of 2.A The State: South Carolina's Largest Newspaper COLUMBIA, S. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957 The State: South Carolina's Progressive Newspaper DEATHS E. B. Cureton F. H.
McCall, Of Union Dies UNION, Sept. 6 (Special) -Everard Belton Cureton of 200. Cathcrine Street died suddenly this morning. Mr. Cureton had been in poor health for some time.
was a member of the First Presbyterian Church Union, and had served several times on the board of deacons and was a past treasurer of the church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Bell McDow Cureton; one daughter, Miss Betty Cureton of Union; four sons, E. B. and Tommy Columbia; Mack Cureton of Spartanburg and Frank Cureton of Charlotte: two brothers, John Cureton of St.
Petersburg, and A. C. Cureton of Liberty Hill; five grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 Saturday morning from the tuneral chapel by Dr." J. Benson Sloan.
Interment will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Samuel E. Belk, 50, at Camden CAMDEN, Sept. 6 (Special) Samuel E. Belk, 50, died at the Camden hospital at 1:15 this morning.
Mr. Belk was born in Kershaw County, son of the late Samuel J. Belk and Mrs. Maggie J. Belk.
He was graduated from the Kershaw County Schools and was a member of the Church of Christ on McRae Road. He was a weaver in the textile department of the Hermitage Cotton Mill. Survivors include his wife, Christine Melton Belk, and two sons; English and James Belk, all of the home, 1211 1 McRae Road; one daughter, Mrs. Roland Hardison of Norfolk, Va; his mother, Mrs. S.
J. Belk of Camden; two brothers, James R. Belk of Columbia and LeRoy Belk of Camden. Funeral services be held at 3 p.m. Saturday from the Church of Christ on McRae Road by David Arnold, Burial will be in the Wateree Cemetery.
John E. Murr, 70, Chester John Eagle Murr, 70, died early today at the Chester County pital after an illness of six years. A native of Chester, he was a son of the late William H. Murr and Elizabeth Eagle Murr, and operated the Murr Tin Shop business until his health failed. He member of the Chester Associate" Reformed Presbyterian CHESTER, Sept.
6 (Special) Survivors include his widow, the former Miss Lillian Padgett of Charlotte: two brothers, Fred Murr of Chester and B. L. Murr of of of of of Atlanta, and one sister, Mrs. W. E.
Cornwell of Chester. Funeral services will be conduct- ed at 11 a.m. Saturday from the Chapel of Barron's Funeral Home in Chester by Dr. Arthur Murray Rogers, his pastor, assisted by the Rev. Raymond L.
Holroyd. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Willard Lollis, 65, Anderson ANDERSON, Sept. 6 (Special)Willard Lollis, 65, of 100 South Gunner Street, died at the Anderson Memorial Hospital late this afternoon after several years of declining health and a serious illness of one week. He was born in Pickens County but lived in Anderson most of his life.
He was a retired textile operator. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Josie Alewine Lollis, and one brother, Will Lollis of Honea Path. Funeral plans are incomplete and the body is at the home on South Gunner Street. Doctor Roper, York Surgeon, Dies in Augusta YORK, S.C., Sept.
6 (P)-Dr. J. C. Roper, a noted surgeon in this area for years, died in an Augusta, hospital today. Funeral services were incomplete.
C. G. Griffin, 80, Bishopville BISHOPVILLE, Sept. 6 (Special) Cyrus G. Griffin, 80, died at 8:30 tonight at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Henry G. Muldrow, Jr. after a long illness. Mr. Griffin was born in Mon roe, N.
and for many years was associated in business with the J. W. Conder Co. of Columbia He is survived by one son, James F. Griffin of California, and his daughter, Mrs.
Muldrow and a grand-daughter, Mary Virginia Muldrow, both of Bishopville. Funeral services will be conducted from the home of Mrs Muldrow on Church Street at 4 p. m. Sunday by the Rev. W.
R. Bouknight. Interment will be in Bethlehem Cemetery. The body will be at the home of his daughter, William Henry Hoyt, Authority on Napoleon GREENWICH, Conn. -Willian.
