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Tuesday, July 29, 1997 LakelandsI Nation 4A The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. DEATHS AND FUNERALS General's resignation ends clash over terrorist strike June Davis PLUM BRANCH June Hughes Davis, 65, of Edgefield Highway, wife of William M. Davis died July 28, 1997, at her home. Roy Hinton, 11 CS H'shsldeSL, Greenwood Carrie McKinney, 101 Cessna Ave Greenwood Virginia Lane, 11 Independence Vay, Greenwood Edna Edward; 112 Lovely Lane, Greenwood Virginia Harvley, 406 Sample Greenwood Born in Ware Shoals, she was a daughter of Margie Smith Hughes and the late J.B. Hughes.

She was a graduate of Ware Shoals High School and attended Lander College. She has served as Chief Magistrate for McCor-mick County since 1990. She was a member of St Paul United Methodist Church in Plum Branch. Surviving, in addition to I Lorf Sprouse, 570 Stevenaon Road, Abbeville her husband of the home and her pMM.AnJ. .1 1ITVT1? There are several senior Air Force officers who may be in a position to replace him: Gen.

Eugene Habiger, head of the U.S. Strategic Command; Gen. Walter Cross, head of the U.S. Transportation Command; Gen. Michael Ryan, head of U.S.

Air Forces Europe; and Gen. Richard Myers, commander U.S. Air Forces Pacific. The Air Force celebrated its 50th anniversary this year and Fogleman, 56, is the 16th general to serve as chief of staff. He has served three of the four years of his term.

During his tenure, the stocky, blunt-spoken general was an outspoken advocate of military air power. Shortly after he succeeded Gen. Merrill McPeak in October 1994, Fogleman began to advocate that Air Force personnel take a new look at matters of character and personal responsibility. In 1995, he was dubbed the "accountability general" after he grounded five officers and imposed administrative penalties on several others for their role in the shoot-down over Iraq of two Army uiuiuci ui uiccuwuuu, aic uucc junii sons, William M. Davis Jr.

of DAVIS Plum Branch, James Davis of Augusta, Ga. and Phillip M. Davis of Dubuque, Iowa; i June Davit, Edgefield Highway, Plum Branch I 1 Cecil German Jr Rt 3, Waterloo Ellis Reynold, Rt 1, Waterloo Edna Holcombe, 212 Earl Hotcomba Westminster Beth Anderson, ISO Downs Clemson perceived confrontation" between himself and the secretary over the bombing at the barracks. After 34 years of service, the four-star general said, he felt his military judgment and advice was at issue. "After serving as chief of staff for almost three years, my values and sense of loyalty to the troops led me to the conclusion that I may be out of step.

I do not want the institution to suffer and I am afraid that it will if I am seen as a divisive force and not a team player," Fogleman said. He said he wanted to retire as soon as possible and not later than Sept. 1. Pentagon officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Fogleman took the dramatic step for a variety of reasons but clearly intended to state that Schwalier should not be punished for an event beyond his control. Cohen, asked about the situation, noted that talk of Fogleman's stand had circulated around the Pentagon for some time.

He said he was pre-pared for Fogleman's move and was ready to name a successor "fairly soon." "This didn't put me in a corner," he said. "I don't think any secretary of defense should ever be put in a position where he or she would have to make a decision based on whether an officer would stay or go." Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall said she had accepted Fogleman's decision "with regret." She thanked him and his wife "for their many years of faithful and dedicated service. He will be greatly missed." WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force's top general is calling it quits, saying he feels "out of step" with Defense Secretary William Cohen, apparently over holding U.S. officers accountable for the terrorist bombing that killed 19 airmen in Saudi Arabia. Gen.

Ronald Fogleman is the first chief of staff to step down voluntarily in midterm. He had been telling associates for months that he believed officers should not be second-guessed over the terrorist strike that was the equivalent of an act of war. Cohen has yet to announce whether he would punish anyone in connection with the June 25, 1996, Khobar Towers bombing. "No final decision has been made at all," he said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday. The defense secretary said, however, that he'd been prepared for Foreman's resignation and added, "I've never responded to pressure from anyone." He said he has already begun looking for a replacement.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have insisted that someone should be held accountable for what they saw as shortcomings in security measures at the Dhahran housing site. An independent Pentagon commission led by a retired Army general last year singled out the local commander in Saudi Arabia, Brig. Gen. Terryl J. "Terry" Schwalier, for not adequately protecting his base.

But two Air Force studies found Schwalier was not negligent. In a statement Monday, Fogleman said he was retiring a year early in order to "diffuse the Mary Bowen, Kings Mountain, N.C. Services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul United Methodist Church with the Rev.

