Senate Passes $36.5B Aid Bill
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PANORAMA Cancer survivor says attitude is key ‘I had faith I would be OK’ C1 IN SPORTS: Stallions jump SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017 $1.00 to No. 4 in 2A media poll B1 FROM LEFT: In a file photo, paradegoers line Main Street outside of Sumter Electric and Appliance Co., which was eventually shortened to SEACO; the last set of 45 records sits atop the main counter last week; and Brooks Wilkinson rings up a customer in this 2007 file photo. The Sumter icon featured instruments, signed celebrity musicians’ photos, lessons, 45 records and other music along with behind-the-scenes stories of the local and national music scene. SEACO: Morphing with the music Longtime shop is moving this month to Bultman Drive BY JIM HILLEY [email protected] e’ve seen a lot of stuff.” “WThe words come out almost simulta- neously from the mouths of Brooks and Shannan Wilkinson as they recount their many years in the music business. Owners of SEACO music store at 140 N. Main St., the couple has been packing up more than 60 years of memo- ries as they prepare to move to 657 Bultman Drive. Originally Sumter Electric and Appliance Co., Brooks Wilkinson’s parents, Edward and Ruth Wilkinson, and an uncle, Roy Griffin, bought the appliance store from Red Baker in 1954. Baker had opened the company in 1946. “When they bought it, they sold washing machines and stuff like that,” Brooks said. Eventually, the company’s focus switched to music. A record bar was added in the ’50s, Brooks said. “People would actually sit and listen to records, 45s and then albums as they came into prominence in the ’60s,” he said. “In the ’70s, they added PHOTOS BY CHRIS MOORE / THE SUMTER ITEM Brooks and Shannan Wilkinson are seen outside SEACO on Main Street. Downtown Sumter will no longer have one of its icons located across more guitars and amps; in the late ’80s, they started doing the from the Sumter County Courthouse on Main Street. On Oct. 31, Brooks Wilkinson will lock the doors on the iconic Main Street music shop for the last time. As the music begins again, this time across town, the 70-year-old Sumter business will have a grand reopening mid-November in SEE SEACO, PAGE A5 its new location on Bultman Drive. Children team up with local Senate passes 1st responders $36.5B aid bill Course helps build trust BY ADRIENNE SARVIS Trump’s signature will OK disaster relief [email protected] WASHINGTON (AP) — The Sen- ly dwindling accounts and $16 bil- Children learned the importance of ate passed a $36.5 billion emergen- lion so the flood insurance program building trust with law enforcement dur- cy aid measure Tuesday to refill di- can keep paying claims. ing the annual Battle Buddies event at saster accounts, provide a much- It brings the total approved by Shaw Park on Saturday. needed cash infusion to Puerto Congress during this fall’s hurri- Saturday was the third time the event Rico and bail out the federal flood cane season to more than $50 bil- was hosted by Palmetto Optimist Club, insurance program. lion — and that’s before requests which was chartered in May 2016. ADRIENNE SARVIS / THE SUMTER ITEM The 82-17 vote sends the measure expected soon to cover damage to The purpose of the event is to promote Children climb over a wall during the to the White House, where Presi- water and navigation projects, respect for law enforcement as well as annual Battle Buddies event hosted by dent Trump is sure to sign it. crops, public buildings and infra- physical health for children, said club Palmetto Optimist Club at Shaw Park on The measure provides $18.7 bil- structure and to help homeowners Saturday. See more photos of the event lion to replenish the Federal Emer- SEE OBSTACLES, PAGE A6 on page A3. gency Management Agency’s rapid- SEE AID, PAGE A6 VISIT US ONLINE AT DEATHS, A5 WEATHER, A10 INSIDE Charles R. Wilcox Nadia N. Williams GET OUT THE EXTRA 3 SECTIONS, 20 PAGES the .com VOL. 123, NO. 8 Dr. Thomas T. Upshur IV Johnny McMillan BLANKET FOR TONIGHT Gladys R. Mitchem Billie H. Cox Classifieds B6 Panorama C1 Patricia M. Byrd David L. Lee Jr. Mostly sunny today; Comics C2 Sports B1 Elmore E. Thomas Nathaniel Pearson clear and chilly tonight Food Television Curtis C. Kimbrell William Benjamin HIGH 67, LOW 43 C4 C3 Minnie Lee Newcomb Robert S. Hillman Opinion A9 A2 | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017 THE SUMTER ITEM Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] Show