Henry Hoyt, 73, founder o1 a New York law firm bearing his name, and an authority on Napoleon history, died Friday at Greenwich Hospital after a long illness. Hoyt was graduated from. the University of Vermont and Har vard Law School and held an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of North Carolina, to which he gave his extensive library on Napoleonic history. McCormick Wreck Fatal To Georgian GREENWOOD, Sept. 6 (P-Pvt.
Douglas Carlton Dalton, 19, of Rt. 1, Athens, died in a hospital here today of injuries suffered in an automobile accident a few hours earlier. Highway Patrolman H. W. Perry said Dalton aparently lost control of the vehicl ewhile driving about 10 miles east of McCormick.
Perry said Dalton's companion, Pvt. Clifford James Dixon of Cleveland, who was asleep in the back seat, was taken to the hospital, but his injuries were not determined immediately. Both soldiers were stationed at Ft. Jackson. Jury Blames Truck Driver For Death A murder warrant was issued last night for Henry Goodwin, 49, Negro driver of the pickup truck that struck and fatally injured Samuel Clark, 44, Negro painter, August 29 in the 2500 block of Millwood Avenue, after a coroner's jury held him responsible for the the death of Clark.
The warrant was issued by Corloner Cecil Wiles immediately following the return of the jury verdict, which follows: "Samuel Clark came to his death from, injuries 1950 Dodge received pickup when struck truck driven by Henry Goodwin in a wilfull, reckless and felonious manner against the peace and dignity of the State of South Carolina. We, the jury, recommend that he be held for Grand Jury investigation." There was only one witness, Traffic Officer D. B. Winn of the Columbia Police Department, whose investigation indicated that Clark was at the back of his 1951 Ford automobile, parked in a parkling lane in front of 2505 Millwood, putting in some work clothes preparatory going to work when ne was struck by the pickup truck driven by Goodwin. It was brought out that Clark did not get out in the street but was behind his own parked car in a parking lane when struck and that the brakes on the pickup truck were not functioning properly.
The investigating officer also testified there were no skid marks at the scene and the back of the parked Ford auto was damaged by the impact of the body of Clark being crushed against it. The bumper of the truck broke the legs of Clark. The vehicle was traveling towards Dreher High School, about when 6:55 then the accident morning took of August 29. Clark was flown to Charleston on Saturday following the accident by a plane of the South Carolina National Guard to be allowed the use of an artificial kidney at the South Carolina Medical College He died Tuesday, September 3 at Charleston. White Schools Reject Negroes In Arlington ARLINGTON, Sept.
6 (P) Eight Negro pupils applied in perton today for admittance to white schools. They were all turned away. There was no disorder. White students just looked on curiously. The Negro applicants, some of them accompanied women, went to the principals' offices at Stratford, Thomas Jefferson Swanson junior high schools and Washington Lee High.
Some such applications been expected, and the were under instructions not to admit the Negroes to white schools. under Virginia's pupil assignment law. The law is being attacked in the courts. The law provides that new students at any school must bring application forms. These applications are acted on by the Pupil Placement Board for review, rather than at the local level.
Arlington's School Board once provided for a degree of racial integration, but abandoned it in the face of state reaction and now follows the line laid down by the state government. Arlington is in northern Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Miss Wright Gets Scholarship ROCK HILL, Sept. 6-Miss Jane Wright, instructor of library science at Winthrop College, has been awarded the Grolier Society Scholarship for graduate study at Columbia University. The Grolier Scholarships of the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association, provide $1,000 for professional education of school librarians.
Two such awards were made this year. Ike, Riley Agree On Defense Budget By The State's Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 The Defense Department may get along with $38 billion a year in authorized expenditures, but not unless it improves itself in the handling of money Rep John J. Riley contended today, The second District Congressman, a member the House Appropriations Committee, agreed with President Eisenhower, Rouse to Become Head Of Anderson College ANDERSON, Sept. 6 (P--A career Baptist minister, the Rev.
