Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 1

LORENCE SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 19 1982 DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10c WISELY Me PebHpteh The Heart Of The Pee Dee Section rou xxa Kona daily ano Sunday lorence sc Sunday morning junb to djuly and Sunday dmuy Sunday HOUSE VOTE EXTENDS CONTROLS House Passes Slashed Appropriations Bill 2 by fh Storm Provides Respite rom Heat Damages Crons An electrical storm that rumb it fell to 74 by 5 But that o'clock A HaII clrititr 4U 'W' GOP Gov Earl Californio a Re big two were Mob Releases oiledAttacker Of ROK Solon Heat Wave Death Toll 151 Torrid Blasts Cover Nation PUSAN Sunday June 29 Wl The Korean National Assembly held kaptlve by an angry mob for more than five hours finally was released late yesterday by police under the personal direction of Home Minister Lee Bum Suk More than 80 assembly mem bers including one woman were neld in the Assembly hall by about 600 representatives of town and city councils and provincial as semblies One congressman was seized and beaten by the crowd Others including the Prime Minis ter were pushed and slapped and forced to return to the assembly when they tried to leave Police stood by and watched the blockade of the Korean Congress without intervening from 1:30 pm until Home Minister Lee one of President Syngman Rhee's closest advisers took charge personally Earlier appeals for police aid aa oecn ignored Even with Lee in charge the shouting crowd tried at one point to break through the police cordon and get at the assemblymen filing through to the government office building nearby Some observers here regarded the incident as an indication that the campaign of hate against the assembly generated by followers of the President has gotten out of hand The provincial spokesman saying they speak for the mass of the people now will accept nothing short of dissolution of the Con gress and new national election neither of which is provided for In the Korean Constitution It was generally agreed that the five hour siege of the Korean as sembly and the forced detention of 80 legislators all of them pro Rhee or mlddle of the readers had erased almost completely any hopes for a compror ise settlement of the political crisis When they were released the assemblymen walked slowly from the hall between the police lines They were obviously afraid Tears shone in the eyes of several veter an fighters for Korean independ ence One observer Mke the funeral procession of Jean ft11 4a 7 A Vw tr4 vivvn oub Uldl was all Shortly thereafter the mercury began a slow rise and was up to 74 degrees here at 10:30 The local weather station report ed last night that today would be another scorcher with tempera tures once again fingering the one double oh However showers again this afternoon may furnish respite in some areas That storm while greeted with Brins and those comfortable and by many boo meranged in several sections for the Pee Dee The rain driven by high winds and accompanied by hail caused heavy crop damage in some sec tions Lightning played its part and caused heavy damage to a church at Sardis Power and communica tions lines were also damaged A heavy electrical storm visit ed the Sardis community about 4 The House voted a cut of 568 millions for American air bases at home and over the world upholding committee rec ommendations on this The Democrats with a total of 230 members were outnumbered because of week end absenteeism A minimum of 150 answered the days first quorum call but only about 100 were present when the voting took place on the amend ments cutting the funds The House acted swiftly in an unusual Saturday session called to attempt to complete action on the over all measure It first voted to uphold the com cut of 568 millions for air construction including air fields mainly abroad Then it turned to the six billion dollar forcin aid portion of the measure Other main points in the bill as finally passed Atomic energy expansion The House voted $1485000090 to be gin a six year program designed to double atomic capacity The President had requested $3191000 000 'Die House also voted a proviso limiting the funds to beginning pro jects which the administration can fully finance now Opponents of this provision said it would set back development of the bomb by perhaps two years Military The House approved $2187899840 of supple mentary funds after cutting $805 snwvuv irom requests by all three services A total cut of 568 million dollars was made in money to fi nance air force construction in cluding secret bases from Japan to England threatened crops Temperatures shot up to 100 and over in many places Northern areas got a brief re spite during the night but it didn't iast long In Chicago 90 plu tem peratures riday dropped to 85 during the night but bounced back to 100 at 2 pm Saturday North Dakota benefited from heavy overnight rains which brought relief to the droughWdam aged spring wheat crop Lack of rain had brought a revised fore cast of the