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State Urged To Press Forward To Improve Educational Program COLUMBIA, S. C. (AP) South Carolina's School Segregation Committee urged. the state today to press forward with a program to improve educational standards while continuing its legal fight against federal court integration orders. The committee reiterated a stand taken earlier by the chairman, Sen.

Marion Gressette of Calhoun, that state parks should remain closed if exposed to the actual or potential threat of racial violence. He had also recommended against operation of any of the parks facilities such as swimming or camping on an integrated basis. In its annual report to the General Assembly, the committee recommended a study of a uniform, statewide system of testing and classifying students for purposes of placement in grades, courses and schools. The committee proposed "extensive expansion and ment of, vocational education along lines now being developed." It also recommended that a new compulsory attendance law not be enacted. The committee urged Carolinians to maintain attitude of opposition to the increasing use of federal force to regulate the lives of individuals and to subvert.

constitutional government, and of lawful resistance to encroachment upon personal liberty in the name of political expediency." With reference to court-ordered integration at the University of South Carolina, Clemson College and Charleston secondary schools, Gressette's group commended the state's citizens for exercising patience and tolerance "in the face of provocation and "The overwhelming majority have been law abiding, have resisted every temptation to take the law into their own hands and have supported those who are responsible for and dedicated to the perservation of law and order," the committee declared. "May it continue to be so in the even more trying days and months, if not years, ahead," the committee added. The committee said that it would not countenance any attempts to bring about integration "by artificial means and without regard for the geo- General Assembly Continues To Press Adjournment Drive COLUMBIA, S. C. (AP) -The General Assembly continued toto press its adjournment drive after full morning and afternoon sessions Wednesday.

Hopes remained high the 1964 session can end statewide work by April 9, finishing up county bills a week later. The Senate gave a surprise reading to a bill to bar obscene literature, movies and other materials. But Sen. Walter Bristow of Richland said long talk on the bill, and its approval, were an attempt to block consideration of other pending bills. He favored the obscene literature measure, but was irritated that the time consumed on it blocked debate on another measure he favors to have the people vote on whether they want an appointed or elected I state superintendent of educaItion.

Laurens County Bond Issues Are Proposed To Finance 3 New Schools COLUMBIA Bond issues finance three new elementary schools in Laurens County would be authorized in legislation introduced yesterday Sen. King Dixon. Similar bills to permit trustees of School District 55 and School District 56 to issue bonds without referendums got first, Three School Trustees To Be Chosen In Abbeville County ABBEVILLE Three mem-1 bers of the Abbeville County District 60 board of school trustees will be chosen at the annual election to be held Tuesday, May 12, according to an announcement yesterday Mrs. J. A.

Grant, chairman of the County Commissioners of Election. One member each from the Abbeville, Lebanon and Due West areas will be elected for regular three year terms commencing July 1. The three will replace the following, whose terms expire on June 30: James Hodge, Abbeville; C. B. Ashley Lebanon and Charlie Hawthorne, Due West.

Present members with one year remaining on current terms are Charlie Lusk, Sam A. Martin Named By Chemstrand To New Post NEW YORK Joseph R. Martin of Pensacola has been promoted to newly created position of Director of Manufacturing in charge of all production. of Chemstrand Division Monsanto Company, Paul W. Runge, vice presiand general manager, Manufacturing, Engineering and Development, made the announcement.

Martin's responsibilities will include the manufacture of Acrilan acrylic fiber, Blue Nylon, Spandex and polyester, and nylon molding and extrusion compounds. Martin will be headquartered at Chemstrand's New York offices. He will have functional supervision of production ning and scheduling activities at the Chemstrand Management Information Center. He will be succeeded as Director of Nylon Manufacturing in Pensacola by Finis Morgan. has been Director of Nylon Manufacturing at the Company's Nylon plant at Pensacola since August, 1961.

He joined Chemstrand in 1952 as a Chemical Engineer, He served in supervisory capacities of increasing responsibility, including that of Superintendent, Quality Control, before heading the Pensacola operation. Prior to joining Chemstrand, Martin was a chemical engineer with the Mississippi Agriculture Industry Board, and earlier served as a chemical engineer with Monsanto Chemical Company in Dayton, Ohio. Morgan, the new Director of Manufacturing of Pensacola, has been serving as Manufacturing Manager at the Pensacola plant since May, 1963. He is a native of Cullman, Alabama, and holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the University of Alabama. Morgan joined Chemstrand at the Pensacola! plant in 1954 and served as Assistant Plant Accountant and Plant Accountant before being named Assistant Comptroller of Chemstrand in the Company's New York offices in 1961.

