent
meeting of the Pan-American
Society held in New York to
honor Panamanian Ambassa-
dor Dr. Joaquin Jone Vallarino,
a director of the Society, Otto
Schoenrich stated that Panama
buys some 95% of its total im-
ports from us, and sells us 67%
of its exports. Most of these ex-
ports are agricultural in nature,
but do not compete with our
agricultural products.

The strongest commercial
ties, therefore, exist between
two republics. The develop-
ment of Panama as a free port
and distribution center, and
the stimulation of the North
American tourist trade will, in
the future, bring our two
peoples even closer together,
Dr. Vallarino believes.

But the ties that bind the
two countries are stronger than
merely commercial ones. The
people of Panama share the
same ideals as we. They have
sincere faith in the Pan-Amer-
ican system, and desire to co-
operate in every way with their
neighbors in the western hemis-
phere.

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Above is shown one of the trucks equipped with racks with which to haul beams. These racks
serve several useful purposes, such as keeping the yarn on the beams from becoming bruised and
to make loading and unloading easier.
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SCHOOL OPENING
SET BY BARNETT

The Slater - Marietta School
will begin its 1947-48 session
September 2, 1947, according to
a recent announcement made
by Mr. J. H. Barnett, Superin-
tendent.

The faculty consists of the
following: Mr. Ernest Sechrest,
Jr., Principal of the high
school; Mrs. Wilma Cox, His-
tory, Typing, and Shorthand;
Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes, Eng-
lish; Mrs. Mildred Batson,
Mathematics; Mrs. Lillian C.
Cleveland, Home Economics;
Mrs. Frances Buchanan,
Science; Mrs. Evelyn H. Til-
man, French and seventh
grade; Mrs. Blanche Martin,
seventh grade.

The elementary teachers are:
Mr. W. A. Woodruff, Jr., Prin-
cipal and fifth grade; Mrs.
Cecile Richey, sixth grade;
Mrs. Eleanor Forrest, sixth
grade; Miss Faye Ferree, fifth;
Miss Hattie Belle Forrest,
fourth; Miss Eloise Loftis,
fourth; Miss Betty Watkins,
third; Mrs. Frances Mann,
third; Mrs. Grace Griffin,
second; Mrs. Zozo Rose, second;
Mrs. Viola Lang, first, Mrs.
Helen McKinney, first; Miss
Kathleen Farnsworth, public
school music and piano.

All children are to report to
the school building the first day
of school for enrollment. Too,
all children entering school for
the first time must be six years
old on or before November 1,
1947. This is a regulation of the
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Richardson Wins
Army Promotion

Below is pictured T-5 H. S.
Richardson, Jr., son of of Mr.
and Mrs. Hines S. Richardson
of Slater, who was recently pro-
moted from Private First Class
to Technician Fifth Grade.

The young soldier is now
stationed with the Army of Oc-
cupation in Seoul, Korea, and
is a clerk-typist in the Adjutant
General Section of Headquart-
ers XXIV Corps.

T-5 Richardson graduated
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H. S. Richardson, Jr. who
was recently promoted from
Private First Class to T-5.
Young Richardson is serving in
Korea with the Army.

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SLATER BAPTISTS
MAKE PROGRESS

Many spring and early sum-
mer activities that are worthy
of note have been in progress
at the Slater Baptist Church.

The annual revival held in
the early springtime was a
great benefit to the community,
and afforded 17 new additions
to the church roll.

The first week in June was
the time of the Vacation Bible
School. This school was well at-
tended (with an average daily
attendance of 79), and the
corps of workers did a grand
job in their instruction and
leadership.

Church and Sunday School
officers were elected to take of-
fice the first of July, and since
that time the spirit of coopera-
tion and willingness to work
has been very evident.

On July 8, the W. M. S. pro-
gram was on China, so the pro-
gram committee secured Mrs.
Attie Bostick League of Green-
ville to give a short talk on
some of her experiences during
her 45 years as missionary to
China. At the close of the pro-
gram, the members of the W.
M. S. presented to Rev. and
Mrs. Charles Thompson with a
shower of household gifts for
their newly acquired summer
home at Rocky Bottom.

The last week in July saw a
Training Union enlargement
program under the leadership
of Miss Myrtle Sams, state
worker. This program included
a study course and new mem-
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New Orleans Is
Jazz Birthplace

Whether or not the rudi-
ments of jazz came to America
on slave ships is a wide open
question, but the new music
must have been nurtured by the
variegated traditions that made
up old New Orleans—city of Ca-
jun, Creole, black and white,
of river boats, street bands,
carnivals, colonaded mansions
and dusky dives.

Before the Civil War, slaves
gathered weekly for their na-
tive dances in a large square
at Orleans and Rampart Streets
called Congo Square. There, to
the beat of bamboulas and tom-
toms, the men stomped and
shouted, weaving around the
women intoning age-old chants.

The first instruments they
used they made themselves, but
lated they adopted the instru-
ments of the whites. Because
they had no teachers, their
music was made up largely of
improvisations. Work was
scarce for these newly-freed
slaves, so many of them filled
the interval between jobs with
music, for which there was
some demand at carnivals, pa-
rades, and parties.

One of the most common
legends surrounding the birth
of jazz is woven around a blind
Negro newsboy called "Stale
Bread," who supposedly used
an old fiddle to attract buyers
for his papers. The new music
he played worked so well that
other newsboys joined him to
form what may have been one
of the first ragtime bands,
"Stale Bread's Spasm Band."

Another story concerns a
blind trombonist whose impro-
visations and clowning in the
pit brought him a measure of
local fame. When asked about
the kind of music he played, he
was supposed to have replied,
"I dunno, jest jazz."

By the time the golden
trumpet of Buddy Bolden
sounded through New Orleans
about 1900, hot jazz was really
taking form. Remembered as
one of the "greats" in early jazz
annals, Bolden was not only a
trumpeter of fabulous power
and ability, but a New Orleans
"character" who ran a barber
shop and edited a juicy little
scandal sheet on the side. He
was in great demand for
parades, carnivals, and dances,
and his trumpet could be heard
for miles. Although his music
was too barrel-house for refined
tastes, it got so that a dance
just wasn't a dance without
"King" Bolden.

Freddie Keppard was an-
other of the early jazz greats
who played with the Olympia
Band, and later formed, with
other members of this group,
the original Creole Band which
toured the country and played
an extended engagement at the
Winter Garden in New York.

Another group of musicians
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