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THE GREENVILLE NEWS. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 196G GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE SIX WASHINGTON (AP) The government offered new statistics from death records Tuesday to back its claims in effect intensifying its warnings about the alleged health perils of smoking, particularly cigarette smoking. For one thing, the new report on the controversial subject of smoking and health shows that Americans born in relatively recent years "are at higher risk of dying from lung cancer at younger ages than were their predecessors." This, it indicated, is because folks begin cigarette smoking earlier in life than they once did. The report, by the U.S.

Public Health Service, is more ominous in some respects than the highly publicized surgeon al's report of 1964. It deals exclusively with death-rate statistics on a variety of ills which the earlier report had said were at least associated with smoking particularly cigarette smoking. Included are some maladies, such as lung cancer, which the earlier report said are definitely caused by smoking. And the new report covers two additional years in that respect beyond the ground covered in the earlier report. The first report included data available as of 1962.

The Tobacco Institute, a trade organization for the major tobacco manufacturers which took sharp issue with the first report, said it had no immediate comment on the new report. The report includes an analysis of death rates compiled from records of every state health office in the country for the period 1950-1964. Among the major findings: The mortality trend from lung cancer continued upward between 1962 and 1964. There were "no signs of reversals" in the mortality trend for cancer of the larynx and chronic bronchitis, the two other diseases stated by the surgeon general's report to have a cause-and-effect relationship to cigarette smoking. There were substantial increases during 1950-1964 in mortality from three of the eight groups of diseases "associated with but not clearly causally related to smoking." These three were: 1.

Arteriosclerotic heart dis- ease, including coronary disease especially in the male population. 2. Cirrhosis of the liver, with the most marked increase for the non-White population. 3. Emphysema, especially for the White male population.

However, the report said that for the remaining five groups in this category of "associated with but not clearly causally related to smoking," this was the situation found: "Mortality rates were either downward or relatively stable during 1950-1964." Those ills included ulcer of the stomach; cancer of the esophagus; cancer of parts of the oral cavity other than the lip; cancer of the bladder and other urinary organs; and specified noncoronary cardiovascular diseases. In leading up to its findings, the report compiled by the health service's national center for vital statistics said that as a result of various activities that were set under way fol lowing the publication of the surgeon general's report and the interest in measuring the long-range effects of programs to stop the rise in mortality during productive years of life from cancer, of the lung and other diseases linked with cigarette smoking, "it was considered desirable to pay special attention to current and future mortality trends from these diseases." The new report "is designed to lay the foundation for the long-range observation of these trends," officials said. More Ominous New School Saved As Old Burns Prize Money Goes To Parker Old Piedmont School Building Is Burned 1 1 i 7 A'r? v.r. WW tsr IAbbt 'twL- -y a 4 It II Wi 1,1 I 'sS4f 5 -a i Pretty majorette Terry Slaten receives ride chairman; Harvey Sanders, president from Edmund A. Ramsaur, president of the of the Greenville Junior Chamber of Corn-Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce, merce; James B.

Senn, band director, and the $100 first prize that the Parker High drum major Wayman Reese. (News-Pied-School band won in yesterday's parade. Look- mont photo by Ty Cooper), ing on (from left) are Dave DeArmond, pa- He said that he rushed back to find the middle floor burning furiously and the fire quickly spread through the top and bottom floors of the 15-classroom building. The worst of the blaze was over by 5:30 p.m. and the threat of serious damage to the other buildings appeared to be over but there were still dense clouds of smoke billowing from the front face of the building and red coals and flames could be seen from all of the wide windows that looked into the smouldering ruin.

The old building was entirely roped off to keep children from getting too close to the walls, which it was feared might fall. Special Deputy Johnny Tate said that he would remain on duty at the school throughout the night and it is understood that a wrecking crew from Foster Lumber Company will come Wednesday and tear down the outer walls and remove this hazard. Mr. Loftis said that school definitely will be held at Sue Cleveland Wednesday. "All the kids will have to stay behind the ropes," he said, "and about all we'll have to put up with in the classrooms will be a smell of smoke." The Greenville Fire Department sent a truck and nine men to the Piedmont school fire along with the assistant chief's car.

The truck went from the Augusta Road station, manned by men from the main and the Augusta Road stations. The group was in charge of Capt. W. C. Barkshadt of the main station and of Lt.