Obituaries RITES SCHEDULED FOR MRS. GREEN GREENVILLE Funeral services that Mrs. Maggie Walker Green will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. at Springfield Baptist Church. Dr.

C. F. Gandy and the Rev. D. C.

Frances will officiate. Green died in an automobile accident at Carlisle Monday. She was a teacher at Allen Elementary School here. Survivors include her husband, Charles. Green, of Bennettsville, two brothers, W.

H. Walker of Atlantic, N. J. and Felton Walker of Detroit, Mich. and three sisters, Mrs.

Sara Watson of Kansas City, Mrs. Celeste Evans of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Zenobia Hampton of Ware Shoals.

In and Around Greenwood Cars Damaged One car was damaged an estimated $250 and the other an estimated $150 in a collision yesterday on South Main at West Creswell. Police charged the driver of the car on South Main with disregarding the traffic light. Annual Banquet The annual banquet of the Abbeville County Education Association will be held Abbeville tonight at 7 o'clock in the School. W. Beard of Anderson will be the guest speaker.

Named 01 Foreman The Riegel Textile Corpora tion (Johnston Division) recently named John C. Morgan Jr. foreman of the embroidery department. Morgan joined Riegel as cost clerk in 1958. Flight Log Southern Airways planes boarded 12 passengers here yesterday with four going to Ft.

Lauderdale, three to Detroit, two each to Raleigh, N. C. and Pensacola, and one to Knoxville, Tenn. Going To New York Miss Linda Cordell of Greenwood is one of 35 juniors and seniors in the University of South Carolina School of Pharmacy who will visit pharmaceutical laboratories in New York and New Jersey next week. The group will leave Columbia Saturday by train.

Dean R. W. Morrison and Mrs. Morrison will accompany the students. Retired Teachers Greenwood County Retired Teachers' Association will hold a Dutch luncheon at 1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 7, at Holiday Inn. J. P. Coates, state president of the organization, and Mrs. Coates are expected.

Reservations should be made by calling Mrs. P. W. Jayroe or Miss Alice Wilson by Saturday morning. Prayer Band Mathews Heights Prayer Band will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Friday with Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Owings, 202 Mathews Heights Fletcher Harrison will speak.

The public is invited. Mountain Creek Revival Revival services will begin at 8 o'clock each evening April 5- April 10 at Mountain Creek Baptist Church. The Rev. A. D.

Croft, church pastor, will preach. Ferguson and M. B. (Buck) Parker. James W.

Price, Preston Burton and Harold Lawrence have two years more to serve. Qualifying. period for candidates will open at 12 o'clock noon April 13 and close at noon on April 27. There is no entry fee. A candidate must be a qualified elector of the school area he would represent, and must sign the oath and qualify, in person with one of the three commission members Mrs.

Grant at Abbeville, Earl C. Murdoch of Rt. 4, or. Mrs. Lillian Dilleshaw of Calhoun Falls.

Members are elected by plurality of the eligible voters, who are the qualified electors residing in the three areas. readings yesterday and were scheduled for uncontested second readings today. Bond funds would be used in District 56 to replace Hampton Avenue and Providence elementary schools and for other capital improvements. In District 55 bonds would provide for replacement of Central School and improvement of other facilities. No amounts were set for the bond issues, but they cannot exceed the constitutional debt limit of the districts.

Tax 1 levies would be required to pay, off bonds over a 20-year period or less. Declines Invitation GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP)The superintendent of schools, Richard Barnhart, says he has declined to invite a regional meeting of the Music Educators National Conference to Grand: Forks, although several groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, were hoping for it. "I'm getting tired of all these things that keep people from said Barnhart on Wednesday night. "We have whole weeks where I'm not getting any service -out of certain people of this district because of special events like basketball I tournaments." Textile Industry Anticipates Record Spending Rate In '64 PALM BEACH, Fla.

The textile industry's anticipated record rate of spending for modernization and expansion in 1964 is proof that the industry "is willing and clearly demonstrating its willingness" to pull itself up by its own bootstraps, President Robert of American Textile Manufacturing ers Institute said here Thursday in opening the Institute's annual meeting. In a speech prepared for delivery before 850 textile executives and their guests, Mr. Stevens said, "We ourselves in the industry are demonstrating, our confidence in textile manufacturing to match the confidence we ask others to have in us, as a vital part of the American economy." Mr. Stevens is president of J. P.

