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PACE IA THE DAILY ITEM SUMTER ML THURSDAY AUGUST 1979 Obituaries Murder Victims Still Unknown MRS IDA WALLACE Mrs Ida May Hood Wallace 79 widow of Barney Wallace and a former employe of Sunshine Cleaners and Laundry died Wednesday at the Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia after a long illness She was bom in Kershaw County a daughter of the late WJ and Argent Brown Dees She was a member of the First Baptist Church and its Philathea Sunday school class 3 the Woman's Missionary Union and the Senior Citizens Fellowship Surviving are a daughter-in-law Mrs Ruby Hood of Columbia a grandson Barney Hood of Joliett III a great-granddaughter Mist Dorothy Hood of Columbia and several neices and nephews of Sumter Services will be 4 pm Friday at the Lindsay Chapel of the First Baptist Church conducted by the Rev Mike Hamlet Burial will be in the Crescent Hill Memorial Gardens Talbert-Shives Funeral Home is in charge The woman was about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed about 100 pounds She was wearing cut-off jeans a pink halter top a white blouse and wedge sandals with a hot pink and purple instep strap She also wore three rings all sterling silver believed to be either Mexican or Indian costume jewelry One ring was jade with a black setting one was a feather ring with a jade insert and the third had a red white and blue setting XHEY WERE FOUND EARLY Monday morning on a dirt road known as the Locklair Road between 1-95 and SC 341 about 25 miles east of Sumter They both died of multiple gunshot wounds believed to be fired from either a 38 caliber or 357 magnum pistol Fingerprints sent to the FBI in hopes that their files may contain identification have not as yet reached Washington An all-points bulletin containing the description! has been sent to every police and department in the country with teletype ma-MM Dental charts of both victims have also been made available Investigators ask that anyone who knows of anyone missing who fits the description of the victims or anyone with any information about the case to call the Sumter County Department Investigations Division 775-1133 By JERRY ADAMS ITEM Staff Writer Investigations into the deaths of two young people found shot to death early Monday on the Locklair Road near the Florence County line are still stalled pending identification of the victims The Sumter County Department has been Hooded with telephone calls from people from various parts of the country who think they may recognize the descriptions of the victims but as yet no positive identification has been made THE TWO BODIES have been brought back to Sumter and are being kept at a local funeral home Photographs of both are being made and authorities plan to circulate them nationwide in hopes someone will be able to identify them Both of the victims were described as being white and in their late teens to earlv 20s The man was about 6 feet tall and weighed about 150 pounds He had shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes He was wearing faded blue jeans a red T-shirt with on the front and GT Challenge Sebring on the back and brown strap sandals He had an appendectomy scar He was wearing a Bulova Accutron watch and a 14 carat gold ring with a worn florentine finish and set with a grey linde star stone The imUals JPF were engraved on the inside of the ring Dtairl Ltr Rfvaoldi Oru(bar Sm Byrd McCall Leo Brava Aadenoa Jotcph CUnali CharteMaa Harley Blalock Wkitmlrt JnM Dickert Wkltmlrc Mr Erale Wkllc Greer ReyooM WilliamsM Salley Alloa Rou North Myrtle Beach Jeremiah Hardee Dll loo Mr Robert 0 William Camdea Normaa General Sr Marion Mr Ida Wallace Colombia Herman Griffin Oranfeborf Mr Jolla Reeae Colombia Mr Manuel Balrefool Ehrhart Mr Mary 0 Evaat Florence Henry Durr St George Loult Coanelly Reevetvllle Elijah Mlaton Goote Creek Mr Nell Price Columbia Willerbe Rota Cayce Mr Wylie Hornaby Jr Columbia Mrt JE Cameron Georgetown Dr (Hear Batter Georgetown Mitt Leonard Kelly Blackvllle Mrt Betale Fewell White Oak PERRY BRADLEY SR Perry Bradley Sr died Saturday morning in Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia of injuries received in an automobile accident Surviving are his widow Mrs Wanda Millican Bradley'of Dalzell a son Perry Bradley Jr of the home his parents three sisters Mrs Dorothy Davis of Sumter and Misses Martha Jane and Daretha Jean Simmons of Wedgefield five brothers Spec 5 Willie Lee Bradley of Germany and Leroy and Jessie Bradley Teddy Rosevelt and Eugene Simmons of Wedgefield and a grandmother Mrs Mary Frierson of Dalzell Services will be 3 pm Friday at the Grant Hill Baptist Church Rt 1 Rembert conducted by the Rev AD Dennis The family will be at the home In Dalzell and Woodrow SC to receive friends and will be at the Williams Funeral Home tonight between 7:30 and 8 EDWARD PICKET BRICE Edward Picket Brice died last weekend in Louisville Ky He was bom in Fairfield County son of the late Richardson Walker and Love Mobley Brice and moved to Wedgefield as a small child on Millside Plantation He attended and graduated from the Sumter County schools and was a retired real estate broker Surviving are his widow Lucy Califf Brice two daughters three brothers Brice Sr of Sumter Dr Marshall Brice of Staunton Va and Walter