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Lakelands! State 4A The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. DEATHS AND FUNERALS Missing girls 3 Pearl Calvert HnvFA PATH Marv Pearl Calvert 94. of i Minnie Pittman, 100 Beacon St, Greenwood found in Nevada Carolina widow of Robert Lee Calvert, form Mayor of Honea rain, aiea ugusi, lxvo, at hiin I Bom in Abbeville County, she was a nr I 1 DIiaii n. 1 Billy Breedlove, Route 4, Nations Community, Abbeville Peart Calvert. 206 Carolina Aven Honea Path Alia Wileon, 303 Park Dr, htm me late james uioru auu muuc wuk; is-ugcrs.

was retired from Chiquola Manufacturing and a charter member of Chiquola Methodist Church. Surviving are a son, Bob Calvert of Honea Path a daughter, Mattie Browning of Belton; 12 grander, dren; 21 great-grandchildren; and a 5 Services will be Thursday at 2 pjn. at Chiquola Methodist Church with the Rev. Phillip Stout officiating. Burial will follow in the Garden of Memories.

The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.ni The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Pruitt Funeral Home. on the Internet and they think the teens left town willingly. E-mail sent to the girls was laced with vaguely dark references that prompted Summer's mother, Connie Nix, to fear they were dabbling in satanism. But an informal leader of a cyberspace gathering room where the trio may have met said they were merely taking part in a Gothic experience and that it did not involve satanism. Venger Kawaguchi, 25, of Florida has seen all three post messages in the Internet Relay Chat group he created; five years ago called Vampire.

He says Internet explorers discuss the Gothic art scene and life, talking about alternative music, artwork and literature that grew from the dark, gloomy world of vampire stories and myths. into a car with a man believed to be Cash Morriss, 18, of Sparks. Police intend to question the girls, Morriss and his family to find out how long the teen-agers have been in the area and to clarify Morriss' role in their trip. "He told his relatives he was going to Yosemite and the Bay area, and they have no reason not to believe that," police Lt. David Saville said.

He said Morriss has no criminal record. Spartanburg County sheriff's spokeswoman Heidi Owen said Sparks investigators reported that Morriss, who calls himself "The Dark One," called family members in his hometown late Tuesday and said he was nearby. Investigators said Morriss and the girls met in an online chat room The family is at the home. Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Upstate, 506 Summitt Anderson, S.C. 29621.

Alia Wilson IVA Alia Ruth Fleming Wilson, 73, of 303 Park widow of Travis M. Wilson, died August 20, 1996, at National Health Care of Anderson. Bom in Anderson, she was a daughter of the late Lawrence Green and Zona Welborn Fleming. She was retired from Jackson Mills and was a member Calvary Baptist Temple. Surviving are two sons, James Wilson of Andersbn and Jerry Wilson of Iva; two brothers, Raymond Fleming of Honea Path and Lawrence Fleming of Iva; two sisters, Hilda Moorse of Ninety Six and Alma Merrill of Margate, a stepsister, Ethel Fleming of Due West; four grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren, i Graveside services will be Thursday at 4 p.m.

at Iva City Cemetery with the Rev. Jonathan Branyon, the Rev. Tony Tllley and Ray McConnell officiating. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at McDougald Funeral Home. The family is at the home of her son, Jerry Wilson, 206 Hampton Iva.

OBITUARIES Obituary notices are published as requested to accommodate those desiring more information than is provided in the normal news articles. Obituary notices are prepared and billed through our Advertising Department at 223-1411. Dr. Arnold Mulkey Sr, The Pine, Millen, Ga. Dr.

Arnold Mulkey Sr. MJLLEN, Ga. Dr Arnold Peel Mulkey 84, of The Pines, husband of Victoria Davis Mulkey, died August '20, 1996, at Jenkins County Hospital. Bom in Vidette, he was a medical doctor for 62 years. He was a World War II veteran of the Army Medical Corps.

He was a graduate of Richmond Academy, Emory at Oxford and the Medical College of Georgia. He operated Mulkey Hospital. He was former Chief of Staff of Jenkins County Hospital and was the Medical Director of Jenkins County Emergency Medical Service. He was a member of Ogeechee Medical Association, the Georgia Medical Association, the American Medical Association, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Southern Orthopedic Association. He was also a charter member of the Millen Rotary Club.

Surviving, in addition to his wife, are a son, Dr. Arnold P. Mulkey Jr. of Greenwood, S.C; a daughter, Angie M. Gay of Millen; a sister, Jane M.

