6-C The State: South Carolina's Largest Newspaper COLUMBIA. S. THURSDAY. JANUARY 22. 1959 The State: South Carolina's Progressive Newspaper F.
C. Penney, Oldest NC Citizen, Dies TRYON, N.C. (AP) North Carolina's oldest citizen, Frederick C. Penney, died here Wednesday two weeks before his 109th birthday, He overcame business misfortunes to make money in real tate in Minneapolis, Minn. He is reputed to have built the first apartment house in Minne3 and apolis inside featuring bathrooms.
both natural gas born Feh, 3, 1850, in Canaan, Maine, and could rewas, call the movement of slaves from the South by way of the underground railroad. He liked to recall that he voted for Ulysses S. Grant for president. Penney retired in 1926 and came here from Bronxville, N.Y. with two daughters in 1948.
He WAS the oldest citizen found in the state in A search by an insurance company A few years ago. Penney headed west AR a young man of 18. The first stop WAR Missouri, But an older brotherhe came from A family of six brothers and three sisters had a machine shop in Minneapolis and Penney went there. For time, he taught mathematics at a business college that later became a part of the Uni- versity of Minnesota. Then he made his first jump into real estate.
Later he ventured into the saw mill business in South Dakota, He returned to South Dakota after A trip to Minneapolis to learn the mill had burned and his partner had not paid the insurance with money Penney had entrusted to him. He weathered the depression of 1888 in Minneapolis for a time, but finally headed for Chicago where he joined a nephew in another ill-fated venture. Cyclometers--a device for measuring distance -were the tashion for bicycles at the time, but the automobile came along and the business. failed. tire then wiped out another lumber mill in British Columbia.
Then he conceived the idea of a house with grooved wood that would require no nails. Just then, the price of wood jumped higher than the price of nails. The next venture was in Texas, where he contracted to do grading and tractor work on a real estate development. After three months, the developer skipped to Mexico. He had never owned the land he was developing, and Penney was stuck again.
Penney's wife died at the age of 94 in Bronxville, N.Y. His daughter, Edith, retired from a teaching position in 1948. She, another daughter, Mrs. Cecil Heard. and Penney, moved here.
His birthday always was a big event in town. There always was A birthday telegram from President Eisenhower. A memorial service will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday at McFarland Funeral Home here. The body will be cremated and the ashes interested in Minneapolis.
Mrs. Powell, 34, Anderson ANDERSON -Mrs. Frances Powell. 34, died at the Anderson Memorial Hospital at 10 a.m. Wednesday after an illness of a few days.
She is survived by her husband. Charles Leonard Powell; two daughters, Connie and Lynne Powell of the home: her mother Mrs. Christine Hutchison, her step-father, Tom. Hutchison, and one sister Vickie Ann Hutchison. all of Anderson.
Funeral services will be held from Oak Wood Baptist Church at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Miss Andrews, First Baptist Graduate, Dies Miss Julia R. Andrews, 84, retired nurse of 1415 Muller Street, died early Wednesday morning in a local nursing home. She was born in Walhalla, the daughter of the late John L.
Andrews and Lavinia B. Andrews. She had spent most of her life in Richland County. Miss Andrews was the first graduate of the Knowlton Hospital, which is now the Baptist Hospital. She was a member of the Eau Claire Baptist Church.
Survivors include a sister. Miss Annie M. Andrews and a brother. Ebbie B. Andrews.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock this afternoon from the Paschal Funeral Home by the Rev. W. L. Borom. Burial will be i in Elmwood Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Wilson Davis, Marvin Mack, John Fridy, Eugene Morris, Marion Wiles, Ernest Martin and W. B. Register. The family will be at 1415 Muller Street. Tuskege Institute, famous school conducted by Negroes, was founded in 1881 through the efforts of Booker T.
Washington. Funeral Invitations HOLLAND- -The relatives and friends Mr. and Mrs. Alonza M. Holland and fomily are invited to attend the funeral services for the former, MR.
ALONZA M. HOLLAND 10 clock THIS MORNING from the St. Peter's Catholic Church. Interment will be in St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery.
BLALOCK--The relatives and friends. Mr. ond Mrs. John H. Blalock Sr.
and family are invited to attend the funeral services for the former, MR. JOHN H. BLALOCK SR. clock THIS (THURSDAY) AFTERNOON from the Line Street Baptist Church. Interment Mill fellow in Eimwood Cemetery, Ex-SC.
