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Pretty I ired S.C. Appropriations Bill rocus senate 1 ft-1" COLUMBIA A -Attention of the South Carolina Legislature will be focused largely on the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday when lawmakers begin the 17th week of the 1969 session. The committee is working on the House-passed general appropriations bill, which carries increases in sales, cigarette and liquor taxes. The committee is under pressure to take action as soon as possible on a companion measure which stipulates that the proposed increase in the sales tax from 3 to 4 per cent be put into effect June 1. This means the extra revenue for the increased sales tax would be in the state coffers by the time the new fiscal year starts on July 1.

State expenditures for 1969-70 are geared to a full 12 months of sales tax revenues at the 4 per cent rate. The House is scheduled to consider a Senate-passed implied consent bill which would cause motorists to lose their licenses if they refuse to take a sobriety test. Also on the House calendar is a Senate-passed bill which calls for establishment of a state home for veterans as a facility of the Department of Mental Health. The House Education and Public Works Committee has scheduled a hearing Wednesday on a bill to create a college board of trustees for South Carolina. The proposed board, recommended by Gov.

Robert E. McNair, would oversee operations of Winthrop and South Carolina State colleges and the regional campuses of the University of South Carolina and Clemson University. The legislation also provides for USC's regional campus at Florence to expand to a four-year college and be renamed "Francis Marion State College." Opposition to the bill comes largely from Spartanburg legislators who contend the quality of education at the regional campuses will deteriorate if they are detached from USC and Clemson. aft 1 On inance Talks Concerning Highway 2 AW AJ 9 Relocation Run Into Snag Again Hendrix, "that they feel a fair market price has been offered." He said a reappraisal would i 1 MOBILE, Ala. Contestants in the Jun- Laura Beard of San Benito, Tex.

In the tor Miss Pageant take a break during re- background are Leslie Larson of Clackamas, hearsals at Mobile, Monday, resting for left, and Marcie Rubalcaba, Tempe, Tuesday's finals. Dozing in the foreground is Ariz. (AP Wirephoto) figures we are dealing with are not realistic. You appraise the land at what it is worth and we can get the rights-of-way." Holstein said that the departmtent has been forced to abandon projects in other places bacause of similiar problems. "The Highway Department would hate to abandon such a project as this," he said.

"A great deal of work and money has already been spent." He said construction costs would be about $1.5 million, but said he did not know the amount of funds available to buy the rights-of-way. District Highway Commissioner Kenneth Saylors of Anderson said he believes, after talks with Pearman and reevaluate the land and obtain all the rights-of-way at once was suggested by County Planning Commission Director Howard English. Holstein said the highway department is responsible to ail the taxpayers and can offer no more under state law than fair market value. He agreed to confer with Pearman and Hendrix about the possiblity of a complete reevaluation of the situation, based on the present fair market value of the property. He said such a reevaluation would take a minimum of six weeks, and that it would ba at least that long before the department could begin to make new offers to land owners.

have to cover all 79 parcels. Holstein said the Highway Department has the right to condemn all the proparty and let the courts decide on a price, "but it is the last thing we want to do." Sen. Snead Schumancher said that increasing industrial development along S. C. 28 makes the project "vital." He said, "If a complete reassessment is made, unless there is a fast concerted effort to get the easements signed, we will find outselves back in the same situation." A to work with the property owners to help PAGE FIFTEEN TUESDAY, MAY 6,1969 "We seem to be at a point where we need help," S.

O. Holstein state right-of-way engineer, said. "We feel the offers we have made are fair market value." Holstein said Chief Highway Commissioner S. N. Pearman and Highway Engineer Theron J.

Hendrix have agreed to begin condemnation proceedings when at least 60 per cent of the easements are signed. He said this is a deviation from department policy, which generally requires that 75 par cent of the easements be signed on a project before taking the remaining property owners into court. Bruce Rochester, local real estate agent, said, "We have reached an impass that we can't overcome and that you can't overcome unless you are realistic about today's prices. We have reached a dead end." Rochester said he doesn't believe it will be possible to obtain even 60 per cent of the rights-of-way at the 'offered prices. He said land sales in the area are now averaging 50 per cent above last year's prices.

Dr. Samuel B. Moyle of Walhalla told Holstein, "The By AUBREY BOWIE Oconee-Pickens Bureau WALHALLA State Highway officials were told here Monday that prices for rights-of-way must be increased to "today's fair market value" before easements can be obtained for relocating and widening S. C. 28 between Seneca and Walhalla.

