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THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT. Orangeburg. C. Suwtoy. August 3.

1981. Pag 9a Obituaries More farmers lend aid for drought victims South Carolina held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home Chapel, with Joe Phillips officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr.

McKinney died Friday. Pallbearers will be Richard Pratt, Bobby Mast, Marion Thomas. Paul Moon. Boh Mr- Dorchester County Deputy Coroner Jacobus Krakeei said. Officials believe the fire occurred about 9 p.m.

when a severe electrical storm passed through the area Friday. CHARLESTON. S.C Officials searched Saturday for a 25-year-old Medical University Hospital doctor who has been missing since the boat he was skiing behind struck a barge in Wappoo Creek. Rescue officials and city police resumed the search about 8 a.m. Saturday for Tom Savage, said Chief James Strickland of the Coast uard's Charleston station.

The search was suspended Friday night when a thunderstorm approached. In an unrelated incident, the body of 15-year-old Lisa Warner was found near Breach Inlet at 5:40 a.m., said Charles Green, deputy coroner for Charleston County. Miss Warner was reported missing about :05 p.m. Friday, having last been seen swimming in the inlet off the Isle of Palms. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C Public displays of sexually explicit T-shirts and misleading advertisments are not the problems they once were in Myrtle Beach because of a crackdown by city officials.

Both crackdowns were successful because merchants were willing to comply with statutes that, in many cases, they didnt know existed, said Assistant City Manager Tom Leath. the order reasonable and had not planned to appeaL Some critics say Medlock's appeal is a waste of time that could alienate federal judges who might think the state is stalling on the agreement that settled the Nelson prison overcrowding lawsuit last year. But Medlock said he doesn't think that will be the case. NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C A suspect was still at large Saturday in the brutal murder of aa 13-year-old widow who was stabbed repeatedly, apparently with a ballpoint pen. The body of Agnes Hughes was found at her home about 11:40 ajn.

Friday by a 10-year-old boy, authorities said. Mrs. Hughes, owner of the Hughes Motel and Apartments, had been stabbed more than 30 times with what police believe was a pen. A police spokesman said Saturday no arrests have been made in the case. CHARLESTON, S.C A severe electrical storm with high winds and hail is being blamed for the deaths of two women in eastern South Carolina, one of whom was burned to death after her home apparently was hit by lighting.

Daisy Gray, 86, of Ridgeville was killed after lightning apparently struck her home, authorities said. Her badly burned body was found about 10: 45 p.m. inside the ruins of the wood and concrete block house. Mrs. Lena E.Ayer EHRHARDT, SC.

Mrs. Lena EsteUe Ayer, 8S, widow of Hartwell M. Ayer. of Ehrhardt, died Saturday morning at Providence Hospital in Columbia. The funeral will be held at 4:30 p.m.

Sunday at Springtown' Baptist Church, with the Rev. Ray Hutto and the Rev. Dr. Gene Sexton officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Cooner Funeral Home of Bamberg is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Ayer was born in Barnwell County, a daughter of the late Willie Zissett and Anna Sanders Zissett. She was a member of Springtown Baptist Church. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs.

H.W. (Marilyn) Herndon and Mrs. Charles N. (Chloe) Hicks, both of Bamberg, and Mrs. James E.

(Irene) Foley of Syracuse, N.Y.; two sons, Linell Ayer and Arcnell Ayer, both of Ehrhardt; a sister, Mrs. Letha Joyner of Olar; nine grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren. Mrs. Rebia Barnwell BAMBERG, S.C. Mrs.

Rebia Barnwell, 85, of Bamberg, died Thursday at Trident Medical Center in Charleston. The funeral will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Bamberg, with the Rev. Warren Jenkins officiating. Burial will be in Bamberg Memorial Gardens.

Carroll Mortuary of Bamberg is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Nell D. Chelberg MIAMI Mrs. Nell Davis Chelberg, 66, of Miami, died Wednesday.

