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4A The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. LakelandsNation Thursday, July 17, 1997 DEATHS AND FUNERALS Authorities spin wide web to catch Versace's killer Daisy Davis, 207 McKeilar vr urvenwwu Ryan Johnson 213 Vare St, Greenwood MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The elusive suspected serial killer who police think shot Gianni mma Dustin Driver, 202 UcGowan Ave Abbeville Versace remained free today, somehow avoiding arrest despite a massive manhunt intense media attention. More than 1.400 FBI agents fanned out across south GIANNI VERSACE slayings of Jeffrey Trail, who was found beaten to death in Madson's apartment, and Chicago investor Lee Miglin. In three of the previous slayings, police say Cunanan left a stolen vehicle and used another one to flee.

Coffey said police are combing through recovered cars stolen about the time of Versace's murder. Cunanan was linked to Versace's death after the discovery of a red truck in a parking garage near the murder scene. The vehicle had been stolen in New Jersey after Reese's slaying, and prosecutors say a passport and check bearing Cunanan's name were found inside. A man fitting Cunanan's description was seen getting into a taxi near the garage, and police said Cunanan's clothes were found near the truck. Federal prosecutors in New Jersey said a weapon was used in three of the killings.

Versace, Reese and Madson were the only victims that were shot. Prosecutors also said investigators found a gym bag containing bullets in Madson's apartment and that the bag bore Cunanan's name. In Miami, hundreds of people joined reporters in front of Versace's Mediterranean-style villa. The steps where the designer was slain were covered with flowers, candles, cards and a silver cross. Versace will be cremated and his family planned to fly to Italy today with his remains for a private memorial in Milan, WTVJ-TV reported.

The Italy-America Chamber of Commerce announced that a memorial will be held Friday morning at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Miami. that they had a videotape from a security camera at a hotel near Versace's home that showed a man in shorts and a T-shirt running down an alley after the slaying. Witnesses said the killer wore similar clothing. The search has turned into a national effort.

Fliers with four different photos of Cunanan were handed out in West Hollywood, while New York City offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to his capture. There have been purported sightings of Cunanan virtually everywhere a laundry in Oklahoma City, a national park in the West. Witnesses said he was spotted outside a Boca Raton nightclub Tuesday night, hours after Versace's murder. "It's a very large manhunt, an intense manhunt," said Paul Philip, agent in charge of the FBI's Miami office. "Most of the leads we are concentrating on are Florida Police have been swamped with tips.

"1 don't know if it's hundreds or if it's thousands, but we're getting a lot," said John Coffey, special agent supervisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. "They're coming from everywhere, from citizens, from law enforcement officers." Cunanan has been charged in two of the slayings in his alleged killing spree. Federal prosecutors in New Jersey charged him Wednesday with the May 9 shooting death of William Reese, a cemetery caretaker in Pennsville. Cunanan already had been charged in the May shooting of Minneapolis architect David Madson, an ex-lover. Cunanan is also a suspect in the Michael Davis GREENWOOD Michael Dale Davis infant son of Michael Dale Davis and Kelly Raye Dil-leshaw.

died July 16, 1997 at Self Memorial Hospital. Surviving, in addition to his parents, are a half sister, Victoria Nicole Davis of the home; paternal grandparents, Linda French of Salisbury, N.C. and Robert French of Saluda; maternal grandparents, Rick and Joyce Dilleshaw of Greenwood; and maternal great-grandmothers, Jewel Cullens and Mrs. J.D. Dilleshaw, both of Greenwood.

Services will be at 4 p.m. Friday at Harley Funeral Home with the Rev. Carroll Harrison officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at the funeral home.

The family is at the home of his great-grandmother. Jewel Cullens, 312 Crescent Dr. Daisy Davis GREENWOOD Services for Daisy Mae Adams Davis will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Marshall Chapel Baptist Church with the Rev. Henry D.

Smith officiating, assisted by the Rev. A.E. Dale Drennon and the Rev. Oliver Baylor. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Pallbearers will be nephews. Flower bearers will be nieces. The family will receive friends Friday from 7, to 8 p.m. at Robinson arid Son Mortuary.

The family is at the home at the home, 207 McKel-larDr. Mary White MCCORMICK Services for Mary Reddick White will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at ML Lebanon Baptist Churdh with the Rev. E.M. Gordon officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Pallbearers will be James Davis, Vernon Suttles, Dwayne Jones, Otis White Jr. Calvin White and De- rald Tutt. Flower bearers will be Tonya White, Jemika Jones, Erica Thompkins, Jenifer Jones, Shirley Tutt and Mary A.

