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4A The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. LakelandsState Thursday, December 28, 1995 DEATHS AND FUNERALS New laws will mark New Year in N.C. SUMMARY OF LAWS James Boggs, 3717 Highway 25 South, C.W. Coursey, 4 Blake Road, Ninety Six Mart Gasque, 18 Summit Ware Shoals Damatriua Holmes, 105 Sampla Straat, Greenwood Vivian Morton, 309 Wilson Bridga Road, Ninety Six Here is a summary of new North Carolina laws which will go into effect on Monday: Candidates who apply for governor will be eligible for a small amount of public money ir they limit their campaign spending to $1 for every vote Mae Booker, 132 Hanisburg Street, Abbeville cast in the previous governor's election. Taxpayers with children James Boggs GREENWOOD James Leonard Boggs, 69, of 3717 Highway 25 South, husband of Margaret Lewis Boggs, died Dec.

27, 1995, at Self Memorial Hospital. Born in Oconee County, he was a son of the late Eugene and Marie McClain Boggs. He was retired from Clemson University Forest Service and was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of 91 AFM Lodge and was a Hejaz Temple Shriner.

He was a member of New Life Baptist Church. Surviving, in addition to his wife of the home, are two daughters, Margaret Darlene Davenport and Karen K. Ritter, both of Waterloo; a son; James Michael Boggs of Lawrenceville, a great-grandson reared in the home, Alex Waylan Porter of the home; a sister, Betty Jane Baxter of Whigham, three brothers, John Edward Boggs; Willie Ray Boggs and Milas L. Boggs, all of Seneca; 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Graveside services with Masonic Rites will be at 2 pm Friday at Greenwood Memorial Gardens with the Rev.

A.L. "Bud" Tumblin and the Rev. Craig Hughes officiating. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Harley Funeral Home. The family is at the home of his sister-in-law, Velma Cox, 227 Mathews Heights Road.

Memorial's may be made to the charity of one's choice. Vivian Morton NINETY SLX Vivian "Cookie" Childs Morton, 40, of 309 Wilson Bridge Road, died Dec. 28, 1995, at her home. will get an additional $60 cred it for each child on tax returns Arthur Thomas, 407 N. Jennings Street, Saluda -'4 filed this spring.

Sex offenders released from prison will have to register with the sheriff in the county Frances Bailey, Union where they live. Landlords will be required Helen Ferrelt, Sunland, Calif. Velna Wheless, Wadesboro, N.C. to provide working smoke detectors for any new rental agreements. Expert witnesses who testify in medical malpractice cases will have to show they work in RALEIGH (AP) New laws taking effect next week will require sex offenders to register with local sheriffs, will limit the punitive damages a jury can award and offer candidates for governor a small amount of public money if they limit their campaign spending.

The "candidates fund" approved by the Legislature eight years ago goes into effect Monday with about $200,000 donated by taxpayers from their refund checks. Supporters had hoped to have enough money in the fund by next year's gubernatorial elections to convince candidates to limit their spending in exchange for the public financing. But few people believe that will happen. The fund has averaged only about $26,000 a year in donations, far too little, most state officials say, to convince candidates to limit spending. The fund is available only after the May primary elections to candidates who have won their party's nomination.

Under the law establishing the fund, any candidate who applies for a grant must agree to limit his spending next year to $1 for every vote cast in the previous governor's election. That would limit spending by each candidate for the general election to about $2.6 million next year. The limit does not include spending for the primary. Taxpayers with children will get an additional $60 credit for each child on the tax returns they file this spring. The child credit was part of a tax reduction package passed by jthe state Legislature this year.

Under another new law, convicted sex offenders released from after Monday will have to register with the sheriff in the coun- register. The person convicted of a sexual offense must register even if he does not get an active prison sentence. The registration will be maintained for 10 years, but anyone convicted can petition the court for an exemption to the required registration. Any new rental agreements signed after next Monday will require that the landlord provide working smoke detectors. Tenants will be responsible for replacing the batteries under the new law, except that a new battery must be installed by the landlord for each new tenant that moves into a rented apartment or house.

