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206 2 Sections 28 Pages Columbia. South Carolina Saturday. July 24. 1976 Circulation Ph. 771-8380 Bus Kidnap Suspect Surrenders OAKLAND, Calif.

(UPI) Richard Schoenfeld, one of three men sought in the kidnaping of 26 San Joaquin Valley school children and their bus drver, surrendered Friday. The other two still were at large. Police had issued a nationwide bulletin describing the trio as armed and dangerous. Schoenfeld's brother, James, 24, and Fred Woods, also 24, were the other two suspects. The younger Schoenfeld walked into the office of Alameda County District Attorney Lowell Jensen accompanied by his father, John, a podiatrist, and the family attorney, Edward Merrill.

Merrill described his client as 'nervous, understandably, tense and nervous." He advised Schoenfeld to make no comments to investigators. The Chowchilla children were abducted by three armed men Thursday as they were returning by bus to their homes after a day in summer school. The bus was found hidden in a remote, dry creekbed. The next night they managed with the heroic efforts of bus driver Frank Ray, 55 to dig their way to freedom from a truck van which had been buried in a quarry at nearby Livermore in Alameda County. They had been transported from the scene of the abduction in two vans.

The Schoenfelds live in the fashionable community of Atherton in San Mateo County across San Francisco Bay. Woods, whose father owned the quarry, lived on a 100-acre estate in Portola Valley, also in San Mateo County. Alameda County Sheriff Tom Houchins said arrest warrants against the trio were being signed by authorities in Madera County. They would charge the trio with 27 counts of kidnap and 16 counts of robbery. (See TWO, 5-A, Col.

2) In Earlier Days Maude Busch Byrnes and her husband, the late James F. Byrnes, left, receive congratulations from the late Bernard Baruch during their 50th wedding anniversary celebration in 1958. Mrs. Byrnes, who died Friday, is quoted as having said, "It has been a happy life. We are sorry we haven't another 50 years together." Former S.C.

First Lady Statesman's Widow Mrs. Byrnes Dies Mrs. James F. Byrnes, widow tinguished politicians and the woman tional and international public career, Maude Busch Byrnes died at Hospital in Columbia where she had weeks following a stroke. She was family.

Services will be 4 p.m. Sunday burial in the church cemetery. (UPI Telephoto) Pat Nixon Leaves Hospital Cheerful Nixon Takes Wife Home LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) Former President Nixon, smiling and cheery, guided a wheelchair which propelled his recuperating wife, Pat, on the first leg of the journey home Friday from her 15-day hospital stay. A consulting physician said Mrs.

Nixon's partially paralyzing stroke occurred "when a small amount of tissue in the brain lost its blood supply and began to rot." Dr. Jack Mosier, a neurologist on the team that cared for Mrs. Nixon at Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center, said the rotting tissue "was a tiny one in the center of her brain." Mosier and Nixon family physician Dr. John Lungren said the 64-year-old former First Lady "is progressing satisfactorily and her condition is now stable." Mrs. Nixon wore a yellow cotton robe over her clothes as she left the hospital.

She and her husband were flanked by daughters Julie Eisenhower and Tricia Cox. About a dozen Secret Service agents were also present. The Nixons paused briefly for photographs and waved happily to reporters and a crowd of about 100 persons who had gathered for a glimpse of the former First Family. Mrs. Nixon was asked how she felt and quipped "I feel fine, but I'm a little frightened of this driver." The family members burst into laughter at Mrs.

Nixon's joking reference to her husband's wheelchair-pushing skill. Nixon waved farewell to onlookers after he helped his wife into a black lim- Delegate Hunter Says Ford Wins 16 More GOP Votes Claimed By United Press International President Ford's campaign claimed Ford locked up the Republican presidential nomination Friday by getting 16 more national convention delegates and, by his count. passing the number needed for nomination. Although Ronald Reagan's camp made the same claim some time ago, cheers swept through the President Ford committee headquarters when deputy campaign chairman Jim Baker announced Ford now claims 1,135 delegates five more than required for nomination at the Kansas City convention in August. of one of South Carolina's most disalways at his side in his state, nadied Friday at the age of 93.

1:30 p.m. at South Carolina Baptist been in critical condition for three the last survivor of her immediate at Trinity Episcopal Church with A family spokesman said the Byrnes Scholars, recipients of a scholarship fund set up by the Byrneses in 1948. will be pallbearers. The death of Mrs. Byrnes ended a life behind the political scenes that was strongly supportive of her husband but in which she studiously avoided a public role for herself.

Gov. James B. Edwards made this statement: "I was deeply saddened to learn that Mrs. James F. Byrnes died today, her death is a tremendous loss to all the people of South Carolina.

