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The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 5

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Deaths and Funerals E. C. Rice Mrs. McCORMICK--Edwin Clough, 67, retired merchant of Plum Branch, died Monday at 9:20 p.m. at his home after a sudden illness and one year's declining health.

A native of Hendersonville, N.C., he was the son of the late Rev. A. Q. and Idellette Spann Rice and was a member of Mine Lodge 117 AFM and Plum Branch Lions Club. He was a member of St.

Paul's Methodist Church. He is survived a by his wife, Mrs. Carrie Belle Stevens Rice; a son, Edwin C. Rice Jr. of Plum Branch; two daughters, Mrs.

Joe Luke (Carolyn) White of McCormick and Mrs. Albert M. (Louise) Campbell of Anderson; a sister, Mrs. Jack M. Lemmon of Spartanburg; five brothers, Robert M.

id James T. Rice, both of Florence, Dr. Spencer M. Rice of Columbia, W. Harold Rice of Mountain City, Rev.

Quay D. Rice of Harrington, and eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 4 p.m. at St. Paul's Methodist Church by the Rev.

M. B. Lee, the Rev. Foster Speer and the Rev. Kenneth Boone.

Burial will be in Plum Branch Cemetery. The body is at Strom Funeral Home and will be placed in the church Wednesday at 3 p.m. Mrs. Thompson SPARTANBURG Mrs. Lilly Thompson, 85, of 193 Stribling Circle, widow of Luther B.

Thompson, died Monday at 7 a.m. in a local nursing home after a long illness. Native of Greenville County, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. G.

B. Bruce, she was a member of Morningside Baptist Church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Strange of the home; three sons, Billy Thompson of Taylors, Lewis Thompson of Joanna and Hubert Thompson of Seneca; a sister, Mrs. Ellie Bell of Seneca; six grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

Funeral services were conducted today at 3 p.m. at J. F. Floyd Mortuary by the Rev. W.

B. Bolt. Burial was in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Five Autos Are Damaged Five automobiles were aged in two accidents yesterday reported on police records. At 10:30 p.m.

a 1956 Chevrolet driven by Jerry B. Davenport of Sandy Lane left Avenue near Edgefield Street and collided with a 1959 Ford driven by Rossie Rhodes of Epting Avenue. The Ford was pushed into a 1963 Pontiac driven by Clarence R. Evans also of Epting Avenue. Both the Rhodes and Evans vehicles were parked at the time of the accident.

ner of a porch house ocThe Chevrolet struck. a corcupied by Roy Williams. Police estimated damages at $375 to the Chevrolet, $300 to the Ford, $250 to the Pontiac and $200 to the yard and porch of the Wil-ers, liams residence. Jerry Davenport was charged with reckless driving, driving an unsafe vehicle and improper brakes. A 1967 Dodge Pickup truck driven by David O.

Canady of Jordan collided with a 1955 Pontiac driven by N. B. Clemons Baldwin at 4:25 p.m. "Main the intersection of North and Beaudrot. Damages were estimated at $150 to' the Pontiac.

David 0.5 Canady was charged with improper backing. Sunroed' Minet HI-WAY -IN 25 THEATRE 229-5000 Ends To-nite 8:35 Spencer's Mountain HENRY FONDA: MAUREEN O'HARA Starts Wed. A PARAMOUNT PICTURE Agnes Britt services for Mrs. Agnes Ward Britt, who died Monday at 2:30 a.m. Grove, N.J., will be conducted.

Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Buffalo Baptist Church the Rev. Edwin B. Clippard. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Douglas, Jimmy and ward Britt, Charles Elam, Ward Spratlin, and Ralph Davis. The body is at Strom Funeral Home. The family requests that any memorials be made to Trinity Episcopal al Church, Abbeville. Eugene Holliday BELTON -Eugene Gary Holliday, 75, of Cedar Shoals community, Rt. 3, Belton, died in a Columbia hospital Monday at 2 a.m.

after a brief illness. Native of Greenville County, son of the late Emory and Alice West Holliday, he was a veteran of World War a member of Lyndon 1 Moore Post No. 50, American Legion of Honea Path, and the Shady Grove Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edna Cox Holliday; a son, Ray Holliday of Belton; two brothers, Joe M.

and Fred C. Holliday of Belton; five sisters, Mrs. Gary Forrester of Taylors, Mrs. Tom Huff of Greenville, Mrs. Fred Buse and Mrs.