state's wheat produc tion this year to 104790000 bushels lowest sinpe 1940 In St Louis Mo four persons died riday night from causes at tributed to the heat as the mer cury climbed to 1023 the hottest June 27 on record in St Louis The death toll by states: Ala bama 2 Georgia 7 Illinois 3 Indi ana 5 Iowa 1 Kentucky 5 Mary land 5 Massachusetts 4 Missouri 5 New Jersey 53 New York 11 North Carolina 1 Ohio 12 Penn sylvania 11 South Carolina 1 Ten nessee 12 Virginia 6 West Vir ginia 2 and the District of Colum bia 5 Two Men Killed In Plane Crash DALLAS June 28 tfl A American airliner and a small passenger private plane collided today as both were coming in to land at Dallas' Love ield The two young men in the pri vate plane were killed as the craft One wing shorn off by a propeller of the airliner spun to the ground But the four engine DC6 landed wifely A dent in a propeller of the No 4 engine and a torn radio antenna were the nly damage Killed were Paul Bower 20 and Don Walker 20 both of Den ton and both employes in Dallas of Central Airlines Authorities said it would take sev eral days' investigation before theyould answer the question of who wad the right of way for several hours as electrical bolts whipped through the area John Harrelson a farmer just north of Mullins estimated that two in ches of rain fell during the brief visit of the storm The wind knocked down several trees in the section The trees in falling tore down power and telephone lines Lightning ntfo hit a Negro residence in Mullins starting a small fire Damage was light Water flooded fields and crossed the highway in the Gapway sec tion south of Mullins Thomas Jr with nine acres of land in tobacco said his tobacco a 90 per cent loss as hall whipped through the fields However he added testimony to the freakness of the storm when he said that several fields were almost total losses while the sturm apparently led over the Pee Dee for more than five hours yesterday before it broke provided a temporary re spite from the current heat wave last night but also caused heavy damage in some areas Before the storm broke loren tines continued to suffer Those seeking any escape possible ever mental gazed at a reading of 387 at 3 o'clock That was high for them for the day But they were looking an thermometers with cen tigrade readings The average suf ferer saw things in a more com mon vein The fahrenheit reading was 100 degrees Marlon broiling under 100 plus temperatures the past week had 101 at 2 o'clock Then came the form and the mercury nosedived In lorence the temperature had plummeted to 71 degrees by 5:15 At Marion Ordination Service Is Scheduled Today Ministers of Baptist churches in lorence met in session yesterday to examine (Billy) Cusack as a candidate for the Baptist Ministry The Rev Cusack will be ordain ed this morning at the 11:15 ser vice in the irst Baptist Church He will be recommended by Dr Hicks of lorence and the Rev Edward Byrd pastor will ordain him into the Baptist minis try Mr Cusack is a student at South ern Baptist Theological Seminary and has accepted a pastorate in Patriot Ind at the Patriot Baptist Church He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1949 with a degree in Business Administration and was licensed to preach in the hist Baptist Church of Atlanta during the following year His wife is the former Miss Kath erine Lee Holman of Conyers Ga spective campaign managers for Sen Robert A Taft of Ohio and Gen Dwight Eisenhower "Taft and his advisers are re sorting to desperate last minute tricks to thwart the will of the rank and file of the Republican Lodge said in a statement He said defeated national committee men from Vermont and Rhode Is land were seeking to seat proxies on the committee "in bare faced bid to keep for Taft forces Ingalls contrasted the announce ment that Eisenhower will move his headquarters to Chicago dur ing the convention with the Janu ary statement by the general that he would not actively seek the GOP nomination He said it "emJ pha sizes the inconsistency of the general's whole demeanor in the 1952 presidential HARTSVILLE June 28 Smoke still dimmed the downtown busi ness section late today as the four buildings wmecked in this morn ing's all alarm fire hissed and smoldered The fire listed as the big gest fire loss In many years gut ted four business establishments and estimates place lira damage in excess of $150909 ire Chief John Autef said Hartsville and Darlington firefight ers fought the blaze for five hours The firemen arrived on the scene at 11:55 pm riday night and de parted at 5 am today Autef said he thinks the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion from a pile of straw in one of the livery stable stalls He said it may have been caused by a short cir cuit in a truck parked bseide the straw pile but indications are that it was self ignited from the straw No one was hurt during the fire although walls fell and one 20 foot wall crashed out over the side walk near large crowds of on look ers The four business establishments hit