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The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. Wednesday, November 12, 2003 DEATHS AND FUNERALS John 0. Craft WARE SHOALS John O. Craft, 77, of 3 Greenacres Circle, husband of Frances Rochester Craft, died Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003 at Saluda Nursing Center.

Born in Ware Shoals, he was a son of the late John C. and Margaret Davis Craft. He attended First Presbyterian Church. A disabled veteran, he served in the Navy during World War II. Survivors include his wife; a son, John O.

Craft Jr. of Ware Shoals; three daughters, Vickie Craft of Ware Shoals, Candis C. Williams of Anderson and Margaret Melissa C. O'Dell of Easley; 13 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Services are 2 p.m.

Thursday at First Presbyterian Church, conducted by the Rev. Wayne Wicker. Burial is in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers are Chris Gibson, Wesley Boles, Jeff Falkingham, Eric Craft, Jeremy O'Dell, Alex Loughlin and James Loughlin. Visitation is 7-9 tonight at Parker-White Funeral Home.

The family is at the home. Parker-White Funeral Home is in charge. James Cross Sr. Services for James Morrison Cross of 120 Independence Way, are 2 p.m. today at Calvary Grove Baptist Church, Callison Community, conducted by the Rev.

Wilbert Simpson. The body will be placed in the church at 1. Burial is in the church cemetery. Pallbearers are Claude Roundtree, James L. Day Gregory Jones and Robert Payne.

Flower bearers are Stephanie Callaham, Selesha Holloway, Willie Mae Williams, Teresa Nash, Shela Corbett and nieces. Honorary escorts are members of Greenwood High School Class of 1978. The family is at the home of Lynn Cross Freeman, 133 Beaufort St. Percival-Tompkins Funeral Home is in charge. Noble Cunningham LAURENS Services for Noble Cunningham, of 105 Russell are 2 p.m.

Thursday at Laurel Hill Baptist Church, Waterloo, conducted by the Rev. Herbert E. Glenn. The body will be placed in the church at 1. Burial is in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers are nephews, and flower bearers are nieces. Visitation is at the home. Percival-Tompkins Funeral Home, Greenwood, is in charge. James M. Gilchrist McCORMICK James Marion Gilchrist, 59, husband of Annie Lou Devlin Gilchrist, died Tuesday, Nov.

11, 2003 at Self Regional Medical Center in Greenwood after a short illness. Born in McCormick, he was a son of the late Joe and Ada Prince Gilchrist. He was a member of New Hope Baptist Church and the Male Chorus. He was employed in road construction. Survivors include his wife of Greenwood; two brothers, John Gilchrist and Joe Gilchrist, both of McCormick; two sisters, Jessie Lou Dobbs of Ninety Six and Bertha Mae Adams of Greenwood.

The family is at the home of his brother John Gilchrist, Prince Road. Services will be announced by Walker Funeral Home. Jack S. Golding Jack S. Golding, 80, of 1608 Sweetwater Road, husband of Iris Horne Golding, died Tuesday, Nov.

11, 2003 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Greenwood, he was a son of the late Furman and Ellen Pace Golding. He retired as bottling manager from CocaCola Bottling Co. after 43 years of service and was a World War II Army veteran, serving as an M.P. in Germany.

He was a member of Lupo Memorial United Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife of the home; four daughters, Mrs. Daniel P. (Glenda) Gary of Beaufort, Mrs. James C.

(Gail) Bell and Mrs. Timmy D. 1 McCormick Town Council comes in under budget GREENWOOD COUNTY I John O. Craft, 3 Greenacres Circle, Ware Shoals James Cross 120 Independence Way, Greenwood I Jack S. Golding, 1608 Sweetwater Road, Greenwood I Barbara Human, 304 Hillcrest Farm Road, Greenwood ABBEVILLE COUNTY I Sophia Sloan, formerly of Abbeville LAURENS COUNTY I Noble Cunningham, 105 Russell Laurens MCCORMICK COUNTY I James M.

Gilchrist, McCormick OUTSIDE S.C. I Robert L. Kerby Ill, Bokeelia, Fla. Bessie Lou Turman, Inglewood, VISITATIONS TODAY BURNETT, Mildred, St. Paul United Methodist Church, social hall, Ninety Six.

I CRAFT, John, 7-9, Parker-White Funeral Home, Ware Shoals. CUNNINGHAM, Noble, the home, 105 Russell Laurens. GOLDING, Jack, 7-9, Harley Funeral Home. WATERS, Addie, Liberty Mortuary. SERVICES TODAY BURNETT, Mildred, 3, St.

