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News Briefs OK I Green ribbons for Children [ { API - As thffv urnro uollnui nkkAaw <! :?? n? t ?*. ? j ?.v jv.?un iimyw vui nig urc ii "iiage crisis, South Carolina legislators are now wearing I -ight green ribbons to show concern over the murders of 21 \ black children in Atlanta. That's just the beginning. The NAACP's South Carolina chapters plan to hand out more than 50,000 of the ribbons, according to a statement. The state conference of branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has 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 tn roica fim/ln <ITU? r " 1 n. * u.ov lunus. a iic uisu luuuuii ui me noDons is ine least we can do," it said. The ribbon campaign fulfills a promise made to j Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson last month. "The murders of the Atlanta children have raised serious concerns all over the nation," said South Carolina NAACP President W.F. Gibson of Greenville and state Field Director Isaac W. Williams in a March 18 letter to 1 aolrcAW i/av ivouii. 4 4 We pledge our support and please feel free to call on your friends in South Carolina for any assistance we may render," they wrote. Winthrop fees increased 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, formerly a Quality Inn, three blocks from the campus. It hnilVPti 1 drt chlHontc in KlliWinrfo r**\A n M. u uvuuviito all inrw UUIIUIIIgS aiiU CI V.UI III11UI1 education conference center in the other. Showers steam up students BYRN MAWR, Pa. (AP) - Two college students who were "really steamed" about dormitory plumbing have invented an "early-warning scalp-saver" to alert bathers of an imminent hot water surge when a toilet is flushed iicui uy. Sophomores David Schwed and Adam Levy installed a smoke detector in a dormitory shower room and ran a wire from 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 shower head. "The other day, Adam came back from the shower room really steaming," Schwed said "Sompnnp flushed the toilet when he was showering and the cold 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, went to work. Their project used 60 feet of wire, 20 t feet of Scotch tape and a brokfen smoke detector - and cost less than $4. Paper finds Ringo's father LONDON (AP) - The father of millionaire ex-Beatle 1 Ringo Starr is a window cleaner in an industrial town in northwest England, a newspaper reveaied Wednesday. Tracked down by the Daily Express to the railroadiurn tion town of Crewe, cheerful Richard Starkey said of j nis tamous son: "He's dnnp wpII th<? InH on a nru^A i..?u ? , .uu, unu guuu iuv.rv iu Mini. Hut he owes me nothing." Ringo Starr is a stage name. The Beatles' 40-year-old ? drummer originally had the same name as his father, who* left his first wife and only child when Ringo was small. Acupuncture law changes (AP) - The state Senate has approved a bill allowing acupuncturists who are approved by the state Board of Medical Examiners to nrartirp in Smith Parnlino referrals by physicians. 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 liubin, D-Richland, said his panel wrote the bill because of complaints by patients of the Columbia acupuncturist. The law now allows acupuncturists to practice only when a physician is present. Rubin said patients complained 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 bod v. to be performed only on referral of a physician. At the insistence of Sen. Heyward McDonald, DRichland, the bill was amended to require acupuncturists, in the future, to get written approval from the lioard of Medical Examiners. The provision would not apply to \ acuDuncturists who are already nracticim?. 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 [j Scarsdale Diet Dr. Herman Tarnover. I Prison officials announced Mrs. Harris' new assign- i umu * urauojf, oajrutg iwo aujuni^u w wcu U.? {priMiH life that she is joining the general prison population sooner |.j 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 anu monuay. 