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TWO THE GREENVILLE NEWS, GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1961 U.S. Weather Bureau Report PREVIEW OF U.S. WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST TO 1:00 P.M. EST 10-14-f SEATTLE COOL MONTREAL, MILD A TORONTO (BOSTON MILWAUKEE. E.MILD FAIR COOLER THEW YORK DENVER FRANCISCO KANSAS CITY SAN WARM COOLER FT.

WORTH LEWARM HIGHEST TEMPERATURES and CLOUD FORECAST MIAMI 60 WEATHER FOTOCAST 80 SHOWERS SNOW 43 THUNDER STORMS RAIN FREEZING RAIN OR SLEET Precipitation and cloudiness will be rather on the light and sparce side during Saturday, as generally fair weather is expected to rule the nation. A few showers, however, may develop in parts of the Ohio Valley and vicinity, in upper New England and in sections of the middle Mississippi valley. Elsewhere, sunny to partly cloudy skies should prevail. Cooler air is likely to move into most of the area from Western New York state Southwestward into Northern Texas, while a warming trend is indicated for the central Rockies and Northern Doctor Tells Meeting Alcoholism: A Curse To Doctor, Patient CLEMSON-Alcoholism thrusts an unwanted and unpleasant role on the family physician, a man who has treated 4,000 alcoholics said here Friday. But Dr.

Thomas E. Fulghum of Augusta, Tidewater Hospital said the alcoholic is a cross which the general practitioner must bear. "The monkey is on our back," he told members of the S. C. Academy of General Practice, winding up a two-day assembly here.

It is a definite, self-imposed tension, anxiety and emotional imsickness, he said brought on. by maturity. "There is nothing we can do except try to learn about it and try to help." Once a person has become an alcoholic, Dr. Fulgham warned, there is no return to normal drinking. A patient sinking into habitual heavy drink should be advised of this, the doctor said.

He told doctors that an early diagnosis of the disease is a necessity. "Man in the throes of alcoholIsm should be hospitalized unless you have facilities to baby sit him around the clock. "If we can convince him he is an alcoholic, that he is not deficient sexually or any other way," it is helpful, the physician continued. Simply replacing alcohol with SUNDAY DINNER SERVED IN AIR CONDITIONED COMFORTI SERVICE FROM 12 NOON 'TIL 2:30 P.M. CE: 2-2281 the WAFFLE SHOP something akin to it such as goof balls or pep pills is not the answer to the big void when alcohol is removed.

He pointed the doctors to Alcoholics Anonymous for welcome help in treating. the patient. "When one and bring him back, it is worth it," he said. When, if ever, should a doctor tell a patient he is dying? The advice of Dr. C.

Knight Aldrich, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at University of Illinois, is to allow the patient to help make that decision. The physician should offer both hope and at the same time let the patient know he is seriously ill and that all is being done that can be. If a patient indicates he is ready to accept the stark truth, tell him, the doctors were told. But Dr. Aldrich said, "You should never take all hope away from the dying patient.

We should stay in close contact with him, let him talk with When they are toid' the truth, some patients tend to deny it or withdraw from family and friends, Dr. Aldrich said. He gets a a a a a a a feeling of "magnified grief" because he is losing everybody; his family is only taking a temporary loss. The Weather Maximum 83 85 Minimum 56 Mean 70 Normal 64 64 High this month (2nd, 13th) 83 Year ago (3rd) 87 Low this month (6th) 45 Year ago (25th) Accumulated Excess' Deficiency October to date 14 For 1961 to date 196 PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending p.m. 0.00 12 hours ending p.m.

0.00 For October to 7 p.m. 0.77 For 7 p.m. 42.70 Accumulated departures (plus or minus) October to 7 p.m. -69 For 1961 to 7 p.m. Sunrise today 6:34 Sunset today 5:56 TEMPERATURES.

Yesterday Year Ago U. S. Weather Bureau Department of Commerce Ernest W. G. Kliemann, meteorologist in charge.

