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2 Th Index-Journal, Gree nwood, May 26, 1968 Deaths and funerals Bond I. ill (Continued from page 1) currently at $85 million, financing for some of the projects may never materialize. Representatives from a handful of the largest counties formed a coalition that gave them a majority vote and ignored warnings by House leaders that requiring taxpayers statewide to finance local building projects set a dangerous precedent. Traditionally, only state wide projects are included in the bond bill. Sheheen and McLellan argued that the only projects that absolutely needed state financing were to deepen Charleston Harbor ($40 million) and to expand and build prisons ($44 5 million).

But House members argued that the projects in their districts were worth funding and claimed that opponents lacked vision. "South Carolina doesn't have the money to build with cash," said Rep John Felder, Calhoun, who advocated spending for various projects at colleges and universities included in the bill. "A lot of time we forfeit great opportunities because we don't have enough foresight to take advantage of them," said Rep. McKinley Washington, D-Charleston. The version finally approved by the House after more than five hours of debate Wednesday was nearly identical to the bill passed by the House Ways and Means Committee.

The only significant addition was $3.5 million for airport improvements administered by the state Aeronautics Commission. Sheheen said the bond bill simply grew too large for the state taxpayers to afford but acknowledged that the cadre of legislators Summit preparations promoting local projects referred to by some members as the "pork barrel coalition" grew invincible. "They've all banded together," Rep. Herb Kirsh, D-York, said early in the afternoon. "They're saying I'll support your project if you support ours, and it's just a matter of time.

It's going to pass if they stick around long enough." The bill included long term financing of $13.4 million for an aquarium in Charleston, $6 million for a performing arts center in Greenville, $5 million for a civic center in Florence County and $5 million for a coliseum in North Charleston. The bill includes the top 15 priorities of the state Commission on Higher Education and provides money for projects at virtually every college, university and technical education school in the state. The coalition helped defeat projects outside their areas, including $5 million for a multi-purpose arena in Horry County, $1 million for a museum on Hilton Head Island and $12 million for a sports complex at PTL's Heritage USA outside Fort Mill. The Senate, in bonds attached to the state budget bill passed last week, approved all of those local projects except the North Charleston coliseum. The Senate approved the Horry County arena.

Rep. Roland Corning, Richland, argued that the state needed "to live within its means. I think a $250 million bond bill is totally irresponsible." Corning and Rep. Will McCain, R-Orangeburg, drafted 575 amendments in an attempt to delay passage, but Corning said he withdrew nearly all of them when it appeared passage was inevitable. GOP leader charges conflict of interest for state treasurer a softer approach.

'We have deep dif many ainerences ferences, moral differences," he said. "But we are still fellow human beings. We can still work together to keep the peace." Fitzwater said Reagan was pleased with the shape of the summit, preferring to work on the "overall relationship" instead of concentrating on a single issue like arms control. In a pre-departure interview with a group of foreign reporters, Reagan said he still believed a treaty to cut strategic nuclear weapons could be completed during the eight months that remain in his term. BOYD INFANT Shaiquonda Leondra Boyd, infant daughter of Jeffrey Leon Boyd and Sharon Renee Single-tary, died May 25, 1988 at Self Memorial Hospital.

Surviving, in addition to her parents of Greenwood; are a maternal grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Singletary of Greenwood and her paternal grandmother, Mrs. lanie Boyd of Greenwood. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Pine Grove AME Church Cemetery of Plum Branch.

Robinson and Son Mortuary is in charge. EUGENIA A. WALKER WASHINGTON, DC. Services for Miss Eugenia A. Walker, formerly of Greenwood, will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at Beacon Memorial Chapel. Beacon Funeral Home Inc. is in charge. RANELLE JOHNSON CALHOUN FALLS Services for Mrs. Ranelle Henderson Johnson will be at 4 p.m.

Friday at Calhoun Falls United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at Hartley Funeral Home. Unemployment rate (Continued from page 1) struction, responding to market demand and warmer weather, expanded by 1,600 jobs. David said the unemployment rate will be affected by seasonal patterns during the next few months, but he is optimistic that young people out of school looking for work will be successful. "Our Job Service and the governor's Office of Employment and Training are committed to helping every young person who wants to find work find a job this summer," David said.

