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NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of police officers from across the nation packed a church and spilled onto streets Saturday to honor Officer Rafael Ramos as a devoted family man, aspiring chaplain and hero, though an air of unrest surrounding his ambush shooting was not completely pushed aside. Although mourners inside the church applauded politely as Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke, hundreds of officers outside turned their backs on him in a show of disrespect for what they see as his support for anti-police protesters. The rush of officers far and wide to New York for Ramos’ funeral reminded some of the bond after the

Sept. 11 attacks and Superstorm Sandy. Vice President Joe Biden promised that the “incredibly diverse city can and will show the nation how to bridge any divide.” Still, tensions were evident when officers turned away from giant screens showing de Blasio, who has been harshly criticized by New York Police Department union officials as a contributor to a climate of mistrust that contributed to the killings of Ramos and his partner, Wenjian Liu. Sgt. Myron Joseph of New Rochelle Police Department said he and fellow officers turned their backs spontaneously to “support our brothers in the NYPD.” In a statement, de Blasio’s spokesman said: “The Ramos and Liu families, our police department and our city are dealing with an unconscionable tragedy. Our sole focus is uni-

fying this city and honoring the lives of our two police officers.” The NYPD said through its public relations office that it had no comment. In his eulogy, de Blasio said hearts citywide were broken after the Dec. 20 shootings. “All of this city is grieving and grieving for so many reasons,” de Blasio said. “But the most personal is that we’ve lost such a good man, and the family is in such pain.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised the sea of blue mourners for their professionalism at recent rallies about police conduct when protesters insulted them, and Biden spoke passionately about the effects of the officers’ deaths. “When an assassin’s bullet targeted two officers, it targeted this city and it touched the soul of an entire nation,” the vice president said.

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SUMTER FAMILY YMCA Located practically in the heart of Sumter at 510 Miller Road, the Sumter Family YMCA has been a staple of the community for more than a century now. “Usually in January, we see a peak as people begin their fitness New Year’s resolutions,” said Missy Reese, marketing coordinator. “It’s a great time to undo the indulgence they may have experienced during the holiday season.” Multiple membership levels are available, and through the Open Doors program, which offers financial assistance, no one is turned away. A few months ago, the nonprofit started waving the joining fee for active military members and their families, Reese said. Starting Jan. 1, the joining fee will be significantly reduced for everyone else for the entire month. “We currently have 6,800 members and hope to see more people take a healthier KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM commitment in January with

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The Yes-We-Can president faces twilight of maybes WASHINGTON (AP) — It was supposed to be a joke. “Are you still president?” comedian Stephen Colbert asked Barack Obama earlier this month. But the question seemed to speak to growing weariness with the president and skepticism that anything will change in Washington during his final two years in office. Democrats already are checking out Obama’s potential successors. Emboldened Republicans are trying to push aside his agenda in favor of their own. At times this year, Obama seemed ready to move on as well. He rebelled against the White House security “bubble,” telling his Secret Service detail to give him more space. He chafed at being sidelined by his party during midterm elections and having to adjust his agenda to fit the political interests of vulnerable Democrats who lost anyway. Yet the election that was a disaster for the president’s

party may have had a rejuvenating effect on Obama. The morning after the midterms, Obama told senior aides, “If I see you moping, you will answer to me.” People close to Obama say he is energized at not having to worry about helping — or hurting — Democrats in another congressional election on his watch. He has become more comfortable with his executive powers, moving unilaterally on immigration, Internet neutrality and climate change in the last two months. And he sees legacy-building opportunities on the international stage, from an elusive nuclear deal with Iran to normalizing relations with Cuba after a half-century freeze. “He gained some clarity for the next two years that is liberating,” said Jay Carney, who served as Obama’s press secretary until this spring. “He doesn’t have as much responsibility for others.” Still, pillars of Obama’s sec-

ond-term agenda — gun control, raising the federal minimum wage, universal preschool — seem destined to stand unfulfilled. Wrapping up the Iraq and Afghanistan wars isn’t turning out to be nearly the tidy success story Obama once envisioned. Even supporters say one of the president’s top remaining priorities may have to be simply preventing Republicans from dismantling his earlier accomplishments, including the health care law. The Yes-We-Can man is entering a twilight of maybes, his presidency still driven by high ambitions but his power to achieve them running out. ••• Before the midterm election results arrived, Obama’s advisers say, the president realized he would finish his presidency with Republicans running Capitol Hill. Whatever message the Dem-

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President Obama greets troops and their families on Christmas Day at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, during his family vacation. ocrats’ defeat sent about the president’s own standing, Obama concluded the status quo meant more gridlock. Indeed, 2014 had been another year of fits and starts for a White House that has struggled to find its footing in Obama’s second term. The feeble HealthCare.gov website stabilized, but scandal enveloped the Department of Veterans Affairs. Syria got rid of its chemical weapons, but a violent extremist group pulled the U.S. back into military conflict in the Middle East. The unemployment rate fell, but so

did Obama’s approval ratings — to the lowest levels of his presidency, worse than the second-term averages for most recent presidents. “I don’t care who you are, after eight years or six years of the presidency, your influence has eroded,” said Robert Dallek, a historian who has met periodically with Obama. “Even someone like Eisenhower or Reagan, you just can’t sustain it.” While White House officials acknowledge the presidency

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meat, poultry and seafood in a separate bag.

It’s the time of year for family gettogethers, office parties and the gathering of friends. And usually, these fun times include food. To help keep you healthy from Christmas to New Year’s and beyond, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing food safety recommendations on how to protect yourself and your family from foodborne illness.

DURING FOOD PREPARATION: • Don’t cut your raw meat on the same cutting board as your ready-to-eat items such as bread, vegetables and cheese; • Prepare uncooked recipes before recipes requiring raw meat to reduce cross-contamination. Store them out of the way while preparing meat dishes to ensure they don’t become contaminated after preparation; • Use a meat thermometer to check the internal temperature of dishes to ensure they are fully cooked and safe to eat. Fresh beef, pork, veal and lamb should be cooked to 145 degrees F with a three minute rest time; fish should be cooked to 145 degrees F; ground beef, veal and lamb should be cooked

DURING GROCERY SHOPPING: • Keep raw meat, poultry and seafood away from other foods in your grocery cart; • Buy cold foods last; and • Ask the cashier to place your raw

to 160 degrees F; egg dishes should be cooked to 160 degrees F; and all poultry should be cooked to 165 degrees F.

Once it has reached the USDA recommended internal temperature of 145 degrees F, the roast is safe to eat.

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• Keep hot food hot and cold food cold using chafing dishes or slow cookers and ice trays. Hot items should remain above 140 degrees F and cold items should remain below 40 degrees F; • Use several small plates when serving food; and • Discard perishable foods left out for 2 hours or more.

• Wash items such as cutting boards that have touched raw meat with warm water and soap or place them in a dishwasher; and • Wipe counters down with a disinfectant spray, just in case. For more information, visit foodsafety.gov. Consumers with questions about food safety can also call the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) or chat live with a food safety specialist at AskKaren.gov available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, in English or Spanish.

WHEN COOKING A HOLIDAY ROAST: • Use separate cutting boards, plates and utensils for raw meat and cooked meat to avoid cross-contamination; and • To ensure the juiciest possible roast this holiday, use a meat thermometer.

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Attic fire damages Manning home An early morning attic fire has driven some adults and children from a two-story home in Manning. “Everybody got out of the home without any issues,” said Frances Richbourg, Clarendon County fire chief. “That was a blessing.” The call came in about 8:30 a.m. Saturday, and it took crews close to three hours to get the scene off Deberry Circle under control. “The fire extended in the attic area and was in hidden spots,” she said. “It was very, very difficult to get to. Apparently, they had an issue with the fireplace flue. It was burning pretty good before they realized what was going on.” While the contents did not suffer a lot of damage, the structure did. Fortunately, the occupants had another place they could go stay, Richbourg said. The family did have renter’s insurance. “That surprised me,” she said. “Most people haven’t heard of such a thing. It’s fairly reasonable, and it’s worth its weight. It can be a tremendous expense to replace all your stuff. I’m just very glad no one got hurt.”

2 found dead in Elgin shooting ELGIN — Richland County authorities say two men were found shot to death in an Elgin home. Coroner Gary Watts identified the men Saturday as 55-year-old Tyron Richardson and 28-yearold Mark Cox of Elgin. Both died at the scene of gunshot wounds to their upper body. Sgt. Kevin Lawrence says it’s being investigated as a double homicide. He says an acquaintance came by the home about 9 p.m. Friday and found the men inside. Watts’ news release says the two died Friday afternoon. He gave no specific time.

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Tiffany Blackmon, an employee of Bath & Body Works, helps Patrice Hinton with her after-Christmas purchase on Friday. The store has a semi-annual sale which packs the store, and about 20 people were waiting for the store to open at 10 a.m.

S.C. National Guard program works to keep recruits COLUMBIA (AP) — The South Carolina National Guard has turned its recruiters into long-term mentors to help their newest soldiers adapt and flourish during their first months in the military. The Guard’s top recruiter, Lt. Col. Matthew Fryman, said the Recruit Sustainment Program helps give young recruits a leg up before they go through the Army’s nine weeks of basic combat training, which is required before they enter the state’s part-time military. It also helps the 10,000-member Guard meet a recruiting goal it missed last year by about 100 soldiers, Fryman said. Many of the nation’s youth aren’t physically fit enough to even enter basic training, let alone last through its nine weeks. Some might have trouble adjusting to following orders. Other restrictions such as a criminal record exclude many people. Fryman said the Guard recruiters not only sign up their trainees, they counsel them through the early challenges of military life. “Only about 25 percent of the population might qualify,” Lt. Col. Matthew

Fryman said of entering the military. Fryman said the program pairs recruiters with new soldiers and coaches them during weekend drills before they go to basic training. The Guard recruiters keep tabs on their soldiers as they move through basic and advanced individual training, which could last up to 18 months before they come back to the Guard. “By the time they hit basic training, they’ve had contact with a drill sergeant, they know how to march and run,” said Fryman, a Guard veteran of 24 years. “It really gives them a leg up.” At a recent ceremony held to recognize the soldiers’ acceptance to their Guard “home” units after training, 18-year-old Pvt. Monet Amour Johnson recalled how the program helped her. Starting at 106 pounds, the petite soldier said she’d met military weight requirements, but the additional physical training helped add about 20 pounds of muscle mass, an advantage for getting through combat drills in a backpack and carrying a weapon. Johnson said she also had to deal with a potential metal allergy and had to tame her hair into a proper military

bun to meet standards required by basic training. “I just kept trying, and my recruiter helped me through it,” said Johnson, who was set on becoming a truck driver like her grandfather. He’d lost both legs in the Vietnam War, she said, “so I told him I’d finish the mission for him.” Pfc. Josiah Winter, 26, of Charleston, said he’d signed up in June 2013. A manager at a gym, Winter said the physical training wasn’t as difficult for him as it was to adapt to a culture where he had to do a commander’s bidding. “Suddenly, you’re on everyone else’s time, not on your own. Learning to follow orders, that was tough,” Winter said. Winter said he’d joined to get money for an education, as well as serving his country. Interested in technology, he said he was looking forward to working with the 151st Signal Battalion in Spartanburg. “We’re glad to have him,” said his beaming Sgt. Maj. William Bostic, 49, of Gaffney, the unit’s top enlisted soldier. “He’ll do great.”

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Florence family visits all 47 state parks BY MELISSA ROLLINS (Florence) Morning News FLORENCE — Take an energetic 8-year-old, two parents and 47 state parks and you have a recipe for adventure. In the past two years, the White/Boklage family has traveled across South Carolina, visiting every state park at least once. Hitting every park wasn’t their initial goal, but when they heard about the park passport program, they were intrigued. Dad Ron White said they already spent a good deal of time outdoors, so the passport program just added to the fun. “You buy a passport and bypass any other fees to get in to all of the state parks,” White said. “They also have ‘The Ultimate Outsider.’ You collect a stamp in your passport from all 47 parks , and when you do that, you get the title of ‘Ultimate Outsider’ and a commemorative shirt. We like camping, and the program just kind of grew on us; we really fell in love with it.” Mom Kelly Boklage said they had visited several parks before hearing about the program. “The first state park we visited as a family was Poinsett State Park, but we hadn’t started getting our stamps at that point,” Boklage said. “We were at Musgrove Mill, headed up to Table Rock to camp, when one of the rangers told us about the program.” White is a stay-at-home dad, and Boklage works at McLeod Hospital in Florence. Because her job includes working long nights — she is on for six 12hour night shifts in a row — Boklage often needs to sleep during the day. During those times, White and daughter, Zsa Zsa, sometimes pack up the car and hit the road for a day of fun at the state parks. Zsa Zsa — named after a family member, not actress Zsa Zsa Gabor — said some of her favorite excursions included visiting parks that had dress-up clothes and games in

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Kelly Boklage and her daughter, Zsa Zsa White, watch as a flock of birds flies over the water in Woods Bay State Park in Olanta.

Kelly Boklage, Ron White and their daughter, Zsa Zsa, have visited all 47 South Carolina State Parks in the past two years, and they have the stickers on their vehicle to prove it. their exhibits. “I really liked dressing up like a colonial person,” Zsa Zsa said. “I also played a colonial game with my mom that had two long sticks and two hoops. We had to throw the hoops to each other, using the sticks,

and them catch them on our sticks.” Animals were, of course, another favorite for the small adventurer. “I’ve seen a bald eagle, which is the national bird,” Zsa Zsa said. “I got to touch a

snake during one of the ranger programs. We’ve also seen turtles and alligators and raccoons.” While they completed the passport program as a family, Zsa Zsa also was involved with the Junior Park Ranger program. At each of the 24 Junior Ranger designated parks, there are activities to complete. Some of the activities in the program include finding and identifying plants, learning park safety, recycling and interviewing a park ranger to find out more about his or her job. Zsa Zsa also has shared her state park fun with friends on several different occasions. Boklage said visiting state parks doesn’t take a lot of money but can create a lot of memories and learning experiences. “You feel like you’re giving your child an education taking

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them to the state parks,” Boklage said. “If we take her out of school for one day, which we did for her birthday, we don’t feel so bad, because she is learning so much. She is getting so much to step on as she becomes a young lady. She is learning an appreciation of what nature is, what we have to preserve.” On her birthday , Zsa Zsa got a hiking stick from her parents. She decorated it with several bird feathers that had been discovered on their excursions and plans to add more as they find them. They have also collected sand dollars and other trinkets to bring home as memories of their time together. The family said they have their sights on visiting some of the national parks across the United States, but they probably will make it back to all of South Carolina’s parks as well.

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Blood is collected during a blood drive at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 2010. The Food and Drug Administration has recommended an end to the nation’s lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, a 31-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified.

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process I realized that I was expecting the impossible from my kids. How could I have expected them to treat their bodies right if I didn’t show them how to do it or even provide the right environment and opportunities that supported a healthy life? It’s just not enough to talk about it. As a parent you must be willing to apply it and provide what is necessary to support it. “To support these changes we also had to change our home environment as well as some other habits. The kids and I took homemade lunch everyday and instead of eating out at night, we learned to cook. Weekend TV show marathons were replaced with physical activity and family activities such as grocery shopping and trying new recipes,” shares David. “Together we have lost 65 pounds and are still losing. But honestly, we are winning.” Making changes to any part of your life is hard enough. If you want to change you have to be willing and able to change. But even then, you must have the right environment that supports your changes. Change is not easy, but it can be made easier with the right mindset and environment.

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FDA will recommend lifting ban on blood donations by gay men WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have moved closer to overturning a decades-old ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, but activists say the proposed alternative would continue to stigmatize men who have sex with men. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will recommend lifting the lifetime ban early next year, replacing it with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with another man in the previous 12 months. The change would overturn a 31-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified, given advances in HIV testing. But activists questioned whether requiring a year of celibacy from gay men amounted to a significant policy shift. “Some may believe this is a step forward, but in reality, requiring celibacy for a year is a de facto lifetime ban,” Gay Men’s Health Crisis, a New York-based nonprofit that supports AIDS prevention and care, said after the announcement. The blanket ban dates from the early years of the AIDS crisis and was intended to protect the blood supply from what was a then little-understood disease. But many

medical groups, including the American Medical Association, say the policy is no longer supported by science. Australia, Japan, the U.K. and many other countries previously moved to a one-year period. The agency will recommend the switch in draft guidelines early next year and move to finalize them after taking comments from the public, FDA officials told reporters. FDA Deputy Director Dr. Peter Marks declined to give a timeframe for completing the process but said, “we commit to working as quickly as possible on this issue.” Marks said some of the most compelling evidence for changing the policy comes from Australia, which put in place a oneyear ban on donations more than a decade ago. Recently published studies showed no change in the safety of the blood supply after making the switch. Additionally, studies conducted by the U.S. government suggest gay and bisexual men are actually more likely to abide by donation guidelines under a 12-month prohibition period. All blood donors take a questionnaire about their health and sexual behavior, but some gay men reportedly answer inaccurately to donate blood.

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EXERCISE FROM PAGE A1 the joining fee at $25,” said Denise Lewis, office manager. The YFIT programs have proven to be quite popular, Reese said, and will continue to be offered at regular intervals. Registration for YFIT Camp is already underway. It lasts until Jan. 8, the start date of the six-week program. Class will meet at 6 p.m. on Thursdays through Feb. 19. The cost is $50 for members and $75 for potential members, but it’s a 50 percent discount with a physician referral. The goal of the program, according to a Y flyer, is to “help you tone up and trim down. You’ll learn how to eat to reduce your body fat and exercise to improve your quality of life, body composition and to reach your health and fitness goals.” For more information, visit ymcasumter.org or call (803) 773-1404.

THE FREE WEIGHT GYM But maybe you’re tired of a your routine. You’re looking for a challenge or maybe you live out near the base

OBAMA FROM PAGE A1 has challenges in its waning years, they say recent economic gains and executive actions on immigration and climate change show Obama still can exert considerable influence. “This year the president’s policy successes vastly outstripped his political successes,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a senior White House adviser. Nearly two dozen White House officials, former Obama aides, presidential historians and political analysts discussed Obama’s standing as he closes his sixth year in office, some on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss their conversations with the president or his top advisers. For much of the year, Obama appeared to struggle with the realization that his political standing had slipped. He publicly complained about criticism of his foreign policy by pundits in Washington and New York (his private gripes were more colorful and profane). Despite Democratic pleas to stay out of November’s elections, he said his policies were indeed on the ballot. He desperately sought to break free of the confines of the White House. One afternoon in June, he joined his chief of staff in making an impromptu Starbucks run on foot, leaving

ANYTIME FITNESS Like the Y, Anytime Fitness does see an increase in memberships this time of year, said owner Crys Peyton. “More importantly we see higher usage from our current members,” he said. “My focus has always been to help as many people as possible get themselves in better shape or in better health. We are there to motivate and inspire people year round, and therefore, we operate as a private, members-only fitness club.” Like The Free Weight Gym and as the name implies, the facility at 1288 Broad St. is accessible 24-hours a day, seven days a week. As a policy, the fitness center does not advertise its pricing, Peyton said. They review options during the membership interview. “Our pricing is modest, and if you want the cheapest in town, we are not the place,” he said. “If you want the best value, well come and see for yourself. See what we have. See what we can offer you. See if our club meets

in fighting Islamic State extremists. By fall, the U.S. was launching airstrikes against the militants in Iraq and Syria. As he announced the strikes, Obama promised Americans this time would be different from the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No U.S. combat troops would be on the ground, he said. But he seemed to be trying to reassure himself as much as anyone else. In public and in private, Obama appears to understand his presidency may end on a war footing. He’s been reading “Redeployment,” a collection of short stories about the Iraq war by former

your needs and allow us to see if you will fit in with our mission of helping as many people as possible get to a healthier place.” However, the club does offer “joining incentives” tailored to each new member. “When creating specials, we have to consider our current members as well,” Peyton said. “Giving away memberships and filling the club with people wanting to try it out for a month but not serious about joining does not do them or our members justice. Instead of giving discounted monthly memberships, we might inspire someone to achieve their goals by giving someone extra time with a trainer or by giving them a workout program designed for their needs for free.” Anytime Fitness is undergoing renovations including new paint, carpeting and equipment. “By the time we are done, it will be a brand new club,” he said. While limited information is available online, the best way to learn more about the this gym is to schedule a visit, Peyton said. Interested individuals can call (803) 469-0999.

said, is to visit facebook.com/FreeWeightGym.

and nowhere near Miller Road. Then The Free Weight Gym, 2700 Thomas Sumter Highway, may be more to your liking. It prides itself on being for those who are ready to get serious about their fitness. “We’re equipped with new cardio equipment, and we’re in the process of getting trees built for punching bags,” said Manager Lee Dennis. “We’re refurbishing the locker rooms and also going to do some new work on the floor as far as mats. But of course, we’re going to stick with the free weights. That’s what a lot of our lifters like.” The joining fee is $50, which covers the first month, Dennis said, and a $17 activation fee for your code. Then it’s $33 a month for singles and $48 for couples. Military members get a 20 percent discount. These factors combine to mean this gym does not usually see a surge in membership at the first of the year, Dennis said. Having about 150 members with access any time of day or night also means there are no long wait times for equipment. The best way to learn more, he

aides and reporters sprinting to catch up. “Bear on the loose,” the president’s advisers jokingly said. They said it was good for his mood to break free from the bubble. But there were also real concerns in the West Wing about his behavior. Not only was he trying to escape the ever-present press, but Obama was ordering his Secret Service detail to keep its distance. In 2014, Obama also went back to war in the Middle East. Less than three years after the last American troops left Iraq, Obama sent U.S. forces back to train and assist the country’s security forces

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“They have reasonable expectations,” said Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, who spoke with White House aides about income inequality before the election. “It is the sixth year, after all.” A big question hanging over the White House is how much Obama, whose charisma once charmed the world, can still shape the national debate. “There’s almost always a point of diminishing returns on a president’s words,” said Jeff Shesol, a former presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton. Indeed, the president is forging ahead as something of an isolated figure.