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. The White House press office, which has cut its formal bulletins on the president's health to one a day, said Reagan's temperature was "essentially normal" Wednesday ? an indication he was still running some fever. While the chief spokesman at George Washington University Hospital and White House aides in dicated the president would be released soon, no firm date was set. Hospital spokesman Dr. Dennis O'Leary, describing Reagan 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." ad 1 li/UUO l/UUi drivers to v $232 each (AP) ? The average But W driver in South Carolina study is wastes $232 worth of gasoline the depai a year because of poorly "wetii maintained roads, a study by . . a pro-road construction . * ~ group indicates The report says more than The sti half the most heavily traveling traveled roads have 34 perc< deteriorated to the point "fair" n more than 311 million extra percent gallons of gas must be used. surfaces The study - conducted by The Road Information u}alune tditj oi iraci a lUKiaiu, v/i i ivia ? tuneluded the wasted fuel cost cessive four times the money needed 4"eje.n ' to repair the roads. the drive TRIP, based in pfif'?, Washington, is sponsored by se^eiar businesses with an interest in highway construction, WQuld , such as insurance com- r<?o,irf?? panies, building contractors, flre . * car makers, equipment reDairs? manufacturers and engineering firms, ac cording to a news release it . th distributed Wednesday. p .. .. available A spokesman for the state a d e q u a Highway Department, Jim program Walker, described many of TRIP ] TRIP'S backers as persons $101-milli with a vested interest in to resu highway building. substand Today at US Health Week - Health Fai a.m. through 3 p.m. on the Gr highlights Health Enrichment Science Fair - Region II Sci grades 7-12 on the Coliseum cc 11 p.m. and on Saturday. USC baseball - Carol Newberry at 7:30 p.m. at Sargi USC tennis - Carolina agaii p.m. at Sam Daniels Tennis Sfe RH Film - "Caddyshack" Chase at 7 and 9:30 p.m. for midnight for $1. weather Friday: Partly cloudy. Low ii High in the 70s. Weekend: Sunny and mild. Lo Highs in the 70s. spected to ers to do li Reagan could be ready to go home as early as Friday but no later than Moniav. O'Learv said, assuming continued improvement and no surprises. O'Leary said that while there has been no sign of infection, the president was still receiving two forms of antibiotics ? 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 f,vrwvi train. A young Spet month ago Walker time off to pit [ighway department The Olympics y treasurer, said, fraternity ot M e all the roads that critical need of m He said an ad- I g\ CfYl ^30 million would be * %-A vJ M. JL J n the coming year, ~ $209 million now TA11fl/i >, "to maintain an iOlAIlvJ te highway proposed a 10-year, t||T| 4 inn-a-VPar ni>n<?rom B ?? j pi vgi oili ^ rface or rebuild r. pvp. *K.n ard highways. singer of the PL | rock group, was f f"""1 nocent today of an c *?' charge. ir from 10:30 "Thank you so _ m m al thnnlr tmii '' ?*?/? IMM>m J v/U) Will man and three-won Uiat returned the v Cleveland Municipa ence Fair for after three ho mcourse at 4- deliberation. ; Miss Williams h . . charged with p* lina against obscenity as a res 5 Frye Field. performance in Clc fi?t Hukp at 2 Agora nightclub on J ist Duke ai z she said after the idium. a.. --- uku sne would with Chevy coming back to Clev $1.50 and at Miss Williams, charged with pt obscenity after appc stage with only cream covering hex and simulating i the low 50s. bation and other nrtiuitu ??-" ws in the 50s. *1^d She said thai never appeared o , nude. go home, j ttle work J half a day, three-quarter work days M full /Invro " ell ill tiicn lull uajro. 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, the White House said. ? I J!A! A F ? *** - " in auuiuuu iu lurmer lexas uov. John Connally, Reagan was visited Wednesday by Sen. Paul Laxalt, the Nevada Republican who is heading an j advisory committee on transferring some powers and responsibilities rrom 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' Rights Week," calling attention to the needs of crime victims. ?ial Olympics contestant takes iy with a hula-hoop yesterday. | , sponsored by APO service /eems Daskin Track at the Rex 7 Center. (Photo by Joe HunterJ la+lro cinnov iulivo o?n I innocent ?cenity trial \i\o (AP) The charge, a first-degree ms, lead misdemeanor, was filed asmatics after eight undercover ound in- policemen watched The obscenity Plasmatics perform in the Agora night club Jan. 21. A > much, videotape of the show made the five- by a WKYC-TV cameraman nan jury was shown to jurors Wederdict in nesday. al Court Defense lawyer Patrick urs of D'Angelo said the singer was exercising her rights of ad been freedom of speech and exindering pression and did nothing that ult of a can't be seen on TV or in rveland's commercial films. Fan. 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 con inderimz form with vnur t?*tp or mv taring on taste, but it's not a criminal shaving act." breasts Patrolman Hon Bero of the mastur- city's vice squad testified he sexu&l saw Miss Williams wearing ecu tors only shaving cream above her waist and that the cream _ l-? - ' * eras mot evapotaiea. He saia n stage she simulated sex acts with a microphone.