Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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News Brief^ Reagan leaves hospital ?ei aCIIIMniv\xi / ?n\ ** u.-ut/n?j -'?? i tujtitnv* A vii \njr / ~? rnssiucw rumj{8ii, uccidnnjj, j "I walked in here and I am going to walk out," left George Washington University Hospital' tinder heavy guard Saturday, 12 days after a bullet struck his left iung in an attempt on his life. Wearing a red sweater and sports shirt, the president left by a secluded, canopied hospital door. He said he felt "great," but intended to "sit down" as soon as he got home to the White House. Only the Secret Service, police, White House staff and a small pool of reporters, whose identification had been checked, were permitted near the hospital exit. Bystanders were kept across the street. At the White House, 200 staff members, Cabinet secretaries and their families, huddled under umbrellas to ward off the rain, cheered the arriving president. Thurmond says no hearing / 4n\ ? 11 I I J' ** - % - w*?- /? mere win ue no Hearings inis year on legislation to extend key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights act, says Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond. The powerful South Carolina Republican also raised the possibility that he may not schedule a hearing next year, when the section requiring the Justice Department approval of erlection law changes in certain states is due to expire. 4 4 TA /-!- 4- ' * * ** ii s very uniair 10 Keep renewing mis Dill witnout allowing Southern states a chance to prove thay no longer discriminate," Thurmond said in an interview with the Washington Bureau of The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C. Thurmond has maintained the act should apply to all states or be scrapped. Chrysler continues search DETROIT (AP) ? Chrysler Corp., trying to limp back to financial solvency, says it will continue looking for a merger partner despite the sound rejection of its first overture to Ford Motor Co.,which has earnings' problems of its own. mi nt * ? ? ^ ? - - * - " nit; ^nrysier i^oan guarantee Board, established by Congress to oversee the Chrysler bailout, instructed Chrysler in January to "take all possible steps to obtain an infusion of new capital through merger or other means." "It's a fair directive from the board, and we intend to carry it out," Wendell Larsen, Chrysler's vice president for public affairs said after Ford directors refused to discuss a merger with the No. 3 automaker. Mount St. Helens rumbles VANCOVER, Wash. (AP)? Rumblings beneath Mount St. Helens diminished Saturday, a day after the volcano's first steam and ash eruption of 1981, but scientists warned the mountain could blow again at any time. "There's been a decline in activity," said Susan Russell nuuiusun, a u.a. ueoiogicai survey geologist here. "But we still have an eruption alert. We're still cautioning that more eruptive activity may occur." The eruption Friday, in which a plume of steam and ash blasted to 15,500 feet above sea level, was the sixth ash | eruption since the volcano blew its top last May 18, leaving 61 people dead or missing. On Saturday, seismographs recorded about one small earthquake an hour beneath the volcano, compared to about eight quakes an hour for much of Friday. And the National Weather Service canceled a flash flood watch, saying there was "little indication of any increased volcanic activity." Morris: learn to expect less GREENVILLE (AP)? Comptroller-General Earl E. Morris, Jr . says South Carolinians may have to learn to expert less of government during these times of tight budgets. In a guest editorial in Sunday's editions of the Greenvillo News-Piedmont, Morris notes that, in light of l>rnrtf>UpH hurlnnt ?