Graveside funeral services -will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday at Willow Swamp Baptist Church SWEET CORN SILVER QUEEN been declared eligible for federal emergency loans. They have not been declared natural disaster areas and are not adjacent to counties that have. July rainfall, as measured by the National Weather Service at the Grand Strand Airport in North Myrtle Beach, has been only about a third of normal, but thunderstorms have regularly blown across Horry County. John Patrick SBA district director, said farm-related businesses in 39 counties have been declared eligible for the agency's economic injury disaster loans.

The only counties excluded from the loans are Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Marion and Williamsburg. The 4 percent loans cannot exceed $500,000 and and must be used to pay current operating expenses. They cannot be used to refinance debts or provide capital that was needed prior to the drought. The Corps Savannah District said record low inflows into the Savannah River basin and concern for downstream water users prompted the tougher water conservation measures. Inflows into Clarks Hill Lake were 29 percent of normal from May through July," said Col.

Stanley Genega, district engineer. The water flow from the lake will be reduced to 3,600 cubic feet per second, which is equivalent to almost six hours of daily electric generation at the Richard B. Russell Dam, he said. "Even with these conservation measures, which drops our power generation schedule to 48 percent of normal, our lake levels will drop dramatically by the end of the year," Genega said. Lake Hartwell is already 10 feet below normal and will drop five feet further by December if drought conditions remain the same, he said.

Richard B. Russell Lake, with only a five-foot power pool will lose four feet by December, and Clarks Hill Lake, the biggest in the chain, will drop 11.9 feet by year's end, he said. Highlights COLUMBIA Attorney General Travis Medlock, who is appealing a court-ordered reduction in South Carolina's prison population, says the state can alleviate overcrowding in its prisons given a little time. "We're not asking the court to Ignore the settlement," Medlock said Friday. "If they let us alone for 90 days, South Carolina will straighten out its own situation," he said.

Medlock is appealing an order from U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck even though the state Department of Corrections rolled "Best Uttle Sweet Corn lnS.C Pick Your Own ffcttw tttim Cherry I f4 4 4 pmt pm Or Tim Fft We Pick On taiMTiwiriiw. Tuet. Frl.

wr At Ctwny'a f4 ZZJZSUP' '6 For 5 Doien J.L Gramling Sons 534-4913 At The Farm Bring Your Own Containers 60 Dozen 5 gar 7a.m.-7p.m. Monday, Wednesday Friday Farm Located From Orangeburg On The Old Elforee Road. Compiled from wire reports Farmers from one of the few areas of South Carolina not severely affected by the heat wave and drought planned to truck 50 to 55 tons of hay this weekend to their Upstate neighbors hurt by the not, dry weather. In other developments Saturday Federal disaster aid for non-farm but agriculture-related businesses was announced by the VS. Small Business Administration.

More stringent water conservation measures on the Savannah River were imposed by the Army Corps of Engineers. Carolina Power Light Co. announced it has donated 10,000 to help purchase ceiling fans for the elderly and people with special medical problems. South Carolina, which has baked under temperatures of 90 degrees or higher for 45 consecutive days, had received 103,036 bales of hay weighing 3,091 tons through Friday with another 11 ,000 tons promised from farmers across the nation. The hay has been distributed to 2,050 farmers in 41 counties.

"Some stuff is coming in that we dont even know about until it arrives," said Jerry Dyer, a Clemson Extension Service spokesman. As an example, the Illinois family of Howard Hiller, a county agent in Pickens, worked up two truckloads of hay that were sent to him directly. Dyer said. And four trucks with 48 tons of hay arrived unsolicited at PTL's Heritage USA complex in Fort Mill Friday, he said. The coastal relief effort organized by Jimmy Cox, an Horry County tobacco, soybean and corn farmer, was earmarked for Spartanburg County.

Because Cox's hay fields are among those that have had adequate rain, the 46-year-old farmer decided earlier in the week to send some to a friend near Spartanburg who has had to sell some of his cattle. The friend, whom Cox wouldn't name, may distribute some to his neighbors, Cox said. "I just saw the hay over there and I called him and he said, 'Yeah, I don't have So that's when I started. It's just something I did in a moment. "We've had some rain in here.