Edna Burnette of Greenwood and Mrs. Hugh Shaw of Columbia; and a granddaughter. Funeral services were conducted today at 3 p.m. at Shady Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. Claude Hamby and the Rev.

Paul Mabry. Burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were James Huff, Gary Forrester Jan Holliday, Harry West, Harry Mitchell West III, and R. H. (Bill) Smith.

B. M. Morrell HARTSVILLE Barney M. Morrell died at Byerly Hospital Monday. Services will be at 5:30 p.m.

today from the chapel of Brown Pennington Funeral Home. Mr. Morrell was a veteran of World War I. He was a farmer. Surviving are his widow, Mrs.

Pauline McInville Morrell of the home; three sons, Barney M. Wilbur and Cecil R. Morrell, all of Hartsville; four daughters, Stewart Florence, Mrs. E. C.

Gillian of Greenwood, Mrs. Winston L. Cooley and Mrs. W. C.

Bateman, both of Hartsville; 19 grandchildren; two stepbrothers, Hallie and Harry Cassidy of Darlington. McCormick Records McCORMICK Following are public records from the files in the McCormick County Courthouse: PROPERTY TRANSFERS Kathleen G. Harling, and ers, to Mildred G. Myers, 74 1-3 acres in Washington School District, $5 and other considerations. Lewis Gene Walker, and othto J.

0. Trantham, lots 3 and 4, in Block A Homestead Development, $10 and other considerations. James O. McDaniel and others to Mrs. E.

McCarty, lot, $350. J. R. McKinney to Mrs. Minnie W.W McKinney, 2 acres, $5 and other, considerations.

Janie Williams, 2 acres Quarles East to Arthur Cormick, $600. William R. Price, and others, to Robert E. Major, lot No. of the H.

R. Deason estate, $750 and other considerations. Crosby, Harris Arrive In Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Singers Bing Crosby and Phil Harris have arrived for what Crosby called two weeks of "Kenya's lazy crazy days of summer." day. They Crosby said he plans to landed at Nairobi Monshoot sand grouse and guinea fowl as part of the American Broadcasting Co. television series on American Sportsmen.

auto THEATRE LAST NITE 8:45 DONE RICHARD in COLOR Now Playing STATE Shows: 3 5 7:10 9:20 WINNER OF I COLUMBIA PICTURES presents 6 A FRED ZINNEMANN'S MAN FILM ON ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING FOR ALL OF BEST THE PICTURE YEAR! SEASONS by ROBERT BOLT Index-Journal, Greenwood, S. Aug. 8, 1967 Charged With Murdering Two Negro Teen-Agers More Arrests Likely In Case Of Two DETROIT (AP) Officials say more arrests are likely in the case of two white Detroit policemen charged with murdering two Negro teen-agers in a motel at the peak of the city's riot. Prosecutor William Cahalan of Wayne County said he expects more warrants to be issued in connection with the shotgun killings, "but not murder warrants." He indicated spiracy charges might be filed against some of those present when the shootings occurred. The patrolmen, Ronald August, 28, Robert Paille, 32, pleaded innocent at their arraignments Monday.

They were jailed without bond. August is accused of killing Aubrey Pollard, 19. Paille is charged with killing Fred Temple, 18. A number of witnesses have said the youths were slain during an early morning raid by police and National Guardsmen 2 Federal Groups Say Negroes Lag Behind In Opportunities WASHINGTON (AP) Two, federal commissions say Negroes continue to lag far behind whites in job and education op- In and Around Greenwood Duplicate Bridge Winners in duplicate bridge games played last night at the Sproles Avenue Recreation Cen. ter were Mrs.

Fred Melton and Mrs. Oscar Parrish, first; Mrs. Harry Cochran and Mrs. Charlie Pinson, second; Mrs. Gordon Duckett and Mrs.