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D. GENE RICKENBAKER D. Gene Rickenbaker, 73, husband of Mary Kaye Thomas Rickenbaker, died Friday, Dec. 26, 2014, at his home. Born in St. Matthews, he was a son of the late Charlie Dudley Rickenbaker and Margaret Crider RickenRICKENBAKER baker. Mr. Rickenbaker was of the Baptist faith. He was a graduate of St. Matthews High School, the University of South Carolina and USC School of Law. He was a retired major in the U.S. Air Force Reserve with service in Vietnam. He was also a retired attorney with Rickenbaker and Mociun. He was a former board member of Tuomey Hospital, Santee Cooper, South Carolina National/Wachovia Advisory Board and the Sumter Airport Commission. Mr. Rickenbaker served as a judge advocate in the U.S. Air Force, assistant U.S. attorney for the District of South Carolina, municipal judge for the City of Sumter, executive assistant for legal affairs to Gov. James B. Edwards and chairman of South Carolina Parks, Recreation and Tourism. He received two Orders of the Palmetto Award, one from former Gov. James Edwards and one from former Gov. Richard Riley. Surviving are his wife of 51 years of Sumter; two daughters, Vonda Kaye Mociun and husband, Jim, of Sumter, and Christie Kaye McRee and husband, Matt, of Blythewood; one brother, Don A. Rickenbaker of St. Matthews; five grandchildren, Morgan Mociun, H. Tate Mociun, Kin-

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Born in Lee County, she was the daughter of the late Jack Outlaw and Bessie Elizabeth Truesdale Outlaw. Ms. BOONE Boone worked at Santee Print for many years. She enjoyed quilting and especially spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She will be remembered as a loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt and friend. Surviving are: two sons, John D. Boone of Myrtle Beach and Winfert D. Boone Jr. of Sumter; three grandchildren, Christopher John Boone, Travis James Boone and James Wesley Boone; five great-grandchildren, Gabrielle Leigh Boone, Trenton Christopher Boone, Peyton Nicole Boone, Emerson Kate Boone and Wesley Don Boone; four special nieces, Debbie DuRant, Dixie DuRant and Delta DuRant, all of Sumter, and Sandra Corbett of Camden; her former husband, Winfert D. Boone Sr. of Darlington; along with a host of family and friends. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by five brothers, Edward Outlaw, Charles Outlaw, Happy Outlaw, J.W. Outlaw and R.B. Outlaw. A memorial service will be held on Monday at 5 p.m. in Bullock Funeral Home Chapel. The family will receive friends today from noon to 5 p.m. at the home of her niece, Debbie DuRant, 30 Parker Drive, Sumter, and immediately following the service on Monday at Bullock Funeral Home.

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GLORIA J. BRISBANE Gloria Jean Johnson S. Brisbane, wife of Manning L. Brisbane, died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born in Sumter County, she was the biological daughter of the late Julius Grant and Naomi Maple. She was reared in the home of BRISBANE the late Rev. Burrell and Lou Ethel Choice Johnson. She was a lifelong member of Wayman Chapel AME Church where she served in many capacities including: youth Sunday School Teacher, chairwoman of the Easter Program Committee, Baptism Committee, the Stewardess Board, Pastor’s Aid, YPD advisor and was an officer in the Wilhelmenia “Sweetheart” Burgess Women’s Missionary Society. She was a graduate of Ebenezer High School in the class of 1961. She earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Allen University in 1965. She began her teaching career in Lee County schools and later was employed by Sumter School

District 2. She taught for more then 30 years at Delaine Elementary School and retired in 1995. She volunteered for many charitable causes including the Mount Pisgah Breakfast Ministry for the Homeless. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one son, Brandon Parrott. Surviving are: her husband, Manning L. Brisbane, of the home; one daughter, Jennifer ( Antonio) Ray of Ellenwood, Georgia, a son, Manning (Laronda) Durant of District Heights, Maryland; two special nieces, one reared in the home, Chastey (Bishop Anthony) Gibson of Sumter, and Bernardine Palmore of New Bern, North Carolina; seven reared in the home; one great-grandchild; three siblings, Leroy Maple of East Orange, New Jersey, and James (Annie Mae) Choice and John (Patricia) Choice of Sumter; one aunt, Louise S. Grant of Fairburn, Georgia; and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held at noon Tuesday at Wayman Chapel AME Church with the pastor, Rev. Laddie Howard, officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday evening at Palmer Memorial Chapel and at other times, 650 Birkdale Circle, Apt. 14, Sumter, SC 29154. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Mount Pisgah Breakfast Ministry for the Homeless, PO Box 52811, Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter SC 29152 The family would appreciate condolences and tributes on their memorial page found at www.PalmerMemorialChapel.com.

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THE SUMTER ITEM H.D. Osteen 1904-1987 The Item

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Plan needed to save S.C. State I n 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its famous decision Plessey v. Ferguson, which confirmed Jim Crow laws and the black codes that said blacks are not equal to whites and could be treated differently. It was the beginning of the separate-butequal doctrine that would last until 1954, when the Supreme Court overruled the decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Also in 1896, the white-power structure in South Carolina, in an effort to show that it was treating its black citizens “equally,” allowed the General Assembly to pass an act creating South Carolina A&M College in Orangeburg. It Jim was already sending funds Felder to Claflin University to assist in the education of freedmen. However, this action would create a new school on a 126-acre site next door to Claflin. From its inception until 1968, an all-white male board of trustees oversaw the college and only hired presidents who would dance to their music. Following two student uprisings, the first in 1957 led by Fred Henderson Moore of Charleston and the second by Isaac W. Williams in 1967, Dr. B.C. Turner resigned as president and the S.C. Legislature appointed two persons of color to the board of trustees and named Dr. Maceo Nance Jr. president. Fred Moore paid a high price for his actions. President Turner expelled Moore from the college six weeks prior to his graduation in 1957. Allen University took Moore in and he graduated with the class of 1958. In 1947 a law school was established at S.C. State. It grew out of a lawsuit filed by John H. Wrighten III, a World War II veteran, who was denied admission to the University of South Carolina Law School. Following a hearing before Federal Judge J. Waites Waring on July 14, 1947, he ordered the state of South Carolina to admit Wrighten to the University of South Carolina or build him a law school at S.C. State. Two months later, September 1947, a law school was up and running at S.C. State. It was housed in a corner of Wilkinson Hall, the administration building. Thurgood Marshall, who was one of Wrighten’s lawyers, called it a $1.50 law school. That $1.50 law school lasted from 1947 until 1966 graduating 50 men and one female, Laura Ponds of Camden. The school closed after the University of South Carolina opened its doors in 1966 with the admission of Jasper M. Cureton. Cureton transferred from S.C. State and later would become the first black to serve on the S.C. Court of Appeals. S.C. State Law School graduated some legal giants who would turn South Carolina up-

side down from a legal perspective. Matthew J. Perry became a federal judge; Ernest A. Finney Jr rose to chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; Daniel E. Martin of Charleston added color to the circuit court; Willie T. Smith of Greenville and Ruben L. Gray of Sumter added color to family courts; Zack Townsend of Orangeburg defended hundreds of protestors and marchers; George Anderson practiced law and ran the Community Action Agency in Aiken for years; Paul Webber III of Orangeburg became a superior court judge in Washington, D.C.; Weldon Hammond became the adjudicator for the U.S. Veterans Regional Office in Columbia; Col. Ned Felder served with the Army JAG Corp and Laura Ponds was employed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Philadelphia. The ROTC program at S.C. State was started in 1947. Since its inception, over 2,500 students have been commissioned to serve in the armed forces of this country. The nickname for S.C. State ROTC program is “Bulldog Battalion.” In many quarters, the ROTC program is referred to as “West Point South” because of the many officers it has produced. As of 2014, some twenty graduates have risen to the rank of general officer in the U.S. military. Gen. Colin Powell was the 2011 commencement speaker. He came because his mentor, Gen. George Price of the S.C. State ROTC class of 1951, asked him to attend and speak. In the political arena, S.C. State graduates can be found at all levels of elected office. The range is from Jim Clyburn in the U.S. Congress to members of the S.C. Legislative Black Caucus, mayors, county councils, city councils and school boards. In spite of never being fully funded and treated as an unwanted stepchild by the General Assembly, S.C. State has made much progress, and at times, had to make bricks without straw. I agree with Warren Bolton of The State newspaper when he suggests that a longterm plan is needed to save S.C. State. And while I do not absolve the board for not being better stewards, there must be ways to find solutions to save this 118-year-old venerable institution that has provided so much leadership to South Carolina and the nation through its graduates. While some will say that S.C. State should not be treated any different than other state-supported institutions when it comes to funding, I disagree. When special things have been done to shackle and discriminate against an institution, as has been the case with S.C. State, then special things have to be done to level the playing field. Sumter native Jim Felder is the author of “Civil Rights In South Carolina” and a former member of the S.C. House of Representatives.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR RICKENBAKER WILL BE MISSED BY MANY This holiday week we lost a great man. I have never known a better person than Gene Rickenbaker. He was a true friend. Words cannot describe how much I liked and respected him. If everyone was like Gene this world

would be a much better world to live in. He will be missed by many and greatly missed by me. TYLER “DOC”DUNLAP Sumter

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2014 a busy, productive year

hat struck me in going back through the events of the year was that 2014 was chaotic and productive on many levels, both for this newspaper and the Sumter community. From our company’s standpoint, we redesigned The Sumter Item, created and launched a new website and purchased a group of community newspapers in Baldwin County, Alabama. The voting residents of Sumter passed the penny sales tax again, a move that will lead to a wide range of civic improvements designed to keep the community moving forward. What follows are excerpts from three columns that reflect those larger themes. Happy New Year. •••

Graham Osteen

Jan. 26, 2014 — “A new Sumter Item is on the way.”

doing. We have an excellent mayor, city council and city officials who are devoted to their jobs. The same is true on the county level. We have outstanding law enforcement personnel. We have a great military community filled with some of the smartest, most capable men and women in the world. Sumter School District recently changed from within to move forward, and our private schools are outstanding. We have a generous benefactor of downtown revitalization in Greg Thompson and Thompson Industrial Services. We have excellent economic development leaders competing at the highest levels. We have many strong, diverse businesses, and we’ve had an incredibly successful run of economic development projects with Continental Tire the Americas and, just this week, Apex Tool. We’ve had dramatic civic improvements thanks to the first penny sales tax effort, and there’s a second one in the works. We’d be fools not to keep that revenue stream going. •••

The Sumter Item will turn 120 on Oct. 14, 2014. This old newspaper has gone by a lot of names throughout our history, both official and unofficial: The Daily Item; The Sumter Item; The Sumter Daily Item; The Item; The Daily Astonisher; The Daily Fish Wrapper; That (blank) Newspaper and plenty of other monikers not fit for print, depending on who may have been offended or delighted by our coverage on a particular day in a particular decade. But I digress. The first edition of The “New” Sumter Item will appear this Tuesday. We know you’re going to love it, and it will be a steady work in progress as we gain experience with our new formats. Everyone has been working hard since last summer with Bill Ostendorf and his innovative company, Creative Circle Media Solutions, to improve our own abilities, rethink our approach to journalism and redesign the way news and advertising information is presented in your community newspaper. The culmination of these challenging efforts is a newspaper that’s easier to read, better edited for modern reading habits, visually more appealing on multiple levels and more effective than ever for advertisers. ••• Aug. 28, 2014 — ”Want positive change? Get in the game.” Sumter is blessed with outstanding people who truly care about what they’re

recently admitted to a Texas hospital on observation. I hope he will recover and soon be home. Observation admissions are a debt producer for many of our citizens. A patient may have Medicare and an expensive supplement and may still have to pay the entire bill. For George Bush a $3,000 bill is not a problem. A wid-

Nov. 9, 2014 — “Sumter’s history of steady progress continues.” Throughout its history, Sumter can point to numerous examples of consensus building and important civic progress. In the 1990s, for example, there was the implementation of countywide zoning and the protection of the areas around Shaw Air Force Base to prevent encroachment. Flash forward to today and we’re seeing the ongoing positive results of a successful penny sales tax effort that began taking shape in the early 2000s. It failed in 2006 before passing in 2008 and being renewed by about 60 percent of area voters last week. That effort took a great deal of work on the part of a new generation of civic leaders in the public and private sectors, and will surely pay big dividends in the long term. Many other South Carolina counties are now wishing they had squared away such an increasingly popular initiative a long time ago. In tandem with the penny sales tax renewal, the passage of the Sunday alcohol sales referendum clears the way for economic development in the form of local construction spending by national restaurant chains. It’s purely a numbers game for them, and Sumter now has the numbers (consumer spending power) to support a much broader range of national projects. Graham Osteen is Editor-At-Large of The Item. He can be reached at graham@theitem. com. Follow him on Twitter @GrahamOsteen, or visit www.grahamosteen.com.

owed lady might get well and face a financial tragedy. Why does insurance not pay? An economist like Dr. Jonathan Gruber created this fiasco and laughs behind the back of middle-class America. Why isn’t this scenario attacked by our congressmen James Clyburn or Mick Mulvaney? Insurance companies give big donations, and con-

gressmen look the other way. Why don’t do-gooders such as Brian Williams of NBC or Bill O’Reilly or Anderson Cooper or even Rush Limbaugh speak up for the victims of this government scheme? The answer is simple. Advertising revenue negates any criticism. PHIL BRANDT, M.D. Sumter

OBITUARIES

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GENE H. REAMES BISHOPVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gene Hawkins Reames, 87, widow of John Reames, died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at Kershaw Health in Camden. Born in Sumter County, she was a REAMES daughter of the late Jesse T. Hawkins and the late Janie Strange Hawkins. She was a member of Bethlehem United Methodist Church and retired as a nurse from Lee County School system. Survivors include: three sons, Mark Reames, Gary Reames and Jay Reames; two grandchildren, Emily Reames and Kevin Reames; and a sister, Iris Dunne. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Bethlehem United Methodist Church cemetery with the Rev. Larry Watson officiating. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Bethlehem United Methodist Church, PO Box 167, Bishopville, SC 29010. Hancock-Elmore-Hill Funeral Home of Bishopville is in charge of the arrangements.

WILLIE M. JEFFERSON Willie McKinley Jefferson, husband of Jeanie Jefferson, was born Aug. 10, 1929, in Mayesville to the late William McKinley Jefferson and Julia Dix Jefferson. He departed this life on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter. He accepted the JEFFERSON Lord Jesus Christ as his savior at an early age and became a lifelong member of Ebenezer AME Church, Mayesville. Willie served his church in several capacities, including steward pro-tem, Sunday School superintendent, bible class teacher, church secretary, director of Christian Education and Lay Organization. He was also a dutiful servant of Northeast Conference where he was president of the Lay Organization, Allen University recruiter, director of Christian Education, finance committee member and a member of the General Conference of the AME Church since 1968. Willie was a graduate of Mayesville Institute High School. He went on to earn a bachelor of science in chemistry from Allen University, Columbia, and a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in education from South Carolina State, Orangeburg. He did further studies at University of North Carolina, Greensboro, the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and Francis Marion University, Florence. He served a tour of duty in the United States Army. During his career, Willie served as director of alumni affairs at Allen University, assistant superintendent for personnel and instruction for Lee County Schools, principal of Mount Pleasant High School, Elliott, and Dennis High School, Bishopville, and numerous other teaching and administrative positions in Trio and Sumter School District. He worked tirelessly in the community as he served as a summary court judge, town councilman and mayor of Mayesville for many years. His unselfish dedication and love for his family extended to all mankind. Willie was a member of the DoRight Lodge No. 377 F.A.M., Lynchburg, the Gamma Iota Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc, the Sumter County Greater Chamber of Commerce, the South Carolina Municipal Association and many other civic,

social and professional organizations. He was previously married to the late Wilhemenia Williams Jefferson and to this union two sons were born. He leaves to cherish his loving memories: his loving wife, Jeanie L. Jefferson; five sons, William C. Jefferson of Fayetteville, John Fitzgerald Jefferson of Mayesville, Lee Ernest (Francena) Brown and Ronnie Brown of Gable, and Robert (Flora Mae) Brown of Pensacola, Florida; two daughters, Barbara B. Ragin of Gable and Melba (Ricky) G. Payne of Sumter; one sister, Pattie J. Gibson of Mayesville; one brother, Roy Jefferson, of Columbus, Ohio; 10 grandchildren; a host of great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins, sisters-inlaw and other relatives and friends. Public viewing will be held on Monday from 2 to 6 p.m. at Jobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mortuary. Mr. Jefferson will be placed in R.E. Davis Elementary School on Tuesday at noon for viewing until the hour of service. Funeral service will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at R.E. Davis Elementary School, 345 Eastern School Road, Sumter, with the Rev. Phillip Washington, eulogist, assisted by Elder Robert McCants, the Rev. Dr. Jon R. Black, the Rev. Archie Temoney, the Rev. Herbert Temoney, the Rev. Dr. Friendly Gadson and the Rev. McKinley Washington. Interment will follow in Mayesville Community Cemetery. Family will receive friends at the home, 21 Mill St., Mayesville. Jobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mortuary, Inc., 312 S. Main St., is in charge of arrangements. Online memorials may be sent to jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or visit www.jobsmortuary.net.

BOBBY L. TROUBLEFIELD Bobby L. Troublefield, 61, died Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, at his home. Born in Bishopville, he was a son of the late Emmett Troublefield and the late Oleta Bell Sansbury. He was a self-employed mechanic. Survivors include: two sons, Andrew W. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Andyâ&#x20AC;? Troublefield (Dawn) of Mount Pleasant and Mark Aaron Troublefield of Conway; two grandchildren, Gracie Troublefield and Julia Troublefield; a brother, Charles Troublefield (Harriett) of Rembert; two sisters, Carolyn Hatfield (John) and Arlene Mathis (Richard), all of Dalzell; and a number of nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Marian Smith; and a brother, Cornelius Troublefield. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at New Hope Baptist Church with the Rev. Stacy Hinson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Chuck Troublefield, Brad Troublefield, Jim Mathis, Steve Ruckman, Mike Smith and Tony Smith. Honorary pallbearers will be Don Hallman and Mooney Player. The family will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. today at ElmoreCannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home of Richard and Arlene Mathis, 3504 Spring Hill Road, Dalzell. Memorials may be made to New Hope Baptist Church Building Fund c/o Harriett Troublefield, 1690 Stuckeytown Rd., Rembert, SC 29128. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of arrangements. www.ecsfuneralhome.com

JANNIE MAE MONTGOMERY Jannie Mae Walker Montgomery died Monday, Dec. 22, 2014. Eastern Star rights with St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chapter No. 156 Order of Eastern Star will be held from 4

to 5 p.m. today at Hayes F. & LaNelle J. Samuels Sr. Memorial Chapel, 114 N. Church St., Manning. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Melina Presbyterian Church (USA), Gable. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC, Manning

PAULINE B. HOLLOWAY GREENSBORO, N.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pauline Brown Holloway, 99, widow of Dr. Charles T. Holloway, died Christmas morning, Dec. 25, 2014, at Hospice of Alamance County, Burlington, North Carolina. She was born in Charleston, a daughter of the late Clarence Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neal Brown and Lydia Elliott Holloway. She is also the sister of Ruby B. Scott of Sumter. Family is receiving friends at the home of her sister, Mrs. Thelma B. Sumpter, 193 Smith St., Charleston. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC, Manning, (803) 4352297.

IVE BRUNSON JR. Ive Brunson Jr. departed his earthly journey on Friday, Dec. 26, 2014, at his home. He was the son of the late Ive Brunson Sr. and Elease Marie NelsonBrunson and the husband of the late Lottie Mae Ladson-Brunson. The family is receiving friends at the home, 281 Gamble St., Sumter. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Sumter Funeral Service, Inc.

SARAH C. FORD RALEIGH, N.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mrs. Sarah Catherine Ford died Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, at her home after an illness. A graveside service will be held today at 2 p.m. at Lake View Cemetery. The family will receive friends at 1 p.m. at Cooke Funeral Home, prior to the graveside service. Mrs. Ford was born in Dillon County, the daughter of late Evander and Ruby Adams Barfield. Mrs. Ford is survived by her granddaughters, Katelyn and Hilary Ford of Mount Pleasant; longtime caregivers, great-nephew Garrett Page (Sheila) and family, niece, Ruby Lester Ward (Chuck) of Raleigh; and many nieces and nephews. Mrs. Ford was preceded in death by her husband, Curtis B. Ford; son, Curtis B. Ford Jr.; brothers, Marvin and EV Barfield; and sister, Clovis Barfield.

