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News Brie Atlanta has iw ATLANTA(AP) ? A 13-yeai police as a runaway was iden victim ta Atlanta's string of ch Dr. John Feegel, associat examiner, said Timothy Hili missing March 13, apparent! least a week berfore he was 1 River on Monday. "It's one more of the samemarks, no mutilation," Feegel My working presumption asphyxiated in some way and news comerence. "My presen alive when he went in the wal unshaken in that belief if we ha Hill had been labeled a runa turned his case over to thei rather than the special task foi and disappearances of 22 othe 1979. Officials said they had re been seen recently. Pay calls may (AP)? If the General Tele gets its way, it will cost a quarl from some parts of South Can ten cents. utility has asked the s mission to approve a 20 perc< the pay phone hike, for i customers. General Telephone is the lai state. It serves Myr?le Beach Strand, the city of Sumter, G Fairfield County, parts of V counties, Lake City and Kin communities. Senate refuses (AP)? *rhe state Senate r< down on changes it made in i penalties for drug trafficking. The House had refused to ments. The Senate, by ins necessary for a conference co; and senators to be created to acceptable to both chambers. The Senate made no chang< House wrote for trafficking in and other drugs. But the sei provision making conspiracy prison terms and fines as smuj Persons ccr.victed of traffu marijuana could be imprison* the bill. The maximum senten uoorc Man to be Rid KANSAS CITY, Mo. <AP) wanted to be rich and famo Another $50 and he will be. A Jackson County judge ai for a name change last mont Famous. But the Kansas City man isn "I have to pay my lawyer $5 the order," he said. Famous is a musician, whic court for wanting the name < struments and wants to play pr "They're not going to take name is John Smith," said Fan QVinnt.ii ? * y^pvw**. ?^JLA.\/V/ U JLJ MANNING CAP)? Abrahn to a year in prison for contem that President Reagan had Manning. Circuit Judge James Morris Monday when he applauded ? assassination attempt. Waring was jailed. Sentenci this week. Today at Spring Fling - Pr< through Friday in fr Center. See ad for del use baseball - < | Citadel at 7:30 p.m. a Field. Free admissior RH Film - "The S Marilyn Monroe. Sho i cents and at 7 and 9:3C weather Wednesday: Cloudy. High in the low-80s. Thursday: Sunny. La the 70s 3fS ' I'* * |W Victim. -old black youth labeled by tiffed Tuesday as the latest Ud deaths. e Fulton County medical I, who had been reDorted y died of asphyxiation at 'ound in the Chattahoochee - Black male, teen-age, no said. is that he was probably put in the river," he told a t feeling is that he was not ter, but I'd be willing to be d some evidence." way by Atlanta Police, who r missing persons bereau *ce investigating the deaths j r black children since July ceived reports that Hill had f-% /-I 4" inr? v\/\ UUOU 11IU? C j phone Co. of the southeast :er to make a pay phone call jlina, instead of the present tate Public Service Coment rate increase including ts 94,000 South Carolina gest non-Bell systi .n in the i and the rest of ti.e Grand eorgetown County, most of. Williamsburg and Florence gstree and about 20 other i bill change ifused on Tuesday to back a House bill increasing the accept the Senate amendisting on them, made it mmittee of representatives try to reach a cpmpromise ss in the penalties that the marijuana, 1 ashish, heroin nators struck out a House r punishable by the same jgling. :king in largo quantities of 3d for up to 30 years, under ce under present law is five ti Famous ? Thomas Clark Twyman us by the time he was 30. jproved Twyman's request h. His new name? Rich N. 