D. A. Chap-pclear from the Augusta Road fire station. D. H.

Duncan Dead At 57 CENTRAL Donald Radge Duncan 57, died Tuesday at 3 p.m. in a Greenville hospital after an illness of several weeks. Native of Clayton, son of the late John Jefferson and Katherine Elizabeth Jenkins Duncan, he was a member of Central Masonic Lodge 229 and the First Baptist Church of Central. He was an insurance representative in Central for 19 years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs.

Virginia Gillespie Duncan of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Rita Raines of Garrettsville, Ohio, and Mrs. Carolyn Tomlinson of Hartsville; two sons, Kenneth Donald Duncan and Donald Radge Duncan II of the home; two sisters, Mrs. Lillian Town-send of Erwin, and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Salinas, three brothers, H.

H. Duncan of Elberton, John H. Duncan of Greenville and Fred H. Duncan of Atlanta, Ga. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at the First Baptist Church at a time to be announced.

The body is at Duckett Funeral Home where the family will receive friends Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. TACT Speaker Blasts U. S. State Department PIEDMONT A spectacular late after- building to keep the temperature down and fire Tuesday completely gutted the old protect the new construction on the right, three-story Piedmont High School building which is only 25 feet away. There appeared which had been in use from 1921 to 1964.

The to be evidence Tuesday night that pranksters old building was being demolished. At the had accidentally set the blaze. (News-Pied- right firemen can be seen hosing the doomed mont photo by Robert Sargent.) Greenville Daybook Surviving Quintuplet Has Case Of Jaundice (Continued from Page One) burned. If it had, we would have had a lot of water damage and probably ruined all the furnishings inside all the rooms." The Greenville County School District has insurance on all its buildings through the State Sinking Fund but it has a contract to pay all fire districts that answer a call outside the City of Greenville. The fire also brought confusion regarding the contract which it had entered into with the Foster Lumber Company of Greenville.

The Foster company had contracted to remove the building completely for $2,000. It had expected to receive additional money from the sale of oak flooring, much framing, fixtures and the outside brick and after the fire only the brick remained. However, Joseph B. Stevens of Foster Lumber Co. commented Tuesday night that he plans to continue with the project but does not krww if he can break even with all the salvage material gone from inside the building.

The heat of the fire will probably cause many of the bricks to break, he said. Mr. Stevens said his crew had not been at work actually demolishing the building and had only removed steam radiators because his insurance had been very specific that a barrier had to be set up to keep the children out and he had found it difficult, if not impossible, to erect such a barrier. "We been able to keep the chile' ren out of the buildingin fact, they seemed to be almost uncontrollable," he said. "We are investigating the possibility that the fire may have been set," police chief Clarence Hammond said early Tuesday night.

He said that he would conduct further investigations this morning. Andrew Sullivan, the school janitor, who has been employed in the school system for a year, said that he was in the yard when he saw smoke begin to emerge from the building and a little boy ran up to say that the old building was on fire anfl to ask him to bring water. "It was a set fire. A little fire was burning in the corner of the library," he said. He said he called the operator to report a fire emergency, and than knowing they could not stop it, he ran the child from Sue Cleveland and two others from Woodmont School out of the old building.

He estimated that it was about 15 minutes before the Piedmont firemen arrived, but it was explained that this was no delay in answering the fire. A number of the firemen work at the Estes plant of J. P. Stevens which is located about one mile from the fire engine which is kept in the center of Piedmont. They have to drive to the fire truck before the track can be brought to the scene of the fire.

Chief Hammond said of the old building, "There was more lightwood in there than anywhere else in the county. We needed all the firemen and we appreciate what they did in keeping the fire from spreading." The fire started shortly after 3:30 p.m. Principal Loftis said that he had gone to the doctor's office to see about a sore leg. "They called me at the office to say the school was on fire and I guess I forgot all about my leg," he said. Double Inquest Slated Today Greenville County Coroner George W.

McCoy will hold a double inquest today at 3 p.m. The inquests will be for Larry Dean Dobson, 25, of Mauldin and Perry 23, of Green ville. The two were fatally in jured in a two-car wreck Sept. 16 near Conestee. Sale And Shoot Planned By Lodge Grove Station Lodge 166 at Piedmont will hold an all-day auction conducted by Clint Mc-Lain Saturday at 10 a.m.