White, The family is at the home of a son, Tyrone White, White-Dansby Road, McCormick County. Walker Funeral Home is in charge. Dustin Driver ABBEVILLE Dustin Lee Driver, 12, 202 McGowan died July 17, 1997, at the Anderson Area Medical Center. Born in Anderson, he was a son of Danny Lee and jr Cynthia Shuler Driver. He was a sixth-grade student at Wright Middle School.

Surviving, in addition to his parents of the home, are a brother, Charles Scott Driver of the home, pater-nal grandparents, Roy and Hazel Driver of Antreville; maternal grandmother, JoAnne Shuler of Abbeville; Florida on Wednesday, a day after the 50-year-old fashion designer was gunned down on the steps of his South Beach mansion. Authorities watched the Miami bus terminal, airport and its busy seaport and trooped into gay bars and hotels. They were looking for Andrew Cunanan, a 27-year-old alleged gay prostitute suspected of four murders in Minnesota, Illinois and New Jersey since April 29. While those crimes drew some attention, the brazen slaying of Versace has put Cunanan in the national spotlight. His photograph was ok the cover of nearly every newspaper, constantly splashed on television and plastered on wanted posters around the country especially in gay ''He's not your run-of-the mill spree or serial killer," said Lt.

Dale Bareness, head of the Minneapolis police homicide unit. "He's very intelligent, very cunning, a con man." Authorities have offered no motive 'for Versace's killing and did not say how the two men came to cross paths. Police refused to confirm reports Vary White, iScComUcK Charhe Attawny, Rt 670, Saluda Ruby Lott, Willow Creek Apartment, Saluda. Johnny Brooks, LaSalle SL, Saluda Annie Washington 242 Bouknlght Ferry Road. Saluda 1 Annie Washington SALUDA Annie Ruth Daniels Washington, 84, 242 Bouknight Ferry Road, died July 15, 1997 at Self Memorial Hospital.

Bom in Saluda County, she was a daughter of the late Mary Daniels Scott. She was a member of Mt. Moses C.M.E. Church and the Women's Aide Society. Surviving are a daughter, Mary Martin of Saluda; a stepson, Eddie Graham of Saluda; two sisters, Naiome Daniels and Wilma Howard, both of Saluda; 11 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and 33 great-great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Mt. Moses C.M.E. Church with the Rev. B.B.

Boozer officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers and flower bearers will be friends of the family. The family is at the home. Butler and Son Funeral Home is in charge.

Ryan Johnson GREENWOOD Ryan Scott Johnson, 7-day-old son of Harvey and Donna Massey Johnson of 213 Ware Street, died July 16, 1997, at the Medical College of Georgia, Surviving, in addition to his parents of the home, are paternal grandmother, Ethel Johnson of Ninety Six; paternal grandfather, Ralph Harvley of Ninety Six; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Troy Mas-, sey of Greenwood; and sister, Sarah Regina Johnson of the home. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Elmwood Cemetery with the Rev.

Archie Sawyer officiating. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 Harley Funeral Home. Charles Attaway SALUDA Charles Edward Attaway, 59, husband of Thelma Johnson Attaway, Rt. 5 Box 570, Butler Road, died July 16, 1997 at Self Memorial Hospital. Born in Saluda County, he was the son of Elease Cromer Attaway Webb and the late William C.

Attaway. He was a former employee of Longs Builders and was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and the Good Sams Club. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. Surviving, in addition to his wife of the home and his mother of Saluda, are three daughters, Mandy Attaway King of Summerville, Kelley Renee Attaway of Gastonia, N.C.

and Jennifer Attaway of Saluda; a brother, William "Billy" Attaway of Lexington; a sister, Jean A. Rikard of Saluda; and two grandchildren. Services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Ramey Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Saluda Nursing Center, P.O. Box 398, Saluda, S.C. 29138. Columbia returns to Earth and great-grandmother, Mae lurpin or Kobbinsviiie, N.C.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Emmanuel Baptist Church Cemetery with the Rev. Sam Duncan officiating. The family will receive friends Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Harris Funeral Home.

The family is at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Driver, Antreville. Ruby Lott fires man thought to be future leader NEW YORK (AP) decision to oust the man once touted as its future leader suggests the top long-distance company decided he couldn't manage its No. 1 priority: buying into the local phone business.