W. P. Hall, third; Mr. and Mrs. George Dorn, fourth.

City Traffic Court Seven charges of speeding and four of no S.C. driver's license were among 30 cases disposed of in city traffic court today. There were three cases of driving too fast for conditions, two each of reckless driving, driving under the influence of intoxicants and disregarding a stop sign and one case each of improper brakes, driving an unsafe vehicle, disregarding a traffic light, failure to transfer a motor vehicle, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, driving left of center, following too closely, improper turning, failure to answer a court summons and no S.C. driver's license in possession. Breakfast Speaker The Rev.

John Shingler, retired Methodist minister now living in Greenwood, will be the speaker for the Men's Interdenominational Fellowship Breakfast Wednesday at 7 a.m. at Emerald City Cafe. ICC Asked To Probe Presence Of Troops VIENTIANE, Laos (AP), Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma has asked the International Control Commission to investigate the reported presence of Cambodian troops in Laos. Government sources said the Laotian in July captured 15 Cambodian, soldiers who had frontier to try to lure back 300 refugees the Lave tribe who entered Laos last May. Naval Reservists Return From Summer Training Eighteen men from Naval (S) in Greenwood recently re- Reserve Surface Division 6-65 turned from their annual Active Duty for Training.

Seaman Apprentices Asbill B. Capers, James R. Cunningham, William R. Elrod, John C. Hamrick, Thomas M.

Miller, George A. Reid, and John M. Swofford; Fireman Apprentices William R. Pitts and Thomas M. Stone; and Seaman Recruit John Richter completed two weeks of training at the Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Ill.

They received extensive training in subjects such as Naval history and organization, customs and courtesies, ordinance gunnery, seamanand ship, damage control, first aid, swimming and survival, shipboard drills and sentry duty. A vigorous physical fitness program rounded out their training. These men, with the exception of Richter, then joined Hospitalman Third Class Bobby R. Autry, Gunnersmate First Class Loyd W. Doolittle, Aviation Mate Second Class Carlton 0.

Higdon, Engineerman First Class James L. Lee, Boilertneder Second Class James E. Parker, Hospitalman Second Class Jimmy R. Sweezy and Seaman Charles B. Worrill for a two week unit cruise aboard 1 the U.S.S.

Mountrail in Norfolk, Va. They received practical shipboard training in their respective rates, working side by side with their regular Navy counterparts. STATE sTARTING AUG. 1 11 AN REMINGS YOU ONLY ALBERT Presented LIVE SALTMAN UNITED ARTISTS Detroit Policemen searching for snipers at the giers Motel midtown Detroit on July 26, three days after riotling A. began.

third Negro, Carl Cooper, 17, also was found killed by blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun in the motel. But Cahalan said he lacked evidence on claims that Cooper may have been shot by a uniformed man. In other developments Monday growing out of the riots: The National Guard issued a statement defending its actions in the machine-gun death of a 4-year-old Negro girl. The county presecutor's office charged two Negro youths with murder in the shooting death of a white Detroit patrolman. John Ashby, 24, a fireman who died Friday of injuries sustained while fighting a blaze during the riots, was buried Had Restful Night WASHINGTON (AP) Former President Dwight D.

Eisenhower was reported today to have had a restful night. His condition was said to be essentially the same as Monday, when doctors indicated he was getting along satisfactorily in his bout with a gastrointestinal upset. They also indicated Monday they still believed his hospital stay will not be prolonged. He went to the Army's Walter Reed Hospital last Saturday. This morning's hospital bulle.

tin said: "General Eisenhower restful night, His condition is essentially unchanged." "See America" AVIS RENTA CAR Now Avis takes the uncertainty out of vacation car rental, with a brand new "See America with Avis" plan that gives wings to your heart and wheels to your vacation for just $99.00 per seven day week, including 1,000 miles at no extra cost. CALL BA 9-2029 or OR 9-9562 AVIS rents all makes of cars features PLYMOUTH. DRIVING TO EXPO 67? Do not attempt to enter Canada without a Canadian Non-Resident Vehicle Liability Card. We issue these cards locally for our insureds. Burns said, the proportion of Negroes attending previously all-white schools in the 17 Southern and border states increased about per cent a year to a total of 11 per by 1964-65.