They haven't had any rain. This was just a pasture we weren't using. It's not something he asked for." Earlier in the week, another farmer from the Daisy area, Gerald McDowell, ageed to team up with Cox and donated hay from his fields. A third farmer, Robert Phipps, agreed to bale the hay. "He told me if I was going to give the hay, he'd do that end of it at no charge.

I told him I would deliver it," Cox said. Horry and Marion are the only counties of the state's 46 that haven't Traffic accidents take lives of two on S.C. highways By The Associated Press Two people have died on South Carolina highways this weekend, according to the state Highway Patrol. Louis Ray Bishop, 35, of Pauline was killed in a head-on collison at 11:45 p.m. Friday on South Carolina 295 about three miles south of Spartanburg, the patrol said.

Stephen S. Champion, 27, of Gray Court was killed at 3 a.m. Saturday when the car he was driving overturned on South Carolina 92 in Laurens County about four miles east of his hometown, troopers said. The Associated Press count of weekend traffic deaths began at 6 p.m. Friday and ends at midnight Sunday.

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MATTHEWS, S.C. The funeral for Mrs. Blanche In-abinet Norris, 64, of West Bridge Street, St. Matthews, will be held at 5 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church, with the Rev.

Dr. Michael Cockrell and the Rev. J.R. Dennis officiating. Burial will be in West End Cemetery.

Mrs. Norris died Friday. Pallbearers will be Harry Ott Tim Ott, Mark Ott, Jimmy Culler, Tommie Inabinet and Richard Inabinet. Friends may call at the residence and at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home. Mrs.

Willie M. Stokes HOLLY HILL, S.C. Mrs. Willie Mae Stokes, 52, of Route 1, Box 179-Z, Holly Hill, died Friday at Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Hospital. Funeral plans will be announced by Williams Funeral Home of Elloree.

Friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home. Ernest M. Strickland ST. MATTHEWS, S.C. The funeral for Ernest M.

Strickland, 101, of Route 1, St. Matthews, will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr.

Strickland died Friday. Pallbearers will be Robert E. Wilkes, Hubert Parler, E. Craddock Morris, Robert F. Nickells, Kenneth D.

Feryus and Perry Brandenburg. Mr. Strickland was born in Midland Coty, a son of the late Daniel D. Strickland and Eliza Beasley Strickland. He was a member of St.

Paul United Methodist Church and St. Matthews Lodge and was a Mason. He was a retired salesman with Shep Pearlstine Company. Survivors include a son, Ernest W. (Bill) Strickland of Hillsboro, a daughter, Mrs.

Robert A. (Mary Louise) Blackie of West Springfield, a brother, Dan Strickland of Fitzgerald, a sister, Mrs. Veran (Lennie) Blackburn of Valdosta, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Rosa Zimmerman Mrs. Rosa Benjamin Zimmerman, 95, of 1033 Porter Orangeburg, died Saturday afternoon at Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Hospital following an extended illness. Funeral plans will be announced by Bethea's Funeral Home. Friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home.

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Chelberg was born in Orangeburg County, a daughter of the late Clifton Davis and Pearl Hutto Davis. She was a retired registered nurse with the VA Hospital in Miami. She was a graduate of the Baptist Hospital Nursing School and was a retired captain in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs.

Theo Davis Bodiford and Mrs. Addie Davis Koon, both of Columbia; two brothers, Melvin (Son) Davis of Swansea and Bill Davis of Columbia. IThompson Funeral Home of West Columbia is in charge of arrangements. James F. Lucas ST.

MATTHEWS, S.C. James F. Lucas, 83, of Route 2, Box 130, St. Matthews, died Friday at Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Hospital following an extended illness. Funeral plans will be announced by Jenkins Funeral Home of St.

Matthews. Mr. Lucas was the widower of Mrs. Daisy Holman Lucas. Friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home.

Corbin L. McKinney The funeral for Corbin Luvern McKinney, 75, of 1251 Dukes Road SE, Orangeburg, will be (ui) GiE.tJi The High School Equivalent Certificate The General Education Development (GED) exam provides the equivalent of a high school diploma. Next GED Exam Date: August 30, 1388 Interested persons should take the free screening test to determine strengths and weaknesses in vocabulary, math and reading, and English. Screening Test Date: August 4. 1388 6 P.M.

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