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The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. Wednesday, July 30, 1997, DEATHS A AND FUNERALS Virginia Harvey GREENWOOD Virginia S. Harvley, 77,, of 406 Sample Road, widow of Alvin O. Harvey, died July 29, 1997 at her home. Born in Greenwood County, she was a daughter of the late Lewis and Lizzie Weeks Smith.

She was retired from Grendel Mills and was a member of Full Gospel Foundation Church. Surviving are a daughter, Joyce Cooks Dukes, with whom she made her home; four sisters, Ruby Stamp, Helen Jernigan, and Ellen Worthington, all of Greenwood and Lunette Gibson of Ware Shoals; five brothers, Lreoy Smith, Walter Smith, Arthur Smith, all of Greenwood, Tom Smith of Columbia and Ralph Smith of Texas; six grandchildren; and 11 greatgrandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Harley Funeral Home with the Rev. Morton Belk and the Rev.

R. Earl McCombs officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Horace Chastain, Billy Scoggins, Charles Buff, Walter Buff, Otis Harvley Jr. Rus-sell Medlock, Mack Willis Davenport, Earl Blizzard and Jeffery Nix.

The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 p.In. The family is at the home of her daughter, 406 Sample Road. Memorials may be made to HospiceCare of the Piedmont, Greenwood Medical Center, Greenwood, S.C. 29646. OBITUARIES Obituary notices are published as requested to accommodate those desiring more information than is provided in the normal news articles.

Obituary notices are prepared and billed through our Advertising Department at 223-1411. HOSEA BEASLEY LAURENS Hosea Beasley, of Route 4, Shelton Trailer Park, died Saturday at Laurens County Hospital in Clinton. He was a self-employed painter, interior and exterior decorator, a graduate of Sanders High School and attended Benedict College in Columbia. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, a member of the Evening Light Church of God where he served on the trustee board and choir, and the chief promotor of gospel singing in Laurens and surrounding areas.

Surviving are his wife, Sarah Cleveland Beasley of Laurens; four daughters, Kathryn Arnetta Beasley Hiller of Miami, Sarah Delores Beasley and Lisa Gale Beasley, both of Laurens and Charlene Beasley of Laurel, four brothers, Jonathan Beasley of St. Helena, Marion Beasley of Fountain Inn, Garfield Beasley and Kenneth Beasley, both of Laurens; five sisters, Mildred Beasley Young of Rock Hill, Marjorie Beasley Johnson of Simpsonville, Mamie Beasley Lynch, Katie Annette Beasley Bland and Kathryn Beasley Barksdale, all of Laurens; and three grandchildren. Omit flowers. Memorials may be made to the Evening Light Church of God, Building Fund, P.O. Box 1278, Laurens, S.C.

29360. Services: 3 p.m. Thursday at C.D. Beasley Memorial Chapel in Laurens with burial in Jersey Cemetery, Laurens. Visitation: 7 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at Beasley Funeral Home, Laurens. The family is at the home of Sarah C. Beasley, Westside Manor, No. 34, West Main Laurens, and Kathryn Beasley Barksdale, Route 6, Hooker Laurens. Pd.

obit CARRIE MCKINNEY GREENWOOD Senie Carrie McKinney, 77, resident of 101 Cessna died July 27, 1997 at Central Carolina Hospital, in Sanford, NC. Born in McCormick, she was a daughter of the late Barney L. and Eunice Simmons McKinney. She was a retired Nursing Home Patient Sitter. She was a member of Bethlehem United Methodist Church.

Surviving are a brother, J.B. McKinney of Greenwood; two nieces, Carolyn McKinney of Piedmont and Marcie Rogers of Laurens; three nephews, Wayne McKinney and Don McKinney, both of Greenwood and Ronald Scott of Darlington; several great and great great nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be conducted 4:00 p.m. Thursday in Greenwood Memorial Gardens with Rev. Candice Sloan and Rev.

Harvey Peurifoy officiating. The body is at Blyth Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 2:30 to 3:30 Thursday afternoon. The family is at their respective homes. Blyth Funeral Home in charge. Pd.

obit Greenwood County Carrie McKinney, 101 Cessna Ave, Greenwood Virginia Harvey, 408 Sample Road, Greenwood Willie Colline, 104 Barkwood Lane, Greenwood Reber Sanders, Greenwood Marvin Harris, 410 Sagewood Road, Greenwood Abbeville County Howard Coursey, Rt. 5, Abbeville Laurens County Hosea Beasley, Laurene Willie Collins GREENWOOD Willie Veal Collins, 84, of 104 Barkwood Lane, wife of Walter M. "Joe" Collins, died July 29, 1997 at Self Memorial Hospital. Born in 9 Washington County, she was a daughter of the late Mack and Carrie Lee Ezell She was the former owner and operator of Collins Lakeside Village and was of the Baptist faith. Surviving, in addition to her husband of the home, are nieces and nephews.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Harley Funeral Home with the Rev. Bob Vehorn officiating. Burial will be i in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. WILLIE Pallbearers will be Clarence SimCOLLINS fenderfer, Todd Holdman, Billy Chambers, Tony Brown, Bobby WILLIE Sowell and Van Elliott.