U. S. WEATHER BUREAU (Local Forecast on Page 1) SOUTH CAROLINA: Saturday increasing cloudiness and turning cooler over most of state in afternoon and evening. Chance scattered showers. High Saturday near 70 mountains to lower 80s along the coast.

Sunday partly cloudy and cooler. NORTH CAROLINA: Saturday increasing cloudiness across state with chance scattered showers mountains. Turning cooler mountains Saturday and across of state in the afternoon. High Saturday 60s mountains ranging to low south coast. Sunday some cloudiness along the coast, otherwise mostly fair cooler.

WEATHER By STATION Albany Albu'que Amarillo Asheville Atlanta Bismark Boston Buffalo C.Hat'as Cha'ston Charlotte Chicago Cincin't! Clevel'd Columb's Denver Detroit Duluth Paso Worth Galves'n Grf Mtn Jack'ville Kan City BUREAU REPORT ASSOCIATED PRESS STATION Pr Knoxville 82 53 Angeles 96 62 Memphis 84 56 Miami 84 79 Minn-StP 56 45 Orleans 79 63 New York 80 77 61 Norfolk 52 Omaha 62 44 Okla City 76 63 Phila 76 52 Phoenix 98 51 Pittsburg 80 52 .21 PortD Me 50 Raleigh 80 56 Richm'd 81 48 StLouis 68 60 Antonio 87 65 San Fran 85 60 Savannah 83 60 Seattle 75 56 .07 Spokane 72 50 .06 Tampa 90 74 .02 Wash'ton 82 Wil'ton 52 Port Probe To Be Limited To Its Financial Status CHARLESTON (P) The discussed state ports probe will be limited to a look at the authority's financial status, three investigating legislators said here Friday. The purposes of the probefor the benefit of the taxpayers -was made clear by the special subcommittee after it spent the morning touring Charleston's waterfront facilities. The three state representatives -F. Hall Yarborough of Orangeburg, Floyd D. Spence of Lexington County and Charles E.

Simons of Aiken planned to complete their physical look at the state ports Friday also visiting IN THE OTTARAY HOTEL Georgetown and Port Royal. "Our main concern," said no postage needed. stomp SAVE WE PAY the postage here and it's so savers make use of every month. To open an account and address, a check or ify whether you want trust savings account account book and a velope. both ways when you save convenient many of our our Save-by-Mail plan just send your name money order and specan individual, joint or opened.

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Vice President Bumped, It Comes On Later Flight Newberry Vaccine Reaches Columbia By MRS. A. H. COUNTS NEWBERRY-A cargo of oral polio vaccine, critically needed in Newberry County, was bumped from a flight from Atlanta Friday to allow passenger luggage to be put aboard. But the 26,000 doses of Sabin vaccine finally arrived in Columbia on a later flight for distribution here.

The vaccine, first of its type to be used in South Carolina, will be administered free Thursday to combat a serious outbreak of polio. The vaccine will be broken down and standardized by the State Health Department in Columbia before being shipped here for distribution. Twenty cases of polio has been reported here since last June. Fifteen of these have occurred since Sept. 1.

Only one death was resulted. Officials decided to try the oral type vaccine after the Salk vaccine proved ineffective against the polio in evidence here. Dr. G. E.

McDaniel, director of the State Board of Health's Division of Disease Control met a flight Friday, but no vaccine was aboard. SAID TAKEN OFF He was informed the vaccine had been taken off that plane to allow passenger's luggage to be put aboard. Airline officials assured him the vaccine would come on the next flight. And it did. The vaccine had been shipped from Chicago after its discoverer, Dr.

Albert Sabin, had been contacted in Moscow, Russian, and allowed its use. Medical personnel in New. berry County made immediate plans to administer the vaccine free of charge to all persons three months old and up. Feeding stations are being set up at county schools. The vaccine will be fed from 10 a.m.

until 5 p.m. next Thursday. Local physicians, supplemented by volunteer clerical help, will administer the vaccine. Two drops constitute an immunization dose. The doctors will close their offices in order to be at the feeding stations at all times.

