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Page 2B, THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT. Orangeburg. Tuesday, January 23. 1990 Obituaries Liquor stills found, local man arrested General For Assembly the record has been charged with unlawful manufacture of alcohol and with possession of an illegal distillery. After talking with Wildlife officers, and landowners of the area, Sheriff Smith said they learned that the still actually was in Orangeburg County, located near the intersection of Highways 3 and 178.

In addition, they learned what they thought was one still had turned out to be three distilleries, working in tandem. "We found 40 barrels of mash 55 gallon barrels and approximately 75 to 100 gallons of liquid. There also were 65 gallons of liquor bottled for distribution and more in an open container," Smith said. The sheriff said the deputies and agents "chopped it up" and seized some evidence on which he did not elaborate at the scene. He said they will be coordinating the investigation with the Alcohol Beverage Control Board, and they are still searching for the missing suspects.

He said the investigation was carried out by the Wildlife department and by deputies from Lexington and Orangeburg counties Sheriff Smith said Lt. Kenny Mack and Deputy Terry Benton have been assigned to follow up the By JOYCE W.MILKIE TErD Staff Writer Three busily working liquor stills with about 40 gallons of mash and 100 gallons of liquid as well as some of the product bottled and ready for sale were discovered in an area almost on the Lexington County border Monday morning. Orangeburg County Sheriff C.R. Smith Jr. said agents of the Wildlife and Marine Resources Department found the stills about 11 a.m.

Monday and at first thought the site was in Lexington County. Smith said the agents grabbed one of the men but two, or possibly three, others took off into the woods at high speed. "They called the Lexington County bloodhounds and ran the trail into Orangeburg County," the sheriff said. Orangeburg County deputies met them and got into the chase, but Smith said they haven't as yet got their hands on the two or three men who escaped. They did, however, place one of the men under arrest.

William Sweatt, 25, of 163 Windsor Orangeburg, Pro-choice activists want delay in action on parental consent bill City Department of Public Safety Police The police division made seven arrests for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Monday. These included four disorderly conducts; one shoplifting first offense and one indecent exposure. Timothy Jerome Salley, 25, oi Route 3, Box 284, Walterboro, charged with robbery. Officers responded to eighl accidents, other; assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature; three simple assaults; four assaults, other; two business burglaries; residential burglary; four disorderly conductspublic drunk; seven disturbances; six domestic calls; fraud; two harassments; larceny gas drive-off; larceny vehicle contents; motor vehicle recovered; attempted larceny; six larcenies, other; drinking liquor in public; two for loitering; missing person; missing person-found; strong armed robbery; indecent exposure; six suspicious activities; traffic offense; trespassing; three; unclassified incidents; three for vandalismmalicious and two alarm responses.

Fire The fire division responded to five calls for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. Monday, according to Sgt. Wayne Jackson. On Saturday at 10 a.m., one truck and three men responded to a trailer fire at Crosby Mobile Home Park. The trailer was a total loss and the occupant was David Bozard.

The owner is Henry Crosby. On Saturday at 1:21 p.m., two trucks and five men responded to Hardee's parking lot for a car fire. The fire began under the hood. On Saturday at 5:03 p.m., two trucks and five men responded to 467 Sellars Ave. for a false alarm.

On Saturday at 7:33 p.m., one turck and three men responded to 1216 Roosevelt Garden Apartments for a fire in the bedroom. The occupant was Sylvia Kelly and the fire is being investigated by the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Department because of the suspicious nature. On Sunday at 3:50 p.m., one truck and three men responded to 646 Anderson Stree. where someone had left a pot on the stove, causing minor smoke damage. Mrs.

Cora Pearl B. 'Mama' Ballew The funeral for Mrs. Cora Pearl Brookshire 'Mama' Ballew, 87, of 558 Dantzler St. NE, Orangeburg, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Garden City Baptist Church, with the Rev.

Avory Brownlow officiating. Burial will be in Crestlawn Memorial Gardens. The casket will be placed in the church at 2:30 p.m. Mrs. Ballew died Sunday.

Friends may call at the resi-, dence and at Thompson Funeral Home. Mrs. Beualah Mae Gilyard Caldwell NEW YORK Mrs. Beaulah Mae Gilyard Caldwell, 49, of New York, died Sunday at Bellevue Hospital, New York. Funeral plans will be announced by Bethea's Funeral Home.

