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a a a a a a a a a 4c, THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, Orangeburg, S.C., Sunday, March 11, 1984 Fire scene Firemen survey the debris-strewn interior after a fire swept through Automated Business Systems Friday night. The business, located at 507 Russell was completely gutted by the blaze, whose cause is undetermined at this time. (Photo special to The by Henry Dukes) Council defends Carmichael and Schafer By The Associated Press serving his sentence at at Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery, Ala. last April, be made eligible DILLON, S.C. Dillon County Council has come for early parole after serving as little as one year.

to the defense of two of the county's most prominent and wealthiest citizens, convicted in the The federal court has rejected efforts to have Dillon voting fraud scandal of 1980. Carmichael retried on vote fraud and related The council passed a resolution Friday asking charges in connection with the 1980 primary. The the federal government to release former state Lake View millionaire was convicted in April 1981 Sen. Eugene Carmichael from prison and stop of vote buying, obstruction of justice and conefforts to send millionaire businessman Alan spiracy in connection with absentee ballot tamSchafer back to jail. pering.

Carmichael was sentenced to 10 years and The resolution asks that Carmichael, who began a $20,000 fine. Jackson gets 'favorite son' recognition By The Associated Press presidential candidates and take said they had no objection to the care of other party business resolution," which recognizes COLUMBIA The executive such as single-member Senate Jackson as the native son cancommittee of South Carolina's districts and setting a special didate of South Carolina, he Democratic Party recognized primary April 17 to fill the seat said. the Rev. Jesse Jackson as its of the late Sen. L.

Marion He said the South Carolina "favorite son" candidate Satur- Gressette. representatives for Jackson and day, but Chairman W.J. Bryan for the other Democratic presiDorn said it was not an en- Dorn said in a telephone in- dential candidates, Gary dorsement. terview that vote on the Hart of Colorado, Sen. John Jackson resolution "was unani- Glenn of Ohio, and former vice The committee met in Col- mous." president Walter Mondale, atumbia Saturday to discuss the "They all got together and tended the meeting.

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She was 100 years old. Miss Gray was born Sept. 14, 1883, in Laurens, the daughter of William Lafayette and Sarah Lou Dial Gray. Her name, Wil Lou, combined theirs. She graduated in 1903 with a bachelor's degree from Columbia College and did graduate work at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

In 1911, Miss Gray earned a master's degree in political science from Columbia University in New York and later did graduate work in education at Teachers' College. After she finished her studies, Miss Gray returned to Greenwood County where she taught in a one-room school. During her next assignment, at Young's Township school in Laurens County, Miss Gray discovered many parents could not write excuses for their children's absences. She then organized the first rural night schools for adults in South Carolina, as supervisor of rural schools in Laurens County from 1912 to 1916. But Miss Gray found little support for her goal to teach adults to read and write.

In frustration, she accepted what was then a "high-paying" teaching job in the schools of Montgomery County, near Washington. But by 1918, her work was sufficiently recognized in South Carolina for Miss Gray to return as executive secretary of the S.C. Illiteracy Commission. Through the commission's influence, the General Assembly established a Department of Adult Education. Miss Gray became state supervisor of night schools (later Adult Education) and served from 1919 until 1946.

Obituaries MRS. ROSA MAE KEITT The funeral for Mrs. Rosa Mae Keitt, 69, of 1655 Irvin Street, Orangeburg, will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Andrew Chapel Baptist Church, with the Rev. Leroy M.

Tyler officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The body will be placed in the church at 2 p.m. Mrs. Keitt died Thursday.

She was born March 15, 1914, in Orangeburg, a daughter of the late Joseph and Martha Bradley Glover. She was the wife of the late Booker T. Keitt. She was a member of Andrew Chapel Baptist Church, the YMCA, the Christian Burial Association, Sons and Daughters of Job Women's Home Christian Union and the NAACP. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs.

Claudell Dibble of Orangeburg and Mrs. Connie Keitt Bradley of the home; a son, Joseph L. Keitt of the home; two sisters, Mrs. Josephine Carson of Philadelphia and Mrs. Clayrean K.

Gallishaw of Orangeburg; six grandchildren and a greatgrandchild. Friends may call at the residence and Simmons Funeral Home. REMBERT E. DYSON NORWAY, S.C. The funeral for Rembert Ernest (Bob) Dyson, 66, of Route 1, Box 161-A, will be 4 p.m.

Sunday at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home, with the Rev. Nicholas Imbastaro officiating. Burial will be in Norway Cemetery. Mr. Dyson died Friday.

Pallbearers will be Raymond W. Sifly, Julius E. Gramling III, Stoney Backmon, Ed. Blake, Johnny Bates and John Carl Brown. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Lila Ray Dyson of Norway; two sons, Robert Steven Dyson and Tracy Ray Dyson, both of Norway; a sister, Mrs. Will (Mildred) Ganeau of Columbia; a brother, Fred L. Dyson of Gadsen; a daughter, Mrs. Cenythia Rieves of Durham, N.C.; and a granddaughter. Friends may call at the residence and the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the Heart Fund or a favorite charity. LEROY BOLIN NORTH, S.C. Leroy Bolin, 72, died Saturday at Orangeburg Regional Hospital following a brief illness. The funeral will be 3 p.m. Monday at Corinth Baptist Church, with the Rev.

James Truesdale, the Rev. Eric S. Stroman and the Rev. Dan Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in the churchyard.

Mr. Bolin was born in Orangeburg County, a son of the late Jesse and Lula Williams Bolin. He was a retired carpenter, a member of Corinth Baptist Church and a former Sunday School superintendent for 30 years. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Pauline Gartman Bolin of North; a daughter, Mrs.

Danny (Scarlet) Tyler of Neeses; five sons, Kenneth Bolin and Jody Bolin, both of Swansea, Larry E. Bolin and David H. Bolin, both of North, and Paul S. Bolin of Johns Island; four sisters, Mrs. Ruby Jay and Mrs.

Rosa Mae Clark, both of Adrian, Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Ruth Callahan of North; six brothers, Hubert J. Bolin of Avon Park, and Jesse R. Bolin of West Columbia, Buel Bolin Sr.

of Charlotte, N.C., and Carlyle Bolin, Woodrow Bolin and John J. Bolin, all of North; and 11 grandchildren. Friends may call at the residence and Culler Funeral Home. CARD OF THANKS The family of the late HORACE A. JACKSON would like to thank our many friends and relatives for the prayers, visits, flowers, food, calls, cards and all other expressions of sympathy shown during our bereavement.

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