John Edward Rouse, 51, of Laurens, will become president of Anderson Junior College for women here October 15. Rouse has been pastor of the First Baptist Church of Laurens since 1947. Prior to that, the Mocksville, N.C., native was at South Avondale Baptist Church in Birmingham, and the First Baptist Church of Belton from 1940 to 1946. He is a 1934 graduate of Furman University and a graduate of Seminary at NewCenter, Mass. He has taken graduate work at Boston University.
He and Mrs. Rouse have three Lucius Scott, Pharmacist at Hemingway HEMINGWAY, Sept. 6-(Special) -Dr. Lucius Scott, 50, a pharmacist, died at his home in Hemingway at 3 o'clock this morning after a long illness. Funeral services will be held from the home at 4 p.m.
Saturday by the Rev. J. K. Lawton, assisted by the Rev. C.
H. Beard. Burial will be in the old Johnsonville Cemetery, Dr. Scott was a son of Mrs. Wady May Scott of Hemingway and the late Kemper Scott of Lake View: where he was born and spent his early life.
He was graduated from the Lake View High school and received his degree in pharmacy from the South Carolina Medical College of Charleston. He was associated with the Rogers Drug Store and Poston Drug Store as pharmacist for nine years before establishing his home in Andrews, where he was co- and pharmacist of the Reynolds Drug Store. Due to ill health, he retired to his home here in 1955. He was a member of the State Pharmaceutical Association. Survivors besides his mother, include his wife, Mrs.
Eulene Eaddy Scott; one daughter, Sylvia Scott of the home; one son, Ronnie D. Scott, and two grandsons, Russell Scott and Jerry Scott, all of Andrews; four sisters, Mrs. B. B. Tisdale of Andrews, Mrs.
L. H. Carter of Hemingway, Mrs. E. M.
Jenkins of Georgetown, and Mrs. J. H. Powell of Savannah, one brother, Dr. Jack Scott of Hemingway, and one foster brother, Leon Scott of Johnsonville.
Opportunity School Lists New Faculty T. D. Watkins, director of the South Carolina Opportunity School for adults, yesterday announced the school's faculty and staff for the fall semester. Mr. Watkins himself holds a new position this year, Formerly ASsistant director and principal, he now heads the school administration, succeeding Dr.
Wil Lou Gray who has retired. Newcomers to the faculty are: Mrs. Eldridge Baskin, Columbia; Miss Caroline Cromer, Newberry; Mrs. Elizabeth Columbia; Mrs. Alice Columbia; and Stig Seaborg, Columbia.
Returning to the faculty and staff are: Mrs. Eugenia Bechtler, R. T. Bishop, Mrs. Lottie B.
Brady, Miss Edna Brown, Cecil Burden, Mrs. Katherine Clark, Daniel DeCarlo, Albert Doberass, Mrs. Louise Erwin, Miss Bessie Gunter, Miss Mary McCarthy, Mrs. Leone Mercer, Miss Ruth Mary Moore, Miss Vernette Moore, Charlie Nix, Miss Florence Olvey, Miss Ardella Pitts, John Turner, and Miss Lilla Watkins. The fall semester is from tember 9 to January 29.
The portunity School also has a spring semester. which completes the regular school year, and holds a one-month summer session. Courses at the Opportunity School range from beginning elementary level through high school and lead toward the acquisition of a state high school certificate. Although the school official reg. istration for the fall term is September 9, students are accepted throughout the school year, and prospective pupils may apply for admission on the alternate Monday of any month.
Interested persons should write to the state-operated school: T. D. Watkins, Director, The Opportunity School, West Columbia, said at his news conference Tuesday that he thought the military could get by with $38 billion a year. JOHN EDWARD ROUSE sons. Rouse succeeds E.
F. Haight, who resigned last month. The new president was chairman of the college's board of trustees who elected him earlier this week. Succeeding him as chairman is P. C.