Expert witnesses who testify in medical malpractice cases filed after next Monday will have to show the court that they work in the same specialty as the doctors accused of malpractice. They also will have to show that most of their professional time in the last year has been devoted to practicing that medical specialty or teaching it in a medical school. Any lawsuit for malpractice must indicate that it has been reviewed by a doctor who expects to testify as an expert witness and can qualify under the new rules. The new law was sought by doctors who frequently complain about "professional itnesses" who testify in malpractice cases. Another new law will limit the punitive damages that can be awarded in a lawsuit to $250,000 or three times the actual damages awarded.

The limit applies to any lawsuits filed after Monday. Under another new law, judges can order a substance abuse assessment and completion of special training for anyone convicted of driving while impaired. Marie Gasque the same speciality as the doctors accused of malpractice. Punitive damages in law- suite will be limited to $250,000 or three times the actual dam ages awarded. Persons convicted of driving while impaired can be or dered by a judge to undergo a substance abuse assessment and completion of special training.

She was a daughter of Mattie B. Eason and Phillip Childs Jr. She graduated from East High School in Buffalo, N.Y. and received a B.S. in Communications from the University of New York in Buffalo.

She was a veteran of the U.S. Army having served for three years. She was a former member of the Second Temple Baptist Church in Buffalo, where she served in various positions. She was a member of Enoree Zion Baptist Church, where she was a mem WARE SHOALS Marie Louise Doar Gasque, of 18 East Summit Drive, widow of Charles L. Gasque, died Dec.

27, 1995, in Seminole, Fla. Born in Summerville, she was a daughter of the late Elias and Helen Temple Redwood Doar. She was a homemaker and a member of Ware Shoals United Methodist Church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Paul "Marie" Amato of Seminole, a sister, Helen Temple Starr of Columbia: three grandchildren; and one greatgrandchild.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday from Ware Shoals United Methodist Church with the Rev. Carol Peppers-Wray and the Rev. Kirk Hendricks officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.

Pallbearers will be Sammy Martin, Jack Sullivan, Ralph Boyter, Steve Cann, Terry Davis and Dan Branyon. Memorials may be made to Ware Shoals United Methodist Church, Ware Shoals, S.C. 29692. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday at the church.

Parker-White Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. VIVIAN MORTON ty here they live. Their name, address, photograph, fingerprints and details of their conviction will be kept in a register at the sheriffs office. Anyone can ask if a specific individual is listed on the register, and groups that work with children, the. elderly or the disabled can obtain a full copy of the ber of the Usher Board.

Surviving, in addition to her mother of the home and her father of Buffalo, are two daughters, Dara Morton and Danielle Morton, both of the home; a sister, Dorthesa Carter of San Jose, and two brothers, Phillip Childs III of Rochester, N.Y., and Mathew Childs of Brooklyn. Senate leader dieS Frances Bailey UNION Frances Cudd Bailey, 76, of 3117 Jonesville-Lockhart Highway, widow of Dock Bailey, died Dec. 26. 1995, at her home. Man charged with robbing bank to be on TV show WILMINGTON, N.C.

(AP) A man charged with robbing a Brunswick County bank will be featured on a national television show with the warning that he vowed not to surrender. Thomas David Dixon, 49, was released from a Maine state prison a year ago after serving 16 years on bank robbery convictions. He is accused of robbing five banks along the North Carolina-South Carolina line since he was released on parole. The banks include the United Carolina Bank in Calabash, which was robbed last September. Federal warrants are outstanding for his arrest.

The television show "Unsolved Mysteries" will re-enact a blundered bank robbery in Columbia, S.C, where an ink cartridge exploded in the money bag as the robber was leaving the scene. Dixon was identified when he robbed a bank in Brunswick County, where he knew people from past visits, said Brunswick County Sheriffs Lt David Crocker. He was identified from a picture taken by the bank surveillance camera, the lieutenant said. "He doesn't cover his face," Lt. Crocker said.