Green of Atlanta; seven grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. Graveside services were today at 2 p.m. at Millen Cemetery with Charles Cravey officiating. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Millen Rotary Club and the Jenkins County Emergency Medical Service. The family will receive friends at the home.

Crowe-Fields Funeral Home is in charge. Billy Breedlove ABBEVILLE William Thomas "Billy" Breedlove, 59, of RL 4, Nations Community, husband of Mary Anne Loftis Breedlove, died August 20, 1996, at his home. Born in Abbeville, he was a son of the late Hugh and Lucy Palmer Breedlove. He was a retired wholesale salesman for McArthur-Datrey in Ft. Pierce, Fla.

He was a graduate of Abbeville High School and attended Clemson University where he played football. He was a member of Abbeville Presbyterian Church. Surviving, in addition to his wife of the home, are a son, Thomas Keith Breedlove of and two sisters, Betty Clinkscales and Sara Kennedy, both of Atlanta, Ga. Services will be Thursday at 1 1 a.m. at Harris Funeral Home with the Rev.

Sam Thomason officiating. Burial will be in Long Cane Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at the funeral home. The family is at the home. Memorials may be made to Smyrna United Methodist Church in Lowndesville.

Greenwood Economic Alliance hosts group from Georgia By SAMANTHA HARRIS Index-Journal staff intern GREENWOOD Key economic leaders from the Peach State came to see how green is made in Greenwood Tuesday. The Greenwood County Economic Alliance hosted members of the Georgia Economic Development Association (GEDA) in a conference at Piedmont Technical College. "We were looking for some place close by for our fact-finding committee to visit," Sallie Comstock said. "We're pleased with what we found in Greenwood." GEDA representatives heard reports on Greenwood's Alliance from its president, Lex Walters, and reports on CPW's progress from manager Steve Reeves. Richard Coleman, manager of the Greenwood Metro Sewer Commission, briefed the representatives about the role of utilities in economic development.

The mayors of Greenwood, Ninety Six and Ware Shoals spoke to the group about maintaining the identities of individual towns in the county, while working together for economic advancement Ninety Six Mayor Charlie Harts noted that he, Ware Shoals Mayor George Rush and Greenwood Mayor Floyd Nicholson often meet to share ideas on the betterment of the county from an economic standpoint. "We're stressing cooperation, collaboration and communication," Mayor Floyd Nicholson said. Kathy Davis, GEDA representative, said Nicholson was on the right track. "We need each other in order to make our towns and counties grow and thrive," she said. SPARKS, Nev.

(AP) Police have found two South Carolina girls who were missing for a week after they were seen leaving with a man they met on the Internet whose computer name was "The Dark One." Casey Thompson, 15, of Pauline, S.C, and Summer Nix, 13, of Spartanburg, S.C, were booked into a juvenile detention center as runaways. Investigators hope to question the pair today on how they came to Nevada. Detective Dave DePaoli said one girl was leaving a Washoe Valley home south of Reno and the other was found in a convenience store parking lot around 8 p.m. Tuesday night. 1 "They, were staying wherever they could," DePaoli said.

The girls were last seen in Spartanburg on Aug. 13, getting Troopers ge ay raises COLUMBIA (AP) Highway Patrol troopers have received more than $234,000 in pay raises after of bickering between suspended Public Safety Director Boykin Rose and Gov. David Beasley. Interim agency director William "Eddie" Gunn said Tuesday that 111 troopers got a raise based on their rank. Forty-five troopers 1st class and 22 senior troopers received 10 percent pay increases, while 44 lance corporals got 5 percent raises, he said.

Gunn said the raises would be retroactive to July 2, the beginning of the fiscal year. Most of the raises were due on that date, though several were supposed to go into effect in February, said Sgt. Robbie Rowe, president of the. South Carolina Troopers Association. Gunn would not say whether the troopers who were due raises in February would get their back pay.

Rowe said he was glad the rest of the raises came in as fast as they did. "They wanted to do the right thing and they did the right thing," he said. Rowe said some troopers were concerned they might have been pawns in the battle between Rose and Beasley, who has vowed to fire the director for alleged mismanagement. "But they gave us 150 percent support on this issue," Rowe said. "We're very excited that they saw the need and took the step to get these guys what they deserved." "It is great that we were able to work out this much-needed and well-deserved pay increase for our state troopers," Beasley said.

"These are the officers who work the front lines to ensure our public safety." Rose said Beasley had blocked the raises since February. But Beasley 's spokeswoman denied that. Since then, troopers had continued to earn seniority, but not the new ranks and fatter paychecks. In May. Rose assured troopers that raises and back pay would come as soon as the budget was finalized for 1996-97.

