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StateLocal Orangeburg, S.C., Saturday, September 14, 1996, Page 9A ctnotrat 'Professional courtesy' Fred Smith, county's Register of Mesne Conveyance, dies Highway Patrol rarely tickets other officers i i- i Frederick Allen "Fred" Smith, 56, of 790 Boulevard NE, Orangeburg, died Friday at The Regional A Medical Center. The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Orangeburg, with the Rev. Dr. William L.

Coates and the Rev. Riley Huckabee officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Orangeburg. Pallbearers will be Joseph Rowe, Jason Sheppard, Danny Sheppard, Robert Branson, John Wyndham, Chuck Hamrick and Preston Avinger. Honorary pallbearers will be all Orangeburg County department heads, elected and administrative officials, members of the Orangeburg Bar Association, staff members of the RMC Office and surveyors and paralegals who work in the RMC Office.

Mr. Smith was born in Orangeburg, a son of Mrs. Mary Johnson Smith and the late Allen David Smith. He was a graduate of Orangeburg High School and the University of South Carolina. He was a member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.

He was ap pointed Register of Mesne Conveyance of Orangeburg County in 1986. Mr. Smith was a member of First Baptist Church, the South Carolina Association of Clerks of Court and Registers of Mesne Conveyance, Orangeburg County Historical Society, Orangeburg German-Swiss Genealogical Society, Olin Dantzler Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans, Midlands Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and the South Carolina Railroad Museum. He was past president of the Smith Family Association, Descendants of George L. and Mary Ann Smoak Smith.

Survivors include his mother of Orangeburg; and a sister, Patricia S. Newman of Ankeny, Iowa. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home of Orangeburg. Friends may call at the residence.

The family suggests memorials be made to First Baptist Church, Orangeburg and Sievern Baptist Church, Wagener and the Orangeburg County Historical Society. lided with Christie Chandler, who pulled out of a parking lot in front of him, investigators said. The 26-year-old wife and mother was killed. Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Steve Sulligan said the deputy and Chandler were both at fault and charging only the deputy wouldn't be fair.

Many of the other 109 Greenville County wrecks include minor accidents with no property damage, which police and deputies are required to report, Brown and Bridges said. "I don't think it's a double standard," Brown said. "I think if there is an obvious violation where there is drinking and things like that, I don't think there's any hesitation for charges." There is no rule or policy that requires patrolmen to charge someone in every accident because each case is different, Sulligan said. A trooper needs enough evidence to prosecute in court to make a traffic charge, Sulligan said. If the trooper doesn't have enough evidence to go to court, a driver is simply listed as being at fault.

"If you get into a case where there is a gray area, where my gut feeling is this person is wrong but I can't prove it in court, then that's when they don't make charges," he said. But Greenville resident Irwian McCullough, 32, said the practice of not charging law officers is unfair. "If they were at fault, they should go through the same thing we do," he said. Terri King was in tears when she found out the deputy wouldn't be charged in the wreck that killed Chandler, who was her niece. "I don't want anything extraordinary," King said.

"The family doesn't want to see anything but justice done." Less than 10 hours after Chandler died, another sheriffs deputy making a U-turn sideswiped a driver in his blind spot. There were no injuries. The deputy was not charged. By The Associated Press GREENVILLE, S.C. South Carolina Highway troopers rarely give local law enforcement officers tickets when they are involved in accidents, even when sheriffs deputies and police officers are at fault, statistics show.

Last year, the Highway Patrol investigated 320 wrecks involving law enforcement officers and wrote five tickets, The Greenville News reported Friday, citing Highway Patrol figures. The patrol is responsible for investigating all wrecks involving police and sheriff's officials. The Highway Patrol's commander, Col. James Caulder, said he wasn't aware of the statistics but the numbers are a concern. "I'm definitely going to look into it," Caulder said.

