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3B Marker recognizes Orangeburg massacre Thursday. February 10, 2000 The Greenville News CITY CRIME conduct, commitment, resisting arrest, carjacking, kidnapping. David Tyrone Sullivan, 29, of 418 Scott Circle, Pendleton: carjacking, kidnapping, driving under suspension. James Madison Terry, 29, of 1505 Tindall Anderson: possession of crack cocaine, using vehicle with out consent of owner. mm M.

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Delano MVMktoa. n1 Hairy ThiJ trtcdy the I A -n firtt oi ill kind on ny i 4 VI Anericen collrije campus. i I r' VI A zf I i i i I I A r- ii 'j RENEE ITTNER-MCMANUS The Associated Press Historical view. South Carolina State University President Leroy Davis, left, and student government President Dudley view the Orangeburg Massacre memorial after unveiling it this week on campus in Orangeburg. University erects tribute to blood shed for rights Three men died, 27 hurt during student protest of segregated bowling alley in '68 shooting to erect a permanent tribute to those victims.

An 8-foot high marker stands on the grassy hill where the shooting took place. It is one of two such tributes on campus. A granite monument stands at the center of campus, and the university gym bears the names of Henry R. Smith, Samuel Hammond Jr. and Delano B.

Middle-ton, all killed during the Orangeburg Massacre. "In many ways we are determined to ensure that the lives of Henry Smith, Samuel Hammond and Delano Middleton will not be lost in vain," South Carolina State President Leroy Davis said during ceremonies Tuesday evening. "We're here to dedicate a marker so that those of us who remain will live out the meaning of the deaths of these three young men, so we might have a better community, a better quality of life and that we may work together as different races of people in this community and in this state." Davis and the Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People led Tuesday night's silent march from the Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium to the center of campus where a symbolic flame was lit at the existing monument.

It was a painful reminder for Clay Middleton but consoling nonetheless, he said. "It makes you feel good that they still remember," he said. Burglary, South Main Street, Anderson, Trespassing after notice, Lawrence Road, Anderson, Monday. Shoplifting, North Main Street, Petit larceny, East Whitner Street, Anderson, Tuesday. COUNTY CRIME Criminal domestic violence, Dan-bury Lane, Anderson, Monday.

Petit larceny. Old Pendleton Road, Anderson, Tuesday. Petit larceny, Airline Road, Anderson, Tuesday. Petit larceny, Norris Road, Anderson, Anderson, Tuesday. Stolen tag, Schmid Plaza, Anderson, Tuesday.

Assault and battery, Oakland Trail, Williamston, Saturday. Assault and battery, Highway 28 Bypass, Iva, Tuesday. Petit larceny, Highway 187 North, Anderson, Tuesday. Assault and battery, Blount Road, Belton, Tuesday. COUNTY ARRESTS The following people were booked at the Anderson County Detention Center with charges as listed on the booking report: Daniel Hosea Akin, 30, of 122 Ta- ORGANS FROM PAGE 1B 330 organs in the state, officials said.

The latest numbers continue a trend that in the past two years has produced a state record number of organ donors. In 1998, there were 71 organ donors who gave 241 organs. In the 15 years the South Carolina Organ Procurement Agency (SCOPA) has been serving the state, the donor rate has increased steadily. "This did not occur overnight, and there is still a lot of work to be done to educate people about the value of organ and tissue donation," said Nancy Kay, executive director for SCOPA, a nonprofit federally designated agency. "The number of people donating is continuing to increase and, in the midst of some controversy, that is good news," said Steven Padgett, community relations coordinator for the agency.

Under the allocation system, priority is given to patients in the state where an organ is donated. The vast majority donated in South Carolina go to patients here. But the federal government plans to change that system. It has created rules slated to go into effect next month that will send organs to the most critical patients nationwide, no longer giving local patients first shot. In response, South Carolina lawmakers passed a bill that says an organ can be sent to another state only if there is no suitable patient in-state.

