Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 2

THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1972 FLORENCE MORNING NEWS INKS BILL Tobacco Lease, Transfer Provisions Are Extended Florence County tobacco farmers will be able to lease and transfer tobacco to and from farms within the county through November 30 under provisions of a recently approved federal law. President Nixon signed into law on June 8, a bill extending lease and transfer provisions tobacco acreage allotments. Under the provisions of the bill farmers within the same county can lease and transfer tobacco to or from their farms for one year only, F. Wayne Sarvis said. Sarvis, executive director of the Florence County office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS).

said leases or transfers of tobacco acreage allotments between two farmers in the same county must be executed at the local ASCS office. THE LEASED OR transferred tobacco may be sold in any county, he said. Explaining the way the lease and transfer agreement works, Sarvis said, that if farmer A had 10,000 pounds of tobacco left on his allotment card after he had sold his 1972 crop, he could lease from farmer 8 and farmer could transfer to farmer A enough tobacco to allow farmer A to sell his allotment. If farmer had an ceptionally good crop, or he had been able to increase his yield through improved agricultural practices, farmer will have more tobacco than he can sell under his present acreage poundage allotment, Sarvis said. THE PRESENT TOBACCO acerage-poundage allotments went into effect in 1965, 1 he said.

The quotas were based on a combination of the three highest average yields between 1959 and 1963 and the average yield for the local community for the same community for the same period. Due to exceptionally good crops last year and this year, and increased production due to improved agricultural practices, many farmers in Florence County are exceeding their present tobacco quotas, he said. Sarvis said that if the basic tobacco quota for a farm is less than 2.000 pound, a farmer can lease tobacco whether or not he planted 50 per cent of his allotment. If the basic quota for a farm is more than 2.000 pounds, a farmer can lease tobacco only when 50 per cent or more of his tobacco allotment was planted. Sarvis said.

Kissinger Talks With Financiers NEW YORK (AP) Henry A. Kissinger the White House adviser on foreign affairs, went to a luncheon meeting of wealthy financiers here Wednesday but said his appearance was nonpolitical. Kissinger was also to attend a similar dinner engagement at the University Club. Scott Given Space Agency Desk Work SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Col. David R.

Scott, commander of Apollo 15 and one of three astronauts reprimanded recently for smuggling 400 stamp covers to the moon and back, has been dropped from the astronaut corps and given a space agency desk job. 'Fiddler On The Roof' Auditions Scheduled Auditions for the Florence Little Theatre's. production, On the Roof', will be held at the theatre's auditorium on the Old Timmonsville Highway, Sunday at 3 p.m. and Monday at 7:30 p.m., under the direction of Mrs. Patsy Stone.

Principal speaking parts are available for 12 men and 10 women, it was announced, with a large chorus of men and women also needed. based on Arnold Perl's Sholem Aleichem stories, will open September 28 for an eight -night showing. The Little Theatre's membership drive for the 1972- 73 season also begins this week, Mrs. Vi Alley executive secretary announced. Slated for the new season besides "Fiddler" will be Tennessee Williams' drama, "The Night of the Nov.

10-18, directed by Chris Cousar; "Due to a Lack of Interest Tomorrow Has Been January 5-7, directed by Robbie Sisco; "Last of the Red Hot February 9-17, directed by Jan Taylor: and Tobacco Festival Set For Pamplico PAMPLICO The 1972 Tobacco Festival sponsored by the Pamplico Rescue Squad will be held Friday on the streets of downtown Pamplico. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the annual affair will feature a supper by the Pamplico Library Club, a street dance, and bingo, according to Mack Bazen, a member of the rescue squad. Bazen said that there will be entertainment for the children and that political speeches will be made during the evening. Music will be by the he said. The festival this year has been set to raise funds for equipment for the community rescue squad, Bazen said.

Political Stump A political stump meeting will be held in Timmonsville Thursday at 8 p.m. in front of Wickes Building Supply Co. Several candidates will be on hand, including a number of Black speakers. All local residents are invited to attend. Clarification A story in the Wednesday edition of The Morning News which stated that Alford James Bescher was charged with assault and battery was partially in error.

The story said that Bescher was charged with assault and battery by hitting Lawrence Waters with a stick. This was in error. It should have read that he was charged with the offense by hitting, striking and slapping Lawrence Waters. 8 Fire Sub-Station Work Progressing CONSTRUCTION WORK has begun on the new Edisto Drive Fire Sub-Station which is located near Rd. and Edisto intersection.

