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County Board Of Education Spl it On District 52 Budget Rv VTrlTI THAU A board would also-be reported to council. Clayto Roberts-cast the board would be guilty of doubletalk if they criticized Ninety Six for spending money the board Index-Journal Reporter Greenwood County Board of Education split Monday over whether or not to recommend approval of the Ninety Six School District 52 budget to county council. TTie board did vote four to one to recommend approval of the budget, but with the condition that budget discrepancies found by the I The Index-Journal v-'rj i Winners -U3 Southside 1 L. I Hospital Reimbursement Program Tested By USC At Abbeville Memorial and Michael Patterson who tied in the competition. The science fair attracted entries.

(Index-Journal photo) Winners in the Southside Junior High School science fair held last weekend are, left to right, Mel Buffett who represented the winning seventh grade entry. Chuck Scar-boro who represented the winning eighth grade entry. Ran Abbeville Board Hears Defense Of Budgets By Three Agencies ABBEVILLE Abbeville County Memorial Hospital has joined a University of South Carolina project to test a new method of reimbursements for hospitals. Under the terms of the agreement with Abbeville Memorial, the hospital will work with the University to establish prospective rates of reimbursement for patient costs and charges. Originated by faculty members in the USC College of Business Administration, the USC experiment, with cost incentive features, could well be the method of payment used if a national health in 4- I.

Vv.v V' Junior High Science Fair The Press and Banner, since 1972. Powell said he would try to correct that. After the meeting he commented that The Index-Journal was getting most job advertisements. The travel expenses claimed by employes at the Abbeville office were also questioned by Peeler. "I was shocked at the mileage and meals these people turn in," he said.

Powell said South Carolina law provides that state employes are to be paid 14 cents a mile and a maximum of $2.50 a meal. Peeler also requested, and Powell agreed to provide, a regular quarterly report on the Abbeville County Health Department's budget. John Nolan, administrator of the Beck-man Center for Mental Health Services, said his agency's costs have increased rapidly and $16,300 was needed next year, an increase of about $3,000. He said federal funding to the Center had slipped from 80 per cent to 75 per cent. Abbeville County's outpatient load has increased from 65 visits per month during the 1973-74 fiscal year to 106 visits per month last year, Nolan said.

A clinic was started last month in Abbeville which is expected to increase the benefits to county residents even more, he said. Myer Poliakoff, representing the Abbeville County Library said that his agency's request for $200 more for maintenance was needed to paint the main library branch in Abbeville. He also said that books in the main library have been valued by the state at over $120,000. Only $30,000 insurance is now carried, he said, suggesting that the county look into in ill mini ii 1 ill dy Aiken, Jeff Logan ninth grade individual about 200 dissenting vote. The main item of dissension was a $50,000 addition to last year's budget made after the budget was approved by county council.

Money spent came from the school district's surplus money, which, last year, the board instructed, them to spend before asking for an increase in millage. J. L. Parks said he thought the Grnwood, S.C., 1975 7 ULFCDIDfl surance plan is adapted for the entire country, according to project director Alfred R. Kurtz.

The agreement with the Abbeville hospital was signed by Jerry R. Roberts, administrator of the hospital and B. A. Daetwyler, vice president for finance at The program is intended to assist hospitals in taking advantage of the most efficient and economical methods and procedures of hospital operations and practices in setting equitable rates for patient care services and Mrs. Charles Beaudrot, Greenwood, was elected secretary.

Steve Byrd and Mrs. W. F. Mauldin, both of Greenwood, were named to the Alumni House Board of Trustees. G.

Mason Speer of Abbeville will complete the second year of his term as president this year, as will vice president Mrs. Samuel S. Gallman, Taylors, and men's representative Ronnie Lewis, Greenwood. Three new area directors were named. They include Mrs.

Arthur Henderson for the Greenwood area, Miss Anne Ewing for the Greenville area, and Mrs. Ernest Griffin for the Atlanta area. Mrs. Sam Botts, Greenwood, will assist Mrs. Henderson in the Greenwood area.

Mrs. John T. Fooshe of Columbia, the former Ruth Ouzts, class of 1912, was recognized as the oldest Lander alumnus present. Mrs. B.

H. Greene of Malvern, the former Nancy Jane Hyatt, class of 1950; and Mrs. John D. Armstrong of Boonsboro, Maryland, the former Patty Porter, class of 1932, were given the award for alumni traveling the longest distance to attend the meeting. Lander Alumni Urged Take More Active Part In The College's Life creasing the coverage.