A group of citizens, who met Monday morning with highway officials and the county legislative delegation, said the only way the stalemate between the Highway Department and property owners along the proposed relocation can be broken is for the department to increase its price for rights-of-way. The Highway Department has been working for more than a year to obtain rights-of-way for relocating and widening to four lanes a seven-mile stretch of S. C. 28 between the two Oconee County towns. A.

J. Boggs, the second right-of-way agent the department has had on the project, told the group that only 23 out of 70 parcels of land have been signed. He said this is about 30 per cent of the easements needed. Recreation In Appalachia State Odd Fellows Leaders Study ounty Is nveil Plan and will visit the other counties in the next few weeks. Bv AUBREY BOWIE Oconee-PICKENS BUREAU The purpose of the study will be to take a look at what we haw and try to determine what WALHALLA A proposed in-depth study of recreation needs and facilities in the six South Carolina Appalachian counties was unveiled Monday for the Oconee County Legislative need in the future," he said.

"I am thinking, tor example, in terms of large, intensive play areas that we don have in Delegation. now, but it is coming as our population reaches a higher density," he said. Brantley said he will seek opinions of local officials as the study progresses. "We want to come up with something that we can all live with," he said. He said he hopes initial phases of the study can be presented by an open meeting early in June.

Brantley said the study could show the need for developing a tri-county recreation district along the same lines the Tri-Countv Technical Education 'state parks." He said many counties don't have funds for development of individual facilities such as ball parks and golf courses. He said multi-county approach with a professionally trained parks administrator could be the answer. "I don't see this as getting in the way of any existing i programs, but as a support toi local activities," Brantley said. "The pressure for more recreation facilities is not here Dr. Herbert Brantley, head of Clemson Universi ty's department of recreation and parks administration, told the delegation that he is preparing the study under a contract to the state Appalachian Regional Commission.

Brantley said the first step, in the study is meetings with! the individual governing bodies; in Greenville, Spartanburg Anderson Cherokee. Oconee and Pickens counties. He said he has already discussed the study with the Spartanburg delegation. Center and other facilities serving Oconee, Pickens and Anderson 'have been developed. 4 S.C.

Schools Given $478,000 WASHINGTON (AP) The Department of Health, Education and. Welfare announced. Monday that grants totaling $478,000 have been approved for projects at four institutions of higher learning in South Carolina. The awards: The Citadel at Charleston, $214,272 for construction of additional facilities for the biology department. Benedict College at Columbia, $214,272 for a new health and physical education center.

The University of South Carolina, $43,333 for an addition to the music rehearsal hall. Converse College at Spartanburg, $5,900 to Dr. Charles G. Oakes for work on a syntax primer for use in elementary and high schools. The Office of Economic Opportunity has also approved a grant of $25,255 for the Salkehatchie Community Action Council in Allendale, S.

C. The funds will provide emergency food and medical services in Allendale, Barnwell and Hampton counties. Rcbekahs; C. A. Witt of Anderson, deputy grand master of Odd Fellows; and Mrs.

Mildred Hand of Rock Hill, vice president, Rebekahs. (Greenville News photo by Richard L. Williams) Roger F. Garrett, left, of Piedmont, is the new grand master of South Carolina Odd Fellows, in convention here Monday. Other officers of the state organization and its women's unit are, Mrs.

Mildred An-dreasen of North Charleston, president of the Walker On Vietnam Sen. Snead Schumacher said Oconee would like to be included in a regional meeting, but said the county's financial participation in such a program would depend on the overall concept of the project. He said the county's participation in some multi-county projects "have always been in our best interest." Fellow Inmate Orangeburg S. Has Won Military Battle7 Nine Patrolmen Plead Innocent Floridian Charged In Death New Officers Installed By Odd Fellows ITToh fl 10Rfl limnvincf cpvpra COLUMBIA (AP) Nine COLUMBIA (UPI) Murder charges were filed Monday against Paul Demps, of Jack Rock Hill sonville, for the weekend slaying of a fellow mate in the Richland County Jail. Demps, who was being held in the jail pending transfer to Turning to unrest at home.