"He makes no bones about who he is. His only failure was picking a bank where he knew people." Detectives found Dixon's diary in his abandoned car outside Florence, S.C, and realized the Rockingham native is more dangerous than originally thought, Sheriff Ronald Hewett said. COLUMBIA (AP) State Sen. Marshall B. Williams, the leader of South Carolina's state Senate and its longest serving senator, has died at age 83.

Williams died at about 1:35 a.m. today of heart disease, a nursing supervisor at Providence Hospital said. He was hospitalized after suffering chest pains Friday. The Orangeburg Democrat, who had a penchant for bow ties and cigars, entered politics after serving as a lieutenant commander in the Naval Air Corps during World War II. He won election to the state House in 1946 and to the state Senate in 1952.

He became Senate president pro tempore in January 1989. Williams was a product of traditional rural Southern politics dominated by Democrats. He continued to serve even as the political landscape inexorably changed around him: blacks gained some power and began winning legislative seats in the 1970s, the Legislature relinquished some of its sweeping power to the governor in 1993 and last year nearly all of the statewide offices fell to Republicans. "South Carolina has lost the last in a great line of leadership," said Sen. John Drummond, D-Ninety Six.

Drummond is second in seniority to Williams, and under the Senate's seniority system, he would be Williams' successor as Senate president pro tempore. Final 'Last Man's Club' member dies at 98 of wine for the last surviving man. "The last man living was supposed to open the bottle and drink a toast to the others," Sullivan said in an interview in May. "It's probably turned to vinegar by now, but I'll never know. I'll open it when I find the rest of them, wherever they are." Sullivan moved to Union in 1903 after his father died.

He volunteered for the Army when he was 16. He was furloughed to the Army Reserves, but was called back in 1917 for the war. UNION (AP) The last man of the "Last Man's Club" is John Robert Sullivan died Tuesday in a Union hospital. He was 98. Sullivan was born in Wadesboro, N.C, on Nov.

7, 1897. He was a World War I Army veteran and the last surviving member of the "Last Man's Club" Company 118th Infantry. About 1933, Sullivan's group had a reunion at the National Guard in Union and formed the "Last Man's Club," purchasing a bottle Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Robinson and Son Mortuary, Inc. The family is at the home. Memorials may be made to HospiceCare of the Piedmont, Greenwood Medical Center, Greenwood, S.C.

29646 or to the charity of one's choice. C.W. Coursey NINETY SIX Claude Watson "C.W." Coursey, 60, of 4 Blake Road, died Dec. 26, 1995, at Self Memorial Hospital. Bom in Greenwood, he was a son of Liber Rushton Coursey and the late Allen Coursey.

He was an engineer for CSX Railroad. He was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, the Eureka Masonic Lodge No. 47 and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He was in the National Guard.

Surviving, in addition to his mother of Greenwood, are a son, Allen Watson Coursey of Greenwood; and a daughter, Angela C. Pamell of Charlotte. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Blyth Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Nelson Stokes officiating.

Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be George Bryant, Julian Pratt, Sammie Corley, John Rodgers, Wayne Simmons, Fred Harris, Jimmy Ellison and Gary Berry. Honorary escort will be co-workers of CSX Railroad. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Blyth Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, S.C.

Chapter, Greenwood County, 104 Heritage West Court, Greenwood, S.C. 29649. Helen Ferrell SUNLAND, Calif. Helen Ruth Charles Ferrell, 80, of 10678 Turn bow Drive, widow of Bruce Edward Ferrell, died Dec. 23.

1995, at her home. Born in Woodruff, she was a daughter of the late Jim Charles and Lula Gertrude Charles Latham. She was a member of Beulah Baptist Church. Surviving are two sons, Ron Ferrell of Sunland, Calif, and Edward Ferrell of Greenwood; a sister, Mabel Lorn man of Greenwood; a brother, Ralph Charles of Greenwood; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m.

Friday at the Harley Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Bruce Palmer officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Ralph Ferrell, Charles German, Paul German, James Charles, Alex Harris and Frank tones. Honorary escort will be Hilton Dodgen Hilton Dodgen John Glaser.

