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Page 2B, THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT, Orangeburg, S.C., Thursday, January 21, 1988 Sumter man gets 15-year sentence in case of felony DUI By The Associated Press MANNING, S.C. A Sumter man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after I he was convicted of felony driving under the influence in connection with a traffic accident that claimed two lives in Clarendon County. Benny Charles Tanner, 43, was sentenced Monday by 15th Circuit Judge Sidney T. Floyd after a Clarendon County jury deliberated for two hours and found Tanner guilty of two counts of felony driving under the influence resulting in death and one count of felony DUI resulting in serious injury. Tanner allegedly was driving a companion's car Obituaries Mrs.

Elizabeth Garrick Charpia SUMMERVILLE, S.C. Mrs. Elizabeth Garrick Charpia, 82, of 810 Embassy Drive, died Tuesday at Trident Regional Medical Center in Charleston. The funeral will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at James A.

Dyal Funeral Home Chapel in Summerville, with the Rev. Richard Knight officiating. Burial will be in Summerville Cemetery. Mrs. Garrick was born in Orangeburg, a daughter of the late James Wesley Garrick and Harriet Hutto Garrick.

She was the widow of Tom F. Charpia. Mrs. Charpia was a retired school teacher and an Avon representative. She was a member of Boone Hill United Methodist Church.

Survivors include a brother, James Garrick of Orangeburg; and a number of nieces and nephews. Robert 'Bob' Connor Gramling The funeral for Robert "Bob" Connor Gramling, 79, of Route 1, Box 1498, Orangeburg, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at White House United Methodist Church, with the Rev. William G. Cowart officiating.

Burial will be in Crestlawn Memorial Gardens. Mr. Gramling died Tuesday. Friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home. The family suggests memorials may be made to White House United Methodist Church or to Four Holes Baptist Church.

Katrina L. Hailey CREVE COUER, Mo. Katrina L. Hailey, 10, of 1308 Dautel Lane, died Wednesday at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Funeral plans will be announced by Bythewood Funeral Home of Orangeburg. Miss Hailey was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hailey. Mrs.

Freddie Hampton Mrs. Freddie Mae Hampton, of 1705 Whittaker Parkway, Orangeburg, died Wednesday at Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Hospital. that ran a stop sign last May 24 and collided with a truck driven by Randy Langley, 29, of Manning. Langley and his daughter, 7-year-old Crystal Gail Langley of Holly Hill, were killed and Dale Taylor, who was reported to be a passenger in the Tanner vehicle, was seriously injured. Tanner said he was not the driver of the car, and that he could not remember anything about the accident except falling asleep as a passenger and waking up to hear the helicopter blades as he was being transported to Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia.

"The state took my license away because I had Funeral plans will be announced by Simmons Funeral Home. Friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home. Abraham Harmon The funeral for Abraham Harmon 75, of 530 Harmon Orangeburg, will be held Friday at 3 p.m. at Providence AME Church in St. Matthews, with the Rev.

Gertrude H. Trescott officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be nephews and grandsons. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Stewards Board of Providence AME Church.

Mr. Harmon died Sunday. He was born in Calhoun County, a son of the late Rev. Clarence Harmon and Annie Hampton Harmon. He was a member of Providence AME Church, where he was a class leader of Class 7, a former Sunday school superintendent, treasurer of the building fund, a member of the stewards board and a member of the senior choir.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Marie Fordham Harmon of the home; five daughters, Mrs. Rose Marie Nedd of Columbia, Mrs. Deloris Warren of Greenwood, Mrs. Anna Williams of Walterboro, Dorothy Harmon of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Betty Harmon of New York; two sons, Abraham Harmon Jr.

of Wilmington, and Nathaniel Harmon of Brooklyn; five sisters, Mrs. Mable Hair of Orangeburg, Mrs. Pernell Rivers of St. Matthews, Mrs. Vernell Allen of Miami, Mrs.

Rachel Jenkins of Charleston and Mrs. Naomi Cropp of Bronx, N.Y.; and seven grandchildren. Friends may call at the residence and at Simmons Funeral Home. Tony Richard Metzger VANCE, S.C. Tony Richard Metzger, 30, of Route 1, Box 13770 died Tuesday at his residence.

