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'v Arc: 0 II -mr 4 tea IW at i i i fTV 'III? WiliiilUitl 1 1 PagoSB Page 24 3 WEATHER TONIGHT STORMS POSSIBLE Serving i Carolina's Lows in the 1 'Lakelands II Vv 4 1 (Dfl "RSN ft I II PAGE 2A 78th Year. No. 126 Copyright 1996. by Tht WJsx-Joumal Company Clinton vows terrorism At both Eglin Air Force Base and Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, Clinton spent time visiting individually with victims' families before delivering the eulogy at services that featured flyovers by Air Force fighters in the "missing man" formation and a bugler playing taps. Even before the services, Clinton had devoted most of his time since the explosion to highlighting his administration's efforts to combat terrorism.

In a statement Wednesday on the White House lawn as he left for France, he declared that "my first driven from the fight against terrorism." As relatives and wounded comrades of the slain servicemen sobbed during the tributes, Clinton said, "America stands with you in your sorrow and your outrage We will not rest until our efforts to capture, prosecute and punish those who did this evil deed are successful." The president cut short his European trip to devote Sunday to consoling the families of those killed in the truck bomb explosion at a military housing complex. order of business will be to focus the strength and the energy of the Group of Seven on the continuing fight against terrorism." He turned the annual economic summit of the world's seven largest industrial countries into a forum on terrorism, revamping a 40-point plan drawn up by a task force to combat international crime to highlight its anti-terrorism features. However, not all of Clinton's efforts met with success. The president got an earful from the other Please see CLINTON, page 2A WASHINGTON (AP) President Clinton said it at the White House. He said it during endless meetings at the economic summit in France.

And, most movingly, he said it at two memorial services in Florida. While the locales varied, the message remained constant: The United States will vage an all-out battle to defeat terrorism. Paying his last respects Sunday at services for 19 U.S. airmen killed in a bomb blast Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, Clinton declared: "America must not and America will not be hi. 0 Elan factions unifying to fight lawsuit SHl 'riiiMiiTrTiirii' 1 Staff photo by Tim Kaulf man Sara look alike, to earn second place in the Flotilla contest The Festival of Flowers' event brought hundreds of folks to Lake Greenwood.

The folks at Property Professionals in Greenwood decked out their boat ia true Independence Day style, even sporting an Uncle LAKELANDS INSIDE 1 CRIME PROGRAMS: Despite all the negative talk about crime lately, local youth are making positive efforts to make the Upstate safer. The Blue Ridge Council, Boy Scouts of America recently declared a war on crime, joining efforts with national organizations such as the National Crime Prevention Council, the National Sheriff's Association and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Page 3A. GETTING MADD: Law enforcement agents say drinking and driving within the next few weeks in Greenwood and Ninety Six just became an even worse idea. Local authorities are teaming up to make the roads safer during July 1-7, National Sobriety Checkpoint fWeek.

PAGE 2A. DRUG ARRESTS: City police nabbed three Greenwood residents for drug-related activi- ties during a recent undercover operation with the State Law Enforcement Division. All three arrests occurred Thursday afternoon within 20 minutes of each other near New Market Street and Taggart Avenue, half a mile from Central School. Page 2A. KEMETDEAL: KEMET announced today that it has advised Vishay Intertechnology that it was not interested in engaging in discussions on a possible merger.

KEMET is based in Greenville, but has an operation in Greenwood. Page 3A. LAURENS RACING: Frank Coates visited victory lane for the third time this season with his Ford Probe after taking the checkered in the Late Model Sportsman feature Saturday night at the Laurens Speedway. Coates, of Hodges, and Robert Godfrey also from Hodges, were the heat winners. Coates took the point on the start and lead all thirty laps on his way to victory.

Godfrey had a strong showing finishing second. Page 3B. Abby 2B Accent 1B-2B Classifieds 6B-8B Comics Community Calendar. 1B Editorials 6A Movies 2B Obituaries 4A 3B-6B Television 2B Weather Forecast 2A 1 Flotilla kicks off fmht Supremacists' book called into question COLUMBIA (AP) A 26-page booklet sympathetic to white supremacists calls for the destruction of worship sites to prevent "race mixing," and state officials investigating burned churches want to get a look at it. Authorities investigating recent black church burnings in the Southeast say they are not familiar with booklet, titled "The Bible Answers Racial Questions," but they are interested in determining any connection it may have to the arsons.