Friends may call at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Catherine Gilyard, 551 Chestnut Orangeburg, and at the funeral home. Jerome Dailey BOSTON Jerome Dailey, 35, of Boston and formerly of Holly Hill, S.C., died Saturday in Boston. Funeral plans will be announced by Shuler-Marshal Funeral Home of Holly Hill. Friends may call at the residence of Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene Dailey, Route 2, Box 990, Holly Hill, and at the funeral home. Robert Jesse Felkel The funeral for Robert Jesse Felkel, 70, of Pecan Grove Apartment D-301, Orangeburg, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Thompson Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Wesley Far-num II officiating.

Burial will be in Crestlawn Memorial Gardens. Mr. Felkel died Sunday. Friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home. Mrs.

Alice H.Hill ST. MATTHEWS, S.C. -Graveside services for Mrs. Alice Hartzog Hill, 84, of 202 Church St. Matthews, will be held at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at West End Cemetery in St. Matthews, with the Rev. Joe H. Sowell officiating. Friends may call at the residence and at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home in Orangeburg.

W.K.'BB'Pooser CAMERON, S.C. The funeral for Walter Kirkland "BB" Pooser, 80, of Route 1, Cameron, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Cameron United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Edward J. Stiltz officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be W.B. Austin, B.S. Dantzler, Tracy W. Poston S.M.

Wilson, Sims C. Moorer and J.D. Rast. Honorary pallbearers will be the men of Cameron United Methodist Church. Mr.

Pooser died Saturday Friends may call at the residence and at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home in Orangeburg. The family suggests, memorials be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation or the charity of one's choice. Lewis Wannamaker Jr. SWANSEA, S.C. The funeral for Lewis Wannamaker 66, of P.O.

Box 181, Swansea, will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Antioch Baptist Church in St. Matthews, with the Rev. Williams officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be his nephews. Wannamaker was born in Calhoun County, a son of the late Lewis Wannamaker Sr. and Marian Jones Wannamaker. He was a member of Antioch Baptist Church in St. Matthews.

Survivors include a son, Jerry Howard of St. Matthews; three sisters, Mrs. Millie Carrie Wannamaker of Swansea, Mrs. Lottie Golson of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Mrs. Bessie Williams of Columbia.

Friends may call at Knotts' Funeral Home of Swansea and at the residence. Etc. According to the Department of Transportation, the most frequent complaints against U.S. airlines usually are about flight cancellations and delays. Problems with baggage are also major issues.

By The Associated Press COLUMBIA Here is a look at the status of major legislation in the 1990 General Assembly Automobile inspections Arguments over automobile inspections will continue this week following the state Senate's preliminary approval of a $2.50 inspection fee increase. Sen. Herb Fielding, D-Charleston and leader of the fight to increase inspection fees, thinks the $3 fee needs to be increesed to compensate fairly the more than 3,000 service stations that perform the inspections. Under the proposal, the fee would increase to $5.50. Service stations would get $5 rather than the current $2.50 they receive for each inspection, and 50 cents would continue to be returned to the state Highway Department to offset administrative costs for printing inspection stickers.

Opponents such as Sen. Caldwell Hinson, D-Lan-caster, say the entire inspection system is a waste of money end should be eliminated. Beach bill The delicate beach bill compromise reached last year in the state Senate was jeopardized last week by a House subcommittee chairman who wanted his proposed revisions considered instead. Rep. Lenoir Sturkie, R-West Columbia, said he wanted the five-member panel House Agriculture and Natural Resources subcommittee to consider his proposed revisions to the Senate bill.

His plan would allow limited construction within the so-called "dead zone," but remain truer to the current law than the proposed Senate changes. The subcommit- 1 tee took no action on Sturkie's proposals, and the Senate version could still become law if approved by the full House and signed by the governor. The new proposal not only slows consideration of the Senate changes, but it also endangers the agreement worked out late in the 1989 session between the competing forces on the bill environmentalists seeking greater protection for the beach, and developers and property owners seeking full use of their valuable land. Some developers believe Sturkie's proposals are too true to the original act and do not go far enough toward restoring property uses eliminated under the landmark 1988 Beechfront Management Act. Circuit judges A bill to add nine circuit court judgeships won unanimous approval frorr the House Judiciary Committee last week and heads to the full House.