Paul United Methodist Church, Ninety Six. I CROSS, John 2, Calvary Grove Baptist Church, Callison. GONCE, Ola, 2, Blyth Funeral Home. I JOHNSON, James, 3, Mine Creek Baptist Church, Saluda. I NALLEY, Imogene, 11, First Baptist Church, Fort Mill.

I SATTERWHITE, Diane, 12, Harley Funeral Home. I SIDENER, Cindy, 11, Martinez Baptist Church, Georgia. PAID OBITUARIES Paid obituaries are published as requested to accommodate those desiring more information than is provided in traditional death and funeral notices. Such obituaries are prepared and billed through our Advertising Department at 223-1411. (Brigitte) Knowlton, both of Greenwood and Mrs.

Ronald S. (Jackie) Owens of Hodges; a sister, Helen Blalock of Greenwood; a brother, Furman Golding Jr. of Waterloo; 11 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren. Services are 3 p.m. Thursday at Harley Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev.

Roger Kinion and Dr. Robert Miller. Burial is in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers are Todd Scott, Greg McGovern, Jim McGovern, Dennis Quarles, Norman Capps and Nick Tettis. Honorary escorts are Dr.

J. Richard Hobson, Dr. O. M. Cobb, Dr.

Joe Stephenson and Dr. Samuel Burnett. Visitation is 7-9 tonight: at the funeral home. The family is at the home. Memorials may be made to HospiceCare of the Piedmont, 408 W.

Alexander Greenwood, SC 29646 or Woodfields Baptist Church, 1708 Marshall Road, Greenwood, SC 29646. Harley Funeral Home is in charge. Barbara Human Barbara D. Human, 69, of 304 Hillcrest Farm Road, wife of Arnold Human, died Monday, Nov. 10, 2003 at Self Regional Medical Center.

Born in Laurens County, she was a daughter of the late Bluford and May Belle Davenport Day. She former owner of A Florist. Survivors include her husband of the home; two daughters, Darlene Briggs of Charleston and Kim Lewis of Whitwell, a son, Ray Human of Greenwood; a sister, Shirley Higdon of Donalds; eight grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren. Services are 3 p.m. Thursday at Oakbrook Memorial Park Chapel Mausoleum, conducted by the Rev.

Shirley Surrett. Pallbearers are Randy Parrish, Josh Human, Curtis Pearson, David Day, Brandon Burdette, Benji Boyter, Bill Human and Deryl Higdon. Honorary escorts are Rodney Boyter, Keith Pearson, Patrick Burdette, Barry Human, Keith Higdon, Kent Pearson, Larry Weathers, Brad Weathers and Richard Boyter. Visitation is 2-3 Thursday at Oakbrook. The family is at the home.

Memorials may be made to a charity of one's choice. Harley Funeral Home is in charge. Robert L. Kerby III FLORIDA Robert L. Kerby III of Bokeelia, Fla.

died Sunday, November 9, 2003. He was a former resident of Greenwood and longtime employee of Gary Russ Chevrolet. He was of the Catholic faith. He is survived by his father, Robert L. Kerby Jr.

of Fort By TASHA STEIMER Index-Journal staff writer McCORMICK Town Council learned Tuesday it came in under budget for the fiscal year ending June 30. Toni McKinley, of McKinley, Cooper spoke to council members about an audit of the budget. "In our opinion, you've got positive results in every fashion," she said. In the town's general fund, there was $58,145 to spare. Overall, the town had less revenue than expected.

However, expenditures were also lower. McKinley said the decrease can be attributed to an increase in grants placed in the special revenue fund instead of the general fund. Money in the special revenue fund can be used only for specific projects. The town still came out ahead with an improvement of $58,145 from last year in the general fund. The town collected revenue totaling $786,158 for the general fund between June 2002 and June 2003, and spent $728,013.

General fund revenue includes taxes, license fees, grants and other fees. The fund pays for administrative, judicial and emergency service costs. The town also had an excess of more than $10,000 combined in the special revenue fund and capital projects fund. Council also: I Discussed the town's mobile home codes with Reid Willis, owner of the Old Country Store on South Main Street. Willis wanted to place a bigger mobile home on the property behind the store, but his request was denied before the town meeting by the planning commission.

Bernard Welborn, town administrator, explained to Willis that the property was not zoned for a mobile home. The home, placed on the property before rezoning, cannot be replaced. "It's the feeling of the town that if you stop using the trailer, it needs to be removed," he said. Mayor Miriam Patterson told Willis that council would work with him if he wanted 1 to find other means to handle the situation. Considered the first reading for an update to the business license ordinance.