Walker said, "A conspiratorial minority of infinestimal size cannot be allowed to impose its twill on or dictate terms to the 'peaceful and law-abiding vast majority." i For example, he went on, "The current attacks by the vocal new left cannot and must not be permitted to deprive our college students from their right to an ROTC program in our colleges. "College and university faculties and administrations which dignify groups of creeps by making concessions demands which are imposed by 3 Arrested; 2 Plants Picketed the state penitentiary to serve a 15-year sentence for bank rob' bery, allegedly killed Beryl South Carolina highway patrolmen accused of violating the civil rights of Negroes involved in a clash at Orangeburg last year pleaded innocent Monday in federal court. The state troopers are expected to go on trial before a federal court jury later this month. The site and date will be set later by U.S. District Judge Robert Martin Jr.

Charges were brought by the Justice Department in the wake of violence which left three young Negroes dead and 27 wounded on the fringe of the South Carolina State College campus at Orangeburg. The students were shot the night of nights of racial disturbance. Last year a federal grand jury refused to return indictments against any patrolmen. Later the Justice Department charged them with the misdemeanor of civil rights violation. Maximum sentence for the of.

fense is a fine of $1,000 or one year in prison, or both. The patrolmen charged are: Henry M. Addy, Charleston Heights; Norwood F. Bellamy, Florence; John W. Brown, Mc-Coll; Joseph H.

Lanier, Kings-tree; Colie M. Metts, Conway; Edward H. Moore, Dillon; Allen J. Russell, Manning; Jesse A. Spell, Columbia and Sidney C.

Taylor, Orangeburg. The South Carolina Odd Fellows will conclude their three-day convention here Tuesday after installing a new-slate of officers during the 150th anniversary of the grand lodge of I.O.O.F. Roger F. Garrett of Piedmont was chosen grand master andj the following others were elected: C. A.

Witt of Anderson, deputy grand master, C. loyd Kuthertord, 36, of Trout ville, Va. in a fight. America, AFL-CIO, picketed Authorities said the two, held in the same lail cell, got into an ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) -Three persons were arrested on charges of failure to obey an officer Monday as members of the Textile Workers Union of two textue plants at Rock Hill.

The two plants, Ostrow Textile Mills, and the Hosiery argument Saturday night. Shouts of other prisoners brought Corp. of America were struck late last week. breaking rules and regulations are themselves guilty of taking are themselves guilty of taking the first steps along the road to destruction of our national guards, who found Rutherford dead of a broken neck, authorities said. The arrests were made out COLUMBIA (AP) The director of international studies at the University of South Carolina said Monday the United States has won military in Vietnam.

But. said Dr. Richard L. Walker, Ho Chi Minh. North Vietnamese Communist leader, "and his cohorts know they will win or lose the war in Vietnam right here in the United States and I believe it is truly a close one.

"Hanoi has been stupid in South Vietnam." Walker told the opening session of a National Security Seminar, "but i intelligence on the U. domestic scene has been magnificent." "Never." he went on, "have we been in such danger on the American home front. Already we have been pushed to the point where we have been forced to compromise on some of those principles which have been fee very bedrock of American achievement." Dr. Walker said it was "a tragic mistake" for the U. S.

to de-escalate the bombing of North Vietnam without a firm commitment from the Communists. "The military defeat of the Viet Cong is far closer to being a real fat than is generally-realized on the American home front where our perceptions are distorted by the day-to-day instant bloodshed on television and pontification of militarily incompetent journalists." said. side the Ostrow plant. Released on $100 bonds each were John Rutherford was also being held for transfer to the state 3 More S.C. Servicemen Die In War Kissack of Charlotte, assistant prison on a forgery charge.

regional director for the TWUA; Virginia Keyser, TWUA repre Demps was sentenced in the 1958 robbery of the Millwood Lovelace of ork, grand war-jden; A. R. Vanadore of Wil-lliamston, grand secretary; W. j.M. Tripp of Williamston, grand 'treasurer; L.

E. Goodwin of iYork and W. M. Patterson of I Charleston, trustees; and C. M.

I Evans of Anderson, grand representative of the Sovereign Lodge. i Mrs. Mildred Anreasen of i North Charleston was elected president of the state Re-ibekah's. the Odd Fellows Gaffney Restaurant Destroyed By Blaze sentative from Rock Hill, and branch of First National Bank in Columbia. Joe Ferguson, a TWUA member who works for the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Co.

The three were among about 40 pickets outside the plant. Meanwhile, TWUA represen Gen. Goodpaster Given Command destiny." Walker added. The opening session of the two-week National Security-Seminar at the fairgrounds' Redwood Cafeteria drew nearly 500 civilians and military i reservists. Of the total.

