4A THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2021 INDEPENDENT MAIL ANDERSON, SC Charles William Clamp, 71, husband of the late Su- san Bolding Clamp, passed awayMonday, January 25, 2021. Born in Anderson, SC, he was the son of the late Harrison Clamp and Thelma Barnette Clamp Jones. He attended Gard- ner-Webb University and was retired from Fluor Daniel with 28 years of ser- vice. Survivors include a sister, Carole C.Cole; brother, H.P. Clamp, Jr.
(Allison); brother-in-law, Jim Bolding (Joanmarie); Bolding; nephews, William Clamp (Sam), Taylor Bolding; nieces, Jennifer Konoke (Josh) and Kelly Collins; and special friends, Robyne and SamOwens. In addition to his wife and parents, he was pre- ceded in death by his step-father, H. Zed Jones; brother-in-law, Denny Cole; and his father-in-law, James Bolding, Sr. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, January 29, atWoodlawnMemorial Park in Green- ville.
The family will receive friends from 4 until 6 p.m. Thursday at Sullivan-King Mortuary. Social distancing will be observed andmasks are suggested. In lieu of may bemade to The Corner Club Charity Fund, P.O. Box 310, Sandy Springs, SC 29677.
Sullivan-King Mortuary www.sullivanking.com Clamp ABBEVILLE Helen Aileen Leverette was born May 15, 1925 in Abbeville, SC and passed away quietly into the loving arms of Jesus December 24, 2020 in Alabaster, AL. She was a long-time resident of Gary, IN and a member of New Bethesda Baptist Church and Jerusalem Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willie T. Leverette; par- ents, James and Pearl Scotland; six brothers, J.T., S.D.,Milton, James, Clotell, and Randell Scotland; and one sis- ter, Beatrice S. Calhoun.
She is survived by her daughters, Sandra Re- edus (Tesley), Yvonne Eaglin (Elvis), Janice Lang (Enrique), and Debra Leverette; sisters, Jerovene Scott, Evelyn Shell-Lake, Magnolia Knight, Shirley Heard, and Genevieve Potts; sister-in-law, Louise (Leverette) Hill; and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Service and burial arrangements are in- complete and will be announced at a later date by The Unity Mortuary of Anderson. Helen Aileen Leverette Graveside service for Stephen Edwards will be Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 at 1:00 pm at Westview SC. Stephen Edwards Graveside service for Maebell Jones will be Friday, Jan.
29, 2021 at 1:00 pm atHolly Springs SC. Maebell Jones ANDERSON Mrs. Brenda Burton, 67, passed away on Janu- ary 24, 2021. Graveside service 1:00 p.m. Friday at Anderson Memorial Gardens.
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Pelzer Gay, Kathlean Mauldin 87 Anderson 26-Jan Marcus D. Brown Funeral Home Gilliard, James Adger 83 Anderson 27-Jan Marcus D. Brown Funeral Home Higby, Elizabeth 77 Clemson 25-Jan Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home Cremations Maebell The Unity Mortuary Lee, Lorene Hardy 93 Anderson 27-Jan Marcus D. Brown Funeral Home Helen Aileen 95 Abbeville 24-Dec The Unity Mortuary Anderson, SC Miles, Steven P. 79 Anderson 25-Jan The Standard Cremation Funeral Center Van Kleeck, Karen 80 Anderson, SC 23-Jan The Standard Cremation Funeral Center Welborn, Delbert 87 Anderson 26-Jan Sosebee Mortuary and Crematory, South Chapel Additional information in display obituaries Obituaries appear in print and online at www.legacy.com/obituaries/IndependentMail OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES Name Age Town, State Death Date Arrangements COLUMBIA A bill that would assure lawmakers have a chance to change or end a prolonged state of emergency from South Carolina Gov.
Henry McMaster passed the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The COVID-19 pandemic going on for more than 10 months exposed some problems with South emergency law, which had not been altered in almost 60 years except to add the words health emergen- in 2002. Under current law, McMaster can only issue an emer- gency declaration for 15 days before the General Assem- bly has to weigh in. To avoid that, the Republican gover- nor has issued declarations with incremental changes every two weeks or so. He issued the 22nd such order on Friday.