Welborn explained to council that the new business license model is an updated version of the old ordinance. The last changes to the model were made in the 1980s. "We just want to make sure all business ordinances are upto-date," he said. Welborn said the new model will use a modern number system that classifies businesses into specific categories. Art Carney of 'The Honeymooners' dies Myers, Fla.

He is also survived by his mother, Byrdie Kerby; a sister, Rhonda Carroll and brother-in-law, Jeff Carroll; a niece, Leslie McLeary and a nephew, Chad Carroll, all of Augusta, Ga. Memorial mass will be held Thursday, Nov. 13 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's On The Hill Catholic Church on Walton Way in Augusta, Ga.

The family will receive friends following mass at St. Mary's. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hope Hospice, 9470 Health Park Circle, Ft. Myers, Fla. 33908.

PAID OBITUARY. Sophia Sloan ABBEVILLE Sophia Dillashaw Sprouse Sloan, 93, formerly of Abbeville, died Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003 at Cherokee County Nursing Home. Born in McCormick, she was a daughter of the late Jacob and Effie Neil Palmer Dillashaw. She was first married to the late James H.

Sprouse Sr. and then to the late Jessie Sloan. She was a retired office manager with The Little River Rural Electric Coop. Survivors include a son, James Henry Sprouse Jr. of Cedar Bluff, a sister, Myrtis Bradberfy of Elberton, a stepson, Franklin Sloan of Alpharetta, five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild.

Graveside services are 3 p.m. Thursday in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Thompson Holloman. Visitation is Thursday at Chandler-Jackson Funeral Home.

The Chandler-Jackson Funeral Home is in charge. Bessie Lou Turman INGLEWOOD, N.J. Bessie Lou Turman, 60, of 13- 86 Dubois Court, died Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003 in New Jersey. Born in Willington, S.C., she was a daughter of the late Bennie and Carrie Turman.

Survivors include a daughter, Susan A. Brace of Greenwood, S.C.; a son, Samuel E. Brace of Hackensack; six sisters, Georgia Henderson of Columbia, S.C., Beatrice Turman and Annette Turman, both of Anderson, S.C., Maxine Syrkett of Ninety Six, S.C., Debra Turman and Jacqueline Turman, both of Iva, S.C.; six brothers, Demon Turman of Starr, S.C., Harry Turman of Hampton, Edgar Turman and Bobby Turman, both of Hodges, S.C., Terry Turman and Marvin Turman, both of Anderson. Services are 1 p.m. Thursday at Marcus D.

Brown I Funeral Home. Burial is in Little Mill Church Cemetery, Willington. Marcus D. Brown Funeral Home Anderson, is in charge. HARTFORD, Conn.

(AP) Art Carney, who played Jackie Gleason's sewer worker pal Ed Norton in the TV classic "The Honeymooners" and went on to win the 1974 Oscar for best actor in "Harry and Tonto," has a died at 85. Carney died ART in Chester, CARNEY on Sunday and was buried on Tuesday after a small, private funeral. He had been ill for some ti time. The comic actor would be forever identified as Norton, Ralph Kramden's bowling buddy and not-too-bright upstairs neighbor on "The Honeymooners." The sitcom appeared in various forms from 1951 to 1956 and was revived briefly in 1971. The shows can still, be seen on cable.

With his turned-up porkpie hat and unbuttoned vest over a white T-shirt, Carney's Ed Norton with his exuberant "Hey, Ralphie boy!" became an ideal foil for Gleason's blustery, bullying Kramden. Carney won three Emmys for his role and his first taste of fame. "The first time I saw the guy act," Gleason once said, "I knew I would have to work twice as hard for my laughs. He was funny as hell." "I loved Art Carney," said actor Billy Bob Thornton. "I was a huge fan of 'The Honeymooners' and I loved Jackie Gleason, who was a genius.

But I was probably more struck by Art Carney than Gleason. You just couldn't wait for him to come through the door again." Carney told a Saturday Evening Post interviewer in 1961 that strangers were always asking him how he liked it down in the sewer. "I have seasonal ART answers," he said. "In the summer: 'I like it down there because it's In the winter: 'I like it down there because it's Then I've got one that isn't seasonal: 'Go to After "The Honeymooners," Carney battled a drinking problem for several years. His behavior became erratic while co-starring with Walter Matthau in the Broadway run of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" in the 1960s.

