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Th Indtx-Joumol, GfMnweod, Friday, M. 3, 19785 Rubisi expresses vciiili in Three livers MSA traveling throughout the 14-county area, we have heard time and time again from consumers that we need more physicians. "I think what they really want is more access to health care services." "We have one county in our area that has the most practicing physicians of any county in the state and another county that has the least," Flinchum said. "The problem is distribution of services." Flinchum said he favored continued legislative support in providing financing for family practice residencies in small hospitals. "You and I both know that where a physician trains is most likely the place he will stay." Caldwell said Three Rivers long-range goals include increased health education planning, support of community water fluoridation programs and efforts to reduce child abuse and traffic fatalities caused by alocholic intoxica As Greenwood Rep.

Tommy Hughston said later Wednesday, much has been discussed about the effect of national regulations on local health planning, but until the meeting he was uncertain as to what Three Rivers actually planned to do. Three Rivers Executive Director Dennis Caldwell told the group the main purpose of the 204 health planning agencies across the country will be to cut down hospital costs and improve local health care. 1 Hospital charges are projected to double in the next five years, Caldwell said, basically "because we demand more from our health care providers." Three Rivers Saluda Sub-Area Council Chairman Ken Flinchum, who also is assistant director at Greenwood's Self Memorial Hospital, reiterated Caldwell's point. "After tion. To meet these goals Three Rivers will coordinate projects with existing state agencies, such as the Department of Health and Environmental Control, Caldwell said.

Three Rivers will also review all hospital expansion requests with the intent to reduce duplicating or unwarranted services, which have largely gone unchecked prior to the creation of the health systems agencies. The executive director said Three Rivers has thus far reviewed about 50 of these requests, cal-' led "certificates of need." They have amounted to "millions and millions of dollars almost all of which is federal money," he said. Concerning the agency's plans for improving the area's health care, Caldwell said, "We're not just going to put down what we want until we know where we are going and what is the best way to get there." By DUNCAN MANSFIELD Staff Writer COLUMBIA The chairmen of the S.C. Senate Medical Affairs Committee Wednesday expressed faith in the workability of federally-created health systems agencies. State Sen.

Hyman Rubin, D-Richland, told fellow lawmakers at a breakfast meeting sponsored by the Three Rivers Health Systems Agency that "we must have faith in this agency even though it is the creation of the federal government." i Health system agencies, like Three Rivers, are "almost the last stand in local health planning" he told legislators from the 14-county Three River area. "It must work, and I think it will work." The meeting was called primarily to tell area legislators the funcUon and plans of Three Rivers. Deaths and funerals Flu is epidemic over much of U.S. ATLANTA (AP) This year's flu epidemic is widespread over half the country and flu is on the increase in 20 states, the national Center for Disease Control said today. Deaths from influenza and pneumonia the last week in January were running 66 percent above the expected rate for that time of year, according to data from 121 selected cities, the CDC said.

Oklahoma was the only state to report no flu. The Russian flu A-USSR was confirmed by laboratory tests only in Cheyenne, Wyo. However, said CDC spokesman Don Berreth, "because of the nature of flu, you would expect that if it is there, it is in other parts of the country." The illness was typified by fever, muscle ache, cough and headache. Absenteeism in the high school hit by the outbreak reached 60 due to a variety of flu strains, the CDC said in its weekly report. A-Victoria and A-Texas flu continue to be reported across two-thirds of the country.

Various type-A flu infections have been confirmed in 44 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the CDC said. States with widespread flu, in counties comprising more than half the state's population, are: Connecticut; Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island; Vermont, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, New. Mexico, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, South Dakota, Arizona, California and Alaska, and the District of Columbia. Flu is decreasing in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Oregon, but on the increase in Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Michigan, Louisiana, New Mexico, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, the Dakotas, Arizona, California and Alaska. There were no reports from Minnesota Arkansas and Nevada.

Some fire insurance rates to be reduced! WALLACE ROBERTSON MRS. ESSIE RYANS Mrs. Essie Ryans, of 708 Pearl St. died in Self Memorial Hospital Thursday morning after three days of serious il- She was a daughter of the late Johnny and Lula Peterson Senior of Edgefield County, a member of Springfield Baptist Church in Edgefield County, a member of the Pearl Street Community Club and the Springfield Burial Aid Society. She is survived by her husband, Willie Ryans of the home; two daughters, Mrs.