- ? r. r-.vv>v>v< uuvtgvi vuio, ouuui UdlUUlld win nave 10 get bv with less government money, meaning tough decisions will have lo be made about which services will go and which will stay. But he says that, at the same time, citizen demand for services won't be reduced so new means will have to be round to make government dollars go further. He also syr?s that there's really no reason for new taxes, because people are already fed up with taxes that are too high. Morns says it all means South Carolinians will have to make some tough choices such as: ?Consider combining certain municipal and county services to save money and provide more efficiency. ?Consider alternate sources of revenue on the local level and renew the emphasis on volunteer services. Q/kf i Afi " 1 - A A ^7v.t i^iixiuico iui wiidi is ausuiuieiy essenuai mai agovernment do and determine what is not so important. ?Expect less of government. State has rain holiday PIERRE, S.D. (AP) ? South Dakotans have a new holiday of sorts between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. By order of the governor, April 18 will be Car and Window Wash Day. Gov. Bill Janklow said Friday he created the "holiday" ? which doesn't guarantee anyone the day off ? at the request of a woman he said wishes to remain anonymous. In a letter to the governor, the woman wrote: " Would you declare April 18 Car & Window Wash Day ? ?? It seems every time we do clean them it rains ? So ? let's have a statewide plan to bring rain." In a statement announcing the "holiday," Janklow wrote: "If it works ? Great! If it doesn't ? we'll at least have clean cars, clean windows and a chuckle to break the worry that is starting to hang over the state because of the strong possibility of another dry year." AT&T on lone WASHINGTON (AP) ? The price oi an interstate, long-<listance telephone call will rise 16 percent, probably some time next month, under a new ?...?** *21_ J 1 iL- A ! iaic sviicuuic nicu uy uic American Telephone & Telegraph Co. AT&T said Friday that the new rates are designed to achieve the new profit margin of 12.75 percent approved by the Federal Communications Commission. The rate increase will generate almost $1.42 billion in additional annual revenues, ATff-T 1?i nioci csuuiuieu. The telephone company asked the FCC for permission to implement the across-the-board rate increase five days after the agency gave AT&T the authority to increase its profit margin. The FCC opinion is not likely (n ho nnhlichpH fnr onnfhor ivoalr nr vv Ryv/ |/MK/??waiVV? tVA MllVVIIVk TTVV? VI two. Meanwhile, the FCC will review AT&T's rate filing to determine its Operation Gei tries to help c understand st BEAUFORT (AP) ? If gambli school students were told there's about the state's criminal prison, laws, there would be fewer head i children getting into trouble, cents ( according to the director of them Operation Get Smart. Connel Children don't know that Conn urhon fhmr ara nrifK cA?v*AAnn nnvii uivj oi v VTllll JV/iI1VU1IV LI 1(2II 111 who is committing a crime robber they're guilty too, ex-convict in the Ken Laws told criminal are id* justice students at Beaufort names Technical College recently. Chuc "Everyone feels the years < penitentiary is a country senteni -I..L 1 At- I ? - ciuo uniess meir cnna is vioienc there. Then it's a dungeon," "I hi he said. on the! As part of the state block). Department of Correction's work c Operation Get Smart, in- him ft mates visit schools to warn buddy siuaents 01 tne consequences man th of breaking the law. tier," < On this particular day, a was ki trusty named "Connell" told concre of the violence in the state's Soutl prisons. highest "A guy who was in for rate p? I driving under the influence in the went into his cell and two of averag the other inmates were house i Riley say; are'loud t (AP) ? Gov. Dick Riley Carol calls tough drug trafficking brief penalties he signed into law "Tod* [ Friday "a loud and clear states message to those who would out t attempt to smuggle illicit bring drugs into South Carolina." ourst He praised legislators who Pei passed "the first drug smug smuggling law South of mi Today at LIE "The Education of Harr Making o? a Foreign Se Kenneth Rmirnp nf Hip i n Economics at 4 p.m. in Garni USC tennis? Carolina Clemson a 2 p.m. at Sam Stadium. RH Film? "Twentieth Ce 9:30 n.m. for so weather Monday: Partly cloudy. I High in the 80s. (Tuesday: Mostly cloudy. 