THERON E. ARD Theron Edward â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peteâ&#x20AC;? Ard, 58, died Friday, Dec. 26, 2014, at his home. Born in Sumter, he was a son of Helen H. Geddings and the late Charles Geddings. He was a graduate of Furman High School where he lettered in all four sports and held the pole vault record in 1975. He attended Anderson College and the University of South Carolina. He was employed as a car salesman until his retirement. Survivors include his mother of Sumter; two daughters, Jessica Sparkman of Kuwait and Taylor Feagin of Bishopville; a granddaughter, Emma Lynn Feagin; five sisters, Debbie Geddings Shirer (Jimmy) of Elloree, Brenda Geddings Greene (Wayne) of Sumter, Kathy Geddings Thompson (Frank) of Sumter, Tammy Geddings Lowder (Henry) of Oswego and Denise Hodge Rickett (Raymond) of Sumter; a number of nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews; and special family friends, Tamie Bryan and Reggie Hopkins. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Green Acres

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014 Assembly of God with the Rev. Michael Bowman and the Rev. Mitch Towery officiating. Burial will be in Paxville Cemetery. The family will receive friends from noon to 2 p.m. Monday at Green Acres Assembly of God and other times at the home. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 950 48th Ave. N., Suite 101, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577. The family expresses a special thanks to Amedisys Hospice, Gayla, Marie, Mae and Michelle. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of arrangements. www.ecsfuneralhome.com

BRUCE W. COOK Bruce Wyland Cook, 59, husband of Concepcion Dobato de Cook, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014, at MUSC in Charleston. Born in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, he was a son of the late Melvin M. Cook and the late Shirley A. Cox VanCliff. He retired as a master sergeant from the U.S. Air Force and retired from Lee County Correctional Facility as a correctional officer. He had been most recently employed with the Wateree Correctional Institution. Survivors in addition to his wife are: two sons, Brian Cook, and his fiancee, Ashley Bell, and Steven Cook and his wife, Jessica Cook; four grandchildren, Alex, Julianne, Joshua and Ethan Cook; and brother, Marvin Cook of Colorado. Services will be private. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of arrangements. www.ecsfuneralhome.com

ISAIAH PARKER MANNING â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Isaiah â&#x20AC;&#x153;Slappyâ&#x20AC;? Parker, 61, died Wednesday morning, Dec. 24, 2014, at his residence, 113 Robert St. He was born Feb. 1, 1953, in the Davis Station section of Clarendon County, son of Mary Dow Parker and the late Moses â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cootâ&#x20AC;? Parker. Family is receiving friends at the home of his mother, 209 Walker St., Manning. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

GLORIA H. STANBACK Gloria Harriott Stanback, 62, entered eternal rest at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, in Wesley Chapel, Florida. She was born in Manhattan, New York, on May 22, 1952, to the late Eddie and Annie Mae Balls Harriott. She attended the public schools of Sumter County until she moved to live with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. William Harriott in Philadelphia. Gloria had the best sense of humor. She was known to heckle professional comedians and bring a room to tears from laughter. Through the years, she supported many charitable organizations such as Vietnam Veterans, Red Cross, Juvenile Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, March of Dimes and American Cancer Society. Gloria is survived by her husband of 41 years, James Calvin Stanback; daughter, Denise Montgomery (Cameron); granddaughter, Devynn Montgomery; five siblings, Vincent Harriott, Tyrone Balls, Diane Vaughn (Vinson), Sheila Harriott and Joyce B. Witherspoon (Danny); three

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brother-in-laws, Johnny Stanback, Jesse Stanback and Billy Ray Stanback (Clara); aunt, Florazell Ball Smith; stepdaughter, Deshawn â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toniâ&#x20AC;? Brown; stepsons, James Calvin Reid (Cynthia), James Calvin Quinn (Shirley) and Darrell Brown (Elazeia); seven grandchildren, Orlando, Leah, Sequitta (Jack), James Jr., Darrell Jr., Adarrious and Adonnance; and a host of relatives and friends. Visitation will be held on Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at noon at Church of God by Faith, 609 Atlantic Ave., Sumter, with the Elder James Lucas and Elder Andreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; McBride. Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park. The family is receiving friends at the home of her sister, Joyce (Danny) Witherspoon, 260 Wendemere Drive, Sumter. Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com. Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of arrangements.

CHERISE MCQUILLA-MITCHELL Cherise McQuilla-Mitchell, 42, the wife of Robert Mitchell, entered eternal rest peacefully at her home on Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, in Bowie, Maryland. She was born in Sumter on Feb. 15, 1972. She attended public schools and graduated in 1990 from Furman High School. She attended Anderson College and the University of South Carolina with a major in business management. She was a licensed Realtor for RE/MAX Leading Edge. She was a faithful member of Reid Temple AME Church in Glenn Dale, Maryland. She is survived by her husband of 19 years, Robert Mitchell; the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three children, Katelyn Alexandria, Sydney Cherise and Robert Joshua â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jay,â&#x20AC;? all of Bowie; father, Joshua McQuilla; devoted mother, Lucille S. McQuilla; maternal grandfather, Johnnie Spann; father and mother-in-law, Moses and Dolly Mitchell; one brother-in-law, Andrew Mitchell; one sister-in-law, Brenda Lee (Jessie) Johnson; seven aunts, Deloris Jones, Loretta Tindal, Christine (Eric) Johnson; Janie (Larry) Harris, Julie (Richard) Gregg, Josie McQuilla and Ernestine Primus; four uncles, Johnny (Martha) Spann, Roosevelt (Maggie) Spann, James (Sylvia) Spann and Hosea McQuilla; and a host of other relatives and friends. Viewing of Mrs. Mitchell will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at Mount Pisgah AME Church, 217 W. Bartlette St., Sumter, with the Rev. Dr. Betty Clark, the Revs. Jermaine Walker, Robert Montgomery, Marsha Shaw and Robert James. Burial will follow in Hillside Memorial Park. The family is receiving friends at the home, 2942 Sylvan Way, Sumter. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Cherise McQuilla-Mitchell Education Fund, BB&T Bank, 2405 Brandermill Blvd., Gambrills, Maryland, 21054, Attention: Chantelle Bowen. Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com. Community Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014

HOLIDAY SCHEDULE BANKS — All area banks and credit unions will be closed on New Year’s Day. GOVERNMENT — The following will be closed on New Year’s Day: federal government offices; U.S. Postal Service; state government offices; City of Sumter offices; Sumter County offices; Clarendon County offices; City of Manning offices; Lee County offices; and City of Bishopville offices. SCHOOLS — The following will be closed through Jan. 2, 2015: Sumter School District; Clarendon School Districts 1, 2 and 3; Lee County Public Schools; Robert E. Lee Academy; Thomas Sumter Academy; Wilson Hall; St. Anne Catholic School; St. Francis Xavier High School; William Thomas Academy; Laurence Manning Academy; and Clarendon Hall. Sumter Christian School will be closed through Jan. 1, 2015. A faculty in-service day will be observed on Jan. 2, 2015, and students will return on Jan. 5, 2015. Central Carolina Technical College will be closed through Jan. 2, 2015. USC Sumter and Morris College will be closed through Jan. 1, 2015. UTILITIES — Black River Electric Coop. and Farmers Telephone Coop. will be closed on New Year’s Day. OTHER — Clemson Extension Service will be closed on New Year’s Day. The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce will be closed Wednesday, Dec. 31, and New Year’s Day. The Sumter County Library and the Harvin Clarendon County Library will be closed on New Year’s Day. All offices of The Sumter Item will be closed on New Year’s Day. The newspaper will not publish on New Year’s Day.

THE SUMTER ITEM

WEATHER

AccuWeather® ﬁve-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

TONIGHT

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

Cloudy with a shower or two

On-and-oﬀ rain and drizzle late

Cloudy with brief showers

Mostly cloudy and cooler

Sunny

Partly sunny

70°

56°

65° / 46°

60° / 31°

50° / 32°

54° / 36°

Chance of rain: 55%

Chance of rain: 80%

Chance of rain: 70%

Chance of rain: 10%

Chance of rain: 5%

Chance of rain: 10%

SSW 6-12 mph

SW 4-8 mph

SSW 4-8 mph

NNE 7-14 mph

NE 4-8 mph

SSW 4-8 mph

TODAY’S SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER

Gaﬀney 59/51 Spartanburg 59/52

Greenville 59/52

Columbia 70/56

Temperatures shown on map are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Sumter 70/56

IN THE MOUNTAINS

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Emotions will EUGENIA LAST spin out of control if you let things get to you. Dealing with work-related matters must be done professionally. Letting your feelings take over will put you in a vulnerable position. Impulse is the enemy. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Someone may try to meddle in your affairs or spread gossip about you. Stand tall and uphold your dignity and honor, and you will surpass anyone trying to do you wrong. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Take a look at professional options. Apply for positions that look interesting or consider ways you can advance where you currently work. A positive change is heading your way if you are smart, negotiate well and go after your goals. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Look inward and make a point of doing the things that make you happy. Avoid getting involved in other people’s problems. Protect your possessions and your important relationships.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Be diplomatic, and do your best to avoid a disagreement with someone you live with. Venture out or volunteer to help a cause you believe in. It’s what you do for others that will make you feel good.

Today: Cloudy with showers. Winds southwest 3-6 mph. Rain. Monday: Occasional rain. Winds northeast 3-6 mph.

Aiken 70/57

ON THE COAST

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A short trip or taking part in an event or activity that challenges you mentally or physically will bring you the most joy. Avoid making decisions about domestic matters or home improvements. Romance is on the rise. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You can make alterations to your living space that will be conducive to entertaining or that will make your life more convenient or comfortable. Someone from your past will bring back fond memories. Expand your interests and try something new. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Listen, but don’t be too quick to believe what you hear. What someone promises will fall short of your expectations. Do your due diligence and make sure you get whatever you want in writing. A false impression will leave you feeling cheated.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your ability to entertain and show off will draw people to your side, but may also cause problems with someone you work with. Don’t leave anyone out who has the potential to influence your status quo.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Reevaluate how you have been earning your living and the changes you want to make next year. Listen to someone with experience and you will be introduced to a plan that is likely to suit your lifestyle. There is money to be made.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Plan to have fun, but don’t go over budget. Being frivolous with your money or possessions will give someone the opportunity to take advantage of you. If you want to make a good impression, use intelligence, not cash.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do what you can do for others without expecting anything in return. Your kindness will not be forgotten and will result in an offer or change that is quite remarkable. Love is highlighted, and romance will encourage a better relationship.

THE NEWSDAY CROSSWORD TWO’S COMPANY: Featuring pairwise wordplay By Gail Grabowski

ACROSS 1 The two of them 5 Pedometer button 10 Purchases 14 Stacks of stuff 19 Cadabra preceder 20 Prefix meaning “culture” 21 “Understood!” 22 Battery terminal 23 One way to get an etail discount 25 Ag school 27 Maintain the same pace 28 Mauna __ (Hawaiian peak) 30 Cardinals’ home: Abbr. 31 Water pitcher 32 Right, on a map 33 Physics Nobelist Niels 34 High-tech ID

36 Gas holder 38 Product hawked by Juan Valdez 46 Cantina condiments 48 Tops of tubes 49 Crow (over) 50 Jacket part 51 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame architect 52 When Romeo meets Juliet 54 More devious 55 Tarzan transportation 56 Recedes 58 Garbanzo, for one 59 Thread holder 60 Russian Revolution leader 61 Numismatic hobby 64 Stopped marching 65 Loopholes 66 Opposite of ‘neath 67 Uttered 68 Posh residences 71 Polite behavior 78 Fill with won-

der 79 Makes angry 80 Vocalized 81 All the __ (nevertheless) 82 Started to sag 83 Out of practice 84 “Gotta turn you down” 85 Freight measure 86 State bordering BC 87 Ninny 88 Weather Channel displays 90 Ledger entries 93 Perilous path 97 Source of coal 98 CPR expert 99 “Do __ others . . .” 100 Big wheels, for short 102 Fishing-line mishap 105 Henri’s “here” 108 Boxing ref’s call 109 Paragraph portion 113 What a judge might order repaid 116 Blarney Stone’s locale

LOCAL ALMANAC

Charleston 74/58

LAKE LEVELS

SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

66° 33° 54° 33° 78° in 1971 11° in 1983

SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest. 357.72 73.57 73.11 96.53

24-hr chg +0.04 +0.06 -0.04 -0.56

RIVER STAGES

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 4 p.m. yest. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date

River Black River Congaree River Lynches River Saluda River Up. Santee River Wateree River

0.00" 3.85" 2.87" 38.86" 48.67" 46.47"

NATIONAL CITIES

REGIONAL CITIES

Today City Hi/Lo/W Atlanta 65/53/sh Chicago 35/25/pc Dallas 46/32/pc Detroit 38/24/pc Houston 47/38/r Los Angeles 63/46/s New Orleans 70/51/r New York 49/37/r Orlando 84/66/pc Philadelphia 51/39/r Phoenix 58/36/pc San Francisco 57/45/pc Wash., DC 52/42/r

City Asheville Athens Augusta Beaufort Cape Hatteras Charleston Charlotte Clemson Columbia Darlington Elizabeth City Elizabethtown Fayetteville

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 62/44/r 31/17/c 55/33/pc 33/20/c 59/41/pc 63/48/pc 61/48/pc 43/29/pc 82/65/c 44/31/c 60/38/s 56/45/pc 46/34/r

Today Hi/Lo/W 59/47/r 64/52/sh 72/55/c 73/58/c 61/50/c 74/58/c 57/52/sh 61/54/sh 70/56/sh 67/53/sh 65/51/c 71/57/c 68/55/c

Flood 7 a.m. stage yest. 12 8.77 19 6.27 14 9.20 14 7.36 80 79.75 24 18.67

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 55/42/r 62/44/r 67/47/sh 70/52/sh 54/46/sh 70/50/sh 56/41/r 62/46/r 65/45/sh 61/42/sh 52/44/r 61/44/sh 58/41/sh

24-hr chg +0.49 -1.08 +0.20 -0.57 +2.60 +0.06

City Florence Gainesville Gastonia Goldsboro Goose Creek Greensboro Greenville Hickory Hilton Head Jacksonville, FL La Grange Macon Marietta

Today Hi/Lo/W 70/58/sh 80/60/c 59/50/sh 66/53/c 73/58/c 56/48/sh 59/52/sh 57/47/sh 67/57/c 79/60/c 69/54/r 73/58/c 63/50/sh

Sunrise 7:26 a.m. Moonrise 12:07 p.m.

Sunset Moonset

5:21 p.m. none

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High 1:44 a.m. 2:15 p.m. 2:48 a.m. 3:16 p.m.

Ht. 3.0 3.0 3.1 2.9

City Marion Mt. Pleasant Myrtle Beach Orangeburg Port Royal Raleigh Rock Hill Rockingham Savannah Spartanburg Summerville Wilmington Winston-Salem

Low Ht. 8:39 a.m. 0.0 9:07 p.m. -0.4 9:45 a.m. 0.1 10:06 p.m. -0.3

Today Hi/Lo/W 59/48/r 72/59/c 70/58/c 72/58/c 71/59/c 60/50/sh 60/50/sh 63/53/sh 76/60/c 59/52/sh 69/57/c 71/55/c 56/48/sh

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 55/40/r 70/51/sh 67/49/sh 66/48/sh 68/54/sh 50/37/r 57/42/r 57/40/sh 73/55/sh 58/45/r 68/53/sh 65/44/sh 50/37/r

Weather(W): s–sunny, pc–partly cloudy, c–cloudy, sh–showers, t–thunderstorms, r–rain, sf–snow ﬂurries, sn–snow, i–ice

The Most Reliable Team With the Most Reliable Comfort Systems 803-795-4257

118 Was helpful to 119 Jai __ 120 Cry of concession 121 Arbor Day planting 122 Takes a taste of 123 Smartphone message 124 __ acetate (organic solvent) 125 Tools that leave dust DOWN 1 Support financially 2 Woodwind instrument 3 Verifiable 4 Takes place 5 Takes a lease 6 “Blah, blah, blah” 7 Compare prices 8 Cutoff point 9 Figure-skating maneuver 10 Tummy soother 11 GI morale booster 12 Some evergreens 13 Splinter group 14 Sidekick 15 Covered with foliage 16 ‘20s movie mogul 17 Outer boundary 18 Palmistry practitioner 24 City near Kyoto 26 Junkyard arrival 29 Resistance measures 33 Bogart, in Casablanca 35 “What’s __ to like?” 36 Cardio-boxing regimen 37 Suspect’s story 39 Based on 8 40 Nanook of the North dwelling 41 Brave as __ 42 Christmas song

Myrtle Beach 70/58

Manning 70/58

Today: Cloudy. High 68 to 73. Monday: Cloudy with brief showers. High 66 to 70.

The last word in astrology

Florence 70/58

Bishopville 67/56

SATURDAY’S ANSWERS CROSSWORD

SUDOKU

43 Barely visible 44 Bert’s PBS buddy 45 Edit 46 Risky biz 47 Wooden shoes 53 Cartoon collectibles 54 Prefix meaning “coil” 55 South African plains 57 Take a nap 59 Parts of mushrooms 60 Home in the wilderness 62 Restore to health 63 Warm and snug 64 Transported by truck 67 Bubble source 68 Hogwarts curriculum 69 Brazilian novelist

70 Of warships and admirals 71 Computer networking giant 72 Again and again 73 Amateur 74 Ill-humored 75 Sup wearing slippers 76 Struck down 77 Cravings 79 City bond, for short 83 Backwoodsy 87 Not well-lit 88 Chaucer pilgrim 89 Teleprompter 91 Out of ideas 92 Splits in two 94 Stowe villain 95 Makes the grade 96 In equal amounts 101 Spy ops’ acquisition

102 “Shoo!” 103 Pinot __ (red wine) 104 Automaker based in Bavaria 106 Layer of paint 107 Grand Bahama, for one 109 __ as (for example) 110 Romance

novelist Roberts 111 Staff of stagehands 112 __ out a living 114 QB successes 115 Put a strain on 117 Ft. Erie’s locale

JUMBLE

LOTTERY NUMBERS PICK 3 SATURDAY

PALMETTO CASH 5 SATURDAY 23-25-27-33-35 PowerUp: 2

3-5-3 and 8-3-9

MEGAMILLIONS FRIDAY

PICK 4 SATURDAY

2-5-10-20-38 Megaball: 14 Megaplier: 3

2-5-5-4 and 1-4-3-0

Unavailable at press time

POWERBALL

SECTION

Top-ranked Wildcats beat Louisville 58-50 B2

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014

Call: (803) 774-1241 | E-mail: sports@theitem.com

USC FOOTBALL

KEEPING UP

Four the win

Singleton’s collegiate career ends in victory BY BARBARA BOXLEITNER Special to The Sumter Item

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

South Carolina wide receiver Pharoh Cooper (11) prepares to make a catch against a Miami defender during the Gamecocks’ 24-21 victory in Saturday’s Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La.

Cooper, Thompson lead Gamecocks past Miami 24-21 in Independence Bowl for record 4th straight postseason victory BY DAVID BRANDT The Associated Press SHREVEPORT, La. — It took South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier less than two quarters to abandon his gameplan and go back to what he knows best. “We’re going to chuck it down the field and see what happens,’’ Spurrier said. Thanks to Dylan Thompson and Pharoh Cooper, the change of heart worked.

Thompson threw for 294 yards and two touchdowns, Cooper caught nine passes for 170 yards and a touchdown and South Carolina to beat Miami 24-21 on Saturday in the Independence Bowl. South Carolina (7-6) has won a school-record four straight bowl games. Miami (6-7) ended the season on a four-game losing streak and hasn’t won in the postseason since 2006.

It didn’t look good for the Gamecocks early. Miami took a 6-0 lead and was completely controlling the game thanks to Duke Johnson, who ran for 132 yards and caught five passes for 51 yards. South Carolina’s offense, meanwhile, wasn’t doing much of anything. But in the middle of the second quarter, Spurrier decided to cut the passing game loose — even in cold

and wet conditions. The strategic change paid off immediately. Thompson hit Cooper on a long pass over the middle of the field and the 5-foot-11, 201-pound sophomore made a few more moves in the open field to finish off a 78-yard touchdown play and give the Gamecocks a 7-6 lead. They never trailed again. South Carolina scored 17

SEE USC, PAGE B4

uinton Singleton ended his college football career as a winner. The U.S. Naval Academy senior played on special teams during the Midshipmen’s 17-16 win over San Diego State University on Tuesday in the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego. Because of the team’s second consecutive bowl SINGLETON victory, he leaves the program with another bowl ring. “It was really exciting,” said the Scott’s Branch High School graduate, who is home during the holiday break. “I could have sworn we were about to lose in the final minutes. I guess it was fate.” The fullback wasn’t the ball carrier he was last year, when he rushed for a career-high 361 yards, fifth on the team, and two scores after not seeing varsity action his first two seasons. He played in all 13 games for 8-5 Navy and rushed 12 times for 53 yards with one touchdown. He had a 5-yard reception and made eight tackles. “I was happy to still be able to play,” said Singleton, a blocker on the kickoff return team and a gunner on the kickoff unit during the Poinsettia Bowl. “I got my time (running) my junior year.” Singleton graduates in May and said he plans to enter the Marine Corps as a second lieutenant. He has to go to The Basic School, a 6-month program, in Quantico, Va., though he said he may seek a temporary additional duty at Navy until December before beginning TBS. He will leave the Naval Academy a happy man. “I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” he said. “It was probably the best decision I made in my life.” Send updates about area athletes to Barbara Boxleitner at BKLE3@aol.com.

