Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 2

TIMMONSVILLE TO GET MOBILIZATION TRAINING A rMWKX BULLETIN! 1000 MORE HOMES CAN NOW RECEIVE CABLE TV Check Your nil! i rfX Oak Leigh Suburbia Mayfair soon to: PINE OREST NOB HILL Kirkwood Huntington Place NEW AREAS: Enchanted Meadows College Park Annex Delmae Heights and coming ROSEMONT airlane Estates 9 Dependable Channels Total Network Variety Stereo Music 7 CABLEVISirSl 179 NORTH IRBY STREET 662 8191 0 Guard Reorganization Affects Units I By TOM ENGLISH JRMorning News Staff Writer The conversion of the infan try battalion in lorence to a ihilitary police battalion under reorganization of the South Carolina Army Nat i a 1 Guard will have its effect throughout the Pee DeeCol Ben Nauss command ing officer of 3rd Battalion Mechanized 118th Infantry With headquarters in lor ence said Saturday the reor ganization will affect com panies in lorence Darling ton Timmonsville Bishop ville Lake City Marion and Bennettsville The changes will go into effect Jan 1 The effect however will be beneficial in making the South Carolina National Guard more efficient Nauss said He said the changes will be better from the standpoint as well as national defense although the state combat strength will reduce from 10858 to 10179 over the next three years ac cording to an announcement last Wednesday by Adjutant Gen rank Pinckney Under the new structure lorence headquarters will be come the 51st Military Police Battalion and consist of three companies with its command ing officer becoming Lt Col Sidney 0 Mathis Jr of Mar ion (Nauss who has been with the lorence battalion since 1959 is being reassigned to Emergency Operation Head quarters in Columbia which has control for a portion of the state guard) Three companies will be un der lorence headquarters the 132nd Military Police Com pany in lorence the 133rd Military Police Guard Com pany in Timmonsville and the 132nd Medical Clearing Company in Darlington Au thorized strength for the lor ence battalion has been set at 393 with 168 men for the lor ence company and headquar ters detachment 119 for the lorence now has 234 men but the overstrength of66 Timmonsville Darlington unit and 116 formay be retained for a period of three years or transferred to other units such as pos sibly Timmonsville which now has only 72 men company now has 120 one ov er the authorized strength Possibly one of the most significant changes within the reorganization is the Tim monsville company being named as a selected reserve force (SR) unit which re quires extra training to be able to meet full mobilization within seven days of notifica tion Nauss said the Timmons ville Military Police company will begin training under SR on Jan 1 and are to be rea dy to assume its mission by July 1 Darlington which is now under SR will remain as such until June 30 then it will be taken out of the pro gram and replaced by Tim monsville Other units now attached to the lorence battalion also will be affected They are: Bennetsville which is now the A Company under the lorence infantry battalion is being converted into Bat tery of the 3rd Battalion eight inch self propelled 178th Artillery in Lancaster now a part of Company with Timmons ville will become a part of a maintenance general support company combined with the unit at Hartsville The two will operate under the main Over Area day Gen Pinckney said the new structure now tie in tcnance battalion headquar ters in Columbia City and Manning which now comprise Com pany will become Bat teries respectively of the 4th Battalion 155 millimetcr self propelled 178th Artillery with headquarters in Georgetown Nauss said most of the larg er transport trucks now based at lorence will be transfer red and a fleet of jeeps will be brought in to replace them since MP work requires the use of mostly jeeps In making announcement' of the changes last Wednes with and meet the military needs of the nation and all units will not be in the pri ority category at greater strength and fully equipped a procedure he said do much' to en hance the training and gener al state of readiness of the South Carolina National Nauss praised his battalion saying he was sure men will be ready for their new assignments and will do well in DEATHS AND UNERALS Commission on Parks to Meet Recreation World in Brief (Continued rom Page 1 A) The amily MRS DOROTHY McCULLEN DARLINGTON Mrs Doro thy Mae McCullen of Darling