The request to expand the number of judges from 31 to 40 came from state Supreme Court Chief Justice George T. Gregory who cited an increasing criminal caseload. Gregory recommended placing five new judges in specif ic circuits and making the four others at-large. The number of circuit court judges has not risen since 1980. Gregory has estimated the cost of the new judges and 32 support positions at $2.4 million.

Criminal law Individuals in South Carolina will continue to face the possibility of jail for what they say or write, following action in the stste Senate. Senators agreed to return to committee a bill that would have modified the state's criminal libel and slander law by making it tougher especially for public officials to successfully press charges. The measure retained the possibility of imprisonment, and was a compromise supported by the South Carolina Press Association. But Sen. Marshall Williams, D-Orangeburg and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee thet fashioned the compromise, said the bill had too many opponents and needed to be returned to committee.

Sen. John Courson, R-Columbia, who wants to repeal the statute altogether, said he was glad to see the compromise fail. The move to committee effectively kills the proposel, meaning current law will stand. Courson said he would continue to push for repeal. Dropouts driver's license Concerns thet a proposal linking classroom attendence to earning a driver's license was a "quick fix" to the state's high dropout rate prompted a House committee to seek a public hearing on the Issue.

A House Education and Public Works subcommittee put off debate last week on a Senate-passed bill that would require South Carolinians under 17 to have completed high school or be attending school regularly to receive a driver's license or permit. Subcommittee members said they were uncertain If the proposal would keep students In school. They also said It should tie in with other dropout preven- tion programs. Subcommittee chairman Rep. AonnyTownsend, D- Anderson, seid he would ask for a public hearing on the Issue.

About one-third of South Carolina's students leave school before graduation, Work camps Counties could receive cheap labor from state prisoners under bill approved by the state Senate last week. The proposal by Sen, Horace Smith, D-Spartan-burg, would allow counties to expand their use of non-violent Inmates for such Jobs ss working In hospitals, libraries or courthouses to Include state prisoners. Smith and state prison officials hops It will eventually allow counties to use prisoners to construct prison work camps, which would help alleviate overcrowded stste prisons while providing counties with a cheap and stable labor supply. Inmates with a history of child abuse, violence or escape would bs Ineligible under the Senate bill. Soma stats prisoners already work In counties on limited besis, but Smith's bill would expend the duties they could perform.

In addition, some state prisoners sre used for maintenance around the Ststehouss snd the governor's mansion. The meesurs still must bs spproved by ths House end Gov, Carroll Campbell before becoming Japanese investment to South Carolina. "Once you land several big-name companies, it's a lot easier to get more big-name companies," said Frank Newman associate director of the South Carolina State Development Board. "It's always easier to get the second one than it is the first one." Hitachi announced on Friday that it will build a plant in this Greenville County city to manufacture color television picture tubes. The plant will eventually employ up to 700 workers, company officials said.

In 1989, Japanese film giant Fuji Photo Film began work on a $63 million, 150-employee plant in Greenwood. Nicca Chemical Ltd. announced plans for a $10 million plant in Laurens that will eventually employ 200, and another Japanese conglomerate, Nippondenso Co. last year agreed to a $60 million joint venture with an Anderson company. South Carolina ranks fifth among seven Southeastern states in Japanese investment, according to the office of the Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta.

Highlights BENNETTSVILLE. S.C. State Sen. Jack Lindsay, who suffers from a rara lung disease, will travel to a Mississippi hospital next week to undergo tests to determine if he will be a candidate for a double-lung transplant. If he passes the evaluation at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson on Jan.

29 and a transplant is recommended, Lindsay will begin the same wait that U.S. Rep. Floyd Spence, endured. Spence waited six months before undergoing a successful transplant at the same hospital in 1988 to overcome emphysema. Lindsay, 62, suffers from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis a disease in which the lungs become progressively stiff and fibrous and breathing becomes more difficult.

