Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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_wi re Pay toilets go down the drain HELEN, Ga. (AP) ? This tiny Bavarian village in tne north Georgia mountains was so popular with tourists that its sewer system became overloaded, forcing the town to install portable toilets for use by visitors. Now, however, federal funding has come through for a new _ A 1 II A. nnr- U ill 1 sewer system, ana uie town 01 zod resiuenus wiu ceieuiaie Friday by marching the portable johns out of town. Helen, which has attracted more than a million visitors so far this year, installed the portable toilets last spring at the direction of the state Department of Natural Resources, said Helen Fincher, a spokeswoman for the town's Chamber of Commerce. "We were forced by the state to either close some of the motel rooms which had toilets, or close our public restrooms and install Porta-Johns," she said. Now, with the news that federal funds are available for a new water and sewer system, Helen is putting in a septic tank cvctpm that will mnlrr* it nn&cihlA tn rpmnvp thp nnrtflhlf* toilets Friday, chamber officials said. Local citizens are so happy that they're planning a 4'Porta Potti Parade" to escort them out of town, Ms. Fincher said. The marchers will carry corn cobs and Sears and Roebuck catalogs. Caffeine fails to dim memory WASHINGTON (AP) ? Students cramming for tests, balancing a little sleep with a lot of coffee, apparently don't have to worry about the caffeine affecting their overtaxed memories, say researchers. Suspecting that caffeine might affect recall, psychologists at the University of Minnesota in Morris tested 80 college students to see if coffee was defeating the Duroose of their cram-all-night ritual. Joseph P. Blount and W. Miles Cox said Wednesday that the stimulant seems to have little or no effect on remembering recently learned material. "We expected to find some difference in memory, but we found none," Blount told a news briefing at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. "Caffeine's effects on memory are different from the effo/>fc nf Hnnrocconfc onH r?Kahf av-vwi vi vtvpi v^jouiivo uliu vuil^i V/i1v II ulll v'V/IlllIlUU 1/viicio fluvul caffeine," said the researchers. The study involved the volunteers learning standard classroom material in an hour-long session and being tested on it 48 hours later. School bans 'Newsweek' MINUI, N.D. (AP) The Minot School Board's banning of Newsweek magazine from ninth and 10th grade social studies classes because it is "too liberal" was called "goofy" by a local newspaper. The board voted 3-1 last month to replace Newsweek with U.S. News and World Report as a teaching aid in this northcentral North Dakota city, whose school District has about 8.000 students Board member Zoanne Flickinger said she wishes she had not said Newsweek was "too liberal" in her motion to replace the magazine, "Then 1 would have gotten away with it" without criticism. The Minot Daily News in a July 31 editorial called the move "a goofy, impetuous thing." In New York, Newsweek public information director Avery Hunt said, "We think we report news in a very unbiased manner." Funeral industry alive and well (AP) ? In todav's slumnintz economv. von mav havp to nut off buying a new home or a big car. But there is one major purchase you will surely make without consulting the Dow Jones average or the money markets. "The recession is not affecting the funeral industry to any great extent," says W.O. Folk, executive secretary of the South Carolina Funeral Directors Association. Most other multi-million-dollar industries ride the roller coaster of boom and bust together. This one has a stately business cycle all its own, and its principal economic indicator is the death rate. In this solemn corner of the marketplace, South Carolina enjoys the melancholy distinction of a relative advantage over much of the rest of the country. "Nfltinnallv T hplipup th** Hpath rnto hoc h?>n rinum ? tn a . J wv-v ? V wav ?-? ?MVX/ V?VTT?I U t-V? *J percent," says William S. Stuhr of the J. Henry Stuhr funeral home in Charleston, the state's largest. "That directly affects funeral homes." But in South Carolina, the death rate has remained fairly constant over the past six years at about 8.2 deaths per thousand population. "South Carolina has been an exception," Folk says. The fact that consumers cannot avoid or delay this once-ina-lifetime purchase hasn't been the funeral industry's only buffer against the ups and downs of the economy. "I think people are prepared for death, recession or not," Stuhr says. "Over the years, people have been conscious of the need for life insurance. USC today Classes begin. RH Film "Fail Safe" at 7:00 and 9:30 I starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau. FREE weather Monday: fair and mild with the low in theBO'sand the high in the 80's. Tuesday: high in the 80 s, low in the 6Q's. PLO farewel BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) The _ a : ?r ti i ? ? r evacumiuu ui iiiuusauua ui Palestinian guerrillas from West Beirut has brought relief and wild joy to civilians and fighters. But it also has spelled tragedy for a small number of people killed or injured in bursts of farewell gunfire. In the Arab world, weapons traditionally are fired into the air at times of jubilation and mourning. Police sources said Friday that 10 civilians have been killed and 37 uimin^or) K\r follinrt Knllafc Hiirina tha TVUU11UVU WJ lulling WU*1V UJ VtUi 1115 VIIV/ wild, joyous and extremely dangerous shooting that continues as the convoys ;,^:;ffl<::::;>:',:,-'jPg Hurry up and wait The Carolina Coliseum was the site Frio Obligations! CHARLESTON, S.C.