Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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News Br In. i o oiiio u uo LITTLE RIVER (AP) Jenrette says he bones I challenge Rep. John Wapl seat he lost in last Novemb "I'll make a decision in t Jenrette told reporters hei be a part of the political pr Jenrette. who is anneal October, said he probably Beach law practice if his a "The case in Philadelpl out," Jenrette said. "I do any means. I just hope tY any other citizen." Jenrette's appeal cor Washington on May 11. The former congressm sidering an offer too: all i to a California producer. "I don't know if it woul< "It's been a horror story f( Atlanta the< ATLANTA (AP) - As p information Thursday abc leader said took part in tl youths, mothers of the theory as an attempt to sa Roy Innis, staff direcl Equality, said his invest could direct police to a s murders of young blacks police task force here. The controversial Innis, been challenged by other r group, called a news confe envelope which he said suspect whom members children had seen cruising Nixon h.elpec GREENCASTLE, Ind. ( restore diplomatic rela prevented a war betwee; munist nations, a war the have lost," a Chinese jouri Hubert G. Liang, who Nanking, told a Depauw that the People s Republi iormer president if he wer Asian nation. He said Chinese believe by Americans angered by Reagan coul (Al?) - President Rea Carolina Agriculture Co immediately lift the embi agricultural products to tl "I believe farmers in have paid more than the Patrick wrote in a telegra The commissioner urg lifted, if such future acti embargo should be enforc "This total action," he severe burden on one s Farmers will continue tc our national security. lQi i nnA rfc f r> > U U.X l WgCLUC VJ ( LOUISVILLE, Ky. (A Richard Revell has sigr ticiallv makes Louisville': father's wife. With the child looking session Wednesday to co ding what has been bill contract surrogate birth. The baby, now 6 montl mother who was paid a fe it over to the father and hi The surrogate mother, pseudonym Elizabeth Ka with the father's sperm rights to the child five day Baptist lead* DALLAS (AP) - The R< tioa aoesn't near the f singlehandedly moved th< work in greater coopers League," says the ADL's ] Smith, president of the Pflncnvor QaHap of f Ho Briskman and told Jewis work with them to elimitu Briskman said he didn' Jews: "Here is a guy m'/uth... I think he has lea Millionaire ] NEW YORK (AP) - I Lueck is a man of simple t When he won the New Commission invited him . eatery. The 63-year-old L Llf - 1 ptlDlic scikmm dus urivw , Four Seasons in favor of Times Square fixture. "I've been going there f< favorite restaurant," he a " iefa?? - Pn>inn.ani nn Inkn wufiWWIMUl Willi to return to politics axxg may efr next year for the 6lh District ler's general election.. he next seven to eight months/' e Wednesday. "But I do hope to ocessinsomeway." ing his Abscam conviction last win continue his North Myrtle ppea 1 is successful. lia similar to mine was thrown n't take that as a guarantee by iat the judge will treat me like nes up in federal court in tan said he is cautiously conmovie rights on his political life i make a good movie," he said. >r me." )ry denounced [ olice and FBI agents examined >ut a "psychopath" a civil rights j tie slayings of at least six black j. victims denounced the man's j u: ? tvugc 1115 repuuuiun. tor of the Congress of Racial igators have a "witness" who nspect in at least six of the 25 being investigated by a special whose leadership of CORE has nembers of the New York-based rence Wednesday and waved an i- i _ - -i cuiiiainea a pnoiograpn 01 a of families of the murdered through their neighborhoods. 1 avoid war AP) - Richard Nixon's efforts to tions with China may have n the United States and ComUnited States "probably would lalist and professor says, teaches at the University of University Luncheon Tuesday I ic of China would welcome the ji e appointed ambassador to that Nixon has been judged unfairly the Watergate scandal. d. lift embargo j gan has been asked by South mmissioner Bryan Patrick to argo on grain and sales of other le Soviet Union. South Carolina and the nation ir fair share on this embargo." m sent to Reagan Monday. ;ed that, once the embargo is ] ons are necessary, then a total ed. said, "would not place such a egment of American industry, i contribute their fair share for q/hv' fl.rlrm1-.prfi li iP) - Jefferson Circuit Judge led an adoption order that of- i 5 "surrogate baby" the son of his I on, Revell held a 20-minute mplete the legal work surrouned as the nation's first-known is old, was born to a surrogate e to bear the child and then turn s wife. | and Illinois woman using the \\ ne, was artificially inseminated jj . She terminated her parental I s after his birth Nov. 9. 