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2 THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, Orangeburg, S.C., Friday, August 20,1976 Area Deaths MRS. VICTORIA ROBINSON Mrs. Victoria Robinson, widow of the Rev. John Robinson, died Sunday morning, August 15 in the Orangeburg Regional Hospital following a brief illness. The funeral will be at the Pine Grove Baptist Church in Cordova Saturday, August 21 at 3 p.m.

with the Rev. A. M. Utsey officiating. Burial will follow in the Belleville Memorial Gardens.

The pallbearers will be members of the trustee board of Pine Grove Baptist Church. Bethea Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Robinson was born in Orangeburg County, the daughter of the late Wilber Shuler and Eliza She was a member of Pine Grove Baptist Church and a member of the gospel choir. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs.

Arzena Moultrie of Cordova and Mrs. Mattie Mae Busby of Chicago, five sons, Eugene Robinson and Edward Robinson, both of the home, Dannie Clay Robinson and Sammie Robinson, both of Philadelphia, Henry Robinson of East Orange, N. one sister, Mrs. Alice C. Sanders of Orangeburg; one brother, Brunson Shuler of Bowman; 24 grandchildren; 13 greatgrandchildren; and many other relatives.

Friends may call at the residence, Mill and at Bethea Funeral Home. EDDIE C. REEVES REEVESVILLE, S. C. Eddie C.

Reeves, 71, died in the North Trident Regional Hospital Thursday after an extended illness. Funeral service will be 3 p.m. Saturday at the chapel of the Ott Funeral Home in Branchville with the Rev. A. D.

Irick officiating, assisted by the Rev. Richard Able. will be in the Reeves Cemetery near Reevesville. Active pallbearers will be Charles Reeves, Emory Reeves, Cicero Walters, Charles Williams, Richard McAlhany and McKay Hartzog. Honorary pallbearers will be the deacons of Buleah Baptist Church.

Mr. Reeves was born near Reevesville, the son of the late Charlie D. and Mahalia Bozard Reeves. He was a retired farmer and a member and deacon of the Buleah Baptist Church. Survivors include the widow, Mrs.

Susie Walters Reeves of Reevesville; three daughters, Mrs. H. W. (Fay) Robertson of Round-0, Mrs. Thomas W.

(Henrietta) Dukes of Rowesville and Mrs. Freddy W. (Gussie) Whetstone of Cope; two sisters, Mrs. Sally Williams and Mrs. Anna Hartzog, both of Reevesville; six grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

Friends may call at the residence or at Ott Funeral Home until the hour of the service. MRS. CARRIE C. DANTZLER Mrs. Carrie Carn Dantzler, 86, died Tuesday at her residence following an extended illness.

Funeral service will be 4 p.m. Sunday at Jerusalem United Methodist Church with the Rev. P. A. Washington officiating.

Burial will follow in the Dantzler Cemetery. Bythewood Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Mrs. Dantzler, widow of Dr. John J.

Dantzler, was a daughter of the late Rev. Louis Carn and Mrs. Lillie Murray Carn Williamson. She was born in Orangeburg County and was a member of Jerusalem United Methodist Church. Survivors include seven daughters, Mrs.

Jamie Williams and Mrs. Dorothy Dantzler, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mrs. Rebecca Mays and Mrs. Sarah Jackson, both of Philadelphia, Mrs. Clemmie Boyd of Rowesville, Misses Hortense Dantzler and Lillie Dantzler, of the home; four sons, John J.

Dantzler, Columbus Dantzler and Lemuel Dantzler, all of Philadelphia, and Dantzler of Orangeburg; 44 grandchildren; 49 greatgrandchildren; and other relatives. W. B. MUNDEN JR. Funeral for William B.

Munden who died in Elizabeth City, N. C. Tuesday, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the graveside in Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. Dr.

Frank B. Estes officiating. The family suggests those who desire may send memorial gifts to the American Cancer Society, Orangeburg County Unit. Active pallbearers will be Frank Sawyer, Hyotte Johnston, W. R.

Dukes, Charles Ross George Polin and W. O. Brodie Jr. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Mary Sanderlin Munden; one son, William B.

(Bill) Munden III of Orangeburg; one sister, Mrs. Judson Lamb of Elizabeth City; one brother, Reginald Munden of Windsor, one stepdaughter, Mrs. Carolyn O'Neal of Guam; three stepsons, Thomas Sawyer of Miami, Norman Sawyer of Elizabeth City and Allen Sawyer of Virginia Beach, three grandchildren, R. Michael Munden and Reginald F. Munden, both of Columbia and Mrs.

Bruce (Pat) Bennett of Charleston. Friends may call at the DukesHarley Funeral Home. HENRY R. COLEMAN NEESES, S. C.

Henry Richard Coleman, 74, died Tuesday night in the Orangeburg Regional Hospital, after an extended illness. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at the New Light United Methodist Church on Neeses Highway No. 4 conducted by the Rev. J.

H. Elliott. Burial will be in Cherry Hill Cemetery. He was a son of the late Tobe and Anna Jamison Coleman. He was born in Orangeburg County and was a retired farmer.