Man Represents Texas at Inauguration When Governor Hollings was inaugurated Tuesday, Gov. Price Daniel of represented by Robert Haynaworth, former South Carolinian, now A resident of El Paso. The El Paso Times in reporting that Mr. Haynsworth would fly to Columbia for the inauguration had the following interesting article on the close relationship between Mr. Haynsworth and Mr.
Hollings: "When Robert Haynsworth Attends the inauguration of South Miss Caroline Swaffield Dies at 90 Miss Caroline Swatfield. 90. of Columbia, died suddenly at 6:45 o'clock Wednesday evening. Miss Swaffield was born in Columbia, A daughter of the late Colonel William C. Swattield and Mary Ann Green Swaffield.
She WAS a lifelong resident of Columbia, but since 1915 has made her home with her sister, Mrs. Mary Swatfield Cowan at 32 Gibbes Court. She was a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist. Survivors include her sister, Mrs. Mary Swaffield Cowan; two nieces, Mrs.
Elizabeth Cowan Holton of Columbia and Mrs. Caroline Cowan Sherrill of Arlington, two nephews, Fred G. Swaffield of Columbia and Swatfield Cowan of Charlotte, five grand nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. family will be at 32 Gibbes Court.
Reader Urges Pre-Marriage Counselling Jan. 19, 1959 To the Editor of The State: Realizing such a serious situation in our nation today, and getting worse, I feel impelled to make a suggestion. We are told that one out of three marriages goes on the rocks at this time, and when we realize that the home is the foundation and strength of our nation, is is plain what we Are drifting into. Personally speaking, I am seventy six years sold and have seen many great changes, in our beloved country. our seven are married and raising families of their own, and I am proud of the fact that there is not one family split or separation in the number.
This is my suggestion, that the minister that is going to officiate at the wedding call the young couple before him some time before the marriage and give them a lecture, maybe two, impressing upon them the seriousness of the step they about to take, let them knots that life is not a continual honeymoon; also that the partner they are choosing is not perfect by a long way, that he or she has many faults and defects, that will prove very trying in the future, and that if there is not strong genuine love, not infatuation, that is able to pass you over many trying times, they had better call the deal off. A broken home means two wrecked lives, many heart aches from both sides often leading to crimes and tragedies, often pitiful children with blighted lives, and a weakning of the nation. Math. "What God therefore has joined together, let not man put asunder." It there was more time taken for consideration, instead of these hasty trumped up marriages, I believe there would be a big change for the Letter. DR.
A. D. PLOWDEN. Sumter. J.
H. Blalock Services Set This Afternoon Funeral for John H. Blalock, services, 1007 Jackson Street, West Columbia, who died Tuesday afternoon in the Lee County Hospital at Bishopville, will be conducted at 4 o'clock this afternoon from the Line Street Baptist Church by the Rev. P. Homer Jeffcoat.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Mr. Blalock was the owner of the Blalock Welding Company. He has been living in West Columbia since 1947 and was formerly of Toccoa, Ga. He was a charter member of of of of of of of of of of the Line Street Baptist Church of West Columbia.
He was also a deacon. Survivors include his widow. Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman Blalock: two sons. John H.
Blalock, Jr. and David O'Neil; a daughter, Cherry Mae Blalock, all from West Columbia: and four nephews. The body is at the home, 1007 Jackson Street, West Columbia. Active pallbearers will W. R.
Price, E. L. Layton, Grover Stabler, John Dority, John Lorick, Russ Gardner, Ray Courtney and Larry Huggins. They will meet at the home at 3:30 this afternoon. Honorary pallbearers will be Hayne Miller, Jack Von Schaaf, L.
J. Shelley and Hubert Shelley, J. B. Coffey, Dr. W.
O. Tanner, Rev. H. E. Moseley, Bob Rabon, W.
R. Carn. Cecil Fickling, W. H. Derrick.
H. J. Price, W. J. Buchanan, George Day, Phillip Mixon, and the members of the Fellowship Sunday School Class.
Bible Class both of Line Street Baptist Church. They will meet at the church at 3:55 o'clock this afternoon. Brunswick stew originated Brunswick County, Va. SC DEATHS Mrs. Hammond, 80, of Camden CAMDEN (Special)- Louise Mobley Hammond, widow of Alec F.