3r fights bigotry ev. Bailey Smith, who once said >rayers of Jews, has "almost ; Southern Baptist Convention to ition with the Anti-Defamation Dallas director. ! Baptist group, participated in a home cf ADI. riirAotnr mnrlr h leaders Monday he wanted to j ite bigotry. ' j 't believe Smith meant to insult rho literally put his foot in his rned an incredible lesson." tias simple taste tespite his $1.9 million, Arthur astes. York State Lottery, the Lottery t i to be its lunch guest at any i ueck, who recently retired as a passed up the 21 Club and the franks at Nathan's Famous, a or a long time, as a kid it was my 9 aid after lunch Wednesday. Educat in Was V-.v , . IfrV: State deses been scrut The Departt responst ORANGBURG (AP>South Carolina's response tc a Department of Educatioi order to desegregate iti higher education institution; is being reviewed ir Washington, a departmeni official says. Louis Bryson, director ol post-secondary education ir the Department ol Education's office of civi rights in Atlanta, told the Orangeburg Times & Democrat Tuesday the state plan has already beer scrutinized in Atlanta Bryson has said th< dpnnrtmpnf ic Hraftino c response which will outlin< areas where departmen officials believe the state ii not meeting desegregatioi requirements. The official said he hopec the department will meet i May 8 deadline foi responding. Earlier this week, th< Bill sta (AP)? Isn't it time yoi taking other peoples' word state legislator is keeping paign promises down here? on that rascal yourself. It's e Just pick up your phone thic ni imKnr 1 .QAA OOO. 1 COO vi?iu itUftltMVl A JL *JUU. in Columbia, it's 758-5870. Ar with a memory like a com] give you the straight dope. "It's called the Bill Stat line. "Let's say a constituent letter to his legilator and know if he'll introduce f handgun control," suggest McKinney. "The legislate Karlr nnri save 'upc ' Gaffney GAFFNEY(AP)?Official of this small city located in the heart of South Carolina's "peach belt" wanted to come up with an eyecatcher that would illustrate the community's uniqueness. Unfortunately, Gaffney's revolutionary water tank under construction > >ar jLiiicisuiic i cociiiuica a ^dii of the human anatomy seldom exposed in public, according to some citizens. "It looks like...if you really want to know the truth, it reminds me of a rear end," said Terry Neese, 27. "A big rear end." Luckily, that impression will change as work progresses on the million gallon tank, meticuluouslj planned for three years b> Today at use baseball? Ci Southern at 7:30 p baseball stadium. Fi RH Film? "Fann joy, ambitions and 9:30 for $1:50 and mi weather Friday :Chance of si High in the 60s. Weekend: Fair to pa 50s. Highs in the 70s. ion plan mngion fregation plan has l.inized in Atlanta, nent of Education ; is being drafted. - chairman of the task force ) that drew up the plan said 1 he'd written an answer to its > proposals. James E. Bostic, i who is also chairman of the 1 state Commission on Higher t Education, said he is unaware of any problems F with South Carolina's Dlan. 1 "What we have heard is f that the Department of I Education is waiting to send * responses to several states * at once," hesaid; r t j j -1 J The plan calls for spending 1 $19.5 million, much at * predominantly black south ; Carolina State College in " Orangeburg, to attract more > whites there. Other [ programs are aimed at , attracting more blacks to J traditionally white schools. The department said in 1 January that the state could i lose millions in federal funds p if racial balances weren't improved in its colleges and ; universities. lUd [Jnut i stopped "This phone lin< that your the constituent tc his cam- whetehr he really Check up like he said he v asy. they'll dog his fo< and dial really w ill or not." If you're McKinney is dir i operator Information Servi* outer will the Dhone line I people call in eac us phone what's happining law or another, writes a The service was wnats