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PAGE TEN THE GREENVILLE NEWS. GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2 6. 1 9 67 Old Stone Church In Pickens County Found Strangled jCease-Fire I Is Violated I Along Suez Constitutionality Of Annexation To Be Tested In Pickens Hearing I rustee Says Some Negro Schools Should Be Closed However, he said that in long- I TEL AVIV, Israel TAP) Egypt and Israel traded mortar; iand machine cun fire Monday, ibreakine the Suez cease-fire for! the eighth time this month. lnW it.

I. HI) Opponents of the annexation claim that intersection of a municipality's boundaries by the alteration of a county's boundary lines is unconstitutional under the state constitution. Pickens County will be represented by John T. Gentry of Easley and David Freeman of Greenville and Oconee will be represented by Edward N. Nine-stein of Walhalla and W.

H. Arnold of Greenville. PICKENS A hearing on the constitutionality of annexation of the Old Stone Church area from Oconee to Pickens County will be held here Monday. Circuit Judge Wade S. Weath-erford Jr.

of Gaffney will preside at the hearing which has been pending since Oconee County filed suit against Pickens County last Feb. 23. Annexation of the dispute area was approved in a referendum last November and subsequently ratified by Gov. Robert E. McNair.

The seven-square mile area includes the main campus of Clemson University and a large textile plant. Oconee claims that the annexation was unlawful and unconstitutional because the altered boundary passes through Clemson University which was created as a municipal corporation by the General Assembly. Juvenile Corrections Programs Criticized I. By CHARLES FALL News Staff Writer PICKENS A Pickens Coun- scno)1 recommended here Monday that sparsely at tended Negro schools in the county be closed because they are economically unfeasible. Dr.

Chester R. Freeze of Central told school board members during a regular meeting that some of the county's Negro schools should be closed "in spite of integration and courts." The district has recently been cited by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) for non compliance with federal desegregation guidelines. I not an extremist on this," Freeze, said, "but I want us to make some kind of move." He said there are instructors in some of the Negro schools teaching only 10 pupils per classroom, in comparison to crowded conditions in White schools where one teacher may serve 40 pupils. He recommended that board members work toward phasing out the smaller Negro schools by next year and that they con sider adding additional class rooms to accommodate the re sulting increase in students. He said that as long as the small Negro schools continue to operate they will be an "econo mic drain" on the schools sys tem.

Board chairman W. A. Robin son Jr. of Easley said most of the schools in the county are already full and there would be no place to accommodate addi tional students if the Negro schools were closed. Results From Suit iX EDINBURGH, Scotland A 19 year old Eureka, Calif, girl, Anita Harris was found strangled at a campside near Edinburgh, Scotland, last week.

Police said she had been dead for about three weeks. She was a 19G3 graduate of Eureka High School and had attended Reed College in Portland, for two years (AP Wirephoto) Beyond 46S Miles Injunction Is Signed By Judge Against GE Long-Distance Telephone Rates Will Be Cut Nov. 1 been going on for some time and that he would welcqme others. "I just got overlooked," Caldwell said. The juvenile board is over correctional schools for boys and girls in Florence and Columbia.

Most of the youngsters sent there are second and third offenders, Caldwell said. Caldwell also met board approval when he recommended the board directorship encompass all the correctional schools and not only three. He said the board would like to present one unified budget for the total program rather than for each school presenting individual money requests. The governor said that the board was given a director two years ago with that in mind and said it should be a reality now. "I think you'll find a very receptive ear," McNair said.

"We fully intended to see you move in tnis direction two years ago. Caldwell said his board would meet soon and discuss the pro posal in time for submission of a report to the Budget and Control Board. 12 Victims Of Weekend S.C. Violence By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS South Carolina counted at least 18 violent deaths during the weekend, with traffic fatal ities leading the toll. In Laurens County a fishing accident in a lake claimpd the life of Robert Poole, 64, of Clinton.

Frank Capers of Bowman died when his home burned. A Lynchburg area shooting was fatal to Ike Dingle, 30. Two Lynchburg men, Mack Samuel and Charles Solomon both 28, died when their car wrecked near Bishopville. Sharon Sellers, 21, of Lock-port, N. was killed in a two- car collision west of Chester.