165 were reservists on active duty for the duration of the two-week course on world affairs. They come from 28 states, the District of Columbia, and lone foreign country (Germany). The most distant state represented is Hawaii, The group includes 72 reservists from the Army, 48 from the Navy and Marine i Corps and 45 from the Air Force. tative James Renfroe said WASHINGTON (LTD -The Defense Department said three South Carolina soldiers are among 74 servicemen recently killed in the Vietnam war. men were identified as: Sgt.

Johnny Lisbon, husband of Mrs. Elois H. Lisbon of Sumter; Spec. 4. Randy D.

Oliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Oliver of Leesville; and Sgt. Roy L.

Lipscomb, husband of Mrs. Betty J. Libscomb of Travelers Rest. women's organization. Mrs.

Mildred Hand of Rock Hill was named vice president; Mrs. jGladys Wise of Columbia, warden; Mrs. Essie G. Taylor iof Columbia, secretary; Mrs. Creola Thackam of Columbia.

Bv LOU NEAL GAFFNEY The Snow Top Drive-in Restaurant was destroyed in an early morning fire Monday, at an estimated loss of $30,000. The blaze was discovered about 7 a.m., according to co-owners Al Newton and Mrs. Theresa Easley. The restaurant was located about a half-mile from Gaffney city limits on S. C.

18. Units from the Blacksburg and Cherokee County Fire Departments fought the blaze. Blacksburg is nine miles from the restaurant. Newton said he offered the Gaffney Fire Dept. $500 if they would sent units to the scene, but Fire Chief Charles Petty said he had been instructed by Gaffney City Council not to privide fire protection to businesses outside the city limits that had not previously been subscribing for fire protection.

about 18 persons crossed a picker line outside the Hosiery Corp. of America. Local President Maxine Cun-upp said a strike at Hosiery Corp. was started because the company is "stalling" on a contract. There are about 180 persons in the newly organized local.

I STUTTGART. Germany (UPI) Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster Monday took over as commander of U. S.

forces in Europe. Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who is retiring, turned over command in colorful ceremonies at treasurer; and Mrs. Mattie Kasper of Charleston Heights, representative to the International Association Armed With Rifles And Bayonets Guard Rotating Its Units In Charleston Every Four Days peace and order in the midst of the strike of Negro hospital workers.

The Guard was called in April 21 to give assistance and support to civilian authorities in the Charleston area. Since en, the Guard spokesman said, the only injury to guard personnel has been in accidents not directly related to direct confrontation with demonstrators. The two accidents were not of a serious nature. By DOUGLAS MAI LD1 News Columbia Bureau COLUMPIA The S. C.

National Guard is rotating Guard units in Charleston every four days to reduce the financial hardship on civilian soldiers away from their jobs, a Guard spokesman said here Monday. Units of equal size aie spelling each other in the Charleston area as about 800 riot-trained National Guardsmen are helping civilian authorities maintain The guardsmen are armed with Ml rifles (semi-automatic, eight shot weapons), bayonets, and in some cases, shotguns. They also have ammunition for the weapons. The Guard units are being rotated every four days, a Guard officer said sa that the time personnel spend away from their civilian jobs will be cut down. "These guys have to make a living too," he said.

'Rotation of units istthe only feasible way Guard stre gth can the troubled city. He emphasized that was a very rough estimate. A Guard official here said Guardsmen in Charleston are approaching the record time the Guard spent in support of civil authorities during the disturbances a Orangeburg over a year ago. There were no immediate figures available on how long the guard was in Orangeburg. be maintained." All the guardsmen being sent to Charleston have had riot training and have been in the Guard for over a year.

Recruits without the training and without the tenure are being left behind by their units. The first Guard troops called to active state duty were Companies and of the 1st Battalion, 118th Infantry, Charleston, since replaced. Most of the units being called up are from Lowstate areas. Horry, a chaptain and an operations officer on the 263rd Armor Battalion staff. Jenrette is from Myrtle Beach and has just been promoted from commander of the local unit there.

Keeping the Guard i Charleston is an expensive financial proposition for the state. Gov. Robert E. McNair said last week that it is costing from $3,000 to $10,000 a day to keep guardsmen on duty in Currently on duty are the 1st Battalion of the 263rd Armor of the Pee Dee area, the 51st Military Police Battalion of Florence-Timmonsville and the 51st Aviation a light fixed wing unit from St. Matthews.

The Guard call-up exempts hardly anyone except those without the training and tenure. At least one state legislator is on duty with the Guard in Charleston. He is Rep, John Jenrette, D-.