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ATIIRn Z3 K1 itih.ritaa-rflftit-Hi OBITUARIES Suspect in security guard's death attempts suicide Mrs. Juanita S. Perry 25, have been charged with murder in the death of 56-year-old guard Walter A. Sykes Sr. The pair were arrested in Alabama on Wednesday and were brought back to Lexington County on Friday afternoon, Metts said.

Sykes was shot in the neck and head early last Saturday morning and set on fire at the Solectron plant near Springdale, authorities said. Both suspects were on suicide watch when the incident happened, Metts said. The State Law Enforcement Division will investigate, the sheriff said. The Associated Press LEXINGTON One of two suspects in the killing of a security guard last weekend has attempted to hang himself at the Lexington County Jail, Sheriff James Metts said. Ron O'Neal Finklea, 29, made a noose out of his bed sheet Friday afternoon, Metts said.

Paramedics were able to resuscitate Finklea, but he remains on life support at Lexington Medical Center, Metts said. "It doesn't look good," the sheriff said. Finklea and his brother-in-law Theodore Davis Amentha H. Wolfe Amentha Hutto Wolfe, 77, of Orangeburg, died Friday, Aug. 8, 2003, at Orangeburg Nursing Home.

The graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10 at Sunnyside Cemetery with the Rev. Matt Rucker of North United Methodist Church officiating. Mrs.

Wolfe was born in Norway, a daughter of the late George A. Hutto and Leona Brown Hutto. She was retired from The Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg after 20 years of service. She attended First Presbyterian Church. Mrs.

Wolfe was the widow of Lawrence Stafford Wolfe, Jr. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Laurie S. (Donna) Wolfe III, Orangeburg; daughter and son-in-law, Mrs. Woody (Mary) Robinson, North; three grandchildren, L. Stafford (Christina) Wolfe IV, Orangeburg, Blake E.

(Kasey) Wolfe, Louisiana, Mrs. Kelley R. (Gregg) George, two Man threatens to Staff Report Orangeburg Department of Public Safety police were dispatched to a Bennett Avenue bank Thursday after employees received a threatening telephone call. Officers arrived at around 11:16 a.m. after a distress call from bank employees.

The staff said a person called the bank giving a name and stating, "at 12, he will rob the bank," according to the report. Police patrolled the area during the designated time and for a while after. Nothing occurred. OCSO A Five Chop Road man notified Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office deputies around 7 POLICE REPORT a.m. after realizing his daughter's burgundy 1994 Nissan Alti-ma was missing from their property.

A screwdriver and a white athletic jersey were found about 60 feet from where the $4,000 vehicle was parked, the report indicates. BCSO Barnwell County Sheriff's Office deputies made four arrests last week, including felony charges levied against a Blackville man. Matthew Paul Williams, 20, of Blackville, was arrested The funeral service for Mrs, Juanita Small Perry, 90, of 755 Whitman St. will be held at p.m. Sunday, Aug.

10, 2003 at Pecan Grove Seventh Day Ad ventist Church, Orangeburg, with the Rev. Alex Todd officiat ing. Burial will be in the Belleville Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Orangeburg. The casket will be placed in the church at 1 p.m. Mrs.

Perry died Tuesday, Au gust 5, 2003, at Orangeburg Nursing Home. She was the daughter of John and Mrs. Pearl Victoria Small. She was born Dec. 1 1912.

She was educated in the Detroit, school system, She was a civil service employee at New York State Manhattan Hospital where she retired. She leaves to cherish fond memories, her daughter and son-in-law, Woodrow and Yvonne Pittmon; three grand daughters, Rochelle Meekins, Pamela E. Pittmon and Valerie Pittmon; one grandson, Marvin Perry five great-grandchildren nieces, nephews, and a host of relatives and mends. Friends may call at the resi dence of her son-in-law and daughter, Woodrow and Mrs. Yvonne Pittmon of 1152 Pruitt Drive, Orangeburg, or at Sim mons Funeral Home of Orange burg.

Visitation will be on Satur day, Aug. 9, 2003 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Viola Pearson Parson Viola Pearson Parson, 98, of Summerville, died Friday, Aug.

