The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 15

Dulie Embviment Announces Gran? To Self fvYemorial, Connie Maxivell Tht Dukt Endowment wsa established In 134 by Jsmea Buchanan Duke. lu ltU anthropy la la lour ma)ur areas education, health, child care, and retigtesL Educational beneficiaries art Davtdsoa College and Duke, ruratn, and Johnsesi C. Smith Universities, la the health area, funds are provided to assist nonprofit hospitals in tht Carolines la epersting expenses, la adding and expanding services designed for improvement of patient csre, and In providing physical plants, plant additions, and equipment. Quid cart instiluliona In North Carolina and South Carolina are given help In financing tht cart of orphsns and half-orphans. Assistance is given In construction and maintenance of rural United Methodist churches In North Carolina and tht support of retired Methodist mini ten and dependent families of deceased ministers.

A full time stsff based In tht Charlotte office Is available for counseling when hoapttals and child care Institutions request it of Chicago and Professional Activity Study (l'A3) of Ana Arbor, Mich. Comparative statistic, art compiled and distributed lo each participating hospital by these two services on a monthly basis. Aulstsnct from tht Dux Endowment towerd epersting eipensee amounts to ft a dsy for each day of fret care reported by qualified hospitals for the fiscsl year which ended Sept. X). mi.

Checks are being sent lo ISO hospitals this year, according to Mr, Tells. Of these, Ul in North Carolina are receiving and South Carolina hoapltals sre receiving ISG4.8J0, Forty-one child cart Inttituiions sre shsrtng appropriations of for ssaistanct in the care of orphaned and half -orphaned children. Of this amount, 23 North Carolina Institutions are receiving 405.584. and 18 In South Carolina. IIM.184 Trustees of The Duke Kndorment based the appropriations for this purpose on sn allowance of approximately II 09 a dsy for the care of each of the children involved Tht Duke Endowment announced gifts) area bospiUla and child care tn Ututions today as part of II.Kl.f being donated to Institutions In North and South Carolina.

Jamea R. fells who serves as a trustee of the endowment and as executive director of Its lloipital and Child Care Sections, announced the appropnatlgna today la Charlotte, Self Memorial Hospital will receive 1 til, and Connie Maxwell Ouldren's Home, tu.ta. Other area benefkiarirs include Abbe vllle County Memorial lioapltal, 11.721; Bailey Memorial Hospital. Clinton. IJ.fTJ.

Laurens District Hospital, II.UJ; John de la Howe School, McCormick. 114.118. and Thornwetl Orphanage, Olnlon. 13M77. Grants to hospitals totalrd It JT8.BI and represent a payment of 11.001.138 to assist In operating expenses and UQS.tt3 to reus burse assisted institutions participating' In Informsuon services provided by Hospital Administrstlve Services (HAS) vr uJ Red Cross Presents Certificates 1 i i fnmon E.

Ellenberg tnttrtd iht oporlmtnt ond found tht crib on firt. Ht reportedly ron from tht oportmtnl colling for help. Bowmon ond Ctigtr, who wtre working neorby, wropped tht infont in blonket lo extinguish Iht firt. Tht Elltnbtrg boby it itill in criticol condition ot tht Shrintn Burn Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. Bowmon ond Ctigtr ore employes of McCrory-Sumwolt Construe-lion Co.

of Columbia. (Index-Journal photo by Curtii Rkt.) Certifkofet of recognition lor eitroordinory pertonol ocllon were presented yetterdoy lo John ftowmon, left, ond George Gieger of Irroo bv the Re. John M. Shingler, cKoIrmon of the Greenwood chopttr of Iht American Rod Cross. The locol chopttr presented Iht ctrtificottt in recognition of Iht fwo mtn'i oclion in wring iht lift of fovr-month-old Brian Edword llltnbtfg, who woi critically injured in a crib firt ot hit homt in Coketbury Gardens Aporlmentt on Jon.

19. Tht bobi fothtr, Spec. 5 a i wi A IP Dr. Mobley To Head Heart Disease Education Program For Local Unit Baha'i Group Presents Program A group of youth from ocrou the United Stotei presented a program on their religious faith, Boha's, for the lait two nights ot the Seaboard Recreation Center. Similar programs, including skits and a film, will be presented tonight ot 8 o'clock in Abbeville and in other area towns Friday and Saturday.

They will go to Green ville Sunday morning, continuing their tour oroond the statt. left to right ore Gary Sterling of Petersberg, Alaska, Judy Komp of los Angeles, Donna Gibson of San Fernando, Nino Johnson of Quincy, ond Jeff Gates of Glosgow, Mont. (Index-Journal photo by Curtis Rice) The Index-Journal Greenwood, S.C. Feb. 1 7, 1 972 rwae 1 5 If; Dr.

E. Mints Mobley la aiding tht Greenwood County Heart Unit by serving ai chairman of a committee Intrusted with tht responsibility of helping the people of Greenwood County to learn of the ways by which heart disease can be prevented. Pertinent Information on the prevention of heart disease in printed form has long been available to the public through the South Carolina Heart Association, and this type of Information will always be available to the public. While the death rate of all forms of heart disease has steadily declined In recent years as a result of far reaching research, the actual Incidence of heart stuck due to coronary heart disease Is annually on the Increase and affecting younger age grape than decade ago. It is felt that the only possible wsy of lessening the Increasing incidence of heart attack is through public education regarding the factors which predispose to coronary heart disease and further to Instruct the public how to avoid these factors or lessen their effects If they csnnot be avoided.

