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?wife Lower tar encourages ii WASHINGTON <AP>- Smokers who switch t nicotine cigarettes are not decreasing their cl 11 a. 1 A _ ** j - cancer oecause uiey lenu iu pun uuu uuu National Academy of Sciences says. Any health benefits from switching to tin brands are "doubtful," the academy said in j day, because smokers may unconsciously inh; hold the smoke in their lungs longer to s craving for nicotine. "Most heavy smokers, regardless of bi maintain high nicotine levels," the study said. The report, prepared by a National Res< committee of the academy for the National Ins Abuse, contradicting a similar study releasee ii? A : ? M n o :~4_. uit; /uucnutii VydztLci owticiy. The Cancer Society report, based on a study smokers between 1960 and 1972, concluded tha nicotine smokers have 26 percent lower mortal lung cancer than high tar and nicotine smokers Both reports noted that the tobacco industry from consumers and government, has been re nicotine levels in cigarettes over 25 years. Radio station plays nigh SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Turn on the radic ears on an ocean cruise. Students do it, ai almost a breeze. Insomniacs do it, and they si on a gently rocking boat. They're all tuned in to 89.1 on the FM dial ? watt community radio station in Menlo Pa listeners to the squawk of seagulls, the bleat c the crashing of the waves against the shore, e\ 10p.m. to7:30a.m. It was an idea born of economic necessit Spinetta, general manager of the 4-year-old st owned by Menlo-Atherton High School, v* teaches communications. Four months ago, Spinetta recalled in a re< "it reached a point where things were re everyone was really discouraged." Then he saw a Colorado newspaper with a s the virtues of a non-existent radio static broadcast anything. "It said, 'Tired of talk and noise?' Listen I nothing."' said Spinetta. "We said, 'Hey, tha idea. If we didn't play anything, there'd be n< about, no hassles with money and programmii Tree resembles Jesus HOLDEN, W. Va. (AP)-Groups peo gathering around a vine-entangled tree ever past few weeks, saying the foliage resemble Jesus Christ. "People have been coming from everywl tree," said Curtis Bryant, an out-of-work c paid a visit to the poplar on a hill towering m;n;nr< "Ti.n ?????? milling Luiuiiiuiuijr. 111c tuaauii uicj tunic you can sec it best after dark, when the n behind it.' Bryant said his parents, who live near H miles away, had driven to see the tree. "It's bumper-to-bumper around here after added. "I've even seen out-of-state license pla The residents of Holden, in southern West told of the tree's appearance by three youths. "It's up on the site where the old Holden Gr; to be," said Jean Bell, who lives near the t three boys were sitting under the tree, drir evening when one of them looked up and saw. it him lin cn KqH tViof ha nnii rlrinlrinn MJ/ MUVI U1CAI' 11V VjUl I V** liming church. Scientists'sperm stores ESCONDIDO, Calif . (AP) - Billions of sj of the world's top scientists are frozen in a le stored in a tiny, underground laboratory < County ranch. "You don't need much room for spern Grahm, the wealthy 76-year-old optometri: oroduce a generation of smarter DeoDle lone But the man who spends nearly $100,000 a money to gather and disseminate the spei telligent men said he's "not totally happy" w of his Repository for Germinal Choice. Joyce Kowalski, the mother of the sperm t lost custody of two children by a former m her curi ent husband. Jack, was accused of a The mother of the second baby was a married psychologist. Afton Blake gave bii 24, although on her application "she listed husband," said Graham. "I don't know if misunderstanding or what." JQSC today I RH film: "Key Largo" starring Humph and Lauren Bacall. 