PREP BASKETBALL

CLEMSON 5 KEYS TO VICTORY

Manning rolls past LC 66-40

Plenty of storylines for Tigers vs. Sooners BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com

Lady Monarchs advance to Monday’s District 9 tournament title game BY EDDIE LITAKER Special To The Sumter Item As play was winding down in the 18th Annual District 9 Officials Christmas Basketball tournament on Saturday at The Castel, the girls teams from Manning and Lee Central high schools were jockeying for position in a crowded field looking for a spot in Monday’s championship game against Spring Valley. Both entered the afternoon tilt with 1-1 records in tourney play, knowing that a 2-1 record would at least keep them in the hunt for a title game spot. The Lady Stallions jumped to a 6-0 lead early, but it was all Lady Monarchs after that as Manning came away with a 66-40 win. The victory earned Manning a

SEE MHS, PAGE B3

KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Manning’s Mahogany Green, right, tries to get past Lee Central’s Shakaisha Davis during the Lady Monarchs’ 66-40 victory on Saturday at The Castle on Day 2 of the District 9 Officials Christmas Tournament.

or the most part, bowls like the Russell Athletic Bowl do not have a lot of intrigue to them. It’s a nice, little parting gift to teams that have had good, but not great, seasons. However, Monday’s game in Orlando, Fla., has just a wee bit of story angles to it. The one that jumps out the most is Tiger defensive coordinator Brent Venables and his top-ranked defense going up against his old boss, Bob Stoops, and the Sooners. While Venables wasn’t fired at Oklahoma, the writing was on the wall by the fact he was going to become co-defensive coordinator. Another story line is the Tigers have had a successful season after most people didn’t expect them to after they lost so much offensive talent. In fact, Clemson was a Georgia victory

WHO: Oklahoma (8-4) vs. Clemson (9-3) WHERE: Orlando, Fla. WHEN: 5:30 p.m. TV/RADIO: ESPN, WWBDFM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7

over Georgia Tech from probably going back to the Orange Bowl. Oklahoma, on the other hand, went into the season with great expectations and is 8-4. One has to wonder what kind of heat Stoops will face should the Sooners lose on Monday. And, of course, the angle most familiar to Clemson fans is that Cole Stoudt will start at quarterback with the knee surgery of Deshaun Watson.

SEE 5 KEYS, PAGE B4

SPORTS

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014

THE SUMTER ITEM

SCOREBOARD

BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

x-Cincinnati x-Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland WEST

TV, RADIO TODAY

6:55 a.m. – International Soccer: Barclays Premier League Match – Manchester United vs. Tottenham (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 9 a.m. – International Soccer: Barclays Premier League Match – Chelsea vs. Southampton (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 11:10 a.m. – International Soccer: Barclays Premier League Match – Everton vs. Newcastle (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). Noon – Women’s College Basketball: East Carolina at South Florida (ESPNU). Noon – College Basketball: Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival from Brooklyn, N.Y. – St. John’s vs. Tulane (FOX SPORTS 1). 1 p.m. – NFL Football: San Diego at Kansas City (WLTX 19). 1 p.m. – NFL Football: Dallas at Washington (WACH 57). 1 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Oregon State at Tennessee (SEC NETWORK). 2 p.m. – College Basketball: Long Beach State at Syracuse (ESPNU). 2 p.m. – College Basketball: Morgan State at Marquette (FOX SPORTS 1). 3 p.m. – Professional Basketball: NBA Developmental League Game – Teams To Be Announced (NBA TV). 3 p.m. – College Basketball: Texas Southern at Kansas State (SPORTSOUTH). 3:30 p.m. – College Basketball: Northwestern State at Arkansas (SEC NETWORK). 4 p.m. – College Hockey: Quinnipiac at Princeton (ESPNU). 4 p.m. – College Basketball: Florida Gulf Coast Xavier (FOX SPORTS 1). 4 p.m. – College Basketball: Wake Forest at Richmond (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 4:25 p.m. – NFL Football: Carolina at Atlanta (WLTX 19, WWFN-FM 100.1, WPUB-FM 102.7). 4:25 p.m. – NFL Football: Detroit at Green Bay (WACH 57). 6 p.m. – College Basketball: Belmont at Butler (FOX SPORTS 1). 6:30 p.m. – College Basketball: UCLA at Alabama (ESPNU). 8:20 p.m. – NFL Football: Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (WIS 10, WWFN-FM 100.1, WNKT-FM 107.5). 8:30 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Temple at Memphis (ESPNU).

MONDAY

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kentucky’s Karl-Anthony Towns, top left, and Marcus Lee, top right, contest a shot by Louisville’s Montrezl Harrell during the Wildcats’ 58-50 victory on Saturday in Louisville, Ky.

Top-ranked UK beats rival Louisville 58-50 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Tyler Ulis shook off a bloody cut by his right eye to score 12 key second-half points and lead top-ranked Kentucky to a hard-fought 58-50 victory over No. 4 Louisville on Saturday. An inadvertent elbow by Louisville’s Chris Jones in the first half left Ulis with two thin bandages. He hit two big 3-pointers to give the Wildcats (13-0) a cushion in this showdown between unbeaten Bluegrass State rivals. Fellow freshmen Karl-Anthony Towns, Devin Booker and Trey Lyles joined in to help stake Kentucky to a 50-38 lead with 4:43 left. Towns had 10 points and nine rebounds, while Booker added nine points for Kentucky, which held Louisville (11-1) to 26 percent shooting in a game defined by defense until the Wildcats’ freshmen started making their shots. (10) GONZAGA 87 BYU 80

PROVO, Utah — Kyle Wiltjer scored 24 points and Kevin Pangos had 21 points and seven assists, leading No. 8 Gonzaga to an 87-80 win over Brigham Young in the West Coast Conference opener for both teams. Byron Wesley had 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Bulldogs. Przemek Karnowski added nine points and 10 boards. Tyler Haws and reserve Anson Winder each scored 17 points for BYU (10-4, 0-1 WCC). Kyle Collinsworth had a triple-double with 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. Gonzaga (12-1, 1-0) led by 16 points in the first half before falling behind by seven in the second. The Bulldogs rallied to take control in the final 10 minutes. They made 6 of 10 3-point shots in the second half. The Bulldogs outscored BYU 36-24 in the paint and had 22 assists to BYU’s 13. The Cougars had 40 bench points to only 15 for the Bulldogs.

(4-10). Dante Williams and Corey Petros each scored 11 for the Golden Grizzlies, who lost five consecutive games. (20) NORTH CAROLINA 89 UAB 58

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Marcus Paige scored 16 points to lead No. 20 North Carolina past UAB 89-58. Kennedy Meeks added 14 points and Justin Jackson had 13 for the Tar Heels (9-3), who never trailed and led by as many as 36 while shooting 50 percent. C.J. Washington had 12 points and Robert Brown added 11 for the Blazers (4-9). They were just 3 of 25 from 3-point range and lost their third straight. Jackson, a freshman, had his best game since scoring a season-high 18 against Davidson on Nov. 22. He scored 11 in the first half and hit his first two 3-pointers since a win over Florida six days after the Davidson game, with those coming during the burst that put North Carolina up by 20. In his previous five games, he was 0 for 11 from long range. NBA RAPTORS 110 CLIPPERS 98 LOS ANGELES — Kyle Lowry scored 25 points and the Toronto Raptors’ reserves came up big in the fourth quarter of a 110-98 victory over the Clippers, ending Los Angeles’ eight-game home winning streak. Jonas Valanciunas had 22 points and 11 rebounds for the defending Atlantic Division champion Raptors, who entered the day with a onegame lead over Atlanta for the best record in the Eastern Conference. Lowry made 9 of 17 shots, after averaging 9.3 points and 27.5 percent from the field over his previous four games against the Clippers. Terrence Ross scored 11 for Toronto. MAGIC 102

(15) MARYLAND 72

HORNETS 94

OAKLAND 56

CHARLOTTE — Nikola Vucevic had 22 points and 11 rebounds, Tobias Harris scored 21 points and the Orlando Magic overcame 42 points from Kemba Walker to beat the Charlotte Hornets 102-94. Walker scored a Charlotte-record 35 in the second half and finished 15 of 30 in the highest-scoring game of his career, but the Hornets could never regain the lead after falling behind by 10 at halftime. It’s the seventh time in the last 10 games Walker has scored at least 20 points. Victor Oladipo scored 13 points, Evan Fournier had 12, and Ben Gordon and Elfrid Payton each had 11 for the Magic (12-21).

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Jake Layman had 15 points and 12 rebounds to help No. 15 Maryland extend its winning streak to five games with a 72-56 victory over Oakland. Dez Wells, the Terrapins’ scoring leader over the past two seasons, was back in the lineup after missing the past seven games with a fractured right wrist. Wells came off the bench and finished with 10 points. Freshman Melo Trimble was 5 of 6 from 3-point range and had 17 points for Maryland (12-1). It was Terps final nonconference game before their Big Ten opener Tuesday against Michigan State. Jalen Hayes scored 13 points and Kahlil Felder added 12 for Oakland

From wire reports

2 p.m. – College Football: Liberty Bowl from Memphis, Tenn. – Texas A&M vs. West Virginia (ESPN). 2:55 p.m. – International Soccer: Barclays Premier League Match – Swansea City vs. Liverpool (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 5:30 p.m. – College Football: Russell Athletic Bowl from Orlando, Fla. – Clemson vs. Oklahoma (ESPN, WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7). 6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Toledo at Duke (ESPN2). 7 p.m. – NBA Basketball: Milwaukee at Charlotte (NBA TV). 7 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Detroit at Boston (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 7 p.m. – College Basketball: Southern Mississippi at Louisiana State (SEC NETWORK). 8 p.m. – College Basketball: North Texas at Texas Tech (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Portland at Brigham Young (BYUTV). 9 p.m. – College Football: Texas Bowl from Houston – Texas vs. Arkansas (ESPN). 9 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Duke at Connecticut (ESPN2). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: San Francisco at Saint Mary’s (Calif.) (ESPNU). 9 p.m. – College Basketball: Middle Tennessee at Auburn (SEC NETWORK). Midnight – NHL Hockey: Montreal at Carolina (FOX SPORTSOUTH). 2 a.m. – NHL Hockey: Nashville at Chicago (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

NBA STANDINGS By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION W Toronto 22 Brooklyn 13 Boston 10 New York 5 Philadelphia 4 SOUTHEAST DIVISION W Atlanta 21 Washington 20 Miami 14 Orlando 11 Charlotte 10 CENTRAL DIVISION W Chicago 20 Cleveland 18 Milwaukee 15 Indiana 10 Detroit 6

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y-Dallas Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Washington SOUTH Carolina Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay NORTH x-Detroit x-Green Bay Minnesota Chicago WEST

TODAY’S GAMES

Indianapolis at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m. San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Miami, 1 p.m. Buffalo at New England, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. St. Louis at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 4:25 p.m. Detroit at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. Carolina at Atlanta, 4:25 p.m. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 8:30 p.m.

NHL STANDINGS By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP W Montreal 35 22 Tampa Bay 36 21 Detroit 35 18 Toronto 35 20 Boston 35 18 Florida 32 15 Ottawa 34 14 Buffalo 35 13 METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W Pittsburgh 34 22 N.Y. Islanders 34 23 N.Y. Rangers 32 18 Washington 34 17 Philadelphia 34 14 Columbus 33 14 New Jersey 36 12 Carolina 34 10

L 11 11 8 12 14 9 14 19

OT 2 4 9 3 3 8 6 3

Pts GF 46 95 46 117 45 100 43 118 39 91 38 73 34 90 29 69

GA 84 96 87 102 91 82 94 115

L 7 11 10 11 14 16 17 20

OT 5 0 4 6 6 3 7 4

Pts GF 49 108 46 105 40 97 40 99 34 97 31 80 31 78 24 70

GA 80 94 83 90 101 107 104 93

OT 2 2 3 7 3 8 5

Pts GF 48 107 46 95 45 100 43 88 35 93 34 90 33 95

GA 72 70 86 81 89 101 113

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION Chicago Nashville St. Louis Winnipeg Minnesota Colorado Dallas PACIFIC DIVISION

GP 35 33 34 35 32 34 33

W 23 22 21 18 16 13 14

L 10 9 10 10 13 13 14

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 36 23 8 5 51 104 98 San Jose 35 19 11 5 43 99 90 Vancouver 33 20 11 2 42 99 91 Los Angeles 35 17 11 7 41 97 88 Calgary 36 18 15 3 39 104 98 Arizona 34 12 18 4 28 80 112 Edmonton 35 7 21 7 21 75 121 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

No games scheduled

SATURDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Detroit at Ottawa, 7 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Boston at Columbus, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Washington at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Nashville, 8 p.m. Anaheim at Arizona, 8 p.m. Chicago at Colorado, 9 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 10 p.m. San Jose at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Toronto at Florida, 5 p.m. Vancouver at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Montreal at Carolina, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Colorado at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Minnesota at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Nashville at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Calgary, 9 p.m. Philadelphia at Arizona, 9 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS By The Associated Press

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Brooklyn 109, Boston 107 Cleveland 98, Orlando 89 Milwaukee 107, Atlanta 77 Detroit 119, Indiana 109 New Orleans 97, San Antonio 90 Oklahoma City 98, Charlotte 75 Houston 117, Memphis 111, OT Dallas 102, L.A. Lakers 98 Denver 106, Minnesota 102 Portland 114, Philadelphia 93 Phoenix 115, Sacramento 106

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS _ Assigned C Clint Capela to Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

FOOTBALL

National Football League CLEVELAN BROWNS _ Suspended WR Josh Gordon for violating a team rule. Waived LB Eric Martin and TE Ryan Taylor. Signed DL Jamie Meder, QB Connor Shaw and WR Phil Bates from the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS _ Signed LB Jos Kaddu. Placed LB Anthony Barr on injured reserve.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m. Boston at Washington, 7 p.m. Orlando at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Memphis at Miami, 7:30 p.m. New Orleans at Chicago, 8 p.m. Indiana at Brooklyn, 8 p.m. Atlanta at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Utah, 9 p.m. New York at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Minnesota at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

HOCKEY

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Detroit at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m. Houston at San Antonio, 7 p.m. Oklahoma City at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. New York at Portland, 9 p.m. Toronto at Denver, 9 p.m. Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Orlando at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Houston, 8 p.m. Utah at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

NFL STANDINGS By The Associated Press AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST

y-Indianapolis Houston Jacksonville Tennessee NORTH

4 5 6 8

MONDAY’S GAMES

Portland Oklahoma City Denver Utah Minnesota PACIFIC DIVISION

y-New England Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets SOUTH

y-Denver San Diego Kansas City Oakland

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L 3 7 7 12

T 0 0 0 0

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PA 296 336 280 377

W 10 8 3 2

L 5 7 12 13

T 0 0 0 0

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PA 359 290 389 411

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National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS _ Activated LW Scott Hartnell from injured reserve. Recalled G Anton Forsberg from Springfield (AHL). Assigned C Sean Collins to Springfield. DALLAS STARS _ Recalled D Cameron Gaunce from Texas (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS _ Assigned G Tom McCollum to Grand Rapids (AHL). Reassigned D Mattias Backman from Grand Rapids to Linkopings HC (Sweden). NEW JERSEY DEVILS _ Named Adam Oates, Scott Stevens and Lou Lamoriello co-coaches. Recalled forward Tim Sestito from Albany (AHL). Activated F Dainius Zubrus from injured reserve. American Hockey League CHARLOTTE CHECKERS _ Signed F Gabriel Desjardins to a professional tryout contract. Recalled G Daniel Altshuller from Florida (ECHL). HARTFORD WOLF PACK _ Announced G Jason Missiaen was reassigned to the team from Greenville (ECHL). SPRINGFIELD FALCONS _ Recalled G Scott Munroe from Kalamazoo (ECHL). ECHL ECHL _ Suspended Stockton’s Tyler Shattock one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Dec. 26 game at Bakersfield. Fined Cincinnati’s Josh McFadden an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Dec. 26 game at Indy. Fined Colorado’s Teigan Zahn an undisclosed amount for his actions in a Dec. 26 game against Utah. ELMIRA JACKALS _ Announced F Justin Kea was reassigned to Rochester (AHL). Loaned F Brodie Reid and G Travis Fullerton to Rochester.

COLLEGE

CLAYTON STATE _ Promoted Stephanie Vasquez to assistant athletic trainer.

SPORTS

THE SUMTER ITEM

KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Manning’s Mahogany Green,left, goes between Lee Central’s Jiah Ervin, back, and Alexis McMillan for a shot during the Lady Monarchs’ 66-40 victory on Saturday at The Castle on Day 2 of the District 9 Officials Christmas Tournament.

MHS FROM PAGE B1

DISTRICT 9 SCORES SATURDAY

spot in Monday’s title game set to begin at 6 p.m. at The Castle. The boys championship game will be played following the girls game and feature Manning and Lee Central. “It’s been the same thing all along,” said Lee Central head coach Dorothy Fortune, who saw her team’s overall record dip to 2-7. “... I think when we got behind, they just kind of, we started having those turnovers, and that’s what’s been hurting us all season. We turned the ball over and then we got down double digits. I think they kind of felt like we weren’t going to be able to come back.” The first half was an offensive duel between Manning’s Mahogany Green and Lee Central’s Alexis McMillan. Green closed out the half with 19 points while McMillan pumped in all of her team-high 13 points in the opening 16 minutes as the Lady Monarchs took a 33-22 lead into the break. “I thought in the first half we did some good things, but I thought there were some things we needed to make an adjustment with when we came in at halftime,” said Manning head coach Darren Mazyck, whose team im-

GIRLS Darlington 49, Blythewood 44 Crestwood 57, Hephzibah, Ga., 36 Darlington 51, C.A. Johnson 50 Manning 66, Lee Central 40 BOYS Fairfield Central 53, C.E. Murray 51

proved to 5-3 overall. “I think I told the girls just don’t force the issue, just let it develop. We’ll take whatever their defense was giving us at that time and try to limit our turnovers. If we can keep that turnover ratio down, we can be in any game that we play.” Just as Green had paced the Lady Monarchs through the first half, Makeba Harvin took the reins to open the second half, scoring the first eight points and assisting as Kayla Goldsmith scored Manning’s fifth basket of the half. The Lady Monarchs opened with a 17-4 run to virtually put the game away with a 50-26 lead at the 6:57 mark. “I think we executed on some mistakes that the other team made,” Mazyck said. “I think they got into a little bit of foul trouble early, and that kind of limited them. When you get your team in foul trouble, that limits what you can do defensively, and I think the combination after that just really made the difference in the game.”

Like Mazyck, Fortune attempted to make halftime adjustments. Unfortunately, she said, turnovers foiled her plans. “We came back at the half, we had a good plan, and it went right out of the window because they went to that press and we started turning that ball over again and we couldn’t box out,” Fortune said. “We just didn’t box out at all. (Harvin) was getting two and three shots, and the girl we had on her was a sophomore. “It’s just a matter of the little things. If we could have kept them off the boards, and then (Green) was as fast as lightning. She was blowing past our guards up top, and then when she got to the paint and help tried to step in, that left the big girls (Harvin and Goldsmith) free to get the oards.” Fortune said that playing in this tournament should help her team as it prepares for region play after returning to the same floor on January 6, 2015, to take on Crestwood. “It’s always good to play in a tournament because it let’s you see where you’re at and how you react to different situations,” Fortune said. “But, overall, I think Manning has a very good team. He had some young players out there, too, and I thik they wanted it.”

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014

SPORTS ITEMS

SHS girls advance to Lake Marion tourney title game SANTEE — Sumter High School’s varsity girls basketball team advanced to the championship game of the Lake Marion Invitational with a 46-32 victory over Keenan on Saturday at the Lake Marion High gymnasium. Sumter will face either Lake Marion or Estill in the title game on Monday at 7 p.m. Nijah Davis led the Lady Gamecocks with 14 points, all of them coming in the first half. SHS led 30-17 at halftime. Kadejuha Kennedy added nine points and had nine steals. CRESTWOOD 57 HEPHZIBAH, GA. 36

Shaquanda Miller-McCray had a double-double to lead Crestwood High School to a 57-36 victory over Hephzibah, Ga., 57-36 on Saturday in the District 9 Officials Tournament at The Castle. Miller-McCray had 17 points and 17 rebounds to go along with five blocked shots. Cawasha Ceasar added 12 points and Ladazha Cole had nine points.

BROWNS SUSPEND WR GORDON FOR VIOLATION CLEVELAND — Josh Gordon will end his troubled season just as it began — suspended. The Browns’ enigmatic wide receiver was suspended Saturday for violating an unspecified team rule and will miss the finale in Baltimore. Gordon, who led the NFL in yards receiving last season, served a 10-game suspension for repeated drug violations earlier this year. A person familiar with the situation said Gordon was suspended for missing a morning walk-through in

Berea before the team flew to Baltimore. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not disclosed the reason for Gordon’s punishment. Gordon was late getting onto the practice field Friday, and he emerged from the team’s facility for the outdoor workout wearing teammate Travis Benjamin’s jersey. The Browns traveled to Maryland on Saturday.