In response to a question from Peeler, Poliakoff conceded that the library's budget may be upset by a recent decision of the Abbeville City Council to end the practice of giving some organizations free utility service. The board gave first-reading approval to asking the General Assembly to repeal the part of state law establishing the Abbeville Recreation Commission so that it can be absorbed into the city. The vote was taken at the request of Abbeville City Council. Joe Savitz representing the recreation department, asked that the Board of Commissioners provide $6,000 for renovations to the municipal swimming pool. He said that $16,000 in repairs were planned to try to get the pool in shape by June.

Other funds would come from city council and federal grants, he said. Commissioner Hawthorne told Savitz that the recent decision by City Council to make the Recreation Commission a department of the city may have made it impossible for the county to give revenue sharing funds to the city. "I don't think it's legal for the county to use funds for this purpose," he said. The commissioners received all the requests as information to be given to the finance committee for consideration when the budget is prepared. Bids on a front end loader and two dump trucks were opened but council voted to consult with the county supervisor's department before awarding contracts.

A final decision will be taken in a special meeting next Monday night at 7:30 p.m. windows about 6:45 a.m. "We don't know about motive. We're just trying to figure out what and why it happened," Brazelle said. He added there was evidence of theft in the house, and said officers found an undisclosed amount of cash inside.

Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said an autopsy was being performed on the woman and preliminary reports indicated she was dead before the fire started. isked them to spend last year. In other, discussion before the vote was taken, Roberts said that in this time of a tight economy "I don't see how we can approve a budget with this surplus when we" could possibly have a decrease here." District 52 now has a balance of $427,435 but teacher salaries for the rest of the year and other school expenses will be paid out of this money. Parks disagreed saying that he thought the board could put District 52 in trouble when school funds run low each November before taxes, if district millage is cut.

Frank Russell, of the Greenwood County Vocational Facility, appeared before the board to clarify some of the facility's budget requests for next year. The vocational facility is the only educational institution in the county to ask for a millage increase and has almost doubled its budget for next year. Russell said that extra money was due to additions. Next year the facility will add two new buildings that will almost double the size of the school, increase the staff from 14-26 teachers and double the number of students. He added that the money brought by the two mills was needed to open the new buildings next year, but that after the opening it was possible millage could be decreased.

One mill for the facility brings about $41,000. Russell noted that Greenwood's Vocational Facility is the second least expensive in the state. The board voted to recommend approval of budgets for District 50, Piedmont TEC and the vocational facility. Ware Shoals District 51 budget was approved at last month's meeting. The county board will present budgets to county council on May 13.

In other business, the board set July 15 for the election of two members of the board of trustees in Ware Shoals. The terms of Dexter Jeter and C. W. Robinson, who are both finishing their first term on the school board, will expire Aug. 21.

Books will open May 12 and close June 27, Trustees are elected for three year terms. The board also reappointed Mrs. Margaret Henderson as attendance supervisor. crossing the road. They went farther down the road, turned around and came back and shot the cow.

Officers said the animal was shot five times with a .45 pistol. They were sentenced to four months and $250, with part of the fine to go to the owner of the cow. William H. Slappey Jr. pleaded guilty to growing marijuana.

Officers said he had two plants growing on a window sill at his home and had "several bottles of seeds." Slappey said he had grown them out of curiosity, "to see what they look like." The judge said this was Slappey's 25th appearance in court He gave him a sentence of five years, suspended upon nine months, with three years probation. Wallace Slappey, pleading guilty to housebreaking and petit larceny, was sentenced to two years, consecutive to any sentence now being served. Indictments against Frank Cantrell and Brenda Deal were carried over from the February term of court. Rachels, Burdette, Wright and the two Slappeys entered guilty pleas after true bills were returned against them by the grand jury this week. Other true bills returned by the grand jury are as follows: Mary Sparks Baskin, assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying a pistol; Charleen Cade, larceny and receiving stolen goods; Larry Black-well, failure to stop for a law enforcement vehicle; Hubert Wright, two counts of unlawful drugs; Clarence Rayford and Hubert Wright, criminal conspiracy and Erskine Honors Day Is Tomorrow DUE WEST Erskine College will hold Honors and Awards Day tomorrow at 11 a.m.

in Lesesne Auditorium, with more than 40 students to be presented honors for their academic and extra-curricular accomplisyments. Among wards to be presented will be the H.M. Young Ring, Algernon Sydney Sullivan and Mary Mildred Sullivan Awards, and American Legion Medals to 1 the five seniors whose scholarship, leadership and character have been most exemplary. Numerous academic departments of the college will present awards to their leading students, and the Jake Todd Award will be presented to Erskine's leading scholar-athlete. Awards to be presented for the first time will include the AAUP Writing Award and two teacher education scholarships for rising seniors who will be doing their student teaching next year.

