Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 2

was ire Sub Station Work Progressing "Deaths and Vernon Stone night in a local hospital after a crew were reprimanded by the orized stamp covers to the Rocky Receives ten foot ditch where he receiv Block Doctors Jn Memoriuin Mrs Hazel Brown Thrift Way Grand Opening I to SPACE CENTER Houston (AP) Col David JU Scott commander of Apollo 15 and one of three astronauts repri manded recently for smuggling 400 stamp covers to the (noon and back has been dropped Scott Given Space Agency Desk Work had been able to increase his yield through improved agricultural practices farmer will have more tobacco than he can sell under his present acreage poundage allot ment Sarvis said year and increased production due to improved agricultural practices many farmers in lorence County are exceeding their present tobacco quotas he said Sarvis said that if the basic SALISBURY Rhodesia The Medical Council of Rhodesia lists 34 black doctors in the country which has a population of more than five million GARDEN CITY David Terry Threlkel 15 died Tues day in a Charleston hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident GRAND OPENING for a new Thrift Way super market in the Oakland Ave nue shopping center is scheduled for 10 am Thursday Also to be located in the center is a Cale Yarborough 60 Minute Cleaners column on page 4 Surviving in addition to his parents are a brother James TTirelkel of the home the maternal grandparents Mr: and Mrs Hembree of Commerce Ga Delmae Heights third grader noted I was really surprised when 1 got their he added 2 A THURSDAY JULY 27 1972 LORENCE MORNING NEWS NIXON INKS BILL two daughters Mrs Lois Green of Charleston and MrsInvcp McCnrmich of Marion four grandchildren ano tobacco quota for a farm is less than 2000 pound a farmer can lease tobacco whether or not he planted 50 per cent of his allotment If the basic quota for a farm is more than 2000 pounds afarmer can lease tobacco only when 50 per cent or more of his tobacco allotment planted Sarvis said THE PRESENT TOBACCO acerage poundage allotments went into effect in 1965 he said The quotas were based on a combination of the three highest average yields between 1959 and 1963 and the average yield for the local com munity for the same community for the same' period Due to exceptionally Mrs Ethel Rodgers OLANTA Mrs Ethel Rodgers 83 died early retired salesman Wednesday morning in a Kingstree nursing home uneral services will be con ducted Thursday at 5 pm from the Olanta irst Baptist Church Burial will follow in Thomas Cemetery directed by Williamsburg uneral Home of Kingstree Mrs Rodgers was bom in lorence County a daughter of the late Meta Jordan and Lawrence Pressley loyd She was a member of the irst Baptist Church in Olanta and was educated in the lorence County public schools The body will lie in state in the home of her brother Jen nings loyd in Olanta until the time of the service Survivors include three sots the Rev Harry Rodgers of Kingstree the Rev Morgan Rodgers of St Matthews and Pallbearers will be Jimmy Eaddy Clifton Eddy Geno Boswell Joe Boswell Don Joye and Ray James Mr Huggins died a loren ce hospital after a short il Scott 40 has been named technical assistant to the man ager of the Apollo sMcecraft program officials5 arraounced Wednesday Israel Enters The Space Age HAELAH VALLEY Israel rom this Biblical Val ley where David defeated Goliath Israel has entered the space age A brief telephone conversa tion between Premier Golda Meir and President Nixon marked the inauguration Wednesday of $914 mil lion satellite ground station 16 miles southwest of Jerusalem The two leaders expressed best wishes and the hope they could to work for a just in the Middle East The station is the 56th con nection with Intelsat the inter national telecommunications satellite system MARION uneral services for Mrs Hazel Brown will be conducted at 11 am riday at Smith Brothers uneral Home Burial will be in Brown Cemetery near Marion Mrs Brown died Tuesday in an Atlanta Ga hospital while delight in denouncing the tradi visiting her son of an apparent tions principles and achieye heart attack ments of the United States Tobacco estival Set or Pamplico i PAMPLICO The 1972 1 Tobacco estival sponsored by the Pamplico Rescue Squad will be held riday on the streets of downtown Pamplico Beginning at 7:30 pm the annual affair will feature a supper by the Pamplico Library Club a street dance and bingo according to Mack Bazen a member of the rescue 1 squad Bazen said that there will be entertainment for the children and that political speeches will be made during the evening Music will be by the he said The festival this year has: been set to raise funds for equipment for the community