The two-stall station is expected to be completed around the Second Loop the first of the year and will cost approximately $170,000 when completed. Deaths and Funerals Mrs. Ethel Rodgers OLANTA Mrs. Ethel F. Rodgers, 83, died early Wednesday morning in a Kingstree nursing home.

Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 5 p.m. from the Olanta First Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Thomas Cemetery, directed by Williamsburg Funeral Home of Kingstree. Mrs. Rodgers was born in Florence County, a daughter of the late Meta Jordan and Lawrence Pressley Floyd.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Olanta and was educated in the Florence County public schools. The body will lie in state in the home of her brother, Jennings Floyd in Olanta, until the time of the service. Survivors include three sons, the Rev. Harry F. Rodgers of Kingstree, the Rev.

Morgan W. Rodgers of St. Matthews and Carlton Jordan of Olanta; one step daughter, Mrs. Annie L. Garrison of Florence; two sisters, Mrs.

Clara Purvis of Olanta and Mrs. Eula Lea Hill of Effingham; two brothers, Jennings J. Floyd and Wesley W. Floyd both of Olanta; three grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren and several step grandchildren. Mrs.

Alberta Barr grandchildren. Mrs. Winnie Graham JOHNSONVILLE Funeral services for Mrs. Alberta Barr, 66, will be conducted Thursday at 4 p.m. from the St.

James Baptist Church. The Rev. Odell Fulton will officiate. Burial, directed by Green's Funeral Home, will follow in EaddyFord Cemetery. Mrs.

Barr died Sunday at her home on Rt. 2 following a short illness. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Mary Washington of Johnsonville, Mrs. Laura Mae Dollard and Miss Betty Barr both of Bronx, N.Y.; seven sons, Leon Barr of Johnsonville, Joseph Barr of Baltimore, Richard Barr Willie Barr and Bobby Barr all of Bronx, N.Y., Howard Barr of Richmond, and Eugene Barr of Washington, D.

19 grandchildren and 26 great- CONWAY Funeral serv- ices for Mrs. Winnie Cox Graham, 42, will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday in Langston Memorial Baptist Church. Burial, directed by Goldfinch Funeral Home, will be in Hillcrest Cemetery. Mrs.

Graham died Tuesday in a local hospital following a short illness. SUPER Thrift Way MARKET Ac 8 A Thrift Way Grand Opening GRAND OPENING for a new Thrift Way super market in the Oakland Avenue shopping center is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday. Also to be located in the center is a Cale Yarborough 60-Minute Cleaners. Response Says Dikes Not Targets WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department said Wednesday that U.S.

bombing has had only "the most incidental and minor impact" on the dikes of North Vietnam. Spokesman Charles W. Bray gave this response to what he termed the "rather carefully orchestrated propaganda" alleging that U.S. air strikes are seriously damaging North Vietnam's extensive system of levees. Bray said "we have evidence" to support the U.S.

version that while "some of our bombs may have hit the dikes themselves were not targets nor have they been extensively damaged. But he declined to say what this evidence is. The Nixon administration thus far has refused to make public i its aerial photographs assessing damage to dikes. The State Department spokesman declined to go beyond saying the dikes "may" have been hit by some U.S. bombs.

"Various spokesman, myself included, have allowed for the fact that in striking at military targets which are located in proximity to or in some cases even on the dikes, some of four bombs may have hit dikes," he said. Child Hit Vernon Stone Scott, 40, has been named technical assistant to the manager of the Apollo spacecraft program, announced Wednesday. Space agency spokesman Jack Riley said the new job is an appointment that takes Scott out of the astronaut corps. He said the stamp incident was of the considerations" for the new appointment. Asked if this means Scott had no choice about remaining an astronaut, Riley replied: "that's right." Scott, James R.

Irwin and Alfred M. Worden, the Apollo 15 crew, were reprimanded by the space agency earlier this month for taking 400 unauthorized stamp covers to the moon and back. One hundred of the stamp covers were sold later by a West German stamp dealer for about $1.500 each. Space officials said after an investigation that Scott, Irwin and Worden planned to receive $7,000 each from sale of the stamps, but later declined the money. Officials said the astronauts realized that what they were doing was wrong and attributed the whole stamp incident to the pressures of preparing for a mission.

Scott's new job is expected to be a short one. The Apollo program is scheduled to end in December after the flight of Apollo 17. An official said the postflight cleanup may keep the program jobs alive for another year. Irwin has already announced his resignation. He retires from the Air Force and from the astronaut corps next Monday.