Killed in single car accidents were Jeremiah Thomas, 19, of Springfield; David Childs Walker, 13, of Baltimore, Walter Francis Conway 23, of Shaw Air Force Base; Gade Davis 28, of Manning; Sam uel George Brown, 33, of Eu tawville; and James Rhodes 26, of Ninety Six. 2 Pendleton Youths Win FFA Junket ANDERSON Two members of the Pendleton chapter, Future Farmers of America, won trips to the national FFA con vention in Kansas City at the Anderson Fair Monday night. Johnny Martin won the trip in dairy cattle fitting and showmanship, and Steve McAlister won in beef cattle fitting and showmanship. Stuart Glenn, member of the McDuffie FFA chapter, placed second, and will be alternate in dairy cattle. Roger Jett of the Pendleton chapter will be the alternate in beef cattle.

Federal Judge Donald S. Russell has signed an injunction against General Electric Co. which restrains the company from removing its computer system from offices of Springs Mills at Lancaster and requires maintenance and repair of the equipment until the effective date of the order ends next Feb. 28. In addition, the injunction requires Springs to pay $13,650 monthly in bond money, begin ning as of Oct.

1, to be ap plied to operation of the sys tem. The court order was filed last Friday with the U. S. clerk of court's office here after Judge Russell had heard oral arguments in the case last week. The injunction proceedings came as a result of a $3 mil-linn suit filed by Springs against GE alleging the de Anderson range planning the board will have to consider some disposi tion of smaller schools in the county.

Robinson reported that the district had answered charges made by HEW's original noncompliance citation and they have been forwarded to the S.C. attorney general's office to be studied and sent to Washington. A in Superintendent James C. Brice reported that construction at the new Liberty High School is expected to he completed by Oct. 1 and rights of way are expected to he gained soon for an access road to the new Pickens Junior High School.

Both schools were originally scheduled to be completed by the opening of school in August. Classes are being conducted at the Liberty school, but the jun ior high has not been opened. The board voted to appoint a committee of board members to study the feasibility of naming an advisory council on the county's vocational education system. The council would advise the board and serve as an intermediary between the vocational system and area industry and businesses. Payment of $11,600 to Pied mont Engineers and Architects for specifications and plans for expansion at the county's vocational education center was also approved by the board.

The $300,000 expansion program is to be financed with $240,000 in federal funds and $60,000 in local funds. The grant has been approved, but the actual federal allocation has not been made. By Springs fendant company failed to fulfill terms of a contract for installation of a computer system at the Springs administrative office. Springs asked the injunction against an alleged "threat" by GE to remove its machines by Sept. 20.

Springs contended in its original complaint "failure of equipment and of the defendant to perform as warranted" and alleged that a time schedule was not met for completion of computer installation. The plaintiff alleged that this "has delayed the plaintiff in progressing at a satisfactory level in operations it proposed to carry out" with the computer conversion. As a result, Springs contended, the plaintiff "has and will be damaged to the amount of $3 million." Johrstcn said he had samt questions in his mind since Duke Power which supplies water for the City of Anderson, alsi serves water customers outside the city. A. M.

Doolittle, Duke Power District Co. manager, presented to council his company's request to the State Public Service Commission for an increase in water rates. Mayor Johnston stated the council would study the matter, and if ieu me company was not justified in asking for the increase, the city would ap- opposition In other matters, council: Amended a section of the taxi ordinance permitting an increase In rales from 45 cents to 53 cents for the basic rate; from 10 cents for each additional one third mile to to 10 cents for each additional one-fourth mile, and for waiting, from $3 to $4 an hour. Hired two new city policemen: Roger Lee Whitmore, 24, 508 Montague St. and Charles Gerald Vickery, 24, 508 W.