't officially Famous yet. O more before I can pick up :h is the reason he gave the change. He plays three inofessionally. me seriously if I say my nous. ng applauded ia Waring, 26, could get up ipt for applauding the news been shot during court in 1IT 1 ? ? * ? * . ciieu waring ior coniempi ifter Morris announced the ng was deferred until later 3 use ograms and activities j out of Student Health ails. 1 Carolina against The I t Sarge Frye Baseball i to students. even Year Itch" with ws at 2:30 p.m. for 75 } p.m. for $1. ! Low in the upper-50s. )\v in the 50s. High in I " * <>1 "pnsorii WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen Laxalt, R-Nevada, said Ti that authorities have establi motive in the atter assassination of Pre: Reagan, but the senator refi divulge the details. Laxalt, a close friend < president's, spoke to rep outside the White House af and other congressional 1< were briefed by Vice Pre George Bush and several C members, including Att General William French Smi "It does not appear to be \ a plot," said Senate Mi Leader Howard Baker, R-Tei Baker and Laxalt both Smith briefed the congres delegation on the investigate the shooting and the suspect Warnock Hinckley Jt.. wh been charged in the attack. Baker agreed Reagan woi become a "prisoner in the House" and said the executive was unlikely to c his style of frequent trips o Reag after WASHINGTON <AP) ? President Reagan was shot in the chest Monday by a youthful gunman who tried to assassinate him with a blaze of .22-caliber pistol fire that critically injured White House Press Secretary James S. Brady and felled two other men. Reagan "mailed through surgery" according to doctors who after Reagan's surgery said he'd be reaay to make presidential decisions by yesterday. But Brady was said to be ngnung ior nis me, a Duuet through his brain. A sandy-haired man from suburban Denverdescribed as "wandering, aimless and irresponsible"? was wrestled into handcuffs moments after the assailant leveled his pistol and fired six times at Reagan from near pointblank range. The Secret Service identified him as John Warnock Hinckley Jr., 25, of Evergreen, Colo. Near midnight, Hinckley was led into a federal courtroom and formally Bradyi WASHINGTON (AP) - Whi press secretary James S. gravely wounded in an assa attempt against President R making "extraordinary p and probably will live de* tensive bullet damage to the i of his brain, doctors said Tuei Dr. Dennis O'Leary, chief c affairs at George Wai University Hospital, said Br? move his limbs on the right s body - which is controlled b; half of his brain - on comm; his doctors. But O'Leary ducked a about possible paralysis of side, saying, "We are not t U 4 ill - 11AAI assess umi unui we gei a mil downstream." Both Brady's pupils ref light, which O'Leary said couraging. The doctor was optimist Brady's eventual mental because "all his mental proc on the left side," which Mstai damage. One half o/ffie brain is dor almost everybody, controlli ..it-'" n won't I er at hon . Paul the White House to giv IOcHqv rt nnrfioc on/4 1WUUJ OiiVlIU pal Vl^o QIIU u< shed a ranch and elsewhere, npted "I bet that he won't sident method of operation," B ised to And Laxalt said that j had not spoken to Re* Df the the topic, he knows orters enough to be certain th ter he would not become a W jaders recluse. isident Laxalt, asked about ( abinet said he was reluctant orney that information. But th. there was "no indicatioi >art of is anyone but the ind linritv vnlvpH " J J ' ? * nn. But the Nevada sena i said he believed Reagan sh jsional be more c&utious in the an into for presidential secur i, John said: "They are goi 10 has evaluate and look at situation." lid not As for Reagan's futur White Laxalt said, "There chief Ronald Reagan is goin; hange himself to become a pri utside White House." an rec attem] charged with attempting to assassinate the president, and with assaulting a Secret Service officer. He also faces a charge of assault with intent to kill a policeman. The courthouse was cleared hours in advance, AM/4 4-mv rvt AM anil OtVUUl/ IHCIi 31UUU guard outside as Hinckley came and went. He was in FBI custody, held without bail, but officials would not say where he was being jailed. U.S. Magistrate Arthur L. Burnett set a preliminary hearing for Thursday at 10 a.m. EST. Dr. Dennis O'Leary said "a really mangled bullet" was removed irom tteagan s left lung. He said the 70-yearold president's condition was stable, the prognosis excellent, and that he guessed Reagan