The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 11

Thursday Dec. 22, 1977 Page 1 The Index-Journal Greenwood, S.C. SECOND FRONT Strike begins early shutdown erf former's market Christmas, and supplies at this time year are usually light. But the early shutdown this year obviously reflected the effects of the strike. Farmers seeking 100 per cent parity for their productsx were to hold a statewide meeting this afternoon in Orangeburg to set priorities and plan the direction of their protest.

Robert Connelly of Allendale, a leader of the Palmetto state demonstrations were called for at four other bakeries across South Carolina by the state American Agriculture office. CM. "Mac" Thompson, leader of the Florence picketing, said he received a call from the state AA office asking him to organize the demonstration as part of the statewide effort. He said the picketers were on hand from 3 to 5 p.m. at American Bakery, which makes Merita bread.

strike, said Wednesday so many organizations have offered to help the farmers that "we could shut the state of South Carolina down overnight" Wednesday, the protest began, spreading to South Carolina bakeries. Members of the Darlington County and Florence County chapters of American Agriculture (AA) picketed the American Bakery in Florence. Similar By The Associated Press The effects of the strike by South Carolina farmers were evident Thursday by a virtual shutdown of sales at stockyards and a lack of fresh produce at the State Farmers Market in Columbia. The South Carolina Crop and Livestock Reporting Service, which issues daily reports on livestock and fresh vegatable prices, said supplies of produce at Grocery chain compared the fanners market were too light to establish prices. A spokesman also said no report on stockyard activity will be available until after Christmas, and maybe not until the first of the new year.

The large open-air market on Columbia's outskirts, where farmers bring truckloads of vegetables for direct sale to consumers and retailers, normally closes for a few days over fo J.P. Stevens national AFL-CIO Labor Council. James Adler, chairman of the AFL-CIOs South Carolina Labor Council, compared Winn-Dixie to J.P. Stevens, a huge Greenville-based textile firm that has developed a national reputation for fighting unionism. Adler says the boycott will become effective as soon as the executive board of the council can meet and get the boycott machinery working.

Labor organizing Winn-Dixie boycott By The Associated Press A boycott of the Winn-Dixie chain, which one labor official has called "the J.P. Stevens of the grocery industry," is being organized by labor leaders in North Carolina and South Carolina. The planned boycott is part of a nationwide action against the giant Southeastern food store chain, approved recently by the happy and that half of them own company stock. Davis said he feels the wages of Winn-Dixie workers are comparable to those paid according to union scales. Labor officials in both states indicated some Winn-Dixie stores will be picketed, but in most places labor representatives will hand out leaflets describing their problems and urging a consumer boycott.

schedules Offices ore planning Christmas and the Monday after New Year's Day. The Social Security office, however, will only close Mondays, Dec. 26 and Jan. 2 for the holidays. According to a postal service spokemsan the Greenwood Post Office will be closed "tight" on Christmas and New Year's days.

The postal service will be working a regular Sunday schedule on Mondays following the holidays by continuing pickups and making speical deliveries. The Greenwood County Library will be closed Dec. 24, 25 and 26 and Jan. 1 during the holiday season. Also, town offices in Ware Shoals will close noon, Friday for a Christmas break through Monday, Dec.

26. Ninety Six town offices will remain open Friday, however, but will be closed Monday for Christmas. offices in both towns will be closed County: all county offices will be closed Monday for Christmas and the Monday City offices will have the same New but will be closed Saturday through Christmas. County: county offices will close Monday for Christmas and Jan. 2 for city offices will only be closed on the the holidays.

County: county offices will be closed Friday Monday for Christmas and Jan. 2. City offices noon, Friday for a Christmas holiday City offices will also be closed Jan. 2. While most local government employees will be celebrating Christmas with a four-day weekend this year and a three-day break for New Year's, their offices will be operating on a variety of holiday schedules.

The Index-Journal has compiled the follwwing list of area government office closings for the holidays: Courthouse will be closed Friday through Monday in the Greenwood County Courthouse will be closed Friday through Monday for Christmas and Monday, Jan. 2 for New Year's. City offices in the Municipal Buliding will be closed Monday and Tuesday after Christmas and Monday after New Year's. The S.C. Job Service office and the S.C.