The auction will be followed by a turkey shoot. Proceeds from the sale will go towards paying off the mortgage on the lodge hall. transfusion is needed. Her- condition will be re-evaluated in six hours." Dr. Bass said Roni Sue, the first born of the five Aranson girls, was "tolerating the formula well" about a half teaspoon every two hours.

An earlier medical bulletin said the baby was "quite good" and that her breathing showed a "minimal difficulty with only a little retraction." Retraction, in medical terms, is labored breathing. Roni Sue weighed one pound 11 ounces at birth last Saturday. The quintuplets were born 2k months prematurely. Jfl z-n Sean Flynn Helps Save Full Platoon SAIGON (UPI) U.S. military officials Tuesday credited Sean Flynn, son of the late actor Errol Flynn, with saving an Australian platoon from possibly being decimated by a Vict Cong mine.

They said Flynn, 25, a freelance photographer, spotted the Claymore-type mine Sunday while photographing Aussie troops near Vung Tau, southeast of Saigon in the Mekong Delta. He alerted the Aussies to a spot where Communists were about to set off the plunger controlling the mine, which spits thousands of deadly bullet-like pellets. Troops chased the Communists into the jungle, killing one of the would-be anibushers. 4-INCH SNOW (Continued from Page One) sort port city of Ludington on Lake Michigan. Its 181 passengers and crewmen were reported in the "best of spirits" although authorities said they faced a second night aboard the stricken vessel unless the weather broke.

The Coast Guard said the ship was not in danger. Parade Today At Simpsonville SIMPSONVILLE-The Golden Strip Christmas parade, featuring 41 units, will be held here Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., sponsored by the Simpsonville Chamber of Commerce. Included in the parade will be 15 floats and nine bands from Junior and senior high schools in the area. Parade dignitaries will ride in nine convertibles, and several other units including, horseback riders and the Shriner Motor Scooter Unit will be included in the procession. Carol BarksJale GRAY COURT-Funeral services for Carol Barksdale, who died in Colorado Springs, Friday, will be conducted Thursday at 4 p.m.

at Mt. Carmel AME Church by Rev. W. D. Coker.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Victoria Barksdale; four broth ers, Harold Barksdale of Colo rado Springs, James Barksdale of Clinton, Gilyard Barksdale of Ohio, and Brynildson Barksdale of New York; five sisters, Mrs. Senobia Woodard of Toledo, Ohio. Mrs.

Janette Tipitt of Brooklyn, N. Mrs. Claudia Bunch of Ohio, Mrs. Hazel Chamberlain and Miss Doris Al ma Barksdale of Brooklyn; and a son, Carol Barksdale Jr. Beasley Funeral Home of Laurens Is in charge.

Krrf' I st. as By VERNON ELLISON News Staff Writer "We are dealing with treason at the highest level of the State Department," a spokesman at a Truth About Civil Turmoil (TACT) meeting said last night. Scott Stanley of Boston, managing editor of American Opinion magazine and editor of Review of the News, kept an audience of about 125 persons enthralled as he degraded present trends in the highest echelons of government. According to the Congressional Record for February 1964, 250 of 800 key positions in the State Department are filled by persons who are questionable security risks, Mr. Stanley said.

The former collegiate debate Chris Davenport Dies In Hospital STARTEX Christopher (Chris) Davenport, 5-month-old son of Rev. Robert and Sarah Rampey Davenport of 66 N. Main died after a long ill ness Monday at 11:20 p.m. at a Greenville hospital. Rev.

Davenport is pastor of Startex Methodist Church. Surviving also are a brother, Robert Davenport Jr. of the home; a sister, Rebecca Daven port of the home; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Os car Davenport of Piedmont; and the maternal grandmother, Mrs.

Walker F. Rampey of Piedmont. Funeral servies will be con ducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Startex Methodist Church by Dr. A.

C. Holler and Rev. Walker McDaniel. Entombment will be in Greenville Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. The body is at Wood Mortuary, Greer, and will be placed in the church Wednesday at 1 p.m.