Hammond, died at the Kershaw Memorial Hospital at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday after An illness of six weeks, Mrs. Hammond was born in Lancaster County, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Judson Mobley, She was member of the First Baptist Church of Florence and her pastor, Dr.
Edward L. Byrd of Florence, will conduct services from the chapel of the Kornegay Funeral Home at 10 a.m. Thursday, Interment will follow the Westside Cemetery in Lancaster. Mrs. Hammond is survived by three sons, Mobley and Edward Hammond of Florence and Alex F.
Hammond of Clemson: three daughters. Mrs. Vernon L. Pate of Cassatt. Mrs.
Charles E. Dymock of Camden and Mrs. Muldrow Jeffords of Florence: two sisters, Mrs. Bleeka Caskey and Mrs. Inez Hunter of Lancaster: two brothers.
Jessie and Judson Mobley of Kershaw; 22 grandchildren, and 99 great-grandchildren. Sam Thomas, 80, of Aiken AIKEN Sam Thomas, 80, of 518 Richland Avenue, died suddenly after a heart attack at his home shortly after arising Wednesday morning. County, the late Whitfield Mr. Thomas, was born in Aiken and Martha Fulmer Thomas and lived in Aiken for 44 years, He retired a few years ago from extensive farming and timber operations. He and Mrs.
Thomas celebrated their 63rd wedding Anniversary last November. He was a lifelone member of the Phillipi Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Keller T. Thomas; two sisters.
Mrs. J. Doshia M. Franklin Thomas of of Aiken Route and 3. Aiken: One brother, J.
Cleve Thomas, of Aiken, and number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held from the home at 3:30 p.m. Thursday by the Rev. R. W.
McKinney. Interment will be in Bethany Cemetery. The body will be taken to the home at 1:30 p.m. Thursday to await the service hour. J.
P. Hopkins, 56, Hartsville HARTSVILLE (Special) Joe P. Hopkins, 56, died early Wednesday morning in a Florence hospital after an extended illness. He was born and reared in Darlington County, son of the late Willie and Lizzie Mixon Hopkins. He farmed and lived in the Clyde community most of his life.
He was a member of the Gum Branch Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, who before marriage was Laurine Shoemake; two sons, W. A. and Elvin Hopkins of Hartsville: five daughters, Mrs. Jimmy Farmer of Bishopville, Mrs.
Wayne Sharpley of Columbia, Mrs. Milton Wicklund of Sumter and Mrs. James Douglas and Miss Neva Hopkins of Hartsville; one halfbrother, Ross Atkinson of Columbia; two sisters, Mrs. P. T.
Hodge, of Blenheim and Mrs. Norman Gardner, of McBee, and 17 grandchildren. H. E. Padgett, 59, of Sheldon SHELDON (Special) Harry E.
Padgett, 59, husband of Mrs. Lila Bennett Padgett, died at his home Wednesday morning after an extended illness. Funeral services will be conducted at the graveside in the Gooding Cemetery at p. m. Thursday by the Rev.
E. A. Skinner and the Rev. Frank Fisher. Friends may call at the home until 3 p.
m. Thursday. Mr. Padgett was born in Colleton County, the son of Mrs. Rebecca Benton and the late Jacob Padgett.
He was A member of Sheldon Baptist Church and of Mt. Moriah Masonic Lodge No. 196, AFM, of Yemassee. Survivors beside his widow and mother include four daughters, Mrs. Ruby P.
Wilson of Beaufort and Miss Doris Padgett, Miss Alice Padgett and Miss Karen Padgett, all of Seabrook; one brother, Joe T. Padgett of Beaufort; one sister, Mrs. Fred Mock of Hardeeville and three grandchildren. T. B.
Wright, Anderson Native ANDERSON-T. B. Wright, 67, Anderson County native, died at the Oteen Government Hospital in Oteen, N. Tuesday. He had been in the hospital for the past 15 years and an invalid for many years.
A retired farmer, he was World War I veteran. He was the son of the late John H. Wright and Annie Todd Wright. Survivors include six brothers, Sam Wright of Arden, N. J.