Frank Hancock. Cecil McDowell, Perry McDonald and great nephews. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Harley Funeral Home. Mae Booker ABBEVILLE Funeral services for Mae J. Booker, 71, of 132 Harrisburg St.

will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Rockford A.M.E. Church with the Rev. James Belcher, the Rev. Willie Belcher and others.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be placed in the church at I p.m. liie family will receive friends at the chapel of Richie Funeral Home from 6 to 8 pjn. Friday. The family is at the home of her mother, Catherine Tucker Jones, 406 Cambridge Street Arthur Thomas SALUDA Arthur Gene Thomas, 55, of 407 North Jennings St, died Dec.

27, 1995, at his residence. Born in Cherokee County, he was the son of the late John Dean and Edith lan ton Thomas. Surviving are three brothers, Raymond D. Thomas, Paul Thomas and Billy Thomas, all of Gaffney; a sister, Wilma Pennington of Gaffney. Funeral services will be at 10 un.

Friday at Ramey Funeral Home with burial following at Mountain View Cemetery in Blacksburg. Born in Adamsburg, she was a daughter of the late Nick and Dawn Bailey Cudd. She was retired from Milliken, Lockhart Plant and was a member of Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church. Surviving are a daughter, Barbara Sumner of Abbeville; a son, Maxie Bailey of Newberry; a sister, Dorothy Conley of Laurens; a brother, James Cudd of Garden City; six grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren.

Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at Mt. Tabor lresbyterian Church with the Rev. James Palmer and the Rev. Jesse Bentley officiating.

Burial will be in die church cemetery. The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Pallbearers will be Mark Sumner, David Sumner, Jonathan Sumner, Travis Doolittle, Doyle Crocker and Steve Gregory. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Holcombe Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Mt.

Tabor Presbyterian Church, co Fred Vinson, 1615 Ml Tabor Church Road. Jonesville, S.C. 29353. The family is at the home. Demetrius Holmes GREENWOOD Demetrius Montravius Holmes, 1, of 105 Sample died Dec.

27, 1995. Bom in Greenwood, he was a son of Willie and Tisa Callaham Holmes. Surviving, in addition to his parents, are two brothers, Demarion Holmes and Willie Holmes, both of Greenwood; three sisters, Shandolyn Callaham, Sanquandra Holmes, and Latisha Holmes, all of Greenwood; maternal grandmother and step grandfather, Barbara Callaham and James Williams, both of Greenwood; maternal grandfather, Tommy Lee Matti-son of Rockledge, paternal grandmother, Bessie Holmes of Greenwood; and paternal great-grandmothers, Ethel Arnold of Princeton and Georgia Smith of Greenwood. Funeral services will be Friday at 3:30 p.m. at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church with Bishop Emanuel Spearman, the Rev.

Charles William and the Rev. David Johnson officiating. The body will be placed in the church at 3 p.m. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Flowerbearers will be friends of the family.

The family will receive friends at Robinson and Son Mortuary, Inc. tonight from 7 to 8. Velna Wheless WADESBORO, N.C. Velna Braswell Wheless, 85. widow of Richard Vann Wheless, died Dec.

26, 1995, at the home of her son. Born in Anson County, N.C, she was a retired food service supervisor in the public schools. Surviving are a son, Dick Wheless of Seaford, a daughter, Mrs. Charles (Jeanne) Gailey of Greenwood: two sisters, Ethel Mann of Angier, N.C. and Louise Hamer of Wadesboro; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church in Wadesboro with burial in EaNtview Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 8:30 at Moore Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully request that memorials be made to First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 423, Wadesboro, N.C.

28170. LOCALISMS The Heritage Corridor is a proposed cultural pathway that will stretch through 14 S.C counties (including Saluda, McComokk, Edgefield, Abbeville and Greenwood) that border the Savannah River down to the Atlantic Ocean. The corridor will highlight historical and cultural sites along the way and hopefully initiate economic development THE FOLLOWING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY, JANUARY 1st, 1996 IN OBSERVANCE OF NEW YEAR'S DAY GREENWOOD BANK TRUST NATIONSBANK THE COUNTY BANK THE PALMETTO BANKssw FIRST UNION.

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