by the blaze were the Pee Dee Horse and Mule Company the Newsom Stables Saleeby Liq uor Store and the Carolina Hard ware Company storage warehouse Contents of all the buildings were lost said Autef but the hard ware COmnanv Was hardnst hit Merchandise destroyed in the warehouse included new refrigera tors stoves wire and other equip ment and appliances Autof said most of the walls of the four buildings would have to come down The fire left them broken cracked warped and lean ing He said Darlington sent seven firemen and one truck the 27 members and two trucks of the Hartsville department were swam ped with volunteers The buildings were located In the heart of Hartsville near the Cok er College Campus on College Ave i nuc Autef said the live stock in the Pee Dee Horse and Mule Comnanv was saved He listed the contents of all four buildings as a "com plete I SEOUL Sunday Jiine 39 LR LI Chinese Reda hurled two assaults at a pair of hills on the Western Korean ront during a torrential rain last night but booming Allied artillery turned them back The Reds launched their thrusts at a barren mound turned into a mud coated mass and a nearby peak Allied artillery and rifle fire beat off the first assaurt at midnight The Reda about 759 strong regrouped fired 599 rounds of artillery and mortar at the dug in defenders atop Baldy and attacked again behind the aupporting fire of tanks They limped back to their own lines after 30 minutes of withering fire from the heights Allied of ficers said the foul weather pre vented any estimate of Chinese casualties Allied infantrymen the previous night had stopped three attempts to take the bald topped hill The Eighth Army reported 225 of some 899 Reds were killed or wounded in trying to storm the position west of Chorwon A light rain followed the fighting AP correspondent Jim Becker at the front reported some of the Chinese reached Allied bunkers but were stopped by hand gre nades He said the attacks on apparently were a con tinuation of assaults on the hill mass around strtaegic Bone several miles to the east The hill mass overlooks a small valley on the historic invasion route to Seoul Allied fighter bombers pounded Communist troop concentrations and artillery positions Saturday 84 Thunderjets went after camouflaged supply vehicles on tie East Coast near Wpnsan The ifth Air orce reported at least 159 big trucks were destroyed By JACK RUTLEDGE WASHINGTON June 28 tD The House passed and sent to the Sen ate today a $10122840780 omnibus appropriations bill It was $3731 205250 below President Truman's requested figure Administration foes aided bv Democratic absenteeism knocked out a total of $398993000 in two days of spirited debate Major cut was $243993000 from foreign aid Another 65 million was sliced from TVA funds for new atomic ppwer equipment The Hou approved funds for a $6031947750 foreign aid program for next year It was a total cut of $1917853250 from President Truman's requested total of $7 949801000 The House Appropriations Com mittee had recommended approval of $6275940750 But Republicans aided by some Democrats sliced another $243993000 from the bill on the floor The foreign aid program was part of an overall bill which now totals $10122840780 a net reduc tion of $160293000 from the $10 283133780 recommended by the appropriations committee The measure is to finance for eign aid armed forces atomic en ergy and a variety of other pro grams The money is supplemental addition to funds already voted for many of these agencies The principal foreign aid reduc uons rammed through today were in the funds for military aid to Europe the Near East and Africa and technical assistance to the ar East Efforts to cut aid to Asia the Pacific and Latin America were defeated BLASTS Warren of publican favorite son candi date for president tells Na tional Press Club in Washing ton that the Republican Par ty has a "withering right wing" that would try to turn back the dockto "The good old days" ignoring the neces sity of meeting present day world problems Death Hesitates At Bed of Man Who's Had 'Call' MIDDLESBORO Kv Tur oo Ml James Longworth was tint dead tonight but he was still hope ful The 69 venr cld mquntnineer wax weary after a day of waiting for the death he had expected at 7 am (EST) today he said had told him twice while he prayed on the mountain side that ho would die at that SDQCific time Iznicrwnulk had arranged for his own funeral But the pallbearers and a group of friends and relatives waited vainly as the day wore on and death did not come Longworth thought he knew the reason Twice during the day he said death but he fought it off But the next time he prom ised ns he lay in bed he would not resist Twice too he arose from an apparent coma and shouted that he glimpsed heaven "It's beautiful over he exclaimed beautiful peo ple Longworth was in seemingly good health when he took to bed las night Today he got out of bed and collapsed and said he was numb from the hips Thi Rev James oster pastor of the Church of God of which Longworth