The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 9

CITYSTATE PAGE9 Monday January 22, 1990 The Index-Journal Weather Greenwood 'Old Reliable9 building becomes new law office pieseseBeBBesBsaBaBawsaeeeBasBeaBes-seea awwawjaMnaaansanananasBBBnaneaasnaawaawavsw it L-lLHllLLlJUiias1'l ''aaeaeeeeeeeaeaieeessn ir 1 i is Hail and farewell Greenwood Mayor John Nave (right) was one of more than 100 well-wishers bidding outgoing Greenwood Com munity Theatre Donald McKellar farewell as director at the Inn on the Square Saturday night. (Staff photo by Johnny Lott) By STEVEN REYNOLDS Staff writer A lot of changes have taken place around tne Rosenberg building in Uptown Greenwood in its 105 years. This time, though, instead of being a silent witness to change, the building itself undergoing the change. Steve Welch, a 34-year old at torney, is remodeling the top floor of the old clothing store into office space for his law firm. "It's amazing bow these old buildings can accommodate our new technology," said Welch, who moved into the new facility Thursday.

"Tne real thing that attracted me to it is the history," Welch said, "the fact that it's one of the oldest buildings in Greenwood. And the Rosenberg family is one of the most respected names in Greenwood." Abraham Rosenberg moved his clothing store, the Old Reliable, into the building in the 1880s. It was the first store in the Upstate to sell clothes at a fixed price. Other merchants were still using the barter system to sell their goods. There were several merchan dising innovations at the turn of the century that the Rosenberg family utilized here," Welch said.

The Old Reliable was also one of the first stores to employ female clerks and bookkeepers. when Abraham Rosenberg died in 1920, the store was handed down to his son, Ernest. The younger Rosenberg also served in various military campaigns he Steve Welch remodels historic building Beach businesses hustle to prepare for spring season MYRTLE BEACH (AP) A wave of optimism is sweeping business owners along the Grand Strand who are frantically trying to repair destruction from Hurricane Hugo in time for the official start of tourism season next month. 'We can't afford to be doubting director of tourism with the state and Tourism. "There's no choice.

We depends on it." The Grand Strand depends upon revenue. "There will be some rough spots, you'll see the beach look like Myrtle Beach should look," said John Maxwell, president of the Hotel and Slaying of Illinois girl, police say Confession solves 9 77 murder Four months after the storms vicious winds and water surges, signs of destruction are still apparent. The Strand, a 60 mile strip of north to the North Carolina border, rooms, condominiums and cottages, as steadily as it has been, 85 percent tourist season, he said. In Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle smaller hotels that won't be rebuilt. City, that number is much higher.

In Garden City, Rod Swaim of fought Pancho Villa on the Mexican border and served in the U.S. Army in both world wars. He was discharged as a colonel and was known as the "Colonel" to area residents from then on. As Greenwood changed from a 19th century village to a 20th century city, Rosenberg's store remained a landmark to the town's inhabitants. "This store was like an institution," Welch said.

"Everybody bought their clothes here in the 50s and 60s." Welch noted that, among other things, he's found newspaper ads from years ago in the old building that brought home the changes abduction site at the time." An extensive investigation over the years filled three boxes of police files, Connard said. "We were following up on leads actively for eight years. We even talked to Ted Bundy, and Henry Lee Lucas from Texas A task force of local and regional authorities labored over the case, but "as time progressed the leads became fewer and fewer" and the task force was dissolved, he said. "We were following up on leads actively for eight years. We even talked to Ted Bundy, and Henry Lee Lucas from Texas," Connard said, of two noted confessors to serial killings.

Connard said Kerpan called from a phone in a convenience store in Inman and a police car was sent to the store to pick him up. He was arrested on a fugitive warrant issued by the Orange County, sheriff's de-partmemt for a parole violation following a firearms conviction, Connard said. estimates about one-third of all condominium units in that area won't have pools. Estimates on the number of rental cottages that won't be rebuilt in time range from 10 percent to 50 percent. "Overall, I'm optimistic," Swaim said.

