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News briefs Hostage smuggled out diary KRAKOW, Mo. (AP) ? Marine Sgt. Rocky Sickmann kept a diary while a captive in Iran and managed to smuggle it out by concealing it in his trousers leg, a spokesman for the former hostage says. Attorney William Kimme of Washington, Mo., who has been handling the affairs of the Sickmann family, has said that talks were under way with a New York literary agent who came to St. Louis on Friday to see the diary. Kimme said Sickmann began keeping the diary over a year ago and managed to keep the papers with him Hpcnito coirorol mmmr. in av tviui II1UVCO ill 11 clll. The attorney said Sickmann smuggled the diary out by sticking it into his trousers leg when he was told he was to be freed. Sickmann had been told he would be permitted to take the diary out in his luggage, Kimme said, but the 24-yearold Marine was suspicious of his captors. Kimme said thp Hinrv i? v-mi;^ ? ?" - . j .u uviiv. ?vu iv kft nic \jiiiy UHC successfully brought out of Iran by the hostages. Senator indicted, on charges (AP) ? State Sen. Gene Carmichael has been indicted on federal charges of conspiring to buy votes, vote buying, and obstruction of justice in connection with the June 10 Dillon County Democratic primary. If found guilty, Carmichael, his Lake View office manager, retired postmaster Joe Grady Flowers; and Mazel J. Arnette could each draw a maximum penalty of 70 years in prison and a $135,000 fine, Lydon said. The state senator and 11 others indicted by a federal grand jury Monday will be arraigned in Florence Feb. 12, U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Lydon, Jr. said. Lydon said the cases will go to court within two months. However, no Senate action will be taken against the 53year old Democrat from Lake View, S.C., unless he is convicted, state Sen. Rembert Dennis, a key senate leader, said Monday night in a broadcast interview. Airlines request fare hikes WASHINGTON (AP) ? The major U.S. airlines are requesting emergency fare increases because of higher fuel prices, including those expccted from President Reagan's order lifting the remaining price controls on rlnmnc/>il UV/lilVOllV. VSli. The Civil Aeronautics Board is expected to review the request quickly, CAB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz said Monday. The Air Transportation Association, which represents the nation's major airlines and other carriers, asked the CAB to increase the standard fare level to reflect the higher fuel costs the airlines must pay, said Bill Jackman, spokesman for the association. The association's petition does not ask for an increase of a specific size. Local youth dies of burns (AP) ? A 15-year-old youth has died of burns he suffered in an accident inside a 23 ooo vnlt pWtri^ai sformer. David Herbert died late Sunday at th^ burns center at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Ga., one day after he was pritipalK/ ininrnr) mViiln 1 n? * ? ' ...ju* vvi winic tidying diuunu uie iransiormer. Officials said Sunday a door to the privately owned transformer was not locked and there was no security fence around it. Investigators also said there are no signs posted warning that the transformer is dangerous. The transformer is one of four used to power Dutch Square shopping center in northwest Columbia. "There was no fence, and the door was unlocked," the youth's uncle Darrell Herbert said. "There was no way a 15-year-old boy could have broken the lock. He was like a lot of little boys just killing time. He thought it was a dumpster." Officials said doors to all transformers were locked Sunday. Dennis Building opening (AP> ? The Rembert C. Dennis office hnildina th*? newest structure on the state capitol complex, will be ready in two weeks for state agencies to begin moving in, officials say. The S.C. Wildlife and Marine Resources Department will be the first agency to begin moving. The agency will move in data processing equipment in two weeks, and by the end of March, 470 employees from seven state agencies will be in the building. The $8.4 million structure was built around the shell of the old state highway department building. Other occupants of the Dennis building will be the Attorney General's Office, Adjutant General's Office, Ethics commission, most of the Research and Statistical Division of the State Budget and Control Board, Legislative Information Services and Clemson University's legislative lobbyist. Mayor calls for officers ATLANTA, (AP) ? Atlanta should use any means necessary to beef up its police force, which otherwise cannot adequately protect the city and solve crimes in eluding the cases of 17 slain and missing children, according to Mayor Maynard Jackson. Delivering his "State of the City" address Monday, Jackson called for 160 officers ? at the rate of 40 every three months ? to be added to the 1,300-member this year. "Our challenge as parents is clear ? we must encircle our children with love and with our caring as we have never done before," Jackson said. "We must look out for each other." "This tragedy is not just headlines about unknown, distant people," Jackson said. "This is our burden, this is our lament, this is our great challenge." 