The family will receive friends Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. The family is at the home. Reber Sanders GREENWOOD Reber Brown Hamlett Sanders, 89, formerly of Greenville, died July 27, 1997, at Self Memorial Hospital. She was a homemaker and was a member of First Christian Fellowship Church.

Surviving are a daughter, Elizabeth Cook of Greenwood; three sons, Robert Hamlett of Pickens, Joe Hamlett of Easley and Charles Hamlett of Highland, Calif. 19 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren. Services were today at Greenville Memorial Gardens. The family is at their homes. Thomas McAfee Funeral Home is in charge.

Howard Coursey ABBEVILLE Howard P. Coursey 54, of Rt. 5, Oakridge died July 28, 1997, at his home. Born in Abbeville, he was a son of the late Howard P. and Sybil Dunn Coursey Sr.

He was a retired conductor with CSX Railroad. He served in the U.S. Army and attended Grace United Methodist Church. Surviving are a son, William S. Coursey of Abbeville; a daughter, Sybil N.

Coursey of Greenwood; and two grandsons. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at harris Funeral Home with the Rev. Phillip Chandler officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens.

The family will receive friends Thursday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home. The family is at the home. Memorials may be made to a charity of one's choice. Marvin Harris GREENWOOD Marvin Eugene Harris 72, of 410 Sagewood Road, husband of Ruth Watts Harris, died July 29, 1997 at his home.

The family will receive friends Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Blyth Funeral Home. Services will be announced. Story about boat's caretaker not backed up, police claim MIAMI (AP) Garbage found on the houseboat where Andrew Cunanan committed suicide doesn't back up a woman's claim that the boat's caretaker took food there, police said. Lola Dudley told police she saw Fernando Carreira going into the Miami Beach houseboat carrying food and a gallon of milk two days before Cunanan killed himself.

cartons and fast food is inconsistent with what we have been able to find," Miami Beach Po-. lice Chief Richard Barreto said Tuesday. Police said the only food-related garbage they found on the boat was soda cans, walnut shells and an old cracker box. The Miami Herald quoted an unidentified source as saying, "it looked like he was munching on stuff that was there already." Cunanan killed himself a week ago today inside the houseboat. He was suspected of killing five men, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, in Minnesota, Illinois, New Jersey and Florida.

Carreira said he was making a routine check of the vacant houseboat last Wednesday when he realized some unauthorized person had moved in there. He said he heard a gunshot, fled and summoned authorities. Police believe what he heard was Cunanan killting himself. Miami Beach officials have not decided whether to give Carreira the reward money they had offered. Barreto had said earlier this week that investigators wanted to make sure no one was helping Cunanan "that there wasn't any complicity with the owner or anybody else that was working for Carreira's attorney had called Dudley's claim "hogwash" and investigators had noted that the 57-year-old woman was on medication.

Dudley said she has high blood pressure. She had declined to publicly discuss her claim, saying: head is hurting, and I don't want to talk. I can't. I've been through hell today." The houseboat's reported owner, Torsten Reineck, told FBI agents he sold it two months ago and said he is headed back to his native Germany to fight tax charges. Also Tuesday, Miami Beach police released a 911 call placed from a Miami Subs fast food restaurant July 12, just days after Cunanan was profiled on the television show "America's Most Wanted." Caller: I could be wrong, you know what I'm saying? I'm not a hundred percent sure.

Operator: Which way did he go? Caller: He's inside the store now. Operator: He's inside the store? Caller: Yeah. Operator: Eating? Caller: No, he's waiting for his food. Operator: And he's wanted for what? Caller: There was this, um, guy, who is, um, who killed his homosexual lover and a couple other people like four people. you know, I'm not, I'm not a hundred percent sure but he looks like him, you know what I mean? He really looks like him.

I'm not a hundred percent sure. By the time police arrived, the man had left the shop. 11-year-old still in critical condition From Staff Reports struck. GREENWOOD Ricky Jermaine Quarles, the 11-year-old who was seriously injured when his bike was struck by an oncoming car over the weekend, remained in critical but stable condition at Greenville Memorial Hospital Wednesday. Hospital spokesperson Theresa Linning could not comment on the extent of Quarles' injuries.