One physician will administer the vaccine while remaining on duty at Newberry Memorial Hospital. Physicians emphasized the treatment of oral completely safe. It has been administered in other areas. Three hundred thousand doses were given in Atlanta this past spring with no unfortunate effects. Border Guns Crackle (Continued from Page One) point but because the driver was Dingler, also 20, of Blankenfelde, the truck driver, would permit use of their full names.

The others protect families in East Germany." "We'd planned it for two weeks. We wanted to break through Saturday morning. But somebody must have tipped the police, they were after us," Udo said. "All of us had been commuters working in West Berlin but living in East Germany. We have been suspect ever since Aug.

13." That was the day Communists closed the border between East and West Berlin. They found a heavy truck near where they had been meeting to plot their escape. They took the truck away and lined the body with sandbags. Udo went home and crept into his parents' bedroom and kissed his sleeping mother. "We drove for half an hour, some 40 miles, said Udo.

"Other members of the party had scouted out the break-through K. D. Breazeale Of Belton Dies BELTON Kan David Breazeale, 65, died Friday at 5 p.m. at the home of his mother on Breazeale Street Extension here. He was a resident of the U.

S. Soldiers Home in Washington, D. and had recently been a patient in Walter Reed Hospital. He was born in Anderson County, a son of Mrs. Annie Breazeale Lollis and the late V.

H. Breazeale. He was a retired barber and had served in the U. S. Army prior to 1915.

He was a member of Pelzer Baptist Church. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are his wife, Mrs. Dora Caldwell Breazeale of Greer; a son, Harold Breazeale of Greer; a daughter, Mrs. Ernest Roach of Easley; four half-brothers, Silas Lollis of Belton, Asa Lollis of Honea Path, Ernest Lollis of Anderson and Frank Johnson of Charlotte, N. four half-sisters, Mrs.

Frank Hawkins of Belton, Mrs. Marie King, Mrs. Jessie Watson and Mrs. Emmie Thompson, and five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Cox Funeral Home.

Lumberton Fire Blazes Furiously LUMBERTON, N. C. (UPI) The Lumber River Cotton Mills Plant in East Lumberton blazed furiously for hours Friday before being brought under control. The east wing of the plant approximately half completely of the buildgutted. Automatic fire doors helped save the remainder of the building, it was reported.

There were no injuries nor estimate of dollar damage. nervous, we missed the right road at a fork and had to make a detour. "We finally roared down Machnowerstrasse toward the border, the headlights on full. We never dimmed them, not even near the border. "I noted three -East German police in the grass.

It was still dark, but I could see their shadows. They immediately fired on us. "Bullets were spraying our truck. We heard them whining as they ricocheted off the iron parts. "I was scared." "We were all scared," his companions said.

DIES (Continued from Page One) education committee of the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute. Mr. McClenaghan was serving also as a director of the J. E. Sirrine Foundation.

He had served as chairman of the board of the Greenville Chapter, American Red Cross, and as a trustee of the board of the United Fund. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Country Club, Green Valley Country Club, the Newcomen Society, the Cotillion Club and Poinsett Club, and had served the latter two as president. He was also a member of Beta Theta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and Scabbard and Blade fraternities. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson McClenaghan; a daughter, Mrs.

C. C. Pearce III of Asheville, N. one sister, Mrs. S.

W. Inman of Florence, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 5 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church by Dr. C.

Newman Faulconer and Rev. Thomas A. Roberts. Burial will be in Springwood Cemetery. Honorary escort will be the officers and directors of J.

P. Stevens and the officers and directors of the Peoples National Bank. It is respectfully requested that flowers be omitted; those desiring may send memorials to the charity of their choice. The body is at the home. The Mackey Mortuary is in charge.

STEVENS STATEMENT "We in Stevens are deeply shocked and saddened at the sudden passing of George McClenaghan," Robert T. Stevens, president of J. P. Stevens said. "He was a highly esteemed associate of mine for many years and I know of the great contribution that he made to our company, to the textile industry and to his community.