McCall, of Easley. 13 Killed. 106 Injured On SC Roads Thirteen persons were killed and 106 injured in 345 traffic accidents on South Carolina's streets and roads during the week ending August 31, the State Highway Department reported yesterday. The traffic death toll for the first eight months of the year stands at 465, an increase of six the corresponding period of 1956. deaths over the 459 killed during Aiken, Richland and Spartanburg Counties had two traffic deaths each.
Abbeville, Charleston, Florence, Lee, Marlboro, Pickens and Union Counties had one traffic death each. Charleston the County had 40 dents, largest number occurring in any county. Greenville County had 32 accidents and Spartanburg County had 31. Two Arrested In Mutilation Of Negro Man BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 6 (P) -Two white men who said they are former Ku Klux Klansmen have been arrested and charged with mayhem in the sexual mutilation of a Negro man earlier this week.
Lodged in Jefferson County jail, where they are being held under $5,000 bond each are William J. Miller, 28, and J. N. Griffin, 38, both clerks in a supermarket in suburban Homewood. They were placed in jail by Sheriff's Deputies Tom Ellison and Bill Adams.
The officers said the men admitted being in a crowd of white men when Judge Aaron, 33, was kidnaped and sexually mutilated last Monday night. The deputies said Miller and Griffin admitted being with the crowd which attacked Aaron, and Griffin related that after the victim was attacked he was hauled away from the scene in the trunk of his his-Griffin's--automobile. Aaron was found near a road in the eastern outskirts of the city. He is in serious condition in Veterans Administration Hospital here, The victim told officers that two carloads of white men him while he was walking on a rural road near Birmingham. He said they took him to what appeared to be a garage where they kicked and beat him, and then mutilated him.
Sheriff's deputies said Miller and Griffin were arrested on a tip from an informant. The officers said both men said they had been members of the Ku Klux Klan, but had resigned. They gave no reason. Aaron said the white men who attacked him told him to tell the Rev. F.
L. Shuttlesworth that the same thing would happen to Negroes who attempted enroll their children in white schools. Shuttlesworth is head of a Negro organization secking to promote racial integration in Birmingham's city schools. Aaron said he doesn't know Shuttlesworh, and. has never taken part in any integration effort.
He is unmarried. Grenade Kills Six BELGRADE. Sept. 6 (P) Six Yugoslav shepherd children were killed today by a World War 11 hand grenade. They found while tending their sheep and it EXploded when they tried to open it.
I LEE COUNTY BOY Possible Rabies Death Occurs in Sumter Area SUMTER, S.C., Sept. 6 (P) What may have been the state's second death this year from rabies occurred here today. David Wilson, 13, Lee County Negro of Mayesville near the Sumter County line, died at Toumey Hospital. Dr. H.
A. Heise, County Health Department director, said there were indications the child had bies. The boy was bitten by a dog after it returned from an B. B. Mulkey, 58, Oconee Probation Man WALHALLA, Sept.
6 (Special)Benjamin Bryan Mulkey, 58, Oconee County state parole and pro bation officer, died at 7 a. m. to day in the Anderson Memorial Hos pital after five days of critical illness. Mr. Mulkey was born May 13, 1899, in Oconee County, the son of James C.
and Lilla Galbreath Mulkey, natives of Oconee County. Before becoming state parole and officer 1950, he was magistrate at Walhalla for about six years, was a member of the First Baptist Church and also a member of the Blue Ridge Lodge No. 92, A. F. of Wal halla.
Survivors in addition to his parents include his wife, Mrs. Jessie Evatt Mulkey of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Burton Wheeler 01 St. Louis, two grandsons, Paul Bryan and Geoffrey Burton Wheeler; one brother, Robert Mulkey of Walhalla, and five sisters, Mrs. Annie Raxter and Mrs.
Elizabeth Prether both of Dayton, Ohio, and Mrs. Harry Fayonsky, Mrs. Meta Ivester and Mrs. Reese Hubbard, all of Walhalla. Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.
m. Sunday from the First Baptist Church by Dr. N. E. Mandrell.