While tickets were written for 58 percent of the accidents involving the general public, law enforce-. ment officers were only ticketed 1 percent of the time when they were at fault in accidents, the newspaper said, citing patrol figures since 1994. In Greenville County, the state Highway Patrol has not ticketed any Greenville law enforcement officer since 1994, even though deputies and police were at least partially at fault in 110 wrecks, the sheriff and police departments said. Greenville County Sheriff Johnny Mack Brown called the practice "just a professional Greenville Police Chief Mike Bridges said he was surprised. "It looks like something isn't exactly right," he said.

Patrol officials were unable to provide details Friday on the five tickets written for law enforcement officials last year, except to say that two tickets were written in Darlington County, and one each in Florence, Kershaw and Spartanburg counties. At least one of the Greenville accidents ended with a fatality. On Labor Day, a sheriff's deputy was speeding to work when he col Citadel wants $300,000 from state to pay for co-ed switch Mrs. Harriett Marion 'Hattie' Abel Cummings The funeral for Mrs. Harriett Marion "Hattie" Abel Cummings, 94, of Orangeburg will be held at 4 p.m.

Sunday at Pecan Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church i in Orangeburg, with Pastor Alex Todd officiating. Burial will be in Belleville Memorial Gardens in Orangeburg. Mrs. Cummings died Sept. 8 in Piano, Texas.

She was born Nov. 20, 1901, in Ehrhardt, a daughter of the late Benjamin Washington and Serena Steward Abel. She attended Claflin University, now Claflin College, and graduated from "The Academy" in 1921. She also at-v tended South Carolina Agricultur- al and Mechanical College (now S.C. State University).

A school teacher in Bamberg County for two years, she was the widow of Earl Franklin Cummings, one of Orangeburg's first African-American businessmen. Cummings was owner and operator of Cummings' Bicycle Shop and Gun Repairs on Russell Street. Her son, the late Herbert Earl Cummings, owned and operated Herbie's Grill for 35 years. She was a life member of the former Oak Grove AME Church in Ehrhardt and later joined Pecan Grove Seventh-day Adven- tist Church. She was a member of The Good Will Club.

Survivors include four sisters, Mrs. Inez Clark, Mrs. Pauline Hare-Bey, and Mrs. Benjamina Hillery, all of Brooklyn, N.Y., and 1 Mrs. Zeida Hubert of Piano, Texas; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the residence of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Margaret J. Cummings, and her grandchildren, Avis and Terrence Cummings, 1947 Myers Road, Orangeburg, and at Glover's Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials may be made to Pecan Grove Sev-'r enth-day Adventist Church, 1202 I Decatur Orangeburg, S.C. 29115.

Nicole G. Johnson The funeral for Nicole G. Johnson, 27, of 1681 Baugh Or-- angeburg, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Mount Nebo Baptist Church in Eastover, with Bishop Odell Sims officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Ms. Johnson died Tuesday. She was born Feb. 25, 1969, in New York, a daughter of the late Ms. Thelma Glover.

She attended the public schools of Calhoun County and was a graduate of Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical Col- lege with a degree in the Licensed Practical Nurse program. Ms. Johnson was a member of the S.C. Nurses Association and the National Guard. Survivors include two sons, Brandon Johnson of Columbia I and Cameron Johnson; her grand-: mother, who raised her, Mrs.

Mazell Randolph Holley of St. Matthews; two sisters, Latasha Glover of New York and Tameka Glover of St. Matthews; and her fiance, Lawrence Kiett of Orangeburg. Friends may call at the residence of her grandmother, Mrs. Mazell Randolph Holley, 107 Eliz-c abeth St.

Matthews, and at Carson's Funeral Home of St. Matthews. Mrs. Minnie Mae Darby Asmond Jones ST. MATTHEW'S, S.C.

-Mrs. Minnie Mae Darby Asmond Jones, 74, of Route 1, Box 496, St. Matthews, died Thursday at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Howell, in St. Matthews.

The funeral will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday at Ebenezer Baptist Church, near North, with the Rev. Nathaniel C. Bonaporte officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Kirby Lee Asmond, Terrell L. Sumpter, Rudolph Jones, John Henry Bo-vian, Andrew Wright and Albert Jones. Mrs. Jones was born Nov. 26, 1921, in Orangeburg, a daughter of the late Mrs.

