The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 9

Abbeville County Board Authorizes Phase Out Of Chain Gang 0SVMcMttJ, wdd la prcMnt rwtaiy )ail 1 to A letter Irwm Jot Cby Coocmim Uda rod raramunk-auoa ijarrn for th county rcrjd by Ihf board at informaitM, No artlufl a ukm tymtn will about n.OuO KkNNNt( hia la torn lath lorn of grant ted mate! fund. Tha board aird la pay till rrpair a boat damaged hn bridg roUapaod at e)kcla aad lha boat war croaaing Th boat la ond by Rtf Aahlrv. Tbt brtdg la aouth of AntmUl ar Lata SeroaaioA, Th matter of acrt4Ui a bid lor the rtroofuig of th court jr cownhoua oaf carried aw to lh meeting The board rerHed letter from Ray Mm and IM county development board (uomnlrif aa application lor atody of poaaiUe county Boning, and aubduiaioit regulation lor lb county. act too vat taken, Th rommtMkm attempted la aerurt a rrplartmtal lor election rommuiio member i Norryre Jr. but a ooable do ao Uet night.

th piMXinj board contacted William Irvln of AbbevWa and ailed bint la arrva in lha pot ton I to rvr, Irvtn declined. Member a Ihf board rpnd tha new wppty bjl la ocarirg com pinion and may be road lot proomtaikM la Ihf board by I ha aai meeting la (ic- tSd per month lor lhrt nvxui. in lha Cathouo Fatla Komtim la Mp rrptac worn oul ambutanra aouipmml, Tt county brauti(ratton and lm provamcrtf rommma aUiad la bava 11 V) pUc4 lha aupviy bill lor tha commHta no! yaar. Tbt moary la la ba uaed lor roldini brttaa lor beaut titration can-imi at cU at lor lha purchaaa of imr Ut and flowm and butba for planiini Thai old grata! tttuation cama up again a algM Hh maral (ommiMtonm Indicating lhatr batlmca la rartng Into, Thraa coromtaalonm Maltd lha hoard had wrttim ia tMiatt la aupervitor Caorga McMthan outlining lha boards poUrto and ctrairaa on grata) and they Mid McManan continue la try lo tnaka pulitiraJ hay of lha aituatlofl, "Wa oam ihoaa needing grata! la acten lorn, or lv aroDpa Irom a front end loader lor US," board chairman Hutrhmtun Mid "II thai amount la loaded on ol lha old amaller irutaa. aa aai hen oa ftrt atghed and prtrvd gravel.

It comet la aavan lont or about a true load and cottt tit about ta, Ma art not trying la maka money and at lha tamt lima a duo I hat la loaa any CommlMioner Atbert SeaartgM Mid lha ujxrvtwr hat been tending ne, larger Irurfc la haul la troop or teven lont and lha larger irvrtt loot i Ua only a partial load II aayt ihit hat rauted miaunderttanding and CTMIritni lor lha "Wa u4 dual dewrtt thta mtnarn.M Satorighl taid. Cammitinar Kd Itaothoma agraod and added ba uJd lator lha County Mapping tha grata-hauling prartira July I and Mimg ihoaa ha need grata! ahum Irom contractor iartM tayt lha vr mot agreed la orh ikua iha board on Ihia mauer and ABBEVILLE Tb AbWvilia County Board el CommlMtoocr night Mir i lha wptrtuar strutting him bcia phi; ou( lh county thtu gang tUrtiw It count ttrfedta phM ut lit gang by June In oftkr kt pan la propel region! commons rf lh bofd e(d begin dUpoUng of Uvntfort the (Iris, After Jvtf tu kUy prikanm will bo placed uixW ih hirudin too of the hiff lor iMdifli and touting A member ol lh board astd only minor change will be around lha county a letter la grate! CUMomert ohich ba tayt gitra tfwonad ir of lha grate! policy, Than ba cornea out la lha local paper Uh a tiamed Hory Mrt made tha board boh bad and oa continue to get crMlrlam a Juat cknl oWrta, SeaortgM taid. lar larhy cbacuaaion board votad Library Recoives $10,620 THE I cmrniTYll index-journal 1 1 iJCDiIDU OfMnwd.tC.TAl. I74 9 I r-- Three School Districts Ask For Tax Millage Increases 'l'sl I lrf-. wi -l f- Y-rTTZ TT -TV fyt? .) AbbrtUla-Groenoood RrglonaJ Library hat rocetted a grant of IIS.CQ Irom South Carolina Suit Library for tha Improvement and aipanttoa af kt book coUectton, according la Mr.