The funeral will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Santee Bible Baptist Church, with the Rev. Gene Ball. officiating. Burial will be in Trinity Luther- lied on the application before this accident," he there at all.

that car." "And I can see you are from a family that cares, said. "Your honor, I was not driving but nevertheless, two people are dead and one is His attorney, Reese Joye moved for a new trial on the grounds that Tanner's blood-alcohol seriously injured," Floyd said. trial Ms. Taylor, who also said she could not level was allowed to be used as evidence in the to whether remember the accident, testified last week that even though there was a question as she would not let Tanner drive her car if he were. Tanner had consented to the test.

intoxicated. That request was rejected by the judge. Prosecutors pointed out in closing arguments "This (sentencing) does not give me any that the emergency medical service team who pleasure at all," Floyd said to Tanner. "When you worked on Tanner at the accident scene testified submitted that your case go before a jury, you that Tanner was positioned in the driver's seat submitted yourself to up to 55 years. I'm sure that with his right shoulder pinned under the steering if you had it all over again, you wouldn't have been wheel.

Columbia afternoon newspaper to cease publication on April 1 an Church Cemetery near Elloree. Pallbearers will be Douglas Dickson, Joel Dickson, Wayne Dickson, Franklin Hughes, Dale Hughes and Mack Allen Irick. Mr. Metzger was born in Orangeburg County, a son of Hazel Kemmerlin Metzger Watkins and the late Charles Richard Metzger. Metzger was an auto mechanic.

Survivors include his mother of Santee; his widow, Joyce D. Metzger of Vance; a daughter, Kimberly Metzger of Vance; a son, Tony Metzger of Vance; and a brother, Ronnie Metzger of Summerton. Friends may call at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lonzo Dickson at Route 1, Box 374 Vance.

Fogle-Hungerpiller Funeral Home of Elloree is in charge of the arrangements. Mrs. Edna Starkes Mrs. Edna Starkes, 61, of 1442 Goff Orangeburg, died Wednesday at her residence following an extended illness. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Simmons Funeral Home.

Friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home. Mrs. Hattie Weldon Vice CAMERON, S.C. Mrs. Hattie Weldon Vice, 92, of Chestnut Street, Cameron, died Wednesday at Edisto Convalescent Center in Orangeburg.

Funeral plans will be announced by Thompson Funeral Home of Orangeburg. Mrs. Vice was born July 16, 1895, in Sumter County, a daughter of the late William Anderson Weldon and Mary Elizabeth Weldon. She was a member of East Bethel Methodist Church. She was the widow of David Eugene Vice.

Survivors include a son, Mark Vice Sr. of Eutawville; two daughters, Mrs. Percy (Margie) Moorer of Cameron and Mrs. H.C. (Willie Jean) Wadford of Orangeburg; nine grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the residence of Mrs. Percy Moore, Chestnut Street, Cameron, and at the funeral home. By The Associated Press The Record sought to challenge The State in pro- COLUMBIA After 90 years as the afternoon newspaper in South Carolina's capital city, The Columbia Record will cease publication on April 1, the newspaper's publishers said Wednesday. The Record is the sister newspaper of the muchlarger morning newspaper, The State, and their staffs will be merged, publisher Ben R. Morris said.

The newspapers' 650 employees were told of the decision in morning meetings Wednesday. No layoffs are planned, Morris said. There are 55 news-editorial staff members at The Record and 104 at The State. The newspapers were bought in 1986 by Knight-Ridder Inc. Morris pointed out that the circulation of The Record is about 27,000 and has followed the general downward trend of afternoon newspapers where there is a morning alternative.

Weekday circulation of The State was 121,761 at the end of December, and Sunday circulation was 153,925. "It is no surprise to any of you that in cities where two newspapers are published, the morning newspaper is usually the clear preference. That has long been the case here," Morris said in a letter to employees. "The State outsells The Record almost five to one on weekdays. And it is no surprise to you that the smaller newspaper cannot survive except through a combination of resources with the larger paper.

"The result is that many afternoon newspapers have been merged or shut down. This is a trend which began in the '60s, and several times over the last decade we have considered our own situation. We have resisted until now, when the evidence is overwhelming that we should be devoting all of our energy and resources to The State and to our Neighbors (zoned weekly) papers." While other afternoon newspapers preceded it, The Record was the only afternoon newspaper in Columbia to survive for such a lengthy period. It was first published on April 26, 1897 and will be just short of its 91st anniversary when it folds. viding news coverage of the Midlands and, despite regular financial hardships, the newspaper was a strong competitor of The State.

