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PAGE the DAILY ITEM SUMTER SC TUESDAY MAY 22 1973 -4 Cutting Case Man Gets Two Years McLeod: SC Should Avoid Court Fight COLUMBIA (AP) South government should not get involved in a suit which seeks to force the Department of Justice to decide if the Senate reapportionment plan approved last year is constitutional says State Atty Gen Daniel McLeod McLeod sitting in a news conference Monday with Gov John West said that the state is not a party to the suit filed last year by South Carolina civil rights leaders against Atty Gen Richard Kleindienst District Judge June Green in a weekend ruling in Washington sided with the Negro plaintiffs The judge ordered the Justice Department to issue a written decision within 60 days stating whether the reapportionment plan discriminated against blacks in South Carolina Judge Green said Kleindienst had deprived blacks of their rights last year when the Justice Department declined to say one way or anyother whether it was discriminatory At the time Kleindienst said he was defering to the decision of a threejudge federal panel in South Carolina which upheld the reapportionment plan Under the 1965 Civil Rights Act the Justice Department is charged with reviewing election law changes in several southern states to determine if they discriminate against Negro voters In addition to the suit filed against Kleindienst seeking a decision by the Justice Department suits filed by the NAACP against the reappprtionment plans of both the House and Senate are pending before the Supreme Court McLeod said if the reapportionment plans should be overturned either by Supreme Court decision or Justice Department action laws passed during the current session of the legislature would not be MRS DENNIS Mrs Caroline Kirkland Dennis died Friday afternoon in Kershaw County Hospital after an extended illness She was born in Sumter County the daughter of Barry and Mrs Sarah Alston Mrs Dennis was a member of Mt Pisgah Baptist Church and served actively with the Senior Choir and Missionary Society Survivors include her husband Freddie Dennis: two daughters Mrs Marie Jones and Mrs Elizabeth Bennett six sons the Rev Alston Kirkland Robert Kirkland Thomas Kirkland Henry Kirkland Joseph Kirkland and Leroy Dennis 12 step-children 32 grandchildren four great-grandchildren four sisters and three brothers Funeral services will be conducted 3 Wednesday afternoon in Mt Pisgah Baptist Church the Rev A Dennis pastor Dr Williams officiating interment directed by Mortuary will be in the church yard cemetery The body will be placed in the sanctuary at 1 to lie in state until the hour of service Friends may visit the family this evening at Mortuary from 7 30 until 9 Bell Sumter Mrs Belle Seibert Prosperity Ira Brasington Lancaster Robert Plyler Lancaster Toyce McCarthy Ninety Six Mrs Snipes Sr Rock Hill Mrs Betty Smith Aynor Jehue A Allen Myrtle Beach Mrs Minnie Lee Smith Chester Mrs Roxianne Rowell Mullins JT Raymond Pender Willis-ton Mrs Rosa Lee Hook Columbia Mrs Ioline Hawkins Union Maria Hinson Camden Albert Tindall Orangeburg Pinckney I Floyd Darlington Miss Jennifer Spivery New Ellenton Hessley Rowland Beaufort Mrs Terres Jones Sr Winnsboro Richard Carter Columbia Rev Henry Floyd Surles Columbia Mrs Margery Ripley Myrtle Beach Victor Williams Jr Mullins BELL Sumter Richardson Bell 57 died Monday at a hospital in Jacksonville Fla Born in Sumter he was a son of Clyde and Edith Richardson Bell He was a member of the Baptist Church and he was a retired electrician He has made his home in Jacksonville for 40 years Surviving are two brothers Herman Bell and Leland Bell of Jacksonville Fla one niece and three nephews Graveside services will be conducted at 10 Wednesday morning in Sumter Cemetery by the Rev Woodrow Spencer Shelley-Brunson Funeral Home has charge of A jury Monday evening found James Stukes charged with assault and battery of his wife with intent to kill guilty of the lesser charge of assault and battery of a high and aggravated attire Stukes pleaded not guilty to the charge on the grounds of insanity The case had been argued Monday before the jury and Judge Dan Laney Jr presiding judge of the summer term of the General Sessions Court being held in Sumter Laney sentenced Stukes to five years suspended on the service of two years and three years probation Mrs Louise Stukes the wife claimed that on the evening of the day in question she met her husband while walking on a road near their home in the southern section of the county Mrs Stukes said her husband kept asking her if someone was coming to pick her up and when she said he pulled out a sheetrock knife and began slashing at her neck Mrs Stukes showed the scars on her neck to the jury Stukes claimed his wife told him she was having an affair with a man and after hearing that he his The defendant said he remember cutting his wife but ran and turned himself in when he realized she was lying on the ground In other action Monday Judge Laney directed a verdict of not guilty in the case of Maxwell Allen Graham charged with the possession of controlled substances The judge directed the verdict after it was determined that the drugs allegedly in possession were not classified as controlled substances by the state Controlled Substances Act Also in other action Judge Laney heard several guilty