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7 SIlje tmc0 anil Democrat Local State Paga 8a, Orangeburg, Sunday, September 13, 1981 United Way Campaign Meetings Scheduled This Week private schools in Bowman, Orangeburg and Kickoff meetings for the 1981 Orangeburg United Way campaign each year. They are re Division VI: commercial I-A, commercial I-B, commercial II, commercial III and residential. Division VII: general business I-A, general business I-B, general business I-C, general business I-D and general business II. Division VIII: auto dealers, parts-tires-repairs, gas and oil distributors, service stations and tractor dealers. Division IX: building material suppliers, building contractors, subcontractors and road contractors.

The Tuesday, Sept. 22, kickoff will be for: Division Orangeburg County School Districts One, Two, Four, Five, Six and Eight, and Norway. Division District I western section of the county and District II central section of the county. The Thursday, Sept. 24, kickoff will be for: Division Orangeburg School Districts Three and Seven and private schools in Elloree and Holly Hill.

Division District III eastern section of the county. All campaign material will be handed out at the kickoff meetings. County United Way campaign will begin this week. Jim Thomas, 1981 county campaign chairman, said the meetings will be held At 1 p.m. Tuesday at Berrys-on-the-Hill restaurant on John C.

Calhoun Drive. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School cafeteria on Bennett Avenue. At 7:30 p.m. Sept.

22 at the Court Restaurant on Edisto Drive. At 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at Clark's Restaurant in Santee. A number of Orangeburg County businesses underwrite the meals and special expenses of the ferred to as "Sponsors of Meals." No campaign funds are used for meals or special expenses during the campaign, Thomas said.

The Tuesday, Sept. 15, kickoff will be for: Division industrial industrial II, banking and loan and banking and loan II. Division II: professional professional II, public service, hospital, nursing homes and public utilities. Division III: South Carolina State College, Claflin College, Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College and Southern Methodist College. The Thursday, Sept.

17, kickoff will be for Division IV: insurance, real estate and miscellaneous professionals. Farmers Say Excess Loans Unintentional i The three farmers in South Carolina charged with receiving excess farm loans say the complexities of the program led to whatever excess money they received. 1 1 if Condos To Get Review By The Associated Press COLUMBIA Following a fire at a condominium without fire hose connections, the state fire marshal has told building code enforcement officials that his office will review future plans for condominium construction. The directive went out after Fire Marshal Richard S. Campbell's visit to the Grand Strand to inspect condominiums there, including the 36-unit Ocean Cove complex at Garden City where an Aug.

31 fire gutted 12 units valued at more than $1 million. Firefighting efforts there were hampered by a lack of fire hose connections. Garden City Fire Chief Ray Payne said his earlier recommendations to have them put in went unheeded by the project's developers. "We need to get plans for all these condominiums along the coast to make sure they're safe," Campbell said. "We're going to do the very best we can to avert any future disaster." Campbell announced the change in procedure in a letter addressed to state executive directors of associations of registered professional architects and engineers, the savings and loan and bankers' associations and the Fireman's Association.

In the letter, Campbell demanded that two sets of proposed condominium plans be submitted to his office, and he notified developers that oc-. cupancy inspection "will be assigned to appropriate deputies with a special effort to meet requested schedules." He said he wants blueprints for all condominium projects containing 5,000 square feet or more. Campbell said as the state's fire marshal he has the power to deny the use of a building and have it evacuated. He can also seek court injunctions against developers suspected of violating building and fire codes. "We have a long way to go in coordinating efforts along the coast as far as condominium construction is concerned," Campbell said.

"I am strongly recommending pre-fire planning in the area. In some sections it is already in place, but I want to see an inventory of what sort of equipment is available and the manpower to operate it." Campbell said reciprocal agreements between adjoining municipalities must also be worked out. He said he has assigned a special deputy fire marshal to coordinate such efforts along the Grand Strand. MM MMIWHIMll iWi.w,lfttedniWW itn.Attr rf.rtni.an By The Associated Press COLUMBIA Farmers who obtained duplicate disaster relief aid from two agencies and who have also been cited for receiving excess farm loans say they did not intentionally break federal regulations. "The way farming's been going, about all I have left is my good name, and I don't want that dirtied up, too," said Ralph J.