Burial will be in the Evergreen Memorial Gardens with Masonic graveside rites. After 10 a. m. Saturday the body will be at the home 309 Walnut Avenue. Pair Charged In Attack on Patrolman BOWMAN, Sept.
6 gunshot-punctured disturbance near here the night of August 31, involving a Negro soldier from Fort Jackson and a highway patrolman, has resulted with warrants being issued for the soldier and his wife, Circuit Solicitor Julian S. Wolfe said today. Pvt. Willie Robinson, 21, and his wife, Polly, 19, are jointly charged with resisting arrest and assault and battery with intent to kill. The complaint was signed by Highway Patrolman Don E.
Lawton of Orangeburg. Robinson was stopped on U. S. Highway 176 near Bowman by Lawton, the highway patrol said, because of a defective tail light. Robinson was arrested when he reportedly failed to produce a driver's license at the officer's request.
Lawton said he began handcuffing his prisoner, and had applied one manacle when the soldier allegedly attacked him. During the altercation the pair rolled into a nearby ditch where, according to Lawton, Robinson's wife came to her husband's aid. The patrolman shot Robinson twice, breaking the Negro soldier's leg and inflicting a minor ankle wound. Robinson, first treated at an Orangeburg hospital, was turned over to Army CID agents and transferred to the Fort Jackson hospital. Robinson's wounds will prevent his appearing in Orangeburg for the September term of General Sessions Court, scheduled to September 9.
"I have prepared the indictments, however, Wolfe concluded, "and will present them to the grand jury Monday." Rebel Chief Joins French In Algeria PARIS, Sept. 6 (P) French Defense Minister Andre Morice reported today that an Algerian rebel chief known as Gen. Belounis had joined the French with about 500 men. He called this the most important switch to the French side so far in the nearly 3-year-old Al-3 gerian nationalist rebellion. He added that he expected some 2,500 more of Belounis's mounted warriors would soon jcin the French.
Morice said the French would take advantage of the rebel general's knowledge of the terrain and guerrilla customs and entrust him with important military tasks alongside the French forces. Talmadge Says Faubus Acting Within Powers ATLANTA, Sept. 6 (P-Sen. Herman Talmadge said today the action of Gov. Orval E.
Faubus in using the National Guard in the Little Rock, school Integration dispute in an effort to "preserve peace and tranquility" is within the prerogative of the governors of the 48 states. His office issued the statement: "The national administration by abuse and usurpation of federal power is trying to make hollow shells of state and local govern ments, This usurpation of power un the part of our national governmen. must be strongly resisted on the federal, state and local levels. have gone a way to ward a police state long, nation. The Constitution has been clearly violated and continues to be violated by judicial decrees and tive enactment.
"The action of the governor on Arkansas in attempting to preserve the peace and tranquility is clearly within the prerogative ot tne governors of the 48 sovereign I states." Mrs. D. R. Kneece, 90, Pelion's Oldest Citizen 63, Anderson ANDERSON, Sept. (Special)Frank H.
McCall, '63. of 319 C. Street, who came here from Pickens 18 years ago, died at the Anderson Memorial Hospital at 10 a.m. today after declining health of many years. He was the son of the late John and Martha Littleton McCall of Transylvania County, North Carolina.
He was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Survivors include his wife, Ollie Cobb McCall: five sons, Ernest C. of Atlanta, Daniel James B. and David F.
of Anderson, and Carlos F. McCall of Atlanta; five daughters, Mrs. Gilbert May of Highland, Mrs. Gordon Lannier of Milwaukee, Mrs. Mamie Phillips of Anderson, Mrs.
Eugene Derrick Charlotte, and Mrs. Jack Ferris Racine, one half brother, James 'Driscoll of Spartanburg, and five sisters, Mrs. W. Ernest Shirley of Campobello, Mrs. Charlie Prophs of Charleston, Miss Catherine O'Driscoll, Miss Agnes 'Driscoll and Miss Margaret 'Driscoll, all of Spartanburg.
The rosary will be recited at the McDougald Funeral Home at 8 p.m. Sunday. Funeral services will be held from St. Joseph's Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Monday.
Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The body will be at the funeral home. The family is at 319 Street. C. C.
Thompson, Plumbing Supply Wholesaler, Dies Clyde Clayton Thompson, 63 of 912 Calhoun Street, founder of the Thompson Wholesale Supply Company, 1921 Park Street, died at 6:53 yesterday at his home after several yeais of declining health and a serious illness of six weeks. Mr. Thompson was born in Nor. wood, N. Februray 17, 1894 a son of the late Pressley H.
and Agnes Nichols Thompson. He came to Columbia in and went in to the plumbing and heating business. In 1943 he formed a corporation, Vise-Thompson Refrigeration. In 1946 he sold his interest in the corporation and years later founded the present company, of which his son, is a partner. For a number of years he was affiliated with the journeymen plumbers, and was a member of Local 227.
For 13 years he was secretary Master -treasurer of Plumbers the Associ- South ation. Mr. Thompson was a member of the Cottonville Baptist Church in Cottonville, N. a member of Richland Lodge No. 39, AFM, the Columbia Consistory of the Scottish Rite, and Omar Temple of the Shrine.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Bessie Rigsby Thompson; one son, Clyde C. Thompson, three grandchildren, Joyce, Pamela, and Patricia Thompson; all of' Columbia; two sisters, Mrs. R. G.
of Concord, N. and Mrs. William Beaver of Columbia; two brothers, M. L. Thomp son of Mattituck, N.
and Wil liam Thompson of Washington, D. his step-mother, Mrs. P. H. Thompson of Walterboro; a stepsister; and three step-brothers.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The body is at the Dunbar Funeral Home. David Ovens, NC Philanthropist CHARLOTTE, Sept. 6 (P -David Ovens, 84-year-old Charlotte philanthrophist, patron of the arts and merchant, died suddenly here today. The veteran retailer, vice chairman of the board of Ivey's downtown department store, collapsed minutes after addressing buyers and managers at the store.
A doctor said he apparently died instantly. J. E. Gandy, 77, Dies in Florida ANDERSON, Sept. 6-(Special)John E.
Gandy, 77, died suddenly at his home in Lake Worth, yesterday. Mr. Gandy was born at Dovesville, a son of the late John E. and Marion Frazier Gandy. He spent most of his life in New York State, where before his retirement he was associated with the E.
I. DuPont Company. He lived at Lake Worth, 12 years. He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Niagra Falls, N. Y.
He was known to many in Anderson, where he had visited twice a year for a number of years. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ora Leach Gandy, formerly of Pennsylvania; one daughter, Mrs. Jeanne Fant of Anderson; one grandson, Roberts S. Fant, of Anderson; two brothers, Hill Gandy of Hartsville and Hobson Gandy of Dovesville, and four sisters, Mrs.
Blanche Martin, Mrs. Nora Smith of Cheraw, Mrs. Ruth Ashley of Andrews and Mrs. Albert Brown of Dovesville. A son, the late Sgt.
John E. Gandy, a graduate of Clemson College, was killed in Italy in 1941 while serving in the U. S. Army. Funeral services will be conducted at 5 p.m.
Sunday from the McDougald Funeral Home, by Dr. Cort Flint. The body will arrive in Anderson Sunday, Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The family is at the home of Mrs. Robert S.
Fant at 207 Beauregard, Anderson. Mrs. D. R. Kneece, 90, Pelion's oldest citizen, died at her home at noon Friday after a long illness.
Mrs. Kneece was born in the Cedar Grove section of Lexington County March 2, 1867, the daughter late Daniel Drafts and Henrietta Hayes Drafts. Her old home is now covered by the waters of Lake Murray. Her girlhood days were spent where the country, post office was was located. education country schools of that day but she determined to get a higher education.
She attended the Vera Cruz CathConvent in Columbia for two years and the Gaston Female College of Dallas, N. for one year, teaching school every other year in order to go college. On April 3, 1889, she was married to Doctor Kneece at her mother's home. In March, 1901, she and Doctor Kneece moved to Pelion, where she soon proved herself a capable and efficient assistant, traveling with her husband over the dirt roads of the community by horse and buggy. After her husband's death and until her health failed, friends would come to "Grandma" Kneece for medical advice.
