The Item from Sumter, South Carolina • 2

PAGEt THE DAILY ITEM SUMTER 8C TUESDAY AUGUST It IfN Names Of Dead Youths Remain Mystery Obituaries Mr Alice HUtei ColumbU Juiei tapcll Jr Columbia Lewii Cracker Uaiou Earfle Irma Winum Htne Sr Fart Law The bodies were found early Monday on a dirt road known as Locklair Road between 1-95 and US 341 Both were apparently the victims of multiple bullet wounds the woman shot in the chest and the man in the head Both vjctims were described as being white and in their early 20s The man was about 6 feet tall weighed 150 to 160 pounds had shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes He was wearing blue jeans a red Coots T-shirt and sandals He was also wearing an Accutron watch and a gold ring with a tiger eye setting The woman was wearing a pink halter top white blouse and cutoff blue jeans She bad medium length brown hair with a reddish tint and bluish-gray eyes and was about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed about 100 pounds Sheriff 's deputies are still waiting for someone to give them the identities of the two young people found shot to death early Monday morning on a dirt road near 1-95 about 25 miles east of the city Bulletins containing descriptions of the two have been sent to other states and missing persons reports are being checked to see if any descriptions match those of the bodies do have more solid information since the autopsies have been completed" Chief Deputy TL McJunkin said Tuesday "but we still have no solid identification on the The department had checked the serial number on a watch found on the man's body hoping to get a name from records at the watch company but was told that serial number records were no longer kept and had been destroyed Hamer She was wearing a jade ring with a black setting and a feather ring with a jade insert and a ring with a red white and blue setting on her left hand Both bodies were sent to the Medical University of South Carolina for autopsies Monday but details of the findings are being withheld pending further investigation of the case by the Sheriff department Sumter County Coroner Bennie Raffield said an inquest into the deaths would be held at a later date Sheriff I Byrd Parnell asks that anyone who knows of anyone missing who fits one of the above descriptions or anyone with any information about the case to call the Sumter County Sheriff Department Investigations Division 775-1133 City Employes Asked To Help Continued from Page 1 William Mitt Daria Crawley Cheater-HeU Mr Larrie Raiaet Oraafebarg Richard Stovall Aadenoe Bobby Todd Uttle River Mr Barfal Roger Cberaw Jame Bodic Sr Jaaaaa Mr Be lab Fraaklia Bond MRS HATTIE WILSON Mrs Hattie Wilson died Friday Aug 6 of a sudden illness Bom in Lee County she was a daughter of the late Harvey and Mrs Annette Bradley Mack She was a member of New Zion A Church Surviving are a son Roland Wilson and a daughter Mrs Ella Mae Wilson of Elisabeth NJ brothers Hamon Mack of Elliott Golden Mack of Marion William Mack of Philadelphia Pa and Robert Mack of Bishopvilie sitters Mrs Elisabeth Fortune and Mrs Clara Rouse of Elliott Mrs Mary Ella Peoples and Mrs Janie Carter of Bishopvilie and Mrs Rosa Belle Robinson of Philadelphia Pa seven grandchildren three aunts one uncle six brothers-in-law and eight sisters-in-law Services will be 2pm Wednesday in the New Zion A Church with the Rev Frank Alston Jr officiating Burial will follow in the Broad Branch Cemetery Square Deal Funeral Home is in charge Jim Bookaigbt Chapia Sidaey A Taler Biihopullr Claade Marlowe McCMlaaville Mr Ratb Bodiford Aadenoa NeU Redwtae Calambia Miu Leila Traylor Wiaatboro MRS DELCENIA MARTIN Mr Delcenia Martin died at her midence in Rimini Friday morning alter a sudden illness She was bom in Clarendon County a daughter al Mrs Lucille Stevenson Durant and Freddie White Surviving are her husband Willie Martin of the home daughters Miss Thomasenia Martin of Rimini Mrs Genova Faye Elliott Columbia Misses Celestine Martin and Glenetta Martin both of Rimini a son Willie Martin Jr of Columbia mother Mrs Lucille Durant of Philadelphia Pa father Freddie While of Wilmington NC four grandchildren two aunts one uncle Services will be 4 Wednesday from Antioch AMR Church with the Rev Davis officiating Burial will follow in Antioch cemetery The family will fteeive friends at Palmer Memorial Chapel this evening at 7: JO Harrises Convicted But Trial Not Over LOS ANGELES (APp- William and Emily Harris avowed revolutionaries who shared Patricia