Lethia Day of Silver Hill, Md. and Mrs. Annie Harrison of Greenwood; four sons, Willie Ryans Jr. of Asheville, N.C., Thomas Ryans of Silver Hill, Larry R. Ryans of Greenwood and Edward Senior of Edgefield; 16 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Percival-Tompkins Funeral Home. The family is at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Annie Harrison, 704 Pearl St. FRANK MARAGNE JOHNSTON Frank Maragne, 72, died Thursday at his home. He was born in Lincolnton, a son of the late Mr.

and Mrs. William Maragne. Surviving are a son, Frank Maragne of Johnston; two brothers, Johnny and William Maragne of Ware Shoals; three sisters, Miss Grace Maragne and Mrs. Dolie Lenzy of Johnston and Mrs. Isabelle Milton of Boston, Mass.

Plans will be announced by Amos and Sons Funeral Home. SAM HENDERSON Sam Henderson, 30, died Thursday evening at Self Memorial Hospital. He was born in Greenwood County, a son of Alfred and Zel-la Booker Henderson. He was a member of Damascus Baptist Church. Surviving in addition to his parents are his wife, Mrs.

Rose Ann Bibbs Henderson of Greenwood; one son, Brian K. Henderson; three daughters, Melissa, Stephanie and Vanessa Henderson, all of Greenwood; one brother, Alfred Henderson Jr. of Greenwood; one sister, Mrs. Mattie Mae Williams of Greenwood, one foster brother, Charlie Hamilton of Augusta, Funeral arrangements will be announced by Robinson and Son Mortuary. The family will be at the residence, 936 A.

Gage St. and 395 Gilbert Circle. JOHNNIE LAGROONE Funeral services for Johnnie Lagroone will be Saturday at John's Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Calvin Wells officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Clifton Scurry, Kennedy Terry, Asa Parks, Joe Carter, Larry Holmes and David Andrews. Flower bearers will be Sarah Nix, Geneva Scurry, Mary Brown, Mary Marcelly, Mattie Harrison and Doris Burton. The family is at the home, 607 Perrin and will receive friends at Parks Funeral Home from 7 to 9 tonight. Greenwood Rep. Thomas L.

Hughston. The bill is still in committee. Hughston introduced the bill at. the request of the Independent Insurance Agents of Greenwood. "The Independent Insurance Agents of Greenwood have protested for years that such properties were not afforded protected fire insurance rates and, despite many promises by.

the rating bureau to correct this, nothing was done," Jim Burns Jr. said. Currently insured suburban protected properties will be reviewed and those which qualify will be adjusted. Byars promoted at The Record COLUMBIA (AP) Charles L. Byars, assistant managing editor of the Columbia Record since December 1973, has been named managing editor, Editor Thomas N.

McLean announced today. Byars began his newspaper career in 1957 as editor and publisher of the weekly Ninety-Six News. He came to The Columbia Record in 1970 as assistant city editor, and was later named news editor and assistant managing editor. Byars was with The Index-Journal for 11 years and was managing editor when he left to join The Record. McLean will continue to have overall responsibility for direction of the news and editorial content of the newspaper.

The managing editor's title has been vacant for several years. On Stage FIRST TIME IN GREENWOOD! The Broadway Hit They Don Want You To See! ONE Log Some suburban Greenwood commercial property owners will be eligible for lower fire insurance rates effective Feb. 1. The Insurance Services Office granted the Class 8 protection rating to commercial properties in Greenwood's Suburban Protected Area which are within three road miles of the fire department and 300 feet of a standard fire hydrant and whose owners have purchased a fire department service agrement from the city. Properties within 500 to 1,000 feet of a hydrant will be granted Class 9 protection rates.

Commercial properties over 1,000 feet from a hydrant will continue under unprotected Class 10 rural fire rates. The Insurance Service Office's fire protection reate reduction was prompted by a bill introduced in the General Assembly last year by Backward meter INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) They tried sending the laundry out, and ting the lawns go dry. But still the water bill climbed at the Wedgewood Health Care Center. Edward Lehmann, administrator of the nursing home, had pleaded with officials for three years that something was wrong.