AUTHORITIES QUESTION SS CASTRO AFTER SHOOTING SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Authorities in the Dominican Republic questioned Chicago Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro after a nightclub shooting Saturday morning in which several people were injured. Police spokesman Jacobo Mateo said Castro was one of six people initially detained and has been released. He said police searched Castro’s house and that the investigation is ongoing. Paul Kinzer, Castro’s agent, said his client went to the police on his accord to make sure they knew he wasn’t involved. The shooting occurred in the northwest province of Montecristi, where the 24-year-old Castro is from. Mateo said at least four people were treated at a hospital for injuries. Police are investigating allegations that the shooting occurred after an argument between Castro’s brother and the assistant of a government official. Castro said at a news conference earlier this month that he had already left a club when a different shooting occurred and was not involved in it. From staff, wire reports

PREP BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS SCHEDULE DISTRICT 9 OFFICIALS MONDAY

at Crestwood High School 6 p.m. Manning vs. Spring Valley (Girls Championship) 7:30 p.m. Manning vs. Lee Central (Boys Championship)

CHESTNUT OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL TOURNAMENT MONDAY

9 a.m. – Ebenezer vs. Hillcrest (Boys) 10 a.m. – Bates vs. Mayewood (Girls) 11 a.m. – Southeast vs. Mayewood (Boys) Noon – Chestnut Oaks vs. Furman (Girls) 1 p.m. – Chestnut Oaks vs. Furman (Boys) 2 p.m. – Furman vs. Mayewood (Girls) 3 p.m. – Furman vs. Mayewood (Boys) 4 p.m. – Chestnut Oaks vs. Alice Drive (Girls) 5 p.m. – Hillcrest vs. Alice Drive (Boys) 6 p.m. – Alice Drive vs. Bates (Girls) 7 p.m. – Alice Drive vs. Bates (Boys)

LAKE MARION INVITATIONAL TODAY

Girls Green Bracket 10:15 a.m. Loser Game 16 vs. Loser Game 12 1 p.m. (Third-place game) Loser Game 9 vs. Loser Game 15 3:15 p.m. Winner Game 12 vs. Winner Game 16 7 p.m. (Green Bracket Championship) Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 15

WEDNESDAY

1 p.m. – Girls Championship Game 2:30 p.m. – Boys Championship Game

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MONDAY

Boys Green Bracket 9 a.m. Loser from Game 11 vs. Loser Game 15 (Auxiliary gym) 11:30 a.m. Winner Game 11 vs. Winner Game 15 (Auxiliary gym) 2:30 p.m. (Third place game) Loser Game 14 vs. Loser Game 16 (Main gym) 8:30 p.m. (Green Bracket Championship) Winner Game 12 vs. Winner Game 16

MONDAY

Boys Black Bracket

Lewisville vs. Woodruff (boys) 5 p.m. Richard Winn vs. Chesnee (girls) 6:30 p.m. Richard Winn vs. Fountain Inn Christian (boys)

MONDAY

10:15 a.m. Bethesda Aca vs. Lakewood

NORTH CENTRAL HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT MONDAY-TUESDAY

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2 p.m. Lewisville vs. Wilson Hall (girls) 3:30 p.m.

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9 a.m. – Hillcrest vs. Bates (Boys) 10 a.m. – Chestnut Oaks vs. Bates (Girls) 11 a.m. – Chestnut Oaks vs. Southeast (Boys) Noon – Alice Drive vs. Furman (Girls) 1 p.m. – Alice Drive Ebenezer (Boys) 2 p.m. – Bates vs. Furman (Girls) 3 p.m. – Bates vs. Ebenezer (Boys) 4 p.m. – Alice Drive vs. Mayewood (Girls) 5 p.m. – Southeast vs. Furman (Boys) 6 p.m. – Chestnut Oaks vs. Mayewood (Girls) 7 p.m. – Chestnut Oaks vs. Mayewood (Boys)

11 a.m. Loser Game 10 vs. Loser Game 12 (Main gym) 2 p.m. Loser Game 19 vs. Loser Game 13 (Auxiliary gym) 4:30 p.m. Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 13 (Auxiliary gym) 5:30 p.m. Winner Game 10 vs. Winner Game 14 (Main gym)

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BOWL SCHEDULE By The Associated Press Dec. 20

NEW ORLEANS BOWL

Louisiana-Lafayette 16, Nevada 3

NEW MEXICO BOWL

At Albuquerque Utah State 21, UTEP 6

LAS VEGAS BOWL

Utah 45, Colorado State 10

FAMOUS IDAHO POTATO BOWL

At Boise Air Force 38, Western Michigan 24

CAMELIA BOWL

At Montgomery, Ala. Bowling Green 33, South Alabama 28 Dec. 22

MIAMI BEACH BOWL

Memphis 55, BYU 48, 2OT Dec. 23

BOCA RATON (FLA.) BOWL

Marshall 52, Northern Illinois 23

POINSETTIA BOWL

At San Diego Navy 17, San Diego State 16 Dec. 24

BAHAMAS BOWL

At Nassau Western Kentucky 49, Central Michigan 48

HAWAII BOWL

At Honolulu Rice 30, Fresno State 6 Dec. 26

HEART OF DALLAS BOWL

Louisiana Tech 35, Illinois 18

QUICK LANE BOWL

At Detroit Rutgers 40, North Carolina 21

ST. PETERSBURG (FLA.) BOWL

N.C. State 34, UCF 27

Saturday

MILITARY BOWL

At Annapolis, Md. Virginia Tech 33, Cincinnati 17

SUN BOWL

At El Paso, Texas Arizona State 36, Duke 31

INDEPENDENCE BOWL

At Shreveport, La. South Carolina 24, Miami 21

PINSTRIPE BOWL

At Bronx, N.Y. Penn State 31, Boston College 30 (OT)

HOLIDAY BOWL

At San Diego Nebraska vs. Southern Cal (late) Monday

LIBERTY BOWL

At Memphis, Tenn. West Virginia (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (75), 2 p.m. (ESPN)

RUSSELL ATHLETIC BOWL

At Orlando, Fla. Clemson (9-3) vs. Oklahoma (8-4), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)

THE SUMTER ITEM

BOWL ROUNDUP

Arizona St. edges Duke in Sun Bowl EL PASO, Texas — Kalen Ballage returned a kickoff 95 yards to set up the winning score in No. 15 Arizona State’s 36-31 victory over Duke on Saturday in the Sun Bowl. Ballage’s big return came after Duke (9-4) took a 31-30 lead on receiver Jamison Crowder’s 12-yard touchdown pass to Isaac Blakeney with 5:03 left. On the next play, Demario Richard took a shovel pass from Taylor Kelly and bulled his way over the left side and into the end zone. Kelly was stopped on the 2-point conversion try. Duke drove to 14 on its final drive, but Anthony Boone’s third-and-10 pass was intercepted by Kweishi Brown in the end zone with 45 seconds left. Richard had four touchdowns for Arizona State (103) to tie the Sun Bowl record with 24 points. PINSTRIPE BOWL PENN STATE 31 BOSTON COLLEGE 30 NEW YORK — Christian Hackenberg hit Kyle Carter for a 10-yard touchdown pass in overtime and Penn State kicked the extra point that Boston College could not, lifting the Nittany Lions to a 31-30 win in the Pinstripe Bowl. The Nittany Lions (7-6) played in a bowl game for the first time since January 2012 after the NCAA lifted the most severe sanctions levied against the program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Penn State’s Sam Ficken used retired New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter’s locker and some of his clutch postseason play appeared to

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Arizona State quarterback Taylor Kelly (10) evades Duke’s Deondre Singleton (33) during the second quarter of the Sun Devils’ 36-31 victory on Saturday in the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. rub off on the kicker. He sent the game into OT with a 45-yard field goal with 20 seconds left in regulation and won it with his extra point. Tyler Murphy hit David Dudeck for a 21-yard touchdown on Boston College’s first drive of overtime. Mike Knoll shanked the extra point for the Eagles (7-6) and that was the opening Penn MILITARY BOWL VIRGINIA TECH 33 CINCINNATI 17 ANNAPOLIS, Md. — J.C. Coleman ran for 157 yards and a touchdown, and Virginia Tech harassed and ultimately injured Cincinnati quarterback Gunner Kiel

while rolling to a 33-17 victory Saturday in the Military Bowl. The Hokies (7-6) knocked Kiel out of the game in the third quarter during a play that virtually assured the Hokies a 22nd consecutive winning season. Deon Clarke sacked Kiel and forced a fumble at the Cincinnati 43. Nigel Williams picked up the ball and fumbled at the 12, where teammate Greg Stroman scooped it up and took it into the end zone for a 27-10 lead. Kiel remained down for several minutes and was helped off the field before being taken to the locker room. The 6-foot-4 sophomore did not return, and

without him Cincinnati (9-4) had little chance to mount a comeback. FRIDAY BITCOIN BOWL N.C. STATE 34 CENTRAL FLORIDA 27

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jacoby Brissett threw for 262 yards and one touchdown and Matt Dayes scored on runs of 24 and 15 yards to help North Carolina State beat Central Florida 34-27 on Friday night in the Bitcoin Bowl. Brissett threw a 37-yard TD pass to Johnathan Alston to put the Wolfpack (8-5) ahead for good in the second quarter. From wire reports

TEXAS BOWL

At Houston Texas (6-6) vs. Arkansas (6-6), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday

MUSIC CITY BOWL

At Nashville, Tenn. Notre Dame (7-5) vs. LSU (8-4), 3 p.m. (ESPN)

BELK BOWL

At Charlotte Louisville (9-3) vs. Georgia (9-3), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)

FOSTERS FARM BOWL

At Santa Clara, Calif. Stanford (7-5) vs. Maryland (7-5), 10 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday

PEACH BOWL

At Atlanta Mississippi (9-3) vs. TCU (11-1), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN)

FIESTA BOWL

At Glendale, Ariz. Boise State (11-2) vs. Arizona (10-3), 4 p.m. (ESPN)

ORANGE BOWL

At Miami Gardens, Fla. Mississippi State (10-2) vs. Georgia Tech (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday

OUTBACK BOWL

At Tampa, Fla. Wisconsin (10-3) vs. Auburn (8-4), Noon (ESPN2)

COTTON BOWL CLASSIC

At Arlington, Texas Michigan State (10-2) vs. Baylor (111), 12:30 p.m. (ESPN)

CITRUS BOWL

At Orlando, Fla. Minnesota (8-4) vs. Missouri (10-3), 1 p.m. (ABC)

ROSE BOWL

At Pasadena, Calif. Playoff semifinal: Oregon (12-1) vs. Florida State (13-0), 5 p.m. (ESPN)

SUGAR BOWL

At New Orleans Playoff semifinal: Alabama (12-1) vs. Ohio State (12-1), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday

ARMED FORCES BOWL

At Fort Worth, Texas Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. Houston (7-5), Noon (ESPN)

TAXSLAYER BOWL

At Jacksonville, Fla. Iowa (7-5) vs. Tennessee (6-6), 3:20 p.m. (ESPN)

USC FROM PAGE B1 straight points to take a 17-6 halftime lead. It was a satisfying ending to a frustrating season for the Gamecocks, who started the season with aspirations of competing for Southeastern Conference and national titles before quickly fading into mediocrity. Spurrier has had just one losing season in 25 seasons as a college head coach — back during his first season with Duke in 1987. Miami’s Brad Kaaya threw for 236 yards, one touchdown and one interception. The touchdown came late in the fourth quarter on an 11-yard throw to Phillip Dorsett with 2:16 remaining to pull the Hurricanes within 24-21. But they never got the ball back after South Carolina picked up a crucial first down on Mike Davis’ 3-yard run with 1:34 left. It was an another impressive game for Johnson, the 5-foot-9, 206-pound junior who has likely played his last game with the Hurricanes and is expected to declare for the NFL draft. But he had a costly fumble on Miami’s 29 with 5:24 remaining and South Carolina recovered. Johnson also suffered a right ankle injury on the play and didn’t return to the game, though he was up and walking on the sideline in the

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

South Carolina running back Mike Davis (28) runs through Miami defenders during the Gamecocks’ 24-21 victory in Saturday’s Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La. final minutes. Johnson said he was “fine’’ after the game and “probably’’ could have returned if it had been needed. “We are what our record is,’’ Miami coach Al Golden said. “But in so many ways we’re better than that.’’

Two plays after Johnson’s fumble, Thompson hit Cooper on a spectacular pass and catch to get down to the Miami 2. Thompson fit the ball into a tight window and Cooper helped him by leaping over the defender to make the grab.

cocks this season. The Tigers need to try and establish the running game against the Sooners. That will take some of the pressure off of Stoudt.

3. SLOW DOWN PERINE

Thompson trotted into the end zone untouched on the next play and the Gamecocks had what proved to be an insurmountable 24-14 lead with 4:13 left. Miami squandered some early opportunities, settling for field goals after long drives stalled. Michael Badgley made field goals from 27 and 26 yards to give the Hurricanes a 6-0 lead by early in the second quarter. The Gamecocks never looked comfortable until Thompson’s 78-yard touchdown to Cooper. Thompson scrambled out of the pocket a few minutes later on a broken play before finding Davis on a 15-yard touchdown pass. “The golden rule of a quarterback is to never throw back across the field,’’ Thompson said. “But Mike looked so naked out there, I just thought `I’ll give it a shot, it’s my last game.’’’ The Gamecocks’ defense — maligned for much of the season — didn’t give up a touchdown until late in the third quarter when Gus Edwards’ 3-yard touchdown run and the Miami’s ensuing 2-point conversion pulled the Hurricanes to 17-14. Cooper was the game’s offensive Most Valuable Player. South Carolina linebacker Jonathan Walton was the defensive MVP after making four tackles, including 1 1/2 for losses, and also grabbing an interception.

ALAMO BOWL

At San Antonio UCLA (9-3) vs. Kansas State (9-3), 6:45 p.m. (ESPN)

CACTUS BOWL

At Tempe, Ariz. Oklahoma State (6-6) vs. Washington (8-5), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN) Jan. 3

BIRMINGHAM (ALA.) BOWL

Florida (6-5) vs. East Carolina (8-4), 1 p.m. (ESPN2) Jan. 4

GODADDY BOWL

At Mobile, Ala. Toledo (8-4) vs. Arkansas State (7-5), 9 p.m. (ESPN) Jan. 10

MEDAL OF HONOR BOWL

At Charleston American vs. National, 2:30 p.m. Jan. 12

COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

At Arlington, Texas Sugar Bowl winner vs. Rose Bowl winner, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)

5 KEYS FROM PAGE B1 Stoudt has been much maligned — most of it due to his poor play — this season, but he has a chance to leave on a good note. Following are five keys to victory for the Tigers.

1. RUN THE FOOTBALL Clemson has been up and down with the running game throughout the season, but they had a lot of success in their season-ending 35-17 victory over South Carolina. That being said, a lot of teams had success running the ball against the Game-

2. USE THE 6-INCH PASS Watson passed for 269 yards against USC with 173 of those and two touchdowns coming with Watson flicking the ball in front of him to an in-motion Artavis Scott. Again, it came against Carolina, but it was certainly successful. Clemson certainly needs to be able to do more than this, but it would be wise to use it early and help Stoudt gain some confidence.

While Oklahoma has a balanced offense, it has a great running back in Samaje Perine. He is averaging over 131 yards rushing a contest. While the Tigers may not be able to completely stop Perine, they need to be able to make the yards he gets difficult ones. If they do that, it will make things much more difficult for the Sooners.

4. SCORE WHEN THE CHANCE ARISES Since Clemson’s offense struggles with Stoudt taking the snaps, it needs to get points on the board when the scoring opportunities do

come. Obviously, you want to get touchdowns, but the Tigers need to make sure they at least get field goals on the board.

5. HAVE MORRIS ON SPEED DIAL Not only are the Tigers having to do this without Watson, they’re having to do it without Chad Morris. The former offensive coordinator left to take the head job at Southern Methodist. Co-coordinators Tony Elliott and Jeff Scott said they’re not changing anything, but it will still be interesting to see the play calls that they make.

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Repeat performance? Panthers aim for another Week 17 victory in Atlanta & another division title BY CHARLES ODUM The Associated Press ATLANTA — The PanthersFalcons winner-take-all game for the NFC South title is a strange affair. It’s highly unusual for two teams with losing records to play for a division title on the final weekend of the regular season. The winner of Sunday’s game between the Falcons (6-9) and Panthers (6-8-1) will become the NFL’s first playoff team with a losing record since Seattle took a 7-9 record to the postseason in 2010. The Falcons have remained in contention by winning their first five games against NFC South opponents, including a 19-17 victory at Carolina last month. Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, who grew up in the Atlanta area, is hoping for a replay of the Panthers’ 21-20 win at the Georgia Dome in Week 17 last season. That win gave Carolina the NFC South title. Now the Panthers will be playing for a repeat. Newton insisted his Atlanta homecoming provides no special motivation. “It’s just like any other game,’’ Newton said. “Getting a win is the only thing that matters to me. The other fluff, that’s not important to me. I just want to get the win.’’ The weak NFC South has prompted criticism of the NFL’s playoff format. Falcons

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Carolina quarterback Cam Newton (1) and the rest of the Panthers face Atlanta today with the NFC South title and a playoff berth on the line. quarterback Matt Ryan said the players are just trying to take advantage of the opportunity. “Regardless of what the record is, we don’t worry about it,’’ Ryan said. “We don’t worry about what happened the last 15 games. All that matters is going forward, and I think guys have had that mindset and bought into that mindset.

“This is what you work so hard for in the offseason and during training camp, to have opportunities like this late in the year where everything is on the line. That’s fun. I think guys are going to enjoy the moment.’’ Falcons coach Mike Smith’s future in Atlanta may be on the line. A win Sunday might not be enough to save his job. Atlanta is bound for its second

straight losing record after five consecutive winning seasons under Smith and general manager Thomas Dimitroff. The Panthers appear to have the advantage of better health. The Falcons lost a starting defensive back to injured reserve for the second straight week when safety William Moore was lost with a shoulder injury. Carolina has a short injury

list. “It’s nice,’’ said Carolina coach Ron Rivera. “We’re very fortunate, getting healthy at the right time, and hopefully it pays dividends going forward.’’ Falcons running back Steven Jackson left last week’s win at New Orleans with a quadriceps injury. He has missed practice this week, leaving his status in doubt.

AFC North crown on the line as Bengals, Steelers face off

Lions, Packers meet for NFC North title, bye

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PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers have spent three seasons chasing the Cincinnati Bengals. Through 2012, when an aging roster and injuries caught up to the longtime AFC North power just as Andy Dalton, A.J. Green and the Bengals were establishing themselves as annual playoff contenders. Through 2013, when a 2-6 start left Pittsburgh a distant speck in Cincinnati’s rearview mirror as the Bengals won a division title. And through the first 15 games of 2014, when the Steelers searched two months for something resembling consistency while the Bengals stayed largely above the fray. Pittsburgh’s pursuit reaches a tipping point Sunday when Cincinnati visits in the regular-season finale. The winner claims the division and a home game when the playoffs start next week. The loser must start the long march to the Super Bowl on the road. No pressure or anything. “The intensity couldn’t be more high,’’ Cincinnati cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick said. “The stakes couldn’t be more high.’’ Symbolically or other-

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Detroit Lions are so close to ending a twodecade stretch without a division title. The Green Bay Packers have been so good that it’s a surprise when they don’t win the NFC North. Upstarts vs. standard-bearers. Tackle Ndamukong Suh and one of the league’s top defenses against quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the potent Packers offense. The winner of today’s showdown between Detroit and Green Bay at Lambeau Field takes the NFC North championship and a first-round bye in the playoffs. Both teams (11-4) are already guaranteed postseason berths. But the loser gets relegated to a road game next week as a wild card. The winner gets some needed rest and a guaranteed home game in two weeks. That’s considered a huge advantage in the postseason. “Yeah, there’s a lot on the line. It’s an opportunity to win our fourth straight division title, which would be pretty sweet. We get a chance for a bye, which would be great to get some rest for all of us,’’ Rodgers said. “A home playoff game is the most important thing; that’s what we play for every year.’’

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Pittsburgh wide receiver Antonio Brown (84) and tight end Heath Miller (83) hope to help the Steelers top Cincinnati today for the AFC North title. wise. The Steelers (10-5) represent the old guard, albeit with more than a fistful of fresh faces to share some of the burden carried by Ben Roethlisberger and James Harrison. The Bengals (10-41) are the former laughingstock reborn as solid citizens, albeit ones with a spotty postseason record.

Pittsburgh’s last Super Bowl appearance was only four years ago, yet it’s the Bengals who have the roster stuffed with players who know what it takes to get to January. Then again, the Steelers aren’t exactly overwhelmed by Cincinnati’s recent success. Besides, playing in the NFL’s most competitive division means

the elimination games really started a month ago. “I’m taking my chances with my team,’’ Steelers defensive end Cam Heyward said. “I don’t care who is on the other side. If we do our job, we’re going to win. We fully believe if we take care of our business, it doesn’t matter what anybody else does.’’

Chargers, Smith-less Chiefs playing for postseason berth BY DAVE SKRETTA The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs were already facing a formidable series of hurdles if they were going to qualify for the playoffs. On Friday, their road became even more daunting. The Chiefs announced that quarterback Alex Smith had a small lacera-

tion of his spleen and would miss their pivotal game against the playoff-contending San RIVERS Diego Chargers. That leaves career backup Chase Daniel to make his second career NFL start at Arrowhead Stadium. “There’s nothing you

have to do any different,’’ Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “Chase has a good grasp of things. He’s a smart guy, studies like crazy in case something like this happens.’’ The Chiefs (8-7) were playoff shoo-ins about a month ago, when they were 7-3 and eyeing the Broncos atop the AFC West. A first-round bye seemed a better bet than missing the playoffs.