underground life stand convicted of kidnaping and robbery in a trial which is not yet over In a verdict with grave implications for Miss Hearst the Harrises were acquitted Monday of six counts of assault but were convicted of two kidnapings one robbery and two car thefts all involving Miss Hearst The jury apparently believed the contention that Miss Hearst a codefendant willingly took part in the shooting that led to the assault charges The jury delivered its verdict unaware of a controversy about possible bias against the Harrises Without dismissing the jury and ending the trial the judge scheduled an unusual hearing today to investigate whether the verdict was tainted by prejudice In a surprise move the jurors asked and were permitted to remain sequestered at a guarded hotel overnight to prevent contact with publicity they were ordered to avoid The sources of possible jury bias included reports of the construction of two mock nooses by potential jurors the smuggling of an inflammatory newspaper article into a jury room and an allegedly biased remark by a juror who took part in the verdict The verdict by the sevenwoman five-man jury was angrily challenged by thd defense "1 don't think this verdict will stand in any said chief defense attorney Leonard Weinglass It was the most tainted of Unless the verdict is set aside Weinglass said he would appeal on numerous grounds Chief prosecutor Sam Mayerson said if prejudice were shown at the jury hearing he would join in a motion to set aside the verdict and seek a new trial HARRY LEE LEWIS Harry Lee Lewis 25 died Saturday in the Tuomey Hospital following a brief illness He was bom the son of Leo and Mrs Ruth Lewis Surviving are his parents an aunt Mrs Eliza Lewis a grandaunt Mrs Millie Huggins of Orangeburg an uncle Oliver Lewis of Philadelphia Pa and other relatives Services were to be held today at 4 pm in Bethel AME Church with the Rev Rouse officiat-ing James Funeral Home Inc is in charge for information on the mall such as the number of employes but not my job and I have to trust the people who do that the way the council-manager form of government operates Mrs Yates added that it is the city job to oversee city operations HER COMMENT ON THE MALL springs from the fact that Funderburk is alleged to have had four ghost employes working on the mall and that these people were allegedly not city employes McElveen also confirmed that council had met before Friday to discuss requesting a SLED investigation At an earlier meeting enlisted the help of SLED" he said At the time McElveen said there had been no arrests although council agreed as soon as the arrests were made they would notify the press and public Asked when the investigation is expected to be completed McElveen said are waiting on the auditor and our attorney to advise us and itinay be that there are other arrests we would ha veto look into" McElveen declined to answer when asked if there were other departments involved rather not say at this time" he replied "There is no doubt about it If somebody wants to cheat not real hard to cheat Thank God most of our employes are honest" McElveen said McELVEEN SPECULATED that the SLED investigation may leave in its wake as many as 200 charges being filed are probably other counts It will be up to the solicitor if he wants to prosecute Somebody said something about there being as many as 200 of them It may be as many as 200" he said Mrs Yates expressed shock that a SLED investigation had been warranted unfair (in) that it casts a shadow on all city employes and I also am a city employe We need that kind of "In no way" she said "is City Council going to cover up or hide anything about this We just want to say anything that might prejudice the case" Councilman Morris Mazursky is on vacation and could not be reached for comment Columbia Making Cases On Men In Prostitution Weinglass: verdict won't stand Stock Market Opens With Light Trading trade and Standard Oil of California up Mi at 38 On the American Stock Exchange the market value index was down 18 at 10323 Noon Stocks COLUMBIA (AP)-The city of Columbia has begun making cases against men and women in ils attempt to reduce prostitution in the capital city Meeting Focuses On Problems Of Handicapped A meeting to discuss "life as a physically handicapped person" and environments" will be held at 7 pm Wednesday in the City-County Office Building The purpose ofthis meeting is to create an awarness ofthe barriers to independence for the physically handicapped Mrs Virgina Sides