"George had many friends, and his constant concern for the welfare and happiness of those who worked with him made him one of Stevens' most beloved executives." By Negro Robbers Hanging Said Tried On Spartan Florist SPARTANBURG (A- Two identified Negro men pulled an elderly florist from his Howard Street home here early Friday night and apparently tried to hang him during an unsuccessful robbery attempt. The florist is J. M. Ayers, 78. Ayers told county police the two Negro men broke into the back door of his home, ransacked his adjoining greenhouse and rifled a safe in the florist shop.

Ayers said he had no money Grew, Lloyd Whitworth and Bascombe Hall. The body will be at the home after 3 p.m. Saturday. O'Dell Mortuary is in charge. Communist Domination Tag On Allies Criticized By Hoffa WASHINGTON (AP): James R.

Hoffa challenged Friday the Communist tag which Senate investigators attached to some of his labor union allies. Hoffa, president of Team(sters Union, defended the mutual assistance pacts his organization has made with Harry Bridges' West Coast Longshoremen's Union and with the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers' Union. "I don't know whether they are Communist dominated or Hoffa told the Senate Internal Security subcommittee. 'TO BE NO PACT' "There will be no pact between the Teamsters Union and any organization SO convicted," he added. Chairman James O.

Eastland, (Continued from Page One) County Tax Office. Aunt Het 1049 Money ain't everything. The rich can eat at swell places, but all their money won't buy chicken gravy like I make. off. The management paid them time and a half, and matched every dollar of wages that day with a dollar contribution to the United Fund.

The various divisions reported yesterday as follows (leaders of the divisions; quota; amount reported to date, and the per cent of the quota reached listed in that order): Textiles (Group 1), Harrison Trammell Jr. $176,074.55, 89.5 per cent. Textiles (Section 1), Jim Collier- $20,634, $20,409.74, 98.9 per cent. Textiles (Section 2), Kenneth Brown, $26,854.25, 93.8 per cent. Textiles (Section 3), Ernest $66.659.41, 91.3 per cent.

Textiles (Section 4), Silas $19,340, 87.4 per cent. Textiles (Section 5), Wilton McKinney $9,555, 80.6 per cent. Textiles (Section 6), Gordon E. $18,681.52, 82.2 per cent. Textiles (Section 7), Oscar Garrison $3,896.20, 71.9 per cent.

Textiles 8), Reuben 86.8 per cent. Large (Group 11), Rupert $135,852.21, 50.5 per cent. Large Firms (Section 1), Tom $7,027.20, 41.3 per cent. Large Firms (Section 2), Charles $3,194.05, 23.8 per cent. Large Firms 3), A.

McNeil Howard $12,857.33, 47.9 per cent. Large Firms (Section 4), J. B. Orders Jr. $8,557.91, 30.7 per cent.

Large Firms (Section 5), W. F. Leineweber Jr. $14,767.76, 94.9 per cent. Large Firms (Section 6), Donald Perry $11,990, $2,775.72, per cent.

Large Firms (Section 7), J. D. $12,193.74, 51 per cent. Large Firms (Section 8), M. R.

Rash $10,445.72, 31.7 per cent Large Firms (Section 9), Robert J. $6,025.74, 31.2 per cent. Large Firms (Section 10), Harold $30,644.66, 73.6 per cent. Large Firms (Section 11), John D. $27,362.38, 71.6 per cent.

Group 11, Mrs. A. C. 462.02, 27 per cent. Neighborhood (Group 11) (North), Mrs.

James T. $4,741.80, 41.6 per cent. Neighborhood (Group 111) (South), Mrs. W. H.

$2,579.22, 19.7 per cent. Neighborhood (Section 1), Mrs. Rich. ard K. $603.11, 35.5 per cent.

Neighborhood (Section 2), Mrs. John Mason $936.84, 35.6 per Mrs. cent. Parker Neighborhood (Section3), $900.30, 34.5 per cent. Neighborhood (Section 4), Miss May Dell Barre $2,228, $1,584.50, 71.1 per cent.

Neighborhood (Section Mrs. I. C. Holloway $639.43, per cent. Neighborhood (Section Mrs.

T. R. $892.43, per cent. Neighborhood (Section 7), Mrs. Howard Hartley $2,282, $348.75, 15.3 per cent.

(Section 8), Mrs. W. T. $182.95, 10.5 per cent. Neighborhood (Section 9), Mrs.