The funeral will be held at 1 1 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, at Brownsville Community Church or God, Summerville, with the Rev. Robert L. Toliver officiating.

Burial will be in Brownsville Cemetery. She was born June 12, 1905, to Thaddeus and Mary Pearson, She was raised in Ridgeville and attended Dorchester County schools. She later moved to Summerville where she mat the love of her life, Robert Parson. She was a member of Brownsville Community Church or God where she served as a member of the Will ing workers and the prayer band. One sister, Jennie Green Jennings, and three brothers, Richard, James, and Vineie, and one daughter, Mattie Lee Davis, preceded her in death.

Survivors include one son, Robert Lee Parson of Cincinnati, Ohio; and one adopted daughter, Valerie Moore of Charleston; her grandchildren, Robert (Greg) England, Sandra (Eugene) Green, Justine (Steve) Quails and Robert Davis one daughter-in-law, Verdell Parson; one son-in-law, Robert Moore; and one sister-in-law, Louise Pearson; a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins. Jenkins Funeral Home of Summerville is in charge of arrangements. Documentary to trace history of streets named after civil rights leader Daniel F. Peck Daniel F. Peck, 71, of 1333 Moss Orangeburg, died Friday morning, Aug.

8, 2003, at The Regional Medical Center. The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11, 2003, at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home Chapel, with Brother Fred Newcomer officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mr. Peck was born in Fort Worth, Texas, a son of the late Richard Peck and Beatrice Masters Peck Ebnet. He was retired vice president and general manager of Hughes Aircraft of South Carolina. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mr.

Peck was a member of the Rotary Club of Orangeburg, VFW Post 2779, and a former director of Junior Achievement, the United Way, and the South Carolina Defense Contractors Association. He was a former member of the Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Foundation and former chairman of the South Carolina State College Engineering Advisory Committee. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Alice McCormick Peck of the home; one daughter and son-in-law, Mrs. Roy (Dann) Thomas, St.

Matthews; one son and daughter-in-law, Lance (Pam) Peck, Boston, two stepdaughters, Mrs. Jeff (Tammy) Grafton, Anderson, Mrs. Ibirhim (Dawn) Maaliki, Fort Myers Beach, one foster daughter, Miss Lorraine Parga, Long Beach, three grand children. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Aug.

10, at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home. At other times friends may call at the residence and at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Orangeburg Mental Health As sociation, co Mrs. Cheryl Baugh, treasurer, 1104 Mobile Orangeburg SC 291 16. Silas Lemon Silas Lemon, 91, of 47 Friendly Lane, Cameron, died Thursday, Aug.

7, 2003 at The Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg. i he funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10 At Haynes Chapel AME Church, Lone Star, with the Rev. Virginia Stith, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Lemon was born June 20, 1912 in Lone Star, a son of the late Tom Lemon and Mrs. Minnie Lemon. He was a member of Haynes Chapel AME Church in Lone Star and served on the trustee board for many years.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Viola G. Cruel of the home; one daughter, Catherine Curry (Marion) of Lone Star; three grandsons; two great-grandsons, and other relatives. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. at Jenkins Funeral Home in Elloree.

Friends may call at the resi dence and at the funeral home. out the tornado as it picked up dozens of nearby homes and smashed them onto their sides, demolishing them and their contents. His home was spared. "If lucky that everyone got out alive. That's the miracle of this," Garcia said Friday.

Thursday's tornado surprised forecasters and carved a three-mile path of destruction, damaging or destroying 500 homes but causing only minor injuries. Gov. Jeb Bush declared an emergency Friday morning that sent state workers to help assess damage and render aid. Most of the damage was In Riviera Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, about 75 miles north of Miami. The twister flipped over two rob bank Aug.

2 and charged with second-offense driving under suspension, the unlawful carrying of a pistol and possession of marijuana. Williams was transported to the Barnwell County Detention Center. Clarence Ray Callison, 53, of Blackville, was arrested July 29 and charged with committing a lewd act on a minor. Callison was transported to the BCDC. A Sumter woman, 32, was arrested July 31 and charged with two counts of failure to appear.

