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News Briefs Reagan postpones decision WASHINGTON (AP)? President Reagan, described as "not ready to make up his mind" on whether to lift the Soviet grain embargo, is leaving it in eftect at least two more weeks. lleagan, who pledged during last fall's campaign to end the embargo, postponed a decision Wednesday, a move that left some farm leaders surprised. "I guess we'll just sit around and wait and let the markets stay crippled," Marvin Meek, president of the Amiirinon ArtrimiUii?*A ^ ^^ - ? ? * fiuivi iviui figi iviiuuic inuvcuicin, auiu tuit'i ti ^auwiei meeting left the question unresolved. s "I think it (the decision) already should have been announced," Meek said. "It's going to take two or three years to get over this embargo, but they (the administration) deserve this time to evaluate it. ...But if we really want to hurt the Soviet Union, let's get into their pocketbooks. Let's double the price of our grain." Senator maintains innocence (AP)? State Sen. A.E. "Gene" Carmichael, indicted on rharcps of voto hnvine savs ho is innoopnf nnd holif?vf?s a jury will acquit Uim, : . "1 am sure a jury of my peer will find me innocent of any political wrongdoing," Carmichael said in a statement issued Wednesday by his Senate office in Columbia. Carmichael, Joe Grady Flowers and Mazel J. Arnette were indicted Monday by a federal grand jury on 12 counts of nnvini? jmd offering to nav voters durinc Uist vear's Democratic primary election in Dillon County. They were also accused of conspiring to pay voters and with obstruction of justice. Nine other persons were also indicted in the alleged scheme, bringing to 21 the number of indictments stemming from an investigation of illegal voting activities in Dillon County. Volcano blasts steam Dlume ? ? - - JLT VANCOUVER, Was. (AP)?Mount St Helens blasted a steam plume more than half a mile aboue its 8,400 foot crater rim Thursday morning as scientists predicted the volcano would erupt. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Thom Corcoran said there didn't appear to be any ash in the plume rising 3,600 feet above the crater. "It's venting but we're not calling it an eruption," he said. "Things haven't changed, we're still in an eruption alert." Clouds which shrouded the mountain early today were breaking up, Corcoran said. He added that seismographs surrounding the mountain were picking up six to eight seismic events per hour. Yoko Ono releases song NEW YORK (AP) ? "Walking on Thin Ice," the last song John Lennon Worked on before his death, has been released as a single sung by his widow, Yoko Ono. The former Beatle played back-up guitar in the recording, expected to reach record stores next week, a Warner Bros, spokeswoman said Wednesday. On the flip side of the single is a ballad called "It Happened,' also sung by Miss Ono. It was taped in 1973. Lennon was shot to death outside his New York apartment building in December. The couple had recently released an album, "Double Fantasy." Pope plans to visit cousin ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)? Barbara Millsap is looking forward to a visit later this month from Pope John Paul II? she is his third cousin and has never seen him in person. "I am very pleased about it," said Mrs. Millsap, formerly Barbara Wojtylo. "I would like very much to see him." Before becoming pope, John Paul II was known as Karol Wojtyla. Mrs. Millsap said the "A" in the family name changed to "O" when her grandfater immigrated to the United States in 1904. The pope's father and Mrs. Millsap's great-grandfather were brothers. Christians against bill (AP) ? Christian educators have asked for a hands-off attitude from South Carolian lawmakers who are considering a bill to require the teaching of creationism in schools. "Just leave us alone," lawmakers were told Wednesday by Reese Yandle, president of the South Carolina Association of Christian Schools. "We don't want the state to tell us what to teach," Yandle said at a reception his group held for members of the General Assembly. Yandle and guest speaker Herman Franklin of Bangor, Maine, urged legislators to respect the separation of church and state. Actor learning to be 'narc' ATLANTA (AP) ? Actor Hurt Reynolds, saying he wants his film "Sharkey's Machine" to go beyond run-ofthe-mill cops and dope pusher movies, is learning to b<> a "narc." Reynolds, a Waycross, (ia., native who lias done several movies in the state, is in Atlanta to direct and play the lead role in "Sharkey's Machine." The film is adapted from a novel of the same title by Hill Hiehl of Atlanta, and shooting begins in three weeks. Reynolds, the son of a career police officer, plays Sharkey, a narcotics officei with tlx- Atlanta Police Department Goverr (AP) ? A rnnctitntinn!)) amendment to allow South Carolina's governors to serve two consecutive terms won tentative ratification by overwhelming votes Thursday in both chambers of the General Assembly. The Senate ratified the measure 31-0 without debate. The House voted 94-15 after several Republicans voiced objections to it. There are two bills to ratify the amendment, one originating in the House and one in the Senate. Both chambers must agree on one of the bills for ratification to ho finn 1 The amendment was approved by the voters in a referendum last November.' Republicans have opposed the idea because th^y fear it would give them fewer Bottoms up I Rush e (AP)? South Carolina new are bracing for a stamped< April issue of Playboy n which is expected to feature i co-authored by Rita t ; estranged wife of former R Jenrette. According to reports, photc