probably would be hospitalized for about two weeks. "Honey I forgot to duck," Reagan told his wife as he was wheeled into surgery. Then he told the doctors he hoped they were Republicans. making i ite House mental processe Brady, O'Leary said, the le ssination "We really don' eagan, is going to end up," U' rogress" "We believe he ij spite ex- are cautiously optir right side The bullet entei ?day. beside the left eye ? >f clinical the right rear por shington from which it was idy could O'Leary said. ide of the The hospital lis y the left dition officially as and from proving." question Brady, 40, the fat the left Son and a college-t able to shot Monday aftei le further from Reagan. A entered his forehe passed through his >pond to out the other side. 1 was en- the sidewalk, dro] blood spilling from 1 ic about Inches from his capacity vice agents wrestle esses are ground. ined little Brady underwent of surgery in whicl ninant in microscope to ass ng most brain damage ividual in inc to re- ' the whole USC student the rules a\ e behavior, Melbourne is no way keeps his ni g to permit a ,egch soner in the . park. (Photo overir Ptonl ! *^Bi _ * J f ' > ?>* >*. "'- f-J--iL'%V j Ronald Reagan A Secret Service agent and a policeman also were wounded in the midafternoon incident outside a Washington hotel where Reagan had just addressed a union convention. They were reported in serious condition but apparently not in danger. The prosecutor, Charles Ruff, quoted Hinckley's parents as describing him as "wandering, aimless and irresponsible." In Evergreen, family attorney Jim Robinson said ireatpn s. For Brady, irreparal ft half dominates. and bon< t know how he's hospitals Learysaid. Lyn N< i going to live. We Tuesday nistic." the ope ed Brady's head prognosis ind came to rest in was earli tion of the skull, He sai 5 removed intact, Kobrine, signs w ted Brady's con- pupillarlj "serious but im- which ht cicrn Earlier her of a 2-year-old brain dar ige daughter, was Asked rnoon a few feet life, O'L* .22-caliber bullet that any ad at the temple, condition > brain and came Nofzigc }rady crumpled to there "r pping face down, pairment his wound. much at i body, Secret Ser- some tim 'd a suspect to the Brady aide to i : nearly five hours the Was h surgeons used a decided t ess Hie extent of I he dail> and removed reporters ! Long Point Park in | D___L ri _#_ i< ottaun, nana a. no p 9wly found pot lizard 1 as rostrictod at tho by Chip Low oil) j ig 1 ife 1 v I in a statement from the suspect's parents that young N Hinckley has been under ' vl recrent psychiatric care. ;] "His evaluation did not l\ alert anyone to the % seriousness of his con- I dition," the statement said. p Robinson added that Iiin- I ckley's parents were "heartbroken," but would \ stand by their son. Harold Covington, a leader of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Party of America, said early Tuesday that Hinckley was a member of the party, but never active. He said Hinckley quit the party in 1979. Roger Young of the FBI described the weapon seized from Hinckley as a "Saturday night Special'-' and said it was purchased at a Dallas gun shop. After his arrest, Hinckley was taken to police headquarters, then to the local FBI field office where he was questioned by agents. At his court session, Hinckley did not have to enter a plea. Liyi C55 j\y damaged bits of tissue 3, Dr. Dennis O'Leary, the ipokesman, said. )fziger, a White House aide, quoted the chief surgeon in 'J sration as saying "the i is certainly better than it er this afternoon." d the surgeon, Dr. Arthur reported that Brady's vital ere stable and that his / reflexes were normal, ; said was an encouraging ' O'Leary told reporters that riage "probably is likely." if Brady is fighting for his eary replied, "I would say time a patient is in critical he is fighting for his life." jr said Kobrine believes nay be some (brain) im; but he doesn't know how this time. He said it might be e before that is known." had assigned another press iccompany the president to hington Hilton Hotel, but o go along after completing White House briefing for