Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Wire reports i Wo^cf Iran postpones debate About one-third of Iran s parliamentary deputies defied the nation's sternest judge and boycotted the public debate on the American hostages Thursday to protest any move to release the rantivps " TT ? 1 K .w wvivtv v?iv- MUV , t VJ .O. presidential election. The lack of a quorum forced postponement of the session until Sunday. The deputies who boycotted the session stood outside the assembly hall as Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, Iran's chief Islamic judge who has sent scores before firing squads and is known as a hardliner on the hostage issue, took over the rostrum and pleaded for a quorum so the open debate could begin. Saying he was "no friend of the United States or Jimmy Carter," Khalkhali said t^t regardless of the effect of the hostage issue on the presidential election, it w$s a problem the assembly was obliged to tackle, a Danish radio correspondent'in Tehran reported: jn a telephone nooxup to Copenhagen. * * Thatcher ignores demands LONDON ? Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says Conservative government will make "no concessions e at all" to seven Irish guerrillas staging a hunger strike demanding they be recognized as political prisoners. Mrs. Thatcher was addressing the House of Commons at r tne prisoners began their hunger strike at Northern Ireland's Maze prison. The strikers, six from the Provisional IRA and the other from the smaller Irish National Liberation Army, are refusing all food but taking liquids. Pope establishes new rules VATICAN CITY ? Pope John Paul II has ended a twoyear freeze on granting dispensations from vows of priestly celibacy and has established new rules to allow O-?L-1! ' ? * "" " uuuiaii i/uuiuuc pries is io leave uie 'priesthood and marry. The decision means the Vatican will begin immediately processing almost 5,000 petitions on file from priests seeking release from their vows. The new papal directive was contained in a letter to bishops and heads of religious orders from Cardinal Fran jo Seper, the perfect of the Vatican's powerful Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, previously called the Holy Office. The letter, dated Oct. 14, reaffirms the church's 1,500K<*n ? ? ?1 - ?- ? jv?t-v<u van vii (iiicsuy murriage, wmcn is Deiievcd to be a major reason behind the sharp increase in the defections of Roman Catholic priests in recent years. Defections are running at the annual rate of about 4,000, or l percent of the world's 400,000 priests. "It's important that the priests give an example of fidelity in their commitment to their vocation until death," the letter said. Teachers avoid sexed. PEKING ? Some Chinese teachers of personal hygiene purposely advance slowly through the course book so that the school year ends before they come to the section on sex education, which they consider embarrassing to teach, the China Youth News says. In an article published Tuesday, the newspaper said Chinese teachers should not be embarrassed and noted that some Peking schools had found it war an ?nciar subject to teach if the course was taught separately to boys and girls. At a picnic recently, USC ' students Becky Renner, Doug Clark and Scott Williams focus in on a tiny frog, a sign of simple 4 nature. (Photo by Kyle HollandJ Nation No trick or treat in Atlanta ATLANTA ? Atlanta police are urging parents to keep trick-or-treaters home Halloween night because of fears spawned by the slayings of 10 black children here in the past 15 months. "I am reiterating Mayor (Maynard) Jackson's request that parents not allow their children to go trick-or-treating on Halloween night," Public Safety Commissioner Lee :-J : 1 diuwn saiu in a statement rnursaay. "Instead, we are encouraging parents to have community parties for the children on Saturday...during the daylight hours." Brown promised to have "as many officers as possible out in police cars patrolling the streets on Halloween night" to protect children who do go trick-or-treating despite;the warning. Atlanta's black community has been shaken by the 'killings on the 10 children and the disappearanoes ofrfojur*, others since July 1979. A special police task force is investigating the deaths, but authorities remain stumped. Brown asked the public to cooperate with his Halloween safety campaign by notifying police of the locations of any parties scheduled Friday night. He also urged that children who do go trick-or-treating 1? ? - ? ..... uc aLtuui(j<iiiicu uy cm auuii ana wear orignuy colored clothing. Parents should inspect their children's candy and throw away any treats whose wrappers have been opened, he said. Student strips for money OTTUMWA, Iowa ? Tom Arnold is getting down to basics ? like his underwear ? for nnllt?o<? The Indian Hills Community College sophomore needs money for tuition, room, board and expenses. So he will strip to his underwear Nov> 14 and walk the 20 miles from Albia to Ottumwa. Donors have pledged to