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MB. TCP OUMNAL GREENWOOD, S.C, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 5, 1976 If This Day Good afternoon. Tnriav If WwtnAufsu Matt tha tMtth Hon nf BQp3Qu MOMDFOG IS 1976. There are 240 days left in the year. The sun rose this morning at 6:36, will set tonight at 8:16 and rise tomorrow at 6:35.

Bicentennial footnote: Two hundred years ago today, General George Washington reported to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia that he had moved his army to New York on the premise that the British would attack the city but said he was willing to move to any other location the Congress indicated. The Weather Yesterday's high was 71 and the low was 35, a new record low for that date. The previous record was 36, set in 1971. The temperature at 7 a.m. was 42.

During the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. today, no rain was recorded. Total rainfall to date is 12.60 inches. Average rainfall through May is 21.10 inches. Lake Greenwood elevation at II a favlav wai 138 feet The By WALTER R.

MEARS AP Special Correspondent Ronald Reagan has seized star billing in the Republican presidential contest, and President Ford, suddenly second, may have to rewrite his campaign script. But there are likely to be new twists in the GOP plot before it is played out this summer. There are, after all, 16 Republican presidential primaries to go. And there could be new faces in the campaign cast before convention time. Nonetheless, Reagan has for the first time established himself as a challenger who can convince the Republican hierarchy that he has a real chance of denying nomination to an incumbent president.

Even Ford's campaign manager had to acknowledge that Reagan had the advantage after making the President a three-time loser on a single primary election day. It was evident in the numbers that made Reagan for the first time the leader in committed Republican nominating delegates and, perhaps as important, in the momentum and credibility the conservative challenger gained with two Southern victories and an unexpected triumph in Indiana. Jimmy Carter, the dominant Democrat, won overwhelmingly in Indiana and in his Georgia home. He led in partial returns in the District of Columbia. Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace won his home-state primary, too. Wallace offered testament to Carter's claim that as the likely nominee he can rally Democrats around him. "I could support him," Wallace said. While Carter was speeding his bandwagon among Democrats, Reagan was cementing a remarkable comeback by gaining 51 per cent of the Indiana vote to defeat Ford by about 15,000 ballots.

The former California governor once was on the verge of elimination as a presidential, candidate, with money running short after a succession of early lake is considered full at 441.50 feet. Forecast primary election defeats by Ford. He held on and turned it around for a second time. Ford's allies thought they had finished Reagan in the early primaries, but he upset the President in the North Carolina primary on March 23, gained strength in Southern and Southwestern GOP state conventions, and scored a remarkable, delegate sweep over Ford in Texas on Saturday. Now it is the President who is skidding, although a spokes-' man said Ford-remains determined and convinced he will win the Republican nomination.

But an outcome that had seemed inevitable to many Republican leaders no longer looks like a sure thing. And unless Ford can quickly repair the damage by dealing setbacks to Reagan the coming primaries, the race could begin to look inviting to some men now on the sidelines. Should Reagan build on his current advantage, Republicans like John B. Connally and Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller may see openings that didn't exist before.

And that could draw more after the primary election season, which ends nine weeks before the GOP convention begins. Sunny and mild today and Thursday. Highs today in the mid 70s. Fair tonight with lows In the upper 40s. Highs Thursday around 80.

Probability of precipitation near zero today, tonight and Thursday. Winds southerly at five-10 m.p.h. today and tonight becoming southwesterly around 10 m.p.h. Thursday. Extended outlook Friday Stomach Cancer Victims Given A New Treatment through Sunday Partly cloudy Friday through Sunday with scattered showers Saturday.

Lows in the 50s. Highs in the 70s northwest mostly 80s elsewhere. cancer cases can respond to the program and for those who do, there could be a relatively long survival with improved quality of life compared to present statistics," he said. Macdonald and Drs. Philip S.

Schein, Winston Ueno and Paul Woolley presented the results of their study in Toronto, Canada, at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. WASHINGTON (AP) -Powerful anticancer drugs used together significantly prolong survival of some patients with advanced stomach cancer a fatal condition virtually untreatable in the past, Georgetown' University scientists announced today. The scientists said about half of 21 advanced stomach cancer patients in a study responded to the treatment, with some of the patients so far living more than three times longer than with conventional therapy. "The big thing to emphasize is that with gastric (stomach) cancer, there really haven't been other treatment results indicating this prolonged survival," Dr. John Macdonald said in an interview.

"This indicates there is now a 50 per cent chance that gastric Was Howard Hughes A Boy Scout? youth, It would have been around 1920, and the only records dating to that time are lists of those who attained the rank of Eagle Scout, he said. Hughes isn't on any of those lists. "The only other way we'll find out is to try to locate people who may have been active with him in scouting, but that's going to be very difficult," Bollas said. The Boy Scouts want to find out about Hughes' possible' scouting past to satisfy their own curiosity. The organization has no plans to fight for validation of the will in the courts and will just "wait like everyone else to see what happens," Bollas said.

Whether Hughes was a scout or not, they'll take the money. "It's a lot of money and could be wisely spent. If we eventually get It, a lot of people will be putting their heads together to think of uses for It," Bollas said. million for last year, that would be enough for the Boy Scouts to operate for 10 years. "We want to find out if he was ever a Boy Scout himself," said Barclay Bollas, a spokesman at scout headquarters here.

"The Hughes interests have given to scouting before, but we don't know if he was a member." Bollas said Tuesday the search started in Houston, where Hughes spent hit childhood, but failed to come up with any evidence. If Hughes had been a Boy Scout as a NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) The Boy Scouts of America are hot on the trail of the latest Howard Hughes mystery. Was he a Boy Scout? The question has been asked in scouting circles since the discovery of a purported will in which one-sixteenth of the reclusive billionaire's estate was left to the Boy Scouts. The amount has been estimated at up to 1150 million.