Mar-ket St. Adopted all recommendations of the planning and zoning commission, including approval of ccnstruclinn of 32 apartments on a 1,000 foot property on Highway 81, but disapproved a change "to business zoning for an additional 055 feet frontage of the property, since the use was not specified. Charlie Hailstock LAURENS Funeral serv-ices for Charlie (Pete) Hailstock, 70, who died Thursday in a Laurens hospital, were conducted Monday at 4 p. m. a Bethel AME Church.

Burial was in Old Laurens Cemetery. He was a native of Laurens. and a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hailstock.

Surviving are two sons, Robert and Willie Hailstock ol Washington, D. two brothers, Arthur and Samuel Hailstock of Mt. Vernon, N. three sisters, Mrs. Lola Jones of Washington, Mrs.

Martha Thompson and Mrs. Mary Davis of Laurens. Coins Funeral Home was In charge. WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Communications Commission made public Monday the details of a $100 million re duction in long-distance tele-hone charges but at the same time it included a $15 million hike in some telephone charges. The cuts are the result of FCC's order of July 5 following the end of the first phase of its investigation into the financial structure of American Telephone and Telegraph Co.

The FCC ordered a $120 million reduction but later delayed $20 million of the decrease until next year. The new rates, which will become effective Nov. 1, will reduce charges for most station-to-station and person-to-person calls beyond 468 miles. But the Commission noted that intrastate telephone calls up to 24 miles distant will be increased by $15 million with the hikes to amount to 5 cents for the first three minutes. An FCC statement said the short haul increases are designed to improve the relationship between rates and the costs of providing short distance telephone service and will particularly benefit independent tele phone companies which handle much short haul traffic and which apply Bell System rates.

The rate cuts will be accom Israel, near the old frontier with Jordan, a terrorist bomb killed a 3-year-old boy. The Suez battle was preceded, according to an Israeli account, by a few minutes of Egyptian automatic weapons fire near Great Bitter Lake, 19 miles south of Ismailia on the Suez Canal. The Israelis did not respond and the shooting died down. An hour and a half later, Arab machinegunners and mortar-men opened up on Israeli positions in Sinai, on the east bank of the deserted waterway, the Israeli army said. It said the Israelis returned the fire, and shooting continued sporadically for three hours until United Nations observers restored the cease-fire.

No Israeli casualties were re ported. Piedmont Post Office Bids Taken After Oct. 3 News Capital Bureau WASHINGTON Bids for a new post office in Piedmont, S. will be received from Oct. 3 to Nov.

1 for the facility to be built on the south side of State Rt. 86 on the east side of Saluda River. The present Post Office facility is located in the lower level of Beattie Hall on Main Street. The entire postal operation is now housed within a area. The new building will be constructed on a portion of a park ing lot formerly used as a part ing lot by J.

P. Stevens Co. Inc. The successful bidder will lease the building to the Post Office Department for 10 years, with four five-year renewal op tions. Interior space of 4,380 square feet is needed, with 581 square feet of platform and 6,114 square feet of parking area.

Rep. Robert T. Ashmore of Greenville and Sens. Ernest F. Hollings and Strom Thurmond announced the bidding dates.

Cystic Fibrosis IsNearingGoal It was reported yesterday that $10,400 of the $12,000 goal of the fund drive of the Greenville-Spartanburg chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has been achieved. Mrs. Leroy Hoagland, office manager, said 85 per cent of the campaigners' kits are in. She said a final report is anticipated in a week or so. Additional contributions may be made in care of Mrs.

Hoagland, 207 Melbourn Lane. An intensive fund campaign was conducted Sept. 5-8 in Greenville and Sept. 11-15 out of town. FLOOD (Continued from Page One) Mexico floodway system, was at record height.

Government officials in Mexi co City said Beulah's fury had left more than 100,000 homeless in the flood region from Camar- go, Mexico just across the border from Rio Grande City, Tex. to Matamoros at the mouth of the river. Flashing flooding broke out in Reynosa, Mexico Monday. The Weather Bureau warned all those living between the lev ee and the Rio Grande from be low Anzalduas Dam to the Gulf of Mexico to evacuate immedi ately. Newsmen and police on the scene reported there were few persons in the area.