John Walter, plucked from Yellow Pages printer R.R. Donnelley Sons in October, resigned under pressure Wednesday as president and chief operating officer. Walter left after the company, admitting that hiring the outsider was a mistake, reneged on its promise to make him the successor to chairman and chief executive Robert Allen. The embarrassing shake-up is the latest unexpected turn in the company's frustrating search to find a replacement for Allen. It also came after talks for a $50 billion takeover of SBC Communications Inc.

dissolved last month in part because regulators feared it would squeeze phone competition. hasnow put its top lawyer, John Zeglis, in charge of operations, making him an apparent leading candidate for the leadership post. V'- Walter was supposed to take over for Allen at the beginning of next year but lost confidence in his ability to grasp the constant changes of the telecommunications business. "We became increasingly concerned about whether he could provide the intellectual leadership for this company," said Walter Elisha, one of eight independent company directors who voted unanimously with Allen's recommendation to deny Walter's promotion. "It may well be that we erred in asking John to take on this re- sponsibility in the first place," Elisha said.

"We obviously thought he could do it." Walter, 50, will get $3.8 million for losing out on the promotion promised in his contract, in addition to the $22 million he was paid to leave his previous job. That works out to about $18,000 an hour for a 40-work week over his nine months. He reacted with disappointment. "I believe I am perfectly qualified to be CEO of right now," Walter said in a statement. "I have worked tirelessly on behalf of the shareholders of Walter's resignation follows a string of high-profile defections among some of top managers, including departures in May of three top veterans of the company's wireless division.

SALUDA Ruby, 83, Willow Creek Apartments, died July 14, 1997, at Self Memorial Hospital. Born in Saluda County, she was a daughter of the late Joe and Julia Jones Lott. She was a member of ML Moses C.M.E. Church and the Women's Aide Society. Surviving are two sisters, Dorothy Crouch of Sa-, luda and Thelma Watts of Aiken.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at ML Mcses C.ME. Church with B.B. Boozer officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Butler and Son Funeral Home is in charge. OBITUARIES ObHuary notlcM ira published rtquttwd to accommodate those dotlrlng mora Information than It provided In tht normal ntws article, ObHuary notice art prepared and billed through our Advertising Department at 223-1411. Johnny Brooks DAVIS INFANT Michael Dale Davis, infant son of Michael Dale Davis and'Kelly Raye Dilleshaw, died Wednesday, July 16, 1997 at Self Memorial Hospital. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandmother, Kem Palmer. Surviving in addition to his parents; are his paternal grandparents, Linda French of Salisbury, NC and Robert French of Saluda; maternal grandparents, Rick Joyce Dilleshaw of Greenwood; maternal great-grandmothers, Jewel Cullens and Mrs.

J. D. Dilleshaw, both of Greenwood; and a half sister, Victoria Nicole Davis of the home. Services will be at 4 p.m. Friday at the Harley Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev.

Carroll Harrison officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. The body is at Harley Funeral Home where the family will receive friends Thursday night from 7 to 9 p.m. The family is at the home of his great-grandmother, Jewel Cullens, 312 Crescent Drive. Pd.

Obit SALUDA Johnny J. Brooks, 52, Lot 5, LaSalle Road, died July 15, 1997 at Self Memorial Hospital. Born in Saluda County, he was a son of the late Johnny and Annie Lou Long Brooks. He was a member of Ml Moses C.M.E. Church and the Sons of Aide.

Surviving are four sisters, Johnnie Williams of Brooklyn, N.Y., Deloise Brooks of Maryland, Rosa Jones and Frances Robinson, both of Saluda; and a brother, James Brooks of Brooklyn, N.Y. Services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at Ml Moses C.MJ5. Church with the Rev. Johnny Gantt officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers and flower bearers will be friends of the family. The family is at the home. Butler and Son Funeral Home is in charge. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(AP) Space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven returned to Earth in quiet triumph today with a bounty of laboratory research on fire, metals and plants. NASA's oldest shuttle glided through a clear, flushed sky and touched down just after sunrise at Kennedy Space Center following a 16-day, 6.2 million-mile journey. Commander James Halsell Jr. said it was satisfying to finally finish the job. The crew's first stab at the sciehce mission, three months ago, ended prematurely because of equipment trouble.

"We got all the science, plus more, that we were anticipating," Halsell said after exiting Columbia. "It was great to be up there and it's great to be home." A crowd of a few hundred welcomed the crew back. But the conversation, at the press site anyway, focused more on what was happening aboard Russia's power-stricken Mir space station. Indeed, Columbia's entire flight was overshadowed by the far more dramatic events on Mir and Mars. Unfazed by the meager publicity, Halsell and his crew toiled round-the-clock on their second go-around.

