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News Briefs 1 Green ribbons for children i i ? Ac fUfAt^A tfAllAta* ? J ? ? A*- - * , iiu j nuit jreuuw nuuwct uunng me nosiage I crisis, South Carolina legislators are now wearing bright [j green ribbons to show concern over the murders of 21 |j black children in Atlanta. j] That's just the beginning. The NAACP's South Carolina I chapters plan to hand out more than 50,000 of the ribbons, y according to a statement. jj The state conference of branches of the National I Association for the Advancement of Colored People has I urged all Americans to "pray daily for a quick resolution | of the Atlanta killings." ; The civil rights group said it was not involved in any effort to raise funds. "The distribution of the ribbons is the least we can do." it said. The ribbon campaign fulfills a promise made to Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson last month. "The murders of the Atlanta children have raised serious concerns all over the nation," said South Carolina jNT A A ('II : J A " " ? noiueiii w.r. uiDSon oi ureenville and state Field Director Isaac W. Williams in a March 18 letter to Jackson. "We pledge our support and please feel free to call on your friends in South Carolina for any assistance we may render," they wrote. TAT int".h r>n -n fooc i-nn-naocQrl V V W f-S JL V/UU liiUI O CUQlj U. i HOCK HILL (AP) - Winthrop College trustees approved | an 11 percent boost in student fees and also recommended Wednesday the state pay $1 million for a motel the school has leased two years as a dormitory. The average increase of $99 a year will mean a South. Carolina resident will pay $506 per semester as a fulltime student. President Charles Vail said the total is well under the maximum and near the minimum charged by other state institutions. Board members voted to ask the state Commission on Higher Education to okay buying the Winthrop Lodge, f formorlv 'A Qimlifv Inn thrix? v v..? VV wiuvuu II Via iiiv vuuipuo. II houses 140 students in two buildings and a continuing education conference center in the other. O /-\ -T*T /-\ -i- ^-V. ? ? L -*1 1 oiiu vv Ci'b bl?fc!ci?JLJLl U. p 5dL\1CLGI1LS BYRN MAWR. Fa. <AP) - Two college students who tj were "really steamed" about dormitory plumbing have !j invented an 'early-warning scalp-saver" to alert bathers of an imminent hot water surge when a toilet is flushed nearby. Sophomores David Schwed and Adam Levy installed a smoke detector in a dormitory shower room and ran a wire irom it to the toilet handle When the toilet is flushed, a current produced by the movement of the handle sets off the alarm. The person in the shower has several seconds to get out of the spray - the time it takes the drop in cold-water pressure to reach the showerhead. i "The other day, Adam came back from the shower room really steaming." Schwed said. "Someone had I flushed the toilet when he was showprino anH thn nnM ---o V??x. VV/IVJ water had suddenly gone off. His scalp had been scalded. So the two Haverford College students, who live in a coed dorm at Bryn Mawr College as part of a dorm exchange. werii io work. Their project used 60 feet of wire, 20 feet of Scotch tape and a broken smoke detector - and cost less than $4. Paper finds Ringo's father LONDON (AP) - The father of millionaire ex-Beatle Kingo Nt.arr is a window cleaner in an industrial town in northwest England, a newspaper revealed Wednesday. Tracked down by the Daily Express to the railroadun< tion town of Crewe, cheerful Richard Starkey said of ;lis famous son: "He's done well, the lad, and good luck to )im. But he owes me nothing." j Ringo Starr is a stage name. The Beatles' 40-year-old drummer originally had the same name as his father, who* \^c4 u:.. * * 1 ini ins ni si wue ana oniy cnna when Kingo was small. h Acupuncture law changes (AIM - The state Senate has approved a bill allowing acupuncturists who are approved by the state Board of Medical fc^xaminers to practice in South Carolina on f ?