When the Baptist church of Pelion was organized in 1904, Mrs. Kneece, who was reared a Lutheran, became a charter member and was very active in all phases of the church work. She was a faithful and beloved Sunday school teacher until her eyesight failed and at one time had served as president of the Lexington County Women's Missionary Union. She was one of South Carolina's most charming gentlewomen. She was known by most of the county's citizenry for a kind and generous personality and for her devotion to any task at hand.
Mrs. Kneece was the mother of nine children, two who died in infancy, One son, John D. Kneece, of Gilbert, died in August, 1948. Another son, Kenneth B. Kneece, died at Ruffin in 1953.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. W. F. Best of Pelion, retired director of the Lexington County Public Welfare Department; Mrs. James B.
Smith of Cades and Miss Vera Kneece of Pelion; two sons, Dr. J. F. Kneece of Blackville and J. V.
Kneece, superintendent of Newberry area schools, Newberry; 12 grandchildren, and six great-, grandchildren, Funerals services will be conducted from the Pelion Baptist Church at 3:30 Saturday afternoon by the Rev. J. B. Caston, assisted by the Rev. L.
S. Shealy and the Rev. W. J. Wilburn.
Active pallbearers will be: Henry M. Moody, W. Guy Suter, David Kneece, Edgar Jackson, James W. Smith and D. F.
Schumpert. Honorary pallbearers will be: D. S. Asbill, Dr. F.
L. Clark, Dr. Davac Mitchell, Dr. Ben Miller, Dr. W.
C. McLain, the Rev. James Johnson, the Rev. Harold Wolff, the Rev. Mr.
Hilton, B. C. Wise, J. F. M.
Bannister, Dr. H. Odelle Harman and deacons of the Pelion Baptist Church. They will meet at the church at 3:15 p. m.
Friends may call at the residence at Pelion after 9:30 a. m. today and until the hour of servlice. Soldier Who Led Officers On High-Speed Chase Through City Released Under Bond A Fort Jackson soldier who led officers on a high-speed chase late Thursday night before his 1956 automobile wrecked was released yesterday under bonds totaling $225.50, according to Columbia police records. William D.
Marshall, 24-year-old white soldier, was charged with reckless driving, failing to stop for an officer, and resisting arrest, according to the docket. A $200 bond was posted by a motor club and the other $25.50 was posted in cash, the sergeant's docket showed. According to his arrest record, Marshall is from Alliance, Ohio. Officers said he and three other soldiers who were passengers in the car with him previously were scheduled to be transferred today from Fort Jackson. Marshall was booked by Traffic Officer D.
B. Winn and Sam L. Howell, and Officer R. H. Peake.
Marshall yesterday told Officer Winn, "I don't know why I did it. You can see a lot of things afterwards that you don't see while a thing is The chase went from Columbia to the Bayview section, then back Georgetown Man Killed By Explosion GEORGETOWN, Sept. 6-(Spe-E. Harris Cribb, 38, pipefitter of Georgetown, died receiving first aid at the International Paper Co. Plant at 11:30 this morning, 30 minutes after being injured when a tank exploded in the yard of the plant.
Cribb and a helper had finished cleaning the tank shortly before the explosion. After an inquest was held by Coroner John A. Broach, a jury returned the verdict that Mr. came to his death when a exploded and threw him into a conveyer while at work. Funeral services will be held at p.
m. Sunday from Mt. Zion Baptist Church by the Rev. N. H.
Cribb and the Rev. A. A. Haines. Burial will be in Hucksfield Cemetery.
The body will be at the church after 1 p. m. Sunday, Mr. Cribb was born in Pleasant Hill section of Georgetown County, son of the late John R. Cribb and Mrs.
