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reds Mar 6 1 By Senator Riley. Others Juichly. Decisively Deteated News Columbia Burean COLUMBIA four -pronged plan by Sen. Richard W. Riley of Greenville and others to aid Incal school districts, provide a homestead exemption for the elderly and balance the state budget was quickly and decisivey defeated by the Senate Wednesday.

Even Sens. Harry A. Chapman Jr. and Charles G. Garrett of Greenville voted against Riley and with the majority which tabled the proposal on a roll call vote 26-16.

Sen. Thomas A. Wofford of Greenville supported the measure, sponsored by Sen. Kenneth Rentiers, D-Charleston. Riley proposed adjustments in personal income tax schedules which increased the levy on upper income brackets to raise an additional $6.1 million to carry out his proposals.

Chief among them was to provide for a $5,000 homestead exemption plan for homeowners over 65 years old. Under the plan, the state would have reimbursed counties granting the exemptions as they would not lose revenues. Some $2.7 million would be provided for that purpose. The Riley proposal also called, for distributing $1.1 million to local school districts on a per pupil basis. Another $1.8 million would be used to replace expected revenues for the escheat fund and to replace $400,000 row expected from the state sinking fund.

The last two measures, Riley felt, would be necessary to bring the state budget bill into balance. The increases in income taxes proposed would not have affected persons with taxable incomes of less than $12,000 and there would have been no change for taxpayers in the $15,000 to $20,000 bracket. Riley contended that even for those taxpayers with high lea salaries, the additional state taxes would have given them some relief from federal personal income taxes they now pay. In an appeal for the homestead exemption for persons over 65, Riley told the Senate, "You can't compare the needs of the elderly with anything else. We're talking about the problems of all South The senator, chairman of a problems of the aged, said with legislative committee studying the $5,000 exemption from ty, special service and school taxes, elderly citizens would to again participate actively in community affairs.

"They would be continually active," Riley said, "and not in an undesirable position of opposing progress to protect the food on their table and their very own livelihood." The Greenville senator expressed doubts that the state can set up the escheat program to collect dormant saving accounts this year in time to claim the $1.8 million it has been estimated it will bring in the first year. Riley predicted that reliance on the escheat fund would Leave the state in the red. As for the rebate to school districts, Riley said local officials are more aware of their school needs than is the state. He called his income tax revision plan "a very innocuous and painless tax increase" amounting to about one per cent of the total state budget. U.

S. Steel Announces Increase In Prices Effective June 16 NEW YORK (UPI) Steel Corp. Wednesday increased its prices for large volume steel sheet and strip products by $8.50 to $13 a ton, effective with shipments June 16 and July 1. The increases, which U.S. Steel said averaged 6 1-4 per cent, affect products used by the auto, appliance and other industries.

The boosts generally had been expected because the steel industry has been boosting prices on most of its products this year as fast as the 12- month price freeze guarantees attached to the 1970 price hike round expired. In Washington, a spokesman for the President's Council of Economic Advisers said the price increases were "not particularly surprising" and the steel industry "apparently considers this their annual increase." He said a much greater worry to economic planners is the possibility of further increases this year to offset higher wage The 1 price boosts costiat rolled products are close to the level which the Nixon administration apparently found acceptable when construction steel products went up last March. One producer had posted increases of $16 to $17 per ton on construction steels, but later substituted increases of $9 to $12 per ton after U.S. Steel came in at that level. The price freeze guarantee on most flat rolled steel products was due to expire June 1, but major producers extended it for, 15 days, reportedly at the request of the auto makers to give them more time to lay in stocks at the old price.

Athough the steel industry is preparing to negotiate new wage pacts with the United Steelworkers of America to replace a contract expiring Aug. 1, steel industry officials have emphasized that the price boosts. posted so far are a "catching-up" operation and are not designed to compensate for any additional wage cost increases they may incur. Industry sources also have indicated that a second round of price boosts is possible in the second half of this year to compensate for any wage hike. Bethlehem Steel the nation's second largest producer, has calculated that, should the USW settlement like the three-year, 30 per cent-plus pact won from the can makers in March, it would have to boost its steel prices across the board by eight per cent a year for three years "just to stay even." The price boosts posted by Big Steel Wednesday, which other producers are expected to follow include: -A $9 a ton increase on hot rolled sheet and strip, effective June 16.