The newspaper was founded by 27-year-old George Rudolph Koester with $150 and idled printing equipment owned by Columbia wholesale grocer, W.T. Martin, who had been laid off from his printing job with the advent of the linotype machine. He chose the name because an earlier newspaper with a similar name was still receiving mail at the Columbia post office. The State had been founded six years earlier. The Record was acquired in 1945 by The State Co.

after many years of negotiation with International Paper which had controlled and financially supported The Record since 1929. Also Wednesday, two staff changes were announced for The State after the The Record ceases publication. Robert M. Hitt III will become managing editor of The State. He is managing editor of The Record and is at Harvard University for a 10-month Neiman Fellowship.

He will assume the new post when he returns in June. Hitt will succeed Charles L. Byars, whose retirement in May was announced two months ago to staff members. Bunny Richardson, who is the city editor and acting managing editor of The Record, will move to The State as assistant managing editor when the newspapers are merged on April 1. Ms.

Richardson joins Harry L. Logan, who will continue as assistant managing editor of The State. Additional staff changes as a result of the merger will be announced by Thomas N. McLean, who is the chief news executive of both The State and The Record. Hitt, 38, is a native of Charleston and a graduate of the University of South Carolina.

He worked for The State and The News Courier before joining The Record in 1974. Bernardin, Clemson in Hall of Fame from 1952 through 1966. By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press Writer MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin was proclaimed "the world's simple priest" as he was inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame along with Clemson University founder Thomas Clemson on Wednesday. Bernardin, the 59-year-old Columbia native who rose to become the archbishop of Chicago, was called "a man of love, of honor, of courage and of faith," by University of South Carolina President James Holderman, who delivered the tribute to the cleric before an audience of about 700 at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center.

In accepting the honor, Bernardin said that "after God's grace, one of the most important factors for whatever it is I may have accomplished is what I learned here in South Carolina." "There is no event or person too small to be attentive to or any problem too large to solve. This is the South Carolina heritage," said Bernardin, who served as a priest in the statewide Diocese of Charleston South Carolina Accident may end S.C. use of teen bus drivers Compiled from wire reports a shortage of drivers and because of asking that teen-age school bus the last session. Its completion his good record as a bus driver. drivers be outlawed.

follows the recent arrest of dozens of COLUMBIA South Carolina Linda Tavlin, a spokesman for the people in the Lowcountry as part of could lose its right to use 17-year-old federal labor department, said she School districts plan a state sting on illegal shrimpschool bus drivers because the stu- can't predict what action will be to make storr Jays baiting. dent driver who over and killed taken. up The amended bill includes a 60- ran a 4-year-old child got a speeding COLUMBIA- State school day shrimp-baiting season, the need ticket last year, officials say. 21-year-old bus districts should plan to make up for a permit, a 10-pole-per boat limit The U.S. Department of Labor is drivers is goal days lost in the recent winter storm, and tags for the poles.

the death of say school officials and the gov- The permit and tag fees for nongroup investigating kindergarten student Adam Luther NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -A ernor's chief of staff. residents was raised from $100 to Shumpert of West Columbia, who group irate over a 4-year-old boy be- "We did not think that forgiving $500, while in-state fees would rewas killed at 3 p.m. Monday when he ing killed by a 17-year-old student the days was necessary, although main at $25. crossed in front of the bus driven by bus driver is intensifying its efforts there was some concern about the The committee approved an 17-year-old Craig H.

Lowman. to see that all school bus drivers in districts that missed seven or eight amended baited-catch limit of 48 The Labor Department ruled in South Carolina be at least 21 years days," J. Warren Tompkins III said quarts of whole shrimp or 29 quarts December that South Carolina could old. Tuesday after he met with repre- of headed shrimp. Earlier versions use 17-year-old bus drivers until the The newly formed South Carolina sentatives of the state education had set the limit at 29 quarts, inend of this school year.