Harold A. McCord, director. 'Nearly hail of Ibnaa fundi UI ba ipent for Improving lha jutanUt book collect lo In anticipation of a tpectal aummar reading program lor youngattr ohldi U1 amphatua (ntfrrat In lha American Revolution Bicentennial Observance," tha librarian tart. Thl grant will provide book lor each rtgWxutf library Including Abbetilla Count Greenwood County Libra FaiU. Donald.

Ninety Sii, Shoal branch libra tic aad mob lit," Mr. McCord at a tea. A total of tm.MJ hat born appropriated by lha Stat a Library lor Improving tha quality of book collect torn throughout tha ttatt. Thraa fund art being granted on the baal of IS cent per capita In Abbeville and Greenwood counlle. AU libraries receiving theae grant meet lha requirement for (tale and federal aid program.

Thl Includes a total of S3 public Njibrary yatem that arrve 39' countiet'ln the state. Theaa grant were funded under the federal Library Service and Construction Act which I administered in South Carolina by tha Slat Library. many new locaiton Library; ry; Calhoun and War tha book- fctiv7. War Shoals School Dial rid II submitted a budget of rot.473 01. an Increase of 6I6.3 tl over last year's budget The budget also include a request lor a nine-' mill increase.

District II has tha highest district -wide millage of tha county' three achool district but receive only 14.110 for each mill, the lowest of all the district. War Shoal wa on of tha achool district to lose money on the new assessment for county industry. Tha district lost about 116.000 or four mill. The requested Increase bring district millage to 17 mills. Though Ninety Six School District S3 shows no budget deficit lor the 197473 school year, they have requested a six-mill Increase.

The school district rsised district-wide taxes, six mill last year. Ninety Six receives S13.232.2I per mill. The budget of SI.203.S66 91, i a 1516.447.02 increase over last year's. Dlatrtct wide mdiagt Is Ninety Si wUl ba 77 mill If the requested Ux butt la approved. The Vocational Facility 'submitted a budget of 1301.734.

an mcmaa of SU.I04 over tha 1973-74 budget. Tha budget Included an eatimated W7.000 In local find and a deficit of S4.II1. There waa no requeat for aa Incroaa In the two miUt of tax allot ed for lha facility. Tha county board voted lo sand tha budget back to tha Vocational Facility for clarification on monle requested. Piedmont TEC submitted a request for S93.4SS from Greenwood County, an Increase of 14.411 ever last yaar.

Greenwood County, which contribute the moat local money to TEC, hat 9 per cent of lha enrollment. The county board wiU meet with representative from each achool district, TEC and the Vocational Facility before approving the budget. Final budget approval will be given by County Council. In other businesa, the board elected C. R.

Lamar aa its new chairman. W. T. Anderson was elected vie chairman and Mrs. W.

L. Heaner Jr. wa re-elected ecretary. Tha County Board re-appointed W. L.

Bros, Edgar W. Davis Mr. R. H. Klnnett and Mrs.

F. P. Thompson to another term on the library board. Youngsters Join Clean-Up Two young children pick vp troth on Undtey Avonv port of a Food, Nutrition Youth Photn Progrom under tha direction of Jonie loncottar, oiu'ifont home aconomitt of tha Oamton Extantion Servka. Mitt loncoitar, olong with other axtantion laodart, will work in youth cleon-up programs In variout oreot of tha city in conjunction with tha county-wide clean-up campaign in April.

(Inden-Journol photo) GOP Legally Prepared For Full Statewide Campaign Thomas S. Getty, who is retiring from Congress. Incumbent Rep. Ed Young. 6th District.

These candidates filed lor the statewide constitutional offices now held by Democratic Incumbents who ar seeking reelection: Kenneth E. Allen, a Columbia attorney and president of the South Carolina Young Republicans, stale attorney general. Charles W. Ebert of Spartanburg, a retired senior vice president of the South Carolina Nat onal Bank, state treasurer. Col.