pay for the each mile he completes, and proceeds will go for his college education. More than $400 has been pledged to the cause, and Arnold estimates he needs another $600 to meet next quarter's expenses. "I have some real pretty white cotton boxer shorts with red hearts I'm going to wear, along with a white T-shirt," ' Arnold said, adding the outfit, "isn't very sexy." His shorts, he said, will be enbriodered with his walk's slogan: "From Here to There in Underwear." Pumnkin thipf nix/PQim I w |w ...? w wj i ? v v/ w j-' CONCORD, N.H. ? A remorseful thief, remembering how he felt as a child when his own pumpkin was stolen, has returned the pumpkin he took from a Concord family's porch. Barbara Hanchett said she heard a commotion on her porch during the weekend, and the next morning the pumpkin was gone. Her daughters, aged 5 and 8, tearfully looked for their pumpkin, but it was nowhere to be found. Then a while Inter fhf ruimnlrln roonnnnroJ >bu|i|<v>at?u VflS UIU | porch, with this note: "Sorry, I forgot it. It happened to me when I was 3, and I cried my brains out. I'm really sorry. The Night Man." Fla. police getsuspects ! BATON ROUGE, La. ? A fingerprint check on a man picked up as the result of a routine traffic stop showed he is wanted in Georgetown, S.C., on three charges of murder, according to state police. Lt. Ronald Jones said Loran D. Logan, 27, and another man were picked up by Trooper James Duplantin near here on Oct. 4. Duplantin saw them drivinc alonff inf#?rctt?fo m *? ?? ^ cm exceptionally slow speed, checked out the license plate by , radio, discovered the car had been stolen in Tallahassee, Fla., and arrested both men. WKKr |^p|: v^jgre. y ?hk W?'WBi wBUk J^^B^BBB^B^B^^^^bSi .i^g" .... Hair WWwBHHg * ? State Mystery witness speaks MONCKS CORNER ? An unnamed "mystery witness" has told authorities he took part in two robberyabductions June 19 that ended in the slayings of three country service station attendents. According to Berkely County court records, the witness allegedly helped two men rob about $1,600 that night and abduct three men who were gunned down on lonely country roads. It was not clear whether the witness ad* mitted taking part in the shootings. Two Sumter residents have been charged in the crime. Solicitor Capers G. Barr II has been tight-lipped about the witness. He would not say whether the witness has been charged or whether he would be charged, and refused comment on the witness' whereabouts. Barr also declined to say whether the witness had been offered immunity from, prosecution in exchange for testimony. "I'll let the documents stand for themselves." he said.*' Carter visiting Columbia President Carter's visit to Columbia today will boost his South Carolina support by as much as 8 percent, possibly enough to carry the state, Democratic leaders have predicted. "Experience has shown that a visit can mean a 6 to 8 percent jump in support," state Carter campaign chairman James Quackenbush told a news conference. "If you take the WIS-TV poll figures, that could mean a very substantial win for Jimmy Carter in South Carolina. A poll by the Columbia TV station this week showed 42 percent of the electorate for Carter, 40 percent for n Li? ? ? ivepuuncan ttonaia Keagan, 2 percent for independent John Anderson and 16 percent undecided. Riley creates art school GREENVILLE ? Gov. Dick Riley has established a $115,000 Governor's School for the Arts for talented South Carolina children, the second such school in the state. Riley has signed a contract with the Greenville County School District to operate the school. "Developing our best artistic and cultural talent is important because true art is at once universal and individual/' Riley said. "It has the capacity to reach each of us; to create awareness and sensitivity, to make us better people." The state currently operates a Governor's School in Charleston for academically excellent students from around the state. The arts school is scheduled to open summer 1961. Local and state groups, including the Greenville Art Museum and the state Arts Commission, will help draw up the school's program. USC students tote eggs Bonnie Carter carries a raw egg around with her wherever she goes. If she has to go anywhere without it, she must find someone to look after it until she gets back. Lisa Herastrought has the same problem. So do Mary JAne Wobecky, Alan Peters and about 60 others. aii are university of South Carolina students, but their fragile cargoes are not a new campus fad. The eggs are part of an exercise for an infant development class designed to give the students a taste of the problems and responsibilities of child rearing. Their little ovoid charges, some decked out in lace bunting or printed with tiny faces, are drawing stares and snickers from families and friends. But the exercise seems to be working. "It's succeeding more than we'd hoped," said Dr. Vince Ward, who develoDed the <?*prrisp nin?? ? ??? ??"??? ?? 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