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h. AirCarolind Mell Pleased' With Passenger Traffic From Greenwood 4i 'Mrs. Smith added, "The people of Greenwood should be proud of the way they have gotten behind the air service and are supporting it." i The company reports 220 oneway flight tickets sold during September, in the four cities. Air Carolina, a Florence-based firm, began operations here March 30. Greenwood had been without commercial air service since discontinuance of Southern Airways flights Aug.

3, 1974. The Transportation Committee of the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce, along with local governmental officials, made By CHARLES MOORE Index-Journal Reporter Air Carolina, serving Greenwood and Anderson with flights to Charlotte and reports that passenger traffic from Greenwood is very gratify-, ing. Hariett Smith, wife of the company president, told The Index-Journal by telephone Thursday, "We are well pleased with the reception we have gotten in Greenwood. Frankly, we are surprised, because Greenwood is providing more passengers than Anderson, which is larger." successful negotiations with Air Carolina to serve Greenwood. The company is now using Piper Navajo Chief tan aircraft that seat nine passengers.

Two flights depart Greenwood for Atlanta daily. One leaves at 7:22 a.m. and arrives in Atlanta at 8:40 a.m. The other, leaving at 3:30 p.m., gets in Atlanta at 5 p.m. Flights from Atlanta leave at 10:15 a.m.

and 8:10 p.m., arriving here at 11:23 a.m. and 918 p.m. respectively. One flight serves Charlotte daily. It leaves Greenwood at 11:33 a.m., arrives in Charlotte at 12:15 f.

Council Adjourns Without Considering Budget Abbeville Aldermen Object To Purpose Of Special Meeting p.m., leaves Charlotte at 2:10 p.m. and arrives here at 2:55. The one-way fare is $30 to Atlanta and $28 to Charlotte, with no reduction for round-trip tickets. The fare between Greenwood and Anderson is $12. Children under 12 ride at half fare.

Air Carolina has a toll-free number, 800-922-5119, at its Florence office. Information is available on schedules, fares and reservations, not only for Air Carolina flights, but also for connecting flights on other airlines to destinations throughout the United States and overseas. Self Memorial Staffers Will Attend Seminar Seven staff members of Self Memorial Hospital will be sponsored by the Area Six Branch Office of the South Carolina Lung Association to attend "Respiratory Problems of Infants and Children: A Seminar" Oct. 8 at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Attending will be Brenda Davis, R.N.

and Shelia Walters, R.N., nursery; Jan Daubener, R.N., head nurse, pediatrics; Carolyn Baker, R.N., maternal and child health supervisor; Sonja Slatten and Brenda Waters, staff therapists, and Lawrie Grant, staff technician, department of respiratory therapy. The purpose of the seminar, which is being sponsored by Broadriver and Piedmont Branches of the S.C. Lung Association, is to improve the assessment, planning and direct care of infants and children with respiratory problems. Emphasis will be placed on recognizing the newborn with lung disease and the child with allergic lung problems, the emergency and in-hospital care required for these children, and long-term planning for adequate home health needs. Bicentennial Flag Program Set In Abbeville ABBEVILLE Abbeville County ana the City of Abbeville will be presented with the official American Revolution Bicentennial Flag at the "Banners Brass" program, Sunday at 3 p.m., in The Opera House.

Bradley Morrah, South Carolina Bicentennial chairman, will present the flag to Mayor James "Pete" Smith and Brian Hutchison, chairman of the Abbeville County Board of Commissioners. Also on the program is a pageant, "Story of the American Flag," presented by the St. Petersburg, Fla. Festival of States and a mini-concert by the Abbeville Grenadier Band. Conyers' testimony.

Mrs. Kennedy said she had heard Mrs. Conyers on two occasions offer to make coffee for Mrs. Iris Stevens one of the arsenic poisoning victims and Conyers' cousin. Mrs.

Conyers earlier twice denied making or offering to make coffee for Mrs. Stevens. The prosecution has implied Mrs. Conyers served coffee mixed with arsenic not only to Mrs. Stevens, but two other arsenic poisoning victims, her son-in-law and mother-in-law.