He finally convinced them to take a look at the water meter. The meter was installed 1 backwards, inspectors discovered. City officials wrote Lehmann a check for $19,812, covering overcharges. GREENWOOD -V' 1 City POLICE DEPARTMENT A hammer was used to hold up a local insurance agent shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday.

Kenneth O. Stamps, 41, of 105 Manning Road was robbed after he stopped by a house on Cokesbury Road to make an insurance collection, according to police reports. He was headed to his Independent Life Co. offices on Montague Avenue when a black male put a hammer to his head Htld Ovr ENDS THURSDAY DOLPH McKERLEY CHARLESTON Dolph Horton McKerlye, 47, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Charleston County Hospital Tuesday. Born in Cherokee County, a son of Mrs.

Trassie Roberts McKerley and the late William Butler McKerley, he was a employed by McClures Auto Parts. He was a veteran of the Korean War and was a Baptist. Surviving in addition to his mother of Ninety Six, are one daughter, Miss Patricia Ann McKerley; one son, Dolph H. McKerley of California; five sisters, Mrs. Ann Moseley of Ninety Six, Mrs.

Ruby Colquit of Houston, Mrs. Mary Pruitt of Laurens, Mrs. Barbara Purdy of Atlanta, Ga. and Mrs. Doris Gregory of Jacksonville, one brother, Robert McKerley of Anderson.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Harley Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Lawrence Keever officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. The family is at the home of his sister, Mrs.

Ann Moseley, Kate Fowler Road in Ninety Six, and will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday. JAMES SMITH CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -James Smith died Wednesday afternoon in Chattanooga. He was born and reared in Greenwood County, a son of the late John and Alice Reynolds Smith.

Survivors his wife, Mrs. Fannie Mae Hullex Smith of Chattanooga; five children of the home; three brothers, Jozei Smith of Greenwood; Jozel Smith and George Wideman, both of Greenville; four sisters, Mrs. Lula Mae Childs, Mrs. Berta Ross and Mrs. Lee Anna Collins, all of Greenwood and Mrs.

Maxine Ross of Greenville. Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in Chattanooga, Tenn. MRS. MAUDE MOORE MCCORMICK Funeral services for Mrs.

Maude Moore, 70,. who died Tuesday evening at Self Memorial Hospital, will be Sunday at 2 pjn. at the Shiloh A.M.E. Church with the pastor the Rev. J.C.

Casque officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be members of the Bethany Masonic Lodge. Flower bearers will be members of the Heroines of Jericho. The family will receive friends at Walker Funeral Home Saturday evening from 7 to 8.

1 The I "UP a PERFORMANCE NINETY SIX Wallace Lowrey Robertson, 84, a resident of Johnson Road, died this morning at Self Memorial Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Edgefield County, June 3, 1893, he was a son of the late Tyre and Savannah Wright Robertson. He was a member of the Ninety Six Pentecostal Holiness Church. Prior to his retirement, he was with Greenwood Mills at the Ninety Six Plant, was a member of the Quarter Century Club and was a Mason. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Hattie Wood Robertson of the home; five daughters, Mrs. R.E. (Lois) Carley of Laurens, Mrs. J.C. (Grace) Bartley and Mrs.

Young (Ronell) Collins, both of Greenwood, Mrs. Thomas (Maltee) Corby of Ninety Six, Mrs. D.M. (Jeanet-te) Lee of West Jefferson, N.C.; two sons, Thurmond E. Robertson of Winter Park, Fla.

and Wallace Carroll Robertson of Modoc; 11 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be Sunday at 3 p.m. at Blyth Funeral Home on Montague Avenue with the Rev. Roscoe Bryan and the Rev. J.B.

Abercrombie officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Otis, Franklin, Arvis and Bruce Robertson, Robert Welsh, John Dowis, Donnie Calhoun and V.M. Snipes. Honorary escort will be Men of the Ninety Six Pentecostal Holiness Church.

The body is at the funeral home. The family will be at the home on the Johnson Road in Ninety Six. ELIZABETH HEDDEN SPARTANBURG Mrs. Elizabeth "Jean" Hedden, 64, director of the Spartanburg County Health Department, wife of Dr. J.C.