ton died Saturday morning aft er a short illness uneral ar rangements will be announced by Mitchell Josey uneral Home 3 Man Panel Named or Legislative orum CARD THANKS The family of Mr Thomas Williams wishes to thank Rev and Mrs Casley The Dimery Rogers Miller uneral Home and the many friends for telegrams floral expressions of sympathy during their be reavement RED BROCKINGTON uneral services for red Brockington of 517 Dixie St lorence will be conducted at 4 pm Monday in Trinity Bap tist Church by Rev Diggs Burial directed ge neral Home will be in North View Cemetery urvivors include the widow Mrs Mariah Brockington nine children Mrs Bass Mrs Shirley Hines Miss Madelyn Survivors include the widow Brockington Miss Brenda Brockington red Brockington Louis Brockington Jerry Brockington and Terry Brockington all of lorence and Mrs Marian Coston of To coma Wash five sisters Mrs Josephine Williams of lorence Mrs: Ethel Watts Mrs Cleo Brockington Mrs Ruth Eaton and Mrs Mildred Bennett all of New York and 18 grand children A three man panel to ques tion Lt Gov John West and House speaker Pro Tern Rex Carter during Pre Legislative orum has been named it was announced Sat uday MRS BERTHA SCIPIO DARLINGTON uneral services for Mrs Bertha Scipio will be conducted at 4 pm Sun day in Snow Hill Baptist Church by Rev red Bullock Burial directed by Mitchell Josey neral Home willbe in Snow Hill Cemetery lorence little Theatre Department of Parks Recrea tion and Tourism will be ex plained to leaders of the Sixth Congressional District at a meeting to be held here Thurs day Burroughs of Myrtle Beach sixth district represent ative on the Parks Recreation and Tourism Commission said the meeting will be held in the Community Room of the Peo ples ederal Savings and Loan Association beginning at 10 a rThis is the seventh in a se ries of meetings being held by the Department of Parks Rec reation and Tourism to explain its program to local officials In vitations have been sent to civic beautification business legisla tive and recreation leaders in the district to attend Burroughs said those attend ing the meeting will be provid ed an opportunity to present their ideas as to how the de partment can do the best job in serving the district A total of 105 units have been secured for this lorence Christmas Parade which will be held Wednesday it was an nounced Saturday by Greater lorence Chamber of Com merce Executive Vice Presi dent Irving Blanchard Blanchard said the parade in cludes 12 bands from through out the Pee Dee 15 major floats queens from throughout the Pee Dee the Carolina Clowns from Charlotte and a motorcycle unit from the Shrine1 Club in Columbia Other units may be added Blanchard said The parade begins at 3:45 at the 800 block of West Evans Street It will move east down Evans through the Down town Promenade and breakup at Evans and Church streets Blanchard said The chamber is still in need of cars with trailer hitches to be used to haul floats in the parade as well as several late model convertibles Greater lorence Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President Irving Blanchard said James Rogers editor of the lorence Morning News Arthur Strickland news manag er of WBTW and Paul Benson manager of WJMX will make up the panel The three will question West and Carter on issues likely to come before the General As sembly in the next session which begins in January Legislators from Lee Dar lington Dillon and lorence counties are scheduled to at tend the meeting to be held at 1 pm at Restaurant Blanchard said advance tick ets can be obtained at the chamber office and should be secured by 5 pm Monday The forum is the second in a senes of seven such meetings to be held throughout thestate The opening session will be held Tuesday morning in Columbia Theories About Sun's Origin May Be Revised CAMBRIDGE Mass (AP) The sun has been seen as it nev er has been seen before and as a result theories about its origin and evolution may have to be revised The new view came from ul traviolet photographs snapped from a satellite which is ex posed to wavelengths of ultravi olet light that never reach the earth because of its atmosi phere or the first time the pictures give astronomers a complete picture of the corona or upper atmosphere of the sun over the whole face of the solar disc rather than just at the disc edge as is possible in solar eclipse pictures The pictures were taken by