Dr. Mobley, as a representstlve of the local medical community, will help to make available to the public speakers well versed in knowledge of those fsctors which predispose to coronary heart disease. It is hoped that this dialogue between physicians, nurses, and dieticians and the groups to which they may have the opportunity to speak will have a greater Impact on the mounting coronary heart disease statistics. Working as liaison man between The Heart Committee and civic and industrial groups Is Ted Wyndham, who will call on these groups, offering them a choice of topic and speaker to explain, educate, and better, inform public of its heart problems and prevention. Schools and women's clubs are also to be considered in coverage by this committee.

Civic groups can contact Wyndham to find out about the various literature, in pamphlet form, which is available free of charge through The Heart Association. Industrial groups may be particularly Interested in making available literature on the five major components of prevention of heart disease diet, weight, exercise, smoking and hereditary factors. This program is another example ol the added service and Increased activity of The Greenwood County Heart Unit, according to Wally Rawllngs, local unit president. State Unemployment Rate Holds Steady COLUMBIA (AP)-Unemployment among insured South Carolina workers is holding at 2.S per cent The Employment Security 'Commission reported today that Initial claims last week for unemployment compensation dropped by 841 to 2,158, compared with the previous week. The insured unemployment total was reported at 15,635, which is up 23 from a week earlier but down 8,479 from the week a year ago.

I DJLXi i.V uiXPDG Abbeville Band Boosters Set Fund-Raising Supper ABBEVILLE The Abbeville Band Booster Club will sponsor a family style supper beginning at 5 p.m. today at the Abbeville High School Cafetoria. The meal will begin at 5 and continue until 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the cafeteria for $1.25 per adult and 75 cents for children. Proceeds from the supper will go toward defraying the cost of the band's forthcoming trip to the Hernando DeSoto Festival at Bradenton, Fla.

The Grendaier Band will take part In competition at the festival on March 15. Three Charleston Schools To Reopen eWl nniswa -ey- Wells Appointed M. V. Wells has been appoint' ed to a one-year term on the Advisory Council of the Carolina! Division, American Red Cross. A native of Oklahoma and a graduate Furman University now retired from Greenwood Mills, Wells has been active in the local chapter, serving; as chairman and vice chairman of th Finance Committee, a member of the Board of Directors and the chapter's liaison representative, to the Community Chest.

The advisory council is composed of 21 members from North and' South Carolina who represent volunteer leadership. H' A 1 -V- miol "i 'J Z. 'ArtSri flilll 1 ff fli i while the city fire department searched for the bombs. Each threat turned out to be a hoax. James Island High School, which was closed Tuesday after a racial clash between an estimated 300 black and white students, is set to reopen Monday, school officials said Wednesday.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP)- Three elementary schools which closed Wednesday after receiving telephone calls with bomb threats were scheduled to reopen today, according to school officials in Charleston. Harbor View Middle, Stiles Point and Baxter-Patrick elementary schools were evacuated after receiving the threats City Log N' 1 1 MM in 'II I 1 I mar ia jL ffliSS iwi- fUTtfr nliOTit Airirifii mi msf mmm ..1 -mmm FIRE CALLS The Greenwood Fire Department answered the following calls: Oak Street. (10:50 p.m. Wednesday) No fire.

Firemen went to assist a woman who had locked herself out of her car. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Greenwood Police ment records today showed investigation of the following accidents: Academy at Edgefield. (3:40 p.m. Wednesday) Auto-auto. No injuries.

One driver charged with failing to yield right of way. Oak at Main. (5 p.m. Wednes- day) Auto-auto. No injuries: Ohe driver charged with oare-lss driving.

Quik-way parking lot on the Bypass. (Wednesday afternoon) Auto-auto. No injuries. One driver charged with no driver's license in possession. Bypass at Bunche Street.

(3:25 p.m. Wednesday) Three school buses were involved in a collision when two buses were stopped and a third bus struck them from the rear. Only light damages were reported and there were no injuries. No Preservation Hall Jazz Band To Be In Greenwood Monday Veteran musicians who had a part in the birth of names and others are improvised as the musicians New Orleans jazz over a half century ago will be in play in the true spirit of New Orleans jazz. Greenwood Monday night, Feb.

21. The Preservation Preservation Hall in New Orleans began as a place Hall Jazz Band will present a concert at 8 p.m. in the for original musicians to get together and play Lander College Physical Education Center. mostly for their own pleasure. It is at the entrance to The Lander-Greenwood Fine1 Arts Series is the French Quarter, and very near Basin and Canal sponsoring the performance and admission will be by Streets where jazz was born.

Today Preservation season ticket or by individual admission' ticket. Hall is operated as a business and audiences gather Individual admission tickets will be sold at the door at night to hear the musicians play. Groups of for $3 for adults and $2 for students. musicians from Preservation Hail such 'as the one Members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band are to Greenwood Monday night, travel from all over 60 years old. Many of their songs have no New Orleans and give concerts throughout the world.

Ware Shoals Student Finalist 1i One student at Ware Shoals High School has been named a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition. Charles Thomas Bdyne, i son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bayne, is pictured here with Jim McAbee, an administrative assistant at Ware Shoals High.

Charles plans to attend Clemsbn University after graduation. (Index-Journal photo by Curtis Rice) were reported..