1 High in the 80s. plans in< i-distanc legality and to make sure there is ( justification for allowing the new rates to take effect with less than the normal 90-day notice. i But since the commission already has determined the company's current profit margin of 10.5 percent as too low to attract investors and raise construction capital, such approval is considered likely and the ...ill 1 1-1-- i-i- - a imc uuusi win pruuauiy iaxe eneci 1 some time next month. "These rates are necessary tpassure the Bell System's ability to continue to provide good telephone service in the face of galloping inflation and record-high interest rates," said AT&T Vice President James R. Billingsley. The rate increase will not affect long-distance calls placed within the boundaries of any single state, nor will it have any effect on the price of A. rrmrmm?mmmrm l onian pk /1 hildren # ate lau/s nfllM ng. They had drugs ? _fi>. a lot of drugs in They beat the man's into the wall for 42 the man refused to let isaiu. m ell was served more ree years of an armed y sentence. Inmates Get Smart program mtified by their first only. k, who has served six of an armed robbery :e. also told of prison If ad a friend who lived second tier (of the cell Wh When he got in from >ne day, a man asked ** mt IR Dr a cigarette. My gj[ 1 told him 'no.' The irew my buddy off the ?huck said. His friend lied when he hit the te floor. The height i Carolina has the Friday s studt t prison incarceration A ;r 100,000 of any state Armatys prei nation. It costs an student Wil/h ;e of $5,500 a year to Newman) in inmate. ft id Wrii/i " ?~ " . nessageto: ina has ever had" in tenced to 30 yean signing ceremonies, and fined $200,( jy, we join our sister ficking in large v i in the effort to ferret hashish, cocaine uu&e wno cuxempi 10 metnaqualone a this contraband into drugs would be ] ate," said Riley. by similar penaltic sons convicted of gling five tons or more Riley said tl arijuana may be sen- penalties should COmpanied by fc enforcement, * more narcotics mJ*?J "That's not going them (smugglers) y Temple: The enforcement is no cretary." with That's not eoine ndon School of them if ?"r ^uri brell room 429. not e,ffective'" he new law. men against T}?e .Se"ate a, Daniels Tennis earlier in the weel lcnms a compromise v ' bill that was inti the wake of huce intury" at 7 and along the Palme t coast last fall and Law enforceme said they were cai a fraction of the who were threatei ,ow in the 60s. South Carolina nation's drug caj . , blamed lax stat< Low in the 60s. penalties which were out of line w neighboring states crease :e calls basic local telephone service. The cost of interstate phone calls will increase, however. The rate increase also will apply to such specialized business services as WATS lines and private lines. In providing examples of its new rates, AT&T said the cost of a weekday direct-dial, three-minute call from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles would increase from $1.37 to $1.58. A three-minute, direct-dial call on a weekday from Washington to New York will rise from $1.16 to $1.34. The 35 percent evening discount rate that AT&T offers would raise the cost of the same call from 75 cents to 87 cents. AT&T last raised its interstate . phone rates in June 1980, when it implemented a 5 percent increase in what was then the first rate hike in four years. ?^n^H^,:v mHHnHffiHBnra of Health Enrichment Week was tnt Health Fair, where EMT Henry 'tares to take blood from USC j amino Corbett. (Photo by Barry nenaltif.fi smugglers ? in prison The new law allows first M)0. Traf- offenses for simple olumes of possession ? holding less i hornin tl. * " , ..v.vu., uuan an ounce oi marijuana nd other ? to be tried before punishable magistrates and municipal is. judges. The maximum jail term was reduced from 90 to le stiffer 30 days, although the be ac- General Assembly imposed law o tiftft ? ' ? 1 - ? - * u yivA/ iiiiiiiinuiit uiic anu u including $200 maximum. agents. The maximum jail term ; to bother was reduced so the cases if our law would not have to be heard t effective, by circuit judges, who 4^ ?tt 4 u> *1 icci nanaie more serious ofsystem is fenses. said of the Marijuana smugglers are subject to the following nd House penalties under the law: tapproved ^ . >rsion of a ~ ?ne to 10 years and roduced in *ines ?* UPt0 f?r 10 99 drug busts pounds. tto state s _ p^ve 25 years and up w4inl?f\ . to $25,000 for 100-1,999 nt officials ds tching only smugglers _ ^en to years anc| Up ung to turn to $f)0 (KX) for 2,000-9,999 into the ds jital. They ? Fifteen to 30 years and u i S? L UP to $200,000 for more than 1 five tons. i.