Ollie Lou Darby Riley. She attended the public schools of St. Matthews. At an early age, she joined Ebenezer Baptist Church, where she served on the Jubilee Choir. She was married to the late Fred Jones.

Survivors include four sons, Otto Asmond, Kirby Lee Asmond, James Clay Jones and Rudolph Jones, all of St. Matthews; four daughters, Mrs. Effie Lou Wright, Mrs. Beatrice Howell, Mrs. Reather Bovain and Mrs.

Kater-ine Boyd, all of St. Matthews; two stepsons, Albert Jones and Henry Jones, both of St. Matthews; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Lucille Charley and Mrs. Lessie Charley, both of St.

Matthews; a brother, Eddie Ellis of St. Matthews; 10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Willie B. Crumel Funeral Home of North.

Friends may call at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Howell, 109 Gilford St. Matthews and at the funeral home. Allen Lyons BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. Allen Claude Lyons, 44, of 377 Langford Road, Blythewood, died Thursday.

The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Northside Baptist Church in West Columbia. Burial will be in Bush River Memorial Gardens. Mr. Lyons was born in Richland County, a son of Adam Claude Lyons and Gwen Johnson Lyons.

He was a graduate of Eau Claire High School and Midlands Technical College and served in the U.S. Navy. He was employed by Brasington Plumbing Co. and was co-owner of Custom Cake Crafters, where he was an award-winning cake decorator. He was a member of Northside Baptist Church, where he had served as a Sunday school teacher, deacon, member of the Celebration Choir and the Celebrate ensemble.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Patrice (Pat) Butler Lyons; his parents of Columbia; and two sisters, Jane Mayzes of Gaston and Ann Haynes of Orangeburg. The family suggests memorials be made to the American Cancer Society or Northside Baptist Church's Vision 2000 Building Fund. Talbert-Shives Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs.

Susan C. Olive PENDLETON, S.C. Mrs. Susan Cartwright Olive, 33, of Green Glen Apt. 23, Pendleton, died Friday at her residence.

Graveside services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Monday at Memorial Park Cemetery in Orangeburg. Mrs. Olive was born in Richland County, a daughter of William A. Cartwright Jr.

and Eugenia R. Cartwright. She was a graduate of Wade Hampton Academy and Clemson University with a bachelor of arts degree in political science and a masters in business aclministration. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Clemson. Survivors include her husband, John S.

Olive of the home; her parents of St. Matthews; and a brother, William A. Cartwright III of St. Matthews. Friends may call at the residence of Mr.

and Mrs. William A. Cartwright Cartwright Road (off State Road 22), St. Matthews. The family suggests memorials be made to American Cancer Society, P.O.

Box Aiken S.C. 29802 and Alzheimer's, P.O. Box 7044, Columbia, S.C. 29202. Duckett Funeral Home in Clemson is in charge of arrangements.

Dukes-Harley Funeral Home of Orangeburg is in charge of local arrangements. Lenard Reed NORWAY, S.C- The funeral for Lenard Reed, 56, of 405 Harrison Norway, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Bushy Pond Baptist Church in Norway, with Rev. James E. Holiday officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be James Reed Herbert M. Reed Isiah E. Gillins, Jeffrey Holman, Charile Jamison, Grover Hart Eddie Tyler, Quinn Tyler. Mr.

Reed died Monday. Survivors include two sons, Wilbur Williams and Jeffrey Holman both of New York; two brothers, James Reed and Herbert M. Reed Sr. both of Norway; three sisters, Juniel Gillins and Ernestine Tramel, both of Crescent City, Elizabeth Reed of West Columbia; and a grandchild. Friends may call at the residence and at Tobin Funeral Home in Salley.

Mrs. Zelma Davis Smith Mrs. Zelma Davis Smith, of 487 Sellers Orangeburg, died Friday at Orangeburg Nursing Home after an extended illness. Funeral plans will be announced by Bethea's Funeral Home of Orangeburg. Friends may call at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.