She was an outstanding woman in her own right and had a tremendous impact on the distinguished career of her late husband. James F. Byrnes one of our state's greatest patriots. "Since our election." the governor continued, "Ann and I have had the opportunity to know Miss Maude, and we have both grown to love her very dearly. Even in her recent years of declining health, she maintained a pleasant spirit, a bright mind and strong faith in America and God.

"Our lives have been enriched by her friendship and on behalf of all South Carolinians, we want to express our heartfelt sympathy," the governor said. Mr. and Mrs. Byrnes were married 63 years when he died at age 91 on April 9, 1972, only month before what would have been their 64th anniversary. Mrs.

Byrnes was her husband's companion through an historic public service career that engaged him successively as a circuit solicitor, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, United States senator. United States justice, director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, director of the Office of War Mobilization (World War II), secretary of state. (See 5-A, Col. 1) Allowing for Baker's announcement of the President's new delegate haul.

UPI's tally still shows him at least nine votes shy of 1,130, with Reagan 60 votes behind him. Reagan's own delegate-counters, however, say their candidate has already garnered 1,140 convention votes 10 more than necessary -in his war of nerves, sweat and persuasion with Ford for uncommitted and wavering delegates. At a news conference at PFC headquarters, Baker claimed Ford had gone over the top with a new pledge of support from 15 previously uncommited delegates from Hawaii and one former Reagan supporter Adelle Haines. a New York delegate from Brooklyn. "By our count.

which we believe to be a realistic count, this brings us to 135 Baker said in an announcement drowned out by the cheers of Ford campaign workers. He said his count shows 1,026 for Reagan and 98 uncommitted. UPI's count previously gave Ford 114 delegates, including nine of the 1 15 Hawaiians claimed by Ford Friday. The six new Hawaii delegates and the one Reagan crossover from Brooklyn, therefore, would now give the President 1.121 delegates by UPI's count. Reagan press secretary Jim Lake said in a statement, "Today's press conference didn't surprise us nor does their announcement particularly concern us." He referred to campaign manager John Sears' count of 1,140 Reagan delegates based on "some 40 to 50" who are listed erroneously for Ford.

"Within the next week we will clearly demonstrate the accuracy of our delegate count." Reagan has 1,057 in the UPI tally Rogers Morton, Ford's campaign manager, attended the news conference and said the President was very pleased with this" when he learned about it at lunch. He said the announcement was made at the campaign office instead of the White House because the President felt this is "no time to relax or stop working. At the White House, press secretary Ron Nessen said Ford "has been confident all along that he would win on the first ballot and he remains confident." (See Ford, 5a, Col 1) Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota removes his coat in the 95-degree heat Friday as he arrives at the Harbour Town section of Hilton Head Island. Mondale and his staff are meetings with the staff of presidential candidate Jimmy holding private Carter on the island.

(AP Wirephoto) Mondale In South Carolina Campaigners ers Say Tough Fight Ahead By WALLACE C. HITCHCOCK Staff Writer HILTON HEAD ISLAND The staffs of Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and running mate Sen. Walter F. Mondale agreed Friday they face financial problems and a bitter campaign this fall against either President Ford or Ronald Reagan. 'We expect a tough and aggressive campaign, somewhere between mean and dirty, and we don't intend to take anything for granted." said Jody Powell, Carter's youthful press aide.

Powell said talk of a 'knock down, drag out' campaign was a common thread" that set the tone of a three-hour meeting Friday at Harbour Town that was attended by Mondale. Campaign finances, according to Powell and Carter's campaign manager, Hamilton Jordon, took up much of the conference time Friday, with both Carter and Mondale forces deciding they will have to cut their combined budget by million. Powell said Mondale reaffirmed Friday an earlier pledge to fully integrate his staff and funding with Carter's organization and to base his election headquart- 'Happiness In Head, Not Wallet' NEW YORK (AP) A survey of 52.000 Americans "there's a sucker born every minute," and (4) the person indicates that "happiness is in the head, not the disagrees with the statement "good things can't that' two psychologists report. last." "Our happiest respondents are those who feel in "In fact, happiness has less to do with what you control of their lives and who compare their progress what you want. It comes less often from against their own standards, not those of the two have than with absolute achievements than relative ones.

Happiness is a psychologists said. matter of setting personal standards, not chasing after Among their other findings: other people's," the psychologists report in the August is- -Employed wives are happier than housewives. sue of Psychology Today magazine. -Unhappy children often grow into happy adults. The psychologists, Philip Shaver of New York Uni- -Sexual satisfaction is a matter of quality, not versity and Jonathan Freedman of Yale, asked several quantity.

