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Page 3 The Gaff ney Ledger, Monday, February 3, 1 986 Prosecutors seek death penalty in murder of state constable Firelighters found an electric stove-top burner still turned on after extinguishing the fire, Vaughn and Mackey said. An autopsy Saturday showed Roebuck died from a heart attack, said Mackey, noting the man had a previous heart condition. "He had some burns but the burns themselves were not enough to cause death in this case," he said. GREENVILLE iAFi Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man charged with the Thanksgiving Day armed robbery ot a Greenville supermarket and the murder of a state constable. Solicitor Joe Watson says.

Samuel Leroy Wodke, 40. will go on trial March 3 if he is indicted by the Greenville County grand jury Feb. 27. Watson said Friday. The motion for the death penalty was filed in circuit court in Greenville on Friday, he said.

The death penalty is being sought because of two aggravating circumstances. Watson said. State Constable Valdon Osborn Keith was a law-enforcement officer and was killed following an armed robbery. The Family Mart was robbed early Thanksgiving Day by two armed men. Keith.

46. was gunned down as he and a Greenville County deputy sheriff pursued a car following the armed robbery. Wodke and co-defendant Wilbur Rutledge Corvette 32. are charged with murder and armed robbery in the case. Corvette will be tried separately.

No death penalty notice has been filed against him. Both men are being held without bond in the Greenville County Detention Center. Wodke's son, Samuel Hichard Wodke. 19, is charged with being an accessory before and alter the fact of a felony, while Linda Ann Ferguson of Gaston is charged with being an accessory alter the fact of a felony. The younger Wodke and Fergason are free on bond.

arrest on Wednesday. He is charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of Juanita Floyd. 25. and Alex Edward Pino, 21. Conway Police Chief Lawrence Barnhill said.

Smith was acquainted with Mrs. Floyd and Pino and lived in the same neighborhood as the woman. Barnhill said. The victims were found by a relative about noon Jan. 26 on the floor in a bedroom of Mrs.

Floyd's home. Police said Mrs. Floyd and Pino were acquaintances Preliminary autopsy reports indicated that Mrs. Floyd suffered three stab wounds to the head, arm and chest. Pino had two wounds to the chest and neck, Horry County Coroner Gene R.

Johnson said. Elderly man dies from heart attack when clothes catch fire ANDERSON AP) An elderly man alone at home apparently caught his clothes on fire while cooking and died of a heart attack while struggling to remove his burning shirt and pants. Anderson County Coroner Wilton Mackey says. J.C. Roebuck, 78.

was found dead on his living room floor next to a burning couch when Anderson City firefighters responded to the 10:15 p.m. call Friday, said Assistant Chief Robert Vaughn. Roebuck apparently moved from the kitchen to the living room in the struggle to remove his clothes and caught the couch and a chair on fire, Vaughn and Mackey said Saturday Only the couch and chair sustained fire damage, Vaughn said, but there was smoke damage throughout the one-story home. Former Secretary of State Kissinger to speak at USC COLOMBIA (API Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will speak Tuesday at the I'niversity of South Carolina in the first of what university officials say will be annual visits to discuss international issues. Kissinger will speak to students majoring in international business and government and international studies on topics including the Soviet Union and terrorism, university officials said.

He also is scheduled to meet with faculty to discuss issues related to the NATO Alliance and with state business leaders to discuss international economics. Kissinger was secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford from 1973 to 1977. He also was assistant to the president for national security affairs from 1969 to 1975. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his efforts to end the Vietnam War. Judge denies bond for man charged in stabbing death CONWAY IAP) A circuit judge has denied bond for a man charged with stabbing to death a Conway man and woman last weekend.

Mack Junior Smith, 26, of Conway was returned to the Horry County Jail on Friday after Judge Lawrence Richter Jr. ordered him held without bond. Smith has been in jail since his Banker robber pleads guilty, sentenced 15 years in prison FLORENCE (API A man who was shot by a citizen as he ran from a bank he had just robbed has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Murray Miller, 25, pleaded guilty to the July 1, 1985, armed robbery at the Southern Bank. He faced a possible 25-year sentence.

Solicitor Dudley Saleeby said Harry Shelley. 53. who was sitting in his truck outside the bank and saw Miller enter the bank with a shotgun, shot Miller in the side as Miller fled with a bag of money. A Florence County grand jury refused to indict Shelley. Assistant Public Defender Michael Bell told Circuit Judge Julius Raggett Thursday that Miller had a history of mental problems, although he was diagnosed as competent to stand trial and assist in his own defense.

Clemson, USC plan tourism institutes HAKliAlNS NKW LSKU 4 GAFFNEY PAWN SHOP "Instant Cash Loan On Any Item Of Value" TV's, VCR's, Sewing Machines, Knives, Cameras, Guns, Stereos, Fishing Jewelry, Watches, Tools Etc. dustry that have called upon us to coordinate certain interests in their areas," Bonn said. USC officials hope their institute will serve as a liaison between state and local governments, the tourism industry and the general public, Bonn said. Brantley said the tourism institute at Clemson will give his department the "visibility" it needs to conduct research. A 601 Cherokee Ave.

Call: 489-4104 La.vaway Master Card Visa Clemson institute will focus primarily on tourism, with some research in recreation. Brantley said his department will conduct studies that will give the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism and the General Assembly "information that will help them make good decisions regarding the development of tourism as an industry." "For example, if Myrtle Beach were to close down a number of hotels and turn them into con-dominums, what would that mean to that city's Brantley said. USC's institute will focus its work on trends in the tourism industry, including hotel sales and marketing and occupancy rales, Bonn said. The university is also considering setting up seminars and short courses for the state's tourism industry, he said. "There are so many private organizations in the tourism in CLEMSON.S.C.

(API Clemson I'niversity and the University of South Carolina both will open institutes aimed at enhancing the state's tourism industry, university officials say. Bert Brantley, head of Clem-son's parks, recreation and tourism management department, and Mark Bonn, an assistant prolessor and tourism coordinator for I'SC's department of hotel, restaurant and tourism administration, said they have begun work toward establishing educational and research institutes within their departments this summer. State figures show that the state's tourism industry generated a record $2 8 billion between Sept. 1, 1984 and Aug. 31, 1985.

The state Commission on Higher Education authorized the two universities to establish research institutes in the area of recreation, travel and tourism, Brantley said. Scheduled to open in July, the SHORTY TE AGUE'S UPHOLSTERY AUTOSEATCOVERS HEADLINERS AUTO VINYL TOPS "BOAT SEATS FURNITURE COMMERCIALJOBS "When You Care Enough For The Very Beat" FLYING SAUCERS? Anita Brandes of Gould Research Center in Arlington Heights, won first prize in the electron microscopy category of Polaroid's photomicrography contest for this photo of an etched silicon surface magnified 3,500 times. It was taken with a Polaroid Type 52, 4 5 black and white film on an I.S.I. Super III A scanning electron microscope. (AP photo) Council members expect exoneration of charges 489-8658 3106 CHEROKEE AVE Handelsman showed reporters a letter dated Monday that he asked County Administrator C.

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