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News Bni
Committee ex
(AP)? The House Ways
exempted the state'scolleges
percent personnel spending i
all state agencies.
vuauco nuu^cOf w i
mended the exemption, sai
necessary to enable the schoc
integrate.
Higher education officials h
the first affected by the 7 pei
order recommended by the B
all state agencies.
Urw-lrfoo n r.oi/4 fKrv
a jl^'a tvfi l y , oaiu mc
because of tenure granted
members.
How stars lea:
NEW YORK (AP)? Knowl
ignorance for Bob Hope when
told the then-16-year-old abo
welJ.
Anita Bryant never formal!
after four kids, I guess I've leE
The comedian and the
celebrities who tell how the;
i:r~ i ...i 4 ai i 4-1
nit*? tutu wuai uiey nave 101c
March issue of Good Houseke*
Hope recalls being away fro
sex with his children, but wi(
saying "Great. I can't wait" w
When one of Paul Newmai
mother Joanne Woodward's
control device, an open fami
Woodward said.
And Shelley Winters, who g
thought it was "because I w?
had had intercourse." She sa
then agonized over it for years
She says she told her own di
of 8.
S.G. has bid-ri
(AP) - A federal grand jury
construction company and il
charges relating to road cor
tanburg and Cherokee countie
A.T. Sistare Construction C
the first in South Carolina tc
probe in the southeast.
The U.S. Justice Departnv
Wednesday that the charges
tinuing investigation into al
South Carolina.
Tlln in/li/itmnnt ! 1
nig iiiui^uiicui ddiu ilic 1
submitted on Nov. 15, 1977,
improve about 9.5 miles of U.S
It also said the company
mitted in October and Nov
drainage and paving project
stretch near U.S. 29 in Cherok<
Hess may be t]
<AP)? Suspended Columbi
could be tried in April if he i
County grand jury, accordi
Myers.
Myers made the statement
on Wednesday that the case a
the grand jury.
State Law Enforcement /
preliminary hearing that he
aeleetronically monitored a d
$3,000 from Joel Hendrix of Cc
night clubs and pinball machii
"It was bribe money so C
(Hendrix* informed of invest
warn him if he was going to be
Hendrix contacted SLED ai
informant, according to Fa
. 'Uinsiances 01 me pay oil m<
Wf-st Columbia department st
Fant said Hendrix wore j
SLED agents in a surveilla
record i conversation betwee
Hendrix left the store and I
moi ey to Hess, who came out
and was arrested. Police neve
aHfiJt'HIv .irrpnfpr! Fant cniH
School board :
CHARLESTON <AP)? Tl
downtown Charleston is ask
legal costs of joining a
desegregation suit against th
The District 20 board ac
board declined to honor a r<
county is challenging the
challenges the county's autl
without the power to transf
dinate district to another.
Tho cfnirommnnt emit*
* "v 5VV oajro OLiiu
racially identifiable, with th
almost wholly black whi
predominantly white.
District 20 Chairman Cha
pects the board will "work
rather than helping the Ju
case.
Roard mcmtwr Rrimnnri I
funds was being made par
exodus" of students from put
Robinson estimated it wi
finance its portion of the cour
efs
empts college
and Means Committee nas
; and universities from a 7
reduction recommended for
iusc stuucuiiiiiiuiet; recuind
Wednesday's action was
>ls to meet a federal order to
lave said minorities would be
cent personnel spending cut
iudget and Control Board for
exemption also is necessary
I to manv colleffe facnltv
rn. about 'it'
edge was more blissful than
i a girl in Cleveland not only
ut "it" but showed him, as
ly learned abcat "it," but "
irned."
singer are among eight
y first learned the facts of
I their own children? in the
;ping magazine.
m home too much to discuss
:e Dolores reported one son
'hpn told
n's daughters needed steppermission
to get a birth
ly discussion followed, Ms.
ot pregnant at 15+, said she
is a bad girl, not because I
id she had an abortion and
iughter about sex at the age
gging case
has indicted a Spartanburg
ts president on bid-rigging
istruction projects in Spars.
