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Volume LXX, No. 80 University of South Carolina, Columbia , S.C. April "18,1980
Local
robbed
By Leroy WHIiams
Gamecock Stot) Writer
An armed man held up the
Gamecock branch oi tne National
Bank of South Carolina shortly
after it opened Friday morning
and escaped with an undetermined
amount of money.
No one was injured in the hold
up, and an investigation into the
case is underway.
Columbia City police spokesmen
said a man entered the Pendleton
Street bank around 9 a.m., walked
up to a window, handed the teller a
deposit slip with a note demanding
money, and pointed what is
believed to be a .38 caliber blue
steel snub-nose pistol at the teller.
The teller, Mary Griffin, gave
the suspect an unknown amount of
cash, which he put into his jacket.
He walked out of the Pendleton
Street side of the bank.
Griffin told police the man was
. about six feet tall and weighed
about 200 pounds. He was wearing
a red plaid jacket and blue pants.
Police investigator Bill Carter
said the bank will be audited to
determine the total amount of
Studen
By Mark Platte
News Editor
A USC student was killed after
I being thrown from a speeding jeep
I at the intersection of Heyward and
I Pickens streets Thursday mor
I ning
Eugene Myers, 20, of Mount
I Pleasant, S.C. died at Richland
Memorial Hospital at 3:56 a m
from "multiple trauma" to the
i head and' body, according tc
\ Richland County Coroner Frank
Barron III.
j|| The jeep, driven by student A
Moore, headed northbound or
H South Pickens St., before swerving
i|| off the road and hitting two roac
B signs and a traffic light pole, ac
cording to the Columbia Polic<
Department. The vehicle ther
I proceeded off the front lawn of 10
Pickens St. and hit a true!
stopped for a red light on Heywan
Street.
MEYERS. ALONG WITH back
seat passengers Karen Soete an<
Patricia Dolan, fell from the jeej
after it stopped moving. Both Soet
and Dolan were released fron
Rirhland Memorial Hosnital witl
I no injuries.
Moore voluntarily submitted to
breathalizer test and blood tes
after the accident, Columbi
Police Office Bruce Seibert sai
Sunday. "He'd been drinking,
Seibert said, but he could n<
disclose the score on th
Ibreathalizer.
Barron has called for a coroner
inquest to be held Thursday at tl
coroner's office. Barron will ca
witnesses who will testify und<
oath about the accident in an ii
vestigatiori into Myers' deatl
"We've had too many students d
around this campus because they
been drinking," Barron said.
bank
I Friday
money taken in the holdup. H
said there were nine or te
pnstnmcrs in thp hank at thp tim
of the robbery.
How the suspect fled the scene
still undetermined, Caiter said.
Police will ask witnesses to tt
robbery about the case, tal
fingerprints and find out if the]
were other bank robberies in tl
area, which is normal procedui
for investigation of bank holdups.
Sheila Spaulding, an employee <
the Majik Market convenient
store at the corner of Sumter ar
Pendleton streets, said she to
investigators a man who partial
fit the suspect's description was
the store two hours before tl
holdup.
"They (police) asked me if 1 sa
a man with a red plaid jacket
Spaulding said. "I said one wj
here around 7 a.m., but I dor
think it was the same person (wl
held up the bank)."
Spaulding said about the time
the robbery she was busy waitn
on customers in the store. "I had
store full of people. I was too bu:
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n USC student Gene Mye
h corner Thursday.
THIS IS TIIE fourth accident
" the area this year, according
residents of the area. They s
a. there is confusion for drivers w
? procedure of vehicles because
the tremendous flow of traffic r
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e Pickens Street from ba
especially Twilight, makes driv
's hazardous, according to stude
ie in married student housing
11 Hey ward Street
ir Other neighbors pointed
n- areas in which accidents ht
h. occurred. "Only a few days befi
ie this accident, someone came fly
'd up here and split the pole in two,
USC student said.
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the robbery suspect
i't
10 to pay attention to anything,"
Spaulding said.
Joe Sawyer, the bank manager,
of refused to comment on the case
ng itself, but said the incident marked
I a the first time the bank -which
sy holds many USC student accounts
ar crash
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rs died in an auto accident at thi
in "IT'S SI(KK\lN(i, ju
to sickening," a married student sa
aid about the accidents over the pa
ith months. "I doubt I'll ever let n
ot kids play out here in the fro
md yard." The same student said I
nth had his car side-swiped while
rs, was parked on Pickens Street ai
ing recently a speeding motorist hit s
nts cars while driving on the sail
on street.
A Columbia police officer sa
out there are many una ns wen
we details about the accident whit
ore will be discussed at Thursday
ing inquest. Myers is the sixth death
"a a USC student during the curre
school year.
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was robbed Friday. At left /
was robbed since its opening in
1972.
Sawyer said he had "no idea"
how hnany student accounts were
held at the bank.
Kay Hagler, vice president o!
Arts ccr
not recei'
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i Gamecoc
The outlook is "pretty grim" fc
S C. General Assembly for prelin
j Center, a USC official said.
David Rinker, systems vice p
i because of the economic cond
| Assembly has not been approving
If no money is appropriated t
! private funding to complete th
Rinknr said
THE PROJECT IS currently h
consideration. "They (the bond
aciton on it this session," Rinke
General Assembly then private f
USC was appropriated $250,i
project planning last year. How
project can not continue past the
The planned center will house
and speech, media arts and ar
| 350,000-square-foot facility will p
I land bordered by the Congaree 1
I streets at an estimated cost of S
| "We're going to have to wait
; action/' Rinker said. "We will
! pursue other alternative source:
planning stage."
s The project is being reviewc
other arts centers, but no dr*
$250,0(H) IJSC can only get into th<
preliminary drawings and rough
s t i
id ..|p \v'|<^ KKALLY need to sqi
through until next spring with
"Then we could go to the Gen
nt project for the next major requei
. The $1.7 million would finance
design work. About $1.1 million
fnr vii?> ivnrk hut could he sn:
lx would include soil testing and lat
10 The legislature is aware of t
there is a great amount of si
l(| However, if it is not approved f
private funding for planning ar
, the entire project. "We hope the
s. he said.
0 Continuing negotiations to obt
1 Hiver are "looking positive," Hi
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s a police artist's rendering of
operations for the branch said she
could not discuss the bank's
security system and said many of
, the accounts at the bank were
opened by students. Hagler could
not give an estimate on the exact
[ number.
iter may
ve. funding
in Ralston
k Staff Writer
>r USC obtaining $3 million from the
ninary planning of the Carolina Arts
resident for facility planning, said I
ition of the country, the General |
* any projects mat require bonding. ;
his session. USC will have to seek
le planning stages of the project.
>efore the Joint Bond Committee for >
committee) may very well not take j
r said. If it never comes before the
unding will also be sought.
IHK) by the General Assembly for j
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end of this semester, Rinkersaid.
' the departmentSsOf music, theater ,
ts, including several theaters. The
irobably be constructed on a tract of
iiver, Huger, Blossom, and Gervais
540 million.
and hope right now for legislative j
I continue with what we have and i
5 of funds so we can get through the
>d, researcnea ana compared wun
iwings have been made. With the i
s? schematic stage of design, which is !
i floor plans. I
jeeze it. we could carry this project
i about $1.7 million," Uinker said
eral Assembly with a well planned
st."
p the completion of all planning and
of the $:i million requested would be
until next vear The site work
iid filling
he importance of this project, and
ipport for it. according to Rinker.
or economic reasons, USC will seek
id apply next spring for approval of
economy will be improved by then,"
ain the tract of land on the Oongaree
nker said.