"With the help of our friends in the business community, we hope to make 1988 the most successful year yet for summer youth employment." The non-agricultural employment rate of 1,439,000 in April was up 14,300 from a month earlier. In April 1987, nonfarm employment was 1,388,100. Following are the number of jobs in various categories in April 1987, March 1988 and April 1988, respectively: construction, 84,400, 86,400, manufacturing, 369,500, 378,000, transportation and public utilities, 57,800, 59,800, trade 304,900, 320,200, finance, insurance and real estate, 63,700, 64,800, services 242,500, 250,100, and government 263,700, 263,800, 264,500. S. C.

unemployment By The Associated Press April unemployment levels in South Carolina as compiled by the state Employment Security Commission: CurrentRatePreviousMonth'sRate INF treaty ODIS MURRAY Anderson Odis Murray 72, of Route 3, widower of Mrs. Viola Tucker Murray, died May 25, 1988 at his home. Born in Ninety Six, he was a son of the late Willie E. and Mary Motes Murray. He was a retired carpenter and member of Cambridge United Methodist Church but attended Coronaca Baptist Church.

Surviving are a son, Anderson Odis Murray Jr. of Greenwood and two grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Blyth Funeral Home with Dr. Robert Miller and the Rev.

Wade Burton officiating. Burial will be in Bethlehem Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Don Tucker, Ken Akins, Larry Akins, Mike Akins, Paul Johnson and Ned Johnson. Honorary escort will be the Senior Men's Bible Class of Coronaca Baptist Church along with Graham Kelly, Jack Gregory, Mac Collins and Charles Robinson. The body is at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight.

The family is at the home of his son, 109 Canyon Drive. IDA M. POORE Ida Mae Poore, 74, of 449 Stanley died May 26, 1988. Born in Greenwood County, she was a daughter of the late Calvin and Mattie Harkness Poore. She was a graduate of Greenwood High School and Lander College and a retired bookkeeper for Greenwood Packing Plant.

She was a member of Main Street United Methodist Church, the choir, Women's Circle and treasurer of the Upper Room Sunday School Class. She was a member of OPEL Senior Citizens Club and Afternoon Lander Club and a life member emeritus of the Pilot Club. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Fred (Marie) Duvall and Mrs. Jack (Florence) Lewis of Greenwood; two brothers, Clifton Poore and Robert Poore of Greenwood; and nieces and nephews.

Services will be announced by Blyth Funeral Home. The family is at the home of a sister, Mrs. Fred Duvall, Anita Way in Maxwelton and will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. RUTH O.

FOOSHE COLUMBIA Mrs. Ruth Ouzts Fooshe, 95, widow of John Thomas Fooshe, died May 25, 1988. She was born in Greenwood County, a graduate of Lander College and attended the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan. She was a retired accountant and teacher and member of Shandon United Methodist Church and the Frances Powell Sunday School Class. Surviving are nieces and nephews.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Labanon United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends at the home and at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, from 7 to 8 tonight. Memorials may be made to Shandon United Methodist Church or to a charity of one's choice. Textile Building (Continued from page 1) will be partially completed by late August when tenants will move into the first two floors.

The work is expected to be finished by January 1989. Gilbert said over half the building is already pre-leased. (Continued from page 1) the Senate had ratified his treaty to abolish U.S. and Soviet nuclear missiles in the range of 300 miles to 3,400 miles. Another key aide, Howard H.

Baker the White House chief of staff, stayed behind to oversee maneuvering by Senate Democratic and Republican leaders to choke off debate and bring Reagan's only nuclear arms control agreement to a vote before the president opens talks with Gen-eral Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Sunday. If the administration's strategy is successful, Baker will fly the ratified pact to Moscow on Saturday so Reagan and Gorbachev can have a formal exchange of the documents. The Supreme Soviet, the nominal parliament, endorsed the treaty on Monday and sent it to the Presidium, the highest executive body, for ratification. Viktor P.

Karpov, head of the foreign ministry's arms control office, said the Soviets should not ratify the treaty before the United States. Reagan had hoped to make a far more significant treaty to cut U.S. and Soviet long-range nuclear weapons the centerpiece of his fourth and probably final summit meeting with Gorbachev. But negotiations in Geneva were unable to resolve differences over his program for a space-based defense against Soviet ballistic missiles and how to verify cutbacks in elusive mobile missiles and cruise missiles carried aboard fighter planes and warships. So Reagan decided to put the emphasis for this summit on human rights and trying to stabilize U.S.

relations with a communist system he built his political career on denouncing as evil. In a departure speech Tuesday in Washington, the president took COLUMBIA (AP) A state Republican Party official has accused State Treasurer Grady Patterson Jr. of helping Patterson's son earn more than $40,000 in legal fees at taxpayers' expense. Republican Party Executive Director Tony Denny said Wednesday that Patterson's son, Grady Patterson III, collected more than $40,000 in legal fees between 1985 and 1988 for representing the state in a lawsuit defeated two others. On a voice vote, the lawmakers approved a non-binding provision urging negotiators in future talks on reductions in long range missile arsenals not to give up the U.S.

right to maintain stocks of conventionally armed air- and sea-launched cruise missiles. And the Senate urged the president to keep human rights in the forefront of U.S.-Soviet relations and "insist on sustained and demonstrable human rights progress." That language was added on a voice vote. Plastic handguns WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has joined the House in taking aim against plastic guns, whether they be handguns designed to pass through metal detectors or just toys. By a voice vote, the Senate on Wednesday approved legislation to outlaw the manufacture, sale or possession of handguns made from plastic or other "undetectable" parts that could evade metal detectors. (Continued from page 1) 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty to permit more latitude in developing Reagan's Star Wars missile defense.