is a member and Long worth's daughter said they too believed Longworth had grappled with death They said they noticed a change in him Landslide Strikes 5 Truck Caravan LIMA Peru June 28 A land slide of earth and rocks struck five trucks loaded with passengers about 60 miles east of Lima today burying an undetermined number of persons The only known survivor was the driver of one truck who was thrown into the' nearby Rimae River Prisoners Eat Naked As Riot Threat Lurks By GENE HERRICK EDDYVILLE Ky June 28 Annroximatelv 1100 ennvfrte forced to eat their supper in stark nakedness late today as rebellion continued to smoulder in Ken tucky's State Prison Armed guards and state police were taking no chances especially after one group of mutinous pris oners tried to break out of their cells during the day afraid this thing over Warden Jess Buchanan re marked as the disorders an through the fourth day The Ken tucky National Guard was alerted for possible duty at the 68 year old penitentiary Eight pr is one rs have been wounded by gunfire a guard has been injured and more than $3999 damage caused to prison equip ment by rioters since the uprising began Wednesday night The entire prison population was ordered today to strip to the skin while officials made a thorough search of each man and tire 500 cells The nude men were herded in groups of 150 to the mess hall There they ate under the guns of guards and police standing on tables and surrounding the exits The prisoners confined to their sweltering cells with the tempera ture in the high became in creasingly restive as the emergen cy deprived them of customary recreation in the courtyard 71 Money Burns HARLAN Ky June 28 In stead of using his nickel for an ice cream cone Jesse Watkins bought five boxes of matches Police said the 10 year old young ster then set fire to a barn In juvenile court today Jesse wag put on probation and directed to attend Sunday School regularly Allied Artillery Repulses New Communist Attacks 4 said: "It looks Ko Wonder Why? ST LOUIS June 28 The gov ernment has a $12000 a ycar job ns director of internal revenue for Eastern Missouri open and is find ing few interested in it Only 15 have applied and the government expected at least 50 applicants As a result it has ex tended the deadline from June 30 to July 14 By The Asseelated Press Blistering heat which has seared the Eastern and Southern sections of the nation in the season's long est heat wave continued Saturday There was little relief in pros pect At least 151 deaths attributed to extreme temperatures and sticky humidity have been reported in the last three days most of them in the East and oouth New Jersey alone reported 53 deaths from the effects of steady sizzling tempera tures that reached 100 degrees Along the Eastern Seaboard temperatures dropped a few de grees Saturday but government forecasters said the lower read ings probably would be of short duration In Washington the temperature dropped to 88 Saturday after hit ting 98 riday It dropped to 77 in NtCnYSrk froni a ridiy reading of 93 But readings in both cities were expected to shoot up again Sunday WiLhwin? heat ovcr 116 Sruth ern naif of the country continued without a break Lack of rains Price Wage Bill Goes fo Truman or Signature Jun 28 (AP) Tho House tonight passed 194 to 142 and ped to President Truman a compro mise 40 month extension of price and wage controls due to expire at midnight Monday The Senate had approved the measure earlier In the day on a voice vote The compromise had been hammered out by a Senate House conference committee in a grueling night session that ended early today Although the administration did not get all it asked bj any means the bill was regarded as some thing of a victory for President Truman The Senate House com mittee knocked out a House amend ment by Rep Talle (R Iowa) to remove controls from all commo dities not under rationing or allo cation Since nothing Js rationed now and few things are allocated this would have been a body blow to the administraUon control plans The conferees also drastically modified a provision by Rep Cola (R Kan) to guarantee sellers their price markups based on individual rather than Industry wide profit margins before ntithrnair th Korean War The version adopted by the com promise on this point amounts to a rcstatment of present law The administration suffered' a blow when the conferees decided to retain a provision exempting processed fruits and vegetablea from price controls In the brief House debate pre seemed happy with the new bill ceding tonight's vote nobody Some Democrats thought it go far enough and didn't give th administration enough control au thority to do the job properly However administration leader in the House called the bill vr rk able and predicted the President would sign it Some Republicans thought it pave the President more control over the people than is needed Rep Cole urced that the mmrm mise be defeated He said that it Congress as se rt itself there will be controls for 20 or more years The