-An $8.50 a ton increase on hot rolled bands, effective June 16. a ton increase on galvanized sheet, aluminum coated and long terne sheets, OBITUARIES Other Deaths On Page 8 Mrs. Rilla Scruggs HENDERSONVILLE, N. Mrs. Rilla Miller Scruggs, 66, of 608 Kanuga died Wednesday.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Thomas Shepherd Funeral Home. David Woodruff GREER David Woodruff, infant son of Jessie James and Margaret Dodd Woodruff of Rt. 2, Greer, died Wednesday. Surviving also are two sisters, Miss Pamela Shell Woodruff and Miss Margaret Ella Woodruff of the home; a brother, James Ellis Woodruff of the home; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

John Dodd of Greer, and Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe W. Woodruff of Taylors. Graveside services will be Fridav at 11 a.m.

at St. Paul United Methodist Church cemetery. M. B. Callaham Funeral Home.

Mrs. W. Harrison Orr PICKENS Mrs. Delnora at 3 p.m. Friday.

development. Alexander Orr. 87, widow of W. Harrison Orr, died Wednesday. A native of Oconee County, daughter of the late Elijah and Liza Robinson Alexander, she was a member of Greenville Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Luther, M. Hurdt of Anderson, and Mrs. David T. Gilstrap.

and Mrs. Ruby Hendricks of Pickens; six sons, Ira, Roy, Charlie and Walter Orr of Pickens, David Orr of Travelers Rest and Dewey Orr of Greenville; a sister, Miss Dessie Alexander of Salem; a brother, Edgar Alexander of Salem; five grandchildren; nine great -grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be Friday at 5 p.m. at Dillard Funeral Home. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.

The body is at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David T. Gilstrap, 403 E. Cedar and will be returned to the funeral home at 3 p.m.

Friday. A Look At Major Antiwar Protests Around U.S. tear gar wandered a Co through He re a') our sit.n financ.al district. ran a meted De sons 44 In COLLEGE PARK, Md. (UPI) -Police used tear gas Wednesday to force about 1,000 University of Maryland student war protesters to abandon a human blockade on busy U.S.

Route The state police 'helmeted tactical squads, called to the scene by Gov. Marvin Mandel, were pelted with and bottles before they turned the tear gas on the protesters. More than a dozen protesters were arrested as the police chased them back into the campus, firing a barrage of tear gas every time they tried to regroup. Newsmen were barred from the campus. Mandel, who blamed the demonstration on "outsiders," also placed some 1,200 National Guardsmen on alert after the students overtook the highway.

The blockade followed a rally where the students heard a speech by antiwar activist Rennie Davis. The students were located on a section of busy highway which bisects the sprawling University of Maryland campus, only a few miles from the District of Columbia line. The protesters, many of them veterans of the Washington protests of the past two weeks, set a gasoline compressor afire. Others carried wood on to the road to add to the blockade. Chanting "ROTC MUST GO," they went to the highway after a march on the university administration building.

About 100 students stayed at the administration building for a sit-in, demanding to talk to Chancellor Charles Bishop. The chancellor said he would meet with the protesters outside the building, but they refused to budge. NEW YORK (UPI)-One rally was moved to save newly seeded grass, another ended prematurely with a bandshell Yorkers, most of them young. marked the anniversary Wednesday of the shootings of Kent State and Jackson State sities with antiwar protests of a variety of sorts. Most were peaceful.

The largest began late in the afternoon, when some 5,000 persons assembled on a one-block stretch of 40th street in midtown Manhattan that was banned to traffic. The rally originally was scheduled to be held in nearby Bryant Park, scene of a number of antiwar rallies in recent years, but city officials moved it to the street at the last minute to save the newly seeded park grass. Earlier, about 1,500 persons, most of them high school students, grouped for a rally at the Central Park bandshell. But that gathering ended turely when a group of some two dozen black high school students mounted the stage wrestled briefly with rally organizers for their bullhorns and began shouting black power slogans. MADISON.

Wis. (UPI) tar at the Unversity of Wisconsin. The disturbance followed a noontimes rally persons until midafternoon when, after at least three major confrontations, police succeeded in reducing the number of participants. Milwaukee, some 2,000 to 3,000 youths marched through the city's downtown area after an antiwar rally, held another rally in front of the marched County Courthouse and then towards the War Memorial on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Police moved into the group and it dispersed.

About 400. of the demonstrators then regrouped at Juneau Park on the lake front where they again were dispersed after a flat-raising ceremony including a flag representing the "Woodstock Nation." KENT. Ohio (UPI)-A Kent State University building housing the ROTC was reopened Wednesday when a hard core of student demonstrators began bickering among themselves classroom bulaing but were no incidents. About 500 demonstrators, led, by KSU "Yippie" leader Jerry Persky, began the sit Tuesday afternoon following four days commemoration for the four Kent State students shot to death by National Guard troops here May 4, 1970. Many of the demonstrators spent Tuesday night bundled up in blankets to ward off the 40 degree, temperature.