It usually leads to death within five years because the heart, overworked from trying to pump oxygen into the thickened lung passages, gives out. WASHINGTON Duke Power Co. decided to build a $6 million maintenance facility in Great Falls, S.C, U.S. Rep. John Spratt, announced Monday.

question about fingerprints on the bullets, LaFrance said they had not found any and the gun was so unusual he had to get someone to show him how to get the bullets out. As for a paraffin test to determine if Willie Gardner fired the gun, LaFrance said the OCSD does not have the facilities to perform such a test. The trial will resume Tuesday morning. During the day there were a number of guilty pleas heard: Steven McMichael, 24, of North, pleaded guilty to driving under second-offense suspension. Sentence: 60 days, suspended on 30 days or $360 and one year probation.

Henry L. Berry, 41, of P.O. Box 65, Rowesville, pleaded guilty to simple possession of cocaine and providing false information on a firearms application, Sentence: on the cocaine charge, two years, suspended on 60 days or public service and $750, 18 months probation, to run concurrent to the firearms sentence one year, suspended on 6 months or $500, one year probation. Karen E. Moore, 26, of 101 Edward Branchville, pleeded to second-offense driving under the Influence.

Sentence: 45 days. Robert Johnson, 25, Route 6, Orangeburg, pleaded guilty to second-offense DUS. Sentence: 60 days, suspended on 30 days or $350 and one year probation. Curtis Parker, 24, 857 Rivelon Road, pleaded to second-offense OUS. Sentence: 60 deys, suspended on 30 days or $360 and one year probetion.

James B. Guess, 69, 200 East Rutledge Denmark, pleaded guilty to second-offense DUI. Sentence: one year and $6,000, suspended on 30 days Jail or public service and $1,000, and one year probation, Robert Gentile and Michael Snell, both of Orengeburg, pleaded guilty to burglary charges. Gentile pleaded to third-degree burglary and Snell to second-degree burglary, They are charged with breaking Into a building on Sept. 23, 1989.

Snell told Judge Smith he didn't think he should be put in jail, but should have probation because his wife is pregnant. Judge Smith gave both the men the same sentence and informed them they will be working the rest of the year to pay the fines, restitution, court costs and probation costs, which will amount to a total of $1,516. Sentence on each defendant: 5 years, suspended on 40 days public service and $750 plus court costs and to make restitution, 18 months probation, Court convenes at 10 s.m, Tuesday, Compiled from wire reports COLUMBIA State lawmakers should wait for the Supreme Court to clarify its position on teen-age abortions before acting on a parental consent bill in the General Assembly, pro-choice activists said Monday. "We must recognize at the center of anti-choice rhetoric is their desire to make each of us live under a certain set of religious beliefs theirs," Jane Emerson, president of the South Carolina Coalition for Choice, told reporters at a Statehouse news conference. About 30 abortion rights advocates gathered at the Statehouse to mark the 17th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision legalizing abortion.

The ruling was protested by some 5,000 anti-abortion demonstrators during weekend ceremonies in Charleston and Columbia. A parental consent bill which would require women under the age of 17 to obtain parental or judicial consent before having an abortion has passed in the state House of Representatives and is before the Senate. Current law requires a minor under 16 to have her parent's consent, but that law has been declared unconstitutional. Under current state law, first-trimester abortions can be performed in any hospital or in doctor's office. Second-trimester abortions must be performed in a clinic or hospital that has an abortion license.

Third-trimester abortions must be performed in hospitals and require the consent of the woman, her husband if he lives with her, an attending physician and an independent second physician. They can only be performed to save the life or mental health of the mother. Charleston mayor named South Carolinian ofYearbyWIS-TV COLUMBIA Charleston Mayor Court Continued from Page IB trash can were not checked for evidence of material disposed of and suggested that Ms. Wingard did not get the right syringe when she picked it out of the narcotics waste box. "The whole thing was a set up from git-go," Williams said, and told jurors they wasted "a whole day" trying to prove she put that syringe into the box, and urged them "Let your conscience be your guide." Solicitor Mizzell told the jurors his summation would be very brief because the evidence was clear, and said the syringe was prepared when there were evidently cartridgettes available for use; that Wingard saw Ms.

Kozee put the syringe into the disposal box right after Ferriss saw her disposing of the material in the trash can. He said Wingard went immediately and picked out the syringe, the only one of its kind in the box on top of large 20 cc syringes. "She was caught," Mizzell said. He presented the narcotics record sheets and the exhibits and urged jurors to consider the proven facts, that Kozee had falsified narcotics records. Following Judge Smith's charge as to the law, jurors spent less than 20 minutes and returned a not guilty verdict.

