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reenvules '4 1 Jim MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1973 PAGE SEVENTEEN GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA DamageLight After Storm Vfi tHLJf. XI iJU S' 1 i Wfi tn JE AM -Jf. i Greenville County apparently escaped Saturday night's rough night of storms with relatively little serious property damage in spite of what weather officials believe was "probably" a tornado northwest of the city. A Greenville County Sheriff's Department spokesman, who Saturday had received reports of three mobile homes blown off their foundations, had no further information about damage Sunday night. Greenville City police said they knew of no serious property damage within their jurisdiction, and the S.C.

Highway Patrol said that office had received reports only of holes in roads and a small bridge washed out by the heavy rain. A meterologist at the Greer weather station said that although the weather service has not yet completed its "post mortem" investigation of the winds that swept through the Sans Souci and Berea areas, observers "have reason to believe it was a small Repairmen for Duke Power Co. and Southern Bell spent a busy weekend restoring service to customers in the storm areas. Power circuits knocked out Saturday night were repaired by 10 p.m., a Duke spokesman said. Crews were still working Sunday to repair damage to individual service wires, mostly in the areas of the Easley Bridge and White Horse roads.

A Southern Bell official said falling trees, tree limbs, and water put hundreds of phones out of service, with Sans Souci and Berea getting the worst of the problem. He said 100 repair calls were received Saturday, and another 500 Sunday. Crews would remain busy through Monday restoring service, he said. The Greenville General Hospital reported that no injuries attributable to the storm had been treated there as of Sunday afternoon. Walter Johnson, manager of the Greenville Chapter of the American Red Cross, said that organization was supplying food to seven members of a family itWIwf A Once A Motel CALHOUN FALLS All that remains of a small motel here damaged cars of the mo(el guests remain parked In front of Is the block foundation after a tornado hit the area.

Authori- where their rooms once were. (AP Wirephoto) ties said at lpast two guests at the motel were killed. The whose mobile home on Cedar Lane Road was destroyed in the storm. Another family whose home was destroyed also was being sought and Johnson said the Red Cross would "be glad" to assist victims of the 6torm. No One Was Surprised To See Humpy At Tourney Claude (Humpy) Campbell went to the Southern Textile Basketball Tournament in Greenville again this year.

No one was especially surprised to see him there. He has been to all of them. And that goes back a few years. You might call him a pioneer of the tournament. He coached the team for Victor Mill of Greer in that first tournament in 1921.

Both he and the tournament have gone a long way since then. "Basketball is a lot smarter now," he says. "The players are better coached now. Heck, the 'C teams today are better than the 'A' teams were back in those early days. Campbell coached at Victor Mill all through the 20s and did a little bit of coaching after he moved to Dunean Mill in the early 1930s.

He also managed some of the baseball teams at Victor. In 1929 his team won the 'B' championship In the Southern Textile Tournament and the following year his 'C team took the title-He played some basketball as a young man for Greer Mill but, he says, "I wasn't too good at that, either." His wife put in playfully at this point: "That's right he never was too good at nothing." Campbell is drawing Social Security now but he hasn't given up his job at the mill. "I'll be 74 in November, so I'm just toting supplies now. I used to be a loom fixer. "My wife says I'm going to have to keep on working.

She won't let me quit. I don't want to come around here and have her hollering at me all the time." He guffawed. "Naw, that's just a joke." Like many of his generation, Humpy Campbell got an early start in the mill. "I started out helping my mother at Inman Mill when I was eight years old. I didn't get no pay for it.

She was a spooler and I tied up the ends. "The first time I made any money in the mill was at Appalachia Mill, two miles north of Greer. I made bands for 20 cents a day. I guess I must have been about nine then. "The best I can remember we went to Greer Mill from there." Then he went to Victor Mill about 1916.

That's where he met Earline Vaughn, who he married in 1923. 7 Sort Of Picked Her Out' "She was working in the spinning room and I was working in the weave room. I just started looking around, you know, and sort of picked her out. I really got to meet her at her 16th year birthday party. I guess I already had it in my mind that I'd like to marry her." Campbell was born in the Hogback Mountain section and he remembers the mill sending its wagon up to fetch the family and their belongings and take them to the mill village." The mill seemed like an exciting place to the young fellow who had always lived out in the country where "there wasn't much to do." It was the sports, though, that really caught his eye the baseball and the basketball.

Now, more than a half century later, that passion has not slackened a bit. He's already looking forward to next year's Southern Textile tornado." The spokesman said the local weather station at 7:15 p.m. Saturday had issued a warning for heavy thunderstorms with 6trong, gusty winds and possibly hail. The tornado-like blast hit at about 8:30 p.m. according to reports, he said.

The weather station at 9 p.m. issued another warning for severe thunderstorms in Abbeville, Greenville, Laurens and Union counties, he said. That warning was renewed each hour until 2 a.m. Sunday. Then at 2 a.m.

flash flood warnings were issued, with the Reedy River expected to rise to 11 feet, two feet above flood (stage. The meterologist said officials know the river reached at least 10.3 feet and that reports were received that the 10.8 foot mark had been reached. Greer Child Dies In Wreck GREER Eight-year-old Robin Denise Gregory of Greer was reported killed in an accident in Lexington County early Sunday morning. The child was a passenger in a car which struck a sign at I-2fi and S. C.