T. B. Ergle of Spartanburg, a retired Army officer, adjutant general. Robert Croul, a Greenville certified public accountant, comptroller general. W.

Hance Finley, a Laurens County dairy farmer, state commissioner of agriculture. Filing for solicitor from the 13th circuit, composed of Greenville and Pickens counties, was W. W. W'ilkins Jr. by AL LAMER Associated Press Writer COLUMBIA API The South Carolina Republican party at this point at least-is legally prepared to field candidates lor all statewide and congressional of rices in the November general election.

The filing fees lor candidates for stale constitutional offices, six congressional seats, a U. S. Senate race and a circuit solicitorship were paid prior to the deadline at noon Monday, the fees are two per cent of the annual salary of the office being sought Sen. James B. Edwards, 46, a Charleston oral surgeon, posted a 1700 fee for governor.

N. Welch Norrisette, 52, a Columbia attorney and a Republican member of the Richland County Council, paid 1300 to seek the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor Edwards will run against Gen. William C. Westmoreland for the GOP nomination for governor In the first statewide nominating convention to be held by the state Republican party. Morrisette will oppose Slate Rep.

Carroll Campbell of Greenville for the nomination for lieutenant governor. Apparently, those two race will be the only one contested on a statewide or congressional district level. Republicans filing for other office arc unopposed for their party's nomination and will be automatically nominated unless the filing period is reopened. The date of the Republican and Democratic primaries Is uncertain. State law calls for both to be held June 11.

but uncertainly over how seat in the State House of Representatives are to be reapportioned into single-member districts may delay them until later in the summer. Democrats have until April 11 to file for their primary. people had to leave their cars on the mainland. -Saturday, a single-engine priVate plane crashed on take off at the island's airport. One passenger, Jim Cornelius of Springfield, Ohio, was He was hospitalized at nearby Savannah, with an injured back.

Pood and medical supplies are being flown in by Army helicoptors' aided by Navy landing craft. Monday a cargo of 1,500 cases of beer was shipped in by two shrimp boats. The Beaufort and Ridgeland units of the National Guard were still on alert and helping with traffic control and. aiding passengers at the boat landings. The Byrnes bridge has a middle section which pivots to allow boats through.

Three of the Republican filing by the Monday deadline for tha GOP art ghost candidate, ao named because they are expected to withdraw at a later date so that bona fide candidates can be State Republican Chairman Jesse Cooksey told a news conference that M. Gay Suber, executive director of the state party, who filed for secretary of state, and State Rep. Roger Kirk, R-Richland, who filed for state superintendent of education, are ghost candidates. 'Although not listed as one by Cooksey, State Sen. Thomas A.

Hartnett of Charleston, who filed for congress from the 1st District, said later that he is also a ghost candidate. Filing for the U. S. Senate, in opposition to incumbent Democratic Sen. Emest F.

Hollings, was Mrs. Gwenyfred Bush, a Charleston housewife. The filing for the Miss Watson Retires At Library Miss Louise M. Watson retired from her work at Abbeville-Greenwood Regional Library on April 1, according to Edgar W. Davis board chairman.

Miss Watson's service has been of immeasurable value ta the library during her more than 15 year here, Davis says. She has filled the position of chairman of the Regional Library's adult book selection' and cataloging staff as well as that of Greenwood County Reference Librarian. Miss Watson is a native of Greenwood, a graduate of Coker and an active of South Carolina Historical Society and Greenwood County Historical Society. She served as secretary of the Board of Trustees of Lander College for a number of years, and now serves as secretary of the Star Fort Historical Commission. Suit Will Challenge Ravenel's Candidacy Pontoon Bridge May Be Ready Wednesday At Hilton Head By VICKI T1IOM Inor -Journal Reporter Greenwood County Board of Education reviewed budgets from the county' three school district.

Piedmont TEC and lha Vocational Facility Monday night. AO three school district requested district-wide tai millage Increase and two ol lha districts expect budget deficits. Greenwood School District presented a budget of W.3I3.M7, an Increase of SS30.721 over last year, with a request for an eight -mill Increase to offset a 2S2.S90 deficit. On mill raises about in District SO. The millage hike, the first in several years, would raise district-wide millage to 49 mill.