Stevens and one of the nation's largest textile companies, in addition to serving as ATMI presi. dent. ATMI is the central trade association for the spinning and weaving segments of the nation's textile industry. Its membership includes about 85 per cent of the productive capacity of the industry. In.

reviewing. ATMI activities during the past year, Mr. Stevens pointed to an effort to cor- Group Sent To Ft. Jackson By Local Board Sent 1 to Fort Jackson, for, Pre nation March 30, Physical 1964 Exami- from Local Board 24, Greenwood were: Thomas Louis McDuffie, Charles Quillan Brown, James Wilston Hodges, James Edward Morton, George Patterson Franklin Lee Davis, Marvin Carroll, Herbert Nicholson, John Franklin Cann, Frank Hackett, Bobby Gene Goodman, Jimmie Beal, Earnest Franklin Childs, Andrew Wesley Crouch, Harold Judson. Burden, Bobby Lee Wells, allace Odell Thompson, Robert Lee Holmes, Luther Lee Gilchrist.

Also sent Fort Jackson were: John Burke Emory, transferred from Baltimore, Larry Eugene Steeple, transferred to Greenville; Cleveland Douglas Tolbert, transferred to New York: Clavion Martin, transferred to Brooklyn, N. William Allen Matthews, transferred to Philadelphia. The' following were sent. for Induction: Ralph Edward Burroughs Donald Eugene Cobb, Izel Arnold, James Herman Bowie and Joe Murph, transfered to Columbia. Franklin Delano Tolbert failed to report and is asked to contact Local Board Office immediately, Abbeville CD Agency Starts Recruit Drive ABBEVILLE An expanded county radiological defense sysis the aim of the Abbeville County Civil Defense Agency in announcing a recruitment drive for qualified individuals to train for service radiological monitors.

monitoring is the detection, measurement, analysis and reporting of radioactive materials. The first school, conducted by Professor Reggie Ramsey, Abbeville County Radiological instructor and physics teacher of Erskine College, will start Tuesday evening in the Abbeville High school I from 7:30 to 9:30. Greenwood, S. April 2, 1964. 7 Deaths And Funerals Crozier Chapter, UDC.

Survivors include a brother, J. Dave Caldwell of Newberry and sister, Mrs. Claude 0. (Carolyn) Sligh of Greenwood. Funeral services were conducted at 3:30 p.m.

the Whitaker Funeral Home by Dr. Henry A. McCullough. Burial in Rosemont Cemetery, Joe M. Todd Green Thumb, Garden the Club Calvin and past president of graphic locations of the homes of the children and the schools." "The purpose of the schools at all leveles is to educate, not to serve as laboratories for already discredited sociological experiments nor as training centers for agitators or sources of demonstrators," the committee said.

The report said a maximum freedom of choice should be open to the parents of children in the face of integration moves on' the elementary and high school levels. Coleman Seeks Congress Seat In 5th District WINNSBORO, S.C. (AP) George F. Coleman, 45, solicitor for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, has formally announced he will seek Democratic nomination for Congress from the 5th District. He is the third man to announce to succeed Rep.

Robert Hemphill, who is scheduled to be named a federal judge. Coleman announced some time ago he would run in the June 9 Democratic primary if Hemphill should withdraw. Others who have announced are State Rep. J. B.

Harvey York and Tom S. Gettys of Rock Hill. Coleman says he favors strong national defense, abatement of strong central federal powers, further space exploration, and opposes wasteful spending of foreign aid. STOPS JAMMING BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) Communist Czechoslovakia has stopped jamming the Czechoslovak language broadcasts of the Voice of America, apparently as the result of talks between U. S.

and Czechoslovak diplomats on ways of improving relations, diplomatic sources in Belgrade The sources said Bulgaria and East Germany are the only Soviet bloc countries that continue to jam almost all Western broadcasts. Joe Martin Todd, 62, died at 5:25 a.m. today at State Park TB Hospital in Columbia after two years of declining health. Mr. Todd was born in Lau- rens County Sept.

28, 1901, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Boyce Todd and the late Sam J. Todd. He had lived in Greenwood for 30 years and was in the furniture upholstery business. He was a member of the First Baptist Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Flauda Stanley Todd of the home; two sons, Joe M. Todd Jr. and Robert E. Todd, Greenwood; six grandchildren, his mother, now of Darlington; sister, Mrs.