rescue squad Bazen said I1 ill SUPER hriHW Govt struck by a car The pony was IkUHXl 4 Ptlm Ronnie Williams of the South Carolina Highway Patrol who investigated the accident said that the child was knocked Political Stump A political stump meeting will be held in Timmonsville Thursday at 8 pm in front of Wickes Building Supply Co Several candidates will be on hand including a number of Black speakers All local residents are invited to attend Space agency spokesman Jack Riley said the new job is an appointment that takes Scott out of the astronaut corps He said the stamp incident was of the considerations" for the new appointment Asked if this means Scott had no choice about remaining an astronaut Riley replied: right" Scott James Irwin and Al A season membership en fred Worden the Apollo 15 titles its holder to see four plays for the price of three it space agency earlier this was noted a savings of month for taking 400 unauth fnr aniiltQ and S9 fnr stndpnts Ulis year the all volunteer moon and back One hundred of organization has set a goal for 1000 new members it was an nounced the stamp covers were sold lat er by a West German stamp Carlton Jordan of Olanta one dealer for about $1500 each stepdaughter Mrs Annie Space officials said after an Garrison of lorence two investigation that Scott Irwin sisters "Mrs Clara Purvis of and Worden planned to receive Olanta and Mrs Eula Lea Hill $7000 each from sale of the of Effingham two brothers stamps but later declined the Jennings loyd and Wesley money Officials said the astro loyd both of Olanta threes American Cancer Society nauts realized that what they grandchildren three great were doing was wrong and at grandchildren and several tributed the whole stamp in cident to the pressures of pre paring for a mission new job is expected to be a short one The Apollb pro gram is scheduled to end in De cember after the flight of Apollo 17 An official said the postflight cleanup may keep the program jobs alive for another year Irwin has already announced his resignation He retires from the Air orce and from the as tronaut corps next Monday A space agency official said Worden also is scheduled to be retired from the astronaut corps and given another space agency job 1 Scott was long regarded as one of the brightest and most able of the astronauts He flew three times into on Ge mini 8 in 1966 on Apollo 9 in 1969 and on Apollo 15 a moon landing mission in 1971 Ironically his retirement from the astronaut corps comes on the first anniversary of his Apollo 15 moon mission launch Scott graduated fifth in his class at West Point and came Days have not been the same since gone Sadly missed by Mother Sisters In memorium to Warren Moore departed today year ago July 27 1971 rU uneral services will be con ducted Thursday at 2 pm in the chapel of Bullard uneral Home Burial will be in Southeastern Memorial Gardens David was bom in Green ville a son of Louvie Hembree and David Threlkel He was a member of the Baptist Church and had lived in Garden City for the past several years Kissinger Talks With inanciers NEW YORK (AP) Henry A Kissinger the White House adviser on foreign affairs went to a luncheon meeting of wealthy financiers here Wednesday but said his appear ance was nonpolitical Kissinger was also to attend a similar dinner engagement at the University Club Burroughs MARION David CONSTRUCTION WORK has begun on the new Edisto Drive ire Sub Station which is located near the Second Loop Rd and Edisto intersection The two stall station is expected to be coinpleted around the first of the year and will cost approximately $170000 when completed i Agnew Returns To Washington Spokane wash (Apj Vice President Spiro Agnew left Spokane Wednesday en route back to Washington DC Possiblv a bit more tanned after a tennis match Agnew rode to airchild Air orce Base with his wife in a motor cade of police officers Secret Service men and staff mem bers About 100 persons most of them connected with the mili tary turned out to bid him farewell During a Republican fund raising banquet Tuesday night Agnew defended American Effingham Area Woman Is Shot An Effingham area woman has' been hospitalized in lorence for gunshot wounds Mrs Mary Nettles of Rt 2 Effingham was admitted to McLeod Memorial Hospital early Wednesday morning after being shot with a pistol two times according to Deputy Sheriff Loftin Brown of the lorence County Sheriff's Department Deputy Brown said that Mrs Nettles was shot in the chest and in the hand following an argument with a man about 7 am at Webb's Grocery Store in Evergreen The officer said that a suspect Ervin Williamson 45 of Rt 2 Effingham has been arrested and being held in the lorence County Jail charged with assault and battery with intent to kill