"But certainly Hugo is going to have an impact. If it's just a 10 impact. It may be more, it may be The sun rose today at 7:32, will set at 5:49 and will rise Tuesday at 7:32. Friday's high was 64 (18 C) and the low was 42 (6 C). Saturday's high was 69 (21 C) and the low was 41 (5 C).

Sunday's high was 63 (17 C) and the low was 33 (1 C). There was .5 inches (1.27 cm) of precipitation over a 72-hour period ending at 8 a.m. today. Total precipitation for January is 2.10 inches (5.33 Average precipitation for January is 4.16 incnes (10.56 South Carolina Mountains: Mostly clear and cool tonight. Lows in the low 30s.

Light and variable winds. Mosuy sunny Tuesday. Higns around J. Foothills. Piedmont (includes Greenwood): Mostly clear and cool tonight.

Lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds. Mostly sunny Tuesday. Highs in the low 10 uuu ws. Midlands: Gear and cool to night.

Lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds. Mostly sunny Tuesday. Highs in the upper 60s. Coast: Clear and cool tonight.

Lows in the upper 30s. Light and variable winds. Mostly sunny Tuesday. Highs in the mid 60s. And on the beaches, it will be mostly sunny and mild Tuesday.

North Carolina Today mostly sunny except partly cloudy in the northern mountains. Hums in tne sos to mid-60s with some 40s in the northern mountains. Tonight fair. Lows 30 to 40 except some 20s in the mountains. Tuesday mostly sunny.

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Wllee Barrs MisnasJtonJM. JB dr Two-thirds of the 300 rooms in Garden City's Holiday inn, wnicn normally attracts numerous convention bookings about now, were ruined. The hotel is planning to reopen in mid-June. "We were hit as hard as anybody, and we'll be ready for the season," hotel sales director Craig Smith said. "I think that shows you Thomases," said Robert G.

liming, Department of Parks, Recreation have to be ready. Our livelihood tourism for $1.5 billion in annual but all in all I think by Easter Motel Association. coast stretching from Georgetown has about 55,000 hotel and motel Maxwell said. If work continues of those units should be ready for Beach, there are only a handful of In areas like Surfside and Garden Dunes Beach and Golf Vacations percent impact, that's still a big less." know anything happened by then. in Myrtle Beach, the indoor pool and be completely ready by March," which peaks July 4, starts picking page 13) that the Strand is ready.

You won't At the 130-room Beach Side Motel and most rooms on the first and second floors were destroyed. Upper- floor rooms sustained severe rain damage a few days later. Last month, most of its pipes froze and burst when the coast received more than a foot of snow. "We'll be ready to open Feb. 1 SUA photo by 8tortn.

BeTtnMnv that have occurred since Rose nberg's was a thriving business. "It's hard for you to really realize sometimes the drastic price changes that have occured just since the '60s," said the Due West native. Welch, a 1979 Erskine alumnus, bought the building last Septem ber from Rosenberg daughters Alyce Tresenfeld and Evelyn Gross. He said that part of the deal was that he retain the name of the original owner. Welch pointed to two spots wnere he said ne would nave pia ques installed with the name of (See Reliable, page 13) He had lived in Inman for several months after moving there from Florida, Connard said.

Authorities from South Carolina, Florida and Virginia planned to "interview him relating to unsolved homicides in their jurisdictions," Connard said. The Chicago Tribune, citing unnamed sources, reported that Kerpan implicated himself in other murders in several states. Connard declined to comment on the report, saying: "It's just standard procedure to interview somebody who had been on the run for 13 years." The case had baffled authorities for years. Lisa Slusser left her Waukegan home on Aug. 24, 1977, and rode her bicycle to a vacant field near a highway about two blocks away to collect acorns and weeds to feed to her pet rabbit.

Her family reported her missing. After a two-day effort in which more than 100 searchers combed the area, her body was found on a dirt road near the Des Plaines River about 11 miles northwest of the city. Police said at the time that she had been abducted, sexually as saulted, stabbed 19 times and her skull fractured. Spartanburg Co. deputies may get seized drug funds to buy auto pistols SPARTANBURG (AP) Spartanburg County Sheriff's deputies may soon be behind semi-automatic handguns instead of in front of them, thanks to confiscated drug money and property the sheriff wants to use to boost the department's fire power.