James $717.05, 32.1 per cent. Neighborhood (Section 10), Mrs. W. N. $515.66, 102.3 per cent.

Towns (Group James M. Fuller $141, 4.4 per cent. Towns (Fountain James $0, 0 per cent. Towns (Section 2) (Mauldin), C. W.

Barbrey $0, per cent. Towns (Section 3) (Piedmont), Kenneth $0, 0 per cent. Towns (Section 4) (Simpsonville), Charles $0, 0 per cent. (Section 5). Cleveland), Edward Kirby Jr.

$0, 0 per cent. Towns (Section (Taylors), Mrs. Richard Ellison $100, 23.4 per cent. Towns (Section 7) (Travelers Rest), Mrs. Stanley $41, 4.5 per cent.

Small Business (Group IV), James H. $6,619.30, 26 per cent. Business (Section 1), C. E. Upchurch $2,253.80, 44.2 per cent.

Small Business (Section 2), Roy Henderson $1,945, 27.8 per cent. Small Business (Section 3), Bruce $146. 2.9 per cent. Small Business (Section 4), Robert L. $422.50, 28.6 per cent.

Small Business (Section 5), Harold $226, 12.3 per cent. Small Business (Section 6), Robert $630, 24.4. per cent. Small Business (Section 7), Andy $671, 16.2 per cent. Small Business (Section 8), Bill $325, 17.2 per cent.

Group A. F. $44,273.72, 47.7 per cent. Donaldson Air Force Base (Group V), Col. D.

M. Kersey, $11,108.95, per cent. Education (Group V), Fred L. Fowler $16,691, $7,733.67, 46.3 per cent. Education (Area 1, L.

L. Holloway $830.08, 41.1 per cent. Education (Area 2), J. Ben $2,127.14, 66.9 per cent. Education (Area 3), Mrs.

Virginia Young $3,299.65, 50.6 per cent. Education (Area 4), J. Earl Herndon $228.80, 15.6 per cent. Education (maintenance), J. L.

Dean $303, no report. Education (administration and veterans), Dr. J. Marion Magill $1,217, $1,248, 102.5 per cent. Education (universities), Dr.

F. W. Bonner, $1,983, no report. Attorneys (Group V). A.

F. Burgess $6,115, $864.50, 14.1 per cent. Dental (Group V). Dr. Henry T.

Little, Medical no (Group report. Vi, Dr. J. D. Ashmore $14.982.

$6,000. 40 per cent Public Employes (Group V), J. Kenneth Cass $11,242, $4,809.60, 42.8 per ceptiblic. Employes (City), Gerald W. $3,863.60, 54.3 per cent.

Public Employes (County), George $749, 36.5 per cent. Public Emoloyes (Federal), John $79.50, 4.3 per cent. Emploves (State), Lt. L. 0.

Wiggins $117.50. 57.6 per cent. Special (Group V), J. Lacy McLean $13,757, 54.3 per cent. Grand $370,281.80, 60.6 per cent.

Qualifying for plaque awards were: seventh-vear winners. Henderson Adverfising Agency Pearce- Young Angel. A sixth year winner was J. Harion Riggins Fifth-year winners, Ivey Chemical Palmetto Box WESC. C.

Douglas Wilson and Park Place, Baker's Bryson, Morton and Athens Elementary Schools. Fourth- year winner, Shriners' Hospital. Third year winners, S. D. Leidesdorf Co.

and West Greenville Elementary School, Greenville Memorial Auditorium. Second-year winners, Greenville City Clerk and Treasurers' office, city manager's office, city planning and zoning, civil defense. First-year winners, Continental Industries. Southern Machinery Metal Stamping Southern Bank Trust Shriners' Hospital and Greenville County Tax Office. called Bridges' union "a Communist organization" and J.