7 and 9:30 p.m., FRE Musical performance by "The Coliecti patio, 5 p.m. lhaiing Amtrak eng o low-tar, low- _ ..... lances of lung (AP) ? Amtrak trains we lie more the gliding along the silver rails in ' Carolina Sunday. But railwi * reduced tar ficials said the walkout by locoi ^report Thurs- engineers causea no outer ale deeper and problems for industry in the stal latisfy their Spokesmen for two of the and, tend to lines serving South Carolina pro freight trains would continue I - - .. with supervisory personnel i sarch council controls statute of Drug I last week by six passenger trains pass th South Carolina each day, accorc of one million Amtraks Diane Elliott. 1 t low-tar, low- travel both directions linking lity rates from York with New Orleans, Jacksonville Fla and with J nah, Ga. with impetus ducing tar and when the Saturday midnight deadline came and went, ) and take your IS nd studying is CCJI UIVC lidUICO x^x;^ - KMAH, a 100rk that treats f foghorns and 'cry night from jO JHJP :y, said Frank nation, which is Bap;, jiapBMHBBp 'here Spinetta ! * h cent interview, IBl- *'|f kolKr Karl onrl ? pie have been jjjj^ y night for the i*^P^ s the profile of ^HT* Cockv and friend ? - a here to see the Cocky flashes a smile during :oal miner who few as Duke defeated the Gar over this coal- ? at night is that | nnn GflOTC noon is shining | iClUCI 0 LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) art's Creek, 25 pleaded guilty and paid $100 fii Court for making false applicat dark," Bryant Two other youths pleaded ii ites." and will stand trial. They posti Virginia, were date was set. Two other youths will appe ade School used Dou&las next week and two ( ree. "They say pearance next month, court off iking beer, one ^ _,, . Jesus They say Twenty-two of the teen-agen [ and joined the Tver's license stating they w are charged with obtaining tification cards listing them J jn lohfe charged are younger than 21. J III Idu I >erm from some lalPITI^rHl fl ad cauldron and U on a San Diego GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) -Cons the long-standing rivalry betw 1 ? oairi Rnhprt Tigers of clemson University i said Kooeri University o{ South C? ^ hopes to Gamecock the last thing yoi after he s dead. eXpect a Clemson graduate to i a hobby is the USC mascot. UO!ir nf hie (IU/n Ui.t Uo Cl/innnr .>?< roio ' J i>ul uv/t kmiiuici wao iuio rm of highly in- high-strutting birds long be! ith the operation graduated from Clemson in 1 and his grandfather, the la White, raised the birds for sh , , r. ... to Hawaii and other states >ank S,f'r^aby' cockfighting is legal. .arr.age because skirfner ?as af least f)0 fl using em. fighting fowl, cach tethered i); foot cord to 50-gallon drums 4(^year-old un- backyard. The drums are c *th to a boy Aug en(^s *? Pr?tcct the birds f the name of her sun' it was a tragic cocks crow incessantl; flap, they puff, they serai ??????I ground. You can hardly talk c din of each bird wanting to be to crow. "They're trying to be the rey Bogart the walk," said the 30-; :? Skinner, stepping over the t high electrified fence sSUrroun ? gamecock compound. The lve- "" keeps wandering predator attacking the birds. Walking thrOUgh the COmpOl ineers walk out, trai re not Jacksonville-New York train, the South Silver Star, had not yet arrived in the Df m? *y of- morning with supervisory workers at pi?JJ motive the throttle, railroad officials said. * major about tp . said. Elliott said Sunday that Amtrak trains through South Carolina are EHj major "heavily traveled. Certainly during trak mised the weekend they are heavily , to roll traveled." by tli it the Brot She estimated that each might Engii carry an average of 300 people at any irough one time. Ag ling to Seab rrains She added that those who have S.C., New already purchased tickets for trains railri A.1? nnnAAlml K*? fka non AltVl?kr Kl/ tvt??n ? Wl til \,aiiv,vi^u uj uic ou iav van vivuvi Ov "WJ wao j >avan- bus, get a refund, or travel at a later morr date. He strike A ticket agent at the Amtrak and t , the reservations office said there were no the di 3 a happy moment in the USC-Duke football game Saturday necocks 30-17. ; attempt to get fa - Eighteen teen-agers have The youths apparently ries in Lexington Magistrate's licenses showing they wc ions for driver's licenses. could patronize bars and li