321 exit in Lex-iniTton County. Monday Morning Twisted Against Tree by J. B. Southern CALHOUN FALLS The steel structure of a mobile home and 18 injured in the Calhoun Falls-Abbeville area. (AP is twisted around a tree after a tornado hit Calhoun Falls Wirephoto) Saturday.

Authorities said at least six persons were killed Animal Husbandry Class Agrees Meat Prices Might Go Down Next Year Kowalski and Barnett teach a course in animal husbandry to some 20 young men who are in the farming and agribusiness field. This group felt that the Oconee Pickens Bureau PENDLETON The long-range effect of a ceiling on meat prices might result in lower prices next year, but they won't be as low as they have been, according to Dr. Larry Kowalski, head of the animal industry department at Tri icuiuei is iiir iu uidme im ine UFO GROUP Mrs. S. Pine of Mauldin is organizing a UFO study group for the Greenville area.

"I am hoping to attract serious students of the phenomena and not the lunatic fringe," she says. The first meeting has been scheduled for April 30. Persons interested in joining are asked to write her at P.O. Box 663, Mauldin, S.C. 29662.

County TEC. Kowalski and instructor George Barnett agree that peo said people forget that farmers are consumers also and the prices going up affect them also. Dave Miller of Calhoun Falls said that even with price increase farmers can't make money and if "we were doing all that good, then there would be more people going into it." Farmers make up only four per cent of the population. South Carolina is predominately a feeder-calf area. Farmers produce cattle that are sold to brokers who ship the young beef to the west for fattening.

After passing from the feeder farms the cattle are sold to slaughter and processing company. It can then be purchased by the chain stores and shipped back in neatly wrapped packages. What starts out at 70 cents per pound here comes back at $1.69 per pound at the counter. their jump back when the wheat sale to Russia was announced. This was compounded with a drought in the midwest and with a rise in the consumption of meat by the public.

Ten yeas ago we consumed an average of 88 pounds per year and now it is up to 116 pounds per year per person. Danny Shirley of Greenville, said that the meat boycott would not be as effective in small towns where the people know the farmers and are aware of their conditions. It is in the big cities where people don't understand how meat gets to their store where the larges complaints are heard, he said. The students here seemed to think that as more producer cattle bear calves and the grain prices come down, the meat prices will fall too. Randy Hingson of Florence ple in this nation are going to have to learn to pay for rising costs but the middlemen.

Mike Stock of Pickens said that the processor, the broker and retailer all take their share of the meat costs and this leaves the farmer with little profit and most of the blame. Alvin Gosnell, who plans to start a farm near Westminster, said that the high costs of grain and feed for cattle and hogs was hurting the small farmer and that high meat prices barely helped. Barnett said that one of the major problems in the past year was a shortage of feed. He said that most prices started STAMP REPORT Mrs. Mary Stevenson, who is coordinating the campaign to raise the Green Stamps to get the bus for the Boys Home of the South, tells me that campaign is moving along better than they ever dreamed.

Those sending stamps this past week were: Women of St. Matthew United Methodist Church; First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Greenville; Mrs. J.R. Owings, Mrs. Cheryle Westmoreland and Mrs.

Guerle Plowden, all of Greenville; Mrs. Roy Leopard and Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Perry and sons of Taylors; Mrs.

W. G. Cox of Honea Path. Cub Scout Den No. 2 of Westminster sends stamps and Mrs.

Clara Bates of Greer sends stamps and the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. staff of Wallace Thomson Hospital in Union sends stamps; Mrs. Marian S. Marcello of Jonesville sends a check for $14 and Mary Estes Arnold of Union sends a check for $1.

what they eat and it will probably be more than before. "We spend less of our income for food than any other nation and one farmer has to produce food for some 45 people on the average," Barnett said. During the past decade costs for farmers have gone up by more than 100 per cent and farm income has gone up only about 11 per cent, he said. Kowalski, who heads the only program of its type in the state TEC system, said that the high costs of meat is one of the first breaks farmers have had in a long time, but it had about reached it's peak before Nixon placed a price ceiling on meat costs. "I think most beef had gone about as high as the market would stand," he said, "and the President's action was a reaction to public opinion." Minibottle Highlights News More Stately Diggings Judged by any standard, the formal opening today by the Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce of its new headquarters on Cleveland Street is a significant milestone in the institution's history.

The spacious, well-appointed building provides facilities where the 22-member staff can work effectively and in comfort. Although it has been called Chamber of Commerce since 1912, the agency actually came into being about 25 years earlier as the local Board of Trade. It was organized, according to the 1888 city directory, during the previous year. The October 1926 issue of the Greenville Journal, a monthly magazine published by the Chamber of Commerce for a time in the 1920s, identified A. A.