G. Sourwine, subcommittee counsel, referred to the Mine Workers as "Communist-dominated." Hoffa declared at the outset of the hearing that he welcomed a chance to testify under oath 1 that "Hoffa was not a Communist, has not associated with Communists, is not a Communist hums and never intends to be." The subcommittee charged in a report in 1958 that Hoffa was being egged on by "Communist conspirators" in his plan to form a powerful alliance of transporation unions, including the East Coast and West Coast longshoremen and the National Maritime Union. The subcommittee said such an alliance could "strangle the military forces of the nation in the Walker Assigned To Pacific Post After Furor WASHINGTON (P-Maj. Gen. Edwin A.

Walker, the Army officer who was lifted out of his command in Europe in a controversy over anticommunism teaching methods for troops, has been assigned to a job in the Pacific. Walker, a brief Army announcement said Friday, will go to Pacific headquarters in Hawail next month to be assistant chief of staff for operations, plans and training. Walker was commander of the 24th Infantry Division in Germany when he was removed from that post last spring pending completion of investigation into troop education programs on anticommunism which were conducted in his division. levent of war" by paralyzing land and sea transport. The subcommittee's parent Judiciary Committee is now considering legislation aimed at making the Teamsters and other transportation unions subject to the antitrust laws, from which unions are now exempt, and to outlaw interstate transportation strikes.

Hoffa, whose Teamsters Union was expelled from the AFL-CIO in 1957 on corruption charges, denounced Friday's hearing in advance as a "witch hunt" by senators he described as "hatchet men." He told the subcommittee he could think of a lot of unions that have been accused in the past of being but today are among the most highly respected unions in America. He did not name any. UF NEED FUEL OIL FOR FURNACE SERVICE? We Give Prompt Delivery PHILHEAT 244-2750 ASHLEY 66 OIL COMPANY Road 1335 Camp Performance That Counts One hour Free Parking directly behind our store for our customers Edens- Cr. Store For Men 213 N. MAIN THE Pr 76 54 76 44 76 52 80 49 81 53 86 66 56 57 77 49 71 59 77 65 83 55 63 53 .66 58 02 80 52 .04 81 49 .13 67 36 67 54 .31 46 39 88 49 84 62 84 71 48 72 .22 67 54 .30 man Yarborough, "is whether the ports are a sound financial proposition." Charles have been made as to the ports financial condition," he said, "and it is our duty as members of the House Ways and Means Committee to look out for the taxpayers." We are determined, he added, that South Carolina's interest is protected.

The chairman said the sprawling state ports system is "very much tied in with the industrial development of the entire state." Although the subcommittee was appointed after charges of "political pressure" in port activity were heard around the state, Mr. Yarborough said his committee "will not be concerned with the political aspect." Cotesworth P. Means, recently deposed chairman of the Ports Authority, has charged that a recent management survey of the ports operations, was "a monument to crude politics, dictated in part from the highest levels of state Services Sunday For Ben Capps CLEVELAND Funeral services for Ben McDaniel Capps, 55, will be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m. at Friendship Baptist Church by Rev. Ed Yeoman, Bruce McKinney and Rev.

H. A. Newton. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr.

Capps died Friday at 11:55 a.m. at his home on the Greer Highway after one year of declining health and a serious illness of four months. He was born in Greenville County, son of the late Sam and Lydia McJunkin Capps. He lived in Horry County for 20 years before moving back to the Cleveland section of upper Greenville County. He was a farmer.

He was a member of Saluda Hill Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Pauline Long Capps; one daughter, Mrs. Ruby Browning; three sons, Donald, Ronald and Larry Capps of Cleveland; one sister, Mrs. V.

T. Hardin of Cleveland; one brother, J. D. Capps of Bradley, and four grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Joe Capps, Edgar Capps, Leonard Capps, Carl Hardin, Buford Hardin and V.

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By-Pass Lake Forest CH 4-2510 in the safe and believes the two left empty-handed. The pair were frightened away after he managed a scream from the pitch black shadows of his backyard shortly after dark. The elderly man said the two Negro men did not actually beat him. They cut off his pajama sleeves and forced it into his mouth: as a gag, he said. Then after dragging him into his backyard, he said the two men tried to hang him.

Just how the assailants were to accomplish that was not clear Friday night. Ayers was resting comfortably at his home under a doctor's care shortly after the incident..