The second trial, that of Willie and Renzer Gardner, began with their attorney, Brian Dumas, and Assistant Solicitor Thomas Sims giving opening statements. Johnny Watson was the first witness. He said he was unemployed and living on unemployment benefits last August when he went to the Kick Booty Store and two men, identified as the Gardners, approached him in the parking lot and asked him about making a cocaine buy. Watson said he told them he didn't sell and suggested they talk to some others in the area. Late the next afternoon, he returned to the store to buy hotdogs and a soft drink and the South Carolina Joseph P.

Riley Jr. was named the 1989 South Carolinian of the Year on Monday. Riley was given the award for his "composed leadership throughout Charleston's struggle to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Hugo. His successful efforts in gathering the resources necessary to rebuild have earned him nation- wide respect," said a news release from WIS-TV, an NBC affiliate in Columbia which has presented the award for 26 year. Poet challenging Ravenel for 1st District seat in Congress CHARLESTON, S.C.

Republican U.S. Rep. Arthur Ravenel, who from time to time has recited verse from the floor of the U.S. House, faces a challenge this year from another poet. Eugene Piatt, 50, a retired federal civil service employee who has published several volumes of poetry, is seeking the Democratic nomination for the 62-year-old Ravenel's 1st Congressional District seat.

No other challengers have yet emerged. "I'll be happy to have my poetry compared to his any day," Piatt, who in making his first run for political office and has been traveling throughout the Lowcountry drumming up support, said Monday. State officials hoping Hitachi plant will lure more Japenese firms MAULDIN, S.C. State officials hope a decision by Hitachi Ltd. to open a $150 million manufacturing plant in Greenville County will be the magnet that lures additional men drove up and forced him at gun point into the car.

They told him they were taking him back to Columbia and were going to kill him. Watson said they talked about money but he didn't know what they were talking about. He said they drove down the U.S. Highway 21 Bypass and at the U.S. Highway 601 intersection the light turned red and "I knew it was my last chance." He was sitting behind the driver, identified by Watson as Renzer Gardner, with Willie Gardner in the back seat holding a gun on him.

He flung open the door and leaped out, and was shot in the right thigh as he left the car. He saw a South Carolina Highway Patrol vehicle, driven by Lt. George Wilson, ran toward it and asked for help. Wilson testified Watson told him he had been shot, and the lieutenant said he could see the evidence. Watson got in the patrol car and Wilson pursued the gray Citation, which went to Jamison and then, as it reached the Goff Street intersection, pulled to the side and stopped.

Lt. Wilson said he ordered the men out of the car, then other officers arrived. Sgt. Clyde Kinard said he heard the radio as he reached headquarters and said he headed out to help Wilson. "I just hoped I'd get there in time," he said, but found deputies and other troopers there when he arrived.

They searched for weapons and Kinard said he found them in some bushes about a block or so back. Dumas suggested the weapons could have been there for some time, but Kinard disagreed, saying that the guns were not there for very long because of the look of the ground and the leaves. Detective Everette LaFrance said he found both guns to be loaded. The .32 had five loaded rounds and one that had been fired. The .38 caliber Webley also was loaded.

He said Watson was "still afraid" when they questioned him. Dumas queried why fingerprints weren't taken from the guns and LaFrance said it would have been difficult since they were handled by several officers and in response to Dumas Orangeburg County Sheriff's Department The report for the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Department for the weekend period, including Monday's reports, will be included in the report obtained Tuesday. Orangeburg County EMS The Orangeburg County Emergency Medical Service responded to a total of 38 calls during the weekend period from Thursday midnight to Sunday midnight. There were 34 emergency calls and four non-emergency calls. They responded to two accidents with six patients transported.

Four were not wearing seat belts and the other two patients, it is unknown whether or not they had on belts. There were six cancelled calls and one Hurst Tool (Jaws of Life) calls, but an EMS spokesman said the patient was freed from the wreckage without serious injury. Community datebook Edisto trustees to meet Wednesday CORDOVA, S.C. The Edisto School District Four board of trustees will hold a special meeting Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 7:30 p.m.

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