Leo Wright of Bishopville, G. A. Wright of Roanoke, Adger Wright of West Palm Beach. J. W.
Wright of Newark, and Roy Wright of Anderson, and one sister, Mrs. Frank Skelton of Hartwell, Ga. Funeral services will be held from the Bleckley Memorial Chapel of Sullivan King Mortuary at 4 p.m. Thursday. Chances of being telephoned during a nation-wide broadcast or television show are one in 000, Mrs.
McCord, Ex-Teacher, Greenwood Busby McCord, 79, widow of John D. McCord, died at 5:30 m. Wednesday at her home here after a short illness. She WAR lifelong resident Greenwood County, daughter of the late David Richard and Eliza Bushy Busby, both natives of Coronaca, Mrs. McCord joined Bethlehem Methodist Church at Coronaca child and after her marriage the Presbyterian Church at Hodges with Mr.
MeCord. She later joined the First Presbyterian Church here. She attended county schools and the University of South Carolina and taught for 25 years in public schools in this and nearby counties. She was member of the Mary Giles Sunday School Class. Survivors include one daughter, Miss Sara McCord of the home.
Funeral services will he held from the Blyth Funeral Home at 11 a. m. Thursday by Dr. R. L.
Alexander. Interment will be in Bethlehem Cemetery at Coronaca. The body will be at the funeral home. It has been requested that flowers be omitted. GREENWOOD-Mrs.
Mary Lou Mrs. Morris, West Columbia, Dies at Hospital Mrs. Mattie Newsome Morris. 65, of 1619 Holland Street, West Columbia, died early Wednesday morning in the Columbia Hospital after an illness of one day. She had lived in Columbia and was a Vidalia, Ga.
West for 18 years. She Columbia, Mrs. Morris was a member of Taylor Evangelical Methodist Church. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Jesse Breedlove and Miss Catherine Morris, both of West Columbia and Mrs.
George C. McCall of Columbia: a son, Elzie B. Morris of West Columbia: a sister, Mrs. Willie Marsh of Vidalia, two brothers, Mack Newsome of Soperton, Ga. and J.
Newsome of Vidalia, and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon from the Church of God in West Columbia by the Rev. Bobby Ross and the Rev. Ray Cloer. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
The body will be at the home after 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Mrs. E. L. Randle Dies at Hospital Mrs.
Estelle Kinkead Randle, 61, widow of Edwin L. Randle. of 2727 Blossom Street, died at the Columbia Hospital yesterday after several weeks illness. Mrs. Randle was a native of Columbia and daughter of the late Thomas Stevenson Kinkead and Estelle Kirk Kinkead.
She attended the city public schools and Chicora College A Academy. For under 20 years United she was employed States Civil Service and retired from service at Fort Jackson, September 30, 1957. She was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church. Survivors include one son, Edwin Lowman Randle, Jr.
of Columbia; one granddaughter, Martha Ann Randle of Columbia: several cousins of Columbia and Rock Hill. Funeral services will be conducted from St. John's Episcopal Church at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon by the Rev. J. Kenneth Morris.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be L. F. Pearce, William R. Mood, H.
R. Gudmundson, Perry M. Brown, R. F. Neidhardt, and James L.
Carter. They will meet at the Dunbar Funeral Home at 3:30 Friday afternoon. The family will be at 2727 Blossom Street, Columbia. Mrs. Bookhardt, 86, at Elloree ELLOREE-Mrs.
Fanny Dantzler Bookhardt, who would have been 87 next month, died at the home of her step-daughter, Mrs. Shuford Felkel Wednesday morning after a period of declining health. Mrs. Bookhardt was the daughter of the late Daniel Jacob and Levenia Thompson Dantzler of Orangeburg County and was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. After the death of her husband, Lucius Luther Bookhardt a number of years ago she made her home with her stepdaughter, Mrs.
Felkel. Survivors include one step son, Daniel William Bookhardt of Georgetown, and three stepdaughters, Mrs. Hubert Felkel of Elloree and Mrs. Leah B. Inabinet and Mrs.
Grace B. Dantzler of Holly Hill; one sister, Mrs. Sophie Shumaker of the Methodist Home in Orangeburg; two brothers, M. M. Dantzler and L.
