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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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life that she is joining the general prison population sooner |.j
than expected.
Reagan e:
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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."
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$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
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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
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train. A young Spet
month ago Walker time off to pit
[ighway department The Olympics
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critical need of m
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million now TA11fl/i
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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.
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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
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, sponsored by APO service
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?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
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eras mot evapotaiea. He saia
n stage she simulated sex acts with a
microphone.