Since then, they’ve won just once in five games. Now, they not only need to beat San Diego for the second time this season, then hope Houston falls to Jacksonville and Baltimore to Cleveland in a pair of games that will transpire at the exact same time. Of course, the Chiefs can only control one thing: their game against the Chargers.

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Tradition continues for 46 years BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com

he letter that arrived shortly before Christmas told of a longstanding tradition between a retired schoolteacher and a former student. While the student’s name was unknown, the correspondent wrote: “Mrs. Singleton would send Christmas cards to students if they were feeling down at Christmas. ... Every Christmas week, this student brings a Christmas card for Mrs. Singleton to sign and date.” It took a little research, but the former student and teacher were identified as local artist Walter McNeil and retired teacher Emma Singleton. This is the story of how that tradition began and how it has endured for almost half a century. It began during study hall “two days before we were getting out for Christmas break (in 1968),” McNeil said. While Singleton taught a variety of classes, including English and history, at Lincoln High School, where he was a senior in 1968, she was in charge of the study hall that day. “Only four of us were in there that day,” McNeil said. “Me, Calvin Ragin, Charlie Smith and Walter Andrews. “Mrs. Singleton asked us what we’d got for our girlfriends for Christmas. When we told her we’d broken up, I guess she thought we were really upset.” The teacher asked each of the students to write down his name and address, “and said she was going to send us each a Christmas card,” McNeil said. “I forgot all about it until two days later, I got her Christmas card.” The message inside is simple and sincere: May all the joy and beauty Of that still and Holy Night Be with you at Christmastime And make the New Year bright. Singleton said she’d sent many Christmas cards to students over the years. “The relationship between students and teachers was different back then, I think,” she said. “We teachers felt responsible for our students. There wasn’t a lot of misbehavior, but if there was, we just told the parents, and they took care of it. In class, one student would often (verbally) discipline another for you. The whole class kept each other in order.” As the letter writer said, “There are students who still have respect after 46 years.” McNeil doesn’t know why he held onto the card, he said.

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Emma Singleton sent this card to then Lincoln High School senior Walter McNeil in 1968. He has treasured the card ever since, bringing it to her each Christmas for her to sign and date.

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Emma Singleton holds a framed collage of news articles and photos assembled for her by former student Walter McNeil. She sent McNeil, now an artist, and other students Christmas cards through the years, and he has never forgotten the gesture. “I went off to New York to work, and then I went to Providence, Rhode Island,” he said, “and I kept it with me all those years.” When he moved back to Sumter in 1988 to take care of his father, who had become ill, he ran into Singleton at Imports Ltd., the business she and her husband Willie have run on Main Street for many years. It was an impulse that originally had him taking the Christmas card to that business where he went to pay his father’s electric bill, McNeil said.

When he asked Singleton to sign the card, she said, “I was just elated he had saved it. This means a lot to me because it means so much to him.” She didn’t expect McNeil to come back every Christmas, Singleton said, “but now I look forward to signing the card each year.” Last Wednesday McNeil went to the North Main Street store to get Singleton to sign his card again. “I always put on my high school ring and take my diploma with me when I go,” he said. “After she signs the card,

Walter McNeil holds the Christmas card his former teacher, Emma Singleton, sent him in 1968 and has been signing almost every Christmas since. Note McNeil’s Lincoln High School ring, which he wears only on the day she signs his card. I go home, take off the ring and put it, the diploma and the card in a zip lock bag and put them in my mother’s old jewelry box until next Christmas.” Singleton said McNeil is the one who deserves credit for saving the card and bringing it each year, establishing the tradition. “He’s the one who has remembered all these years,” she said. “It’s very gratifying to be remembered by a student. “I guess ‘once a teacher, always a teacher,’” she said.

1st Iris Festival a hit; Claremont Hotel goes up in flames 75 YEARS AGO – 1940 May 21-27 Thirty-five miles of bird seed in a 12-foot strip is now being planted in the Poinsett State Park area in charge of H.A. Smith, state forester with the fish and game features under the management of Mr. Richardson. This feed is to be a part of the public shooting grounds that are now being prepared and next season, it is likely that about one half of it will be open to the public. • How a simple little wildflower becomes the symbol of exalted sacrifice was described by Mrs. Harry Davis, American Legion Auxiliary poppy chairYesteryear woman at lein Sumter gion headSAMMY WAY quarters today as auxiliary women continued their preparations for the observance of Poppy Day. “The wild poppy of France and Flanders was the one touch of nature’s beauty which survived amid the death and destruction of the battle front,” said Mrs. Davis. “It grew and bloomed around the trenches and shell holes. It sprang up on the fresh graves of the battle dead and became associated in the thoughts of the soldiers with the sacrifice

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1940 — The float of the Buttercup Ice Cream Company, pictured above, won first prize in the Iris Festival here yesterday afternoon. The girls on the floast are Misses Anne Kinzl, Louise Nance and Estelle Folsom. of their fallen comrades.” • The Sumter Lion’s Club named new members and elected new officers on May 14. New members were R. Bradham Jr., H.P. Hatfield and J.R. Kirkland. Lion M.B. Morrow was elected president of the club for the next year. • More than forty people will participate in the dramatization of the story of Cinderella which will be presented at the ball park at the conclusion of the Iris parade tomorrow afternoon. Among the principal characters will be Lucy Stubbs as Cinderella, Suzanne Mallard and Margaret McElveen, her step-sisters, Harry Fowler, the prince, Rita Matthews, the Queen, his mother; D.G. Harris, the king, his father; and Mrs. Margaret Whitehead Hill,

the fairy godmother. Her dance will be one of the outstanding features of the first episode. The pantomimes are directed by Miss Margaret Yeadon. • Sumter’s first Iris Festival was held yesterday and proved a smashing success. Several thousand persons lined the streets for the colorful parade, which included a number of floats that would do credit to the Mardi Gras. The celebration was brought to a climax with a beautiful pageant presented by the YWCA at the municipal ball park. • Maxwell H. Beck, 72, died at Tuomey Hospital Sunday afternoon after an illness of a few days. He was probably one of the best known citizens of Sumter County. He started Pocalla Springs as a bathing re-

sort back in 1908. By careful management and farsighted intelligence the resort steadily grew in popularity and its facilities were extended each year. In 1930 Mr. Beck established a tourist camp, erecting several modern cabins. • W.E. Bynum, one of Sumter’s outstanding citizens, has voluntarily accepted the general chairmanship of Sumter Red Cross chapter’s war relief program. Two thousand dollars has been set as Sumter’s quota for the war sufferers in Europe.

50 YEARS AGO – 1965 March 21-27 In Room 128 in Columbia Hospital is Harold Galloway, a star athlete at Bishopville High School who has been left paralyzed due to a neck injury he received in an automobile accident. This popular young man has received a tremendous outpouring of support from his community and from other schools in South Carolina due to his extended stay and the costs of his hospitalization. • Kris M. Shekitka, a junior at Hillcrest High School, Dalzell, has been elected lieutenant governor of Key Clubs in Division 10 of the Carolinas District. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shekitka. • The annual luncheon and installation of officers of Bland Garden Club was held at Frank’s Restaurant. Mrs. E.J. Alsbrook, president, presided. Mrs. E.L. Garris was luncheon

chairwoman; Mrs. Wyman Morris gave the invocation. • The Claremont Hotel, a South Main Street landmark for 50 years, was gutted by fire early today. Two city policemen, James M. Dollard and Jack Scarborough, spotted flames coming from the roof of the hotel around 1:20 a.m. while they were making rounds. After the fire department was notified, Dollard, four other city policemen and a deputy sheriff rushed into the hotel, knocking down doors and awakening an estimated 30 to 40 persons who were unaware of the blaze. Firemen also helped lead people from the building. The policemen’s swift action undoubtedly saved the lives of the people in the hotel, as flames spread swiftly through the top two floors of the building shortly after all were safely into the street. • A spring concert will be given at Edmunds High School Auditorium Friday night at 8 featuring the Edmunds High School band and the choruses of Edmunds and McLaurin Junior High School. Robert Simmons is director of the band, Ward Yarborough is Edmunds chorus director, while the McLaurin group is under the direction of Miss Patsy Peebles. • Another in the series of new golf courses or additions which

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More than 4 million watched 1st dog telethon BY SUE MANNING The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — More than 4,400 people filed adoption papers for homeless dogs during what was billed as the first all-star dog adoption telethon, producers say. “If only half of those result in adoptions, that would be huge,” director Michael Levitt said. Seventy dogs from rescues across the country were featured on the two-hour Thanksgiving night telecast — a show the producer sees becoming a fixture in the future. More than 4 million people tuned in to the show, which was co-hosted by actresses Hilary Swank and Jane Lynch, and aired on donated time from the Fox Network. Besides the permanent homes offered, 250 people signed up as foster parents for homeless dogs, Levitt said. Swank said for her, the magic of “Cause for Paws: An All-Star Dog Spectacular” was “watching the dream of saving hundreds of dogs turn into the reality that became thousands as the awareness was raised of the severe homeless pet problem.” She added the show was the best holiday gift she could receive. “Knowing that lives were saved as people opened their hearts and homes to new fourlegged family members warms my heart and touches my soul more than you can imagine,” Swank said. Levitt said the goal was to educate people in an entertaining way and show them the joy that comes from rescuing animals. “There was one amazing

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Katie Sullivan and James Marquis pose with their newly apopted dog Octavia, a 2-year-old German shepherd featured in a segment of “Telethon Dogs” presented by Queen Latifah during the two-hour Thanksgiving night telecast. Producers say more than 4,400 people filed adoption papers for homeless dogs during what was billed as the first all-star dog adoption telethon.

comment after another posted on social media, including people who posted pictures of dogs they went out and rescued because of the show,” the director said. Singer-actress Miley Cyrus confirmed just three days be-

fore the show that she would be there, Levitt said. She agreed to do a segment on pit bulls, writing her own copy and doing her own research. It was a side of Cyrus some people have never seen, he said. The director said he

Ophthalmologist’s art exhibit appeals to the touch

more than 150,000 unique users and more than 1 million page views after the special aired. Some of the rescues represented on the telethon reported getting an additional 15,000 hits on their websites in the days after the telethon.

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BY JOHN RABY The Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Touching the art is a no-no at most museums. At Dr. Stephanie Skolik’s exhibit, it’s encouraged. At the Huntington Museum of Art, Skolik melds oil, pastel, watercolor, charcoal and other types of paintings into a multisensory approach, including 3-D clay interpretations for visitors, especially blind and visually impaired people, to experience. Skolik combines her four-decade love of painting with her long career as an ophthalmologist for her first major exhibit “Inner and Outer Vision” on display through Jan. 25. “I live in such a visual world, because the people I see, vision is so precious and is so in danger for them, that I appreciate every pixel of light,” Skolik said. “It just warms my heart every time I see ink coming out of the pen or paint on the end of the paintbrush. The vividness and the specific way that I see that is maybe not what someone else sees, but I really want to share that with somebody.” Thousands have so far, including busloads of children from area schools who gleefully touch the 3-D versions and listen to the accompanying verbal narratives with their eyes closed. “This is the first time these children have ever maybe even considered what it must be like to lose a sense or to be considered as someone else who can’t see,” Skolik said. Skolik became hooked on art at age 12 after going to a Huntington store to buy an oil paint set. What she produced is a still-life fruit painting that’s included in her show. The next few summers were spent hanging out in the back of the room in fine arts classes at Marshall University, even though she never registered or paid a dime. She even got to take home leftover paint and etching material. “All the teachers kind of knew me: ‘Oh yeah, that girl showed up again,’” Skolik said. “I’m just a little kid, but they let me stay.” Eventually, she had to find a career path. Medicine won, but the artist bug eventually bit again. She took two years off from her medical work to paint before realizing in the late 1980s that there wasn’t enough human interaction — or money — in painting. She finished an ophthalmology residency and retina fellowship and returned to Huntington, where she’s been in private practice for the past 15 years. Yet her office became her gallery. One year, she recalled painting a family portrait for Valentine’s Day. “In between patients I would run to the office, I’d paint the nose, go back and see two or three patients,” she said. “I’d go back and paint some ears. I’d say to the nurse, ‘go look at the nose. What do you think?’”

couldn’t imagine that there wouldn’t be more telethons because this one was so successful. Viewers also donated more than $200,000 during the telethon that will be distributed to eligible rescues. The show had

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A 3D clay version (bottom) of a 1970 painting (above) is displayed at the Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, West Virginia. Dr. Stephanie Skolik, an ophthalmologist, created clay renditions of her own paintings for blind and visually impaired people to touch. Some finished paintings made it onto the walls of her practice, and a few patients who happened to be on the museum’s board of directors suggested she show them off to a wider audience. The museum even changed its bylaws to make it happen. Sixty paintings for the exhibit were chosen from among 750 at Skolik’s home. During one meeting with museum officials, Skolik was told about the strong support system locally for people with little or no vision. Skolik then got an idea to use a local firm to make a 3-D computer image of a painting that people could touch. But that proved to be costly, so she decided to try it herself with clay — something she had never worked with. “In the beginning it was a little difficult,” Skolik said. “I took my shoe off, and I’m flattening it with my heel.” Frustrated, Skolik turned to Kathleen Kneafsey, the museum’s visual artist in residence, who gave her a tutorial. Skolik then produced 13 12-by-12 pieces, carving images of paintings into the clay with raised and lowered edges. These works, along with the 3-D computer image, Braille labels and bar codes that can be scanned by smartphones to hear audio narratives, were mounted next to the paintings at the museum. Kneafsey, who has held clay sculpting classes for the visually impaired at the museum, said the 3-D idea was ideal. “She’s bringing the two-dimensional painting into the three-dimensional realm,” Kneafsey said. “When they take the tours, especially with kids, they love to be able to touch things. Clay, for me, is all about touch. Not only can you see that someone’s hands were on it from the maker, but they can put their hands on it.”

DEAR ABBY — I recently got married. My husband goes through my purse, my papers, my jewelry, my clothes — Dear Abby and even my ABIGAIL underwear. VAN BUREN He says that as my husband he has the right to do that. He says I am wrong to object. What are your thoughts on this? I feel like although I’m a wife, I am still a person and have a right to be respected. How would you react? Confused Jane in the South DEAR CONFUSED JANE — I would react by calmly asking my husband why he thought it was necessary to invade my privacy like that and if he thought I was unfaithful, and I’d tell him I regarded it as a threat to the marriage. I’m sure he would react the same way if you searched through his belongings and the history on his phone and computer. What he is doing is a red flag. It’s an indication that he’s insecure and controlling, and spouses who behave that way have been known to escalate to domestic violence. Marriage counseling NOW might head it off. But if it doesn’t, you would be wise to consider ending the marriage before there are children involved. DEAR ABBY — I was married to an incredible man for 32 years. He was quite a bit older and passed away a few months ago. Along with a wonderful marriage, I also enjoyed the gracious family I married into: stepchildren, stepgrandchildren and, in later years, step-greats. Although we rarely used the word “step,” everyone always understood how I was related to them.

My question is, now that my husband is gone, am I still their step-whatever, or did I lose that when my husband died? We remain close. Step-whatever in Kansas DEAR STEP-WHATEVER — Please accept my condolences for the loss of your husband. Because your relationship with the family is a warm and close one, you shouldn’t worry. I’m sure you will always be family to them. It’s only when relationships are strained that problems like the one you’re concerned about arise. DEAR ABBY — While going through some old paperwork, I came across a bunch of pictures of my ex-girlfriend and me. Our relationship ended 10 years ago. She’s married and lives in another state. Part of me says it’s time to get rid of at least some of them, but I’m not sure how to do it with respect to my ex and our past relationship. The other part of me wants to keep them, as they represent a happy time in my life and what I looked like back then. My dilemma seems to be that these images still bring out strong emotions and memories even after all this time. What do you suggest? Photo-finished? DEAR PHOTO — If the memories and emotions are pleasant ones, hang onto the photos as souvenirs of happy times gone by. If you’re unable to do that, destroy them because time has marched on, and so did the lady in the pictures. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. To order “How to Write Letters for All Occasions,” send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to Dear Abby -- Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are included in the price.

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The municipal electric light and ice plants sat near the corner of Oakland Avenue and South Main Street.

Historian looks at Sumter in the late 1800s BY SAMMY WAY waysammy@yahoo.com

oday and next Sunday, Reflections looks back at the city and county of Sumter as it approached the 20th century. The information was compiled and presented by Sumter historian Thomas Stubbs. The report is being reprinted with a degree of editing due to its length.

50 YEARS AGO IN SUMTER By 1891 Sumter was enjoying an era of prosperity and expansion. According to the U.S. Census (1890) it was announced that the county had a population of 43,518 as compared with 37,037 in 1880, while the town itself had 3,862 residents in 1890, a gain of 1,851 in the decade. By November this estimate of the town’s Sammy Way population had inREFLECTIONS creased to 4,282, as compared with 2,700 in 1887, which was said to represent a gain of more than 5,890 in the past three years. The name “Tillman” was paramount in S.C. politics. Sumter boasted of three newspapers in 1891. The Watchman and Southron, which had sprung from a merger of two older newspapers 10 years earlier, was then under the proprietorship of Noah G. Osteen. Its editor from January through August, 1891, was Mark Reynolds, Esq., who was succeeded on Sept. 1 by Hubert G. Osteen. The Sumter Advance, founded in 1882 by Horatio Lincoln Davis, was by 1891 conducted by his son, Horace Davis. The third paper The Freeman, published by Col. John J. Dargan and Edwin F. Miller, was commenced on April 21, 1891. Other newspaper events noted this year was the effort of Mrs. N.G. Gonzales of Columbia, to raise $25,000 in stock subscriptions for a daily newspaper to be published in Columbia to be called The State. On the other hand, the venerable Camden Journal, one of the oldest newspapers in South Carolina, suspended publication this year.

EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS Sumter boasted of three larger schools in 1891. They were St Joseph’s Academy and The Sumter Institute, both for girls, and The Sumter Graded School, a project which was first advanced as a male academy and was later broadened into a coeducational institution. The Legislature had authorized a bond issue for the construction of a much needed building for this purpose, (1888), but there was considerable delay before this was to be an accomplished fact. John B. Duffie was principal of the Graded School at this time and the excellent teaching staff was composed of Miss Ella C. Davis, Miss J. Florence Hurst, Mrs. L.E. Steinmeyer, Miss Gertrude Waddill, Miss Virginia Ingraham and Miss Mary H. Girardeau. In April, 1891, an estimate of $13,917 was made as the probable cost of the project, including an expense of $400 as the consideration for a 99-year lease of ground from The Ladies Monumental Association. Bonds totaling the authorized limit of $12,000 had already been subscribed for and issued. To make up the deficit one mill of the

J.B. Duffie, superintendent of schools, is shown in front row, center.