He dropped out of the show and spent nearly half a year in a sanitarium. His career resumed, and in 1974 he was cast in Paul Mazurksy's "Harry and Tonto" as a 72-year-old widower who travels from New York to Chicago with his pet cat. He stopped drinking during the making of the film. When it won him his Oscar, Carney wisecracked: "You're looking at an actor whose price has just doubled." Negotiators keep pushing toward Medicare prescription drug bill WASHINGTON (AP) Time running short, key lawmakers struggled Tuesday night to clear away the remaining obstacles to a compromise prescription drug bill, including a GOP demand for direct competition between traditional Medicare and new private insurance plans for seniors. "We're very close to having an option that virtually everyone can support, holding their noses in some cases," said Sen.

Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. And even as talks ended for the STONEWALL, N.C. (AP) Today is Wednesday, Nov. 12, the 316th day of 2003. There are 49 As it had for so many years, the days left in the year.

American Flag flew in front of Today's Highlight in History: Robert Hodges' home on VeterOn Nov. 12, 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal ans Day Tuesday. began. The Americans ended up winning a major victory over the But this year was different. Japanese.

The nation's oldest war veteran On this date: died Monday at age 115 at In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other Craven Regional Medical Center World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes in New Bern after a brief hospitribunal. tal stay. In 2001, an American Airlines Airbus A300-600, en route from New "It was a tremendous loss," York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to the Dominican Repub- said veteran and local military lic, crashed 103 seconds after takeoff, killing 265 people. historian Furman Gibbs.

"We Today's Birthdays: Rock musician Booker T. Jones (Booker T. have lost a legend." the MGs) is 59. Singer-songwriter Neil Young is 58. Rock musician Hodges, who joined the Army Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (Blue Oyster Cult) is 56.

Actress as a teenager, served in France Megan Mullally is 45. Olympic gold medal gymnast Nadia Comaneci during World War I. The grandis 42. Figure skater Tonya Harding is 33. Actress Angela Watson is son of slaves, he was born near 29.

Singer Tevin Campbell is 27. Actress Ashley Williams is 25. Actor in a house. Bath three-room Ryan is 23. One of 10 children, he worked Gosling Actress Anne Hathaway is 21.

Pop singer Omari- in the is 18. farm fields until he enliston (B2K) Actress Macey Cruthird and is 11. for "Private ed in August 1918. He returned Thought Today: opinion creates public That from is why private opinion, and private behaviour, and private conversation duty and in 1919 married are so terrifyingly Jan Struther Malinda, his wife of 70 years, (nee Joyce Anstruther), who died at age 92. They had English poet (1901-1953).

eight children. Senate votes to place new sanctions on Syria (AP) The would give the president greater tions. He WASHINGTON also must impose at least Senate voted for broad new eco- authority to waive sanctions for nomic and trade sanctions two out of a list of six possible against national security. sanctions: a ban on exports to Syria on Tuesday, citing a long The bill states that Syria must Syria, prohibition of U.S. busihistory of sheltering terrorists and end its support of terrorists, termi- nesses' operating in restrica recent failure to muzzle forces nate its 27-year military Syria, presence tions on Syrian diplomats in the hostile to U.S.

actions in Syria's in Lebanon, stop efforts to obtain United States, limits on Syrian airneighbor, Iraq. or produce weapons of mass line flights in the United States, The Senate measure, passed 89- destruction and long-range ballis- reduction of diplomatic contacts 4, mirrors legislation the House tic missiles and interdict terrorists or a freeze on Syrian assets. passed last month by 398-4. The and weapons from entering Iraq. The House-passed bill would only difference was an amend- If Syria should fail to meet give President Bush to ment' offered by Senate Foreign those conditions, the president waive power the two sanctions for Relations Committee Chairman must ban sales of dual-use items, national security reasons.

The Dick Lugar, in conjunction which are those that could have Senate bill would extend that with the Bush administration, that both civilian and military applica- waiver to include da use sales. TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press night, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist met in his Capitol office with two key Democrats, then said he intended to spend the next several hours trying to bring "a lot of focus and a lot of pressure on a lot of people" to nail down an agreement. At its heart, any compromise would create a new prescription drug benefit for the 40 million American elderly and disabled people who receive Medicare. At the same time, it would create a new private insurance option for beneficiaries, a step that Republicans argue is necessary to modernize Medicare and hold down costs in the long run. In another indication that the negotiations were at a pivotal point, House and Senate Republicans asked the only two Democrats involved in the closed-door talks to leave for a portion of the evening's discussions.

Sens. Max Baucus of Montana and John Breaux of Louisiana complied, leaving Republicans to debate their next move privately. N.C. man who was U.S.' oldest veteran dies.