Police Suspect Foul Play In Woman's Death Judge Agnew Hears 10 Guilty Pleas In Abbeville County Court Alumni of Lander College met on the campus Saturday for the college's annual alumni day activities. Charles Dunn, vice president for college relations, told the group that Lander alumni should enter a year of self-study to determine the future of the association. "Alumni need to get out of the side show and into the main tent of college life," Dunn said. "They can provide the logical communication links among alumni, students, and friends of Lander. They can create and maintain a climate of goodwill which will encourage student admissions and parental interest." Dunn said that the alumni could give additional help in annual giving.

"I feel strongly that, given a thorough self-study and an illuminating and motivating case for support, this association could be in the top ten public colleges in the nation with regard to percentages of alumni support. This could happen within a one-year time period," he said. Lander athletic director Finis Horde and physical education department chairman Dr. Thomas B. Stevens, were the featured speakers at the men's breakfast Saturday.

During the general meeting, Mrs. Cecil J. McFerrin, Aiken, was elected treasurer S.C. Economic Decline Slowed During March COLUMBIA (AP) March unem- nlnvmml ppflfhprl the hiffhest level in South Carolina since World War II, ac-cordinff to a reDort released bv the University of South Carolina. "South Carolina Economic Indicators," published monthly by the USC Bureau of Business and Economic Research, says the state's economy continued to decline during March, although at a slower rate than previous months.

On the positive side, the average manufacturing workweek increased for the second straight month. Nonfarm job openings and new business incorporations also increased. Negatively, the initial claims for unemployment insurance increased unfavorably and nonfarm job placements reached the lowest point of recent record. The total unemployment rate reached 13.2 per cent during March, but the insured unemployment rate stabilized at the February level. Of the seven coincident indicators, only retail sales, on an adjusted basis, showed an increase.

All of the employment series continued downward in March. Total employment declined by 4,000 during the period and nonfarm wage and salary employment were down by 7,000. COLUMBIA (AP) Lexington County Sheriff's investigators suspect murder in the death of a Lexington County widow found Monday in the burned-out bedroom of her farm home. "What we've got is an 82-year-old lady. a Venetian blind cord around her neck," said Lexington County Sheriff's Department Investigator James Brazelle III.

He said Annie Taylor Gunter was found in the od, unpainted house after a passerby saw smoke pouring from the By OLIN McGILL Index-Journal State Editor ABBEVILLE Three agencies defended proposed 1975-76 budget increases before the Abbeville County Board of Commissioners at its regular meeting last night. The board had earlier requested that any agency seeking more money present its request before the board. Several agencies presented their cases for more money at the board's last meeting. "I think some of our agencies have misunderstood what this board was trying to tell them," said Commissioner Ed Hawthorne. "We are not just telling them we want them to cut back, we are saying they have to.

Our income has fallen about one-third or one-fourth below what we had expected." Gene Powell of the Upper Savannah Health District told the board his department could probably operate without its requested $4,000 increase. However, he said the funds were needed to expand the Home Health Services Program which "shortens the stay in the hospital for people that can't afford to stay there and run up big bills." Commissioner Clarence Peeler grilled Powell on several points, asking why six of the department's 12 staff members working in Abbeville were Greenwood residents. Powell said the department tries to recruit from the county in which an office is located, but sometimes has to go elsewhere if there is no response or applicants do not meet state requirements. Peeler pointed out that no advertisements of job openings in Abbeville had been placed in the local newspaper, distribution of drugs; Michael Morrow, housebreaking, larceny and receiving stolen goods; Johnny Tilton Page, burglary, housebreaking and receiving stolen goods; Donald Jewell, housebreaking with intent to commit a crime and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; Rufus Sloan Sanders, housebreaking, larceny and receiving stolen goods; Freddie Tiller, larceny and receiving; Odell Aiken and Anthony Johnson, housebreaking and receiving; David Earl Burton and William Allen Smith, three counts of larceny and receiving; Michael Wilbur Butler (two counts) and Stanley Lomax (one count), housebreaking, larceny and receiving; William Kenneth Richey driving under the influence of intoxicants; Patrick J. Burke, housebreaking, larceny, receiving and fraud; Lonzo Cecil Alewine, assault and battery with intent to kill; William Nichols and Douglas Ray Charpin, larceny and receiving; Jerro London and Linda Sutton, two counts each of forgery; Kenneth Jackson Burdette, Randy Paytoh and Grover Cleveland Tillman, each three counts of housebreaking, larceny and receiving; James Arthur Moore and Shirley Connor Moore, each two counts of highway robbery while armed with a deadly weapon, larceny and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; Furman Ross Jones, James W.