0. Dantzler of Holly Hill; 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from Trinity Lutheran Church at 11 a.m. Thursday by the Rev. J.
Luther Valentine, assisted by the Rev. J. G. Hipp, and the Rev. J.
C. Inabinet. Interment will be in Bookhardt Cemetery near Elloree. London had more than 100 apothecaries' in 1617, the year they organized the guild called the Apothecaries' Company, State Weaves Circ*mstantial Web Around Sporty Robinson Hollings Carolina in Gov. -elect Columbia, E.
F. S. Fritz Tuesday, he will occupy seat in the proceedings. "Haynsworth, chairman of the F1 Paso County Democratic Executive Committee, and the new governor roomed together in college, acted as best man at each other's weddings and godfather of each others children. "Because of his close friend.
ship with Gov. Hollings, Gov. Price Daniel selected Haynsworth his personal representative to the ceremonies. will fly to Columbia Sunday and return to El Paso Wednesday night. "Hollings and Haynsworth at The Charleston, S.C.
roomed together, during four years "At the outbreak of World War IT. Hollings and Haynsworth went into the Army together and first served at Camp Stewart, Ga. 'We kept in contact with each other throughout the war keep in touch with each Haynsworth said. "After the war, when Hollings married, Haynsworth acted as his best man. Gov.
Hollings later came -to El Paso and acted as best man at Haynsworth's marriage. Since then the South Caroofficial has visited El Paso several times. His last visit was in 1953. "Haynsworth is the godfather of the governor's 7-year-old old son. Michael, the governor the god-father of Haynsworth's son, Robert Junior." Big Effort Seen by SC Leaf Growers DARLINGTON (Special) Results of A detailed study are expected to induce South Carolina tobacco growers to put forth their greatest effort this year in producing the type and quality of leaf in demand by the trade.
B. F. Williamson of Darlington, chairman of the South Carolina Farm Bureau tobacco committee, savs the committee has made, its most extensive study of recent years, aimed at the production and marketing of this desired leaf. A number of factors which are recognized AS affecting quality are being cited to growers. Among these are the following: Foreign users have much criticism of most newer varieties.
The need for disease varieties is recognized but should be planted only where disease is prevalent. It is recognized that desirable flavors and aroma are usually lacking in tobacco that never "suffers" from dry weather during the growing period, but it is known also that excessive irrigation or improper use of supplemental water injures quality. Soil fumigants can leave an amount of chlorine or other chemicals in the soil which is injurious to quality; MH-30 is considered highly harmful and is not recommended. The use of BHC or toxaphene on tobacco is known to ruin 1 taste and makes tobacco unfit for cigarets, the study showed. It is believed also that many South Carolina soils are producing poor quality tobacco because of high PH levels, caused continued by use improper of liming basic fertilizer.
A. M. Holland To Be Buried This Morning Funeral services for Alonzo M. Holland who died Tuesday, will be conducted at 10 o'clock this morning the St. Peter's Catholic Church by Father Bielski.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be J. C. Thrailkill. H.
L. McIntosh, Ben Walker. Buster Taylor and Dr. M. W.
Cheatham. Pallbearers will meet at the Thompson Funeral Home at 9:30 a.m. He had worked at the Southern Railway Shops at one time when they were located in Columbia. He was the son of F. L.
Holland, and Mrs. Lillie Holland. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mabel Holland: two sons, Frank and Alonzo Holland; four grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. H.
L. McIntosh; a stepmother; two halfsisters; and several nieces and nephews. Rosary services were conducted Wednesday night at the Thompson Funeral Home by Father Bielski. Mrs. Jackson, 57, Charleston ORANGEBURG Henrietta Davis Jackson.
57, -of Charleston died at 12:30 a. m. Tuesday at Fort Lauderdale, while visiting her daughter, Mrs. Evelyn, Perkins. ducted at 3 Thursday from Funeral services, will be conthe Thompson Funeral Chapel by Dr.
John Hamrick. Interment will be in Sunnyside Cemetery. The body is at the Thompson Funeral Home. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Flossie May Turbeville of Columbia.
wife of the Rev. George Turbeville: Mrs. Viola Jones of Fairfax, Mrs. Evelyn Perkins of Fort Lauderdale, and Miss Dorthy Jackson of Charleston; one son, L. E.