But that didn't happen, and Rose was suspended on July 1. Gunn said the agency will realign its priorities and look at its equip- ment purchases to help balance off the pay raises. "We felt comfortable with going ahead with the raises now," he said. MINNIE FREEMAN PITTMAN Minnie Freeman Pittman, 76, of 100 Beacon Street, widow of Carl Leon Pittman, died Monday, August 19, 1996 at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Born in Pickens County, she was a daughter of the late John W.

and Montrie Hendricks Freeman. She was retired from the Harris Plant of Greenwood Mills and a member of the Harris Baptist Church where she was a member of the T.E.L. Sunday School Class. She was predeceased by a daughter, Kathryn Pittman Silvers, and two brothers, J. W.

and Perry Freeman, both formerly of Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Charles "Margie" P. Lindley of Piedmont, a son-in-law, W. L. "Bill" Silvers of Summerville, five grandsons, David and Susan Lindley, Steve and Jackie Lindley, Scott Lindley, all of Greenville; Lee and Julie Silvers, and Dwayne and Pam Silvers, all of Summerville; eight great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Harris Baptist Church with the Rev. Frank Thomas officiating with burial in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. The body will be placed in the church at 1 0 a.m. Thursday.

Pallbearers will be David Lindley, Steve Lindley, Scott Lindley, Lee Silvers, Larry Mobley and Dwayne Silvers. Honorary escort will be T.E.L. Sunday School Class of Harris Baptist Church. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday night at the Harley Funeral Home.

The family request that memorials be made to Harris Baptist Church, 300 Center Street, Greenwood, SC 29649. The family will be at the home, 100 Beacon St. Harley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Pd. obit Judge upholds ban on building seawalls Publication founder dies CHICAGO (AP) John A.

McDermott, a social activist who founded the Chicago Reporter, a publica-, lion devoted to analyzing local racial issues, died of leukemia Saturday. He was 70. McDermott, a native of Philadelphia, moved to Chicago in 1960 to be the executive director of the? Catholic Interracial Council, a lay organization that promoted civil rights. McCormick water situation improves several resolutions including one designating this week as Industry Appreciation Week. nance that would enforce water use limits in the county if the water shortage became severe, co-interim administrator Tracy Dorn said.

"Actually, the water situation is improving a lot," he said. "We don't anticipate a major problem, but we want to have something on the books just in Council also passed first reading on a road-naming ordinance that would facilitate E-911 routes and By SAMANTHA HARRIS Index-Journal staff intern McCORMICK Though the water situation looks better in McCormick, an ordinance that would issue fines for excessive water use may soon be in place, officials said. County Council members approved second reading on an ordi Patterson said he did not want to comment on his decision until he has a chance to review the documents and issue a written order later this week. However, McCaskill said the judge indicated "this was a matter that should be taken up in the General Assembly not in the courtroom." A message for Brewton Hagood, an attorney for the plaintiffs, was not returned. He had argued that other states allow property owners to install such sandbags.

The current erosion is caused by currents swirling around an offshore sand shoal making its way to the beach. The lawsuit said the erosion devices would not erode the beach because the shoal eventually would attach, widening the shore. McCaskill said if the request had been granted, "it would have signaled the beginning of the end for the beaches of South Carolina." The Wild Dunes landowners still have a suit on file asking the courts to declare the Beachfront Management Act unconstitutional. That's the argument David Lucas used in a suit over adjacent CHARLESTON (AP) A judge says Isle of Palms residents cannot install giant sandbags to protect their homes in the Wild Dunes resort. The six property Owners had asked Circuit Judge Larry Patterson to grant a temporary injunction letting them use 750 sandbags, each weighing at least 2 tons, or a line of sand-filled tubes, each 30 feet in circumference.

The state argued that both alternatives are prohibited under the Beachfront Management Act. The act, passed in 1988, bans new seawalls that can cause a scouring action of the waves, washing sand from the beach. The state does allow sandbags to protect property on an emergency basis. The property owners got permission last year to scrape sand and use 50-gallon sandbags weighing up to 850 pounds each. Before that, the state allowed only 5-gaIlon sandr bags.

"We consider the denial of this injunction extremely important for beachfront management," Donna McCaskill, spokeswoman for the state Office of Ocean and Coastal Resources Management, said after Tuesday's ruling. Dorn gave council an update on the sewer treatment plant plan, saying construction could begin in late November or early next year. Scott Scharinger, co-interim administrator, reported progress on the county's bid for a Community Development Block Grant. Rapist gets 55 years for assaulting therapist HOUSTON (AP) A paroled eventually gave up and left the "She was trying to help him, and sault. Tyler wrestled the therapist to the floor of her office on Dec.