Don Alexander and the Rev. Joe Melvin Hughes officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Pallbearers will be J.

"Buck" Jones, Cullen Hines, Ira Jones, Edwin Combs, Jake Trantham, Joe Collier, Joe Cantrell and Tommy Ferguson. Honorary escort will be McCormick County Law Enforcement and Jeff Bentley. The body is at Blyth Funeral Home. Roy Hinton GREENWOOD Lee Roy Hinton, 84, of 1105 Highside St, husband of Josephine Williams Hinton, died July 28, 1997, at Self Memorial Hospital. i i Twenty-six people were killed when two F-15s monitoring the post-Gulf War "no-fly zone" attacked the choppers, which were flying on a diplomatic mission.

He also made fairly significant changes in performance reports for officers and enlisted personnel. And reversing a decision of McPeak's, Fogleman restored the U.S. insignia to all uniform lapels and allowed officers to again wear their rank on their shoulders, rather than on their sleeves. Navv-stvle. Edna Holcombe WESTMINSTER Edna Earl Smith Holcombe, 89, of 212 Earl Holcombe widow of Billie Bolt Holcombe, died July 28, 1997 at Oconee Memorial Hospital.

Born in Pickens County, she was a daughter of the late Samuel Walter and Bennie Knox Smith. She taught in the Oconee County School System and was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church. Surviving are a son, Earl Holcombe of Westminster; two daughters, Ruth Holcombe Payne of the home and Jane Harvey of Simpsonville; two sisters, Leah Eskew of Seneca and Lucretia Moos of Greenwood; seven grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. Services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Westminster Presbyterian Church with Dr.

George Harper officiating. Burial will be in Eastview Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at Sandifer Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Westminster Presbyterian Church, 204 North Isundega Westminster, S.C. 29693 or to the charity of one's choice.

uuiu ui vjicciiwuuu v-uuiuy, uc was a sun ui mc late William Martin and Nannie Rebecca Anderson Hinton. He was a graduate of Greenwood High School and retired from the City of Abbeville. He was a member of Main Street United Methodist Church. Surviving, in addition to his wife of the home, are a daughter, Beverly Daniels of Corbin, a son William Roy Hinton of Louisville, and three grandchildren. Services will be at 3 p.m.

Wednesday at Blyth Funeral Home with the Rev. Mike Smith and Dr. C.J. Lupo. Burial will be in Tranquil United Methodist Church Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Butch Williams, Bill Williams, Mark Williams, Brian Williams, Pete Williams, Jim Weeks, Pete Rhodes, Joe Seawright, William Hol-Hngsworth and Russell Clem. 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 Main Street United Methodist Church, 211 North Main Greenwood, S.C. 29646 or to the charity of one's choice.

Beth Anderson CLEMSON Beth Anderson, 94, of 150 Downs 208-A, died July 27, 1997, at the Anderson Area Medical Center. Born in Antreville, she was a daughter of the late Dr. Joseph A. and Minnie Ola Clinkscales Anderson. She was a retired secretary for the Agricultural Economics Department at Clemson University.

She was a Saduate of Winthrop College, a member of Clemson nited Methodist Church and was a member of the TTnltAsI lnvtan GKa nine tko lac mflmKpf Student loan contract causes delays WASHINGTON (AP) The company that received a multimillion-dollar contract to handle the refinancing of federal student loans was so overwhelmed that applications were delayed for months, the Education Department says. The department acknowledged Edna Edwards GREENWOOD Edna H. Edwards, 83, of 112 Lovely Lane, Wesley Park, wife of Richard L. Edwards died July 28, 1997, at Self Memorial Hospital. Born in Woodruff, she was a daughter of the late Dr.

and Mrs. Benjamin Eugene Holcombe. She was a member of St. John's United Methodist Church in Aiken, the Trenton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was a life member of the Garden Club of South Carolina. She was an associate member of Main Street United Methodist Church.

Surviving, in addition to her husband, are two sons, Richard L. Edwards Jr. of Greenwood and Neville McLean Edwards of Lake Murray; and two grandsons. Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Harley Funeral Home with the Rev.

Robert Reynolds officiating. Burial will be at Aiken Memorial Park with the Rev. Eugene Mulliken officiating. The family is at the home. Memorials may be made to the Greenwood Methodist Home, 1110 Marshall Road, Greenwood, S.C.

29646. 7 Attempt to trick Jewell was 'misguided, report says WASHINGTON (AP) An attempt by FBI agents to trick Richard Jewell during an investigation into last year's bombing at the Atlanta Olympic Games was "not the product of outrageous government misconduct" but "stemmed from the misguided effort of the interviewing agent," the Justice Department said. By telling Jewell he was taking part in a training video, the FBI agents ran the risk that a court would have invalidated Jewell's waiver of his constitutional rights, the department said in a report Monday. "The government's case, in turn, would have been hamstrung if those statements had contained valuable information," it said. The Supreme Court's Miranda ruling requires that a person in custody be advised of the right to a lawyer.