Most had been chased away by flood ing Sunday night. Water still rose on the Arroyo and evacuations continued in Harlingen Monday afternoon. The previous record water depth was 34.2 feet in the 1958 flood. Most of the other South Texas rivers sent out of their banks by the hurricane's 20- and 30-inch rains last week slowly receded Monday, although many re mained above flood stage. The Red Cross said it still had 44,40.3 Beulah refugees sheltered Monday.

The Rio Grande from Rio Grande City to the Gulf will ex perience one of trie greatest floods on record during the next few days," the Weather Bureau said. The Gulf of Mexico is 110 miles down river from Rio Grande Citv. The big river was already 21.5 feet at Mercedes, a half-foot above flood stage, with a pre dicted crest Wednesday of 24.5 feet. That would be one foot above the record of 23.5 feet sot on April 27, 1949. Rolling, debris-laden water in the Arroyo Colorado at Harlingen inundated homes in the $50,000 bracket.

Some of the wealthiest families in the fruit-rich Lower Rio Grande Valley live in the stricken Prices Hiked On American Motors Cars DETROIT (UPI) American Motors Corp. joined the "big three" Monday in hiking prices on 1968 model cars but boasted that its Drice tags still were lower than those of its competi tors. AMC, smallest of the major U. S. auto makers, said prices of its American and Rebel lines were up an average of $89, or 3.8 per cent.

The increases compared with those announced last week by General Motors which boosted its prices an average of $110 or 3.6 per cent, and Ford Motor which upped prices an average of $114 or 3.9 per cent. Chrysler Corp. boosted its prices an average of $133, or 4.6 per cent, on 1968 models and there has been speculation the firm might roll its prices back to meet its competitors. AMC priced its new Javelin, a sporty car out for the fist time in the 1968 line, at $2,459 for the basic six cylinder model and said the price was $120 lower than the Ford Mustang, sales king of the sporty field, $134 lower then the Plymouth Bar racuda and $106 lower than the Chevrolet Camaro. AMC, depending on its 1968 models to end a sales slump which has plunged the firm deeply into the red, said it could not give a comparative price on its ambassador models because this year's Ambassadors have air conditioning as a standard item.

2-Connty Area Employment Up Slightly For August The local office of the S. C. State Employment Service has reported that employment in the Greenville standard metro politan statistical area (includ ing Greenville and Pickens counties) was up slightly in Augusta while unemployment dropped seasonally. The labor force, totaling 131,700, was at the same level as a year ago Nonagricultural and manufac turing employment rose from July to August but August fig ures these categories were below those for comparative periods of last year. In July, salaried employment in both fields had reached lowest points this year as a result of production cutbacks, prolonged vacation periods and temporary layoffs, according to labor market information supplied by the SCSES.

Nonagricultural wage and salary employment was up 300 in August over July to 108,000, but 300 below August of last year, and manufacturing employment totaled, up 400 from July to August stood at 41,900. This, however, was 1,900 below the August 1966 figure. The August unemployment total was down 900 from July at a total of 5,300, but was 1,300 above the estimate a year ago. COTTON LOSS RALEIGH CottDn growers in North Carolina estimated their 1913 boll weevil loss at about $25 million, one of the worst years both for growers end processors. tem; Dr.

David F. Watson, who will be moderator; Dr. Charlton P. Amstrotig; Dr. Willard B.

Mills, and Dr. Frank H. Stell-ing. Mr. Toomey and Dr.

Frank Wrenn will be joined in a recreation panel by Dr. Dill B. Beckman, director cf the state vocational rehabilitiation program. Later Mr. Parker and Burt H.

Moore will lead an informal discussion session. Recommendations from the Greenville workshop and three other institutes will be included in a report to the governor next summer. The report will set forth a program whereby every disabled person in the state will have vocational rehabilitation services available to him by 1975. Registration for the first part of the institute begins at 3:45 p.m. and for the second part at 5:45 p.m.

Following a dinner session, the meeting is expected to adjourn by 8:30 p.m. By DOUGLAS MAULDIN Greenville News Bureau 604 Columbia Buildina COLUMBIA The chairman of the State Board of Juvenile Corrections called Monday for better testing and counseling for juvenile offenders. Wylie H. Caldwell of Florence told the State Budget and Con trol Board that juvenile author! ties know little about the boys and girls under their care and have little way of finding out about them. "We have been spinning our wheels, Caldwell said, describing the programs which have gone on.