26 while she was preparing a bill for him, prosecutor Cindy Marshall said. When he let go of one arm in an attempt to unfasten her pants, the therapist stabbed him in the face with a pen, Ms. Marshall said. He ne just took advantage of her," Ms. Marshall said.

rapist got 55 years in prison for trying to rape the therapist in charge of his sex-offender counseling. Joseph Tyler, 42, who had been attending group therapy as a parole condition after serving time for a 1983 rape conviction, was convicted Tuesday of attempted sexual as Tyler had been attending weekly sessions for about six months before the attack. Gay pride festival coming to Greenville Woman charged with killing second husband a woman who answered the phone this morning at Mrs. Gilbert's home. Mrs.

Gilbert's lawyer, Charles Daniels, issued a statement through his office this morning. 'Terri Gilbert has told the police '1 1 hannonnl i I uu'pvuvu, uiuac imu nave nut Sunday. The Rev. Boyd McCraney, president of Greenville's Interdenominational Alliance, said he also supports the group's right to march, but "I think it's a bad thing for anybody to be promoting sin." Estimates of the number of people attracted to the Columbia parade this year ranged from 2,000 by police to 5,000 by the organizers, who say they expect turnout to be higher in Greenville because of the city's proximity to Atlanta and Charlotte and the passion stirred by the anti-gay resolution. cnanged and there is simply nothing more that can be added until a proper investigation of the evidence," Daniels' statement said.

'There has already been a great ordeal of speculation, unfair suspicion and partial disclosures by others and we do not wish to add to that." and that she was defending herself. There (were) bullet holes all over the trailer and casings scattered all over the place," Carlos Pino, a Sandoval County sheriffs deputy at the time, told the Albuquerque Journal. Investigators learned about the Hotchkiss case from a newspaper clipping that was sent to them anonymously, Albuquerque police Lt. Richard Tarango said. Investigators also were looking at the possibility she had another husband between Hotchkiss' death and her marriage to Gilbert in 1975.

"It looks like there were three husbands, and we know two are dead," Tarango said. "I'd like to know where the other one is." Tarango said Mrs. Gilbert is refusing to talk to police. Gilbert, 49, filed for divorce in March, citing "discord and conflict" as the reason. "Look, this is a very trying time for us.

Please leave us alone," said ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) A woman who was cleared of wrongdoing after claiming she killed her ex-husband in self-defense in 1974 told police she mistook her current husband for burglar and fatally shot him. Tcrri Gilbert, 49, was released on $50,000 property bond Tuesday. She had been held on a murder charge in the shooting of her husband, Eugene Gilbert, a Bernalillo County commissioner whose body was found in the basement of her house Sunday night. Mrs.

Gilbert had called police to say she had just shot a burglar. She was arrested early Monday and appeared in court but did not enter a plea. Her ex-husband, Stephen Hotchkiss, was shot to death in 1974 in a trailer in Corrales. A grand jury ruled (hat the shooting was justifiable homicide and she was not charged. "She said he was attacking her GREENVILLE (AP) A gay advocacy group will bring its week-long spring festival to downtown Greenville, partly "as a little bit of defiance" of the county's anti-homosexual resolution.

Events will include the annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Movement parade, which has been held in downtown Columbia since 1990. Organizers had planned to move the parade from Columbia next April because of construction work at the Slatehouse, but "the resolution cemented the vote," said Derrick Gunter, chairman of the organization's regional committee. "You can say what you want, but this is America and we can do this," he said. Organizers also hope the festival, which offers a positive image of the gay community, will do some healing after the May resolution declaring homosexuality incompatible with community standards. "It's time for mainstream Greenvillians to see we aren't the horrible people we're made out to be.

We're not pedophiles. We're responsible adults in responsible relationships," said Heather E. Price, the festival's co-chairwoman. County Councilman Scott Case, a vocal proponent of the resolution, is not pleased. "I think it's unfortunate that there are those that would stage an event to promote an illegal and immoral lifestyle," Case said.

"I think they'll find the reception pretty chilling." However, he said he supports the group's legal right to hold the festival, which is scheduled to begin April 14. It will feature a film series, poetry readings, parties at downtown cafes and a candlelight vigil honoring AIDS victims. The gay pride march down Main Street will be held the following Saturday, and a motorcycle caravan to raise money for a local gay-rights group, Affirm, will be held on Call News Talk 24 Greenwood Area News! Complete directory published daily in The Index-Journal LOCALISMS Ware Shoals, located in the northwest corner of Greenwood County on the banks of the Saluda River, is in the Piedmont section of South Carolina and has a population of approximately 2,300..