a sophisticated spectrometer con structed at the Harvard College Observatory and sent aloft bet 18 in the Orbiting Solar Obser vatory 4 Prof Leo Goldberg director of the Harvard College Observatory said Saturday the pictures are revealing new in formation about the chemical composition and distribution of temperatures within the sun He said the Harvard astrono mers expect their studies of the pictures to produce findings that will modify the theory which ac counts for the temperatures and the chemical elements present at various heights in the atmosphere Since its power supply was switched on Oct 24 the instru ment has sent back about 150 pictures every day taking 10 pictures during one orbit The signals are recorded on earth at the Goddard Space light Center in Greenbelt Md and relaye to Harvard Mrs Naomi Day LAKE CITY Mrs Naomi Day 81 widow of John Day of Rt 2 Scranton died Saturday morning in a Manning hospital after a short illness uneral services will be con ducted at 3:30 pm Sunday in Hebron Baptist Church at riendfield by Rev Gerald Mc Kay and Rev Maring Burial directed by Brockington uneral Home will be in the church cemetery Pallbearers will be Eugene Matthews John William My ers Archie Singletary Jimmy Cussack Timmons Troy Turner and Ross Matthews Honorary bearers will include deacons of the church Mrs Day was bom in lor ence County a daughter of the late Ross and Letha Cox Mat thews She was a member of the Hebron Baptist Church and the WMU Survivors include three sons John Day and Roy Day both of Scranton and Jones Day of Charleston three daugh ters Mrs (Polly) Bur gess Jr of Greeleyville Mrs Lawrence (Katherine Brad ham of Charleston and Miss Sue Day of Atlanta Ga 12 grand children and eight great grand children lorence NAACP To Meet Today Billie leming president of the Manning branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple will be guest speaker Sun day in a meeting of the lor ence Branch of the NAACP leming will speak at the meeting to be held at 4 pm at the New Ebenezer Baptist Church on East Palmetto Street The meeting will climax a recent fundraising drive of the lorence branch The public CITY NEWS BRIES Clarence Byrd Clarence Byrd 77 of 1414 Evans St died Saturday afternoon after a long illness He was the widower of Mrs Vallerie Carter Byrd who died Sept 20 uneral services will be con ducted at 11 am Monday in Waters uneral Home by Dr Bryce Herbert and Rev Levy Rogers Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery He was bom in Mullins a son of the late Rev Major and Sarah Norton Byrd of North Carolina and Marion County He was a retired Atlantic Coast Line Railroad conductor Mr Byrd was a member of Central Methodist Church the Pendergrass Bible Class of the I church Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen and ACL Retir ed Club Surviving are two daughters Mrs Cecil (rances) Arnold Jr of Darlington and Mrs Thomas (Nancy) Williams of Colum bia a son Carter Byrd of lorence three sisters Mrs Nicholson of Mullins Mrs red Hillburn of Tabor City and Mrs rank Smoak of Charleston a brother Hen ry Byrd of St Petersburg la a half sister Mrs Hoyt Deaver of Mullins and six grandchildren William Cook RALPH WILLIAMSON DARLINGTON unera services for Ralph Williamson son of Mr and Mrs Henry Williamson of Darlington wil be conducted at 1 pm Sunday in St James Methodist Church by Rev Stewart Burial directed by Mitchell Josey neral Home will be in Darling ton City Cemetery 105 Units Are Slated or Parade Robert Smith Jr Robert Lee Smith Jr 37 of Richmond Va and formerly of lorence died at 8 pm riday in the Veterans Hospital at Richmond uneral services will be con ducted at 3:30 pm Sunday in Stoudenmire Chapel by Dr Edward Byrd and Rev John Harris Burial will be in Mt Hope Cemetery Pallbearers will be Herbert Brigman Emory loyd Dennis owler Miller Joe Pri vette Gerald Scarborough and Rogerson Mr Smith was born in lor ence a son of Mrs Marie Crowley Smith of lorence and the late Robert Lee Smith Sr He was an Air orce veteran He was a member of irst Bap tist Church in lorence Surviving are the widow Mrs Barbara Killinger Smith of Richmond Va the mother Mrs Marie Smith of lor ence two brothers Ray Smith and James Smith both of Columbia the mater nal grandmother Mrs Pearl Crowley of lorence Mrs Mary Cole uneral services for Mrs Ma ry Hatcher Cole 87 of 1326 Waverly Ave lorence will be conducted at 3 pm Sunday in irst ree Will Baptist