County-wide millage I set at 30 mill. The district also levies 2 mills for the vocational facility and mill for bonded indebtedness. Senate and the other congressional scats was saoo. These Republican candid. es filed for the other teats In Incumbent Rep.

Floyd D. DistrlcL Marshall Parker of Seneca, who resigned last week as associated administrator of the Small Business Administration, for the 3rd District seat being vacated by Rep. W. J. Bryan Dorn, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor.

Robert L. Watkins, former member of the Slate House of Representatives from Greenville, for the 4th District seat held by Democratic incumbent Rep. James R. Mann. Len Phillips, a Lancaster broadcasting executive, for the 5th District seat being vacated by incumbent Democratic Rep.

LOUISE WATSON Miss Watson is the author of several historical pamphlets. features of the old REAP as authorized by the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act' of 1973. Montjoy explained that the major difference in the two programs is the increased emphasis on forestry practices and implementation of long-term agreements under the RECP. In addition to forestry incentives, RECP provides help for landowners to establish and follow recommended permanent- type-conservation practices while the farmers are being called on for all-out production to meet domestic, and export needs, Montjoy said. I Spend, 2nd COLUMBIA (AP)-A suit was filed in Richland County court Monday to block the gubernatorial candidacy of Charles D.

"Pug" Ravenel. The suit was filed by Charleston mort 20 Greenwood Road Contracts Awarded BETH McLEOD STILL CRITICAL GREENVILLE. C. (API- South Carolina Atty. Gen.

Daniel McLeod 22-year-old daughter Beth was listed in critical condition at a Greenville hospital Monday after having been listed as poor, a slightly improved condition, over the weekend. Miss McLeod' friend, Susan Aude, 21, of Fort Lee, was still listed in poor condition Monday. The Erskine College coeds were injured in, a car-truck accident Friday on Inter-' state 85 between Greenville and Anderson. gage broker D. Frank McLane.

He said Ravenel' candidacy would bring "confusion to the voters." It said the candidate doesn't meet the state constitution's five-year residency requirement. secondary road 490 from S.C. 34 to secondary road 101. Other roads, to be graded, drained, surfaced with asphaltic concrete and furnished with concrete curb, gutter and sidewalk, are S.C. 246 from S.C.

34 to near secondary road 431 and secondary 131 from S.C. 246 to S.C. 248 in Ninety Six; secondary road 462 in Greenwood and three-tenths mile of the approaches to' Turkey Creek on S.C- 420 in Ware Shoals. Concrete sidewalks 'will also be constructed An secondary road 208 from secondary-road 447 to secondary road 50 and secondary road 494 from secondary road 256 to secondary road 212. The contract will require about 200 working days to complete.

Log POLICE LOG Copper "wire was stolen from the CPW Electrical Operating Center on the Bypass, someone cut two holes-through the fence and broke the lock on the warehouse door. Missing are 614 pounds of No. 6 bare copper wire and 1,056 pounds of No. 4 copper wire. Graham Hawkins reported today that the GMAS building was entered over the weekend and missing are 30 pounds of ground beef, 20 pounds of sausage patties and a box of ice cream.

The Xerox machine was "torn up." TRAFFIC COURT Fourteen cases were heard in city traffic court today. Five were on charges "of driving-. Two cases each were on charges of having no S.C. driver's license, driving too fast for conditions and disregarding a traffic signal. One case was on each of the following charges: having no license, reckless drlvingand driving under the influence of mt-oxicants.

Food Costs Rise .5 In S.C. According To Labor Department HILTON HEAD ISLAND; S.C. (AP)-The semi-isolation of this plush resort island is expected to end Wednesday-at least partly. As the Army Corps of Engineers assembles a temporary pontoon bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, the 10,000 or so island residents and visitors go about their affairs in a business-as-usual manner, even with a slightly festive air. Hilton Head Island, on the lower South Carolina coast, has the state's most exclusive resorts.

It is frequented by the wealthy and famous. Since Wednesday night, the island has been semi-isolated from the mainland? A heavily-loaded barge crashed into the island's only bridge and put it out of commission. State officials say it will be at least a week and a half before it is repaired, niaybe longer. The pontoon bridge will have limited capacity. It 'will allow one-way traffic and only about 150 cars an hour will be able to make the trip across Skull Creek.