Highway Department will be closed Friday through Monday for "pi The lockettes' collection Sheila Mann, a member of the Greenwood Lockettes Club, displays a portion of the food collected by the girls' club for distribution to needy families at Christmas. The club has 21 members in the 15-16 age bracket. They undertake a number of projects each year including clothes drives, sales to raise money to purchase Christmas food and in the near future they will assist in painting the train mural just off the Greenwood Square. (Staff photo by Danny McNeill) Other bakeries scheduled for picketing were the American plant in Anderson, Palmetto in Orangeburg, Clawson in Charleston, and Kafer's in Columbia, strike leaders said. Meanwhile, Williamsburg County farmers who were turned away from the North Charleston grain elevator yesterday because they lacked a parade permit are hoping to secure a permit from the city council Thursday night.

-A one-foot piece of purple ribbon. A fishing bead. A one-ounce fishing weight. Seven golf tees. A pencil.

A blue balloon. A lollipop with bubble-gum filling. A 10-hour candle. A box of 24 birthday-cake candles. -A juke box rendition of "White Christmas." A postage-paid postcard.

In one store, Buck bought a party popper, two replacement Christmas-light bulbs, a picture postcard and a green bow for a total of 47 cents. When he returned to his car he found a $3 parking ticket: He had forgotten to put a dime in the meter. forming an illegal abortion. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Chapman, in effect, ends any further prosecution of Dr.

Jesse Floyd through the state courts system. But the decision leaves open a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by 5th Circuit Solicitor James C. Anders, who has been seeking to prosecute Floyd since the doctor was indicted two years ago for violating South Carolina's abortion law. Last month, the law was found by a three-judge federal panel to be unconstitutional.

You can still buy a few ihings for a dime Winn-Dixie has 107 stores in South Carolina. In North Carolina, state AFL-CIO president Wilbur Hobby said the chain has a long record of anti-labor activity. He added the state's boycott should get into full swing early next year. James Davis, corporate chairman of the grocery chain, which is based in Jacksonville, Fla said that his workers are for holiday presents recent PSC hearings into Duke Power use of the fuel adjustment clause. Gulf supplies uranium to Duke for the production of nuclear energy.

The consumer group also questioned Fuller's ownership of stock in NL Industries, which owns NuTrac, a motor carrier regulated by the PSC. "Even though there was no conflict of interest, I did not vote on the recent order to suspend NuTrac's certificate of con Local government Monday, Jan. 2. Abbeville Friday through after New Year's. Year's schedule, Tuesday for McCormick Thursday through New Year's.

But Mondays following Saluda through will close through Monday. iTcrr 1 i'f iii JiV. it iin mm nn n. hi i SEATTLE (AP)-Got a long Christmas shopping list and an empty wallet? Don't worry, there are plenty of gifts availble for a dime or less. Reporter Richard Buck of the Seattle Times bought 60 items for a total of $4.24.

But he found that you can't just drop in any store. "I can't understand anybody thinking like that," said one salesman when asked if his store had any items for less than a dime Among the budget items that Buck did find were: A tiny clamshell. A stick pin for mounting stones. A "donkey bead" good luck charm. A candy stick.

A tree-shaped butter cookie. Leaves Dec. "29 Erslrine sets tour of Europe DUE WEST "Stellar Eight," the eighth study-tour of Europe to be led by Erskine College Modern Languages Professor John Miller Grier, will leave Thursday, Dec. 29. Nineteen Erskine College students and five others will accompany Dr.

Grier on the tour of Austria, Italy, France, and England. Highlights of the tour will include intensive visits to Vienna, Venice, Florence, Rome, Monaco, Nice, the Roman ruins at Nimes, Tours, Chartres, Versailles, Paris, and London. The tour will continue through Jan. 20. Erskine students will have special study projects along with the tour to earn four semester hours credit.