Students at Washington School pose for a class photograph. regular tax levy was appropriated. The plans of Frank Niernessee, well known architect of Columbia, were submitted and approved. The bid of Tillman Watson as contractor was accepted, but failed to materialize. In April, Watson had written that “If he is allowed until the first of May to make his preparations he can have the building completed and ready by the first of October next.” By June, however, an article appeared stating that the people were impatient to see the Graded School building started. Announcement exercises were held this year at the Opera House. On that occasion a committee of distinguished citizens reNoah Graham ported very favorably Osteen upon the methods employed at the school, and especially upon the system of coeducation. Watson, somehow, having failed to comply with requirements, the contract for building the school was awarded to A.D. Holler of Chester at a cost of $12,400. But he was to furnish a compliance bond of $5,000 to complete work by Jan. 1, 1892, or forfeit $15 a day for each day’s delay beyond that. Holler having failed to furnish the bond the contract was then awarded to J.B. Carr of Sumter in sum of $12,300. By Sept. 16, it was announced that plans were being made to lay the cornerstone with Masonic honors, the Rev. John Kershaw, former editor of this paper, who had fostered the whole school project, R.O. Purdy and Altamont Moses, being the Masonic brethren assigned to the committee to arrange these plans. This ceremony was conducted by the Masonic Grand Lodge of South Carolina in October. The occasion was a memorable one. In addition to the members of Claremont Lodge No. 64, and of Summerton Lodge No. 105, the Fourth Regiment Board of Sumter participated. H. Frank Wilson, Esq., prominent lawyer and orator, of Sumter, made the principal speech of the

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The Sumter Academy of Music attracted many fine performers to the city in 1891. day, on the topic, “Universal Education.” Many treasured articles were sealed up in the cornerstone, such as ancient foreign and American coins, current newspaper issues, rolls of members of the local Knights of Pythias and Masonic Lodges, as well as of Summerton Lodge No. 105, and, finally, “a piece of stone from Vanderbilt’s place near Asheville, N.C.” Indeed it was time for a new school building. The old one was in bad state of repair. It was the old Perry Moses home (now the residence of O.H. Williams on North Washington Street). There the back banister rail had given way, throwing several young school boys to the ground below, and injuring one of them, Herman Scheverin, seriously. From the effects of this fall young Scheverin died about three weeks later. Among other deaths noted during 1891 were those of the Rev. P.G. Bowman, who died in his 82nd year at the residence of his son-in-law, Prof. P.G. Bowman, at Summerton; of Miss Mary M. Darr, former editor of a paper called The Sumter Mirror, who had moved here with her family in 1855; of a former editor of this very newspaper, the Rev. Allen A. Gilbert, who died at his home in “Gaffney

City,” and whose remains were brought to Sumter for interment; and of “Old Mose Harrison,” a respected Negro citizen, who had come to Sumter from Virginia some 25 years before, who had served for years as lamplighter, janitor at the City Hall, and faithful attendant at all public entertainments and dances, and, throughout all had been “a consistent Democrat.” Among the deaths of prominent people away from Sumter that were noted, were those of Dr. James C. Furman, at Greenville, in his 82nd year; of the New England poet, James Russell Lowell, the details of whose funeral at Appleton Chapel, Howard Yard, Cambridge, Mass., were given at length; and of two generals of the War Between the States, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston of the Confederates died in Washington, D.C., while Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army, died in N.Y. City. Entertainment Among other celebrities to visit Sumter in 1891 was Paul Du Chaillu, the celebrated anthropologist and world traveler. He had come to this section on a sentimental journey — to visit the graves of his adoptive parents, the Rev. and Mrs. John Leighton Wilson, who were buried in Mount Zion Church yard. What could be more appropriate than that he should be called upon to speak before the ladies and friends of the Sumter Institute upon the subject of his explorations in Africa and experiences with gorillas? The Academy of Music had been recently refurbished and was there under the energetic management of Julius Schwerin who saw to it that frequent and varied entertainment were held there. One issue states: “Sumter’s sweet little theater has had three performances since our last issue – comedy and tragedy have passed in review before us.” The comedy referred to was called “The Boomer,” while the tragedy was “Fabio Romani.” The third, a musical performance, was rendered by the Madame Fry Concert Co. These were soon followed by an appearance of Alberta Gallatin in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” After this “Rip Van Winkle” was presented. There were other functions and entertainments held at the Academy of Music and elsewhere. The local board promoted by Messers. L.L. Bultman and R.S. Hood and directed by Prof. S. Scull was making favorable appearances. Twice in July the band gave performances at the Opera House. On the last occasion there was a participation of other local talent. Herbert Bennett gave a recitation called “The Irish Philosopher,” while vocal music was rendered by Mrs. Henry J. Harby and Miss Aneta De Lorme, and instrumental music was played by Mrs. John Kershaw and Miss Katie Monaghans. In addition to dances and “hops,” a tournament on horseback was held at Providence Springs. Among the outstanding participants was Blanding DuRant, who appeared as the “Knight of Cedar Grove,” while J.P. Booth appeared as the “Knight of Game Cock County.” The latter, it was said, was at the time a “Benedict,” and declined to name a “Maid of Honor.” Reach Item Archivist Sammy Way at waysammy@yahoo.com or (803) 7741294.

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YESTERYEAR, FROM PAGE C1 are sweeping South Carolina may be found at Sumter’s Pocalla Springs layout where a second nine is now being constructed. Owner Gene Brown, who has operated the ninehole public layout since 1957, said, “We had plenty of land for this purpose but only recently decided to go ahead and push it on through.” With so many golfers using the ninehole course, it was decided to add the extra holes to provide them better facilities for their sport and to help eliminate crowded conditions. • Despite the downpour yesterday both sessions of the Garden Council Spring Spectacular were great successes, according to those in charge. Approximately 400 persons were present for the luncheon and fashion show. Last night’s supper was attended by more than 200. Music was provided for both events by Mrs. Henry Martin. Asking the blessings were Mrs. Julian Buxton and Mrs. W.T. Murray. W.B. Boyle represented the City of Sumter at last night’s showing, accompanied by his father, Edwin Boyle, who was honored guest. Mrs. E.W. Dabbs is president of the Garden Club Council. • The mother of Sumter resident Mrs. James F. Cuttino Jr. was named this week as State Mother of the Year. She is Mrs. Robert Franklin Poole of Clemson. Mrs. Poole is the widow of a former Clemson College president. Her selection as Mother of the Year has been endorsed by a number of prominent persons throughout the state, including Governor Donald Russell. • Despite a threatening thunderstorm which broke over Alice Drive track just after the final event had ended, the Sumter High trackmen hit their stride yesterday and ran off from Columbia High by an impressive 82-41 margin. It was a surprisingly strong showing for Coach Charles Musselwhite, who saw several of his lads come through with great performances.

25 YEARS AGO – 1989 Dec. 22-29 Hurricane Hugo ripped through the area three months before Christmas. But when Sumter’s Maxie Shumpert assessed the storm’s damage to his yard on the morning of Sept. 22, he knew his holiday season would be a little darker in 1989. This will be the first year since the 1950’s that Shumpert’s house and yard just off of U.S. 521 in Sumter won’t be bathed in lights for the Christmas season. The 69-year-old says that after he finished clearing the dozen pecan trees that Hugo dropped on his lawn, there was no time to get his 25,000 lights up before Christmas. • One of the earliest battles for equality waged by local blacks took place in the Clarendon County school system in the late 1940s. There, the rumblings of discontented blacks over poor educational opportunities turned into unified, de-

termined action and eventually led to the chamber of the United State Supreme Court. Nine black parents of Clarendon County public school children are credited with initiating the first of many desegregation lawsuits that became known collectively as Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Billie S. Fleming, the first and current president of the Manning NAACP said the Rev. J.A. DeLaine, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and other black leaders in the Jordan community of Clarendon County first organized the group of parents to seek school buses for their children. • Volunteer firefighters at the rural Graham station on Thursday recognized a 66-yearold retired carpenter for his bravery in rescuing a woman from a burning mobile home in August. Also recognized were the 14-man station’s first Fireman of the Year, Todd Logue, and Lt. Harry Thames, who was presented with an appreciation award for letting the firefighters meet at his house for nearly two years. • Four USC Sumter students brought home the “gold” in the form of four key elective positions from the Eleventh Annual Fall Conference of the South Carolina Black Students Association (SCBSA) held recently in Columbia. The newly-elected student officers of the organization include: Julianne Natasha Evans, president; Denise Walker, vice president; Edward Gregory Goodley, secretary; and Tamara Saduddin-Singh, parliamentarian. • Tom Rolen says the only way companies in the Sumter area can trim their employee health insurance costs is to make sure they have healthier employees. And Rolen, the health enhancement director at the Sumter YMCA, says his organization can help. Currently, 23 Sumter companies and the local police department are participants in the YMCA’s Corporate Fitness Program, which Rolen is in charge of. • Hurricane Hugo, the greatest natural disaster to befall South Carolina in a century, was the unanimous choice of Associated Press newspaper editors and broadcast news directors as the top news story of the state in 1989. PTL founder Jim Bakker’s conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges was ranked the No. 2 story of the year, followed at No. 3 by Gov. Carroll Campbell’s decision to ban any state that doesn’t accept hazardous waste within its borders from dumping waste in the Palmetto state. • Former New York Yankees Bobby Richardson and Billy Martin were as different as two people could be, but when Martin’s life tragically came to an end in a one-vehicle accident on Christmas Day, Richardson was proud to say that he and Martin were good friends. “It’s really a tragic loss,” said Richardson, the Sumter native who was here for the holidays visiting family and friends. “Billy was a great manager and a

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good person. I received seven or eight calls from friends from around the country last night telling me about Billy’s death.” • Express Theatre’s “Bobby and Olga” – a show featuring mime, dance and song – will visit Sumter Little Theatre’s stage for four performances next weekend. Bobby and Olga, described as “two clowns who travel about,” will present 35-minute performances at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Dec. 29 and 30. The production is a classical clown act that employs both

THE SUMTER ITEM mime and song to entertain and teach messages to children ages 4 through 9. The performing duo comprises Edward Damron (Bobby), son of Sumter Little Theatre Director Katie Damron, and Vidisha Mallik (Olga). • For the third weekend in a row, swans were killed by vandals at the Swan Lake-Iris Gardens on Liberty Street. Following the long Christmas weekend, three more of the valuable birds were found dead, bringing the total killed in Decem-

ber to 11. Maj. Joe Floyd of the Sumter Police Dept. said the dead animals were found when city employees returned to work Wednesday morning. One of the birds had a broken neck and the other appeared to have been shot to death, Floyd said, adding that it has not been determined what killed the third. “Three were found dead, but only two looked suspicious,” he said. Reach Item Archivist Sammy Way at waysammy@yahoo.com or (803) 774-1294.

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Investors expect turbulent 2015 BY KEN SWEET The Associated Press NEW YORK — Can the U.S. hold everyone else above water? That is the question investors are asking as Wall Street heads into 2015. A strong U.S. economy helped propel the stock market higher in 2014, continuing a bull market that is on pace to celebrate its sixth birthday in March. On more than one occasion, investors dumped stocks following geopolitical flare-ups and concerns about the global economy, only to jump back in when an economic report or results from a big company suggested the U.S. economy was still resilient. This bull market may be slowing down, but it still has had a remarkable run. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index has more than tripled from its March 2009 low. Wall Street strategists, who typically are bullish on the U.S. stock market, expect the advance to continue into 2015. Here are the major themes investors will need to watch: SOLID, NOT SPECTACULAR, AGAIN 2014 has been an above average year for stocks, but Wall Street forecasters expect a more modest year for the market in 2015. The S&P 500 index is on track to return 14 percent in 2014 including dividends, a healthy gain but well below the 2013 return of 32 percent. Because the U.S. economy should continue to improve, stocks are likely to march higher in 2015, strategists say. On average, strategists forecast the S&P 500 will be up roughly 6 to 8 percent, with most of the gains coming from large multinational companies that would benefit greatly from an improving U.S. economy. Although there are risks that U.S.-based companies international sales could slow because of weakness in Europe and Asia, strategists believe U.S. growth will make up for that drag. While U.S.-based companies do roughly half their sales outside the country, profits are still largely driven by the American economy. The U.S. economy is expected to grow 3.1 percent in 2015, accelerating from the 2.2 percent growth it is expected to have this year. This is a mature bull market, strategists say, so stock prices are relatively high and the possibility for volatility even higher. Investors are paying roughly $17.50 for every dollar of earnings companies in the S&P 500 generate, the most they’ve paid for stocks since 2010. On average, investors pay something around $15 dollars for every $1 of earnings These high valuations could make investors more nervous about holding stocks if prices continue to climb. The stock market fell nearly 10 percent in October, its first major selloff since 2011. SLOW RATE HIKES For several years, the Federal Reserve had been buying bonds to both keep interest rates low and boost stock prices. The program, known as quantitative easing, was designed to make bonds seem more expensive than stocks by suppressing the yield on bonds. It was also designed to make it less expensive for consumers and businesses to borrow. That program ended in October, but it doesn’t mean the nation’s central bank hasn’t stopped helping out investors. The Fed has kept its key interest rate near zero since December 2008. Strategists believe the time has come for the Fed to start raising interest rates because the U.S. economy has improved enough to with-

stand higher borrowing costs. This phenomenon is going to have a huge impact on where the stock market goes in 2015. MUCH ADO ABOUT OIL The collapse of oil prices this year has become a huge topic of worry as well as a comfort for investors. American consumers love that falling oil prices have driven the price of gasoline below $2.50 a gallon. Wall Street’s relationship with oil is far more complex, however. Oil revenues are critical for several large economies, including Russia’s. Banks loaned money and energy companies issued high-yield bonds to investors based on projected oil revenues. Energy companies are reliant on high crude prices to make money and to keep their stock prices high. Shares of energy companies in the S&P 500 are down 10 percent this year. Many junk bonds are trading at distressed levels. There’s worry that oil’s drop could shake up the global financial system. Russia’s currency, the ruble, has slumped in recent months because investors are concerned that the government could default or that the country could slip into a recession. In 1998, Russia defaulted on its debt, in part because of plunging oil prices. The big question for next year is whether the world is simply producing too much oil, or whether the global economy is not strong enough to consume it fast enough. Also, if prices keep falling, will oil producers start cutting back production, which in turn could provide some support for oil prices.

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OPPORTUNITY OVERSEAS? Europe’s economy was in recovery mode the first half of 2014 before being derailed by the Russia-Ukraine crisis. The economic sanctions the European Union put on Russia for its invasion of Crimea impacted Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, far more than originally anticipated. Since then, Europe has teetered on the brink of recession. The Euro Stoxx 50 index, the European equivalent of the Dow Jones industrial average, is up only 1 percent in 2014 versus the 12 percent increase in the S&P 500. The European Central Bank has stepped in to help stimulate the region’s economy and is expected to ramp up its efforts early next year. If the moves work, Europe will come off investors’ worry lists. Until then, watch out. If you’re willing to take a more risky view, some strategists say buying into Europe before it recovers could provide an excellent return. BONDS WILL HAVE A TOUGH YEAR, OR WON’T The biggest prediction of 2014 to fall flat on its face was that bonds would have a bad year in 2014. They didn’t; in fact, they went in the opposite direction. Instead of the 10-year U.S. Treasury note going from 2.97 percent at the beginning of the year up to 3.5 percent, as many predicted, the benchmark note was yielding 2.18 percent as of Dec. 22. Many strategists readily admit they completely missed on their bond predictions. Nevertheless, many investors are doubling down on their bond yield forecasts for 2015, with some looking for the 10-year yield to reach 2.5 percent to 2.75 percent next year. They reason that the U.S. economy is improving and the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates.

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DeSollar transitions from finance to entrepreneurship BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com Although Cathy DeSollar can track her interest in logistics back to her childhood, it wasn’t until she was taking an MBA program at USC that she realized she was on the wrong side of entrepreneurship. At the time, she was providing financial support for startups and realized that all she needed to do was find an existing need and solve that need through a business venture. Her husband, Ben DeSollar, was already in the packaging business as owner of Sumter Packaging Co., which manufactures corrugated shipping containers and specialty packaging. But they discussed needs of area businesses and discovered a niche that met Cathy’s criteria. She launched SunPak Logistics in 2011 to assist larger manufacturers who need help assembling, packaging and shipping products of all sizes. Maybe logistics was, well, a “logical” choice. After all, she often tagged along with her father, who managed the third largest port in the world in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. After high school, she went to a teacher’s college in Taiwan, but later received a diploma in credit analysis from New York University. DeSollar had been working as a commercial portfolio manager for Regions Bank; but it was while attending USC and still helping people finance their businesses, one day she just said “I want to be on the other side.” Ben DeSollar knew that Midwest Stamping had gone out of business and the building near Sumter Packaging in Live Oak Industrial Park was vacant. Sumter Packaging bought the building and converted it to what now serves as SunPak’s office space, a fulfillment center, an assembling and storage area and a packaging facility that shrink wraps individual products. SunPak leases 82,000 square feet of the building. The company even has the capability of working for the aerospace industry. By

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passing the requirements for an AS 9100 and ISO 9001 — both quality management systems certifications that major manufacturers such as Boeing and Eaton often use for quality control and logistic processes – SunPak can provide services for small mom-and-pop companies as well as major industrial manufacturers. Just this month, Eaton selected SunPak Logistics to provide serDeSOLLAR vices for its Sumter Mission Critical Solutions Center. Although it’s not clear exactly what happens at the center, Eaton’s Sumter facility manufactures electrical power assemblies for applications where reliability and efficiency are critical to maintain business continuity and operations such as data centers, according to a news release sent by SunPak last week. SunPak employees help assemble circuit boards for Eaton that can weigh as much as 1,000 pounds. Then they package and ship them. Working with SunPak allows companies to check on their level of inventory online so they can adjust their production schedules when they need to. Cathy DeSollar said the company employs about 10 full-time supervisors but relies on 20 to 40 temporary employees when it secures jobs that need labor to do everything from assembling the circuit boards to building pallets from raw materials. They even have the logistic capabilities of designing conveyor belts to move products, depending on their needs. While they are relatively small, after landing the Eaton contract, DeSollar said she’s ready to help solve complex problems that assembling and shipping might create for larger companies with a local presence from Continental Tire the Americas in Sumter to Boeing in Charleston. It just requires adjusting her company’s capabilities to the needs of those companies — which is why she stepped out of finance and into the entrepreneur side of things. You could say she’s crossed that line.

STOCKS: THE MARKET WEEKLY REVIEW

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THE SUMTER ITEM

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2014

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If you don’t have deer yet, it’s time to pull trigger, let arrow fly

ell, Christmas is over for another year. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and got to spend lots of time with family and friends. I also hope you remembered why we celebrated. Now it’s time to get back to it; back to work, back to the daily grind, Earle back to the Woodward things that make us look AFIELD & forward to AFLOAT the holidays so much, and back to the woods. With only four more opportunities to hunt deer, not counting today, I suppose it’s getting down to crunch time. If you’ve been holding off on taking a doe or a lesser buck, waiting on a big buck to come wandering by so that you can fill your freezer, I think it’s now time to go ahead and pull the trigger, let the arrow fly.

What you don’t get by Thursday night you’ll have to wait for close to nine months. I’ve been pretty lucky so far this year. It started out as a rather boring deer season; I didn’t see a deer for quite some time and then when I did, they were on the small side. Finally, well into November, I got to take a couple of does so that I could get a little meat in the icebox. I had been out for a long time and that first plate of cube steaks, rice and butter beans, etc. was to die for! On the other hand, it has been a rather trying season and one that has taught me a thing or two, even at 60 years of age. I can still learn and Mother Nature never seems to get bored with knocking me down a few notches to prove her point. I spent hours right after last season and in the preseason this year trying to find the perfect place to hang a deer stand. I had watched deer, both bucks and does, come from a neighbor’s property, cross a fairly open spot in the woods and

funnel into a clump of trees only to come out on my side and disperse. Going into the funnel, they came together; leaving it, they would spread out. I searched for just the right spot on the “going into” side to hang a stand. I found a sweet gum tree that had three trunks and had a nice view of the more open area that the deer were crossing, and had a shot at the entrance to the funnel. It seemed perfect. With a little help from my friends, I hung the stand in August and began to use it right away. I had a group of six does that meandered past me almost every afternoon, and I was looking forward to Sept. 15, the day the doe tags became legal. You know what happened don’t you? Yep, I didn’t see the does from midSeptember until almost midOctober, and even then things just never seemed to work out; too far, incorrect angle, always something, until all of a sudden it was mid-November and the leaves were falling from

the trees. Now on the one hand, trees with no leaves are great for visibility, but on the other hand, trees with no leaves are great for visibility. You can see the deer, but they can also see you. Never assume that deer don’t look up; I promise you they do! The stand was erected on the eastern side of the funnel and it became quite apparent, once the leaves were gone, that I had made a grievous error. Once the leaves were gone, there was nothing behind me to break up my silhouette, and the light from the coming twilight was like a spotlight on me. I spotted what looked like a buck walking through the woods at about 60 yards. As he went behind a tree, I shifted in the stand, and as he came out, I moved my hand about six inches to hook the release to the bowstring. Six inches was all it took; the buck saw the movement and was gone. Not five minutes had passed and the six does showed up. I

picked the biggest of the bunch and tried to draw the bow. Nope, I no more than twitched and, in the bright twilight, it must have looked like a train wreck. They scattered like a covey of quail. I have abandoned that stand and converted to the ground blind, which is on the other side of the open area. Of course, Mother Nature has made sure no deer have shown up since I made the switch. I’ve been watching the weather and the preliminary reports are not conducive to using that area, so I suppose my season there has come to a close. That’s OK because I’ve done some scouting for next season already, and I’ve decided to take the stand down and store it in the garage. I’m erecting the ground blind on the downhill side of the funnel, but closer to where it needs to be. There’s a great clump of brush already there, and it would provide natural camouflage, unless Mother Nature decides to kill it all before next year.

Let Christmas trees benefit fish and wildlife after the holidays SC DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Instead of letting your Christmas tree take up space in a landfill this year, state natural resources officials suggest giving it a second life by putting it to good use for fish or wildlife. In rural areas, discarded Christmas trees can be put to good use as erosion control or as brush piles to provide resting and escape cover for small animals. In addition to benefiting small game such as quail and rabbits, brush piles constructed of Christmas trees can help birds such as sparrows, towhees and wrens. “We’re getting to the time of year when the leaves have dropped and the landscape is more open. However, cover is still a vital part of a healthy wildlife habitat,” said Tammy Wactor,

wildlife biologist with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) based in Clemson. “Although the needles of old Christmas trees will brown and fall off in two or three months, if you get enough trees piled up they will make pretty good cover.” Brush piles are usually mound- or teepee-shaped, Wactor said, with the largest material forming the base and layers of small limbs and branches added as filler. The base should consist of sturdy trunks or limbs to allow adequate escape entrances at ground level. Fisheries biologists with the DNR Freshwater Fisheries Section use discarded Christmas trees to maintain many fish attractor sites, which are clearly marked by buoys, at all major reservoirs in South Carolina. Once on the lake bottom, Christmas trees and other suitable materials provide a sur-

face where aquatic insects live and grow. These insects, in turn, attract small fish that are fed upon by larger fish. Please do not toss discarded trees on state fish attraction areas. Some DNR regions collect the trees from municipalities, so that they may pick and choose the best trees for their needs rather than have the public deliver them to a DNR facility. Deliver the tree to designated areas, and state natural resources personnel will replenish sites as needed. Another alternative is grinding up your tree to use as mulch. Some cities and counties offer tree grinding at no charge after the holidays. Those who choose to take their mulch home can use it for flowerbeds, gardens or around trees and shrubs. Perhaps the best kind of recycling is

to buy a live tree and replant it, and then the tree can provide evergreen cover for wildlife year-round. Consumers should keep in mind, however, that many kinds of popular Christmas trees will not survive the hot and humid South Carolina summers. Among the species that will likely live and prosper here are Virginia pine, Scotch pine, sand pine, spruce pine, Eastern red cedar, white cedar, Leyland cypress and white pine, which does best in the mountains and upper Piedmont. Two varieties of Arizona smooth cypress developed in South Carolina, Clemson Greenspire and Carolina Sapphire, will also grow well in our climate. Tree species that may not survive here, except in our foothills and mountains, include hemlock, Colorado blue spruce, Douglas fir, Fraser fir and balsam fir.

