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,JOlJth Carolin-, r i Lampus ^J-bra r/ g/ Volume LXX, No.BB University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. March7,1 9BO ^ m^H Harry Dent, George Bush's accused the Connelly camps buy the black vote. onucK. oar walk off From Staff Reports Gamecock Snack Bar workers left their jobs early Wednesday because they said they disapprove of the organization's management. The female snack bar employees said they were tired of the "inhumane treatment" they receive from manager Bill Lark. Lark consistently uses profanity and flushes them hevond their limitations, the workers said. Nine employees left their posts Wednesday and were approached by Lester Aiken, director of University Dining Services, and Dan Ramage, associate director, in an effort to reconcile the problem. It AM AG K SAID he and Aiken told the employees their services were important to USC students and they were needed on the job. A meeting to discuss the grievances was held that afternoon. The snack bar workers said they were tired of Lark insulting them in front of customers and calling them obscene names. Belongings left in the kitchen area were often thrown in the garbage by Lark, they said. Worker Delores McCoy said Lark became obscene when many 01 me employees couiu noi come 10 work because of last week's snow. "If you tell the manager (Lark) that you have to go to the hospital, he tells you not to go," McCoy said. "If you clock out (anyway), he will suspend you for a week," she said. The employees also said Lark uses them to do his own job and they were tired of being :_i ,1 iiusucaicu. THE EMPLOYEES returned to the their jobs after the meeting Barry Newman ?GAMECOCK S.C. campaign manager, fgn fast week of trying to workers the job with dining services officials was set up, Raniage said. Snack ban service was slowed down for a total of 30 minutes. Lark, Ramage and Aiken met with the employees and Ramage said the problem began during the snow weekend. Several employees did not report to work, so the management had to run the snack bar, he said. Lark said he was disturbed by the shortage of workers during the snow and did not speak to his employees when they came to work on Tuesday. Lark wanted to let himself "cool down," Ramage said. I orl/'c i mi n/V^nn Vi/i c ? ?? nlf uiii i\ o luavnuii yv ii^ii tut; suativ bar workers left their jobs was concern for students, he said. "Customers suffer when something like this happens." During the two-hour meeting, Lark said a few other problems arose. "They were just little things that needed discussion and clarification," he said. LARK SAID cashiers did not understand why he lets students use their board plan cards after meal hours are over. "The students pay for their meal and usually explain to me that they were in class and couldn't eat their meal exactly on time, so I let them eat," he said. joann MCi^oy, a snacit uar employee, said she is happy and differences with the management have been resolved. "The manager and employees are fine," she said. Lark said he now has a good working relationship with his employees. Between Connolly wor iUUIl^y I^AUK By Ronda Templeton Assistant News Editor An African Methodist Episcopal Church member said she saw campaign workers for John Connally and church officials exchange money at the church Feb. 27. Angie Frazier said she saw one man "stuff his pockets with money" and another place a pile of bills in his wallet at the AME church meeting Connallv attended. Frank Keid, South Carolina bishop of the AME church, denied the charges leveled against his organization. George Bush campaigners have accused the Connally campaign of paying the AME church $70,000 to buy black votes in South Carolina. BUSH CAMPAIGN worker Jim Timmons released a statement prior to the GOP debate in South PnrAlina lnct on.oucinit /VnMolKt vui v/iiuu iuot i uui ouuj civ-vuoui^ 11ic v_>vji11id11 y campaign of bribing black voters with a $70,000 donation to Allen University through the AME church. Connally and his campaigners denied the charges at a press conference Friday, and Connally called Bush's chief South Carolina strategist, Harry Dent, "the original dirty trick man." Connally "knows better than that," Dent said. "The whole situation is nothing but Conally swinging fast and furious to save his dying campaign," he said. Dent said Ron MucDuffy, executive secretary of the AME church in South Carolina, approached the Bush campaign with the same $70,000 offer to buy the black vote. "I talked to Timmons and we agreed there was no way we'd have anything to do with b~?5p^^^r;?&j?rv* > * - t y.-j-%? -. .v; ; Ji^fr: -'_*.< :jt|g|^K r% f t oaKer arop By MaHt Piatt* Ntwildkor Two days after Republican Howard Baker told the RirhlanH Cnnntv GOP convention that he "hooed to win, place or show in the S.C. primary," the Ten nessee Senator dropped out of the 1980 presidential . race Wednesday. "I'm doing everything 1 know how to do, I'm doing it_ well and it's still producing third-and sometimes fourth-place finishes." The major reasons for Baker's withdrawal frorr the campaign included a $900,000 campaign debt, s fourth place finish in the Massachusetts and Vermoni primaries and a lack of organization, according t< Wiatt Stewart, head of the Baker for President National Headquarters. ''The basic thing is that you almost have to be ? professional candidate starting from way bad when," Stewart said. "You have to be unemployec and have to be involved in a two-year campaign." William Durham, Baker's S.C. campaign manager said it's "dissapointing and that I was willinglogoal kers and church officials mge charged that/' he said. TIMMONS, WHO IS chairman of the SC. Black Republican Forum, later learned that the Connally campaign had accepted the AME church's offer, Dent said. Based on his own knowledge of the offer J ? 4 ? 4 I n l_ l A m * n 1 1 niauL* to me tsusn campaign oy me aiviil cnurcn. Dent said he would not "back away from the accusations made by Timmons." Ileid said the charges against the AME church are "unconscionable lies, rumors and innuendos." The accusations against his organization are baseless assaults "visciously leveled by Harry Dent and the George Bush campaign." he said. neia wouia noi openiy accuse nent ana Timmons of creating the charges leveled against the AME church and Connally. but said "That (lying) is not a word a clergyman would use. 1 would say they are far from the truth." THF ACCUSATIONS SLANDER Allen University as well as the AME church. Reid said, because the $70,00() used to buy votes is alleged to be in the form of a donation to the school. Frazier said she is sure Connally campaigners and AME church officials exchanged bills of large denominations at the Con nally appearance. "I would swear to it on my death bed," she said. Frazier said she witnessed the money transaction because she arrived at the church late and the men were standing near the back of the room counting bills. Dent said he is "not surprised" that Reid and Connally deny they conspired to put a price on black votes in South Carolina because "that's illecal There's no way they would admit to something they know is true under those circumstances." nHBMHnBHnBBHHBHI PO V/ULUI taV/C the way and fight it to the maximum," but added Baker's decision was a "mature" one and "he came > in the race clean and he's getting out of the reace tiuau. There are no immediate plans for Baker to endorse 1 another candidate or accept a vice-presidential bid offered by another Republican at this time, according ; to Stewart. > Stewart criticized the other candidates as being "professional, "stating that you "must be either rich, i unemployed, or both." i Baker made his decision Tuesday night after t speaking in Charleston. > No decision has been made by Baker to run in the t 1984 Presidential race because he said "it's hard enough making this decision without thinking ahout i 1984." c Stewart said the media " has done a disservice to 1 the system by saying it was a two man race after Iowa." He added that efforts by Bush to win the , southern primaries will be "disastrous" and that 1 "he's going to lose every primary he gets into." I