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By Chris Porter
Inflation is to blame for higher
bus ticket costs to USC football
games, according to a South
Carolina Electric fc Gas Co.,
SCE&G, official.
Roger Dubose, executive
assistant to the vice president of
customer operations, said the $1.50
round trip price was needed to
compensate for increases in
operation and maintenance costs
and in driver salaries. The price
was $1.
**WE*RE TRYING to make up
some of our losses," he said.
"We're losing money on the entire
transit system."
The transit system lost over $1
million last year, according to Ren
Alverson, chief of rails and tariffs
for the Public Service Commission.
Alverson said the commission
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SCE6G submitted an audited
statement of its losses.
This is the first rate increase fabus
tickets to football games since
SGE&G began the service in 1970.
With a maximum seating capacity
of 45, the total money taken in is
$67.50 per bus.
ANYWHERE FROM 20 to 40
buses are used each game,
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said no regular routes are
sacrificed in order to provide buses
for the games.
As of this year, bus drivers are
making $5.28 an hour instead of
$3.00. Operating costs have risen
from $2,185,000 in 1970 to $4,339,000
in 1978, Dubose said.
Bill Lide, senior representative
for corporate communications at
SCE4G, said the rate increase
should help cover much of the
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L.E. Amick, director of transportation,
said there are very few
complaints about the increase. He
said most buses are filled to
capacity.
Lide said, "We don't have any
problem filling up buses, people
obviously think it's worth it."
"We had two choices," Alverson
said. "We either had to discontinue
the bus service, or increase
prices."
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The College of General Studies
accepted $500 Tuesday for placing
second in the southern division of
the national "Pitch In" contest.
The annual competition in its
sixth year of existence, is sponsored
by Budweiser of America
and ABC radio.
CHARLES OSRORN, ptofessor
of sociology, represented the fi
college at the presentation
ceremonies held at Budweiser of
Columbia. "The check will be used
in very good methods, "he said. "It
is for the good of the college."
The prize-winning project was
the renovation of Dora Grey's
home in Caycee. Osborn said
Grey's name was taken from a
Midlands Human Resource
Commission list of people in need
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Osborn said Grey "was in such a j
decrepit situation." There wasn't
any money available to make the I
necessary improvements, but the j
college "provided manpower" to
get the job done, be said.
LOCAL MERCHANTS, students,
and craftsmen donated their
services to help with the reconstruction.
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year the college has won second
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