Church by Rev Guy Owens and Rev Clarence Lambert Burial directed by Belk King uner al Home will be in Hicks Cha pel Cemetery near Coward i Chrysler UAW Bargain DETROIT (AP) aced with a midnight Sunday strike deadline negotiators for the United Auto Workers and Chrys ler Corp went into marathon bargaining sessions trying to wpte a new contract covering 8000 salaried workers' Walter Reuther UAW president entered negotiations Sat urday for the first time since Nov 8 when the company and the union reached agreement on a new pact covering the 95000 hourly rated workers IHourly rated skilled workers at ord and Chrysler won 30 cents an hour more than nonskilled workers in new contracts may attend the meeting People Week (Continued rom Page 1 A) Marney will talk on Brother Has a Samuel Proctor president of the Institute for Service to Education in Wash ington will speak Wed nesday on Our Margins of Kyle Haselden a lor ence High School graduate and native of Latta who is now editor of The Christian Century in Chicago Ill will speak Thursday on Per il and the Promise in Race closing session will have two speakers James Jeffrey executive di rector of the ellowship of Christian Athletes with head quarters in Kansas City Mo will combine with South Caro lina Lt Gov' John West to climax the event West will address the final session on Relations: A Dr Valentine will be mod erator for the audience a i on period which will fo 1 1 each ad dress Steering Committee Chair man Rev Hom says he ex pects large crowds for the en tire week He said the good response made on pre regis tering for the PEP sessions indicates the week will be a success John I Langston John Isaac Langston 84 re tired mechanic of Timmonsville died riday night in a lorence nursing home after being in de clining health for several years uneral services will be con ducted at 2 pm Sunday in Stoudenmire Chapel by the Rev Lawton Burial will be in Byrd Cemetery at Timmons ville! Pallbearers will be McIver Harrell Robert Hill Hubert Jordan Billy Mills Reddin Taylor and Ralph Wilson Honorary bearers will be members of the Bible Class of the irst Baptist Church of Timmonsville Mr Langston was bom in lorence County a son of the late Clem and Mary Carter Langston He had lived at Tim monsville all his life and was a member of the irst Baptist Church of Timmonsville Surviving are two sons Allen Langston of lorence and Travis Langston of Mr Pleasant a daughter Mrs Mi riam Lee of lorence a sister Mrs Timsey McElveen of Tim monsville Leonard Player KINGSTREE Leonard Charles Player infant son of Larry Plaver and Angila Bell Player died riday night in Wil liamsburg County Memorial Hospital Graveside services were con ducted Saturday afternoon in Sprint Gully Baptist Church Cemetery directed by Williams burg uneral Home of Kings tree Survivors besides the parents are the maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Terrance Bell of Kingstree and the paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Danny Player of near An drews uneral services for William Everett Cook 42 of lorence will be conducted at 3:30 pm Sunday in East Burlington Pres byterian Church at Burlington Burial directed by Rich and Thompson uneral Home of Burlington will be in Burling ton Mr Cook manager of a Mar ion theater died riday after noon of an apparent heart tack Stoudenmire uneral Home was in charge of local arrange ments Sgt Yarborough MYRTLE BEACH Sgt Willard Eugene Yarborough 46 of Bunker Hill Ind died ri day morning after an illness T71! 1 1 I a ll A UHCldl dtlVRXS Will! IU1J military honors will be conduct ed at 1:30 pm Tuesday in Bul lard uneral Home Burial will be in Southeastern Memorial Gardens Sgt Yarborough was born in Georgetown a son of the late Willie and Mary Howard Yarborough He was retired from the Air orce and was a veteran of the Korean Conflict Surviving are the widow Mrs Amanelle Driggers Yarborough two sons Bobby Yarborough of Benjamin Harrison at In dianapolis Ind and Willard Yarborough Jr of Hood Tex a daughter Mrs Grady Marshall of Germany three brothers Herman Van Yarbo rough and rank Yar borough both of Sumter and Jerry Yarborough of Jackson four sisters Mrs Ann Louise McDonald of Bedford Tex Mrs Lena Mae Lucas of Miami la Mrs Dorothy God win of Sumter and Mrs Dixie Lee Turner of Mead Md and a grandchild Charles Harner MYRTLE BEACH Charles Harner 60 of Myrtle Beach died Saturday at home after an apparent heart