Brice of Glen Bumie Md a sister Mrs James McFadden Oliver of Charleston Memorial services were held Monday in Jeffersonville Ky where Mr Brice had lived for many years Union Withdraws Threat Of National Mail Strike in if it were to strike if it were ever 2 Officers Arrested Ik Elephants? (UPI) Melvin Cohen displays part of his collection of 4000 miniature elephants he has placed on display in the front window of a hotel in downtown Kansas City Cohen a retired private detective began collecting thewm in 1945 when he was in the Army Air Force in India and China They are speciments ranging from elephant animal crackers to ivory and rare jade Four Injured When Car Flips Four people were taken to the Tuomey Hospital Wednesday after their car was bit broadside on Salem Street and flipped over coming to rest upside down against a tree Reports said Victor Robert St John 567 Croft St had stopped at a stop sign while traveling east on Hampton Street in his 1975 Checker and when he pulled into the intersection he ran into a 1968 Ford driven by Susie Henrietta Jayroe 224 Hannah St who was headed north on Salem Street at the time The Ford was pushed into the curb where it flipped over onto the top hit a power pole and came to rest against a tree Jayroe 18-month-old Jennifer Jayroe of 216 Salem St Marie Crider 14 of 206 Maple St and 16-year-old Dolly Butler 205 Maple St were taken by ambulance to Tuomey Butler was admitted and is listed in satisfactory condition the others were treated and released St John was charged with failure to yield right of way Damages were set at $600 to the Checker and the Ford was considered a total loss The power pole owned by the Carolina Power and Light Co was cut in half and damages to it were set at $200 Myrtle Ann Smith Rt 1 Box 262B Dalzell was charged with driving too fast for conditions after a two-car accident at the intersection of West Liberty Street and Guignard Drive Reports said Smith was eastbound on West Liberty Street when she ran through a red light in her 1970 Plymouth and into the path of a 1972 Chevrolet driven by Junior Sinkler 63 Bimie Circle who was northbound on Guignard Drive at the time Allied Chem 40 Amer Motors 4 Arristar 2 59 Bect-Dickinson 38 Beth Steel 39 Bi-Lo 18 Burroughs 95 Campbell Soup 33 Carolina Pipeline 14 CPA 21 Chrys 21 Coca-Cola 86 Cooper Ind 39 Duke Power 21 136 Eastman Kodak 95 Eckerd Drugs 18 Exxon 52 Fed Mogul 24 Ford 56 GE 55 Gen Motors 67 Gen Tele 29 Ga Pacific 48 Gulf Oil 27 IBM 276 Int Nickel 34 two years ago implemented nationally Under the plan the Postal Service makes computerized measurements of every carrier route to try to eliminate easy routes and make sure everyone works a full day Garrett ruled that the Postal Service must discontinue use of the plan in the only place it is being used one station in Portland Ore and go back to the old routes Garrett found the technique used to redraw routes in Portland to be in violation of the labor agreement with the union He said the Postal Service could not use the technique without obtaining the agreement of the union However the arbitrator upheld another efficiency effort by the Postal Service called Methods Improvement Plan Standard Operating Procedures This program is designed to improve letter carrier productivity by establishing standard work methods Garrett also said the Postal Service could develop new work standards for the letter carriers providing It follows the provisions of the contract WASHINGTON (AP) The letter union has withdrawn its two-year-old threat of a nationwide mail strike after winning on a key 9 arbitration issue involving a Postal Service efficiency plan need for costly and hazardous strike action was avoided by the arbitration James Rademacher president of the National Association of Letter Carriers said Wednesday The Postal Service also claimed victory in the arbitration citing issues on which arbitrator Sylvester Garrett ruled in its favor "This is a very important and crucial occurrence for the Postal a spokesman said "We plan to proceed with vigor to bring the maximum productivity to the Postal Service" complex 35-page decision concerned the "Kokomo an efficiency proposal the Postal Service says could cut the present staff of 200000 letter carriers by about 16000 Such a reduction would save hundreds of millions of dollars per year for the deficit-plagued mail agency The union called the plan a "speed-up after tt was first tested in Kokomo Ind and voted with their treatment of two tourists Horry County police served warrants about 3:45 pm Wednesday on Patrolmen Sam Hendricks and Richard Drew both in their 20s The men were later released on a $2000 recognizance bond each The arrests stemmed from a July 7 incident involving Harold Culbertson of Anderson SC and John Cummings of Greensboro NC Late last week Myrtle Beach Chief of Police Stanley Byrd fired another officer Marion Foxworth Myrtle Beach's 1976 Policeman-of the-Year in connection with the same incident MYRTLE BEACH SC Two more Myrtle Beach police officers have been arrested and charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in connection Lightning Cited As Cause Of Fire A fire at a Lindley Avenue residence Sunday afternoon resulted in an estimated $4000 in damages Reports 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