'Big Boy' Visits Erskine Shone Big Boy is helped down from the roof next to the Erskine Dining Hall at Erskine College recently, in preparation for his trip back to Anderson. He made a nocturnal visit to the college and greeted breakfasters from the roof above the arches connecting the Watkins Student Center and Erskine Dining Hall. Shoney's management joined in the enjoyment of the prank and said no charges would be pressed. Jury Hears Closing Arguments In Case Of Poisoning Death The Index-Journal Greenwood, S.C., Friday, Oct. 3, 19759 notices could be mailed and revenues could begin to come in to the city.

If the budget and millage were reviewed at last night's meeting, it would have been the second reading for both. Abbeville is only required to have two readings of the millage and budget, according to City Clerk Richard Edwards. This would have meant both readings would have occured at special council meetings. The first reading was held on Sept. 16.

Alderman Duncan Carmichael recommended holding regular council meetings every two weeks until the millage is approved, as alternative to the special meetings. No action was taken on his suggestion. Earlier, the council approved a $22,575 legal contract with City Attorney Robert Hawthorne for handling $1,325 million in Farmers Home Administration loans needed to expand the Water and Electric plant. Hawthorne's fee includes $10,575 needed to cover the bond attorney's, services. The council decided to deny a request by the operator of a Washington Street amusement center for permission to operate on Sunday after church.

Davis said the center was a "nuisance" and 12- and 13-year olds were operating coin-machines, in violation of a law which requires they be 16 or older. The council agrees to take a "wait and see" attitude on whether to take action against the center. Also discussed was a need for a loan to cover city operating expenses until tax revenues begin to come in. Edwards said the city had only $17,000 in its account to meet obligations of $25,000. Alderman Joe Savitz Jr.

recommended delaying any loan until all funds were depleted, and no action was taken. Bee Stinq Can Be CLEMSON Warm autumn days will bring continued danger from bee and wasp stings. "Twice as many people die from allergic reactions to bee stings than from snake bites," says Ted Adkins, Clemson University entomologist. "Over a hundred people die in this country each year from these reactions. "Symptoms to look for include any reaction other than local redness, swelling, or pain.

Swelling or discoloration away from the sting, dizziness, nausea and signs of shock may indicate an allergic reaction," Adkins says. These symptoms may appear immediately or be delayed up to two weeks. "An allergic person can, as with other allergies, be desensitized by a series of anti-allergenic shots," Aluminum i Welfare Fund Outlays not receive tfie information. "I think I ought to be able to know what I'm going to be doing when I get here," Strickland said. He added that the budget hearing should have been held at a regular meeting.

Davis said special meetings should only be held for dealing with emergencies. Mayor James "Pete" Smith said the meeting was called to make needed budget changes. The city needs $10,000 to make payment due at the end of the year on land recently purchased for the site of the Abbeville County courthouse annex. Smith added it was necessary to complete hearings on the budget and tax millage as quickly as possible so tax Public Voice Head Resigns COLUMBIA (AP) Saying he hoped his resignation might1 serve to-trigger necessary action to save Public Voice in its present form, Tim Rogers, executive director of the advocacy group, has stepped down from his post. Rogers, who announced his resignation Thursday, said he expects a statement from the group's board in the next few days concerning Public Voice's future.

The organization has been plagued with financial difficulties since it was formed in October 1974. Last December, the group obtained a $1,000 bank loan designed to keep it operating until April. Rogers said when he took over that most of his time would be spent attracting new members. He noted that last year's membership climbed from 400 to the current 2,500. Despite that, Rogers added that "our efforts would not be adequate to solve the financial problems of Public Voice.