That treaty with the Soviet Union was the last arms-control pact to win Senate approval. The treaty on intermediate range nuclear forces, which Reagan and Gorbachev signed in Washington on Dec. 8, requires elimination within three years of U.S. and Soviet nuclear missiles with a range of 300 miles to 3,400 miles. It would result in the elimination of 867 U.S.

missiles in Europe and elimination of 1,752 Soviet missiles. While the treaty is regarded as militarily insignificant because it leaves most of both sides' nuclear arsenals intact, it holds potentially great political significance as a model for a follow-up treaty to provide for deep cuts in long-range nuclear missiles. As leaders wrangled throughout the day Wednesday in an effort to clear remaining procedural hurdles, the Senate approved a pair of relatively mild amendments to the accord and overwhelmingly Noriega talks fail against the federal government. The state sued the government in 1982, claiming a new law would drive up the cost of tax-exempt bonds. The younger Patterson was hired by the Columbia law firm Sinkler Boyd to work on the case.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against South Carolina earlier this year. Denny called the situation "a terrible conflict of interest." "At the very least the arrangement is improper," he said. "We're talking about taxpayers' dollars that were paid from a father to a son." But the elder Patterson said he had nothing to do with the law firm that hired his son to work on the case. He called the charge "ridiculous" and said it was politically motivated.

Grady Patterson HI said he was hired because he worked on the case when he was in the state attorney general's office. He is a Democrat currently running for the state House from Richland County. He says Denny and others are trying to get even with him because he refused to join the Republican Party. "I think there's probably something there, that they're upset that I turned them down," the younger Patterson said. Senate upholds Campbell's veto on car insurance COLUMBIA (AP) The state Senate prevented some minor future auto insurance rate increases by unanimously upholding a veto by Gov.

Carroll Campbell. The House had previously voted 78-26 to override Campbell's veto of a bill raising the minimum liability coverage for auto property damage from $5,000 to $10,000. But Wednesday's quick vote to sustain the veto came after senators said they opposed any insurance rate increases. Since both houses did not override the veto, the proposal does not become law. Campbell said afterwards that the Senate action "sent a clear signal to the driving public that it stands with the governor in opposing those who, for their own personal motives, seek to undermine reform efforts.

"The Senate's bold, bipartisan action reflects that chamber's commitment to lowering the cost of insurance for good drivers," he said. Sen. W.E. "Sam" Applegate III, R-Charleston, said the state has been working to keep insurance rates down through a variety of measures. "Let's give them a chance to see if the rates come down," he said.

Campbell said he vetoed the legislation because it would cause immediate rate hikes ranging from $2 to $7 for some drivers. The increases would affect those who carry the minimum coverage, he said, an estimated 18 percent of the state's drivers who would likely also be the poorest. Officers to hang JOHANNESBURG, South Africa QAP) Two white policemen toCay were sentenced to hang for the murder of a black youth who was beaten and then shot during a police unit's drunken foray into a black township. If the executions are carried out, it would the be first time in South Africa that white policemen were hanged for crimes committed while on duty in a black township. Key testimony against Warrant Officer Leon de Villiers, 37, and Constable David Goosen, 27, came from other members of their 10-man riot unit who were pressured by police investigators into abandoning a cover-up attempt.

Several officers testified that de Villiers, the unit leader, had ordered Goosen to "take out" 18-year-old Mlungisi Stuurman because the youth had been too badly beaten to be set free. held in May 1989. The State Department's view throughout the negotiations was that dismissal of the indictments against Noriega was a small price to pay for his departure from Panama and the restoration of democratic rule. Attorney General Edwin Meese III said Wednesday, in a statement, that Noriega is a "fugitive" and the U.S. government will use "every legal means at our disposal to bring him to justice, to remove him from power and to restore democracy to Panama." In Miami, meanwhile, one of several attorneys for Noriega said he remains unconvinced that the U.S.Panamanian talks are off for good.