Harold Galloway and local planners will be present to lead discussions relating to these topics Steve Michaluk a vocational rehabilitation counselor in Lee and Sumter counties will lead the meeting The public is invited to at- Five soldiers from Ft Jack-son were convicted Monday in Columbia City Court for soliciting for immoral purposes the same charge that is used to prosecute prostitutes They were among seven men arrested Saturday night after two rookie policewomen posing as prostitutes accused them of soliciting The five soldiers were sentenced to pay fines of $105 or serve 30 days in jail City Recorder Thomas Lydon suspended the sentences but served notice he may not be so lenient in the future He said that men as well as women can expect to face charges for soliciting tried to stop it by arresting the prostitutes Now the city is taking a new step forward and arresting those who try to procure prostitutes" Lydon said One of the other men arrested failed to appeal in court and forfeited bond The other asked for a jury trial WATCH FOR THESE BIG HITS COMING SOON! NEW YORK (AP) Stock prices were little changed again today in light trading The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks rose a fraction at the outset Gainers and losers ran about even in the overall count of New York Stock Exchange-listed issues Brokers said the market was simply marking time waiting for some news development to give it a push The most likely candidate in the immediate future was the governnfents report on wholesale price trends for July due to be issued on Thursday early volume leaders included Sony unchanged at 9 in a 15000-share block Crash Kills 5 BRYSON CITY NC (AP) A plane crashed Monday while on a pleasure flight around the mountainous Bryson City area killing all five aboard They were four residents of Camden SC and the pilot a native of this vicinity The South Carolinians were identified as Steve Broadway 51 his son Billy Broadway 22 and his two grandchildren Michael Hardin 7 and Bobby Hall 3 son Of Mrs Jeanette Hall The pilot was Harold Funderburk Faces Additional Charges Continued from Page I much as $20000 may have been misspent although no warrants hsave as yet been issued to substantiate this A fourth name appeared on one of the original forgery warrants served on Funderburk last Friday That warrant charged him with forging the name of Larry Ford to a payroll check on the 30th of June 1976 and then exchanging it for cash at the Citizens and Southern National Bank The 10th charge made against Funderburk that of obtaining money under false pretenses resulted from timesheets which he allegedly turned in for these four employes These timesheets the warrant said the issuance of payroll checks of $41945 while these persons were not employed by the City of Sumter SC and did not perform any duties or labor for these funds and did then and thereafter cause and forge the names of said individuals to these payroll checks and then cashed same and converted the monies to his own Dates on the checks covered by these timesheets were for July and August of last year The four original forgery warrants include the charge of forging the names of these employes on payroll checks ranging in amount from $10759 to $12508 Each check was dated June 30 1976 and was drawn against a city account at the South Carolina National Bank and exchanged for cash at the Citizens and Southern National Bank attorney Harry Wilson has said that a preliminary hearing on the charges has been requested and that a letter stating that request will be sent to Magistrate Hogon later this week c(l ail Wall DKim-v Production' Ibnu Legal Notices Allied Chem 46 Amer Motors 4 Arristar 2 A 59 Bect-Dickinson 38 Beth Steel 41 Bl-Lo 18 Burroughs 96 Campbell Soup 33 Carolina Pipeline 13 CPA 21 Chrys 21 Coca-Cola 86 Cooper Ind 39 Duke Power 20 Dupont 136 Eastman Kodak 96 Eckerd Drugs 17 Exxon 59 Fed Mogul 24 Ford 56 GE 55 Gen Motors 67 Gen Tele 28 Ga Pacific 47 Gulf Oil 26 IBM 276 Ini Nickel Si 34 Int Paper 68 Jeff Pilot 30 La Pacific 13 Mich Seam Tube 20 NCR 34 JCPenney 48 Pepsi 82 RCA 28 Reeves Bros 30 Reynolds Tob 58 Seab-Coast RR 28 SCE A 17 Sou Railroad 56 Springs Mills 12 lanco 27 Town A Country 2 US Steel 51 Westvaco 38 Winn-Dixie 36 Woolworth 22 Westinghouse 6 It noon Quotations furnished by McCarley A Ce 516 Liberty St telephone 773-3166 TMinhitlitr 3: I97S WM DV1 Produc 1(004 Pirtarr In talar A Pan Swerving Car Severs Pole rt a hilarious outrageous road race in $200 damages to each vehicle Reports said