measure sailed through the Senate with only a scattering of votes In the House the de cision was closer as had been ex pected all along The chamber in passing its orig inal measure Thursday had rid dled the Truman program with amendments Chief of these was the Talle amendment which would have ended virtually all price con trols effective Thursday On final passage 127 Democrats 66 Republicans and one indepen dent vovted for the bill and 194 Republicans and 38 Democrats posed Ward ills Vacancy Left by Ellerbe Richard Ward has been nam ed acting postmaster of the lor ence Post Office The appointment becomes effective July 1 Ward has been named to act aa postmaster to fUl the vacancy caused by the death of Postmaster Ellerbe Ward has been as sistant postmaster of the lorence Pos tOffice since ebruary 1942 He started his postal career in lorence in 1929 as clerk His ap pointment as acting postmaster was made by the Postmaster Gen era! on the Congressman John McMillan Phone Rate Hike Hearing Scheduled COLUMBIA Jtfine State Public Service Commission will resume here Tuesday its hear ing of a request for rate increase by the Southern Bell Telephone Company The company is seeking the in creases at its 64 South Carolina exchanges The increase would to tal about $3809009 year The new rates were put into efr feet in Sept 1959 when the com pany posted a two million dollar bond for rebaets in ease the com mission jailed to approve ttem Weather Barnwell Retired Rector Succumbs Here The Rev Robert Woodward 91 died his residence 1317 Cherokee JRoad yesterday afternoon at 1:40 after a tong 111 ness AJlative Columbia he moved to lorence in 1911 He was a re tired Episcopal minister having priesthood at Philips Church in Charleston in 1883 Mr Barnwell began his ministry in Barnwell Graniteville and Ridge Spring He later served Henderson Louisville and Paducah Ky Columbus Miss Petersburg Va Bennettsville St Stephens and Charleston He scr yeo St John's Episcopa Church in I lorcnce during two stays here Since 1912 he has devoted a greater part of his time to writing poetry and a history of the War Between the States He was a graduate of the Uni versity of the South Sewanee Tenn He was a member of St John Episcopal Church here Surviving are his widow whom he was married June 19 1902 She was the former Malinda McDee Brunson of lorence His first wife Wilhelmina DuBose Barnwell died in 1899 Other survivors in clude three sons Col Dubose Barnwell Jensen Beach )a Dr Robert Barnwell Jr Warner Robbins Gat Comdr Joseph Barnwell USN Norfolk Va five daughters Mrs William Douglas Gregone Youngs Island Mrs Schofield ernandina la Miss Mary Carter Barnwell Co i lumbia Miss Malinda Barnwell Charlotte Mrs Worle Norfolk Va uneral services are incomplete and will be announced by Waters I uneral Home Cloudy Hot LORENCE AND PEE DEE ata the United State eather Bureau in lorence for the 24 hour period ending 7:30 last night Temperature: Highest 100 year ago Lowest 71 year ago 68 Mean 86 year ago 82 7:30 A 83 7:30 74 Rain 091 year ago 00L Sunrise today 5:10 Sunset ORECAST Partly cloudy ind continued hot today tonight and tomorrow with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers High today 98 low tonight 70 Myrtle Beach Mdei: High am low 6:10 pm fcSXW Carolina five hov our busini wtoblishment were razed ire Destroys our Business Establishments In Center Of Hartsville Commercial District Numerous Charges Hurled As Political ront Warms Aisociaiea Press Oiarges of trickery and incon sistcncy were exchanged by the camps of the two leading candi dates for the Republican presiden tial nomination yesterday and Sen Estes Kefauver said his chief oppo sition comes from men more in terested controlling the Demo Party than in winning any eandi date the Republicans put in a8ainst us unless some of the leaders in our party deliber ately decide to throw an election away Kefauver told a Demo cratic State Convention at Golden Coin Among the Republicans whose nominating convention opens in Chicago a week from' tomorrow verbal blows were traded by David Ingalls and Sen Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts re a C10CK A Doit struck the Sardis Baptist Church tearing down one side of the copper steeple Wiring in the church was heavily damag ed and several holes punched In the walls of the main auditorium The slate roof was also damaged Unofficial estimates put the dam age at more than $3000 The storm proved freakish Tim monsville about ten miles from Sardis got only a light rain with little electrical effects It seemed to cut a swath north and then west in the Mullins area The path started at Ariais Cross roads and extended to just beyond Mullins armers estimated loss to tobacco crops as high as 90 per cent as high winds and heavy rains accompanied by hail lashed the area Mullins itself was without elec tricflj nnwnr nr ahMif luit Telephone service I 1 1 1 I I A i 'Z 7TJ Car I A Mi iiiira rnm bl xr rzr i 'Wil T' BW AMU ry Y' a 1 I kBBU WZrS ZTi tC 9r 1 'X I rj I I MHkkWwiI II filial I'V 'B IB W' ii I.