1 Belk honored HI IlUfflClUlffl WINNSBORO (AP) ? Freed hostage William Belk has returned to the town where he grew up and has told residents the honors should be given to eight service men who died in a failed attempt to rescue 52 Americans from Iranian captivity. Belk, a 44-year-old communications specialist with the State Department, presided over a tree planting ceremony Sunday in honor of the freed hostages. Belk, who grew up in Winnsboro but now lives in West Columbia, helped town officials plant 52 crape myrtle trees near an armory building. He asked that the "William Belk Tree" be renamed after the eight men who died in the aborted rescue attempt in April. "The men who died in hopes that they would rescue us should be honored much more than us," Belk told about 1,000 persons who turned out to welcome him home. "To be on the level of honor that they are is far above the level that we should ever be," he said. Belk, who was freed from captivity in Iran Jan. 20, recieved several placques and mememtoes from politicians and dignitaries. He also listened to music presented by grade school ! children and the Winnsboro High School band. He was accompanied by his wife Angela, his two sons by a previous marriage, his 86-year-old grandmother Mamie Belk, and several aunts, uncles, and cousins. Seated on the stage with Belk was Webster Anderson, a Congressional Medal of Honor i winner from Winnsboro. He lost three limbs during the Vietnam War. Anderson said he is glad Belk and the other hostages are home, but he understands the bitterness of Vietnam veterans who say they were ignored when they returned home. "Some were in 24 months and came back with missing limbs." he said. "Nobodv welcomed them home because it was an unpopular war." Anderson said the government is trying to make something of the hostages' return to show the United States is unified. "Nobody here knew nothing about me," he said. "If I hadn't been a congressional Medal of Honor winner, if they hadn't called me from Washington, they (Winnsboro residents) never | would have known about me." Anderson later was honored by Winnsboro residents. 'Pay is good' (AP) ? The pay is good ? up to *n charge $15,000 a night ? for helping on a came to s marijuana smuggling operation, and him to di most of those involved give little $5,000. thought to penalties, says a veteran of t?ld the illegal trade. c^re whai The marijuana smuggler was in- said. Fro terviewed by The State, which more inv< published the interview Tuesday in a successfu special section on marijuana eight mon smuggling in South Carolina. His "...Thej identity was withheld at the request of ?ne night' the State Law Enforcement Division. "And, ree which hopes to get his cooperation in any work its efforts against other marijuana I guess, smugglers, the newspaper said. 1 N Asked if he had any moral reser- airport ar vations about his work, the smuggler $15,000," I said, "It's the money. It's hard to turn busted, I < down that much money. Also, it's kind working of exciting. I kind of rlninu it things woi j~j ?? rpu' ? lounging around the motel, all 1 ne cr? expenses paid, the escort service, the brought ii high rolling." "About 1whole op< He said he got involved when a man own thing Today at USC Basketball Doubleheader. USC woi vs. Florida A&M at 6 p.m. and USC men Ppnn Stato cti firt m m ^/aaaa w?uv%/ M* U "England, Scotland and Wales/* at 8 j in the Russell House Ballroom. Tickets $ for the public; free for USC students. ItH Films ? "She Done Him Wrong," "The Bank Dick" plus Fox Movietonew 2:30 p.m. for 75 cents and at 7 and 9:45 j for $1. Weather Wednesday: Clear and cold. Low in the Hitfh in the mid-30s. Thursday: Continued clear and cold. Lo the 20 s. High in the 40s. . 5 lj*'. ^ wm I * j i ii i1 MiKS0^^ *^fl 8 ?li^?H^^Ttl 1119 H^iM^HSraS E HR m ^flKv%%. ,>A im (JSC siudent Mark Farmer admires the collection of Beetle paraphernalia being displayed outside of the Russell House theatre. (Photo by Chip Lowell} in pot smuggling of the smuggling operation in. Four or six would be unloading, ee him on his job and asked fwn wnniH fiw?iir?o .Uv.i?& niv. pane, nia^uc ive a truck to Atlanta for one or two on the lookout, then two or three with generators and vacuum him that for $5,000 I don't cleaners to clean out the plane." t's in it ? I'll drive it," he Unloading took only about 15 m that beginning, he got minutes, he added. olved. takine nart in oioht ?? " ' ' 0 ,? -*o"v uc actiu nc generally irusiea me I operations over a period of people running the operations. "The ths, he added. operators are easy-going, nice people ' would pay me, say, just for ? just regular people, some of the s work, $15,000," he added. nicest people you'll ever meet," he ally, in my job there wasn't added. in it ? just taking a chance,' _ .. ~ ,. . ... J The South Carolina Legislature is vas working the primary considering making the penalties for ,h ail umn? t ? ^ drue smucrcrlin?? tnudh^r nut th*? he added''''I*fthe pfane'got J *8*1?1" *a\5e ne"er gaVC mUCh Jidn't get anything If I was though to penalties. the alternate airport, and "They had me pumped up so tight rked out, I would get $7,500." about, if I would get caught, how they w to unload the plane were would get me out, and the money was n from elsewhere, he said. so good and I knew the well would 4 rnknnlo o J-v J 1 ? 4 * t ate nwucu in me never run ary, I just never thought sration. Each man had his about it.I didn't know what the law ; to do when the plane came was. I <iidn'teven think about it." Southern Rf>U in rate hike case (AP) ? Southern Bell Iast y^1* and a *3? million , m. Telephone Co. officials increase in March 1979, but O <r A began presenting its case for Marsh said inflation had a $39.6 million rate increase eroc,ecl the company s Monday by telling the state earnin?s. Public Service Commission "Inflation has caused ana that even the 12 percent labor and capital costs to sat increase sought by the escalate far beyond what our ).ni. company was not enough to jast increase allowed," said attract investors. Marsh. "All our costs have General Manager Harry gone up in all areas of our Marsh told the commission business " Monday that the phone company, which serves Marsh said Bell needs a 16 about 750,000 customers in percent return on the 20s- South Carolina, needs to company's common stock to more than double its current be competitive in the capital 7 percent return on the market. But Steve Hamrn of iv in company's operations in the the state consumer adstate to attract investors. vocate's office said "a figure 1 IBel! received a $21 million ()* 13 percent is more in the 1 rate increase from the PSC proper range B