Hattie Bell Baxley Cribb. He attended Pleasant Hill schools and served for sometime in the Civilian Conservation Corp. in the camp at Kensington. later served in the Army for several years, then worked for a number of years at a local drive-in after his discharge. For the past six years he worked a.S a pipetitter at International.
Survivors include his widow, the former Miss Ruth Goude and two children, Judy and Palelia Cribb, all of Georgetown; two brothers, J. Clarence Cribb and John Allen Cribb, and two sisters, Mrs. Auburn Haselden and Mrs. James Owens, all of Hemingway. Cross-Examination Held In Shaw Base Trial the court-martial of Airman 1.C.
Glenn E. King, charged in a $30, 300 pay roll swindle. King of Jackson, is charged in several larceny counts of receiving $2,472 in illegal payments from the base payroll officer. He has pleaded innocent. King is the eighth airman to face tria in the case.
Seven others were convicted and sentenced to I discharges and prison terms. SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C., Sept. 6 of witnesses concerning detailed testimony occupied today's session of into town, ending at the Seaboard overpass, near Lincoln Street, when Marshall's 1956 Chevrolet two-door hard top was wrecked. All injuries were minor, police said. Police said three soldiers who were passengers in the automobile begged the driver to stop, but to no avail.
One of them said, "I looked at the speedometer one time, going through town, and he was doing 90. I never prayed SO much in my life." Another of the passengers said he lay down behind the seat during the chase. One of the soldiers said he did not know what possessed the driv-1 er to outrun police. He said they were driving along at a moderate rate of speed when the driver suddenly started going faster. City police, sheriff, and highway patrol members tried to set up roadblocks but were unsuccessful.
A number of persons who witnessed portions of the chase came to the scene of the wreck. One man said if he had not' heard the police siren and stopped at Taylor and Two Notch Road the speeding car would have hit him. Another man said when the Chevrolet went through Taylor and Two Notch Road, it was just a "blur." Traffic Patrolman Winn said he started after the automobile at Oak and Gervais when he saw it coming into town at an extremely high rate of speed. He said the driver tried to elude him and turned down Pine Street. Finally the soldier went down Haskell Street and into Notch Road.
With Patrolman Winn in pursuit, the chase went on out to Bayview Drive, which circles off United States No. 1 and then back onto the highway. Highway Patrolman Dave Hallman unsuccessfully tried, to block the car at this point, but' he said the vehicle nearly hit him. They then came back into town and Traffic Officer Howell, Officer Peake, State Highway Deputatrol Cpl. L.
D. Barden, and Sheriffs E. L. Mustard and Tom Beckham joined the chase. Briton Concedes Firm Gambled in Franchise Dispute BRUNSWICK, Sept.
6 (R--A British industrialist conceded on. cross examination today that his Waycross, plant, Scapa Dry-. ers established in 1955 in an acknowledged gamble on winning a franchise dispute. Thomas Hindie, the industrialacknowledged in testimony before U.S. Dist.
Judge F. M. Scarlett that Waycross officials the Georgia Chamber of Commerce were told the plant might have to be closed in case of an adverse court decision. The suit was after completion of adjourned today testimony and both sides met in a private conference at a hotel, attempting an out-of-court settlement. Yesterday Hindle had testified that he is preparing to double the size of the Waycross plant but if the court verdict goes against him he might have to close it.
Hindle is head of Scapa Dryers of Blackburn, Lancastershire, England, and has a new plant, Scapa Dryers, at Waycross. Abney Mills Inc. of Greenwood, S.C., has asked the court to prevent the Georgia plant from a loom invented by Hindle for making drier felts for the paper manufacturing industry. Abney contends Hindle sold the United States rights to his loom to the Brandon Corp. of Greenville, now merged with Abney, sence of several days, The pet was shot and no check on its condition could be made by health authorities.
The State Board of Health at Columbia said human deaths from rabies are "infrequent' but a 10- year-old boy died in May of rabies at Kingstree. ra-1954 of child at Dillon. A 13- The last, rabies death was in year-old Negro boy died at Walterboro in 1953. A Mormon Church was organized: by Joseph Smith in New York state in 1830..
