The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 11, 1978, Page Page 5, Image 5
Tow
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STARR ? The residents o
may opt to abolish the town
than accept a $10 per
municipal tax.
Thp tnwn rpciHonto not
won't stand for the tax, ev<
means making Starr an
corporated part of Anc
County.
It is the first time in the
73-year history that resident
the prospect of a municipal
Residents of the town pre
a petition to town official
week demanding a referent]
determine whether they
abolish the town instead of ]
the 10-mii tax.
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in self-made containers 18 fc
few of the eggs broke.
The students voted to do i
container that would hold ?
when dropped from some dis
of ihe Junior Engineering
organization of which Gibso
the project has been done
The stllripnts maHp nnn
balsa wood, foam rubber an
container at its weakest po
lab to the concrete floor of ;
seconds to open the conta
percent of the eggs did no
The project was graded
container and also on the su
explaining the constructioi
On December 8, the eggs
Sumwalt College of Engin<
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being dropped from an air
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n may be ab
her than pay
f Starr IF VOTERS cast their ballots
rather against the tax when the
year referendum is held, Starr as it
exists today could disappear from
r they the South Carolina map.
in if it By revoking the town's charter,
unin- thg sman municipality would
lerson become an unincorporated part of
ine county.
town 8
ts face Forty-seven names ? an apParent
majority of the town's 85 to
sented 90 registered voters ? signed the
is this petition. The town's population
lum to numbers about 200.
should
paying
No date has been set for the
ping eggs
'smash' hit
r Allison Broadway
lamtcock Staff Writer
fieenng nu ciass successiuiiy dropped eggs
jet to a concrete floor on December 6. Only a
a class project that involved constructing a
in egg and prevent the egg from breaking
stance. They got the idea from the handbook
Technicians Society, JETS, a high school
n is state coordinator. This is the first time
at USC.
tainers of materials including cardboard,
id plastic to hold the egg. Gibson dropped the
int approximately 18 feet from a third floor
a second floor lab. The students then had 20
iner to see if the egg was broken. Eighty
t break.
on the weight, length and volume of the
ccess factor. The students also wrote papers
1 of their containers.
will be dropped 45 feet from the top of the
Bering building. Gibson believes that if the
at distance, then they will not break after
plane.
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Explaining the town
motives for proposing
Mayor Lewis Thompson
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revenue for the town."
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