Hedden, died Wednesday. A native of Rock Hill, daughterr of the late James Duffie and Alma Wright McKee, she was a graduate of Erskine College and a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Surrviving also are two daughters, Mrs. Robert Dowdeswell of Hndersonville, N.C., and Lucy Hedden of Greenville; a son, Dr. Julius Hedded Jr.

of Spartanburg; three sisters, Frances Draffin, Mrs. L.J. Bridryzchi of Hudson, N.C. and Mrs. Grady Evans of Stubbenvile, Ohio; five grandchildren.

Services were today at 11 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be made to the First Prresbyterian Church. Floyd's Greenlawn Chapel was in charge of arrangements. MRS.

LOIS BERRY COLUMBIA Mrs. Lois Jeter Berry, 74, of Marion Street died Thursday evening at Providence Hospital in Columbia after a brief illness. Born in Ninety Six, she was a daughter of the late William B. and Elliott Carter Jeter. She was a graduate of Greenville Women's College and was a retired legal secretary and a Baptist.

Surviving are one sister, Mrs. J.C. (Cora Lee) Starnes; one brother, Douglas Jeter, both of Greenwood. Funeral services will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Harley Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev.

Morgan Klzer and the Rev. Donald Morris officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Jeter Starnes, Michael Starnes, John Cash, Henry Carter, John Drummond, Johnnie Zinnoni and Joe Nettles. The family is at the home of Mrs.

J.C. Starnes, 115 Taggert and will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8 tonight. The family requests flowers be omitted. Those who wish may tend memorials to the First Baptist Church in Ninety Six. ONLY! Feb.

11 8:00 P.M. Info: 223-3395 jv; For Adults Only CIVIC CENTER Correction Williams With Life Of Georgia M.F. Williams Jr. was incorrectly listed as an employe of Life of Virginia in Thursday's paper. He is with Life of Georgia.

The Index-Journal regrets the error. Assembly summary COLUMBIA (AP) Here is a summary of legislative action Thursday: House Passed Employment A bill to require employment agencies to guarantee 90 days employment to an individual. If the errfployment terminates within the 90-day period, any fee paid by the person would be refunded on a pro rata basis. Senate Passed Boundary Two bills incorporating an agreement reached by a North Carolina-South Carolina commission on the boundary between the two states and its extension seaward. Voice vote.

To the House. Housebreaking A bill providing mandatory prison sentences for second and subsequent convictions of housebreaking. Voice vote. To the House. Uniforms A bill instructing the Highway Department to adopt distinctive uniforms for hihgway patrolmen and distinctive colors for Highway Patrol cars, and providing that other law enforcement agencies may not wear similar uniforms or have similar patrol cars.

Voice vote. To House. Minimum Wage A bill to require that state employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $2.65 an hour. Voice vote. To House.

Aircraft A bill requiring that aircraft kept in South Carolina for more than 30 days be registered in the state and show proof of liability insurance or other financial responsibility. Advance seats: $8.50 at Civic Center Box Office. ORAISENS JEWELRY 4 MUSIC, Anderson; CARTERS. Newberry: PARKMANS PHARMACY, Salada: RIVERBANK RECORDS, N. Augusta: RADIO SHACK, Clinton: TAPE SHOP, Laurens; SAVITZ RECORD CENTER, Abbeville.

and ordered him to pull over. The suspect was described as about six feet tall and in his 20'S. Stamps stopped his car on West Laurel and attempted to get out. The suspect tapped him with the hammer and demanded money, according to police. Stamps turned over his wallet and the suspect hit him again with the hammer and took off running up Merrywood Road toward Grace Street.

Police said the wallet contained cash, credit cards and checks made out to Independent Life Insurance Co. Police are also investigating the thefts of a bicycle from the front porch of 518-A Cothran Ave. Wednesday and a CB from an unlocked car at 909 Taggart Ave. Thursday. SHERIFF'S LOG Sheriff's deputies are investigating the thefts Thursday of five hubcaps valued at $125 and a CB antenna worth $10 from a Spring Valley home and a cassette tape player-FM radio valued at $160 from a car parked at Edgewood School in Ninety Six.

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