The family requests that any memorials be in the form of contributions to Epworth Children's Home, Columbia. Furman Students In legislature1 The South Carolina State Stu dent Legislature session at the State House in Columbia begin- mg today will be attended by 13 Furman University students. Dan Yarborough of Furman, elected governor last year, will preside over the delegation from 15 colleges and universities that will propose bills and resolutions concerning various local, state and national issues. Other Furman students attending are Wally Gray, Otis Watson, Kenny Kapps, Claude Hicks, Mike Erp, Bill Burkhal-ter, Jim Windham, Larry Jor- den, Gail Clement, Bobbie Har-rill, Leslie Fair and Marsha Hobson. land extemporaneous speaking champion warned that "wherever man has been free, he has itkuiiicu luiiiacru ill uuuuagc 111 less than 200 years." He said that unless concerned citizens work at the grass-roots level in establishing a conservative government, "our children or possibly our grandchildren will curse our names." "Bobby Kennedy and other creatures are hiding under the skirts of this country and we conservatives are to blame for permitting it to continue.

"Many Southern senators talk conservative and vote liberal and then, sometimes they can't be distinguished from Hubert the Hump or Jacob Javits," he said. He warned that many "ignorant conservatives write letters to editors when they are not informed. Today, we con servatives don't have a right to be ignorant." "While UPI, the Associated Press, Readers Digest and other publications were calling Fidel Castro the 'great agrarian American Opinion gave the facts that he was Com munist. This was back in 1959 when he was brought to Wash ington, D. and was honored by the newspaper editors of America, he said.

Calling attention to the missile bases in Cuba several years ago, he said, "the same bases that McNamara referred to when he appeared on television with President John F. Kenne dy had been cited two years earlier and reported by Ameri can opinion. "And, the President and McNamara issued an ultimat-tum and the Communists withdrew the bases and gave us permission to fly over the ships and photograph whatever they had under the canvas on the ships. However, there are many caves in Cuba. "And, Thant spent three days in Havana and came back and reported that he didn't see any missile sites.

"And, I'm sure he was telling the truth!" He concluded, "Documents crossing my desk daily forced me to become a right-wing extremist and I'm happy to say that I am also a member of the John Birch Society." Man, 51, Found Dying On Echols Willie Chambers, 51, of 300 Echols St. was dead on arrival at a local hospital at 9:50 p.m. yesterday. City police reported they answered a call about a seriously ill man and found the man still alive at his home. An ambulance was summoned and he died en route.

Cause of his death was not determined early today. DEEDS The following deeds were filed for recording yesterday in (he office of Mrs. Ollie Farnsworth, Greenville County RMC: Harold Smith to James M. Cantrell, lot, Racine Ct $2,000. Betty Lou Townes to Charlie Lee Moore, lot.

New S50. George Junior Moore to Charlie Lee Moore, lot, New $50. Leroy Moore to Charlie Lee Moore, lot, New $50. John Hudson Skeen and Thadeus Skeen to D. E.

Mullikin Jr. and Fred P. Gibson, lot, Greenville County, $1 and assumption of mortgage. Averv Holland Reeves and Louise Reeves to William Grafton Jackson and Barbara Anne B. Jackson, lot, $3 and other considerations.

Clemson's Dr. Farrar Will Retire CLEMSON Dr. Milton D. Farrar, senior scientist in the department of entomology and zoology and former dean of the School of Agriculture at Clem son University, will retire Dec 12. A native of Lawrence, Dr.

Farrar joined the Clemson staff in 1949 as head of the department of entomology and zoology. From 1953-62 he served as dean of the School of Agriculture, now the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences. Since resigning his deanship to FARRAR become senior scientist, Dr. Farrar has done extensive re search with orchids. He has improved the technique for growing orchids in a sterile culture, and has meticulously worked on germinating orchid seeds and breeding new varie ties of the flower.

Trial Slated On Vandalism A charge against one woman for petty larceny has been scheduled for hearing this morn ing in Recorders Court in con nection with tne theft of decora tive flower pots from the Church Street bridge. Police said juvenile referrals were made on two other young girls after their arrest yester day. Authorities said vandalism had resulted in loss of eight of 13 flower pots in the past two weeks. A getaway car was spotted and notification of police led to arrests. PITTSBURGH (UPI) The only surviving Aranson quintuplet developed jaundice Tuesday but doctors said the four-day-old infant was "handling it well" and a proposed blood tranfu-sion was postponed for the time being.