The bill would allow the General Assembly to weigh in within 30 days. They could end or continue a state of emergency with one vote of each chamber or alter it through a more lengthy process. If they meet, the emergency declaration would last as long as the gover- nor wishes. The current emergency law was created in a time when people thought more of hurricanes and less about pandemics and modern governments that require con- tinuity and quick reactions, whether it means shut- downs or rapid vaccine rollouts. 2020 also showed that the unthinkable might just happen, like a disaster at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, which once made nuclear weapons and now stores tons of nuclear waste, said Rep.
Russell Fry. The governor has said his goal to avoid legisla- tive oversight, but to keep the government operating in the pandemic emergency because he wait for lawmakers to meet when they were trying to stay apart. McMaster supports the bill. Bill tweaking emergency powers heads to SC House ASSOCIATED PRESS Clemson tightens COVID measures, punishments Along with keeping its fall rules in place, Clemson is up its disciplinary policy for students who fail to comply with COVID testing and safety measures. Students and faculty who do not show up for their required weekly COVID-19 test can have their access to campus buildings revoked they receive a notice when one day overdue, then access to buildings like centers, aca- demic spaces and the library when day three passes, according to Student spokesper- son Philip Sikes.
Students and employees enter buildings using their cards. have to be able to enforce the policies, and testing is so critical to containing and miti- gating the virus until we can get all of them vac- cinated. There have to be consequences for not Kalbaugh said. He added that of students followed testing procedures last se- mester, and he expects the same this spring. Students cited for breaking safety rules (masking, distancing, no large gatherings) can be reported to the conduct where they are typically assigned TigerSTEPS, an online course meant to teach students a lesson on what they did wrong, according to Conduct Director Kristie Hodge.
The stringent measures going away, Kalbaugh said. Rules on masks, distancing, and required testing will be in place until the vaccine is widely distributed and the pandemic is under control, he said. And for the 500 or so faculty, and students who have already received all or part of the vaccine, Kalbaugh said they are still required to mask up. continue with the rigorous testing. No- body will get out of testing, even when Kalbaugh said.
Students and em- ployees who are virtual do not have to get tested. And while the plan seems to be working percent-positive rates and isolation capacity have remained manageable since the New Year Kalbaugh letting his guard up. Clemson saw its fall semester peak four to six weeks after students returned to their pus dorms in early August. Students returned the week of January for the spring semester, so if trends follow the fall semester, the incuba- tion period still has one to three weeks before campus may see a peak in cases. have my eye so close on that every Kal- baugh said.
Can you get COVID for a second time? Some students say they have. Kalbaugh said handful of have reported getting COVID-19 for a second time. have had at least a handful of reinfec- tions, to my knowledge, and which is enough to say, gosh, like, keep a close eye on he said. While the school has received zero reports of hospitalizations or deaths in their population, Kalbaugh said reinfections mean students and employees need to remain vigilant against the virus. a novel virus, we have to learn things as we Kalbaugh said.
People who have had the virus are exempt from required weekly testing at Clemson for 90 days, Kalbaugh said. when the vaccine arrives at Clemson A group of employees at Clemson are having to get the campus ready to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine. hoping to get as much vaccine here as Kalbaugh said. He added hoping to bring a vaccine clin- ical trial to Clemson and allow students to sign up as participants. want to get it here as fast as we he said.
at Clemson are working to get vac- cine supplies, but availability is an issue, Kal- baugh said. the supply issue is corrected, I think, we will do great. Searching for COVID variants in SC A highly contagious variant of COVID-19 has been detected in North Carolina and Georgia but has not been discovered in the Palmetto State. But, be surprised if not here Kalbaugh said. The post-holiday surge in South Carolina, particularly the Upstate, has brought record- breaking case numbers and deaths since Decem- ber.
Almost half of South total cases and a third of total deaths were recorded in the two months following Thanksgiving, according to a Greenville News report. just had so many people get that hard to know if these infections seeing now are related to Kalbaugh said of the variant. the only way to know is to do some genetic sequencing of the new variants of the people that are testing positive Delphine Dean and her team run the on-cam- pus saliva testing lab. They process up to 5,500 tests a day for the university and the surround- ing community. This week, they began testing random sam- ples for the variant strain of COVID-19.
Dean said she will know more in the coming week if the variant is present in population. Zoe covers Clemson just ask her about touchdowns or tackles. She covers everything non-sports. Find her at nett.com or on Twitter. Beware, she has a black belt in karate.
Clemson University students walk and skateboard to and from classes outside Cooper Library on Monday. KEN MAIL COVID-19 Continued from Page 1A.