- i ? reierrais oy pnysicians. The measure, sent to the House on Wednesday, would apparently affect only one acupuncturist, who is working in the Columbia area. Senate Medical Affairs Committee Chairman Hyman Kubin, D-Richland, said his panel wrote the bill because of complaints by patients of the Columbia acupuncturist. j The law now allows acupuncturists to practice only SA/hon a nhvsirian ic nrpcpnt RnKin coiH nofiunto ?? ? ? | ^ .w A ?v*p^an OUAVI pauviivo \^\/IiI~ plained it was difficult to find times when both the acupuncturist and physician could be present. The bill allows acupuncture, a healing art of Chinese origin involving needles inserted into the body, to be performed only on referral of a physician. At the insistence of Sen. Heyward McDonald, DHichland, the bill was amended to require acupuncturists, in the future, to get written approval from the Board of Medical Examiners. The provision would not apply to acupuncturists who are already practicing. Harris begins prison work : BEDFORD HILLS. N.Y. (AP) - Former girls' school headmistress Jean Harris has started working in the [ kitchen and acting as a teacher's aide at the prison where she is serving a 15 year-to-life term for the murder of Scarsdale Diet Dr. Herman Tamover. I Prison officials announced Mrs. Harris' new assign merit Tuesday, saying she has adjusted so well to prison I life that she is joining the general prison population soorjer than expected. Reagan e: under ord WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Reagan is under doctors' orders to work no more than a couple of hours a day when he returns to the White House, now expected to be between r riuay ana Monaay. Reagan's left lung, punctured by a bullet in an assassination attempt 10 days ago, was described Wednesday as "pristine," with clotted blood and damaged tissue now "barely perceptible" in X-rays. Thp Whifp Hoiicp nrpcc u/hi*?h has cut its formal bulletins on the president's health to one a day, said Reagan's temperature was "essentially normal" Wednesday ? an inHioatiftn h*> urac ctill ninnino cnmn """ . u>uu?6 fever. While the chief spokesman at George Washington University Hospital and White House aides indicated the president would be released soon, no firm date was set. Hospital spokesman Dr. Dennis /"v*i J yj Lit-tn y, uescnuing neagan as a model patient, said the president has not asked to be discharged yet and is "not chomping at the bit." But he added: "He probably would like to get out of here." Roads caw 1 arivers to v $232 each 4 (AP) ? The average Rsst \k driver in South Carolina study is wastes $232 worth of gasoline the depai a year because of poorly "Wett maintained roads, a study by , , a pro-road construction , n group indicates. The report says more than The sti half the most heavily traveling traveled roads have 34 perc deteriorated to the Doint "fair" n more than 311 million extra percent gallons of gas must be used. surfaces The study ? conducted by surfaces The Road Information t!Jat une' Program, or TRIP ? con- of .c eluded the wasted fuel cost cessive four times the money needed 1 to repair the roads. the drive TRIP, based in n/SJL1 ?, Washington, is sponsored by seCpet^r businesses with an interest ^ in highway construction. . . . . - ' wouia is such as insurance com- resurfac panies, building contractors, flre jn car makers, equipment repairs ? manufacturers and , engineering firms, ac- neede(j j cording to a news release it , th distributed Wednesday. available A spokesman for the state adequa Highway Department, Jim program Walker, described many of TRIP ] TRIP'S backers as persons $101-mill with a vested interest in to resu highway building. substand Today at US Health Week - Health Fa a.m. through 3 p.m. on the Gi highlights Health Enrichment Science Fair - Region II Sci grades 7-12 on the Coliseum c< 11 p.m. and on Saturday. USC baseball - Caro Newberry at 7:30 p.m. at Sarg< USC tennis - Carolina agal p.m. at Sam Daniels Tennis St RH Film - 4 4 Caddy shack' Chase at 7 and 9:30 p.m. for midnight for 91. weather Friday: Partly cloudy. Low ii *L.. VA. nigri ui in*: /VK. Weekend: Sunny and mild. Lc Highs in the 70s. spected to lers to do li Reagan could be ready to go home as early as Friday but no later than Monday, O'Leary said, assuming continued improvement and no surprises. O'Leary said that while there has been no sign of infection, the president wac still rwpivintf twn fnrmc nf an. N'x'v'fl ' "*C? v *v' vt tibiotics ? penicillin and tobramycin ? and probably would remain hospitalized until he is off the medication. Running "a lot" of fever also would delay his release, O'Leary said. Reagan is no longer receiving oxygen, as he has on occasion, and Dr. Benjamin Aaron, the president surgeon, described the wound as "pristine...clean as it could be," O'Leary said. Once Reagan does go home, O'Leary said, the president's staff will "stay away from loading him up with routine things. In terms of mental work, he can do as much as is necessary." But, the doctor said, "he will not be chopping wood next week. Instead, he will start out by putting in a couple of hours of work each day, moving up to uuste BHm* accurate as far as SWiRBk^ link what they say is hat we've said all ndy showed vehicles ent more fuel on train. a young Spec month ago Walker time off to pla lighway department The O/vmoins y treasurer, said, P fraternity at Vi zz. i I e all the roads that critical need of ' He said an ad- I C.lTiri ^30 million would be AfLAvJiil n the coming year, ~ $209 million now \ ? ft /4 "to maintain an i \J \Jk 11U te highway proposed a 10-year, 1 |fl #^1 C ion-a-year program * * * V-/ V-/ v. rface or rebuild lard highways. i ^ ? i? n^ ? Wendy L. Williai singer of the PI; Irock group, was f< riUPCnt trwH 1II r\( nn n ..vvviiv wmu J v/i ci 11 vi *?9 charge. ir from 10:30 4 Thank you so eeneSt Mall thank you," she told eene oi. rvia man anc| tiu-cc-won Week events. that returned the v< ience Fair for Cleveland Municip. . . after three ho ?ncourse at 4- /IaISKama uvui/ci auvm. Miss Williams h Una against ^!?rge? with " "o " obscenity as a res B r rye r leld. performance in Cle nst Duke at 2 Agora nightclub on J ftftium She said after the iuiu,n" that she would ril ... yniui vncvy coming back to Clev< $1.50 and at Miss Williams, charged with pa obscenity after appe stage with only 1 cream covering tier and simulating bation and other activity, pr?s< alleged. ?u ... ?va. She said that never appeared o I muU m go hom8x ttle work half a day, three-quarter work days and then full days." The doctor said the president should be 100 percent recovered within four months, although "he might do a little better." Meanwhile, White House press secretary James S. Brady, who was the most seriously wounded of the four people hit in the assassination attempt, was reported making satisfactory progress. Medical tests showed continued healing of the bullet wound in Brady's brain with no sign of complications, tho Whito Hnnco coiH v? IV VTIUVV iMVMOV OHIV*. In addition to former Texas Gov. John Connally, Reagan was visited Wednesday by Sen. Paul Laxalt, the Nevada Republican who is heading an advisory committee on transferring some powers and responsibilities from the federal government to the states. Reagan signed an executive order creating the panel earlier Wednesday. He also issued a proclamation declaring the week of April 19 as "Victims Kights Week," calling attention to the needs of crime victims. 'ir^d11 tot r/'al Olympics contestant takes with a hula-hoop yesterday. , sponsored by APO service feems Baskin Track at the Rex r Center. (Photo by Joe Hunter) iatics singer I innocent jcenity trial iio (AP) The charge, a first-degree ms, lead misdemeanor, was filed ismatics after eight undercover Mind in- policemen watched The llSPfni t \7 Plasmafifc ru>rfni>m ? fl-io vj uuiuuuva pvi IUI lit 111 H'V Agora night club Jan. 21. A much, videotape of the show made the five- by a WKYC-TV cameraman lan jury was shown to jurors Wederdict in nesday. il Court Defense lawyer Patrick urs of D'Angelo said the singer was exercising her rights of ad been freedom of speech and exmd#*rinff nrftssinn nnH rfirf nA?Wnn fKo? 0 !? uau aiwiUllg W??v ult of a can't be seen on TV or in veland's commercial films. an. 21. i verdict "I really can't believe why consider we are here today," eland. D'Angelo said. "Maybe the 31, was performance doesn't considering form with your taste or my aring on taste, but it's not a criminal shaving act." breasts Patrolman Ron Bero of the mastur- city's vice squad testified he sexual saw Miss Williams wearing ecu tors only shaving cream above ner waist and that the cream she's later evaporated. He said n stage site simulated sex acts with a microphone.