According to Todd Owenby of the S.C. State Association, Quarles was attempting a left on Parkland Place from a driveway when he was Greenville woman's father fought for Confederacy GREENVILLE (AP) Alexander Lafayette Hairston was a South Carolina boy of Scottish descent with plantations in his family. At 18, he joined the Confederate Army. He was assigned to Company of the 1st South Carolina Rifles and fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and the Battle of the Wilderness, where he was wounded May 5, 1864. After the war, he established a residence in Alabama, where he worked as a miller, married and had a family that included 11 children.

When his wife passed away, he moved to Franklin County, Ga. There, he met and married Martha Jane Haley Cromer, a 23-year-old widow who was 37 years his junior. Working as a tenant farmer, he began a second family and fathered 10 more children. In 1917, at age 75 he became a father for the last time when his then-38-year-old wife gave birth to Helga Anine. Of those children, only Helga Anine Burgess Milsap remains.

Today, she is one of the few children of a Civil War veteran still alive. At 80, she is likely one of the youngest survivors something she says, "Makes me real proud. I feel a lot of pride, a lot." Sitting on the sofa of her Fountain Inn apartment, she holds a yellowed newspaper clipping from a March 1925 Atlanta Constitution. Mrs. Milsap, who tells visitors to just call her Helga, points to a photograph of several elderly men at Problem sends sewage into lake DURHAM (AP) For the second time this year, the state's Division of Water Quality is being criticized for what's considered lax enforcement of a wastewater treatment plant.

groups think the Division of Water Quality has not been tough enough on this plant and many other wastewater treatment plants and animal operations," said Bill Holman, a lobbyist for the Sierra Club and other environmental groups. Holman was referring to the Durham wastewater treatment plant, which sent 1.6 million gallons of sewage into tributaries of Jordan Lake. Since 1993, state regulators have cited the Triangle Wastewater Treatment Plant for 14 violations of its operating permit including excessive discharges of ammonia, fecal bacteria and other pollutants. The regulators issued only one fine. Two years ago, Durham County's Environmental Affairs Board produced a 70- page report warning about the plant's operating problems and calling for upgrades.

State and local officials said Sunday's spill stemmed from a leaky valve on one of four pumps at the plant, which serves most of the laboratories and factories of Research Triangle Park and about 5,000 residents near the park. 66 Mother said she couldn't do it anymore, and she had children old enough to work in the mills. We moved to Poe Mill in 1922. Helga Anine Burgess Milsap, father fought for Confederacy 99 the Confederate Soldiers Home of Georgia. The one on the end, the one wearing his ever-present black hat, that's her father.

A father she never knew. "I didn't really know him. He went to the old soldiers home when I was 2," Mrs. Milsap says, her fingers gently touching the picture. brothers talked about him and told me how he and mother got along so well.

Lord, he wore that old black hat wherever he went. They said he was a very intelligent person and called him a walking encyclopedia." They also told her he had a sense of humor. Though Mrs. Milsap never knew this man, listening to her, talking with her, it's easy to see she inherited at least one trait of her father that wit and humor. Mrs.

Milsap goes to the senior citizen center every day, and she's the comedian of the bunch, says her daughter, Gwen Thompson. It was something she needed when life was not easy. Once her father was gone, her mother tried to keep the farm going, but the house burned one year. The next year, the boll weevil got the crop. Mother said she couldn't do it anymore, and she had children old enough to work in the mills.

We moved to Poe Mill in 1922." Seven years later, Mrs. Milsap, too, would be old enough. worked 55 hours a week for she remembers. The sense of humor would carry her through the hard work, marriage and six children, becoming a widow and remarrying. She could even laugh when people refused to lieve she was the daughter of a Confederate soldier.

Once, when Mrs. Milsap's grandchild wrote a class paper on his great-great-grandfather, the Confederate soldier, the teacher ran the numbers in her head and told the child it wasn't possible. Disbelief was something Mrs. Milsap also experienced recently: preacher told a little story or something about the Civil War. I told him it made me think of my daddy, and he told me my daddy couldn't have been in it." She showed him the clipping, told him the stories.

She convinced him of this: Helga Anine Burgess Milsap is a true daughter of the Confederacy and a soldier who fought for it. Scientists launch attack on weed in Lake Thurmond APPLING, Ga. (AP) Hydrilla, a much-battled water weed, is proving to be such a pest at Lake Thurmond that authorities are considering introducing a grass-eating carp to combat it. They haven't yet resorted to the carp considered a pest by fishermen but scientists are launching a new chemical attack this week against the weed. "This time we're mainly treating shallow water areas where weeds are abundant," said Army Corps of Engineers Chief Ranger Allen Dean.