She was taken to the BCDC. A Barnwell man, 30, was taken to the BCDC after being arrested Aug. 2 and charged with the use of vehicle without permission. Teenager dies after accident Staff Report A South Carolina Highway Patrol report was released Fri day concerning a collision between a train and a vehicle which resulted in the death of an Orangeburg juvenile. Heather Lynn Williams, 14, of 339 Oasis Lane, Jamison community, Orangeburg, died Aug.

3 as a result of injuries received when a train collided with a 1995 Chevrolet the juvenile was operating. A Norfolk Southern train was traveling north near Jami son. I he collision occurred on Double Road around 8:25 p.m. July 30 on a private road way which crosses railroad property, a SCHP spokesperson said. Williams was transported to Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia.

1963 G.I.Joe prototype sold for $200,000 BALTIMORE (AP) His face may be battle-weary, but the. 1963 G.I. Joe prototype is no longer an auction-block refugee, an auction house said Thursday. The handmade 11 12-inch figure ended up capturing $200,000 in a private sale to comic book distributor Stephen Geppi, despite Joe's failure to bring a minimum $250,000 bid at auction last month. "When this thing didn't sell at auction, I got another bite at the apple, and I thought: 'My God.

I can't believe this. This is like a precious Geppi said in a Thursday interview. Joe tailed to sell even after the minimum bid was cut from $600,000 to $250,000 at the auc tion in San Diego. But at $200,000, the comic book tycoon said he was thrilled to acquire the one-of-a-kind item. CORRECTION Museum grant The article nuhlkhprf in Pri.

day edition concerning the grant received by the Elloree Heritage Museum Cultural Center Incorrectly identified the intern who wrote the successful grant application. Nathan Stalvey, an intern from the University of South Carolina who is working toward his master's decree In Dublir hkt ry and museum management, wrote the application fnr tha $1,200 grant, which is fiindnH in part by the Humanitipc Council. We apologize for the mistake. great-grandchildren, Ansley andKiley. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 9, at Dukes-Harley Funeral Home. At other times friends may call at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Laurie S.

Wolfe HI, 1810 Windsor Orange burg, and at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to The American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Dallas TX 75231 or The American Cancer Association, 128 Stone-mark Lane, Columbia SC 29210. William F. Rainey William F. Rainey, 73, of 280 Moss Bowman, died Friday morning, Aug.

8, 2003, at Dorn VA Medical Center, Columbia, following an extended illness. Funeral plans will be announced by Bethea's Funeral Home of Orangeburg. Friends may call at the funeral home. Marie Hicks Marie Hicks, 101, of Bowman died Monday, Aug. 4, 2003.

Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11, at Antioch Baptist Church. Bowman, with the Rev. Bates officiating.

Burial will be in church cemetery. A wake service will be held from 7-8 p.m. Sunday at Brown and Son Funeral Home of St. George. Deadlines Deadlines for submission of obituaries will be 6 p.m.

daily, although funeral directors are encouraged to submit between noon and 4 p.m. daily. Confirmation calls should be made between 4 and 6 p.m. to 803-534-1060. Inquiries for Cards of Thanks and In Memoriams should be made to the advertising department at 536-4607.

tractor trailers, blew railroad boxcars off the tracks and tore the roof off a Pepsi plant Some 400 homes remained without power Friday, officials said, down from 30,000 originally. "I'll tell you truly, I was scared," said Riviera Beach resident J.R. Brown, surveying the damage as police cars roamed the streets. Bernard Desilio, manager of Onesole, a Riviera Beach shoe manufacturer, was outside moving boxes when the sky turned black and lit up with Ughtning. "I ran so fast I lost my shoes," Desilio said.

The heaviest damage appeared to be at the A Garden Walk mobile home park, where wind tore trailers from the ground and smashed them, leaving piles of chairs, clothing, mattresses and belongings. The storm curled roofs off some of the 450 homes in the park and twisted them around trees. A gas leak temporarily forced out 200 residents. "It's going to be more than a cleanup people's whole lives are gone," said Garcia, who lives In the park. "It's lucky that everyone got out alive.