Mozelle Corley, 415 Roosevelt Gardens Apartments, Orangeburg, and at the funeral home. Mrs. Nora Smalls Mrs. Nora Smalls, 83, of 1194 Ellis Orangeburg, died Friday at her residence after an extended illness. Funeral plans will be announced by Glover's Funeral Home of Orangeburg.

Friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home. Miss Kristen Sweatman BOSTON Miss Kristen Sweatman, 23, of Boston, died Wednesday at The Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg after a brief illness. The funeral will be held later in Boston. J.B. Johnson Funeral Home of Roxbury, is in charge of arrangements.

Dukes-Harley Funeral Home of Orangeburg is in charge of local arrangements. Miss Hattie-Sue Thompson GREENWOOD, S.C. Miss Hattie-Sue Thompson, 76, of Greenwood, died Friday at Self Memorial Hospital in Greenwood. Graveside services will be held at 3' p.m. Sunday at Williston Cemetery in Williston, with the Rev.

Posey Belcher officiating. Mr. Smith Pallbearers will be nephews and great-nephews. Miss Thompson was born May 28, 1920, in Williston, a daughter of the late Harry M. Thompson and Lessie Rountree Thompson.

She was a native of Williston and a former resident of Columbia. She retired after 43 years as a bookkeeper with the S.C. Department of Education in the Textbook Division. She was a graduate of Winthrop College in Rock Hill and was a member of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Columbia. Miss Thompson was a member of First Baptist Church of Columbia and attended First Baptist Church of Greenwood.

Survivors include two brothers, Jack W. Thompson of Augusta, and Harry M. Thompson of Greenville. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Heritage Room at Greenwood Methodist Home in Greenwood and at Folk Funeral Home in Williston following graveside services.

The family suggests memorials be made to Greenwood Methodist Home, 1110 Marshall Road, Greenwood, S.C. 29646. Thomas B. Walker NORWAY, S.C. The memorial service for Thomas Brooker Walker, 73, of Norway, will be held at 3 p.m.

Sunday at Norway Baptist Church, with the Rev. Eddie Fogle officiating. The family will receive friends after the service in the church fellowship hall. Walker died Thursday at Calhoun Convalescent Center in St. Matthews.

He donated his body for research at the Medical University of South Carolina. Mr. Walker was born in Norway, a son of the late Cecil Murray Walker Sr. and Lelia Mae Brooker Walker. He was a Baptist.

Survivors include two brothers, Murray Walker Jr. of Sumter and John Walker of Cordova; and a sister, Mrs. Ethel Fralick of Norway. Wilfred Kenneth Whittier CAMERON, S.C. The funeral for Wilfred Kenneth Whittier, 88, of 134 Old State Road, Cameron, will be held at 11 a.m.

Saturday at Cameron Baptist Church in Cameron, with the Rev. Larry Mayfield officiating. Burial will be in Cameron Memorial Cemetery. The casket will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. Mr.

Whittier died Thursday. He was born March 29, 1908, in Haverhill, Mass. He was a member of Cameron Baptist Church. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Viola Fairbrother Whittier of Cameron; a son, Richard Whittier of Cameron; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Whittier, 203 Old State Road, Cameron and at Thompson Funeral Home of Orangeburg. The family suggests memorials be made to Cameron Baptist Church. In Loving Memory Of DEACON MOSES (HAND) MAJOR 4 4 i On Thursday, September 14, 1995 Father got his traveling shoes and got on that train and went to Heaven.

When he got there. Jesus said come on in my room. It seems just like yesterday when daddy slipped away without saying goodbye. We all miss him. Sadly missed by.

Wife, Children. Grands. Great-grands. Relatives and Friends Poole told the board. The college changed its all-male policy in June, two days after the United States Supreme Court ruled the all-male admissions policy at Virginia Military Institute was unconstitutional.