I Jenrette in scant attire company an article about the side of a congressman's Washington, and possibly a husband, who was convicU FBI's undercover Abscam oj The magazine is exDected streets the first week of Marc Customers at the Capital N located just a stone's throw State House in Columbia, h Today at USC Superdance ? starts at 6 p.m. Frida; Ballroom. Spectators RII Film ? "The 1 John Belushi and I)ai and 9:30 p.m., $1.50. E and midnight show, $1 Weather Friday: Fair. Low ii mid 40s. Weekend: Fait but 3Os. Highs in thc 5O.s. lorship I -i a. i _ n ..Li: cnances 10 pui a nepuuncaii in the governor's mansion. Rep. Moffatt Burriss, RKichland, said he supports the two-term governor concept, but he is against allowing Gov. Dick Riley, a Democrat, to lake advantage of it. Riley proposed the amendment last year, and the General Assembly approved it, putting it on the November election ballot. Riley and his aides have said he will not announce whether he will run in 1982 until that year. Burriss referred to Chief liicfipo I WnnHrnw I .(iwiv who disqualified four judges the legislature appointed in 1979 to sit on a new appeals court."Those four app6ihte?s were members of the General Assembly when the court was created. Lewis *'V-:-^>%.. . _ * v. v.. v... " vw'-W. <<'>'k^ xpectec 's dealers clamoring for re s frr the oordint* tn Rnri Hut lagazine, "I've asked for an article you never know ho1 lenrette, he said. "There's ep. John for that issue, maj the beach, but the )sofMrs. for it." will ac- The demand for * seamier apparently high life in Democratic coi bout her district. ;d in the "It will be first oration. said Wilson Cain, to hit the Pharmacy and tv :h. Myrtle Beach. H (ewstand, begging him to re from the issue. "I've double h^nri iccno " Pain eoi^ " ? ^ IOOUI,, V/UUI OU1V4, use 24-hour dance-a-thon y in the Russell House _ J1 are weicomea. Blues Brothers" with 1 Aykroyd. Shows at 7 arly show at 2:30 p.m. i the 20s. High in the warmer. Lows in the L:tl i.:f: Hill IdLlll said lawmakers could not sit I on courts they created. ( "We should not be up here ' making positions for our- J selves," Burris said, 4'and * Kiley shouldn't either." The lawmaker said Riley, < a staunch supporter of i former President Carter, 1 proposed the amendment as i a backup "just in case he did 1 not get a cabinet position < with Carter." Burriss urged lawmakers ' to reject the amendment and 1 resubmit it to voters with the j stipulaiton that Riley could \ not succced himself. c Rep. Phil Bradley, R- i Greenville, said allowing the i governor to succeed himself means transferring power ^ from the legislative to the ; executive branch. 1 "I think there were some 1 strong-arm tactics used in < getting ths amendment I lu -IpAj I for Pla served copies ac- Hubert < to. News in 1 extra copies, but the maga w many you'll get," Grand Str going to be a rush to more th /be not as big as at He quot people are waiting they may to $3.00 di the April edition is Mrs. J in the former divorce f lgressman's 6th about sex and the f come, first serve," Jenrette's owner of Southside in an < vo other stores in Kathleen e said people are PostGoss serve copies of the The arti ;d my order for that Jenrette's the Dec. 7 Dry weai concerns (AP) ? It's not time to panic, but there's room for concern over the prolonged dry weather in South Carolina, state officials say. "I haven't heard of any crisis or shortage at the mnmonl n coiH nimco I 1 A V> 11IV-I It, OUKV4 V/KUI VJI UVijO , director of the state Water Resources Commission. "But my concern is that weather records indicate that from Sept. 1 to Jan. 22 we had a six-inch deficiency of normal rainfall." lie said he believes the state needs an above average rainfall of about 12 inches by the end of March to r i ach normal levels. Long range forecasts indicate a slim chance of relict, said .John Purvis, ed massed, and it was ieplorable," Bradley said. 'I think the DeoDle of this >tate were sold a bill of *oods." Rep. John Bradley, DDharleston, said he is not igainst Riley succeeding limself, but he planned to /ote against the amendment >ecause the people in his Jistrict turned it down. Bradley said he is against 'any further erosion of the Legislature's powers by the ludicial and executive tranches unless we can be convinced it is in the best nterests of the people we represent." One of the few lawmakers vho argued in favor of the amendment was Rep. Francis' Archibald,' DBerkeley, who told his colleagues, "You have to litp tho hullpl cnmoHmoc " yboy Gray, owner of the Pee Dee Florence, which distributes zine in the Pee Dee and an areas, said he expected A wl~ u: an uuuuic ins saics. ed some retailers as saying jack up the price from $2.50 jeto the demand. enrette, who is seeking a rom her husband, wrote and politics in Washington >th District, and described womanizing and drinking article co-authored with Maxa, wife of Washington ip columnist Rudy Maxa. icle, which angered many of i constituents, appeared in WJochinrtfAn Dapf monntinn T? aoiiui^iv/ii A uoi ther officials chief meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Columbia. Temperatures for the next 90 days are expected to be below normal, decreasing the possibiltiy of a southerly IIWW U1 well 111, lUUI^l <111 . Lake levels are four to five feet l>elow normal and that "could affect peak power generation of electricity unless supplies are built up," Guess said. Cities have not been asked to conserve because "it hasn't gotten that critical." he continued. But he added that continued dry conditions could create problems in the Piedmont, where cities depend on surface water rather I han deep wells