pending the con dition of the woman Officials at McLeod Memorial Hospital said late Wednesday night that Mrs Nettles is in satisfactory con dition rs er ritts Mrs Georganna Merritts 731 of 801 North Wilson St died at het residence Tuesday after a long illness uneral services will be con ducted riday at 4 pm at uneral Home by the Rev Trinity Baptist Church by the Billy Poteat Burial will be in Rev uiggs ouriai win ojd' Johnsonville Cemetery oe in iv or lew cemetery directed by Ideal uneral Home Mrs Merritts was bom in lorence County a daughter of the late Tom and 1 Williams She was a member of Trinity Baptist Church Surviving are three daughters Mrs Helen Cain of lorence Mrs Neoma Clark of Indianapolis Ind and Miss Ella Mae Merritts of New York a son James Merritts of Newport News Va two brothers Tom Williams and Bless Williams both of Brooklyn six grandchildren and two great grandchildren Child Hit On Pony Recovering An 8 year old child struck by a car while riding his pony Tuesday afternoon was reported in satisfactory dition in a lorence hospital Wednesday Officials at McLeod Memorial Hospital said that Christopher Allen Gantt of Rt 1 and Evans Ga was in satisfactory condition following surgery Tuesday The child and a friend were nding horseback in TV Rd section of lorence County about 5 pm when the animal kl Youth was riding bolted INOminaTIOn JOD across the highway and was NEW YORK (AP)' Nelson A Rockefeller who fought vigorously against Presi dent Rjchard Nixon's nomi nation years ago will iko rtnivin in nomination for a second term )he landed in a a source close to the governor here he receiv ed Wednesday le posable The source said Nixon asked Rockefeller twn weeks aern tn The Officer said that lhe 3C AtflAni PaOlMn do the honors at next RepublicanNationalConvention res wnere the child Was in Miami and that the gover cieeivin price i of Rt 1 for tnA QIIYimP iivi icfluiijf dgi Cvu Clarification A story in the Wednesday edition of The Morning News which stated that Alford James Bescher was charged with assault and battery was partially in error The story said that Bescher was charged with assault and battery by hitting Lawrence Waters with a stick This was in error It should have read i that he was charged with the offense by hitting striking and slapping Lawrence Waters 4 ope pight sent two questions to when many opinion makers' Ask Andy back in May the openly side with those who Goud Burroughs He was a Hnney Whitmire Edward Hanna Jr Gif ford Mrs Auber aulk Rock Hill James Hammond Trenton Andrew Hatten Columbia Robert E' Reeves Sr ivn i i three V01umDia and rs James Mathis Sumter Mrs Katherine Simmons 0 Charleston Mrs Muckenfuss Columbia Luther Jenkins Columbia Joseph Warren Johnston lorence County will be able to leaseand transfer tobacco to and kfrqm farms within the countythrough November 30 under provisions of a recently ap proved federal law President Nixon signed into on June 8 a bill extending lease and transfer provisions tobacco acreage allotments Under the provisions of the bill farmers within the same county can lease and transfer 4 tobacco to or from their farms for one year only Wayne Sarvis said Sarvis executive director of the lorence County office of the Agricultural Stabilization! good crops last year and this ana Conservation Service(ASCS) said leases or transfers of tobacco acreage allotments between two i farmers in the same countymust be executed at the local ASCS office Response Says Dikes NotTargets WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department said Wednes day that US bombing has had only "the most incidental and minor on the dikes of North Vietnam Spokesman Charles Bray gave this response to what he termed the carefully orchestrated 'propaganda" al leging that US air strikes are seriously damaging North Viet nam's extensive system of levees Bray said have evi dence" to support the US ver sion that while "some of our bombs may have hit dikes" the dikes themselves were not targets nor have they been ex tensively damaged But he declined to say what this evidence is The Nixon ad ministration thus far has re fused to make public its aerial photographs assessing damage to dikes The State Department spokesman declined to go be yond saying the dikes have been hit by some US bombs i "Various spokesman myself Kqvo allnworl Mr thp Other Deaths fact that in striking at military Mrs Marv a 1 targets which are located in MAttiuiN te bu proximity to or tn some cases Burroughs 47 died Tuesday I even on the dikes some of four Mrs Deree Abrams Owings bombs may have hit dikes he Mrs Minnie Barnes' sad' Branwell Claud Kyzer West Colum bia Mrs Carrie Quinn Whit mire Smith Orangeburg Kennedy West Colum WADE MOORE 8 READS LETTER ROM ASK ANDY Question Recently