Their main food was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. A majority of the demonstrators left after leaders asked them if they wanted to "stay and be arrested." About 80 students remained at the building, blocking the entrances until they began bickering among themselves around noon. SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-An estimated 1,000 anti-war demonstrators staged rallies at the Bank of America headquarters and Standard Oil Co. buildings Wednesday, then broke up into small groups, Seven Upstate S. C.

Students Named Merit Scholarship Winners Seven upstate South Carolina high school students, including a Wade Hampton High School senior, have been named Merit Scholarship winners. They are among 700 such winners across the country. James R. Shaw, son of Mr. and Mrs.

R.V. Shaw of 2 Azalea Court, Greenville, was named recipient of the scholarship sponsored by Wofford College. Shaw becomes the third Wade Hampton student named as winner this year. The others are Suzanne Edwards, winner of the Liberty Corporation sponsored. scholarship, and of the Dreyfus Scholarship sponsored by Celanese.

Students from Parker and Greenville high schools were named winners in previous announcements. They Thomas E. Nicoll of Parker, winner of the Riegel Textile scholarship and Francis B. DeLoache, Greenville High winner of the Field Enterprises Educational Corporation scholarship. Besides Shaw, the other upstate scholars named in the third of three announcements serving the south Rhodes since 1875 salE, Whether you are a Young Homemaker (or young-at-heart), just starting out (or starting over), on a buying binge (or on a budget) you'll like the furnishings and the prices you'll find at Rhodes! Take advantage of Rhodes 96 years of 68-store re buying power BOTH SPELL for young homemakers GREENVILLE-100 E.

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BOSTON (UPI) Thousands, mostly of college age, gathered on sun-drenched Boston Common Wednesday for an antiwar rally at which Sen. Vance Hartke called for drying up "river of blood" known as the Indochina War. The Indiana Democrat also questioned whether the Indochina War "is unworthy of winning, for it would be a victory not for freedom but colonialism." The rally was the start of two days of antiwar protest in Boston. Demonstrators plan to ring the John F. Kennedy Federal Building, hopefully shutting down government agencies by standing shoulder to shoulder and refusing to let government workers enter the 26-story building.

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (UPI)- also effective June 16. -A $13 a ton increase on cold rolled sheet, effective July 1. U.S. Steel said the products affected account for about a third of all steel industry shipments.

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Two dozen anti-war demonstraI tors were arrested Wednesday while trying to block traffic into the sprawling Denver Federal Center and "close down" the site as part of nationwide antiwar activities. Approximately 100 persons gathered across from the Federal Center and attempted to halt federal employes entering the site around 7 a.m. Their supporters passed out leaflets to government workers and shouted encouragement to fellow demonstrators. German per capita consumption of plastics more than 100 pounds a year is the world's highest. E.

M. Moore Sr. Elvin M. "Dinty" Moore 72, of 102 Griffin Drive, died Wednesday. Born in Oconee County, he was the son of the late Lewis and Charlotte Moore Moore, and had lived most of his life in Spartanburg and Greenville counties, He retired from Southern Bell Telephone Co.

after 43 years was a member of the Telephone Pioneers Of America, and Francis Asbury United Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jennie Thomas Moore; a son, E. M. Moore Jr.

of Greenville; and two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Thomas McAfee Funeral Home. Mrs. Alma Rosemond Funeral services for Mrs. Alma Lee Rosemond, formerly of Easley, who died in Binghamton, N.

will be Friday at 4:30 p. m. at Easley Chapel United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Union Camp Ground United Methodist Church Cemetery. Surviving are a daughter Mrs.

Cora A. McCoy of Binghamton, New York; two sisters, Mrs. Maria Benson of Easley and Mrs. Levi Benson of Seneca; and three brothers, J. T.

Ashmore of Easley, Jehovah Ashmore of Norris and Riley Ashmore of Baltimore, Md. The body is at J. C. Moore Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday.

The family is at the home of Mrs. Maria Benson, 308 West Easley. Dillon To Get Federal Grant WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Strom Thurmond, announced Wednesday a $240,000 federal grant for water and sewer projects in Dillon, S.C. He said the economic development administration grant opened the for a $289.000 supplemental grant from the environmental protection agency and a $910,000 loan from the department of housing and urban development.

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