Despite the jaundice, the baby "continues to do well," Dr. Lee Bass, her pediatrician, said. The infant, Roni Sue, was fed formula for the first time Tuesday. A mixture of evaporated milk and water was given her via a tube inserted into her stomach through her nose. Doctors said she was also being fed intravenously a mixture of glucose and sodium bicarbonate.

A blood transfusion had been considered to avert possible brain damage. In a medical bulletin late Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Bass said: "The decision has been reached not to exchange the baby's blood at this time. She is handling the jaundice well and there is no indication that a R. 0.

Cruinpton Dies At Seneca SENECA Robert Ottis Crumpton, 63, of Rt. 2, Marshall Avenue, Seneca, died in a Seneca hospital Tuesday at 5 a.m. after suffering an attack at his home earlier. Native of Oconee County, son of the late Alexander and Ora Rankins Crumpton, he was a textile worker, a member of Utica Baptist Church and had lived in the Seneca area most of his life. Surviving are his wife.

Mrs. Pearl Morgan Crumpton; two sons, Rudolph Crumpton of Clemson and Ottis Veldee Crumpton of Dallas, five daughters, Mrs. Marion Smith and Mrs. Brenda Nicewonger of Greenville, Mrs. Betty Hoi combe of Seneca, Mrs.

Peggy Whitfield of Charleston and Mrs. Theryl Ann West of Columbia; two sisters, Miss Ellen Crump ton of Seneca and Mrs. Dessie Cater of Hickory, N.C.; 14 grandchildren and a great grandchild. Funeral services will be con ducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at Corinth Baptist Cfcurch.

Burial will be in Oconee Memorial Park. The body Is at Seneca Mortuary, where the family will re-ceiv friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Mrs. Martin Dies At 80 CLINTON Mrs.

Mollie Mar tin, 80, of 400 Francis St. died Tuesday at 7:40 p.m. in a local hospital after a long illness Native of Unicoi County, daughter of the late Jo seph and Elizabeth Rice, she had lived in Clinton for 56 years and attended Elizabeth Street Church of God. Her husband, W. J.

Martin, died in 1960. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Inez Blackwell of Clinton; three sisters, Mrs. Bessie John son of Woodruff, Mrs. Ollie Pat terson and Mrs.

Pearl Reid of Clinton; two brothers, Floyd Rice of Switzer and Perry Rice of Woodruff; and a grandson. Funeral services will be an nounced by Gray Funeral Home. Burned Woman Is Said 'Fair' Bertha Johnson of 504 E. Mc-Bee Ave. remained in fair condition at General Hospital last night with second and third degree burns over 30 per cent of her body received when her clothes caught fire at her home Monday.

Harold Richardson, 57, of Rt. 2, Westminster, who injured his leg in a fall, and Leon Booker, 2, of 401 Markley who reportedly drank lye compound, were in fair condition. Listed in Door condition were Dale Owens, 10, of 817 N. Broad tlinton, who was hurt in an automobile accident at Clinton last week, and Georce Beck, 20 months, of Bowersville, wno was injured in a car wreck near his home. James E.

Vaughn Is Dead At 32 ANDERSON James Edward Vaughn, 32, of Rt. 7, Cen- terville Terrace, Walnut Street, died Tuesday at 6 a.m. in a lo cal hospital after a brief illness. Native of Martin, son of Mrs. Deaver C.

Vaughn of San Antonio, and the late Furman Vaughn, he lived in Anderson for 13 years and was a member of Osborne Avenue Church of God. Surviving also aro his wife, Mrs. Joan vaugrn; a son, James E. (Jimmy) Vaughn Jr. of the home; a daughter, Miss Donna Marie Vaughn of the home; a brother, Hugh Vaughn of Anderson; two sisters, Mrs.

Franklin Hays of Anderson, Mrs. Ernest Gallaway of San Antonia, and grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. N.

Col lins of Greenville. Funeral services will be con ducted Thursday at 4 p.m. at Osborne Avenue Church of God by Rev. C. L.

Trammel, Rev. Joel Hobbs and Rev. J. B. Fortner.

Burial will be in For est Lawn Memorial Park. Pallbearers will be Richard Huckaby, Neal Seigler, John Gollinhugh, R. N. Crump, William Chasteen and J. B.

Brown. The body is at the home. Mc- Dougald Funeral Home is in I A 4.