If that right is waived, any subsequent statements can be used in court against the person. Courts have thrown out statements from defendants who were not warned. Jewell, a security guard who discovered the bomb before it exploded in Atlanta's Centennial Park, was exonerated last fall after spending several months as the focus of the investigation and intense media scrutiny. No arrests have been made in the July 27, 1996, bombing, which killed one person and injured 111. Authorities say they now believe the blast may be linked to two other bombings in the Atlanta area this year at an abortion clinic and a gay nightclub.

Early on, Jewell was questioned by FBI agents who pretended they wanted him to participate in a training video about responding to bombing scenes. The Justice Department report said the agents assigned to interview Jewell had not planned to advise him of his rights until FBI Director Louis Freeh ordered otherwise in the middle of the interview. At that point, an agent incorporated the warning into the interview. Freeh told a Senate judiciary subcommittee Monday that Jewell's Miranda rights would have been violated by FBI agents if he had said anything incriminating during his interview. Both Freeh and Michael E.

Shaheen the Justice Department lawyer who investigated the FBI's handling of Jewell, said they believe Jewell's waiver of his Miranda rights would not have stood up in court. of her immediate family. Surviving are nieces and nephews. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Clemson United Methodist Church.

The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 8:30 at Duckett Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Clemson United the problems a letter last week to a House Education oversight subcommittee. The letter said that it has taken on average more than five months to handle loan consolidations since Electronic Data Systems took over the contract in September 1996. The process from application to consolidation should take two to three months. Refinancing enables borrowers to roll all their previous loans into one, simplifying personal finances and giving more flexibility in repaying the loans.

"This turned out to be more of a challenge than the contractor anticipated," David Longanecker, assistant secretary of Education for postsecondary education, said Monday in an interview. The computer firm, founded by Ross Perot, has two five-year contracts with the department worth $540 million. "This enntrartnr rtnpc mmnntpr Methodist Church, 195 Old Greenville Highway, Clemson, S.C. 29631. Virginia Harvley Virginia Lane GREENWOOD Virginia S.

Harvley, 77, of 406 Sample Road, died July 29, 1997, at her home. Services will be announced by Harley Funeral Home. GREENWOOD Virginia "Ginny" Turner Lane, 72, of 1 16 Independence Ellis Reynolds way, widow ot aamuel Leroy "House Cat" Lane, died July 28, 1997 at her home. Born in Abbeville County, she was the daughter of the late William Henry and Lula Wideman Turner. She was a former county government employee and was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church.

Surviving ate two sons, Willie Lane of the home and Virgil Lane of Patterson, N.J.; two brothers, David Turner of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Horace Turner of Newark, N.J.; work extremely well," Longanecker said. "But it turns out to be more hands-on, holding hands, talking to people on the phone quite different than they fully anticipated." Broadcasters can keep channels under agreement VIRGINIA LANE WATERLOO Ellis G. Reynolds, 79, of Rt. 1, widower of Mildred Hogan Reynolds, died July 29, 1997 at Laurens County Hospital.

Born in Lincolnton, he was a son of the late William R. and Sally Leverett Reynolds. He was retired from Daniel Construction and was of the Holiness faith. Surviving are three sons, Billy Reynolds, Bobby Reynolds and Roy Reynolds, all of Waterloo; a sister, Mrs. Fannie Mae Harrison of Greenwood; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 4 p.m. Thursday at Harley Funeral Home with the Rev. Bob Vehorn officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be grandsons.

The family will receive friends Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. The family is at the home of his son, Bobby Reynolds, Sulphur Springs Road, Waterloo. Mary Bowen KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. Mary Bowen, of Calhoun Falls, died July 28.

1997. at Kings Mountain He said the department also made a "strategic error" in assuming that borrowers would be the best source of information on their loan portfolio. Information changed by the time it could be verified through lender banks. In the letter last week, the department also said the volume was hioher than pytwfpH Th Horvirt- ment had expected 8,000 applica tions per month. Instead, it re-, ceived on average more than 13,000.

The letter, to Rep. Pete Hoekstra, chairman of; the House Education committee's subcommittee on oversight and in with the switch from one contrac-. tor to another. The subcommittee on postsecondary education planned a hear WASHINGTON (AP) A deal worked out by key lawmakers would give TV broadcasters the conditional right to keep channels that the government was going to make them give up in nine years. Critics complain that broadcasters are trying to do an end run around Federal Communications Commission rules in an attempt to keep the channels indefinitely, even as broadcasters begin switching to new channels to provide cinema-quality digital TV.