And "extramarital sex doesn't affect a person's readers of the magazine. Replies over-all happiness. People who have had sexual relations hundred questions of 15 to 95. outside of marriage (about 40 per cent of the married came from more than 52,000, aged is that happiness does not come respondents, 45 per cent of the men and 35 per cent of One conclusion "from therapy, religion, drugs, mysticism or a long list the women) are just as happy, on the average, as people of sexual conquests. Happiness has a lot to do with ac- who have not." what one is and what one has, -Homosexuals are as happy as heterosexuals.

between and -Atheists are as happy as Christians or Jews. cepting and enjoying maintaining a balance expectations -People living in the city are as happy as those Seventy per cent of respondents described them- living in the country. said the group is not Shaver and Freedman also noted that despite their selves as happy. The psychologists of the general American public since the maga- feelings of happiness, the respondents "report a high typical readers tend to be "younger, more af- frequency of psychological problems, characteristic of zine's on average fluent, better educated and more liberal than the aver- stress and alienation. middle American." "One-third say they felt 'constant worry and anxieage Attitudes essential to happiness, said Shaver and ty' over the past year.

One-third are easily tired. (1) life has meaning and direction: (2) One-fourth have trouble concentrating. and almost as Freedman, are control the good things that happen many say they often feel guilty. Most striking of all, 40 the individual can of events; (3) the person disagrees per cent often feel lonely, and this is by no means limitand is not a pawn with the cynical view expressed by Barnum's belief ed to single ers in Atlanta with Carter's. The two-day meeting here ends tonight when the Minnesota senator leaves for Carter's home in Plains, after attending a $2-a-head shrimp boil staged by local Democrats in nearby Beaufort at 6:30 p.m.

This is Mondale's first visit to the Deep South as the vice presidential candidate and will be the first opportunity to test Southern reaction to the liberal senator's presence on the Democratic presidential ticket. The meeting at Hilton Head Island was called mainly to allow the Carter and Mondale staffs to get acquainted and to begin planning and strategy for the fall campaign which aides said will begin after the Labor Day weekend. Aides said nothing of substance came out of the meeting Friday other than the realization that either Ford or Reagan will be formidable foes and that finances will be a troublesome problem (See MONDALE, 5-A, Col. 1) Deaths Mrs. Maude Busch Byrnes, Co- ousine driven by Secret Service agent Bill Granger.

Mrs. Cox chatted with a nurse before joining the rest of the family for the trip back to San Clemente. Mrs. Nixon issued a statement prior to her departure thanking the public for their kindness during her hospitalization. "My family and I have been deeply touched by all the expressions of concern, encouragement and friendship that have come to us from around the world." the statement said.

heartfelt prayers and good wishes of people have brightened the days with special meaning for Dick, Tricia, Julie and me. "I shall treasure everyone's thoughtfulness in the days ahead." Lungren said a stroke nurse and physical therapist would stay with Mrs. Nixon at Casa Pacifica, the Nixon's San Clemente home, "for an indefinite period of The doctors said Mrs. Nixon still has muscle deficits in the left side of her face and left arm, leg and hand. Mosier said Mrs.

Nixon "still suffers from some clumsiness, especially with her left hand." He said she has trouble gripping objects and her twice-a-day 40-minute physical therapy routines will center on regaining strength in that hand. Though Mrs. Nixon's blood pressure was 175 over 100 when she entered the hospital July 8, Lungren said it is now in the normal range of between 100 and 140 over 80. lumbia. Mrs.

Margerite Abbott, Columbia. Miss Rosa Lee Jordan, Columbia. Mrs. Genevieve W. Tiller, Charleston.

Millard B. Parrish Lancaster. Mrs. Gladys T. Hudson, Ridgeland.

Elmer Carson, Anderson. Mrs. Ray Prince, Eutawville. Mrs. Eula R.

Landis, Williston. Mrs. Marion S. Rivers, Greenwood. Charles H.

Douglas, Greenwood. Paul A. Morris, Martin. Felder Burkett, Leesville. G.

Davis Morris, Hartsville. Thomas C. Chandler, Hartsville. Miss Bytha I. McMillan, Great Falls.

Maxie A. Cauthen, Rock Hill. Mrs. Lillian C. Dudley, Blenheim.

Ernest L. Hollingsworth, Greenwood. Mrs. Margaret E. Welch, Scranton.

Henry H. Smith, Barnwell. Tennie T. Hyman Pamplico. Mrs.

Eva V. Guyton, Williamston. Thomas D. Travelle, Aiken. Roy F.

Murphy, Lexington. Ralph V. Hayes, Anderson. Mrs. Clara Washington, Columbia, Shannon J.

Tate, West Columbia. Bruce A. Mitchell, Lexington. Mrs. Blanch P.

Todd, Conway. Mrs. Blennie Seay Culbert, Inman. Details 1-A, 2-B.

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