Four women cadets enrolled at The Citadel this summer. "We're receiving nothing but accolades" for quickly moving to admit women, Poole said. VMI has not yet made a decision on whether to admit women or go private. "We're looking very good. VMI is being trashed by being trashed I mean the media is on it like a dog pulling down a sick deer at the end of the herd," he said.

He said the VMI board may well make the same decision as Th Citadel. "At this point, VMI is being taken to task very severely. And the standard by which VMI is being judged against is us. We need to bask in these few moments of peace and glory," Poole said. Board Chairman Jimmy Jones also likes the peace that has returned after journalists flocked to campus to cover the admission of the women.

"It is so, so wonderful to me to walk across campus and not see all the TV trucks and stuff. Gentlemen, our focus from this point forward is on the classroom, back on the parade ground and out of the press," Jones said. Sunrise Feb. 22, 1963 Sinset Sept. 14, 1995 HENRY LEE SHAW (PUDDNIE) One year has passed since you left us.

It's so sad but only God knows how I miss getting you up for work every morning, but as we all know God had work for you. I sometimes wonder if you were telling me goodbye on your way out to work but. when I came to see what you w-ere saying you were long gone. There are so many empty spaces in our hearts that you fulfilled with love. We still have the love and always will, but it's you that we miss so much.

So you just sleep on and take your rest. We love and miss you but God loves you best. Sadly missed by. Mother, Father, Sisters, Brothers. Nieces, Nephews, Cousins, Other Relatives and Friends By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press Writer CHARLESTON, S.C.

The Citadel needs as much as $300,000 in additional state money this year to cover the cost of bringing women into its formerly all-male corps of cadets, interim President Clifton Poole said Friday. The money is needed to pay for everything from printing new recruiting materials to hiring women staffers, as a federal judge has approved in the school's plan, Poole said. "I guess what I'm telling you is either you guys give me the money or I have to go to jail," Poole said to laughter from several board members. Poole said he spoke with Fred Carter, executive director of the state Budget and Control Board, who plans to visit the college and see the needs firsthand. Poole said that Carter told him that the funding shouldn't be a problem if it cost less than $300,000.

State lawmakers had earlier earmarked $1.4 million for a women's leadership program at Converse College designed as an alternative to women cadets at The Citadel. That money was never paid. The Citadel already has spent $53,000 to buy recruiting lists with the names of potential women cadets. 'You said vDo it' You said the admissions policy is gender-neutral and so I put it in gear right away," In Loving Memory Of LINDA CAROL ARD BAKER Eleven years ago today God called you home to be with him and PaPa. Everyday you're In our hearts and in our thoughts.

You were taken from us so soon. We miss your funny humor, your smiles and your jolly laughs. You could walk Into the darkest room and your spirit would make it glow with happiness. You are loved by so many, but most of all by your family and friends you touched so many hearts in your 35 years on earth. Mom, we love you so much.

Sadly missed by. Your 3 Daughters, Mom, Granddaughter, Sister, Brother-in-law, Niece, Nephews and Great Nephews If Hootie band members just enjoying the ride live in the mid-sized college town. "We've been playing around there so long that everybody knew who we were before we got big," Bryan said. "Everybody says, "Man, I love what you've done. Thanks for putting South Carolina on the It makes me proud." Band members still puzzle over the appeal that's made the group's bluesy rock sound a hit all the way to Japan.

"I have no way of explaining what happened," Bryan said. "It appeals to so many different generations, and that makes for big numbers. But Japan? I just don't know. But who cares? I just wanna enjoy it." IRVTNE, Calif. (AP) Their latest album isn't racking up the kind of sales that sent "Cracked Rear View" into the music industry stratosphere, but Hootie and the Blowfish are not complaining.

"We're very happy with the (new album, "Fair-weather Johnson') and not really concerned with how many it sells," guitarist Mark Bryan said. "You just cant be. If you did, it would drive you crazy. We just go back to what we started the band on being good friends and playing together." The four buddies met at the University of South Carolina and played together in Columbia, S.C, for years before landing a major-label deal. They still.