Heavy trucks won't beable to use the bridge, but a weight limit hasn't been sat. The temporary bridge has two 45-foot sections which will be opened on a regular basis to allow boating traffic through. Crews have already begun working on', the damaged bridge. Monday they were installing steel pilings on each side of the James F. Byrnes bridge to give the damaged section extra support while work is under way.

Residents and visitors commute by air or boat. On the island, shuttle bus service was set up by the resorts since many County Is The 1973 Rural Environmental, Assistance Pfogram (REAP) which was terminated in December 1972 has been reinstated, according to W. E. Barmore, state executive director' of. the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS).

The reinstatement of the 1973 REAP means that Greenwood-County has(received an allocation of $42,839 to cost-share with farmers for solving conservation and vironmentai problems related to farming operations. dicated it is still less expensive to buy food in South Carolina. But it said most food prices declined in the nation last month while rising in the Palmetto state. Among higher priced items in South Carolina were 10 pounds of potatoes, up 25 cents; a pound of dried beans, up 9 cents; 5 pounds of sugar, up 12 cents; and grapes, cucumbers and lettuce, up 6 cents. Items declining in price were a pound of canned ham, 10 cents; eggs, 8 cents; and porterhouse steak, 9 cents a pound.

COLUMBIA (AP) Food costs rose .5 per cent in South Carolina last month, the state Department of Labor reports. The department's monthly survey of 97 items in 10 areas showed 55 per cent of the items cost more in March than in February; A total of 41 per cent were down and 4 per cent cost the same. The department's market basket survey of 35 basic items an dinary family of four would buy cost 23 cents, or .73 per cent, more and totaled $32.28. Compared to national figures, the labor department figures' in Satterfield Construction Co. of Greenwood has been awarded a $796,100 contract by the S.C.

Highway Department for work on 17 secondary and three primary high-' ways' in Abbeville and Greenwood Counties. Awarded on the basis of the low bid, the contract directs Satterfield to grade, drain and apply bituminous surfacing in Ware Shoals to Secondary roads 301, 395 and 400; secondary road 467 and secondary road 492 from U.S. 25 (Business) to U.S. Bypass. In other parts of Greenwood county, Secondary Road 489 fronrsatondary road .57 to S.C.

246; secondary row 108 from-secondary 58 to secondary 149; secondary road 456 from S.C. 10 to secondary road 15b, aetoiiuaiy roads 477 and 478 and City FIRE CALLS Greenwood Fire Department records list the following calls answered: 1103 E. Durst Avenue. (2:26 p.m. Monday.) Clothes dryer on fire.

Out on arrival. Damage to dryer. Marshall Road. (4:19 p.m. Monday.) Woods fire.

Unit returned at 6:35 to wet down the area. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Greenwood Police Department records show investigation of the following accidents: Hospital parking lot. (7:20 pirn. Mondays Auto-auto. No injuries and no charges listed.

Pelzer Street near Jordan Street. (6:20 p.m. Monday.) Motorcycle driven by John Aubrey Hardin, 18, of 217 Smythe went off the road at a curve. Harding was taken to Self Memorial Hospital, but was not admitted. Phoenix Street near Riley Street.

(11:20 a.m. Monday.) Truck-auto. No injuries listed. One driver Was charge with a moving violation. Allocated $42,839 Under REAP cost-share rates would have to be updated to reflect the current prices for performing practices.

The county director said that the reinstatement of the 1973 REAP was announced at the same time that farmers were being notified that they can npw sign up for cost-share assistance under the new Rural Environmental, Conservation Program XRECP). The RECP is a separate program from REAP and is funded in Greenwood county at $28,156. The RECP carries forward some reinstated 1973 REAP are under study and will announced later. He said reinstatement of the 1973 REAP resulted from a U.S. District Court decision reversing the ter- mination acion.

According i to A. Montjoy, county', executive director, of the Greenwood county ASCS office, when the 1973 REAP was terminated in December, of county programs? had already been developed. He said that these programs will be used for 1974 and that the onlv change would be that.