'o. and John W. Jordon are
> be indicted in the lengthy
ent said in a news release
i were the result of a conlegations
of bid-rigging in
:irm conspired to rig bids
on a project to widen and
1.221 near Cowpens.
rigged bids that were subember
1978 on a grading,
: on S.C. 329 on a 4.6-mile
*e County.
?ied in April
a Police Chief Arthur Hess
s indicted by the Lexington
ng to Solicitor Donald V.
after a magistrate ordered
gainst Hess be presented to
igent Murray Fant told a
and several other agents
leal in which Hess accepted
>lumbia to protect Hendrix's
les.
Ihief Hess would keep him
igations against Hendrix or
raided," Fant testified,
id worked as an undercover
nt, who revealed the cirit
allegedly occurred in the
ore on Jan. 3.
a transmitter that allowed
nee van parked outside to
n Hendrix and Hess,
old agents he had eiven the
of the store 20 minutes later
:r found sthe money the chief
request help
ie school board representing
ing for donations to help pay
U.S. Justice Department
e entire county system.
U it-- >'
icu uctause uie iuu couniy
equest for financial aid. The
desegregation case, which
hority to oversee all schools
er studetns from one suborols
across the county remain
ose in the downtown section
: 1 ~ i
r.e suourDan scnoois are
rles Washington said he exon
the question of remedy
stice Department prove its
tobinson said the appeal for
tially "to head off a mass
>lic to private schools.
ill take $5,(KM) to $10,000 to
t costs.
High scl
ANN ARBOR, Mich.
<AP)? Marijuana use
among high school seniors
appeared to drop off in
1980? the first decline in 20
years? but experimentation
: tu i i J
wiui suuic iiiiruci uiu^a
seems to have risen,
researchers at the
University of Michigan say.
And while American high
schools likely never will be
drug-free, the overall use of
IAIIVIV ui U50 appending iicto
leveled off, according to a
| report released Wednesday
by the university's Institute
for Social Research.
"We still have a long way
to go before we return to
anything like; the relatively
drug-free years of the '50s,"
Student
in accident
A male USC student
was seriously injured
Wednesday niaht at
I approximately 1 1
p.m. when the car he
was driving collided
with another larger
car at Sumter and
Whaley streets and
| then hit a tree. (Photo
ti\J Tnrtxi \/l/i/Iinmcl
Unus
in Citi
CHARLESTON (AP)? A
green light has been appe*
night in the room of two
cadets, and school officials s
i i ? ...
nope to nnd its source.
Hundreds of cadets and oth<
seen the light, which moved a
room and answered with a
moving to the ceiling and
moving to the floor.
"I saw it, and so did six othe
in the room with me," says
Hiok PlnrlfO Hi rnntrt*.
V/'U> 1>V, UllbVLUI U1
relations at the Citadel. "It do
and respond to commands. 1
Hoax, it's a very good one."
The light is in room 1123 in t
Batalion baracks, current
residence of Cadets Robert L.1
of Bennington, Vt., and Bi
?r~ 1 ? . -
i uuay an
j Theatre - "The
Longs treet Theatre.
RH Film - "Amei
9:30p.m. for $1.50 an?
Music Festival - C
at 8 p.m. inFraser Hi
Weather
Friday: Chance of sh
40's. High in the 60's.
Weekend: Sunny and
High in the 70's.
hool dru
<
said Lloyd Johnston, one of
three social psychologists
who compiled the report.
"In fact, it seems unlikely
+ Vkr% + ?itA aiva*? tittll ?/\fnwr* n
uiai wc cvci win iciuaii tu
those levels. But the
dramatic rise over the last
two decades in the
proportion of young people
involved with illicit drugs
appears at or very near an
end," he said.
