Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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News - Roundup National WASHINGTON - Revenue sharing, designed to keep more revenue for the states and cities for their use without its being channeled to Washington has come under attack from several mayors. Even the President's budget figures reveal that for the coming fiscal year aid to state and local govern ments will be $44.8 billion, a decrease, for the first time in 20 years, of $200 million. This does not include the loss of the dollai's value because of inflation. WASHINGTON - FBI files revealed that key officials of the Nixon campaign tried to hamper their investigation of the Watergate burgulary by "sending FBI agents on fishing expeditions to keep them from getting at the truth." Other employes of the Committee to Re-Elect the President said high officials were so intimidating to them, they could not be "candid" with the FBI. CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Area schools have been plagued by racial confrontations and some classes have been sus pended. White students at South Mecklenburg High School want the school to be boycotted to protest unfair treatment of whites by school officials. Trouble erupted at Garinger High School Tuesday morn ing in which faculty members and several students were injured. DANBY, Vt. - Novelist Pearl S. Buck, 80, died Tuesday. Miss Buck had recently undergone a gallbladder operation and suffered from pleurisy. Her latest novel was published less than a week ago and concerned an American diplomat forced to leave China after Mao's takeover. Miss Buck had won both the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes. State COLUMBIA - Legislation giving 18-20 year olds legal rights was approved Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Com mittee. These would enable 18-20 year olds to make binding contracts and make them responsible for their debts. COLUMBIA - A bill designed to protect South Carolina .newsmen from revealing their sources will not be discussed until a similar proposal is acted on by Congress. The bill's sponsor, Rep. George Dean Johnson, R-Spartanburg, has moved each time to adjourn debate until a similar bill is acted on by the U.S. Congress. Dean said it would be useless to spend time and money on a bill that may be outdated by a national law. AIKEN - Scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River plant have discovered that discarded tires placed in polluted streams inprove the water by ab,sorbing the mercury from the stream. Come to this Christian Science Lecture "Todays Search for Survival" By Florence C. Southwell, C.S.B. Russell House - Room 306. Friday, March 9, 1973, 12:15 p.m. NEEDED: -Poetry. -Prose -Short Stories For Spring Issue of CRUCIBLE LITERARY MAGAZINE. Deadline is March 30. Submit material to Bo x 85137. Call E xt. 5054 for more informatinn -I,l ALLEN LAWHEAD ...parking legislation. Women's Team Leaves 'Short' Any discriminating sports fan knows that the difference between the American Athletic Union (AAU) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is $700. So when the women's basket ball team left to play in an inter collegiate basketball tourna ment in Lexington, Ky., they were $700 short of the total cost of the trip. Robert Alexander, dean of student activities, said, "They weren't sure where they would get it (the money) from." The team asked the Athletic Department to fund their trip to Kentucky, but since the women are in a different league, the department could not subsidize them, according to NCAA rules. HOTEL WADE i>e Carolina Cup, Sc Carolina's most fashionable ing event is right around corner. Our spring clothin arriving with a touch of clas tastes; linens, silks, and wov Come in and let us get you ri for the races! ACROSS FROM THE ST, STUDEFNT ACCOUin Spinazzo Of M.udsl 1By NICK PARHAM Student body President David Spinazzolo said he thinks several projects could be hurt by mudslinging in the current student government elections or by campaign grandstanding in the Senate. Adequate campus parking and the closing of Green Street and improved dormitory condi tions are typical of the projects Spinazzolo backs and considers endangered. Spinazzolo expressed his fears in an executive session address to the Senate, but senators voted to "allow free Two bills dealing with cam pus parking, backed by the Stu dent Government, were introduced shortly after the executive session. Sen. Allen Lawhead called for the university to begin charging faculty and staff for parking privileges "a fee proportionate to that fee assessed by stu dents." Lawhead pointed out that the Citadel.and Winthrop charge faculty for parking. Payments should being next fall, Lawhead said, because parking is at a "critical point with only one third of the regis tered vehicles able to park on campus." Another bill proposed the stu dent lot at Pickens and Pendle ton Streets be turned into an attendant parking lot and the remaining lots be redesigned from perpendicular to diagonal parking. The changes would serve as experiments for the remainder of the semester. Changing the Pickens Pendleton lot would serve as experiments for the remainder of the semester. HAMPTON uth ~spr the g is sical ens. lady ATEHOUSE ITS WEL COME lo Warns inging Changing the Pickens Pendleton lot would increase capacity from 236-418 and redesigning the other lots would increase capacity from 1,719-2,962, according to the report. A supervisory committee would be established also which would eventually determine if the experiment was successful and provide any needed recom mendations. If successful the bill calls for the two Coliseum lots and the Bates House lot to implement attendent parking procedures. If not attendent parking will be discontinued. Sen. G. B. Manning introduced a bill, which was passed, "to establish a three man commission to study the laws, rules, resolutions, and regulations affecting students" at USC. Through compiling and pre senting its findings the commis sion would help to inform stu dents of rules and regulations concerning them, according to the bill. Besides compiling the vari ous regulations the commission would "evaluate these laws in regard to other college rules within the state" and "make an independent study of reappor tionment and determine the number of senators needed and how many each district is enti tled to." In other action the Senate passed a bill which would "est ablish new jurisdiction con cerning visitation violations." The bill points out that although the student constitution gives the jurisdiction to Student Sen ate it presently rests with each residence hall government.