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 sewer sysiem, ana me lown 01 resiaenis win ceieDraie 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 system that will make it possible to remove the portable 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 purpose 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 recentlv 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 effects of depressants and different from common beliefs about 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 Newsweeh maonzinp frnm ninth anH mth cimr*** onniol - -0?? miiu Awn uuv/ ovrviai OtUUICO 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. Boardmember _ZoanneFlif&pft?-ft?fi!f motion to replace cfie* magazine, "Then I would have gotten away with it" without criticism. mL. _ ? ? - ? ? - ? i ne jvimot 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 today's slumDinu economv vmi mav m u j , j ? x uiuj ?ia?c lU put 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 in?i 1 - " un.cm.ui is uie ueam raie. 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. "Nationally, I believe the death rate has been down 8 to 9 percent," says William S. Stuhr of the J. Henry Stuhr funeral home in Charleston, the state's largest. "That directly aft 1 1 ictu> lunerai nomes." 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. ??t tu;nir ? 1- - * & iiuiifv pcupie are preparea for (loath, recession or not," Stuhr says. "Over the years, people have been conscious of the need for life insurance. USC todcoj Classes begin. RH Film "Fail Safe" at 7:00 and 9:30 starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau. FREE w WM **??/! Monday: fair anil mild with the low in theGO'sarnJ the high m the 80's. Tuesday: hiyh in jhejMj, low in the SO's. PLO farewel 1SEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) The evacuation of thousands of 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 wounded by falling bullets during the wild, joyous and extremely dangerous snooting tnat continues as tne convoys ::: y .. -s * Hurry up and wait The Carolina Coliseum was the site Frid Obligations 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 Thursday that President Reagan 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 sr.id. Besides, the energy secretary P.T. Barnum e BRIDEPORT, Conn. (AP) ? P T. Bai a few white lies in his days as a shown say, "There's a sucker born every mint of the nation's leadinc _ _ ?? -.0 V*J V/l 1 V/Il V/Ud Fairfield author Arthur H. Saxon's num spent more time donating money low-cost housing and attracting busines of Bridgeport, than he did under the circ Saxon is writing a series of books li human picture of Barnum, whom he d< most misunderstood men in the world, time recepient of the Guggenheim Fell past decade tracking down more thi documents related to Barnum across th< Some of the letters date back to tl Barnum, then publisher of one of Conne< in Bethel, wrote to friends from a Dant was found guilty of libel, Saxon said. Other documents, Saxon said, date ba profitable years as long-time owner-opc i .it ^ *' * m ?ic iiiuocuiu uui 111^ i.ik; prune oi his lile. As Saxon points out, Barnum didn't which he is best remembered, until the, Barnum served as mayor of Bridgepor was a state representative for two ter show, Saxon said, that both Kepubli< parties wanted to put Barnum on their the late lftBOs. "Everyone thinks that he said, Th every minute," but I've seen no eviden that," said Saxon. "He really wasn't a quote) was made up long after his death. "Actually the word 'sucker' had a c inose nays, the word was slang for [x west." Barnum, who was called "Taylor" plain * RT " l?y associates, held the firs II injures bys 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 left on the first overland convoy to Syria. A French Foreign Legion officer said inree legionnaires nau ueen wounded in the port by stray bullets and one guerilla was accidentally shot and wounded in the head. I -r-c^ * - 7-: - AW. rfl-!-; . -}J : lay morning of students queued for Drop-Adc in Washington Mv<v<cu, me 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 Parnlina oo;*i u?t>iuy aaiu lie has already discussed liis 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 him4'to relax and * 'ulfill my obligation" in lave us more th r?r*iirv? I* 1 - 11 1 J i Hum ini^iii nave 101 q caro flnci served as nan, but never did he other local facilities ite," according to one Saxon said docur 68 . . _ man" who favored r ^XSildmg pi0neer feminist Lu >ses to his native city "Of course, he ; us big top. movement then," s ?e hopes will paint a two wives." ?cr.oes as one of the g said some ( The 39-year-old, two- he had drinki ows,h!Lha,s,^pent th5 whole wine cellar c an 3,000 letters and four Bridgeport ma i nation. ie 1860s when He sai(1 at one ^ cticut s first weeklies low-cost housing on >ury jail cell after he nor smoke ck to Barnum's most Saxon's first bool irator of a New York be published early A second book, teni start the circus, for 0f PT Bamum," is age of 61. Before that the first book, Saxoi t from 1075-1876 and ms. And documents Meanwhile, Saxo :an and Prohibition prehensive biograp! presidential ticket in he receivpH frr* u x.V4 a. a V/III il The first fellowship, ere's a sucker born used to write "The ice that he ever said Romantic Age of the con man. That (the Saxon is the auth< lifferent meaning in the history of the the jople from the Mid- He also is a teachei works included "Th ' his family and just Torn Thumb and his t Bridgeport library and employees of Ba tanders' i In Christian east Beirut, six persons were killed and 19 wounded Monday in the shooting many people unleashed to celebrate the election of Christian militia leader Bashir Gemavel as Lebanon's president-elect, police said. In addition to the injuries, many windows in buildings and cars have been shattered and reporters comvering the withdrawal have repeatedly been struck in the face by cartridge casing flvine out of anpriiio weapons. . ivvS'.''" ' Photo by John I. _J 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 has been I introduced in the House and Senate I and hearings have already been held on it, but observers arp not PviwUno E it to pass this year. Still, Edwards said that will not influence his j decision to leave Washington. ian freaks president of the Bridgeport Hospital and s he helped build. nents show Baraum was "a family moral | the temperance movement and admired r cy Stone. almost had to approve of the women's[ ?aid Saxon. "He had four daughters and| >f Barnum's personal letters indicate thatc problem, but ended it after dumping hist ollection onto the front lawn of one of hist nsions. | me Barnum offered Bridgeport residents: i the sole condition that they neither drinks sy c, "Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum," wil|| next year by Columbia University Press); tatively called "Further Selected Ix;tters( expected to be printed about a year after n said. n said, he also is working on a com-| hy of the Connecticut native with money is most recent Guggenheim Fellowship.J, which he received in the early 1970s, was liite and Art of Andrew Ducrow and the:,1 ! English Circus." >r of more than 80 books and articles on 'ater, circus and popular entertainments, r, lecturer and editor. One of his edited e Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb." mid&et wife Ijivinin "I " v.* UlUOi/ I ll.liu.l rnum.