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Lower tar encourages ii
WASHINGTON <AP>- Smokers who switch t
nicotine cigarettes are not decreasing their cl
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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
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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
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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
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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
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that treats
f foghorns and
'cry night from jO JHJP
:y, said Frank
nation, which is Bap;, jiapBMHBBp
'here Spinetta ! *
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cent interview, IBl- *'|f
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pie have been jjjj^
y night for the i*^P^
s the profile of ^HT*
Cockv and friend
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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.
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>erm from some lalPITI^rHl fl
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.