Broadcasters say flexibility is" needed so viewers are not forced to buy expensive digital TV sets or less-expensive converters needed to watch TV on old sets once conversion to digital television is complete. In April the FCC gave each of the nation's 1,600 TV stations a new, second channel to broadcast digital TV. But the commission also told broadcasters they would have to surrender their old "analog" channels by 2006. Under Monday's agreement, a TV station would be allowed to keep its old analog channel after 2006 if one of three conditions were met: That 15 percent or more of TV households in the market do not subscribe to cable television or other multichannel TV providers that carry local digital broadcast signals in that market. And, these households don't have a new digital TV set or a converter box so they can watch programs on old analog sets.

fl That stations affiliated with one of the four major broadcast networks are not broadcasting a digital TV signal into a local market. That converter box technology, which changes a digital signal back into analog for display on existing TV sets, is not generally available in the market. "If Congress thinks it is going to get analog spectrum back after 2006, it is kidding itself." said Gigi Sohn, executive director of the' Media Access Project, which is fighting the provision. But Ken Johnson, spokesman for Rep. Billy Tauzin, one of the lawmakers in the deal, disagreed.

"We fully expect the vast majority of licenses to be returned in 2006," he said. "There are no blanket exemptions." The returned channels would be auctioned for uses such as digital TV, mobile phone or data services, raising billions for the government. The deal was worked out among four Republicans: Tauzin, Rep. Thomas Bliley of Virginia, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Sen.

Ted Stevens of Alaska. The accord is expected to be approved by House and Senate budget negotiators and become part of a final budget bill. Negotiators also agreed to make it easier for media companies to own more outlets, once broadcasters' transition to digital is complete. five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The family is at the home and at the home of a niece, Mary Connor, 345 Marion Avenue.

Services will be announced by Robinson and Son Mortuary. Carrie McKinney GREENWOOD Sennie Carrie McKinney, 77, of 101 Cessna died July 1997 at Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford, N.C. The family will receive friends Thursday from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.- at Blyth Funeral Home. Services will be announced by the funeral home. Cecil German Jr.

WATERLOO Cecil W. German 51, of Rt. 3, Dillard Road, husband of Virginia D. German, died July 27, 1997, at Laurens County Hospital. Born in Spartanburg, he was a son of Juanita Milli-nax German Brown and the late Cecil W.

German Sr. He was employed with Kaiser Aluminum in Greenwood. He was a Mason, a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and was a member of New Beginnings Baptist Church. Surviving, in addition to his wife of the home and his mother of Waterloo, are his stepfather, Otis Brown of Waterloo; a son, Derek German of Spartanburg; a daughter, Ashley German of Spartanburg; two stepsons, Tony Morgan of Lanford and Dale Morgan of Newberry; a stepdaughter, Tammy Graydon; and five grandchildren.

Memorial services were today at Gray Funeral Home of Laurens. Memorials may be made to The Building Fund of The New Beginnings Baptist Church, P.O. Box 32, Waterloo, S.C. 29384. The family is at the home of his mother, Juanita Brown, Rt.

1, North Relax Waterloo. ine todav on the comouter sunnort r- ri tor its massive program, which? lends $43 billion a year and has a $117 billion portfolio. Investigators from the congres sional General Accounting Office-' Hospital. Services will be announced by Richie Funeral Home. Lori Sprouse ABBEVILLE Lori Bell Ashley Sprouse, 29, of 570 Stevenson Road, wife of Jimmy Sprouse, died July 28, 1997, at Self Memorial Hospital.

Born in Abbeville, she was a daughter of Proctor and Georgia Hall Ashley. She was a graduate of Piedmont Tech and was a Registered Nurse with Self Memorial Hospital. She was a member of Southside Baptist Church. Surviving, in addition to her husband of the home and her parents of Abbeville, are two daughters, Kris-ten Bess Coker and Bradi Jo Sprouse, both of the home; a brother, Josh Ashley of Abbeville; and two sisters, Quida Brownett and Marchelle Taylor, both of Abbeville. Services will be at 1 1 a.m.

Wednesday at Southside Baptist Church with the Rev. Earl Hartley officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends tonight from 6 to 8 at Harris Funeral Home. The family is at the home.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, co Mona Cason, Pineview Abbeville. and the department's Office of; Inspector General criticized the de-j partment's slow progress in over? hauling its computer systems. The GAO said the department runs financial aid using nine majof computer systems supported by id separate contracts. "For the most part, these systems operate inde; pendently and cannot communicate or share data with one another," i i i a rt witness..