Tiller one of three South Carolina farmers cited for getting excess loans from the Small Business Administration during the 1977 drought. The three were also named as failing to report farm disaster payments from the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service that year for the same crop losses covered by the loans. Tiller, who farms in Sumter and Lee counties, admitted that "out of ignorance," he did not return a $40,823 disaster payment he received in addition to a low-interest Small Business Administration loan of $456,300. But he and two other farmers, R.V. Segars of Oswego in Sumter County and Thomas Traywick Sr.

of Orangeburg County, say they never intentionally received more money than they were entitled to. The three were among American farmers who received millions of dollars in excess loans under the SBA disaster loan program, according to the U.S. Senate Small Business Committee. Although the farmers conceded that there probably were abuses in some parts of the country, the three South Carolinians say the complexities of the loan and payment programs led to whatever excess money they might have received. "Not a farmer in this state intended to get anything we weren't entitled to have," said Segars.

The farmers say they didn't know it was improper to take the ASCS disaster payments on top of the SBA loans. Segars said he received his $485,900 loan in 1977 based on Another Queen Takes A Walk Loretta Goodwin (above) was officially crowned Miss South Carolina State College 1981-82 in a Friday night ceremony at the college. Miss Goodwin, who is majoring in speech pathology and audiology, was crowned by last year's queen (below). Miss Ezphia Lennon. Photos by Eric V.

Thomas) acerage and crop records provided to the SBA form the ASCS and the Clemosn University extension agent in his county. According to SBA auditors, that was $73,829 more than he should have received. Segars said he did not apply for a specific loan amount. He said his amount was calculated by the SBA, based on these crop and acerage reports. However, he said, the subesquent audit was based only on his financial books, not the other records.

"The SBA didn't dispute the loan at the time," said Segars. "Then they come in with this audit. I still don't know whether they are right or not. I have not agreed or disagreed on whether there was an excess." Segars also was criticized for using some loan money to buy commodities futures. But he says he considers that proper because the commodities market is part of his normal farm business.

Tiller says his reconstructed accounting records differ from those produced by Washington auditors. The SBA audit said Tiller received a $456,000 loan while his actual losses were only $271,910. But Tiller says his records put losses at $367,058 which is the amount he applied for even though he received the larger amount from SBA. "So I know I've got $80,000 to explain," said Tiller. "And it was ignorance on my part that I didn't turn the ASCS disaster payment over to the SBA.

But I sure didn't conceal anything. Everything was right there for accountants to see." rift) 1 9 1 mmm i I Burnout Workshop Slated At S.C. State Thursday Ft vV -1; S.C. Agents Help Confiscate Bogus Money Burnout, a situation resulting from operating in stressful situations over time, will be discussed at a workshop at South Carolina State College Thursday. Burnout is defined as a cluster of physical, emotional and mental symptons occurring after the stressful situations.

Dr. Ruthann Fox-Hines will be the speaker at the day-long meeting, beginning at 9:30 a.m. in Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center. The workshop is sponsored by the college's Department of Health and Physical Education and coordinated by Bambi Sumpter, department instructor. The morning session will explore symptoms and sources while the afternoon session will cover prevention and coping of burnout.

The program is open to the college faculty, staff and students only. Dr. Fox-Hines was the terfeit money is a federal crime. Secret Service agents in South Carolina were notified when Easley police apprehended Jeffrey Lee Sosby, 27, and Pamela Gail Roberts, 23. The two are accused of passing the bogus money at several businesses in Seneca and in Easley.

Authorities said when the two were arrested, they had $840 in illegal money in their possession. Wednesday, acting on information from Sosby and Ms. Roberts, Georgia Secret Service agents obtained a warrant to search the Habersham County house and confiscated the counterfeit bills, said Jerry Kevitt, a Secret Service agent in Atlanta. rural Georgia house where the bogus money was discovered, but agents say they are investigating the possibility that the site was a major distribution center for counterfeit money on its way North. Agents would not disclose the location of the site where the money was found, except to say that it is near the sparcely populated area of Mt.

Airy. "It was a Georgia seizure based on South Carolina information," said Secret Service Special Agent Bill McCord in Columbia. "It was by far the largest seizure in at least the last year." The bogus bills were discovered after a man and woman from Cornelia, were arrested in Easley last Saturday and charged with passing counterfeit currency, McCord said. Passing or macturing coun By The Associated Press EASLEY, S.C. Two Georgians were in custody in Pickens County Saturday on counterfeiting charges in connection with a major bogus money operation, the Secret Service said.

Agents, acting on information from the two suspects, said they had seized more than 1500,000 in counterfeit $20 bills in rural Habersham County in Georgia. According to one agent, the seizure of counterfeit cash was the biggest in either South Carolina or Georgia in the past year. Agents would not divulge details of the undercover operation because their investigation is continuing and more arrests are planned. No printing equipment was found at the Dr. Ruthann Fox-Hines psychological consultant for "The Confidence Game," a multimedia package aimed at developing confidence, upward mobility and cooperation in the work setting, which was distributed by the Eductional Resources Foundation in Columbia.

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