That's the miracle of this." The tornado had winds of 73 to 112 mph, or an Fl on the Fujita scale, which ranks the strength of tornadoes on a scale ranging from F0 as the weakest to F5 as the strongest, said Rusty Pfost, meteorologist In charge at the National Weather Service In Miami. Tornado that surprised forecasters destroys or damages hundreds of homes in Florida al effort to name streets in honor of King. He said he hopes to talk to Martin Luther King III about the idea in an upcoming trip. The push to name streets af ter King has not come without controversy. Efforts have been met with much resistance over the years, often re-igniting raciai tensions communities.

In Muncie, where Williams visited recently, the City Council rejected a plan in June to rename Broadway to Martin Luther King Jr. Boule vard, a move that prompted supporters to announce plans ror a protest. Montgomery is the site of the tamed Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, where King first preached and rose to national prominence. buf it currently does not have a local street named for King. A stretch of interstate highway at Montgomery was named in honor of King in the 1970s and a street is named after bus boy cott heroine Kosa rarks.

The location of streets bear ing King's name have raised criticism. Although King worKea to promote social inte gration, many streets honoring him appear mostly in predomi nantly black or poor areas. Philip A. Klinker, a professor or government at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., said it is a "tragic irony" that while King "fought and died for a racially integrated America, the streets that are now named for him reflect the continuing racial segregation of American life." Comedian Chris Rock is famous for his observation that the streets named for King actually disgrace his legacy of nonviolence. "I don't care where you live in America, if you're on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence going on." "MLK Boulevard" is not Williams' first foray into filmmaking that delves into issues of race.

Earlier this year, PBS aired "Two Towns of Jasper," a documentary by Williams and filmmaker Whitney Dow that chronicles the brutal dragging death of James Byrd Jr. by three whites in 1998 in Jasper, Texas. The film sparked national discussion and drew critical acclaim for its look into the lingering affect of Byrd's death on the community. Williams said he hopes "MLK Boulevard" sparks the similar discussions. "The beauty of a film like this is that It opens the doors to many questions "Who are we? Where are we? Should we be satisfied with where we are as a community? Black community? Nation as a On the Net: Discovery Times http:times.discovery.com The Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala.

-Thirty-five years after the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King his name can be found on hundreds of streets in cities and towns in all corners of the country. New York filmmaker Marco Williams wants to know why the streets continue to be a popular way of remembering King and what they say about the status of race relations in the United States. "Why streets? Why not oth er things?" Williams asked during a recent stop in Mont gomery to interview a local historian. "Why King and nobody else?" Williams is currently produc ing "MLK Boulevard," a film that he hopes will answer those questions and stir discussion.

Since June, Williams has traveled to many sites, including Montgomery, Atlanta, Las Ve gas and Eugene, to learn the history of efforts some successful, others not to name streets after King. He plans to visit more cities across the country before shooting wraps. The one-hour film will air October 21 on the Discovery limes Channel, a cable channel jointly owned by Discovery Communications and The New York Times. Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of the Discovery Times Channel, said "MLK Boulevard" will be one of several programs airing on the channel in October that explore race in America. Also scheduled to air is "The Southern Town," a documentary by Peter Gilbert of "Hoop Dreams" fame.

Schiller said studying the history of streets named after King is an "interesting window into talking about race relations." "To some he's an American hero. To some he's a black hero," she said. "He's so well known yet it's sort of a filter into what is a still very divisive issue." Following King's death in 1968, streets bearing his name began appearing across the country as a tribute to his work in the civilrights movement. Now more than 680 streets claim King's name. Of.

those, 200 have appeared since 1996. Georgia leads among states with more than 70 streets bearing his name. "After Washington and Lincoln, more streets are named for Dr. King than any other American," Williams said. Williams said there could be an increase In the number of streets bearing King's name after the upcoming celebration of his 1963 March on Washington.

He said he has even heard discussions of a possible nation The Associated Press PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -Donald Garcia watched as a funnel cloud with winds over 100 mph tore off his mobile home's awning then hopped across the street, uprooting an old oak tree and slamming it into a neighbor's home. He screamed to his wife and ran with her Into a bathroom, waiting QHje (Eimxa anil Democrat (USPS 630-240) Published every morning by Lee Publications, a divl-ion of Lee Enterprises, 1010 Broughton Orangeburg, SC. Periodical clase postage paid at Orangeburg. SC.

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