"I would like to get my hands on it," said State Law Enforcement Division Chief Robert Stewart. Stewart said he had not seen the book and did not know if other agencies investigating the church burnings knew about it. A IDEX-JontYlL PROFILE vised several employees and served as assitant to two directors, including present director Steve Odom. "Gladys is an outstanding employee because she goes beyond the call of duty. She helps me to organize and carry out all of my engagements and duties," he said.

Odom recently nominated Bulter for the State Outstanding Classified Employee Award, which she won, for her service and dedication to the office. "When I was little, all I wanted to do was to be a secretary because I thought it was so glamorous. Now I know it's tough work. Such recognition really feels good," Butler said. As administrative office assistant, Butler is in charge of budgeting, bookecping, superivsing clerical work, answering questions and requests and taking soil and feed samples.

() Butler also assists with 4-H clubs. The agriculture part of her job Please see BUTLER, page 2A 'j Employees of the Montague Avenue print shop have been coming to the flotilla every year, cooking up a feast and enjoylnzthe cool water, Bundrick said. This year, several of the group were out at 6 a.m. for the afternoon festivities, even besting the gate man' to get a prime location at the water's edge. a good old thing," said fellow worker BenjiBurch.

Two of American Speedy Printing's own, Please see FLOTILLA, page 2A By TIM KAUFFMAN Index-Journal staff writer GREENWOOD Hundreds of folks got a jump-start on Fourth of July festivities Sunday as the Flotilla docked on Lake Greenwood for the seventh straight year, The smell of barbecue and suntan lotion filled the senses, as families from Greenwood and yond converged at Greenwood State Park to watch an endless stream of boats parade on the "It's Just real fun to come out here," said Margaret Bundrick of American Speedy Printing. Extension Service worker hears it all in calls COLUMBIA (AP) Ku Klux Klan factions in the Carol inas have decided to band together to fight a lawsuit accusing South Carolina's largest Klan group of conspiring to encourage the burnings of black churches. "We're going to stand together," said Billy Finney, a board member of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "The backbone of this country is white. Christian and American." The suit, filed last month by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, on behalf of Macedonia Baptist Church in Bloomville, accuses the Christian Knights of conspiracy to encourage the burnings.

Two men charged in the cases are said to be Klan members who attended rallies near the churches shortly before the fires, the suit said. "There is a conspiracy, but it's against the white race," said Horace King, Grand Dragon of the South Carolina chapter of the Christian Knights. He denies that the Klan encouraged the torchings. "I don't support Please see page 2A By SAMANTHA HARRIS Index-Journal staff intern GREENWOOD There are strange-looking, six-legged creatures on your new shrubbery and they're eating holes in the leaves. Who do you call? Gladys Butler.

Butler is the administrative assistant at the Clemson Extension Service Office in Greenwood. She says people contact the office for assistance with strange pests, for information on gardening and can-, ning, for soil testing and even for recipes. "We get a lot of interesting calls about everything from fertilizer to pet care," Butler said. In the extension office, Butler says the staff handles requests and complaints about just about everything. In most cases, Butler says, the questions are referred to field agriculture agents.

But if the question is about something common like recipes for canning or how to get rid of Japanese beetles, it can be handled right there in the extension office. Butler, who lives in Greenwood, has worked at the office for 28 years longer than anyone else who works there. In her time there, she has supcr- 3 Fourth mix news, call KEttSTALK, paga mm Greenwood man killed in shooting GREENWOOD A 28-year-old McCormick man has been charged with murder in the nightclub shooting of a Greenwood man early Sunday morning. Thomas Wideman, 23, of Wisewood Apartment No. 6 in Greenwood, died shortly before 3 a.m.

at Self Memorial Hospital, said Greenwood County Coroner Grady Hill. He had been shot three times with a 9 mm handgun, twice in the chest and once in the back, Hill said. The autopsy was held late this morning in Newberry. Jimmy Gary Gilchrist, 28, P.O. Box 82, Whitetown Road, was charged with the murder after turning himself in to police at noon Sunday, said C.E.

Gable chief deputy for the McCormick County Sheriffs Office, Wideman was shot shortlyfcefore 2 a.m. Sunday morning at Freeman's Place nightclub on U.S. 221 North in McCormick, just past the Greenwood County line. Gable said. Wideman and Gilchrist had engaged in an argument about an hour earlier, according to incident reports Please see DEATH, page 2A 5 Staff photo by Samantha Harris Gladys Butler, administrative assistant, left, at the Clemson Extension Office in Greenwood, shows her plaque for the Outstanding Classified Employee Award to her secretary Linda Carroll.

Butler says she could not do her job efficiently without Carroll. For the latest In Greenwood area i 1-L.