The tour is one of 60 special courses being offered during Erskine's annual one-month January Interim Term. Erskine students participating in the tour will include Apryl Alter, Easley; Haskell Avery, Greenville; Martha Beckham, Greenville; Todd Carlisle, Due West; George Frothingham, Greenville; Becky Gaston, Greer; Robin Haldeman, Due West; Karen Helton, Greer; Strait Hicklin, Rock Hill; Mark Hubbard, Charlotte, N.C.; Marion McAlister, Anderson; Ruth Marshburn, Atlanta, Ivey Matthews, White Oak; Mary Nelson, Lake Wales, Jalane Olive, Anderson; Dan Ruff, Ridgeway; Betty-Boyd Sides, Stony Point, N.C.; Joe Sullivan, Williamston; and Alicia Williams, Lavonia, Ga. Other participants will include Nancy Regruto, Turnersville, N.J.; and Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Ellis, Grier Ellis, and Steve Ellis, all of Brunswick, Ga.

Fifteen members of the tour group will leave Greenville-Spartanburg Airport the morning of Dec. 29, with other tour members joining them in New York that afternoon for the flight to Europe. Vienna, Austria, will be the first stop on the tour. venience and necessity, since I knew my vote could be construed as a conflict of interest," said Fuller. "However, I did sign the order," As PSC chairman, Fuller signs all orders whether he voted on the issue or not.

Orders must be signed by the chairman, or a commissioner acting for the chairman in some circumstances, to become official. "Now, the only people who would have any cause to accuse me of a conflict of In slaying $2,000 reward offered A $2,000 reward is being offered for information into the shooting death of a Waterloo man July 18, 1976. According to Greenwood County Sheriff Giles Daniel the reward is being offered by the family of James Douglas Davenport. Davenport was shot to death last year as he was riding a motorized bicycle on the Old Laurens Highway about 100 yards east of Stony Point. No arrest has been made and apparently officers have been able to gather little information on the incident.

As the investigation got under, way Greenwood County offered a $500 reward for information "leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the death. Davenport, of RtM, Waterloo, was 53 years of age when be died. Anyone interested in further information on the $2,000 reward or having information on the death should contact the sheriff's department. Senior Citizeni to meet The Seaboard Recreation Center Senior Citizens will meet tonight at 6:30 for the annual Christmas supper. The supper will be in the basement of the Seaboard Recreation Center.

Members are ask to bring a gift. Fuller says COLUMBIA (AP)-Public Service Commission Chairman Fred A. Fuller Jr. says he has sold his stock in Gulf Oil Co. and NL Industries "to remove any shadows cast by me on the commission." 1 Fuller, noting that the State Ethics Commission found no conflict of interest in his ownership of the stock, said in a statement mailed to news media: "I have always known that I had no conflict of interest through the ownership Injunction blocks abortion prosecution Pooch Jennifer, a basset hound owned by Angie Powell, had to be restrained from opening her Christmas present before the appropriate time during a Christmas party she attended Wednesday night with about 20 other dogs and their owners.

The Christmas party was held by the Greenwood Kennel Club at Harris Community Center. Jennifer's outfit was typical of many of the pooches at the party, which included games and refreshments all for the dogs, of course. (Staff photo by Duncan Mansfield) stock sale was to benefit PSC's image -COLUMBIA (AP) A federal judge has issued an injunction blocking the prosecution of a Columbia doctor for allegedly per- interest through my stock ownership is Duke Power said Fuller. "I own stock in Multimedia and Dan River Mills. Both are large power users in the Piedmont." Multimedia and Dan River Mills are served by Duke Power Co.

After the allegations concerning conflict of interest by The People Are Coming organization during the hearings, Fuller and five other commissioners voluntarily disclosed their financial holdings. of my stock, and now the State Ethics Commission has completely exonerated me. However, today, I am selling my stock in Gulf Oil Co. and NL Industries." The statement was dated Dec. 21.

"I hope by selling this stock I will satisfy any critics of me personally and will remove any shadows cast by me on the commission," Fuller said. Ownership of Gulf Oil stock was questioned by a consumer group during.