If Public Voice could be saved in its present form, it was was my hope that my resignation might serve to trigger the necessary activity to do so." Difficult i tor an effort to be Ellis, also asked for comment, said he viewed the report as constructive recommendations, rather than criticism. "We agreed with some of the recommendations, and some had already been implemented by the time the audit was completed," said Ellis. There were some recommendations that we gave a low priority, and some we flatly disagreed with The report complained that the state -auditor's office did not have "source in-formation'V that would allow it to adequately assess the financial operations of DSS. 1 DSS agreed that remedial legislation, giving the state agency a better overview j. of welfare operations at the county level, should be considered.

1 Hazards Of Questioned COLUMBIA The United States Consumer Product Safety. Commission is pushing for what may become the most extraordinary product recall ever made. The product in question is aluminum electrical wire, already installed in an estimated two million homes, about 800,000 of them mobile homes. Since its inception in 1972, the commissioo has been investigating possible fire hazards associated with the wire. It has gathered evidence implicating the wire in fires that led to the deaths of 12 persons.

Sam McNutt, director of the Division of Consumer Protection and Injury Control at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), said reports of 500 fires possibly caused by aluminum wires have been collected nationally. According to McNutt, the fires are believed to start in the following way: The I Aud By ELLIS B.SIMON Index-Journal Reporter ABBEVILLE A special meeting of the Abbeville City Council last night, originally called to give second reading of the tax millage and city budget, was adjourned earlier than expected when Aldermen Robert Strickland and James Davis Jr. protested conducting such business. Strickland complained he had not received information about expenditures in the previous fiscal year and revenues at the recreation center. Davis and Alderman Rivers Mabry Jr.

said they also did State's Largest Auto Insurer Gets Rate Hike COLUMBIA, (AP)The Government Employes Insurance one of South Carolina's largest of automobiles, has been granted an overall 25.4 per cent rate increase by the State Insurance Commission. The amount of the hike will vary among the territories within the state but the overall increase will be 25.4 per cent. The commission also approved Thursday an increase of 14.3 per cent in commerical car and garage overage. The request for the increase was filed by the Insurance Services Office in behalf of several companies. The insurance department announced it has issued "cease and desist" orders against two companies.

The department claims that Fidelity Insurance a South Carolina firm, and Farmers National Life Insurance Co. of Miami, are financially impaired. county social services departments at the other end which are virtually autonomous," Smith said. A management report issued by the state auditor's office, based on an audit of DDS operations for the 1973-74 fiscal year, said it was impossible to accurately assess its financial operations because "source information" was not available. The report was made' to Gov.

James B. Edwards and to members of the board of DSS. Charges of mismanaging the department have been leveled against R. Archie Ellis, state social services, and the' board has been ordered to show cause in state circuit court why it should not investigate the charges. 1 Smith said Thursday the report by his.

auditors was a routine check by his office of the fiscal operations of state agencies in Bookie Files Test Sou On Gambling Law COLUMBIA (AP)-Saying current laws force him to "incriminate himself in violation of his rights," a Columbia man who identifies himself as a professional gambler has filed a class action suit in federal court to test the validity of those laws.v The suit, brought Thursday by James Herring, claims federal laws requiring him to buy a $500 tax stamp and pay 43.9 per cent of his income in taxes are "ar-bitary, discriminatory and has as an origin a tyrannical exercise of arbitrary power." The suit further alleges "that the intent of the wagdring tax amendment and the prefent wagering tax law was aimed at large scale gambling and was not intended for small gambling operations such as the Plaintiff is engaged in." Although the suit points out that South Carolina law prohibits gambling, it claims the state gambling law "is so vague and contradictory" that is also violates his constitutional rights. 1 To Monitor Says State FLORENCE, S.C AP)-Closing arguments from both sides were heard today in the trial of a 53-year-old Pamplico woman charged with murdering her second husband by arsenic poisoning, with the jury expected to announce its decison later in the day. Testifying in her own defense Thursday, Mrs. Elmer Conyers said, "I haven't give anybody arsenic." Throughout her three and a half hour questioning, Mrs. Conyers maintained her plea of innocent in the death of Milton Reese Conyers.