Jackson of Holly Hill; three half-brothers, George Herndon Winnsboro, Johnny. Herndon of Charlesof ton and Jimmy Herndon of Columbia and seven grandchildren. Mrs. Harrill, 77, Gaffney GAFFNEY-Mrs. Beanie Richarde Harrill, 77, widow of Ossie M.
Harrill, med at 8:50 a.m. Wed. nesday at the home of daughter, Mrs. Ben Rianton, after 1 five weeks of serious illness, She WAS Cherokee County native. Resides Mrs.
Blanton, she in survived by two other daughters. Mrs. N. B. Earle of Spartanburg and Mrs.
J. C. Humphries; six sons, Bernard of Charlotte, Odell and Thomas of Sanford, N. and Charles, Ralph and John Harrill; 27 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren: sister. Mrs.
J. T. Clary of Cowpens and two brothers, Dexter of Cowpens and Walter Richards. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. from Macedonia Baptist Church.
D. R. Munnerlyn, 49, Florence FLORENCE (Special) Duiet Rouse Munnerlyn, 49, farmer of Route 4, Florence, died at 7 a.m. Wednesday in a local hospital after being in declining health for about a year. Funeral services will be conducted at p.m.
Thursday from the Immanuel Baptist Church by the pastor, Dr. E. E. Colvin and the Rev. B.
L. Hill. Interment will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Mr. Munnerlyn WAS born Marlboro County, a son of the late William Clay Munnerlyn and Annie Creech Munnerlyn.
He was member of the Shiloh Methodist Church in Marlboro County near Bennettsville and a member of the Barnes Bible Class of ImChurch. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Frenche Turner Munnerlyn of Florence; two sons, Roger and Thad Munnerlyn, both of Florence; one daughter, Miss Janis Munnerlyn of Florence: Four brothers, Kenneth, Marvin and John Ford Munnerlyn, all of Bennettsville, and Charles Munnerlyn of Charleston: and two sisters. Mrs. Lawton Bennett of Pamplico and Mrs.
Clarence Whittier of Fayetteville, N. C. The body is at Stoudenmire Funeral Home and will be placed in the church one hour before the services. Ward M. Smith, Estill, 33, Dies ESTILL-Ward Monroe Smith, 33, died suddenly Wednesday alternoon at his home near here.
Mr. Smith was born in Hampton County, son of Mrs. Irene Long Smith and the late Henry T. Smith. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.
m. Friday from Nixville Baptist Church by the Rev. Frank Ling and the Rev. Frank Fisher. Burial will be in the churchyard.
call at his home until the service hour. Survivors, besides his mother, include his widow, Mrs. Margaret S. Smith of Estill; three sons, Larry, Johnny, and Glenn Smith and three daughters, Patricia, Cheryll, and 1 Sandra Smith, all of Estill; four brothers, Thomas of Savannah, David of Hardeeville, and Frederick and Stephen Smith of Estill; one sister, Mrs. Audrey S.
Smith of Savannah, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Long of Estill.
Mrs. Segars, At Hartsville HARTSVILLE-Mrs. James Segars died late Tuesday night at a local hospital after a week's illness. Mrs. Segars was born and reared in Darlington County, daughter of the late George and Bessie Adams Melton.
Survivors include her husband; four sons, James, Dr. Larry, Grady, and Clyde Earl Segars, and four daughters, Mrs. Hazel Carvin, and Betty Jean, Shelvy and Bobbie Lynn Segars, all of Bishopville, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p. m.
Thursday from Mt. Elon Baptist Church by Dr. W. L. Mays and Dr.
J. B. Little. Interment will be in the church cemetery. The body is at the home.
F. B. Baker, 44, Lancaster LANCASTER (Special) -Fraudus Bufford Baker, 44, assistant overseer in the weaving department of Springs Cotton Mills, died Wednesday morning in a local hospital after a short illness. He was born in Union County, North Carolina, a son of the late David Wellington and Alice Hayes Baker. Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.
m. Thursday from Springdell Baptist Church by the Rev. B. A. Davis, the Rev.
J. Allen Smith, the Rev. Randolph Robinson and the Rev. Heath Carnes. Burial will be in Lancaster Memorial Park.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ruth Helms Baker; three sons, Clyde Richard, Bill Ross, and David Michael Baker of Lancaster; two sisters, Mrs. J. R. Blackmon of Lancaster and Mrs.