Frank William Wright 7 West St was trying to turn left from West Liberty Street onto Purdy Street and pulled his 1968 Volkswagen into the path of a 1970 Ford driven' by Brass Wright 254A Furman Drive who was westbound on Liberty Street at the time Frank Wright was charged with failure to yield right of way PUBLIC NOTICE "NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT" PROJECT Arts and Crafts Center The City of Sumter has completed an environmental review record with respect to the above named project The project will renovate a single family dwelling adjacent to Memorial Park for use by the City Park and Recreation Department as an Arts and Crafts Center The City has found that this project has no significant effect on the environment This is based on the conclusion that the project will improve the appearance and usability of the structure The environmental review record for this project is available for inspection and may be examined and copied at the Com-munity Development Department City Hall Sumter No further environmental review of this project is proposed to be conducted by the City The City intends to request the Department of Housing and Urban Development to release funds for this project Comments may be submitted to the City of Sumter until 5:00 PM on August 25 1676 Powell Black City Manager Box 1446 Sumter 2150 A telephone pole owned by Carolina Power and light Co was broken in two and a car sustained $1000 damage in a wreck Monday The 1972 Ford driven by Susan Kingwood Bowman of Mt Pisgah Apt 9 was damaged when she swerved into a utility pole on Calhoun Street about a Cost to replace the pole was unknown Bowman was charged with driving too fast for conditions according to police records Another accident occurred on US 76 Broad Street when Paula Marie Hackett of 1051 Sweetbriar Road was driving her 1974 Ford into a parking and was struck from behind by a car driven by Alan Stuart Hov-ermale of Rt 3 Box 565 Manning car sustained damage of $200 Damage to Hovermale 1975 Ford was about $250 police reports said Hovermale was charged with driving too fast for conditions A car owned by Betty Jo Carraway of 47 Lafayette Villa sustained estimated damage of $125 when it was struck in Coca-Cola Bottling parking lot by a car driven by Raymond Colburn of 430 Robney Drive police reports said Enola Dubose 23 St was charged with failure to yield right of way after a two-car accident on Guignard Drive Friday afternoon Reports said she pulled her 1964 Chevrolet out of a parking lot and into 8 1967 Ford driven by Betty M'Lowder 950 Liberty St who was northbound on Guignard at the time Damages were set at $350 to the Ford and $150 to the Chevrolet A two car accident on West Liberty Street Friday resulted NOTICE The Town of Manning is presently receiving bids on carpet for the new Town Administration Building Specifications may be picked up at Town Hall Monday through Friday from 9 00 A to 5:00 All bids should be submitted to the Town Hall in a sealed envelope by five O'clock Monday August 16th Card of Thanks The Death Of Amos and Herbert Johnson Mr A Mr David Johnaon want to Thank everyone for their kindness and help at the time of the death of their two sons on June 1676 Also Amoa'a widow and tons are thankful to everyone along with his five brothers and three listen The Sumter Daily Item Established ISM Published every Afternoon except Sunday by Osteen Publishing Company Inc 20 Magnolia St Sumter SC 20150 Second ciasa postage paid at Sumter SC SUBSCRIPTION RATES CITY 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What the song didn't teD you the movie will IftHKH SCORNS dOMEDf The harder they push the closer it comes iflg52thestre sumter theatre J0WT0h (73 835! To Billy Joe Bikes Reported Stolen City police are investigating the thefts of two bicycles from city residwts over the weekend Reports said someone stole a black and white Motocross bike from Tommy Means 629 Periwinkle Court sometime Saturday Value of the bike was set at $150 Cindy Bradham 3 Calhoun Drive reported the theft of a Schwinn 10-speed bike from her yard sometime Sunday Value of the bike was set at $110 Henry Moore 26 Inglewood Drive reported that someone stole a 12-gauge Winchester pump shotgun from his borne late last month Value of the gun was set at $165 Bill Reynolds 78 Nash St reported that someone stole a tape player from his car sometime Saturday Value of the tape player wa fiio HARRIS SONS FUNERAL HOME 773-3301 741 Churth St Sumter Billy Harris Owner Member Audit Bureau of.