to the volume of c i bill on creasing steadi ; Charles McKinney says. >r writes "It's partly thf become better knc plans un the Board of Public Works in Gaffney, population 16,000. It is to be the Peachoid? a giant peach on a pedestal. When it' finished, it will be 135 feet high and 68 feet in diameter with 28 hues of orange, red, purple and yellow and perfecly positioned cleft, leaf and stem. It is pattened after a composit 01 tne likenesses of two prize Gaffney peaches plucked at their midsummer peak last year and ; frozen in clear plastic containers as models for i New Jersey artist Peter Freudenberg. And it will be a towering * monument that goes beyond - the mundane storage of use arolina against Georsrin .m. at the Sarge Frye ree admission with ID. | ;M a celebration of hope, talent. Shows at 7 and [dnightfor $1. lowers. Low in the 40s. rtly cloudy. Lows in the _l \ ,s>^^^i5mp D > NVvXNX)^VrtS<.AiVi S... ^ [j The College of General St I 1/ *% .0 M S rear aanara wertz poses i George Rogers as the av\ Wednesday. Wertz, whc advisor for three years, ret as Teacher of the Yea ! Newman) ie line av ; is a good way for people are find out later on adds. "I introduced the bill demandin vould. Many times nowadays. >tsteps to see if he The call agencies, ector of Legislative trade asso ces, which includes are follow -Ig savs nhont 900 tnthpim h week to find out McKenn with one proposed three to ai monitor Hi begun in 1974, and and puncl alls has been in- computer! ily ever since, The thr keyboards it the service has use to sea >wn and partly that whatever t inup it into water. b "We're small and we have a to promote our growth," said H.F. "Dick" Crater Jr., C general manager of the Board of Public Works, an r independent company supplying 11,000 water " customers in the Gaffney k area. & "We needed a water tank in that area anyway to boost e the pressure and snnnlv tho " . ? - "fj'V w*v fire department, and we U thought the Peachoid was a $ good opportunity to v distinguish the community," B said Crater, 41. r But now, several months ** before its completion and n official dedication on July 12, CI the Peachoid (a merger of peach and spheroid) looks n< like nothing so much as "an ut unclothed woman bending AUAP ?? onM r??K " urvi, oaiu uauiiey resiaeni Mike Moss, 31. 01 In its earlier stages, G Crater said, people h described it variously as a $ missile site, a cocktail glass P and a lobster shell minus 11 claws. Currently, workers with w the construction crew, S Chicago Bridge and Iron, are p applying a primer coat of bright orange to the 10 a million pounds of concrete n and 4 million pounds of steel V forming the foundation. That G doesn't dim Ronrino ,r imaginations however. F Wednesday, Gaffney n resident Kathy McAbee, 23, B called the tank "a lopsided tl / udies Teacher of the vith a special student rard was announced i has been Rogers' zeived a $300 check r. (Photo by Barry ailable i more interested now," he think people are more tg about government ?t s come from gvoernment large manufacturers and ciations in other states who ing bills of special interest ey employs five operators, iswer the phone and two to ouse and Senate procedings i progress reports onto a kepboard. ee phone operators have of their own, which they rch the electronic files for he caller happens to ask. i r tower alloon" after studying it for moment. Her companion, Donna larner, 31, called it 'ridiculous, just ediculous." But public opinion has uproved as the $950,000 ink has taken shape, Crater aid. "There was mixed motion at first," he said. The biggest concern war lat the estimated cost was 100,000 more than a conentional tank. But Chicago ridge and Iron gave us a 10,000 credit, making it just 70,000 more. We had two or iree public hearings and obody ever openly riticized the project." The tank did not scessitate an increase in tility rates, he said. "If we advertised our town ti a billboard?"This is affney' in 7 1/2 years we's ave paid more than the 70,000 difference and the eachoid is supposed to last DO years." Howard Thomas, 67, born i Gaffney and living in partanhurg. can see this oint. "Gaffney use to be known s 'The Pearl of the Piediont,"' Thomas said ifednesday while visiting raffney. "It's now knowk as Hie Peach of the Piedmont.' 'eopie from out of town light find the tank amusing, iut people around here take le peach quite seriously."