John Justice of Great Falls; one brother, D. W. Baker, of Lancaster, and three half-brothers, Harvey and Fred Doster of Pageland and Jim Doster of Monroe, N. C. The body will be taken to church one hour before the service, The prosecution continued to weave a two state web of eircumatantial evidence around Ishmael Robinson yes.
terday in efforts to tie the unwitnessed pistol slaying of a Hopkina merchant more than twoand-a-half years ago to the 68- year-old Negro. Some half-dozen witnesses from Richmond, including FBI agents, brought the total number of state's witnesses dur. ing the two-day trial to about 28. A. B.
Stewart was found slumped behind the counter in his store the night of May 9, 1956. He had been telled by two pistol bullets. Robinson WAR picked up in Richmond, Va. last December by FBI agents on a fugitive warrant and returned to South Carolina for trial. Richland County Sheriff S.
S. Sligh testified that Robinson twice confessed to slaying Stewart-once in Richmond, and again in Columbia. However, Sheriff Sligh said Robinson gave different versions each time for his alleged motives and the circ*mstances surrounding the his two confessions, Sheriff Sligh said Robinson contended he made the Richmond confession out of fear. He said Robinson charged FBI agents had blackjacked him. Robinson complained to the FBI at Washington that he had been maltreated and beaten with A blackjack, Agent Lewis Lueders of said under cross examination.
Mr. Lueders explained he A report on the allegation in which he denied it. Mr. Lueders said from the witness stand yesterday he had never carried a blackjack in his life. Sheriff Sligh said in his testimony before the jury, after testifying earlier with the jury out of the room, that he reminded Robinson at the Richmond jail of his alleged previous arrests.
An objection to the remark was immediately sustained by Judge J. Woodrow Lewis. Judge Lewis ordered the remark stricken from the record and instructed the jurors to disregard it as prejudicial, but the judge promptly refused a spontaneous motion for a mistrial by court appointed Rion, Jr. defense and attorneys James Taylor L. Gibbs.
Sheriff Sligh also quoted Robinson as saying "he knew he was going to get the electric chair." The Sheriff said under crossexamination by Mr. Gibbs that he told Robinson he be been sheriff for six years "and no one had gotten the electric chair" during this time. In his Richmond confession, Sheriff Sligh quoted Robinson as telling him a conversation with Stewart over Robinson's commonlaw wife brought on the slaying. After Robinson was returned to Columbia, Sheriff Sligh said he talked to Robinson and told him he just wanted the truth as to what happened and Robinson gave him the statement the coroner's inquest last month. The statement was again read before the jury at yesterday's trial.
In it, Robinson said he went to Stewart's store on the night of the slaying and waited outside as Stewart wasn't there at the time. When Stewart arrived. Robinson said he went in and asked Stewart for a loan of $25, which Stewart refused. He said he pulled his .38 Colt from his belt and, "When Mr. Stewart saw me with the gun he said, 'What-' and I started Robinson said he had transferred his pistol from a shoulder holster to his belt before entering the store.
Lucy Manning of Richmond, operator of the rooming house where Robinson stayed and Mrs. Smith's Funeral Today Funeral services for Mrs. Gladys Juanita Smith, 32, will be conducted from the Thompson Funeral Home at Sylvania, Ga. at 2 o'clock this afternoon. She died at her home, Two Notch Columbia, Tuesday morring.
Burial will be at Buck Creek Cemetery at Sylvania. Richland County Coroner Cecil Wiles reported last night death was due to natural causes. that John Funeral Today UNION (Special) Funeral services for Julius Walker Johns, 82, who died Tuesday, will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Thursday from the Mon Aetna Baptist Church.
Interment will follow in the Beulah Church Cemetery. HOMEMADE 'BOMB' INJURES BOY, 13 SPRINGFIELD (Special)Ralph Fulton Gleaton, 13, was rushed by ambulance to the Regional Hospital in Orangeburg about 4:30 p.m. about his thighs by the acciWednesday a after being injured dental explosion of a small homemade "bomb." The incident occurred on his back porch while he was seated with a piece of copper tubing between his thighs, packing gun powder into the tube with a hammer. His father was indoors. asleep and his mother was away at work.
