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4A The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. Sunday, August 17, 1997 DEATHS AND FUNERALS First wilderness camp Betty F. Turner BATESBURG Betty "Bootsie" Feaster Turner, 74, widow of Noah Edward "Ed" Turner, died Aug. 15, 1997. Born in Batesburg, she was a daughter of the late Benjamin F.

Sr. and Rose Lee Corley Feaster. She was a member of Sardis Baptist Church, where she served as Sunday school teacher. She was retired from J.B. Martin Co.

Surviving are a son, Timothy "Tim" Turner of Whitmire; two sisters, Susie Schumpert of Saluda and Matybell Chapman of West Columbia; four brothers, B.F. Feaster Calvin Feaster, and Ralph Feaster, all of West Columbia, and Hubert Feaster of Lexington; and two grandchildren. Services will be 3 p.m. today at Sardis Baptist Church with the Rev. Bobby Joyner officiating.

Burial follows in the Corley Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Mike Berry, Jerry and Fred Silk, Kenneth and Wayne Feaster and Jacob "Buddy" Schumpert. The family received friends Saturday at Charles R. Shealy Sons Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Sardis Baptist Church Memorial Fund, Saluda.

William F. Decker HARTFORD CITY, Ind. William F. Decker, 67, of 116 Perry formerly of Lebanon, husband of Maebelle Detherage Decker, died Aug. 14, 1997 at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Ind.

Born in Lebanon, he was a son of Lora Morgan Decker and the late Henry R. Decker. He was retired from Triangle Concrete in Muncie after 32 years. He was a member of First Assemblies of God Church in Hartford City and the Labor and Hod Carriers Local No. 1112 of Muncie.

Surviving, in addition to his wife of the home and his mother of Lebanon, are four sons, Jerry, L. Decker of Orange Park, Rick W. Decker Abbeville, S.C., Robert R. Decker and John W. Decker, both of Hartford City; a daughter, Sonna M.

Bosworth of Hartford City; three brothers, Charlie Decker and Raymond R. Decker, both of Lebanon, and David Decker of Lowel, four sisters, Mary Reid, Pearl M. Builderback, and Lola Reid, all of Lebanon, and Phyllis Marcum of Lowel; eight grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Keplinger Funeral Home in Hartford City, with the Rev.

Coleman Barlow officiating. Burial will follow in Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Muncie. The family will receive friends 2 to 6 p.m. today and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to First Assemblies of God Church, 1206 S. Monroe Hartford City, Ind. 47348. P.

Sauer GREENWOOD Mary Pleunik Sauer, 96, formerly of Greenwood, widow of Charles H.A. Sauer, died Aug. 15, 1997 at Forest View Manor in Edgefield. Born in Gutenstein, Austria, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Regina Drobnitsch Pleunik. She retired from Pennsylvania Railroad after serving 54 and was Catholic.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. James Church, Wilkensburg, Pa. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Rowland S.

Cooke Funeral Home, Pittsburgh, is in charge of arrangements. Harley Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements. Alfred H. Tank HODGES Alfred H. "Al" Tank, 37, of 123 Sandy Run Rd.

West, husband of Kim Tank, died Aug. 16, 1997. Arrangements will be announced by Harley Funeral Home. Greenwood County Henrietta Abrams, 201 McKellar Drive, Greenwood Alfred H. Tank, 123 Sandy Run Road, Hodges Raleigh Wilson, 1218 Scotch Cross Road, Greenwood Julia Wise, Greenwood Others in South Carolina Mary Sauer, Edgefield Betty F.

Turner, Batesburg Outside South Carolina William F. Decker, Hartford City, Ind. Henrietta Abrams GREENWOOD Henrietta Harrington Abrams, 92, of 201 McKellar widow of Henry Abrams died Aug. 15, 1997 at Self Memorial Hospital. Born in Millen, she was a daughter of the late Randell and Hurley Anderson Harrington.

She was a former member 1 of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Coronaca, and a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church where she was a member of the Pulpit Aide Club. Surviving are two sons, Henry. Abrams Jr. and Lovato Abrams, both of Greenwood; five daughters, Willie Bell Linton of the home, Cora Lee Hill of Prosperity, Fannie Mae Smith of Los Angeles, Pauline Winfrey of New York and Dorothy Arnold of Homestead, 18 grandchildren; 29, greatgrandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

The family is at the home. Services will be announced by Robinson Son Mortuary. Raleigh Wilson GREENWOOD Raleigh Wilson, 84, of 1218 Scotch Cross husband of Thelma Hilton Wilson, died Aug. 15, 1997 at his home. Born in Allendale County, he was a son of the late Milledge and Elizabeth Pender Wilson.

He was a retired dairy farmer and was a member of New Market Baptist Church. Surviving, in addition to his wife of the home, are four sons, Bobby Wilson of Irmo, Jerry Wilson and Mikel Wilson, both of Donalds, and Milledge Wilson of Prosperity; a daughter, Ann Davis of Greenwood; a sister, Lucille Adams of Clearwater; 10 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Harley Funeral Home with the Rev. Roan Powell officiating.

Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. today in Langley Cemetery, Langley, S.C. Pallbearers will be Jerry Wilson Kealin Wilson, Kelly Wilson, Milledge Wilson Gerald "Buck" Wilson and Hilton Durden. The family will receive friends 1 to 2 p.m. today at the funeral home.

The family is at the home. Omit flowers. Memorials may be made to Hospice Care of the Piedmont, Greenwood Medical Center, Greenwood, S.C. 29646. Julia Wise GREENWOOD Services for Julia Wise will be at 2 p.m.

Monday at Pine Pleasant Baptist Church with the Rev. Joseph Caldwell officiating, assisted by the Rev. Ernest Cannon. Burial will follow i in the church cemetery. The body will be placed in the church at 1 p.m.

Pallbearers will be Harry Martin, Ricky Martin, Leroy Tolbert, Leroy White, Andrew White and deacon Jesse Word. Flower bearers will be Cora Lindsey, Joyce Robinson and Bernice Wimms. The family will receive friends at the home of a niece, Charlene Floyd, 210 Sullivan Percival-Tompkins Funeral Home is in charge. Piggly Wiggly founder dies at 85 CHARLESTON (AP) Joseph Turner Newton founder and chairman of Piggly Wiggly Carolina has died. He died Friday at the age of 85.

Newton, a native of Rocky Ford, moved to Charleston in 1938 as a salesman for meat packers. In 1947, Newton and two other store owners bought the Piggly Wiggly franchise for South Carolina with about $20,000. "He started with five little stores and built this into what it is today. We owe everything to him," said his son, Joseph T. "Buzzy" Newton III.

There are now more than 100 Piggly Wiggly stores across South Carolina and Savannah, with annual sales of about $700 million dollars. Funeral service will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Bethel United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Old St. Andrews Parish Episcopal churchyard.

Station owner dies ANDERSON (AP) Matt Phillips, owner of WRIX and radio personality on the "Matt and Bev Show," has died from complications of a heart attack. He died Friday at the age of 63. Phillips, a native of Hart County, left his home at age 13 and lived with his older brother in an Anderson boarding house. He worked as a sign painter for the Coca-Cola Company and in 1959 auditioned and got a weekend announcer's job at Belton radio station WHPB. Phillips and partner Bob Liverance founded Clemson station WCCP-AM in 1969.

Phillips went on to found WRIX-FM in Honea Path in 1977 and moved the station to Anderson 16 years ago. Station manager John Woodson will fill Phillips' spot opposite host Bev Brandon and keep the show's name. Phillips was known primarily for the conservative views he emphasized on his call-in radio show. Stewart memorial draws fans to his hometown INDIANA, Pa. (AP) Church bells rang, a B-2 bomber flew overhead and hundreds of fans gathered on the town square Saturday to celebrate the life and small-town decency of the late Jimmy Stewart.

"'He never forgot where he started," said Walt Kealy, an elementary-school principal who brought his 9-year-old daughter to the observance. "He never got too big, as Hollywood folks tend to do." Stewart's home town, a community of about 16,000 in the western Pennsylvania hills, has spent decades honoring the local boy who made good. In 1959, Indiana renamed its airport after Stewart. In 1983, it unveiled a Stewart statue downtown and the Jimmy Stewart museum opened in 1995. At some time, it began yearly Stewart birthday parties every May and the "It's a Wonderful Life" Christmas Parade, in honor of Stewart's favorite starring role.

No close relatives of Stewart attended the service because none live in Indiana anymore, museum director Jay Rubin said. Stewart's last close friend in the area, Bill Rover frees itself from rocks LOS ANGELES (AP) The Mars Pathfinder rover freed itself from the grasp of two rocks and began a plodding course for a rock nicknamed Shark, which scientists expect the rover will reach Sunday. NASA scientists commanded Sojourner to leave the rocks that had stopped it cold when the rover's onboard hazard detection system changing lives in S.C. PATRICK (AP) The thud of axes hitting wood echoes through stands of pine trees and scrub oaks that surround a camp on a sandy hilltop. Chopping wood is part of the initiation for every new student at Camp Sand Hills.

That's how they quickly learn this is no summer camp. Young lawbreakers are sent marching to the woods shortly after their arrival at the wilderness camp, which opened one year ago. They remain in the woods for about three hours, with brief lunch and water breaks. The boys, primarily nonviolent offenders, chop down scrub oaks to provide more room for pine trees to grow and then chop the fallen trees into firewood. They also remove tree stumps with shovels.

THE CAMP of pre-cut log buildings located in the Sand Hills State Forest is at the heart of Gov. David Beasley's plan to reform the treatment of young lawbreakers. Camp Sand Hills and two others near Bennettsville are part of the nation's first large-scale wilderness camp program for young offenders. A fourth camp is scheduled to open Monday near Union. The state will build five additional camps next year.

The 36-bed Sand Hills camp is about miles from the small town of Patrick in rural Chesterfield County. Reaching the facility requires a three-mile trek off U.S. 1, down dirt and gravel roads, to Griggs Pond. Boys at the camp receive the discipline, structure and encouragement they need to change their behavior, said John Davis, director of Camp Sand Hills. They quickly learn that positive behavior will be rewarded and negative behavior will not be tolerated.