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5:24 p.m., Iva Station 10, grass fire on Audrey Hardy Road. 5:36 p.m., Flat Rock Bowen Station 25, assisted on the above fire. Tuesday: 12:51 a.m., Pendleton Station 2, commercial fire alarm on Old Anderson Highway. 2:25 a.m., Center Rock Station 11, assisted on the above fire. 11:49 a.m., Homeland Park Station 3, house fire on Catawba Avenue.

12:32 p.m., grass fire on West Roosevelt Drive. In 1997, about 55,000 were waiting, while 5,475 donated. Less than a quarter of 1 percent of South Carolina's residents donate their organs and, as of Sept. 14, 1999, there were 606 South Carolinians awaiting organ transplants. "I really think it's a lack of education about donation," Padgett said.

"Most people don't want to discuss end-of-life kinds of issues." The hospital is not the place where people should learn about organ donation, he said. "If people decide ahead of time, it's one less thing their family is going to have to agonize over," Padgett said. As a 20-year organ donor card carrier, the decision for Joy Jones to donate her son's organs after he was killed on May 19, 1996, wasn't as difficult as it may be for others who have never thought about organ donation. In the trauma unit at Greenville Memorial Hospital, Jones wished, of course, that her son would survive. "The way I've looked at it since then is that I didn't get my miracle, but about six or seven other people did," said Jones, a 44-year-old court reporter.

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Army and was a veteran of the Korean War. Survivors: sisters, Lyla Sullivan, Fountain Inn, and Ruby Hutchinson, Lebanon, and a brother, Van Wilton Williams, Williamston. Visitation: 11 to 1 p.m. Friday at Cannon Funeral Home. Graveside service: 2 p.m.

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Candice Regina Groves, 23, of 109 Miller Drive, Anderson: possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Charles Smith, 46, of 216 Todd Anderson: possession of crack cocaine. Andrew Strickland III, 32, of 908 Belmina Pendleton: disorderly "There is still a lot of work to be done to educate people about the value of organ and tissue donation." Nancy Kay Executive director for SCOPA are given first consideration for transplants. If there are no critical patients those with less than a week to live the organs are offered to hospitals in North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia. If those states lack critical patients, the organs go to a "status 2" patient in South Carolina someone who typically has one week to three months to live.

"That's where the majority of transplants take place," Padgett said. The idea behind a national system is to ensure a healthier patient in one state doesn't get an organ while more ailing patients languish elsewhere. Exactly what will happen when the national system begins remains unclear. For now, regulators are taking public comments. State Attorney General Charlie Condon has said South Carolina will sue if the federal government sends locally donated human organs to other parts of the country.

Padgett said that ultimately the real issue is not allocation. "The real issue is that the number of people donating is still far less than the people who need one," he said. In 1988, about 16,000 people nationwide were waiting for an organ donation, compared to 4,085 donations, he said. Please send me more information about Assisted Living at The Garden House. Name Address Cily State rhone ft Y.

I Mil I "You don't try to forget the past, but you try to heal." The marker, which cost about $1,200, was commissioned and paid for the university, Davis said. Cleveland Sellers Jr. was on campus that night and returned Tuesday to remember what happened 32 years ago. Sellers, by then a four-year veteran of the civil rights movement, was among those wounded. He also was arrested and convicted of inciting a riot.

He served seven months of a one-year prison term. Now a professor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, Sellers has spent many years retelling the story of the Orangeburg Massacre so those who don't know about it learn something, and so those who do remember don't forget. Sellers called the marker a positive tribute. "I'm not terribly concerned about how long it's taken to get this," Sellers said. "Much of what's been done to keep this story alive has been by (the university) and those who are concerned about what happened." Among those people is College of Charleston professor Jack Bass, author of the book "The Orangeburg Massacre." Bass, Sellers and others were on last year's four-day civil rights tour to Birmingham, Memphis, Atlanta and Orangeburg.