Based on the organization's national budget of about $14 Mao Reported III HONG KONG AP) New Zealand Prime Minister Robert D. Muldoon said today he was informed In China that Mao Tse-tung suffered a stroke some time ago and is "not healthy" today. Muldoon spoke at a news conference shortly after his arrival from a one-week visit to China, where he met Mao, 82-year-old chairman of China's Communist party, plus China's new premier, Hua Kuo-feng, and other officials. Muldoon spent 10 minutes with Mao last Friday, markedly briefer than the Chinese leader's past meetings with foreign dignitaries. Muldoon said he believes the meeting was brief because of Mao's health.

"There is no doubt he is not healthy," said Muldoon. He said Mao appeared frail but was definitely not senile. Muldoon said Chinese officials told him about Mao's stroke, but they did not say when it occurred except that it was "some time ago." Candidate Arrested YADKINVILLE, N.C. (AP) Paul Rutledge, 29, a Republican candidate for the Yadkin County Board of Commissioners, has been charged with possessing and growing marijuana. Yadkin County Detective Mitchell Davis revealed today that Rutledge was arrested Monday on warrants charging him with possessing marijuana with an intent to sell and with growing three marijuana plants.

Rutledge, who was released on 65,000 bond, was scheduled to appear In court today for a preliminary hearing. A spokesman for the sheriff's department said Rutledge was arrested at his home in the Forbusb community, five miles east of Yadkinville. He Is an employe of Hennis Freight Lines in Winston-Salem. Davis said about a pound of marijuana and several plants were seized when Rutledge was arrested. Steel Prices Go Up PITTSBURGH AP) National Steel following the lead of other major steel producers, today raised prices on sheet products, which are widely used in the automobile and appliance industries.

The fourth Unrest iteelmaker increased nrices 6 ner cent on Abbeville Church Getting Facelif Workers ore crawling around, over and inside Abbeville's historic Trinity Episcopal Church and dangling on a cable betide the steeple as the church under goes restoration work. The church, now 116 yean old, was awarded a federal grant last year to assist with the restoration which had already begun. At left, above, a roofer pries old shingles off the steeple. Working more than 150 feet above ground, he was nearing completion of the job yesterday. Inside, below, a plasterer works carefully along an east wall -f the church which is now closed to the public.

(Index-Journal photos by Danny McNeill) Postal Service Cost Cutting Is Under Study By JEFFREY MILLS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AP) The Postal Service Is considering cost-cutting actions that would irreparably damage many small towns, 14 members of Congress say. One senator and 13 House members appeared at a hearing of a House Post Office subcommittee Tuesday to criticize the Postal Service's decision to consider shutting down some rural post offices that operate at a deficit. Sixteen other House members are scheduled to present their criticisms of the Postal Service today. "Closing the post office In a small town is close to issuing a death warrant for the town," said Rep. Tom Harkln, D-Iowa.

"Instead of reducing the federal presence in small town America, we should be taking steps to better these communities and the quality of life there." Rep. Don Fuqua, said, "The Postal Service must consider factors other than the dollar." The Postal Service is considering closing more than 1,300 small post offices. Some Congress members expressed the fear that figure represents only the beginning. About 18,000 of the nation's 30,000 post offices are located in rural communities. Postmaster General Benjamin F.

Ballar has said the Postal Service needs to cut costs wherever possible because of its financial crisis. The mail agency's deficit is expected to amount to about 64 million per day during the fiscal year that ends next month. A suit has been filed by 51 Congress members to try to stop the post office closings. Several members suggested legislative action to achieve the same result. hot and cold-rolled and galvanized sheet products, in line with simlliar increases by U.S.

Steel Armco Steel Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Jones Laughin Steel Republic Steel and Inland Steel Corp. National said the new prices will become effective June 14 and will affect about 75 per cent of its shipments, raising total steel revenues about four per cent. Mining Firm Fined ST. PAULAP) A federal judge has fined Reserve Mining Co. more than $1 million for polluting Lake Superior and for falling to disclose Information during the lengthy suit by the State of Minnesota.

In his decision released Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Devitt noted that Reserve held a state permit to dump industrial waste into the lake but that it did not empower the firm to pollute the lake with "carcinogenic waste." The company mines low-grade Iron ore at Babbitt, and processes it Into taconite pellets at Silver Bay for manufacture of steel. From this operation, up to 67,000 tons of finely ground wasU rock are dumped cacti' day into Lake Superior. fi I' Thoughts Girl, 6, Killed When Hit By Car In Greenwood Greenwood County recorded its first traffic fatality of 1976 late Tuesday when a child was struck by a car on East Cambridge.

Coroner Odell T. Duvall identified the victim as 6-year-old Yendia Douglas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Douglas of 1120 East Cambridge Ave.

According to investigators, the child was struck in the 1100 block of East Cambridge when she ran across the street. She was struck by a vehicle driven by Jean Robinson Quarks of 201 Mineral St. The' Quarles automobile was headed towards the bypass at the time of the mishap. The coroner, said the child was killed instantly about 6:45 p.m. No one else was injured.

No charges have been made and an inquest Is pending. City police officers and the coroner investigated. 1 Abby. Classified. Jl Comics.

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Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. I Peter It. 17.

"Freedom is the birthright of man; it belongs to him by right of his humanity, in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom." Immanuel Kant, German philosopher. 58th YEAR NO. 77 40 PAGES 5 SECTIONS 15'.