proves there’s more to coin hobby than just money BY ADRIENNE SARVIS own form of currency, the [email protected] manilla, that could also function as jewelry that Becoming a coin collector they could trade with Afri- can be an opportunity to cans. collect antique currency Cann's collection also in- that today has a value much cludes a block of pressed more than its original worth black tea that was used as or an opportunity to learn currency in China, Sri about the history of other Lanka and some other Asian societies. countries. However if your curiosity Tea money was used for manifests itself as a coin hundreds of years, he said. collector, you are sure to The value of the entire come across unique items block was determined by the and more information about quality of the tea, and that the history than you already block could be broken into PHOTOS BY ADRIENNE SARVIS / THE SUMTER ITEM know. pieces of specific sizes to A large coil of copper, called a mondua, and a u-shaped piece of copper, called a manilla, were on display For some, Saturday served make change, he said. during the annual Sumter Coin Show on Saturday. The pieces were used as currency by Africans and Euro- as an opportunity to get a Cann said he sold a block peans during the time of the Atlantic slave trade. start in the coin collecting of tea to a Chinese man who world during the annual was only interested in the Sumter Coin Show at tea money as a beverage. Bethesda Church of God. The guy returned and Ken Lyles, president of bought another block of tea the Sumter Coin Club, be- but came back later saying came a member in 1972. Ev- that the second block did erybody has a different not taste as good, he said. story of how he or she got If you happened to have started, he said. visited the coin show with- It's amazing that you out any knowledge of the could have in your hand a history or details of coins, coin that was used by an- the club members would cient Romans, he said. And have been more than happy there are some people who to clue you in. have collections that include Aside from buying and coins that were used during selling coins, the club mem- Biblical times, he said. bers also talked about how At one of the stations on to tell if a coin is fake. Saturday, Don Cann, a mem- Lyles said one of the easi- ber of the Sumter Coin est ways to tell if a coin is Club, displayed his collec- fake is if it is attracted by a tion of old coins and bills magnet. He said this is espe- that were used in America cially true for silver coins as well as antique currency because silver is not attract- that was used in Africa and ed by regular magnets. China. However people who make On one of his display counterfeit coins have got- shelves, Cann took down a ten smarter about passing mondua, a coil of cooper off fake coins that can pass that was used as currency the magnet test, Lyles said. Don Cann, right, discusses his extensive and a symbol of wealth in But there is also the option coin collection with a visitor during the the western parts of Africa. to weigh the coins and to annual Sumter Coin Show on Saturday. The mondua and some other check the mint marks of the forms of currency in west- coin, he said. ern Africa could be worn as Whatever your reason for jewelry, he said. starting a coin collection or Europeans came across visiting a coin show, you are A block of compressed black tea was used as a form of cur- the mondua while conduct- sure to learn a great deal rency in some Asian countries. The value of the block was ing trade in Africa during about something that can fit based on the value of the tea. the Atlantic slave trade and in your pocket, around your later manufactured their wrist or in your tea cup. CORRECTION Judge serves eviction notice on An article published in The sessments are being done at Sumter Item on Sunday con- Shaw and five other bases,” he tained inaccuracies. (Aamold) said. pregnant mom’s unborn baby The article quoted Shaw Air Actually, Shaw is being con- Force Base Deputy Base Civil sidered along with four other PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah mom in her ald reported. Engineer Christopher Aamold bases. final days of pregnancy gave her baby an Bays said Davis told her it was his first as saying the group of arriv- Also, Lt. Allanah Staver of eviction notice and made it official with a baby eviction notice in his 31 years as a ing personnel at Shaw will in- the 20th Fighter Wing Public judge's signature.