Bass said the episode will become better known, but more needs to done to come to terms with the tragedy. "The time has come," Bass said, "that the state should face the tragedy at Orangeburg and that reconciliation is going to require restitution." School reinstates workers on leave for vulgar e-mail None will be charged with violating state laws on obscenity The Associated Press MONCKS CORNER All but one of the 12 employees on administrative leave for passing vulgar and sexually explicit information through Berkeley County School District e-mail were back at work this week. Pam Bailey, district spokeswoman, said the future of the person still on leave is uncertain. She said Superintendent Chester Floyd hopes to have an answer soon. The other 11 workers were given severe reprimands, the district said.

There were 20 other people not placed on leave who were reprimanded. Officials say they have fined up to eight workers for days missed because of the incident. District officials have said those suspended included teachers, school administrators, school support staff members, district administrators and a district professional. The Berkeley County Sheriffs Office and county prosecutors reviewed the cases for violations of state obscenity laws and decided not to press charges, The (Charleston) Post and Courier reported. By Charlene Gunnells The (Charleston) Post 'And Courier ORANGEBURG Clay Mid-dleton remembers the day his brother died.

It was the single most tragic event in his life. Middleton got home from his job at the Smith-Corona plant just before 5 a.m. on Feb. 8, 1968, when his wife broke the news. "My wife said There's been I said 'What kind of and she said 'Delano's been hurt.

He's in the What his wife couldn't tell him was that Delano had already died one of three young men killed in the "Orangeburg Massacre." Twenty-seven others were wounded when a student rally on the South Carolina State College campus turned into a bloody confrontation with police. Students were protesting a segregated bowling alley. The Orangeburg Massacre is considered by many to have been South Carolina's worst, most violent event during the civil rights movement, even though few people outside the state have ever heard of it. Each year, students and others in Orangeburg gather on the now South Carolina State University campus to remember the massacre and pay tribute to those who were injured or who died. They gathered again Tuesday on the 32nd anniversary of the BLASTS FROM PAGE1B Park area that began this week.

"Sometimes it will startle you," she said. "The windows shake and rattle, and the house shakes. You wonder what happened, then you remember." have heard complaints from about a half dozen residents, but some neighbors said they haven't had any trouble. The blasting marks the halfway point of construction of a 4.5-mile sewer line that will replace aging, cracked lines that caused overflows at park manholes. Work has begun along Woodland Way in the eastern end of the park and will continue upstream to East Washington Street.

The park segment of the project is expected to be completed this fall. The entire project is slated for completion by August 2001. The work will force periodic closing of roads around the park and re-Scheduling of several events, said Paul Ellis, the city's Parks and Recreation Department administrator. The March of Dimes WalkAme-rica will go on as planned April 29, but the route will be changed, Ellis said. The Art in the Park program set for Sept.

16-17 will be moved to the Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, he said. It will be difficult to ignore the work around the park. "I've never been in an earthquake, but I guess you could compare it to a small earthquake," said "I I Mary Lou Greenwell, owner of Cleveland Park Stables, which is closest to Wednesday's work site. "The ground trembles a little. You hear a little noise." She said horses at the stable become momentarily frightened and jump whenever there's a blast, but soon settle down.

Some, like Jonathan Anderson of Woodland Way, less than 75 yards from the blasting, said they've seen no damage. "It's not earth-shattering, but you can feel some of the vibrations," said Lee Ann Duckett, a housekeeper at a Partridge Lane home 500 feet from the blasting. "The dog is afraid of it. She's not used to the blasting. It really disturbs her.

We keep her downstairs because she runs away." Prior to Wednesday's blasts, workers using heavy machinery drilled 12 holes 28 feet deep, and put in 30 pounds of dynamite per hole. Richard Foster, deputy fire marshal in Greenville, said each blast is measured to make sure the explosions don't exceed legal limits. Ellis, the Parks and Recreation administrator, said neighboring residents will be inconvenienced throughout the spring and summer, and other events in the park likely will be rescheduled. "It's a major disruption of the park and will interfere with a route people like to run, but in the long run it will be beneficial for the park because we won't have manholes overflowing," Ellis said. Bob Montgomery can be reached at 298-4295..