"I wouldn't know it (arsenic), if I was to see Mrs. Conyers told the jury. She has been on trial in Florence General Sessions Court since Monday for the 1973 death of Conyers. She is also charged with murdering her first husband -and with administering nonlethal doses of arsenic poisoning to other three family members, two of whom are still living. During cross-examination Wednesday, 12th Circuit Solicitor T.

Kenneth Sum-merford asked Mrs. Conyers if she had ever asked her former business partner to buy partnership survivor insurance. "I deny she responded. Mrs. Flauda' Harter; Mrs.

Conyers' former business partner in a Pamplico fabric shop, later told the court Mrs. Conyers had asked her to take out the insurance. But that she refused, saying her part in the business would go to her family. i Another witness, Mrs. A.

B. Kennedy, was also called' to contradict Mrs. Food Stamp Outreach Program Begins A food stamp outreach program for Greenwood County began operation -Wednesday to inform persons who may be eligible for food stamps about the availability and benefits of the program. Mrs. Donna E.

Davis, outreach worker for the county, said she hoped to be able to work with other agencies in the county to provide "reasonable and convenient access" to food stamps so eligible persons would be able to participate. The food stamp program enables low-income households to buy more food of greater variety to improve their diets. Participants purchase the stamps at a cost set by the family size and monthly income. The stamps they receive have a larger monetary value than the purchaser paid for them, and can be spent like money at authorized food stores. Mrs.

Davis' office is located in the basement of the courthouse. Office hours are a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Deaths Adkins says. "Emergency treatment kits are available for use when medical facilities are not nearby.

"The Medicalert Foundation can provide I.D. tags and cards to be carried by people with known allergies. Proper identification may inform a physician of the cause of an allergic person's unconscious state," he says. Anytime the temperature rises above 60 degrees, bees are active, Adkins says. To prevent stings, be careful around flowers and ripe fruits.

Keep grass and clover well mowed. If a bee or wasp lands on your body, do not try to kill it, brush it away. Call an exterminator to eliminate nests. "If an allergic person is stung, get the person medical treatment as soon as possible," Adkins says. Wiring determine if aluminum wiring has been used in your home, ask a knowledgeable electrician or local electrical inspect6r." "Those who have not had thorough electrical training should not attempt to inspect their home wiring system or make any electrical repairs before seeking expert advice," said McNutt.

"Serious or fatal electrical shock could result." The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission has ordered its staff to begin a process whereby an administrative-law judge will be asked to determine whether the existing wire poses a substantial hazard, and, if it does, how homes wired with it can be made safe. Among the alternatives are replacement of all the wall outlets and switches in the homes. It is estimated that would cost $300 million, if all the homes could be located. More, drastic action might require rewifing the homes. Prevented By AL LANIER COLUMBIA (AP) State Auditor Patrick C.

Smith says auditing the financial outlays of the South Carolina Department of Social Services are difficult to monitor because of the welfare agency's "untenable position." Smith was asked Thursday to comment on a management report by his agency which listed several bookkeeping procedures by DDS which are contrary to "generally accepted accountings procedures." The state auditor said he realizes DSS is "caught in the middle" when it comes toj providing accurate, updated information on welfare payments. "The state department is subject to the whims of Washington, and then it has 46 i -J MRS. DAVIS Friday and food stamps are sold 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mrs.

Davis will be at the Ware Shoals Town Hall on the first and third Thursday of each month from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. By Safety Commission is wrapped around binding screws and connected to a traditional switch or plug outlet. As the aluminum expands and contracts in response to heat, it loosens around the screw. Aluminum oxide forms, which, unlike copper oxide, is not a conductor.

The electricity meets resistance, causing a build-up of heat that may melt the switch or plug outlet or possibly the plastic insulation around the wire further in the wall. For decades, copper was the principal metal used as an electrical conductor. As copper costs rose, the demand for, aluminum increased. Aluminum wire first came into widespread use in new-home construction in 1966. "The danger signals of aluminum wire failure are warm face plates, switches or outlets, or a strange odor near them, or flickering lights that can't be traced to any ebvious cause," said McNutt.

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