Won irst Prize lorence Student Ask Andy Winner An eight year old lorence Wades answer appears in QtllflPnt iq tno orooc notuoH rr "Ask winner for his question Do Taste Buds Wade Moore son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Moore Jr 2702 Juniper Rd will receive a 20 volume ''set of i Students Encyclopedia for his ideals and traditions against Query which he thought of as persons who America his family was eating supper as bad beyond redemption He said it is a curious era step grandchildren Mrs Alberta Barr JOHNSONVILLE uneral QArvinpQ fnr Mrs Alhnrta Rarr win oe conauciea inursaay at 4 pm from the St James Baptist Church The Rev Odell ulton will officiate Burial directed by uneral 1 Home will follow in Eaddy ord Cemetery Mrs Barr died Sunday at her home on Rt 2 following a short illness Survivors include three daughters Mrs Mary Washington of Johnsonville Mrs Laura Mae Dollard and Miss Betty Barr both of Bronx NY seven sons Leon Barr of Johnsonville Joseph Barr of Baltimore Md Richard Barr Jr Willie Barr and Bobby Barr all of Bronx NY Howard Barr of Richmond Va and Eugene Barr of Washington 19 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren Mrs Winnie Graham CONWAY uneral serv Dayid Threlkel ices tor virs nn cox ura from a distinguished military ham 42 will be conducted at 3 family His father is a retired pm' Thursday in Langston Air orce brigadier general Memorial Baptist Church Bu who was an early day aviator rial directed by Goldfinch Scott also hoped to become a neral Home will be in Hill general in the Air orce crest Cemetery retirement drops the Mrs Graham died Tuesday number of active astronauts to in a local hospital following a 39 short illness THE LEASED OR transferred tobacco may be sold in any county he said Explaining the way the lease and transfer agreement works Sarvis said that if farmer Ahad 10000 pounds of tobacco left on his allotment card after he had sold his 1972 crop he could lease from farmer 8 i and farmer could transfer to farmer A enough tobacco to allow farmer A to sell his allot ment If farmer had an ex from the astronaut corps and uCeptionally good crop or he given a space agency desk job I 'iddler On The Roof Auditions Scheduled Auditions for the lorence March 29Aprij 7t djrected by Little production Ken Dn On the Root" wm De held at the a on the Old Tim monsville Highway Sunday at 3 pm and Monday at 7:30 pm under the direction of Mrs Patsy Stone Principal speaking parts are 5 available for 12 men and 10 women it was announced with a large chorus of' men and women also needed based on Arnold Sholem A 1 i stories will open September 28 for an eight night showing 1 The Little membership drive for the 1972 73 season also begins this week Mrs Vi Alley executive secretary announced Slated for the new season besides will be Tennessee drama Night of the 1 Nov 10 18 directed by Chris Cousar to a Lack of Interest Tomorrow Has Been January 5 7 directed by Robbie Sisco "Last of the Red Hot ebruary 9 17 directed by Jan Tavlor and Tobacco Lease ransfer Provisions Are Extended Vernon Leroy Stone 53 i and merchant of Rt 1 lorence died Wednesday morning at his Ong illness residence after being i uneral services will be con declining health for a number ducted at 5 pm Thursday at of years Smith Brothers uneral Home uneral services will be held by the Rev Hawkins and the riday at 11 am in Northgate Rev Thompson Burial will be Baptist Church by the Rev in Rose Hill Cemetery Doyle Jones Burial directed Mr Burroughs was born in Qizxiizlanm tra 1SimAvkl Unma lirilK nmkiitrT Paiinlv enn ft MJ UWUUUUUUVl U11V1CU nililalUQMUl VUUI1VJ a UV will be in lorence Memorial the late Thomas and Dora Gardens Mr Stone was born in i member of Bethlehem reewill lorence county ana was a son Baptist enuren of the lateMcLendon and Eura Surviving are his wife Mrs Geneva Welch Stone He had Mary Burroughs of Marion uvea in riorence an oi ms me was a member of Northgate Baptist Church a Mason and veteran nf World War II Surviving are his wife Mrs brothers Sesley Jack Mildred Miller Stone of loren Calvin' Burroughs all ce his step mother Mrs? Marion Stone nf lorence one in sister Mrs (oiga) Tim Robert Bacote rnons of lorence one half i sister Mrs Chambers of DARLINGTON Robert Charleston two er BaCOte 85 of 214 Bacote St oster Stone and Ca (jied Tuesday at the residence Stone both of lorence also of his daughter Mrs Lillpie number of nieces and nephews Mae Bacote after a long il The family request that jneSS memorials may be sent to the uneral arrangements will ho nnnmmnwi hv Mltrhpll Josey uneral Home 7 Driscal Huggins PAMPLICO uneral services for Driscal James Huggins 62 will be held Thursday at 3 pm at Morris iC 1 i 5 llllllllwMlliiiiiniiiiL hi 1 Ji? 's Jllll ass agggsa.