School Bus Safety Action Committee department, teachers, school board cluding ice in a cooler. The new verBut school districts were forbid- is holding a news conference and members and district superinten- sion simply says 29 quarts. den from using any 17-year-old stu- meeting at 2 p.m. Saturday at the dents. The total possession limit remains dent who has received a ticket for a North Charleston City Hall, accor- Some lawmakers have proposed at 96 quarts of whole shrimp or 58 moving violation or who was involv- ding to the group's vice president, letting districts forgive up to three quarts of headed shrimp.

ed in an accident for which the Roy Williams of North Augusta. days of the time lost from the Jan. 7 The state crackdown was on recdriver was legally responsible dur- Four-year-old Adam Shumpert of storm, but state Superindent of reational shrimp-baiters who ing the 1986-87 school year. West Columbia died Monday after- Education Charlie Williams has said allegedly were selling their catch for Highway department records said noon when he was run over by a would oppose that move. commercial gain in violation of state Lowman, a student at Airport High school bus driven by a 17-year-old.

"The consensus of the people that laws. School, was charged with speeding Williams' 6-year-old son was run attended the meeting was for the If both the House and Senate acApril 5, 1987. A ticket citation said over and killed in 1986 by a school school districts to implement plans cept the compromise bill, it will be on he was traveling 52 mph in a 30-mph bus driven by a 17-year-old. And for the students to make up for all sent to the governor for his in the Lexington County town of Donna Gaetano of Charleston, who the days," Tompkins said. signature to make it law.

zone Springdale. will speak at the meeting Saturday, "I don't know why he was driving had a 6-year-old daughter who was Bill sets rules More on PTL that bus," state Deputy Superinten- run 17-year-old over by a in 1985. school bus driven by a on shrimp baiting dent Carl Garris said. "He was go- CHARLOTTE, N.C. After ing to turn 18 by the end of the "We're tired of begging a and COLUMBIA A bill that would three hours testifying before a grand month, and I guess the district was pleading," Williams said.

"'We can't put a season and other regulations jury investigating PTL founder Jim thinking they would take a chance stand for any more children to be on recreational shrimp baiting has Bakker, PTL pastor Sam Johnson on him. killed this way. been approved by a joint legislative said there were wrongdoings at the "We could be in a crisis here," "Our purpose is to get a law on the committee and sent on to the full television ministry, but the jury Garris said. books mandating all (school) bus General Assembly. must decide if they were crimes.

A Lexington Two administrator, drivers in the state of South Carolina The bill, on which several changes "What the future holds, they're Paul E. Risinger, said officials kept be at least 21 years old," he said. He were made before the committee determining," Johnson said TuesLowman even though they knew added his committee has gathered finished its work on it Tuesday, day. "That's what they're trying to about the speeding ticket because of thousands of names on petitions almost was passed on the last day of determine. Holderman joined Bernardin as they unveiled a portrait of the cardinal, which will be displayed in the Hall of Fame.

Clemson was a scientist, engineer and diplomat who left South Carolina a cash endowment of about $80,000 and his Fort Hill estate for the establishment of the agriculture and science school that was to become Clemson University. "The vision of Thomas Clemson the vision that in America agricultural educators and scientists were to seek the truth, increase our awareness of it and truely serve the people has proved to be correct," said John Patrick Jordan, the administrator of the Cooperative State Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture who delivered the tribute. Jordan said if Clemson could have attended the ceremonies he would say "I have seen the products of the university that carries my name. I have seen the students and I like what I see." "I think in all reality, he'd put a tiger paw right on his cheek," Jordan added to laughter from the audience.

During the program, the Clemson University choral group After Six performed several songs. Hull probably from 1800s ship By The Associated Press didn't know if it was an old bridge, a PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. A 90- foot section of a ship's hull uncovered at DeBordieu Colony last month is probably from a type of lumber ship that plied the South Carolina coast in the late 1800s and the early part of this century, researchers said Wednesday. But since the wreckage is from a rather common vessel, there will be no attempt to preserve the find in a museum, reporters were told. The section from the side of the ship along with a deck clamp which was fastened with iron drift pins and spikes was found by construction crews driving pilings for a $12 million beachside villa complex at the resort.

Bill Britton, the developer of the villas, said the crews found the section buried in the sand and "they ship, a fortress or what. The developers then contacted experts at the University of North Carolina and the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. Christopher Amer, the head of USC's Division of Underwater Archeology, said "I wish I could tell you exactly what (the ship) was." IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our dear mother, MABLE RYANT, who departed this life one year ago, January 19, 1987. Sadly missed by, Husband and Children Hearing Tests Set For Orangeburg Anyone who has trouble hearing or understanding words or speech clearly, is welcome to have a hearing test with modern electronic equipment to determine if their loss is one which may be helped. Even those who have been told nothing could be done for them should have a hearing test to find out if they are one of the many a hearing aid will help.

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