Neighbors hurrying to his aid found him bleeding profusely and in a state of shock. His condition was not immediately determined. later partner in a personal relationship that "we grew up to." told something of Robinson's tivities after reaching Richmond. She said he bought and ed three different cars. Carl O.
Stephens said he sold one Ishmael Robinson two cars, receiving the first car he had sold him As trade-in on the car he subsequently sold to Robinson. Other FBI agents were placed, on the stand to corroborate the testimony of the first agent who appeared as witness. Chief Deputy Jimmy Harrison said he saw a trompled spot outside Stewart's store littered with cigarette butts where someone apparently had been standing. State Law Enforcement Division Agent B. R.
Peake explained why the bloodhounds, brought to the scene shortly after Stewart's body WAS found, were unable to pick up a trail. He said the fact that the store WAS a much-used public place, plus being fronted by' A paved road and its location near A railroad made it difficult for the dogs to pick up a trail. The dogs were called off aker a few minutes, he said, when it was decided by the investigating officers to await and "not to disturb tracks" at the present. The trial is expected to be completed today with any witnesses the defense may wish to put up and final arguments to the jury. Alaska's Ailing Governor Egan 'Holding Own' SEATTLE, Wash.
(AP)-A note of cautious optimism WAS contained in a medical report Wednesday on the condition of Alaska's critically ill governor, William A. Egan. "'The governor is holding his own and SO far it looks encouraging." said Dr. Joel W. Baker, head of a surgical team that performed a two hour emergency operation on Egan Tuesday.
Dr. C. C. Carter, who accompanied Egan here from the Alaska capital at Juneau, said, "I feel encouraged; the longer it very, better it looks." The emergency was 1 to believe a bowel obstruction and abdominal paralysis, a condition that developed after removal of Egan's gall bladder Jan. 6.
The operation here was his third in less than two months. The first, in December, was for hemorroids. The doctors said Egan's condition would remain critical for several days but his fighting will to live was in his favor. The 44-year-old Democrat was stricken only four hours after takin the oath of office in Juneau Jan. 3 as the first elected governor of the 49th state.
He had become run down from a strenuous campaign but kept going despite being troubled by jaundice. T. M. Henry, 50, Lake City LAKE CITY (Special) -Thomas M. Henry, 50, well known farmer and merchant, died early Wednesday morning at a local hospital after an illness of four days.
Mr. Henry was a son of the late Andrew Campbell and Martha Camp Henry and was born at Clover. For the past 22 years he lived here where he farmed and owned and operated the Mayflower Cafe. He was a member of the Lake City Methodist Church and was a Mason. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Margaret Bagwell Henry of the home; one daughter, Tamra Henry of the home; three brothers, Meek and R. L. Henry of Valdeesa, N. R. L.
Henry of Clover and Edd Henry of Lake City; and four sisters, Mrs. T. C. Barnett of Clover, Mrs. Charlie Long of Gastonia, 'N.
and Misses Cleo and Martha Henry, both of Clover. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday from the Lake City Methodist Church by the pastor, the Rev. T. F.
Reed, assisted by the Rev. Ross Johnson of Florence. Burial will be in Lake City Memorial Park. Mrs. H.
M. Jacobs Of Blaney Dies Mrs. Olie. Jacobs, 67, of Route 2, Blaney, who was born in Richland County, the daughter of the late James R. Powers and Mrs.
Kizziah Morrell, died early Wednesday afternoon after a short illness. She was a member of the Spears Creek Baptist Church. She was the widow of H. M. Jacobs.
Survivors include A daughter, Mrs. Eunice Jacobs: two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Dent of Miami, and Mrs.
J. H. Harley of Fayetteville, N. two grandchildren, Gita Jacobs and Rhett Jacobs. Funeral services will be conducted at 4:30 Thursday afternoon from Spears Creek Baptist Church by the Rev.
Claude A. Hightower and the Rev. George Walker. Burial will be in Spears Creek Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Roger Ellisor, C.
B. Kelly, Raeford Coleman, Earl Jacobs, Martin Roberts and Horace Pigg. They are askedd to meet at the home 4 at o'clock. The body will be taken to the home at 11 o'clock Thursday morning. Proper insulation of attics will cut fuel bills as much as 17 per cent..