He said the young inmates can only be kept for about six months because of the space shortage and they can't be given proper training during that brief time. WOULD USE OTHER STAFFS Caldwell suggested his board be allowed to use the professional staffs of other state agen cies in analyzing and testing the juveniles and making medical and physchological determinations. Such testing, Caldwell said, would give authorities the insight necessary to decide where individuals should be sent for training so they could be best prepared to return to society. "We just don't know anything about them as it is," Caldwell lamented. Gov.

Robert E. McNair, chairman of the Budget and Control Board now conducting budget hearings said Caldwell's suggestion had merit and should be pursued. He suggested that a mobile unit of the S. C. Department of Mental Retardation out of Charleston could possibly be used in the medical and psychological examination Caldwell mentioned.

The governor also suggested that youngsters could be bused to the various state vocational training schools for classroom instruction every day. USE FEDERAL FUNDS Caldwell said his board would like to take advantage of federal funds available for such activities as long as they can be used and not just accepted because they are available. He called for meetings of directors of various state agencies to discuss ways they might be of mutual assistance. McNair replied with a smile that these type meetings have MY by Billy Graham JZ I read that you believe that the world is headed for a Utopia, even though it may be a thousand years away. Do yon refer to the so called millenium that the Bible speaks of, or do you believe that things are going to get better and better until we arrive at Utopia? Please answer if you can.

B. W. Although we should do our best to improve conditions in the world we live in, and should not discourage scientific advancement, the Bible teaches that a man made Utopia is an Idle dream. Human history bears out the fact that intellectual development and spiritual development are not one and the same. In speaking of the "last days," the Bible says that knowledge will increase, that faith in God will decline.

Tt asks the question: "When the Son of man comes will he find faith on the earth?" The difficulty is this: the more knowledgeable men become, the less they are inclined to rely upon the grace of God, and the more self sufficient they become. This needn't be true, for many men of towering intellect are Christians. But it is too often true, and the rank and file are inclined to equate knowledge with unbelief, and faith with ignorance. But the Bible incites men to wisdom: to the pursuit of both knowledge and spiritual wisdom. They needn't be divorced from each other.

But too often they are, and because they are, in spile of our knowledge, with all the good things science gives us, the world will get progessively worse: until Christ comes, and He will bring the perfect society. I)ial-A-Prayer 233-6841 Garbage Can Debate Causes Council Feud 1 plished mainly by changes in hours of present reduced rates, institution of a new midnight to 7 a.m. rate, and application of the night rate to holidays. Ihe changes include: Reducing the $2 day time rate on coast-to-coast calls to $1.75. Reducing the evening rate for coast-to-coast calls from $1.50 to $1.25, applying the rate from 5 p.m.

rather than the pre sent 6 to 8. Extending the $1 coast-to-coast rate from its present 8:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday and all day Sunday to 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Expanding the $1 coast-to-coast rate from its present 8 p. m. to 4:30 a. m. Monday through Saturday and all day Sunday to 7 p.

m. to 7 a. m. Mon day through Friday plus all day Saturday and Sunday and Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day, July 4 and Labor Day. Inauguration of a midnight to 7 a.m.

rate of 75 cents on coast-to-coast calls when customers dial the numbers themselves. Reduction of the day per-scn-to-person rate from $3.50 to $3.30, coast-to-coast. Reduction of the night per son-to-person rate from $3 to $2.85, coast-to-coast. papers and owner of a radio station there; and Southeastern into the new corporation, Multimedia, is expected to be completed Jan. 1.

Stockholders of the three companies, meeting separately, recently agreed to the merger. Woodruff Tax Will Be Held At 60 Mills WOODRUFF Woodruff will keep its tax millage at 60 mills during the next fiscal year, Woodruff City Council voted Monday. Council also passed an ordinance limiting the examination of Woodruff public records to "reasonable hours and for specific reasons." The ordinance was passed to seekers, said Mavor Bill Cox. for mayor in the next election, told council he was refused ac cess to public records last week. He protested an administrative order handed down by Cox requiring permission from council or the mayor before records could be examined.