nnocent to the same charges Of the defendants, 23 ar< ;d $100 bond each, but no trial from Richland County. Investigators said the sar before Magistrate James department employee t )thers will make a court an licenses. icialssaid. " A former clerk in the 1 Valerie Cook, 17, has be > are accused of applying for a cepting a bribe in connect fere older than 21. Two others after a Columbia teen-ag? highway department iden- license indicating he was 1 as older than 21. All those Cook's case is expected Grand Jury Sept.27. iraduate raises garr idering wonders whether these colorful cocky Ji een the birds have anv nredators With a hi and the slight provocation, they charge to the it d irolina end of their ropes, clucking and coc j might flapping, at two-legged intruders. Car raise as A larger fence keeps thieves from clai stealing the valuable roosters. Theft coc ing the has been a problem in the past. 4, fore he Although Skinner doesn't sell his f 973. He cocks, cock breeders sometimes sell te B.T. young roosters for $250 to $2,500. usl lipment According to a 1974 report, "The an* where American Cocker," by Clemson University, cock breeding and apping, fighting "goes back 1,000 years before olvl y a two Christ and is followed in every known i in his culture. George Washington, Jef- ' ; >pen on ferson and Madison bred cocks as a rom the matter of course." It Participants in the "sport of kings" to t y. They mostly live in the Southern states. " tch the It is illegal to fight gamecocks in ne\ )ver the South Carolina but not to raise them. ft lr\r<l C/\?rA?*nl mr* f inu last ocvciai ouiicc, iih,iuuui^ liuutduuua, v.ui Oklahoma and Hawaii, permit bet cock on cockfighting. Skinner takes his cocks " /ear-old to those states to fight. Ski wo-foot- Large gamecock fights in those om ding the states sometimes command as much I t fence as $5,000 in entry fees, with purses as da^ s from high as $250,000. "When they fight for Na ... . , that v miich. money > , it's serious << ind, one business," Skinner said. nal ns roll on ems Sunday except "people aggravated that their travel were interrupted.'' ?ople are people. Some were nice it and some weren't," the agent ott explained that while Amhires no engineers of its own, it engineers from various lines hit le walkout of members of the nernooa 01 Locomouve leers. ent yardmaster L.R. Miner at the oard Coastline yards in Cayce, said picket lines were up at oad facilities and that no traffic moving through the yard Sunday ring. said that train crews are all gone hat "we just keep hoping" that ispute will be settled. "A^B" i hP*pP? . :$SB|Bwj|%&[j?^^ x:HH X&6& S; &*>? Photo by Chip Lowsll I night. Such moments were too Ise licenses were attempting to get driver's ire of legal drinking age so they quor stores. i from Lexington County and one is : youth paid $10 to a highway 0 obtain the falsified cards or Lexington highway office , Krysti en charged with one count of acion with the case. She was charged 1 police cadet obtained a driver's *1 years old. to go before the Lexington County lecocks ust because it's illegal to fight the is in South Carolina doesn't mean oesn't go on. "There's probably a kfight in every town in South olina," Skinner said. It is these ndestine "brush fights" that give kfighting a bad name, he said. That's what we want to get a away m," he said. The brush fights lally involve alcohol and betting 1 manv nrn hnlr) r?n QnnHax; he caiH J ... ~ , V. "?'" one of 211 members of the South rolina Game Breeders Association, inner said he would like the state to iction cockfighting like other lood sports," such as hunting and hing. loney from licenses could be used >enefit schools and roads, he said. We're trying to give cockfighting a v name," he said. 4uch of the adverse publicity nes from the very nature of the ist. Gamecocks are fighters. God made gamecocks to fight," nner said, "and they will fight until ; of them is dead." xift alone, the birds would take all / to kill one another, he said, ture gave roosters long spurs on 'ir, legs, hut. breeders clip the tural spurs.