Chester Martin, McColl; two brothers, Ryland B. Todd, Darlington, and W. R. Todd, Greenwood. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 4.

p.m. from the First Baptist Church by the Rev. Dan James Cobb. A. Bowers Burial and will the be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens.

Active pallbearers will be A. C. Todd Carroll Sexton, Sammy Ouzts, William John Park, Mike Miserlis, Ralph Canfield, James Kirby and Jack Wilburn. Honorary escort will be members of the Baraca Class of the First Baptist Church and Barratt Park, Pete Bailey, George, Whatley, Wiley Price, Pete Stathakis, Dr. Jack Scurry, Bill Hinton and W.

D. Waller. The body will be at Harley Funeral Home until it is placed in the church tomorrow at 3 p.m. The family is at the residence, 212 Davis Ave. Miss Caldwell NEWBERRY, Miss Sarah Sondley Caldwell of 2029 Main a school teacher 39 years hon Elementary School, died and former principal, of.

Molloearly Wednesday morning in Newberry County Memorial Hospital after a short. illness. A native of Newberry County, Miss Caldwell was the daughter of the late Robert Thompson and Virginia Halfacre Caldwell. She was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church the Redeemer and a member of the Lutheran Church Women. She also was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, the CLINTON A record goal of $80,000 has been set for Presbyterian College's 1964 annual giving program now getting underway.

Dr. J. Edward Graham, president-elect of the PC Alumni Association, and Sam Cornwell: of Charlotte, vice president of the group. serve as campaign co-chairmen. The objective for this year represents an increase of almost $14,000 over the $66,478 raised in 1963, the largest amount yet to be contributed to annual giving by PC alumni and friends.

Funds given to this source are used primarily to help underwrite current operating penses of the college and include designations for ndemic scholarships, salary increases, departmental Improvements and the Walter Johnson Club alumni athletic organization. Quick Action By Maid Saves Abbeville Woman $80,000 Goal Set For PC Giving Program And the obscene control measlure still faced the third reading barrier in the With the Senate set to debate financial matters- the $6 million deficiency appropriations bill- there didn't seem much likelihood of any other bills getting serious attention this week. The House goes home to stay after today, subject to recall by its speaker, while the Senate finishes up action of numerous House bills. The House extended the life of a special committee studying the future of the state's 26 parks. The parks were closed when a federal court ordered them integrated last year.

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Mrs. Mamie Ferguson, 84, was carried from the home Monday by Betty Ramey, the maid, after fire was detected in the house. Mrs. Ferguson' had been sleeping and protested against leave ing the house. The maid ried her out, however, and the house burst into flames minutes later.

18 rect the two price cotton mar-1 keting system as the "most concerted and concentrated action ever conducted" on an industrywide basis. The two price system requires American mills to pay $42.50 per bale more for American cotton than foreign mills pay for it. Provisions leadto elimination of the twoprice system are included the farm bill scheduled for action by the House of Representatives on April 8. "We are not going to relax our efforts. We shall continue the fight," Mr.

Stevens said. He added, "We seek a singular goal. This goal is an orderly, equitable, honest marketing system for American cotton, a system that will revive the waning world leadership of U. S. Stevens pointed out that the textile industry is a multifiber industry and not bound entirely to 'cotton.

However, 'he added, "The industry will not stand idly by and let its primary markets go by default. We have alternatives in fighting for our markets. We can spin fibers other than cotton. We are doing so. The growth of other fibers depends directly on cotton's competitive position in the overall fiber market." Stevens also called for further government action in foreign trade situations.

He cited particularly wool textile imports, which have caused liquidation of half of the American wool textile industry since the end of World War II. While the strength of this inindustry continues to be sapped, we in textiles are not by a long shot the only ones hard of hit un- by the devastating effects needed, unwanted and unreasonable Mr. Stevens said. the nation there is a growing awareness of the import problem that has developed in many industries and in agriculture. The scope of this interest and awareness widening at a rapid rate.

Many industries and their American workers are deeply concerned about their future. These cases include shoes, steel, office machinery, machine tools, chemicals, lumber, bicycles, watches, transistors, and beef products. Mr. Stevens said the foreign trade question "will be an issue to some degree" in this year's Presidential election and "could turn out to be the most important issue in the 1968 election, barring serious foreign.