It branded a failure the Health, Education and Welfare Department's acceptance of state -backed "freedom of choice" plans, which let the student select the school he wants to attend. Few white children have enSchools," the panel predominantly said, Negro while intimidation has served to hold down the number of enrollees in mostly white schools. Stock Sales Greenwood Stock Yards, which holds a sale every Monday at 1 p.m. at its location on the Augusta Highway south of town, reports the following prices from the sale yesterday: Hogs No, 1, $20; shoats, $17 to $18; and pigs by head, $8 to $14. Cattle choice veal calves, $30 to $34; good veal calves, $28 to $30; medium veal $25 to $28; other veal calves, $25 down; best baby beef, $24 to good baby beef, $23 to $24; medium baby beef, $21 to $23; other baby beef, $21 down; best fat cows, $17 to $19; canners and cutters, $14 to $17; culls, $14 down; good heavy bulls up to $22; good stocker steers, $25 to $26; medium stocker steers, $21 to $25; good cows with calves by side, $150 to $230; good stock cows and springers, $100 to $175." Officials report the market steady with a week ago.

AUTO 109 Bailey Circle Burns-Insurance HOME BUSINESS Opposite Library with honors. Cahalan said he recommended the warrants against August and Paille as the result of statements from 80 persons and a 30-page report compiled by an 18-man Detroit police homicide bureau team. Cahalan refused to reveal what the statements or the report said. Results of the investigation have been turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation "for consideration possible violation of federal law," Cahalan said. Pollard, Temple and Cooper or reports originally as were suspected listed in snipers police "killed in exchange of No weapon was reported found near their bodies, and this sparked an investigation.

The bodies of Temple and Pollard were found in one room and Cooper's was in another across a hall. A number of persons who said they were in the motel on the night of the shootings claimed they were lined up against a wall, beaten with gun butts and threatened with death by the raiding officers. The National Guard statement said Sgt. Mortimer Leblanc, 41, fired a machine gun at the apartment where Tanya Lynn Blanding was slain, apparently by guardsmen's bullets. The statement said the sergeant fired when he saw a flash in the apartment window.

The child's family says the flash was from a match to light a cigarette. portunities. And the staff director for one says recent Negro riots could be one outgrowth. In reporting failure of most Southern and border states to desegregate their public schools-13 years after the Supreme Court ruled segregation unconstitutional the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called Monday for laws to push adherence to the high court ruling.

a recommendation coincided" a separate Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report showing Negroes and SpanishAmericans have failed to obtain job parity with whites. Not only do the minorities have larger rates, said the commission, but those Negroes and Spanish-Americans who hold jobs tend to be concentrated in the worst-paying work. The civil rights commission called for legislation that would permit any Negro child or his parents to bring civil action for damages who harass or intimidate in connection with school enrollment, In the 10 years after the Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision, the commission L. M. ANDREWS DIES; RITES NOT SET Lonnie Mack Andrews of Boston, a former wood native, was killed in an automobile accident in Riverdale, Thursday, Aug.

3. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Andrews Greenwood. Surviving are parents; his wife, Mrs.

Margot Y. Andrews of Boston, a three children; one sister, Mrs. Viola Robertson of Newark, N.J.; four brothers, Roger, Bobby, and Rudolph Andrews, all of Greenwood, and Bernard Andrews of Augusta, Ga. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Robinson Son Mortuary. Obituaries FLOYD HARRISON DIES; RITES INCOMPLETE NINETY SIX Floyd Bradley Harrison of Rt.

2, Ninety Six died yesterday in a Columbia hospital after an extended illness. He was a son of the late Kelly and Selia Harrison of Greenwood County, member of Bailey Bethel AME Church, a member of Masonic Lodge 419, and a member of the Springfield Baptist Church Burial Aid Society. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mandy Harrison of the home; three sons, and eight daughters, Raymond and Martha Harrison of the home, James Harrison of Greenwood, Misses Selia Ann, Cora Bell and Florence Harrison, Mrs. Carrie Mae Palmer, Mrs.

Jessie Mae Moore, Mrs. Mandy Loudan, Mrs. Viola Privette and Floyd Harrison Jr. all of Philadelphia; one brother, Felmon Harrison and one half brother, George Andrews, both of Philadelphia; 11 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Percival Tompkins Service.

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