Sheriff Bill Coffey has proposed using the special fund of assets confiscated from convicted drug dealers to pay half the cost of the high-capacity pistols. He said the guns will give law officers "the edge in crisis confrontations." Coffey said it would be the first time the county has supplied its law officers with weapons. He said he believes officers should not have to provide their own handguns, as is currently the case. Total cost of the gun purchase is about $109,000. The gun purchase exemplifies how the special fund is helping put drug traffickers behind ban without increasing the financial burden.

"(The drug fund) is a tremendous savings to the taxpayers Coffey said. "It's just a good idea to take the profits from drun deal. ing and turn it around to use it to enhance and fund law enforcement efforts." The Sheriffs Office has collected $66,000 since July from the drug fund, $22,000 of which has been used to purchase Pistols, page 13) said Sherry Roberts, a clerk at Beach Side. More than 60 percent of the Grand Strand's tourism income comes during the spring and summer, according to the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. The season, up around March, when the Canadian-American Days Festival is held WAUKEGAN, 111.

(AP) Police say they had many leads and suspects in the 1977 slaying of a 12-year-old Waukegan girl, out probably would not have solved the case if a South Carolina man hadn't admitted to the killing. Gary D. Kerpan, 40, of Inman, S.C, was being held without bond Sunday in the Lake County Jail, after being transferred from Spartanburg, S.C, said jail officer Wendell Russell. Kerpan was charged Friday with murder in the stabbing and bludgeoning death of Lisa Slusser, who in 1977 disappeared from this city about 40 miles north of Chicago, said Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Ralph Connard.

Kerpan also was questioned in Spartanburg about unsolved homicides in three southern states before being brought back to Illinois, Connard said. Kerpan, a furniture mover who lived in Waukegan at the time of the girl's death, was arrested after he called FBI agents in South Carolina on Thursday and said he wanted to talk about a murder in Illinois years ago, Connard said. "It was a crime of opportunity," he said. "Mr. Kerpan resided about three blocks north of the Genealogical officers posure Facility satellite, a 10.5-ton laboratory the size of a bus, landed with the space shuttle Columbia on Saturday.

"We've been told to expect damage to our experiment, including a coating of ash, the head of the physics department said. A retary, Jo Morton, Absent Patricia Mann, Johnny Lott) (See Beach, S.C. makes it big time in movie business icith $8 million in'89 ANDERSON (AP) South Carolina drew in more than $8 million from the film industry last Sear, and state officials are hop-ig for an encore performance in 1990. The state wants to court the big-time Hollywood film industry in order to produce profits for state businesses, says Isabel Hill, director of tne South Carolina Film Office in Columbia. Abbeville County currently is under consideration as a site for a major movie in 1990, Ms.

Hill said. Last year, film companies spent about $8 million in South Carolina shooting at least 10 major projects in seven counties. That includes "Coup de Ville," a major motion picture that features the Ritz Restaurant on U.S. 29 North near Pelzer, to be released this spring, and "Modern Love," directed and produced in Columbia by actor-director Hobby Benson. Also, three television movies were filmed in South Carolina last year, including "Unspeakable Acts," which aired on ABC last week, and several television commercials for companies such as Coca Cola and Honda.

Film companies were ready to shoot two other films and a television movie last year, but Hurricane Hugo messed up locations, she said. Last year's activity has spurred the State Development Board to (See Movies, page 13) Wash, vice president, and Henrietta editor of the chapter's newspaper. were Tom Cox, president, and treasurer. (Staff photo by Officers for the Old Ninety Six District Chapter of the S.C. Genealogical Society are, from left, Norman Dodson, recording secretary, Lucille Morrow, correspondence secretary, Jane Barfield, membership sec Radiation experiment will return to Clemson from space The satellite remained in orbit in "a fairly hostile environment" longer than expected, McNulty said.

McNulty said he expects to bring the experiment to Clemson (See Experiment, page 13) CLEMSON (AP) Six years after it was sent into space aboard a satellite, a radiation experiment will finally return to Clemson University physics professor Peter McNulty. McNulty's experiment and others on the Long Duration Ex Hi at Naples, Fls. Lew 4 at West Yellowstone, Host..