pleas Luke Taylor pleaded guilty to five counts of housebreaking and grand larceny He was found guilty of four counts of housebreaking and petty larceny and one count of housebreaking add grand larceny He was sentenced under the Youthful Act to a sentence not to exceed five years James Singleton Jr pleaded guilty to driving under the influence second offense He was sentenced to one year or $1000 suspended on the service of six months or the payment of $300- and one year probation Frank Edward Stevens pleaded guilty to four counts of housebreaking and larceny He was sentenced to seven years suspended on the service of Town TONIGHT 7 pm Millwood PTA school cafeteria 7:45 Ladies Exercise class YMCA Willow Drive WEDNESDAY 8:30 a Chamber of Commerce chamber office Washington Street To get an event or meeting listed call 775-6333 or 775-6334 Sink Still On three years and five years probation for each count The sentences are to run concurrently Johnny Michael Stokes pleaded guilty to one count of housebreaking and larceny and four counts of forgery He was sentenced to five years suspended and three Years probation for housebreaking and one year for each count of forgery suspended and three years probation Both sentences are to run concurrently I Willie and Charlie Jacobs pleaded guilty to the manufacturing of illegal liquor The brothers were each sentenced to 60 days John Major pleaded guilty to the transportation of illegal liquor He was sentenced to three months or $200 David Nathaniel Loney pleaded guilty to driving under the influence second offense He was sentenced to one year or $1000 suspended on the service of six months or the payment of $300 and one year probation James Glover pleaded guilty to housebreaking He was sentenced to three years suspended and five years probation Clarence Melvin Holmes charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to involuntary manslaughter He was sentenced to one year or $500 suspended and two years probation Mike Starling and Bruce Bentley charged with breaking and entering a motor vehicle with intent to steal grand larceny and use of a motor vehicle without the consent pleaded guilty to grand larceny They were each sentenced under the Youthful Offender's Act to a sentence not to exceed six years Hearings Galore At State House COLUMBIA A busy week of public hearings was scheduled at the State House this week as South legislators were busy today shunting the disputed $9ll million appropriations bill to a conference committee State enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Act was the subject of a Commerce and Manufacturers Committee hearing late today in the Senate The federal government has turned enforcement of the act in the Palmetto State over to the State Department of Labor Some enabling legislation has been cited as needed Proponents of a no-fault auto liability insurance plan that calls for a state-operated insurance program for high risk drivers are scheduled to be heard Wednesday by the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee Opponents of the plan all representatives of insurance firms were heard for three hours last week The no-fault plan is backed by Gov John West and by legislative members of a special committee that drafted it It is patterned on a Maryland program and is designed to lower rates for all drivers including those considered a high risk The insurance industry has been fighting the proposal Sen Ralph Gasque D-Marion head of the committee that drafted the plan has advised his colleagues that the insurance industry prepared to spend a million dollars to defeat A proposal before the lawmakers to establish a Nuclear Advisory Council for the state is to be aired Wednesday before the Atomic and Nuclear Energy Committee of the Senate Fire Damages Storage House Neu Brief Industry Opponents Rapped LAKE WORTH Fla AP) Tim Foltz gave his mother a paper bag full of baby possums for Easter In the past few years the Ken Foltz family has raised turkeys parakeets snakes raccoons a cow a hawk and an owl so Mrs Foltz too surprised to find possums as a present COLUMBIA Opponents of the development of nuclearcon-nected industry in South Carolina have been characterized by the chief industry hunter as doctors and little old ladies in tennis Bonner Manly director of the State Development Board said Monday they use instead of facts to combat the development of nuclear and nuclear-connected industries in the Manly commenting on labor supplies in the state told a civic club meeting he has little patience with someone who suggests the state should be staring at its toenails instead of looking at the State Sen Hyman Rubin DRichland said last week that labor shortages in some areas indicated the state should take a new look at its industry-hunting programs Manly said his agency is ready shift into high gear in its search for new Late Stocks 1 pm Quotations furnished by McCarley Co 516 Liberty St telephone 773-3309 raf ic Accidents MR MASSIE BRACEY SUMMERTON- Massie Bracey 75 died Saturday at Clarendon Memorial Hospital after a brief illness Born in Clarendon County in 1898 he was the son of Nelson and Hester Ragin Bracey and the husband of Eliza Brown Bracey He was a lifelong member of Liberty Hill AME Church Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 3:30 pm from Liberty Hill AME Church Summerton with the