- (AP) Energy Secretary James B. Edwards says his resignation to take over the presidency of the Medical University of South Carolina will be postponed until after the November election. The Mount Pleasant native said Thnr?Ha u fhat ? . ..u. uiut x i toiucui iVCd^dll requested him to put off his planned departure next month because of the difficulty in filling the Cabinet-level post this close to the election. The confirmation process is "difficult enough without people running for office," Edwards said. Besides, the energy secretary P.T. Barnum j BKiUKruKT, Conn. (AIM ? FT. Bs a few white lies in his days as a show: say, "There's a sucker born every min of the nation's leading experts on circui Fairfield author Arthur H. Saxon's uuiu spent more ume aonaung mone; low-cost housing and attracting businc of Bridgeport, than he did under the cir Saxon is writing a series of books human picture of Barnum, whom he c most misunderstood men in the world time recepient of the Guggenheim Fe past decade tracking down more tl J A. ~ r* At uin;uiiicuui i cmioi iu naniuin across 11 Some of the letters date back to Barnum, then publisher of one of Conn in Bethel, wrote to friends from a Dai was found guilty of libel, Saxon said. Other documents, Saxon said, date t _ r a ii- - - i ? A proniauie years as long-ume owner-o] museum during the prime of his life. As Saxon points out, Barnum didn' which he is best remembered, until th< Barnum served as mayor of Bridgep was a state representative for two t show, Saxon said, that both Heuub parties wanted to put Barnum on thei the late lBBOs. "Everyone thinks that he said, every minute," but I've seen no evid that," said Saxon. "He really wasn't auote) was made ud long after his deal "Actually the word 'sucker' had a those days, the word was slang for west." Barnum, who was called "Taylor" J plain "F T." by associates, held the f IB injures bvs ' M m wind their way slowly through the crowded city to Beirut's port. In addition to the civilian casualties reported by police, a Beirut radio station said one Italian peacekeeper was wounded Friday as a large group of Palestine Libration Army soldiers loft An ihn firof miarlonH nnnirmi fn AVIV VII UXV 111 Ol- UTVl IUIIU V.VII ?VJ VV Syria. A French Foreign Legion officer said three legionnaires had been wounded in the port by stray bullets and one guerilla was accidentally shot and wounded in the head. IfoHPf ' 1" iMh'" 11 I' nil mnrninn nl ofriirlAntn niinmul f_. fl A j my iiiuiiiih|j ui eiuuomo ifuguuu lul lfeuphlj in Washington added, the administration has a "full plate" of important matters to contend with already. Edwards, an oral surgeon by profession and a former Republican governor of South Carolina, said he has already discussed his delayed arrival at MUSC with Interim President Marcus Newberry and trustee chairman Dr. Charles B. Hanna. "They told me they'd accept me whenever the president lets me come." Edwards said. School officials have told him "to relax and to fulfill my obligation" in jave us more tl irnum might have told card and served man, but never did he other local facilit lute," according to one Saxon said doc ses- . . _ man" who favor* research shows Bar- pioneer feminist ] y 10 me poor, building " ;sses to his native city 4'Of course, h< cus big top. movement then, he hopes will paint a two wives." lescribes as one of the 0 j . The 39-year-old, two'l0ws?h!p?ha,s.!pent th* whole wine cellai iictn o,iwu leiwjis aim four Bridgeport r le nation. the early 1860s when 53^ at 0ne ecticut's first weeklies low-cost housing ibury jail cell after he nor smoke. >ack to Barnum's most Saxon's first b perator of a New York be published ear A second book, t t start the circus, for of P.T Barnum,' e age of 61. Before that the first book, Sa ort from 1875-1876 and erms. And documents Meanwhile, Si lican and Prohibition prehensive biogr r presidential ticket in he received fron The first fellows! ^here's a sucker born used to write "T ence that he ever said Romantic Age of a con man. That (the th. Saxon is the ai i different meaning in the history of the iiuni uic miu~ 111: ctiow is rt itcli works included ' by his family and just Tom Thumb and irst Bridgeport library and employees ol I JU J I tanders In Christian east Beirut, six persons were killed and 19 wounded Monday in the shooting many people unleashed j to celebrate the election of Christian militia leader Bashir Gemayel as Lebanon's president-elect, police % said. In addition to the injuries, many windows in buildings and cars have been shattered and reporters com- j vering the withdrawal have repeatedly been struck in the face by cartridge casing flvine out of guerilla > weapons. I Photo by Joki 0 shorn j Id. ' delay Edwards < Washington, said the energy sectetary. Edwards said the delay will give him more time to push for enactment of nuclear waste legislation supported by the administration. Other pending legislation to dismantle the Department of Energy is not as high on Edwards'priority list. The DOE-backed measure lias been introduced in the House and Senate | and hearings have already been held I on it, but observers are not expecting jS it to pass this year. Still, Edwards QniH that \iri 11 tint l?I.~ *v* %> ttiii i?w iiuiuuni;c iiid decision to leave Washington. 1 d han freaks | . Afi nrfciHpnt nf fho RwHflOnArf Uncnitnl nnrl v* MIV ?Vt^V|M/JI V AAVTtJplVill OllU I, ies he helped build. uments show Barnum was "a family moral ? id the temperance movement and admired Lucy Stone. & almost had to approve of the women's " said Saxon. "He had four daughters and ie of Barnum's personal letters indicate that g problem, but ended it after dumping his r collection onto the front lawn of one of his nansions. time Barnum offered Bridgeport residents on the sole condition that they neither drink ook, "Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum," will lv next vear bv Columbia iJnivprsifv Prwc entatively called "Further Selected Letters ' is expected to be printed about a year after xonsaid. ixon said, he also is working on a com aphy of the Connecticut native with money i his most recent Guggenheim Fellowship, lip, which he received in the early 1970s, was he Life and Art of Andrew Ducrow and the the English Circus." ithor of more than 80 books and articles on theater, circus and popular entertainments. " hot" lo^tnrf^r nnH t?rJitr?r nf hie The Autobiography of Mrs. Torn Thumb." his midget wife, Lavinia, were close friends f Barnum.