Major, Mitchell C. Major, and Clyde Payton, malicious injury to telegraph system and grand larceny; Clinton Fisher, Jimmy Fisher, Furman Ross Jones and James W. Major, larceny, receiving, malicious injury to telegraph system and grand larceny; George Pless, larceny and receiving; Carl Dean Minor, Robert Sexton, Jim Tuck and Mary Munn, highway robbery while armed with a deadly weapon, larceny and assault and battery with intent to kill Janie Whitman and Harold Whitman, pointing a firearm and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; Frank Kay, non-support; Larry Blackwell, resisting arrest. Judge Agnew questioned a woman who was seeking child support payments from a man whom she said was the father of one of her children. He asked her what her source of income was.

She said she was receiving $96 monthly from welfare and monthly in food stamps. The judge said, "No wonder you don't work. You get more money than some people who do work." He said he was tired of his tax money going to support people who can work but don't. He ordered the man to pay $10 a week in child support and said that the woman's welfare payment is to be reduced by $40 a month. By CHARLES MOORE Index-Journal Reporter ABBEVILLE The grand jury reported 40 true bills Monday to complete its work for this week's term of General Sessions Court.

Sixty cases are on the potential docket. Presiding Judge E. Harry Agnew heard 10 guilty pleas Monday morning and six during the afternoon. Frank Kenneth Cantrell entered a guilty plea to grand larceny of a vehicle and use of a vehicle without the owner's permission. He was sentenced to IS months, with credit for jail time already served.

Pleading guilty to shoplifting, Brenda Belcher Deal was sentenced to one year, suspended upon three months, with three years probation. Julian Rachels, 35, pleaded guilty to production of lewd pictures. He was sentenced to two years and $250, suspended upon payment of fine, and two years probation, with condition of obtaining counseling at mental health Derrell Lee Burdette and William Robert -Wright Jr. pleaded guilty to malicious injury to property in connection with the shooting of a cow. They said that one of them had struck a cow that was crossing the road, a few days previously.

In the early morning hours of March 20, they almost struck a cow that was' 1 Two Area Students Are Byrnes Scholars COLUMBIA (AP) James F. Byrnes Scholarships have been given to 10 South Carolina students, entitling them to for each of the four years of college education. The scholarships are financed by funds which began with the proceeds of Byrnes' two books, "Speaking Frankly" and "All In One Lifetime." The ten new scholarship winners will bring to more than 400 the number of Byrnes Scholars designated since 1948. More than SO scholars will be in college this fall. Toifjfalify for a scholarship, the student must be a resident of South Carolina and must have lost one or both parents.

The ten new scholarship winners are: Enis J. Alexander of Greer, Deborah Elizabeth Allen of. Newberry, Richard Dean Baumgarner of West Union, Jane Gibson of Greenville and Mary Ramey Gillespie of Abbeville. Also, Victor I. Gwinn of Connie Maxwell Children's Home, Greenwood; Ruth Elizabeth Mackey of Kershaw; C.

Blaine Riley of St. George; Howard D. Spencer pf Sumter and Mary Joy Young of Charleston. Friends! Tony the chimpanzee and Roscoe the clown pause to share a tender moment between performances of the Stebbing Royal European Circus. The circus will appear on the Deggeller Spectacular Magic Midway during the Greenwood Jaycees Charity Fair, May 13-18 at the fairgrounds.

Both Tony and Roscoe are featured in the circus, tony, a third generation circus performer is the middle-sized chimp in the John Stebbing Chimpanzee act, while Roscoe, a student of pantomime, is producing clown, and presents his comedy unicycle performance. The circus is free on the midway with nightly performances at 7:30 and 9:30, and a 3 p.m. matinee Saturday arid Sunday..