"I've heard that only from the secretary of state, and I remember hearing the secretary of state say that last March," Neal Sonnett said. (Continued from page 1) have to go back and figure it out." Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas said that he welcomed Shultz's announcement. "Noriega must go if we are to achieve our goals in Panama. But sending Noriega off into retirement with a legal golden parachute would have been the wrong step at the wrong time." This was a reference to the most controversial aspect of the administration's proposal: dismissing federal drug smuggling indictments against Noriega. In return for the withdrawal of the indictments, Noriega was to step down as commander of the Defense Forces in August and go into exile until after elections for a civilian-led government were Weather Across the nation Greenwood The sun rose today at 6:20, will set at 8:31, and will rise Friday at 6:20.

Wednesday's high was 81 (27 C) and the low was 49 (9 C). There was no precipitation recorded during the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. today. Total precipitation for the month is 2.3 inches (5 84 cm) and for the year, 19.22 inches (48.82 cm). Average rainfall for May is 3.60 inches (9.14 cm).

Average rainfall through May is 21.33 inches (54.17 cm). Marion Marlboro McCormick Dillon Orangeburg, Georgetown Bamberg WUllamaburg Fairfield Barnwell Aiken Abbeville Clarendon Cheater Allendale Darlington Greenwood Sumter Hampton Calhoun Horry Lancaster Pickens Laurena Florence Union Kershaw Colleton 134 67 64 76 70 16 7 113 16 7 74 7 6 160 76 69 79 76 64 69 73 66 65 65 57 66 61 57 7.7 4.6 46 56 66 67 69 60 54 9.6 5.9 61 6 1 6.3 46 46 46 53 66 40 3.6 96 97 9.6 94 36 13 is 14 IS 16 17 16 16 30. 31 33. 39 34. 36.

36 37 36. 36 90 31 33 39 94 96 96 37 M. 36 46 41 43 43 44 49 46 York 4.9 4.9 43 4J 4.1 Chesterfield Newberry Edgefield Charleston Saluda Jasper Richland Berkeley Dorchester Greenville Beaufort Spartanburg Lexington 3.9 City log EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE The following was taken from reports of the Greenwood County EMS: EMS personnel responded to six emergencies and three transports Wednesday. Calls included S.C.72, Self Memorial Hospital (three times), Greenwood Methodist Home, Crosscreek Mall, Gage Street, S.C. 246 and Greenwood Nursing Home.

POLICE DEPARTMENT The following was taken from reports of the Greenwood Police Department: Thieves took two bicycles valued at $280 from a Liner Street home Wednesday. Car parts valued at $181 were reported missing from a Kitson Street home recently. Officers are investigating reports a student brought a gun to Southside Junior High School Monday. No case has been made. SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT The following was taken from reports of the Greenwood County Sheriff's Department: Vandals broke a window valued at $50 from a Sycamore Drive home Wednesday.

South Carolina Mountains: Fair and cool tonight with lows in the mid 40s. Winds northeast at less than 5 mph. Friday, mostly sunny with highs in the mid 70s. Foothills, Piedmont (includes Greenwood): Fair and cool tonight with lows in the upper 40s. Winds northeast at 5 mph or less.

Friday, mostly sunny with highs in the upper 70s. Midlands: Fair tonight with lows in the mid 40s. Winds northeast at 5 mph or less. Friday, mostly sunny with highs around 80. Coast: Fair and cool tonight with lows in the lower 50s.

Winds northeast at 5 to 10 mph. Friday, mostly sunny with highs near 80. On the beaches, sunny and mild Friday. THE IINDKX.JOURNAL 261-540 Greenwood Journal estatrtshed Aug I 1695. Greenwood (nasi established Nov 7 1897.

The Journal and mdsii ConaoMated Fob 6 1919 hMisM IhtkssT ittwsWMi u4 Srntq Utrnn THE INDEX-JOURNAL COMPANY of Greenwood SC Second Oass Postage Paid Greenwood SC Rates by Carrier: 1 WK. 1 Mo 3 Mo 6Mos. 12Mos 1 45 6.30 18 85 37 69 75 40 By Mail 750 22 50 45 00 90 00 Sunday Only By Carner 5 65 11 30 22 60 Sunday Only By Mail 1113 22 25 44.50 The Indes-Journai is not responsible lor mone paid in advance to carriers MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Make All Remittances To THE INDEX-JOURNAL COMPANY Box 1018. Greenwood, 29648 (POSTMASTER: Send address changes to above address The publisher assumes no liability for merchandise incorrectly priced Ihroogh typographical error and in no event will liability be assumed where goods are sold at the incorrect price Elhridge Monument Co. Hwy.

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Clear tonight except fair south. Lows 40s north to 50s south. Sunny Friday. Highs in 70s north to low 80s south. North Carolina Sunny today except partly cloudy along the coast.

Highs 70 to 75 except 60s in the northern mountains and northeast. Clear and cool tonight. Lows in the 40s and 50s with some 30s in the mountains. Sunny Friday. Highs 70 to 80..

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