The report was based on a
rvnmnnfionn n../u.?innnn!.n
v^uuipai louii ui ijucduuiiiiaii c
responses from nearly 17,000
seniors in the class of 1980
with seniors from previous
classes. Results of the fiveyear,
nationwide survey will
be published next month by
the National Institute on
ual lig
adel di
whitish- Harding, of Fairfax, Va
iring at only problem it presei
Citadel people who come to s
;ay they difficult for them to stuc
The light began as a
>rs have then resembled the lig
bout the light and finally grew t(
yes by of a foot-rule.
no by There are various ru
origins, Clarke says
r people popular is that it is the s
Lt. Col. who was killed in a fa
public run military college in 1
es move He was a resident of r
f it is a the story goes that he h
claim his class ring,
he First Seniors received t\
ly the Friday, the 13th, and tb
Grenko, there that night, but hai
ruce S. since. "The cadets livii
1
use
Twins" at 8 p.m. in
ican Gigolo" at 7 and
I at midnight for $1.
hamber Music Concert
all. No admission cost.
iowers. Low in the midmild.
Low in the 40's.
g habits
from Student Drug Use in
America 1975-1980."
There was no indication
how the students were
chosen to receive
questionnaires or what the
margin 01 error was in
projecting the results.
The study by Johnston,
Jerald Bachman and
Patrick O'Malley revealed
that in 1980, a larger percentage
of students than in
years past has at least experimented
with stimulants
and the sedative
methaqualone, better known
as Quaaludes.
"The proportion of all
seniors who have ever used
an illicit drug other than
\%4
orm r<
t. They say the have purpose!
its is that the early. They ha
iee it make it been trying not
iy. The story at
defused flash, have come froi
ht from a pen Rumor holds t
) about the size the ring of a vis
When touch
mors about its away, Clarke s
i. The most "I've becomi
pirit of a cadet ghosts," he
11 at the state- "Goodness kno
he early 1960s. job, but I've gc
oom 1123, and Citadel offic
las returned to will be solved,
back to the
leir rings on school."
e light was still In the mean
3 not been seen still be the rr
ng in the room campus.
Postal s
gets rat
WASHINGTON <AP)? J
The Postal Service Thursday i
won approval to charge 18
cents to mail a first-class )
letter, 2 cents less than it \
wanted. The new rate can t
take effect on 10 days' 1
notice. c
The new rate plus increases
for other types of
mail were approved by the s
Postal Rate Commission, a c
tiny government agency that c
reviews postal Service o
requests for higher rates. c
Postal Rate Commission
Chairman Lee Fritschler
said the rates will bring the a
Postal Service about $1 s
billion less per year that the I
change
since 1976? from 35 percent
in 1976 to 39 percent in 1980,"
the researchers wrote.
They found cocaine was
increasingly popular, along
with such prescription
stimulants as amphetamines,
which are the
most widely used illicit
J ? ^ii it ?
uiugs uuier man marijuana.
At leas^ one of every four
students responding said
they had at least tried them,
the report said.
Marijuana use, meanwhile,
declined slightly,
probalbly because of peer
pressure and increasing
conservatism among high
school students regarding
drugs, the report said.
)Jars
jom
y tried to go to bed
iven't seen it and have
to see it."
>out the ring is said to
11 questioning the light.
hat the light encircled
iitorinthe room.
led the light moves
ays. I
e the local authority on
adds with a laugh.
>ws, I didn't ask for this
Hit."
ials hope the mystery
he says, "so we can go
routine matters of
time, room 1123 may
tost popular place on
service
ehike
>o *te u:n: * ? - -
>o.<? Minion 11 nad said it J
leeds.
Postmaster General
William F. Bolger said last
veek the agency may need
o ask for higer rate again
ater this year if the rate
commission did not approve
he full request.
Fritschler told a Senate
ubcommittee today the
ommission approved the lttent
rate for the first ounce
if a first-class letter and 17
ents per ounce after that.
On other classes of mail,
le said the commission
ipproved rates generally
imilar to those requested by
he Postal Service. f