Rev Gordon officiating Burial will be in Liberty Hill Cemetery Mr Bracey is survived by his wife two adopted sons John Bracey of Summerton and Joe Louis Bracey of Philadelphia Pa 11 grandchildren four great-grandchildren one sister Mrs Rena Dowe of Sumter The family will be at King Funeral Home this evening at 7:30 NEW YORK (AP) -The stock market opened with a strong upward burst today then quickly slipped back into its sinking pattern of recent sessions The noon Dow Jones average of 30 industrials stood at 88915 up 264 for the day but down from a surge of about 13 points in the first half-hour of trading Advancing issues clung to an 852-to-411 lead over those declining in moderate trading on the New York Stock Exchange Analysts described the early rally as a technical rebound from the sharp declines posted last week and Monday amid investor concern over the Watergate case and the monetary and economic outlook Rollins Inc up at 18 was the Big most-active stock On the American Stock Exchange the price-change index was down 01 at 2245 The volume leader was Vetco Offshore Industries down at 21 Vz The index of some 1500 common stocks was up 022 at 5444 City police investigated four traffic accidents Monday none of which involved personal injuries These included: Kayo Service Station lot at the corner of Lafayette Boulevard and Liberty Street 8:01 am two -car collision No charges were made by police in connection with the accident Law Range 40 feet east of North Main Street 11:47 am two-car accident Woodrow Hem phill Hudson of 18 Corbett St was charged with improper backing West Liberty Street at Burress Street 1:50 pm two-car mishap Henri Wertz Brice of 16 Sims Ave was charged with failure to yield the right of way Parking lot of Department Store off West Liberty Street 3:55 pm two-car collision No charges were made by police in connection with the accident Firemen went to the parking lot behind Belk-Stroman at 4:20 am today Fluid from a broken hydraulic line on a 1972 International trash truck owned by the City of Sumter fell on the exhaust pipe resulting in smoke and a strong odor There was no fire City firemen went to the home of Edward Parker at 11 Center St at 10:16 am Monday to extinguish a fire in a storage house caused by children playing with matches There was some damage to the storage house and its contents according to reports Allied Chem Amer Motors Becton-Dickinson BILO Bethlehem Steel Burroughs Campbell Soup Carolina Pipeline Carolina Pw Lt Chrysler Coca-Cola Duke Power Eastman Kodak Eckerd Drugs ESB Family Finance Ford General Elec General Motors Gen Tel Ga-Pac Gulf Oil IBM Int Paper Jefferson-Pilot Michigan Seam Tube Nat Cash Reg Penney Pepsico RCA Reeves Bros Reynolds Tob Sea -Coastline SC Elec Gas Southern Railw Springs Mills Standard Oil NJ Texaco Town Country Steel Westvaco Winn-Dixie Woolworth Westinghouse La Pacific MISSMOTTE LYNCHBURG Miss Emma Brand Motte 65 died Tuesday at Florence General Hospital after a long illness She had taught in Sumter County Schools since 1936 She retired three years ago and taught in a private school Salem Academy near New Zion She is survived by two brothers George Maxie Motte Lynchburg and Motte of Pemberton NJ: one niece Mrs Betty Faye Altman of Sumter two nephews Charles Motte of Ridgecrest Calif and Freddie Ray Motte of Sumter Floyd Funeral Home of Olanta will announce plans which are incomplete at this time Parties Continued from Page 5A Copeland Mrs James Bland Mrs Cooper Jr Mrs A Dabbs Mrs Mayes Mrs A1 McElveen Mrs Mills Mrs Wells Morrison Jr Mrs Cecil Josey Mrs Gaither Spencer and Mrs Harry Wilson rangements of spring flowers The dining room was in yellow and white other rooms followed a color scheme of pink and white Assisting in receiving and serving were Mrs Aubrey Englander One way to discover value in an Englander Posturite Mattress and Box Spring is to sleep on it The Posturite Mattress is no slaker in the support department with 312 coils of 13 guage wire and heavy 6 guage border wire on edges You receive firm comfortable restful sleep support while its luxury layer of Sisal felt and Aristo-Foam with flexilators relax you in Super Comfort Let your eyes rest on its lovely Sateen Floral Pattern Scroll 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Center Crown Flexilator Scroll Quilted Both Sides 72 Coil Box Spring 8 Air Vents 312 Coil Mattress mi Englander Queen Size Mattress and Boxed Spring 8 LIBERTY ST 102 MAIN ST Park Opposed Continued from Page 3A were told that one of the biggest needs was recreation in the South Sumter area and so we decided to go The next step the mayor explained is for City Council to decide whether or not to proceed with the application process If council decides to file for the funds he said there is a chance they will not be available If the funds are applied for and granted council must then decide whether or not to enter into a funding agreement with the federal department of Housing and Urban Development said Mayor Rich-P Moses toward the oncliision of the meeting a great desire to accomplish something FOR COUNCIL Council had no the mayor continued explaining that the funds were earmarked for a certain type of project either had to undertake this project or not undertake this project We would lose the credit of $130000 if we undertake the project and we did not wish to lose that money.