Surviving include one son, Columbus Coleman Sr. of Buffalo, N. two grandsons, Columbus Coleman Jr. of Neeses and Henry Coleman of Cope. Otto Crumel Funeral Home of North is in charge.

Sabin To Urge President To Change Swine Flu Plan CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP)- Dr. Sabin, research professor of Albert Sabin, developer of the oral biomedicine at the Medical Unipolio vaccine, says he plans to meet versity of South Carolina, said that Monday with President Ford to according to an announcement, the recommend changing the strategy of swine flu vaccine will be adadministering the swine flu vaccine. ministered beginning Oct. 1, with a million doses a day being given "The strategy is too little and too throughout the country.

late to prevent either the appearance Under this plan, says Sabin, it or the spread of the swine influenza would take six to seven months to within the United States," he says. give the vaccine to everyone. Summers Has School Buses Ready To Roll foreman. Ten spare buses are kept on (Continued From Page 1 B) hand. Shaffer and Summers have been difficult.

employed at the county bus shop since it was opened in 1963. Dual brakes were added to school buses in 1968, padded back rests were During the fiscal year of July 1, added in 1972 and automatic warning 1975 through June 30, 1976, the systems were added in 1974. operating cost of the buses totalled School buses are replaced ac- $70,870.17, Summers said. Operating cording to the model and the con- costs include gasoline, oil and dition, and Summers said, "We try to lubrication. give each school their fair share." Buses come in two sizes, a 54- Maintenance, which totalled passenger model and a 60-passenger $28,508.82 that same year, includes model.

The county has both. parts, tires, batteries and shop supplies. Purchasing of new buses 1 is done by During that period, the buses the State Department of Education travelled a total of 1,048,632 miles. A through bids. The state has bought total of 107 students drove buses last International buses since 1970.

year, and 12 adults were school bus drivers. All buses in the five districts are One adult was employed as the kept at the county bus maintenance driver of the county's one mini-bus, shop during the summer, but they are which is issued to the Edisto District serviced and gassed at the schools but used across district lines for during the school year. transporting the handicapped. Service trucks and fuel tankers are In January, the salary of school bus sent to the schools from the county drivers will be increased to $2.30 per bus shop, said Ralph Shaffer, shop hour. 3 Suspected Of Con Game Are Arrested police and FBI agents have arrested three men whom authorities believe may have been involved in an intricate con game to take money from elderly persons along the East Coast.

Norman James Kohn, 25, of St. Petersburg, Edwin Ahmel Smith, 45, and Gary James Rawlins, 41, both of St. Louis, were arrested Wednesday in Columbia and charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to commit grand larceny. The three are charged specifically in a case involving a 94-year-old Columbia man who was "talked out of $10,500," Columbia Police Capt. John Earl Dennis said.

However, after the trio was arrested, police found in their car "an elaborate filing system of major cities on the Eastern Seaboard, containing names addresses and telephone numbers of elderly people," another officer said. Included in the records were the names of about 50 elderly residents of one area of Columbia. Police indicated the information was SO complete that they suspect the men had somehow obtained access to bank records. Police say more arrests are expected. COLUMBIA (AP) Columbia ANNUAL MEETING SPEAKER Dr.

Randolph Smoak, Orangeburg physician and president of the S. C. Division of the American Cancer Society, was guest speaker at the Orangeburg County Unit's annual meeting Tuesday. Orangeburg County's volunteers were honored and new board members were welcomed during the meeting. Rob Hibbits, 1976 Education-Funds Crusade chairman and president -elect of the county unit, looks on.

Photo by Karen Lee) DR. SMOAK SPEAKS ACS Unit Honors Volunteers rs The Orangeburg County Unit of the American Cancer Society honored its 1976 volunteer force and welcomed new board members during its annual meeting Tuesday, Aug. 17. Dr. Randolph Smoak of Orangeburg, president of the South Carolina Division of ACS, was keynote speaker for the event, noting the ACS program is unique in that several million volunteers across the nation, and 1,500 in Orangeburg County, provide the means for "eyeball-to-eyeball contact for educational purposes." Volunteers in the 1976 EducationFunds Crusade, which serves to raise money to carry on the ACS programs of eduation, service and research, were presented merit awards for their efforts in the city and county campaigns by Rob Hibbits, 1976 crusade chairman and president- NOTICE "Household Garbage" Only In Orange Boxes.

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WESTERN AUTO elect of the county unit, and Dr. J.P. Thompson, coordinator of the county effort. Special awards went to Mike Copeland, accepting for Boy Scout Troop 98 which staged a campaign to "Send a Mouse to College;" and Cindy Smith who, singlehandedly and in a mere two hours, raised more than $200 to "Send A Mouse To College." Crusade volunteers honored included Dick Tolson, vice-chairman of the 1976 campaign; Bruce Rish, chairman of the trades and industries effort; Barry Aughtry and Ted Bell, small businesses; Mary Ella Hackett and Julie E. Nance, residential; and Eunice Bull, branch chairman in Holly Hill.

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