The hydrilla was inadvertently transplanted into Thurmond Lake, likely on a boat propeller brought from some other reservoir. Since its discovery near Little River last year, its range has expanded rapidly. Despite a three-month herbicide program begun last summer to control the weed, the infested area grew from 55 acres to 143 acres by autumn, and now it is estimated at 240 acres, Dean said. "From what we're seeing now, it's as far as 20 feet down in some areas," he said. Herbicide application costs range from $250 per acre for more common chemicals to $800 per acre for specialized granular compounds.

The corps has earmarked $70,000 for hydrilla programs this fiscal year. Hydrilla is considered a noxious weed because it displaces native vegetation and grows rapidly enough to create dense mats on lake surfaces. Although herbicides have stunted some of the Thurmond Lake hydrilla, it appears to be recovering. The treatment is complicated by a recent discovery that Thurmond's hydrilla is a less common derivative that is harder to control. The common variety, dioecious hydrilla, grows from the bottom toward the surface, making it easier to find and treat.

But the variety found in Thurmond Lake is monoecious hydrilla, Dean said. "It's the least common," he said. "'It grows laterally across the bottom before coming to the surface." Treatments this week will be in the vicinity of Cherokee recreation area, Ridge Road campground and sections of Scott's Creek on the South Carolina side of the lake. The Georgia and South Carolina natural resources departments also are involved in efforts to control the weed. Authorities cracking down on gangs in Charlotte CHARLOTTE (AP) Authorities have arrested more than a dozen people in a crackdown on suburban gangs in Charlotte.

Arrests were announced Tuesday of members of the so-called Dog Pound Organization, operating in southeast Charlotte, and the Westside Players from Charlotte's west side. Police Sgt. Terry Suit said the arrests sent a message that police are expanding gang control efforts to the suburbs. Investigators previously had targeted Asian gangs and drug rings in the central city. Charges were brought against 21 gang members, ages between 18 and 45.

Police said they have investigated links between the gangs and crimes dating to 1994, including arsons, two rapes and drug dealing. Mark Logan, special agent in charge of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms offices in North Carolina, said the members aren't like big-city gangs in Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas. State plans to revamp its basic skills assessment test COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina has clear and specific: standards for learning math and science, but they should be raised when measuring students' English skills, a teachers union said Tuesday. When compared to math and science requirements, English standards considerably less attention to the content students should learn," the report from the American Federation of Teachers said. The question of standards is timely.

Seventy teachers hired by the state Education Department have spent much of the summer coming up with more challenging questions for the Basic Skills Assessment Test, which students must pass to graduate from high school. Education Superintendent Barbara Nielsen has said she wants more rigorous standards for measuring academic performance. South Carolina education officials "are very serious about guid ing people in schools and giving dents met basic requirements. parents something they can use," The BSAP is taken by third-, said Matt Gandal, author of the sixth-, eighth- and 10-graders. AFT report, "Making Standards Armed with curriculum lines, achievement standards and "Those are very positive indica- lots of snacks, the teachers have tions," he said.

written as many as 30 questions a The problem with the English re- day for more than six weeks and quirements is that they do not show will come up with many of the significant progress as students get 4,000 questions needed for the new older, Gandal said test. The Education Department said "You become a walking Trivial grade-level guidelines will be im- Pursuit board," said Shannon plemented by the end of this month Palassis, a language arts teacher that describe what students should from Chapin Middle School. "You know each academic year, said have all these facts floating around Pamela Pritchett, the department's in your head." executive assistant. Gandal said Committees will check the new those guidelines were not finished questions for accuracy, grade-apin time to be considered for this propriateness, grammar, clarity and year's report. bias.

BSAP scores have dropped since A sampling of students will see 1990 for nearly every grade and the new questions next spring. In academic skill tested. Nielsen or- the spring of 1999, all students will dered the overhaul to the test after take the new test except 10thstatistics last fall showed about 70 graders, who must pass the old percent of South Carolina's stu- BSAP test as an exit exam. soon as he entered the street, he was hit by a 1988 Toyota Camry approaching Ashcroft Drive from the south," Owenby said. Owenby said Quarles was not wearing a helmet at the time and reportedly struck the windshield of the car.

After. being stabilized at Self Memorial Hospital, transported to Greenville Memorial Hospital. Owenby said the driver of the Camry was not traveling at an excessive rate of speed and charges are still pending..