FISHING REPORT Santee Cooper System Crappie: Good to very good. Captain Steve English reports that crappie fishing in the Santee Cooper lakes is still strong, but as expected seasonally everything is starting to move deeper. The best action has been coming fishing 18-24 feet down over deep brush with minnows. Bream: Good. Captain Steve English reports that bluegill remain bunched up around brushpiles and continue to feed well, but like the crappie they have moved deeper. Fishing crickets 20-25 feet down over brush in 25-35 feet of water has been the best pattern, with crappie found on some of the same brush. Bluegill are generally a bit more aggressive than crappie so the best bet for anglers targeting crappie is to move on to the next brushpile if they start catching bream. The lower lake has been a little better for bream recently. Striped bass: Good. Captain Jim Glenn reports that striped bass fishing has been good in both lakes. Although sublegal fish certainly continue to outnumber legal fish, some fish over 26 inches have been caught. Anglers can catch fish by locating suspended schools of bait on their electronics and then fishing in or around these schools. Trolling or anchoring with live baits has been productive, and drifting weighted down-lines or free-lining is also a good way to prospect for striper. Lake Murray Catfish: Good. Captain Chris Simpson reports that the bite is pretty good right now and fishing has been relatively consistent. The most reliable way to locate aggressive fish has been drifting with cut herring and shad and the most productive depth range has been 25-55 feet of water. Creek and river channel ledges are holding fish but do not overlook flats that have roaming catfish scattered across them. Anglers need to be prepared to adjust to different depth ranges almost daily as the baitfish and catfish are constantly changing areas and depths. Chris’s boat has been catching decent numbers of big channel catfish as well as a bonus big blue or three on most days. Striped bass: Fair to good. Lake World

reports that striper are scattered all over the lake, but the best action has come from the mid-lake up. That is not to say that fish cannot be caught as far down the lake as Jake’s and the dam, but the best numbers of fish are further up. As always in the cooler months look for birds to help locate fish, and particularly seagulls. The presence of loons is a less reliable indicator that striper may be feeding in the area, although loons are a good indicator that bait is present. On days when fish are schooling a variety of lures will catch them, but if schooling activity is not apparent then dragging free-lined live herring or dropping down-lined herring down to 20 or 30 feet can be effective. Cut bait has also been very effective on the bottom in 4-20 feet of water, particularly up the rivers. Crappie: Fair to good. Lake World reports that from the mid-lake on up crappie are biting pretty well. Anglers are having success slow trolling jigs tipped with minnows as well as working brush piles. Lake Wateree Crappie: Good. Veteran tournament angler Will Hinson reports that crappie fishing continues to improve. Fish have moved up the lake and they can be found from the State Park up to the foot of the upper dam along the ledges of the river channel. Look just off the bottom in 18-22 feet of water; fish will generally be within 6-12 inches of the bottom. The crappie are following shad schools which have moved up the lake because of slightly warmer water coming in. The best pattern is tightlining with Fish Stalker jigs with minnows on them, and plain minnows will also work. This is not a time of year when anglers are advised to fish plain jigs - you need to “hang some meat on them.” Fish are active but lethargic and so it is important to be slow and very patient with them. Lake Greenwood White bass and perch: Very good. Captain Chris Simpson reports that it appears that the white bass population is making a strong come-back on Lake Greenwood with some very successful

spawns over the last three years. Jigging a half-ounce spoon for perch, some days anglers will catch just as many white bass as perch. The best pattern for targeting white bass is to locate schools of bait, either using electronics or by following the birds. Birds could be diving on baitfish that loons are running up and not striper or white bass near the surface, but birds do indicate the presence of baitfish. Jigging a spoon off the bottom around baitfish schools will catch a wide variety of predatory fish including white bass, perch, striper and others - making it a really fun way to fish. For now the best depth for jigging is 30-36 feet. As always, be sure to have a topwater lure tied on in case fish are busting on the surface. Lake Monticello Catfish: Fair to Good. The fishing for big fish has been really consistent the last few weeks, and this year there have also been good numbers of teenage-sized fish that help pass the time between bites from the big ones. Most baitfish are holding in the 40-60 foot range, and in that range and a little deeper the majority of the big fish have been found. It’s not always necessary to fish around large schools of baitfish, but often it is an indicator that feeding cats are also present. Both anchoring on and drifting across ledges are working equally well. Lake Russell Perch: Very good. Guide Wendell Wilson reports that perch fishing remains very strong, with white and yellow perch mixed in with other predatory species around the big schools of bait. Minnows fished just off the bottom are working best. Striped bass: Good. Guide Wendell Wilson reports that December is typically a peak month for striper fishing on Lake Russell, and this year appears to be no exception. In addition to some teenagesized fish that they have landed Wendell’s boat has hooked some monsters recently which have run all the line off of his reels and broken 65-pound braid with a 30-pound leader in the timber. The best fishing has been on the lower end of the lake where more birds have been found. Pull large live shiners

and herring on free-lines and planer boards, aiming to keep the baits no more than 10-12 feet deep above the trees. The water could be 40 or 70 feet deep. Lake Thurmond Crappie: Very good. Captain William Sasser reports that crappie fishing is very strong on Clarks Hill, with fish being caught all over the lake but particularly in the Georgia and South Carolina Little Rivers. The fish are holding in traditional wintertime brush in the backs of coves; fish 15-20 feet down in approximately 30-35 feet of water. Anchoring and fishing minnows vertically has been the best bet. Also have been taking flukes and Spooks. When fish are not on the surface spinnerbaits have been the best bet. Lake Wylie Catfish: Very good. Captain Rodger Taylor reports that over the last couple of years the Lake Wylie blue catfish population has exploded, and instead of blue catfish being a primarily a winter bite out in the river channel blues can now be caught all over the lake, including way up the creeks. While Wylie used to be primarily a channel catfish lake the catch ratio is now tilted about 60/40 in favor of blues most of the year. Blue catfish on Wylie move around a lot and so the best method to locate them is drift fishing with a number of rods. At this time of year the best bet is to drift very slowly (.4 miles per hour or less) around the mouths of major creeks using either wind or a trolling motor. Concentrate on 35-55 feet of water, being sure to cover all parts of the channel as well as the flats nearby to isolate the structure and depth to which fish are relating. After catching fish you can refine your drift to focus on the key areas. Rodger notes that some fishermen are more likely to try to locate individual fish on their electronics before fishing, but he prefers to focus on the structure to pattern them. Fresh cut gizzard shad is a very good bait this time of year. Lake Jocassee Black Bass: Fair. The baitfish should continue to bunch up tighter and tighter and the bass action should continue to

improve until temperatures get colder. Lake Keowee Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Good. Guide Brad Fowler reports that bass fishing is strong on Lake Keowee with good numbers and sizes of fish being caught. Fish can be found in 30-60 feet of water around depth changes such as creek channels, deep points and ledges. These fish will be around bait schools, and for these deeper fish both drop shotting and fishing spoons has been working well. Shallower fish can still be found towards the backs of creeks where bait is found and where there is even some schooling activity. Jerkbaits, Blade Runners, and scrounger heads will all catch fish. Lake Hartwell Catfish: Good. Captain Bill Plumley reports that the catfish bite is pretty good on Lake Hartwell. Instead of channel catfish making up the bulk of the catch and blues hard to target out in the timber, this is the time of year when blue catfish are readily available. To target blue cats look in the creeks in 20-40 feet of water and use fresh cut bait, usually herring or gizzard shad. On bright sunny days when the water warms fish will move up onto the flats, but a lot of days the best areas to target are drops and in the creek channels. Channel catfish can still be caught on cut herring, nightcrawlers and even dip bait - although with cooler water dip bait is much less effective. Flatheads can still be caught on live bait, but when water temperatures are around 50 degrees they will basically shut down. Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good. Captain Bill Plumley reports that this is a unique period when striper can be caught with a variety of different methods since they are scattered all over the lake and water temperatures are still relatively mild. Although they can be found in the backs of creeks as well as out in the main lake around points, a common denominator is that a lot of fish are relatively shallow in 15-20 feet of water or less. Fish can be caught trolling umbrella rigs, free-lining live herring, or on cut bait. Birds are arriving on the lake and they provide useful clues to where the fish will be located.

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2014 World Series of Poker 8:00 p.m. on ESPN2 The World Series of Poker, which is one of the largest, richest and most prestigious gaming events in the world, features a full slate of tournaments in every major poker variation, and it is the longest running poker tournament, dating back to 1970. (HD) Four Christmases 8:00 p.m. on TBS Trying to avoid their parents during Christmas, a couple plans a secret trip and tells everyone they are helping a charity, but when the trip is interrupted, they must visit each of their divorced parents, which leads to trouble and revelations. Revenge 8:00 p.m. on WOLO Victoria’s (MadVictoria’s (Madeeleine Stowe) leine Stowe) future hangs in future hangs in the balance as the balance as the the FBI closes on WOLO’s “Re- FBI closes in and a mysterious new venge,” airing enemy strikes; Sunday at 8 p.m. with the world teetering on the verge of complete chaos due to the dragons that sleep beneath the surface of the Earth, Flynn unexpectedly returns to help locate their hidden treasure. (HD) Undercover Boss 8:30 p.m. on WLTX The CEO and founder of Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill goes undercover and contends with an employee who not only refuses to wear the chain’s standard bikini top uniform but also serves customers who are already over-intoxicated. (HD) The Mentalist 9:30 p.m. on WLTX An unexpected encounter with a military colonel leads Jane to become suspicious of the soldier’s agenda, which brings him to reinvestigate the closed murder case of the man’s wife in private. (HD)

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The Hunger Games 8:00 p.m. on FAM In a post-apocalyptic future where North America has been replaced with the country Panem, an annual event is held in which two representatives from each region of the country must fight to the death in a bloody game of survival. (HD) Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! 8:00 p.m. on WOLO Over the Christmas break, Charlie Brown is assigned a book report on “War and Peace” that is due on the first day back from the break, but dance lessons and a party distract him from finishing the project until the last day of the break. Street Outlaws 9:00 p.m. on DSC When many of the races between the Oklahoma City drivers and the drivers from Chicago get rained out, the racers agree to have a rematch in Oklahoma; Farmtruck re-embraces an old habits, which leads to him getting a Camaro and Ferrari. (HD) College Football 9:00 p.m. on ESPN Arkansas is 13-23-3 in bowl appearances, including a 27-6 win over the Longhorns in the 1999 Cotton Bowl; Texas, which is 27-23-2 in bowl games, leads the all-time series with the Razorbacks, 56-21, and won the last meeting, 52-10, Abbie (Nicole Beharie) and in 2008. (HD) Ichabod hunt Sleepy Hollow for a mysterious 9:00 p.m. coin on “Sleepy on WACH Hollow,” airing After a bank Monday at robbery turns 9 p.m. on WACH. violent, Abbie (Nicole Beharie) and Ichabod (Tom Mison) embark on a hunt for a mysterious silver coin that has more power than meets the eye. (HD)

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46 130 Duck Dynasty (HD) Duck (HD) Duck (HD) Duck Dynasty (HD) Duck Dynasty (HD) Duck (HD) Duck (HD) Duck (HD) Duck (HD) Duck Dynasty (HD) Duck Dynasty (HD) 48 180 Walking Dead (HD) Walking Dead (HD) Walking Dead (HD) Walking Dead (HD) Walking Dead (HD) Walking Dead (HD) Walking Dead (HD) Walking Dead (HD) 41 100 North America (HD) North America (HD) North America (HD) North America (HD) North America (HD) North America (HD) North America (HD) North America (HD) 61 162 106 & Park (HD) Apollo Live (HD) Apollo Live (HD) Movie To Be Announced Wendy Williams (HD) To Be Announced 47 181 Shutter Island (‘10, Thriller) aaac Leonardo DiCaprio. Asylum secrets. The Prestige (‘06, Drama) Hugh Jackman. Rival magicians. Gangs of New York (‘02, Drama) aaac Leonardo DiCaprio. 35 62 Mad Money (N) The Profit Shark Tank (HD) Shark Tank (HD) Shark Tank (HD) Shark Tank (HD) Rich Guide Rich Guide Rich Guide Rich Guide 33 64 Situation Room (HD) Erin Burnett (N) CNN Spc. New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin (N) New Year’s (:05) New Year’s Eve 57 136 Scary Movie 2 (‘01) ac Shawn Wayans. (HD) South Park South Park South Park South Park South Park: The Coon Trilogy (HD) South Park South Park South Park South Park (HD) 18 80 Liv (HD) High School Musical 3: Senior Year (‘08) ac Zapped (‘14, Family) Zendaya. (:15) How to Build a Better Boy (‘14) (HD) So Raven So Raven Lizzie Lizzie 42 103 Dude, You’re (HD) Dude, You’re (HD) Dude You’re (HD) Dude, You’re (HD) Naked Afraid (HD) Naked Afraid (HD) Naked Afraid (HD) Dude, You’re (HD) 26 35 (4:10) 2014 Fiesta Bowl z{| Pregame (:10) Capital One Orange Bowl: Mississippi State vs Georgia Tech z{| (:50) SportsCenter (HD) 27 39 College Bball (HD) SportsCenter (HD) 30 for 30: Brian and The Boz (HD) ESPN Films 30 for 30 (HD) Sports Colin’s Sport Sci. NBA (HD) College Football (HD) 20 131 The Proposal (‘09, Comedy) aaa Sandra Bullock. (HD) Pretty Woman (‘90, Romance) aaa Richard Gere. (HD) The 700 Club Stevens Stevens Stevens Stevens 40 109 Diners Diners Cutthroat Cutthroat Cutthroat Third heat. Cutthroat Fourth heat. Cutthroat Cutthroat Third heat. Cutthroat Fourth heat. 37 74 Special Report (HD) On the Record (N) O’Reilly Factor (N) All-American New Year (N) Kelly File Hannity (HD) 31 42 Insider Pregame NHL Hockey: Carolina vs Pittsburgh z{| (HD) Postgame UFC Reloaded (HD) NHL Hockey: Carolina vs Pittsburgh (HD) 52 183 Meet the Santas (‘05) aa Steve Guttenberg. (HD) The Christmas Ornament (‘13) (HD) Middle Middle The Good Witch’s Gift (‘10) Catherine Bell. (HD) Hitched (‘12) aac (HD) 39 112 Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters 45 110 American Picker (HD) American Picker (HD) American Picker (HD) American Picker (HD) American Picker (HD) American Picker (HD) American Picker (HD) American Picker (HD) 13 160 Cold Case (HD) Cold Case (HD) Cold Case (HD) Cold Case (HD) Cold Case (HD) Cold Case (HD) Cold Case (HD) Paid Paid 50 145 Movie Movie Movie (:02) Movie 36 76 PoliticsNation (HD) Hardball (N) (HD) Chris Hayes (HD) Rachel Maddow (N) Last Word (HD) Chris Hayes (HD) Rachel Maddow (HD) Last Word (HD) 16 91 Thunderman Thunderman Thunderman Max Shred Full Hse Full Hse Full Hse Full Hse Prince Prince Friends Friends How I Met How Met Mother (HD) Prince 64 154 Cops Jail (HD) Cops Jail (HD) Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Cops Police Videos (HD) Cops Cops 58 152 Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight Twilight 24 156 Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld Family Guy Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Conan (HD) Cougar Conan (HD) Cougar 49 186 (5:30) Journey to the Center of the Earth (‘59) Elvis on Tour (‘72) aa Elvis Presley. A Hard Day’s Night (‘64, Musical) The Beatles. Gimme Shelter (‘70) Mick Jagger. (:15) Tommy (‘75) aaa 43 157 Extreme Extreme Outrageous Outrageous Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Outrageous Outrageous Extreme Extreme Outrageous Outrageous Extreme Extreme 23 158 (5:45) 300 (‘07, Action) aaac Gerard Butler. (HD) The Expendables (‘10) Sylvester Stallone. (HD) Red (‘10, Action) aaac Bruce Willis. (HD) Law & Order (HD) Law & Order (HD) 38 102 S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach Pawn Pawn S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach S. Beach 55 161 (5:48) Walker Walker (:18) Family Feud (HD) Raymond Raymond Cleveland The Exes Queens Queens Friends Friends Cleveland The Exes 25 132 SVU Missing girl. (HD) SVU Missing child. (HD) SVU Fans assault. (HD) SVU Football star. (HD) SVU (HD) SVU (HD) SVU (HD) SVU (HD) 68 (5:34) SWV: Watch SWV: Watch With: Lelee’s Blues SWV: Watch With: Voice Lessons SWV: Watch: We’re Not Jammin’ SWV: Watch With: Coko’s Choice (:04) SWV: Watch 8 172 Home Videos (HD) Home Videos (HD) Home Videos (HD) How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met Rules Rules Parks Parks Parks Hope

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A Toast to 2014! 8:00 p.m. on WIS Hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb take a look back at the year that was 2014, reliving some of the year’s biggest stories, including “conscious uncoupling” and the ALS ice bucket challenge, with an all star cast of celebrity commentators. (HD) Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2015 - Part 1 8:00 p.m. on WOLO Host Ryan Seacrest kicks off an annual countdown to a new year in Times Square, with actress Jenny McCarthy and musician Fergie joining him as co-hosts, and English boy band One Direction headlines with four performances throughout the Quarterback Dak evening. (HD) Prescott leads 2014 Capital One Orange Bowl Mississippi 8:10 p.m. on ESPN State in the Mississippi State “Capital One Orange Bowl,” is making its school-record Wednesday at ﬁfth-straight bowl 8:10 p.m. on appearance, but the ESPN. Bulldogs are 0-4 against the Yellow Jackets, including a 42-31 loss in 2009; Georgia Tech earned its 18th consecutive bowl invitation and is 23-19 in bowl games. Pretty Woman 8:30 p.m. on FAM When a wealthy businessman, who has built his fortune on a series of ruthless takeovers, hires a free-spirited, Hollywood streetwalker to be his companion for a week, they both ﬁnd themselves getting more out of the relationship than they planned. (HD) The Prestige 9:00 p.m. on BRAVO Two talented stage magicians become involved in a dangerous competition as each of them produces their own version of a startling new trick, but their obsessive rivalry takes its toll on their personal lives and relationships.

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Megalodon: The Extended Cut 8:00 p.m. on ANPL As additional film footage is presented, one man continues his search for the gigantic prehistoric shark known as Megalodon, sharing his discoveries and evidence that suggests the massive creature might still be wandering the oceans. (HD) Thursday at Hitched for the 8 p.m. on HallHolidays mark, Julie (Em- 8:00 p.m. on HALL ily Hampshire) A man and and Rob pose woman who are as a couple to feeling crippling silence their pressure from their meddling kin in families to be in a relationship meet “Hitched for on a dating website the Holidays.” and agree to pose as each other’s dates for the holidays, but things get complicated when their families and feelings interfere. (HD) The Biggest Loser 8:00 p.m. on WIS The contestants face their fears, one by repelling down a waterfall and one by going on a rope-swinging adventure in the jungle; the players race through a Lacrosse-inspired obstacle course; at Comeback Canyon, two players balance high in the air. (HD) iHeartRadio Music Festival 8:00 p.m. on WKTC Night two of the annual iHeartradio festival filmed at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas features musicians Lorde, Paramore, One Direction, Iggy Azalea, Train, Weezer, 50 Cent, Calvin Harris, Eric Church, Sheeran, as well as many CW stars. (HD) The Taste 8:00 p.m. on WOLO The remaining cooks must make dishes using such elevated ingredients as champagne, shellfish and caviar, and at the end of the challenge, two more competitors will leave for home; restauranteur Michael Symon joins the regular judges. (HD)

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Billy Madison 8:00 p.m. on COM The lazy, immature adult son of a self-made millionaire finds out that his father plans to leave his hotel business to an assistant and sets out to prove that he is qualified to run the company by passing 12 grades’ worth of school in 24 weeks. (HD) The Odd Couple 8:00 p.m. on TCM Both struggling through the difficult effects of recent divorces, a neatness freak and an easy-going slob make plans to share an apartment together, but their opposing lifestyles cause problems for their tight-knit friendship. Gold Rush 9:00 p.m. on DSC Parker Schnabel is involved in a head-on collision that totals his car; the Hoffman crew’s rock trucks come face to face on a haul road that is considered very dangerous; Tony Beets starts rebuilding his mining dredge, which is 75 years old. (HD) Hawaii Five-0 9:00 p.m. on WLTX The Five-0 team and a traditional private detective join forces in order to investigate the murder of young female who was working for a companion service behind closed doors. (HD) Billy Joel: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize Debuting Friday at 9 p.m. on 9:00 p.m. on WRJA Traditional pop WRIA, “Billy singer Tony Joel: The LibBennett, R&B music rary of Congress Gershwin group Boyz II Men, country musician Prize” honors Natalie Maines the singer-song- and other artists writer. perform in honor of singer-songwriter Billy Joel receiving the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. (HD)

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