A space agency official said Worden also is scheduled to be retired from the astronaut corps and given another space agency job. Scott was long regarded as one of brightest and most able of the astronauts. He flew three times into space on Gemini 8 in 1966, on Apollo 9 in 1969 and on Apollo 15, a moonlanding mission, in 1971. Ironically, his retirement from the astronaut corps comes on the first anniversary of his Apollo 15 moon mission launch. Scott graduated fifth in his class at West Point and came from a distinguished military family.

His father is a retired Air Force brigadier general who was an early day aviator. Scott also hoped to become a general in the Air Force. Scott's retirement drops the number of active astronauts to 39. Vernon Leroy Stone, 53, retired salesman and merchant of Rt. 1, Florence, died Wednesday morning at his residence after being in declining health for a number of years.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in Northgate Baptist Church by the Rev. Doyle Jones. Burial, directed by Stoudenmire Funeral Home, will be in Florence Memorial Gardens. Mr.

Stone was born in Florence County and was a son of the late McLendon and Eura Geneva Welch Stone. He had lived in Florence all of his life, was a member of Northgate Baptist Church, a Mason, and veteran of World War II. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mildred Miller Stone of Florence; his step mother, Mrs. M.

L. Stone of Florence; one sister, Mrs. W. D. (Olga) Timmons of Florence; one halfsister Mrs.

W. W. Chambers of Charleston; two brothers, Foster M. Stone and W. C.

Stone, both of Florence; also a number of nieces and nephews. The family request that memorials may be sent to the American Cancer Society. Mrs. G. W.

Merritts Mrs. Georganna Merritts, 73, of 801 North Wilson died at her residence Tuesday after a long illness. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 4 p.m. at Trinity Baptist Church by the. Rev.

W. P. Diggs. Burial will be in North View Cemetery directed by Ideal Funeral Home. Mrs.

Merritts was born in Florence County, a daughter of the late Tom and Lele Williams. She was a member of Trinity Baptist Church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Helen Cain of Florence, Mrs. Neoma Clark of Indianapolis, and Miss Ella Mae Merritts of New York, N.

a son, James Merritts of Newport News, two brothers, Tom Williams and Bless Williams, both of Brooklyn, N. six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. David Threlkel GARDEN CITY David Terry Threlkel, 15, died Tuesday in a Charleston hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Bullard Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Southeastern Memorial Gardens. David was born in Greenville, a son of Louvie Hembree and David E. Threlkel. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and had lived in Garden City for the past several years. Surviving, in addition to his parents, are a brother, James E.

Threlkel of the home; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hembree of Commerce, Ga.

Mrs. Hazel Brown MARION Funeral services for Mrs. Hazel Brown will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Smith Brothers Funeral Home. Burial will be in Brown Cemetery near Marion.

Mrs. Brown died Tuesday in an Atlanta, Ga. hospital while visiting her son of an apparent heart attack. D. L.

Burroughs MARION David L. Burroughs, 47, died Tuesday night in a local hospital after a. long illness. Funeral services will be conducted at 5 p.m. Thursday at Smith Brothers Funeral Home by the Rev.

Hawkins and the Rev. Thompson. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr. Burroughs was born in Williamsburg County, a son of the late Thomas and Dora Goud Burroughs.

He was a member of Bethlehem Freewill Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary R. Burroughs of Marion; two daughters, Mrs. Lois Green of Charleston and Mrs.

Joyce McCormich of Marion; four grandchildren and three brothers, Sesley Jack and Calvin Burroughs all of Marion. Robert Bacote DARLINGTON Robert Bacote, 85, of 214 Bacote died Tuesday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Lillpie Mae Bacote, after a long ilIness. Funeral arrangements will be announced by MitchellJosey Funeral Home. Driscal Huggins PAMPLICO Funeral services for Driscal James Huggins, 62, will be held Thursday at 3 p.m.

at Morris Funeral 1 Home by the Rev. Billy Poteat. Burial will be in the old Johnsonville Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Jimmy Eaddy, Clifton Eaddy, Geno Boswell, Joe Boswell, Don Joye and Ray James. Mr.

Huggins died in a Florence hospital after a short ilIness. Israel Enters The Space Age HAELAH VALLEY, Israel (AP)-From this Biblical Valley where David defeated Goliath, Israel has entered the space age. A brief telephone conversation between Premier Golda Meir and President Nixon marked the inauguration Wednesday of Israel's lion satellite ground station 16 miles southwest of Jerusalem The two leaders expressed best wishes and the hope they could "continue to work for a just peace" in the Middle East. The station is the 56th connection with Intelsat, the international telecommunications satellite system. Agnew Returns To Washington SPOKANE, Wash.