Bristow and Alester G. Furman as the Board's first president and secretary, respectively. The same article, written by Charles A. David, prolific recorder by word and cartoon of local events in earlier days of this century, said the trade body's office initially was In the Beattie Building at the northeast corner of Main and Washington Streets. Furnishings of the one room were quite meager, David wrote.

They consisted of a pine table, secondhand swivel chair, a few "split-bottoms," water bucket and dipper, stove and wood box. The walls were bare except for a calendar and an "oil painting" by a local artist of the Reedy River ford at Main Street. Although unable to verify it by records because many had been destroyed, David believed John Wood was ths Board of Trade's first paid secretary. He served for a few years, then went to the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce for a monthly pay increase of $10. Name Changed In 1912 The Greenville Board of Trade became the Chamber of Commerce in 1912, with Mr.

Furman as president and Albert Johnstone as secretary. It had about 50 members at that time. Offices were in the Record Building on South Main Street until 1923, when the historic structure was demolished to make room for the Chamber of Commerce 10-story skyscraper, now the Insurance Building. A copper box placed in its cornerstone on January 13, 1925 contains copies of the local newspapers and of the Chamber's Greenville Journal, a membership roster, pictures of the city, "Including an airplane view" and "other objects of interest to whomsoever might open it a hundred years hence." The Chamber moved from the Insurance Building to South Irvine Street In the late 1950s and is now taking occupancy of its modern home on Cleveland Street. Having currently a membership in excess of 1,400 and possessed of facilities for many specialized services, the local Chamber of Commerce is justified in using "Greater Greenville" as part of its title.

No longer are its activities limited to developing the city and Immediate environs. It works today to promote growth and progress throughout the entire county and even in neighboring areas. The cornerstone of the former Chamber of Commerce building depicts it as "A Gate of Friendliness Upon the Highway of Trade." Come to think about It, that's not a bad slogan for the new home office on Cleveland Street. Li1ffirrV 1 IN THE STATE South Carolina's new minibottle liquor system won final legislative approval last Tuesday and as of noon the following day it was the only legal way to drink outside of the home. The Senate voted 32-12 to ratify the minibottle amendment, approved by voters in a constitutional referendum last November.

The ABC Commission said that as of Wednesday 280 hotels, motels, restaurants and private clubs had been approved for minibottle licenses. These cost $750 annually for public establishments and $500 for those which are chartered as non-profit "charitable" institutions, such as country clubs and veterans organizations. It is estimated minibottle mixed drinks, containing 1.6 ounces of liquor, will cost from $1.25 to more than $2, depending on the brand of liquor and the tone of the establishment. Hickman said $119,000 for utilities and ano'her $75,000 for roads at Keowee-Toxaway were not even recommended by the Budget and Control Board and were not in the items approved in the big money bill passed by the House last Tuesday. IN THE COUNTY Maj.

William R. Austin II of Simpsonville was welcomed by more than 4,000 persons at Greenville-Spartanburg Airport as he returned to the area after spending 5' years as a prisoner of war. "I feel lucky to be coming home. There were no many who didn't come home," he said as 7-Year-Old Girl Drowns In Creek A seven-year-old Greenville girl drowned in rain-swollon Richland Creek Sunday afternoon in Cleveland Park. County Coroner Mercer Bris-sey said Waltina Fay Irby, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Irby of 23 Harris was playing at the water's edge with a six-year-old companion when she stepped off the bank into the muddy water of the creek. The drowning was reported to police at 12:23 p.m. Wade Hampton Rescue Squad recovered the body about 1:30 p.m. some 25 feet downstream from where tlte girl had stepped in.

Brisscy ruled accidental drowning in the case. The child's mother had been arrested on a charge of public drunkenness in the park at 1 p.m. by City Police officers B. H. Brown and Melvin Croft.

Charleston who were to conduct examinations. The bodies were discovered by Gerald Clay when he returned home shortly before noon. Dean Bell, police chief of Due West, went immediately to the house after receiving a call from Clay where the bodies were found in separate rooms. Bell said a .22 caliber magnum handgun was found inside the Clay home, and that Mrs. Clay's body was found in the dining room while Miss Davis' body was discovered in a rear bedroom.

The Keowce-Toxaway State Park near Pickens on scenic S.C. 11 will suffer because of House cutbacks in the budget of the State Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department. PRT director Bob Hickman said the department's only hope appears to be in the Senate which begins consideration of the state general appropriations bill next week. IN THE UPSTATE Dr. Charlotte Nelms Clay, chairman of the Erskine College English department, and her elderly aunt Miss Hope Davis lie began a 00-day leave from Air Force duties.

Greenville City Council budgeted more than $1.8 million 'for 1 capital expenditur.es and continuing expenses. A 1 million portion of the funds, all of which will come from i federal revenue sharing, will be jused for a parking building on 'East Washington Street. juw ivva vu.y, weie wunu shot to death at the Clay home on Main Street in Due West Friday. The shootings occurred shortly before noon, but the bodies remained in the house Friday night as officers awaited the arrival of a medical team from Humpy Campbell A i3.