Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BMBB WORLD U.S. oil to Iran WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal officials said the government has approved emergency exports of heating oil and kerosene to Iran. Officials said the shipments were at least in part to maintain the good will of a nation that ships far greater amounts of oil to the United States. Questioned at a town meeting in Burlington,Iowa, ^resident Carter said Wednesday the amount of fuel involved is "iust a verv tinv amount" comoared to U.S. imports from Iran. According to government sources and independent estimates, Iran will be getting about 1 million barrels of heating oil. With the United States importing about 750,000 barrels of oil daily from Iran, the 2 million barrels headed back to the Persian Gulf country roughly pniiak tho amnunt nf rrnHp nil Iran shins tn th*> IlnifoH States in three days. The Energy Department said it recommended approval of the deal "because it was in the national interest of the United States to reciprocate to Iran to meet their relatively small emergency need caused by a temporary refinery problem - especially in light of the large quantities of petroleum which that country exports to the United States." Babies stable NAPLES, Italy (AP) - The three surviving octuplets born to Pasqualina Chianese 10 days ago are gaining weight and doing well, doctors reported. But, they added, the conditions of premature babies can change quickly. Stefano Chianese, the father, frequently visits Ann, Silvana and Valentina while Mrs. Chianese has yet to see her three girls. Mrs. Chianese, who had been taking fertility drugs, cnvfimlnfp ko m 1 fVT/? UCIlVttCU OCAIU^ICU) 111ICC IIIUIIIIU ^11 CHldlUlCiy III liJ/U and all died a few days later. This time, two girls and three boys died within three days of birth, which was two months premature. Dancer seeks asylum NEW YORK (AP) - Alexander Godunov, a star of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, has asked for asvlum in thp United States, said the executive director of the ballet company s American production company. Godunov, the leading male dancer of the 125 member Bolshoi troupe that is currently touring the United States, defected in the company's fourth and final week at the State theater in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. I Laid back I m The hassles of registration present ^ no problem for Jeff Tenhover, a freshman business administration^ mo/or, as he takes time to soak uo W the last rays of summer. ^ ' m NATION Heaters unsafe WASHINGTON (AP) - Montgomery Ward & Co., one of the world's largest merchandisers, has acknowledged it sold woodburning heaters that could lead to home fires if installed according to instructions. Ward's agreed to put prominent notices in future catalogs telling consumers of the potential problem affecting an estimated 200,000 consumers. FTC official Richard Kelly said the commission does not know of any fires it can directly attribute to Wards models, "but there have been fires caused by wood stoves located too close to combustion sources. There aren't any statistics specifically on Wards stoves, but this certainly is a potential prooiem. Tension mounts DENVER (AP) - Nearly all of 22 Vietnamese families here have moved out of a predominantly Hispanic low income housing project after simmering tensions between the two groups broke into violence The window-breaking confrontation that erupted last week capped racial friction between the Vietnamese and Hispanic residents of the area known as the "projects" that had been smoldering for nearly six months. The tensions result from cultural and language differences, and one economically deprived group's jealousy and frustration over the arrival of another such group, authorities say. Wastes banned p aunu<M pttv r>? / ad\ , i? *1 univjuiiiin V/ii i , vjra. v/vjt; - uaiuui V/iiy, site ui uie Georgia Ports Authority's largest shipping terminal, has become the first Savannah area municipality to ban the transportation of nuclear waste materials through its boundaries. The six-member city council voted unanimously last week to impose an ordinance governing the movement of nuclear materials from the GPA's Garden City Terminal through the city. Similiar ordinances are being considered in nearby Savannah and surrounding Chatham County. City attorney Charles Sparkman said the ordinance, patterned after documents already passed in Charleston, S.C., and New York, specifically bans certain types 01 nuciear material, including spent iuei from nuclear test reactors abroad. Dress code issued NEWPORT,N.C. (AP) - Newport Mayor Darryl Garner believes anvone wearing nhRppnre T-shirts anrt patches should change clothes or leave town. Garner has proposed "The town with old fashioned courtesy" establish a dress code prohibiting "lewd and obscence T-shirts and patches" from being worn within the town limits. The mayor of the small coastal town said he thought of the code whern he saw a patch on the rear of a boy's jeans cuuumuug ? pi uiane reinarK ana gesture. rne j boy was with a girl who had a patch on the rear of hr jeans referring in off-color language, to a part of her j anatomy. S Hit? * ** - I, ? STATE C^nfr\nrn r~\\ /r^ rf i im^k/^1 ocn IIOI 1^*0 UVUI BUI I COLUMBIA (AP)- The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence returned by an Horry County jury a year ago against 19-year-old Rudolph Tyner of Spartanburg, but has upheld his conviction. A 44yvMMA?f /^AMAMn 1 r\oni/?l D Tl^/>T nni/J I OUIlC rtliui iicji vrciicidi L/aiuci iv. mvutvu aaiu Thursday's action marks the first time since the present capital punishment law went into effect two years ago that a sentence under it has been overturned. Tyner was convicted in August 1978 of the murders of Wiliam B. Moon.47. and his wife Mvrtie S. Moon. 48. They were shot to death during a holdup on March 18,1978,at their convenience store near Myrtle Beach. SLED agent testifies CONWAY (AP) -An agent of the State Law Enforcement Division testified Friday Roy Lowry was a. c u. u ^cc^M snui iruiii aiuuubii utn:aus>e ne u icu tu icsuuic an mictu with the wife of John Hoffman. That testimony by SLED agent Hoyt Bellamy was given at a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Olin Junior Blanton for Hoffman,50,like Lowry a Myrtle Beach businessman. T nwru 17 wac chnt from amhnch hv a cninpr Mav 11 JUU Tf 1 J J KJ 1 ) VT CAfc? UIIU It VIII U ItlMUUIl ?7 Uill^Vl U1UJ A A as he drove to work. Hoffman, who surrendered to authoritites Wednesday after an arrest warrant was issued for his arrest, is charged with paying $5,000 to have Lowry killed. \A/nrkpr I nQPQ rirm j J w I IX V/ 1 w ^ KS I I I I CLINTON (AP) - A 41-year-old textile worker is listed in fair condition after his left arm was torn off in an accident at Clinton Mills' Bailey plant. Ronald Suber lost his arm below the elbow when it was caught in a carding machine about 4 a.m. Thursday. He also suffered head lacerations. TV/T i AKIa 11 * IHjiinv auiL, uu cviui ui nit? Luurcns uounty Emergency Service, said Suber was still caught in the machine when paramedics arrived about 25 minutes later. It took them another 30 minutes to free Suber and rush him to Self Memorial Hospital in Greenwood. Able said the arm had been badly mangled by the carding machine and there was no possibility of reattaching it. Tremors hitS.C. ANDERSON (AP)-Mild earth tremors, apparently concentrated in the northwestern part of South Carolina and adjacent counties in Georgia and North | Carolina, were felt throughout the area Satnrrlnv nioht [j The National Weather Service office at Greer said I the tremors shook homes in northwest South Carolina, |] southeast North Carolina and northern Georgia. No i injuries or property damages were reported, j! The weather service said two distinct shocks were i| felt about 9:32 p.m.