BOYS WHO ARGUE, use profanity and violate other major camp rules are sent to the woods to chop down trees for one day, several days or more than a week. During a recent visit, two boys who had argued on their way back to class from lunch were sent to labor in the woods. They chopped wood all afternoon and most of the night. Jason, who has worked in the woods 14 times for rules violations, said he has learned to control his temper during the year he has spent at the camp. He had served 15 months for burglary in a state juvenile prison before he was transferred to the camp.

"When I get frustrated, I just write a poem. I write lots of poems," Jason, 15, said. Jason has become one of the camp's top-ranked boys. His math and other academic skills are at an 11th-grade level. Before he was jailed, he had been a poor student in the eighth grade.

He. enjoys the discipline and structure the camp provides. Jason is one of the first to speak up during morning and afternoon sessions to review how things are going at the camp. "It's very organized here," Jason said. "You don't have to worry about someone hitting you on the head while you're sleeping." A ROSTER BOARD in each dorm lists the boys' daily cleaning chores.

They clean their dorms and a communal bathroom and also help do the laundry. They help cook and clean up in the kitchen. The boys also receive vocational training. They learn to make birdhouses and signs. As a community service project, they recently built a wheelchair ramp for a terminally ill man in Chesterfield.

The youths receive a daily scorecard, with points awarded to them for positive behavior. High-ranking youths earn privileges, such as going on overnight camping trips. "We're seeing changes in the kids' character," said John Kispert, chief of staff for the state Department of Juvenile Justice. "It's something that an institutional environment cannot provide." TWO BOYS HAVE escaped from Camp Sand Hills. One ran away shortly after the facility opened, but was caught within 20 minutes.

Another ran into woods during physical training Aug. 4 and was captured a week later in Kershaw County. That boy now is housed in a high-security unit at a state juvenile prison off Broad River Road in Columbia. Associated Marine Institutes, a private Florida company also known as AMI, charges the state $94 a day per boy to run the wilderness camps. Davis did not know whether any of the more than 60 boys who have completed the Sand Hills program got back in trouble after returning to the community.

But, he said, many have called him to report that they have jobs or are continuing their education. One camp graduate plans to attend Benedict College in Columbia. Overall, about two-thirds of the youths who successfully complete an AMI program stay out of trouble, according to company records. Of youths who serve their time in the state juvenile prison, only 25 percent stay out of trouble. so rewarding to see a kid turn around.

You know where they came from," Davis said. "Sometimes, the kids and staff break down and cry during the graduation DMV says it will au automatically issue replacements for faded decals COLUMBIA (AP) Having seen its first attempt to replace fading license plate decals only complicate the situation further, the state Motor Vehicles Division said Friday it will simply mail new decals to motorists. "In the interest of customer service, we will proceed with the mailout of the replacement decals to everyone who received a defective decal," said Glenn Beckham, DMV's deputy director. South Carolina motorists renew their license plates yearly by placing a new sticker in the lower right corner over the previous year's decal. The Standard Register Co.

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25 South 227-3114 223-7943 Quality Service Reasonable Prices BRONZE MARKERS GRANITE MARBLE MONUMENTS Since 1947 Please call us for a quote befor: you purchase your memorial. Lest eye Moorehead, died July 4, two days after Stewart died at age 89. Memorial organizers played a recording Stewart made for his 75th birthday celebration: "Just as part of me is always here with you, I know too that part of all of you is always with me and it's a good feeling." Mayor John Varner said Stewart was a patriot, father, husband, star and even an angel, a nod to "Wonderful Life," in which an angel shows him the fullness of his life. He was also a World War II bomber pilot, the reason for the bomber's flyover. SERVICE: WHAT THE WORD REALLY MEANS As years go by, it's possible that some folks may forget just what funeral service is all about.

We believe a funeral is, first and always, a special remembrance of someone you love. To this we offer three pledges: Wayne and Gantt 1. Our service begins Judy with you. We start by listening to your needs and desires. If you're unsure, we can help you determine them, gently and professionally.

We're also committed to understanding all the customs and traditions in our community so we can help you honor those of your choice and heritage. 2. Our goal is your complete satisfaction you deserve nothing less. Only then can it be said that we listened attentively, helped effectively and served you well. 3.

Cost is a matter of your choice. There are many more service options available than most people realize. Our responsibility is to help you understand your options so you can make choices that are right for you at the right price. At Blyth Funeral Home, we haven't lost sight of the reasons why we're here to serve the families of Greenwood County in the ways they prefer. That's why our commitment goes beyond just the funeral.

It extends to everything we do. This is the kind of service you expect from people you can rely on. FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED SINCE 1884 Blyth Funeral Home 1425 Montague Avenue Greenwood, S.C. 223-2223 sensed the rover's suspension was too tilted Thursday. Images downloaded via satellite "confirmed Sojourner has pulled away and left these rocks in the dust," Carl Steiner of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.

Scientists had hoped to receive new images of Shark, too, but discovered the rover had rotated too far away from the rock to film it.

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