(AP)Vice President Spiro T. Agnew left Spokane Wednesday en route back to Washington, D.C. Possibly a bit more tanned after a tennis match, Agnew rode to Fairchild Air Force Base with his wife in a motorcade of police officers, Secret Service men and staff members. About 100 persons, most of them connected with the military, turned out to bid him farewell. During Republican fundraising banquet Tuesday night, Agnew defended American ideals and traditions against persons who "describe America as bad beyond redemption." He said it is a curious era when many opinion makers openly side with those who delight in denouncing the traditions, principles and achievements of the United States.

Other S. C. Deaths. Mrs. Mary W.

Parler, Batesburg. C. T. Miller III, Duncan. Mrs.

Deree Abrams, Owings. Mrs. Minnie Barnes, Branwell. Claud G. Kyzer, West Columbia.

Mrs. Carrie Quinn, Whitmire W. D. Smith, Orangeburg. 0.

J. Kennerly, West Columbia. John E. Finney, Whitmire. Mrs.

Lula Lee, Summerville. Edward H. Hanna Jr. Gifford. Mrs.

Auber Faulk, Rock Hill. James Hammond, Trenton. Andrew L. Hatten, Columbia. Robert E.

Reeves Columbia. Mrs. James Mathis, Sumter Mrs. Katherine Simmons, Charleston. Mrs.

R. E. Muckenfuss, Columbia. Luther G. Jenkins, Columbia.

Joseph M. Warren, Johnston. Rocky Receives Nomination Job NEW YORK (AP) Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who fought vigorously against President Richard M.

Nixon's nomination four years ago, will place the President's name in nomination for a second term, a source close to the governor said Wednesday. The source said Nixon asked Rockefeller two weeks ago to do the honors at next month's Republican National Convention in Miami, and that the governor readily agreed. WADE MOORE, 8, READS Youngster's Question Florence Ask Andy An eight year-old Florence student is the area's newest "Ask Andy" winner for his question, "'How Do Taste Buds Taste?" Wade Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M.

Moore Jr. 2702 Juniper will receive a 20-volume set of Merit Students Encyclopedia for his query, which he thought of as family was eating supper night. "I sent two questions to "Ask Andy" back in May, "the Delmae "But Heights third noted. I really surprised when I got their letter," he added. On Pony Recovering March 29-April 7, directed by Ken Delson.

A season membership entitles its holder to see four plays for the price of three, it was noted, a savings of $3.50 for adults and $2 for students. This year, the all- volunteer organization has set a goal for 1,000 new members, it was announced. Effingham Area Woman Is Shot An Effingham area woman has been hospitalized in Florence for gunshot wounds. Mrs. Mary Nettles of Rt.

2 Effingham was admitted to McLeod Memorial Hospital early Wednesday morning after being shot with a pistol two times, according to Deputy Sheriff Loftin Brown of the Florence County Sheriff's Department. Deputy Brown said that Mrs. Nettles was shot in the chest and in the hand following an argument with a man about 7 a.m. at R. C.

Webb's Grocery Store in Evergreen. The officer said that a suspect, Ervin Williamson, 45. of Rt. 2, Effingham, has been arrested and being held in the Florence County Jail charged with assault and battery with intent to kill pending the condition of the woman. Officials at McLeod Memorial Hospital said late Wednesday night that Mrs.

Nettles is in satisfactory condition. Black Doctors SALISBURY. Rhodesia (AP)-The Medical Council of Rhodesia lists 34 black doctors in the country, which has a population of more than five million. An 8-year-old child struck by a car while riding his pony Tuesday afternoon was reported in satisfactory condition in a Florence hospital Wednesday. Officials at McLeod Memorial Hospital said that Christopher Allen Gantt of Rt.

1, and Evans, Ga. was in satisfactory condition following surgery Tuesday. The child and a friend were riding horseback in TV Rd. section of Florence County about 5 p.m. when the animal the youth was riding bolted across the highway and was struck by a car.

The pony was killed. Ptlm. Ronnie' Williams of the South Carolina Highway Patrol who investigated the accident said that the child was knocked off the pony and landed in a ten-foot ditch where he received a broken leg and possible head injuries. The officer said that the accident happened near Carolina Acres where the child was visiting an uncle, Elvin Price, of Rt. 1 for the summer.

LETTER FROM ASK ANDY Recently Won First Prize Student Winner Wade's answer appears in today's "Ask Andy" column on page 4-D. In Memorium Days have not been the same since you've gone. Sadly missed by Mother Sisters In memorium to Warren Moore, departed today year ago, July 27, 1971..