The records now must be examined in the presence of a department head. Mayor Cox reported that 300 postcards had been returned by Woodruff residents in favor of a bond election to finance a proposed sewer project. The mayor said 600 favorable signatures would be needed to call the X''' i' inairnniiriliwti liiiM'itt) By SARA V. LIVER ANTE News Staff Writer ANDERSON The long record of harmony in Anderson City Council meetings was abruptly broken Monday night when an alderman, protesting the new garbage collection plan, flatly announced he had no intention of obeying a previously unenforced regulation on the size of garbage cans. Alderman Rufus Moorhead, discussing the new "train" gar base collection system, asked about the request that all resi dents use garbage cans na larg FCC Approves License Transfer To Multimedia er than 32 gallons and was betore the commission in The Federal Communications Commission has approved the application for transfer of licenses of Southeastern Broadcasting Corp.

to the proposed Multimedia, Inc. Notice of the approval was received here yesterday. The licenses for WFBC radio and television stations at Greenville, WBIR radio and television stations at Knoxville. and WMAZ radio and television stations at Macon, were: involved. The merger of the Green ville News-Piedmont pub-' lishers of the Greenville news papers and owner of 49 per cent of Southeastern Broadcasting and of 75 per cent of the Ashe-ville Citizen-Times the Asheville Citizen-Times publishers of the two news Man Held In Death Vocational Rehabilitation Institute Convenes Today that the size was stipulated in an ordinance long on the books but not enforced.

"I have been using a 55-gal- lon steel drum for 30 years, and I intend to keep on using it," Moorhead declared. Expressing extreme surprise at Moorhead's stand, Mayor William Johnston said Moorhead would have to comply with the law or his garbage would not be picked up. "Then I'll quit paying city taxes," Moorhead replied heatedly. A check of the records following the meeting revealed that Moorhead was an alderman when on Oct. 8, 1956, the city code was revised, including a provision that garbage cans should hold no more than 32 gallons.

Following the heated discus sion Alderman Sam Fretwcll moved, on recommendation of Mayor Johnston, that council go on record as commending the sanitation committee for its work in planning the new garbage collection system. With the three members of the sanitation committee refraining, the commendation vote was four to one, with Alderman Moorhead I in opposition. The council voted unanimously to consider another project which usually results in contro versy a referendum on fluoridation of the water supply. The request was mr.de by Dr. W.

E. Baldwin, health officer. Council voted for City Attorney Charles Welborn to make a studv of the matter and report at the next meeting. Mayor Of Plnrlnttn "fishing expeditions" on Wl VJllUllUUL VJlll public records bv curiousitv CHARLOTTE tPi Alexander! Thompson, 21, of Charlotte, wasj W. D.

Harrison, who has an-bound over to the grand jury i nounced he will be a candidate An institute "to open up bet ter channels of communications among medical, hospital, and vocational rehabilitation per sonnel" convenes at Greenville General Hospital today at 4 p.m. The institute, part of Gov. Robert E. McNair's statewide vocational rehabilitation planning program, is expected to draw about 125 members from the health profession for the three part session. "We'll be given an overview of national happenings in vocational rehabilitation, Including future trends," explained DeWitt Parker, supervisor of the Greenville area office of the S.

C. Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. Problems to be discussed will be those experienced throughout the slate, not just peculiar to this area, he added. Mr. Parker will participate in the institute program, along with Robert E.

Toomcy, director of the Greenville Hospital Sys Monday, charged with man- slaughter in the shooting of a 15-year-old girl Saturday night. Thompson was being held on $1,000 bond. Witnesses testified that Thompson thought the gun was empty when he pointed it at Gertrude Smith and pulled the trigger. Testimony also disclosed that Melvin Lee Stafford, also of Charlotte, and Thompson" were examining the rifle prior to the shooting. WIDE RIVER The Amazon River is about 400 miles wide at its mouth.

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