attack uneral arrangements will be announced by Bullard uneral Home LTG Box Office The lorence Little Theatre Guild will open its box office for advanced tickets to its pro duction of Odd Tuesday The box office will open at 9:30 am to 1 pm and from 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the airbase theater It will remain open daily throughout the run except Sundays Odd second production of the season for the LTG begins riday Parade Sponsor Miss Pam Bolen daughter of Dr and Mrs Sylvester of lorence was Sen (Nick) sponsor during the Carolina Carilon Parade held riday in Columbia Miss Bolen who now attends Richmond Professional Institute in Richmond Va was honor ed along with other senatorial sponsors at a luncheon and at tended the Carilon Ball George Hamilton Invited WASHINGTON (AP) Lynda Johnson has invited actor George Hamilton her former beau to her wedding at the White IJouse it was learned Saturday I While White House spokesmen will neither confirm nor deny the names of any person on the guest list reliable sources said the handsome actor who squired President old er daughter for almost two years had been asked to attend Dec 9 nuptials to Marine Corps Capt Charles Robb Hamilton is considered by Lynda to be one of her close friends sources close to the family said i They had their last date together in London while Lynda was there cn vacation in mid July Burglar Alarms LUDD'S Call 669 7363 Violence Kills 12 Over Holiday (By The Associated Press) Violence has claimed the lives of at least 12 persons so far over the Thanksgiving holiday period which ends at midnight Sunday Six of the victims were children who died in two separate fires in the Columbia area Linda Ross and Lindsay Ross Jr 2 year oTd twins and their 11 month old brother Cleve Van di Ross perished in a fire which swept through their West Colum bia home Dead were Delrel An derson 11 months Jacqueline Anderson 2 and rances An derson 3 Three men were killed in a one car wreck near Gadsden in Richland County The victims were Leroy Brown his 19 year old brother Isaac Brown and their brother in law John Henry Jackson 28 all of Gadsden Stephen Willie Peay 17 of Co lumbia died when his car crashed into a tree near Colum bia Archie Edward Hogue 53 of near Belton was fatally shot at his home Willie elder 21 of Rt 1 Summerton was shot to death in a country store near his home i Pickpocket Gets Jewels 1 SAN RAAEL Calif (AP) Secretary of the Navy Paul Ignatius says the case is closed but Lt Cmdr Marcus A Arnheiter III refused to quit Saturday in his fight for the right to command Arnheiter 42 now assigned to the Western Sea rontier in San rancisco was relieved as commander of the radar pick et ship USS Vance while patrolling South Vietnamese waters in 1966 He had been skipper three months 'Arnheiter was relieved of command after a Navy investi gation concluded he showed lack of judgment and in ability to command and lead Claiming the Navy treated him unfairly Arnheiter says qjany naval officers still on active duty support him Students' Buttons Banned Ore (AP) Principals of the three high schools in Salem told students this week that they wear buttons symbolizing the call for nuclear disarmament Several students at South Salem High School have been wearing them 1 Carl Aschenbrenner principal at South Salem said: have been told that the symbol represents two different things One of them being the peace movement the other identifying with the hippy movement of free The symbol is an inverted tripod on a circular black back ground Riot Measures Suggested WASHINGTON (AP) Three military experts have told President Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders authorities should rely on riot control agents such as nontoxic gas rather than firearms to quell major disturbances iThe commission released Saturday the testimony it took on Sept 20 from retired Maj Gen Roderic Hill California adjutant general from 1961 to 1966 Maj Gen George Gel ston Maryland adjutant general and Brig Gen Harris Hollis operations director of the Army Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations and Hill advised against the use of automatic weapons in riotous situations and agreed with Hollis who said: believe that riot control agents should be used to accomplish the mission before live ammunition is said further he would prefer not to see machineguns or mechanized or armored vehicles at a riot scene.