This first-ever reflight, which began July 1 and cost NASA between $60 million to $70 million, experienced hardly any equipment trouble. The April mission was cut short after only four days because of a faulty power generator. Shuttle program manager Tommy Holloway said the revamped Columbia performed "in an absolutely exemplary manner, and I could not be happier." The flexibility demonstrated in sending Columbia back up after a mere 84- day turnaround will benefit NASA once assembly begins on a planned international space station, he said. Scientists reaped bonus results on more than half of the 33 laboratory experiments this time around. Working in shifts, Columbia's crew produced a record amount of flame and soot and grew spinach, clover and protein crystals more than 700 crystals, in fact.

The astronauts set 206 small fires in sealed chambers, 62 more than planned, in a variety of combustion tests. And they ignited the weakest flame ever one that flickered at l50th of the power of a birthday candle. More than 35,000 computer commands were sent to Columbia from scientists at Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, Ala. The previous record of nearly 26,000 commands was set during a 1994 shuttle mission. Criminals often fly solo when being deported Huang 'totally unqualified1 for post, former boss said WASHINGTON (AP) -J.

When immigration agents were trying recently to deport a Vietnamese nationals with a criminal back-, ground, they took him out of a detention cell in Los Angeles and put him unguarded on a Continental Airlines flight to Houston. Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service were supposed to meet Dung Tien Ngo at the gate in Texas and take him back into custody. They failed to show up. Ngo, who has burglary and weapons convictions, slipped away from airport security and was arrested the next day at a barbecue at a relative's home in Houston. The INS puts thousands of criminal aliens onto commercial airline flights each year, most sitting without escort or restraint alongside regular passengers.

While the agency says problems at feet are rare, it is tightening its travel policies to mollify lawmakers upset with what they view as lax handling of criminals. INS Commissioner Doris Meissner has written Rep. Randy Jl'Duke'lCunningham, apologizing for disruptive behavior on a March 27 United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to El Salvador involving 21 deportees traveling unescorted. Eleven had criminal records. Some of the deportees stole liquor from a service cart and became drunk and raucous.

And, as the San Diego Union Tribune re ported in May, a 12-year-old girl sitting among some of the deportees was frightened when one man touched her. The syndicated television newsmagazine "Inside Edition" uncovered the Ngo case and is running a segment on the problem tonight. While it had been recommended that Ngo be escorted to Houston, the deportations chief in the Los Angeles district office decided against an escort, INS spokesman Russ Bergeron said Wednesday. testimony that undermined the theory of some blicans that Huang was a spy for his former -Indonesian-based company, the Lippo Group, which has substantial ties to China. Huang did not request any of the 37 intelligence briefings he received, turned down an offer to receive a higher security clearance and did not show much curiosity, testimony indicated.

"He was a relatively passive customer," testified John H. Dickerson, the CIA officer who provided secret intelligence reports and briefings to Huang. Dickerson testified from behind a screen to hide his physical appearance. Dickerson told senators that Huang was more interested in information on China and Taiwan than other countries, and he briefed Huang because Huang's then-boss, the late Charles Meissner, requested such information be provided to his Asian specialist. Dickerson added he never witnessed anything that led him to believe Huang was a security risk.

"I had no suspicion whatsoever that what I was showing him was inappropriate," he said. Senators later went into closed session to question Dickerson about the intelligence Huang received. The hearings were punctuated by political sniping between Sen. Fred Thompson, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, and the top Democrat, Sen. John Glenn of Ohio.

WASHINGTON (AP) John Huang was "totally unqualified" for the government job he held before -becoming a controversial fund-raiser and should never have received intelligence briefings on China, his former Commerce Department boss told Senate investigators Wednesday. "Mr. Huang didn't make the cut" to be included in a small, trusted group of officials who could handle sensitive foreign trade policy matters, former Undersecretary for International Trade Jeffrey Garten testified at Senate hearings into campaign fund-raising abuses. Consequently, Garten said, he wanted Huang limited to administrative chores. "He was totally unqualified in my judgment for the kind of Commerce Department we were establishing," he testified.

His low opinion aside, Garten acknowledged that: Huang's immediate supervisor gave him high performance marks and designated him an Asian specialist. Garten also said he was surprised to learn that his recommendation that Huang be "walled off from China issues in his job was not passed on to the. CIA officers who provided Huang hundreds of classified reports on Asia. "He certainly didn't need that information for any of his administrative responsibilities," Garten said, Democrats, on the other hand, elicited substantial.