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Undercover a
BISHOP VILLE (AP)
Department had to drop a
the Lee County sheriff bust
The investigation, whic
produced eight arrests.
"We did have an underc
less say he got burned,'
Corbett said Tuesday. "W
because once he was exp
him."
Corbett said Sheriff Lis
raided the city-owned trai
Jan. 25. Inside, he said, we
Corbett said the acent '
? ?C J
were apprehended, but th
Lee County, escaped out
trailer. Gregg was arreste
The other two men were
"The sheriff's departmc
they didii't know anything
said.
Corbett said the state i
mission, which had issu
residents charging them 1
locate someone to do the ur
He said he, one of his of
only ones who knew about t
Corbett also said that mi
suspects outside the city,
turned over to the sheri
vestigation.
TrilPcHalo wac unoiroilali
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Mouth-washii
SUMMEHVILLE (AP)
teacher and teacher's aide
of-court settlement for was!
mouth out with soap three ti
The student's attorneys
than wait two or three yean
decision to award the girl $5
Kevin Holmes, a lawyer
that an insurance compan
settlement.
A Dorchester County ji
student, Joyce McQueen,
$25,000 in punitive damages
Attorney Charles Goldbe
student with cerebral pals
1981 for using the wor<
disagreement about home\
teacher's aide Tracy Boldi^
time.
After the incident, McQut
Boy earns life
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP
are honoring 10-year-old
saving the lives of his mc
year.
At the recommendation
Honor, he will receive on
highest award in lifesaving
He earned the award by
outing last Memorial Day u,
Michael, then 9, his mc
brother, Scott, were sailin
uririfi norvoir?/\rl -i
vriiiu men uuai
Jones became tangled in r<
water because she wasn't w
Without instructions, M
jacket, untangled himself,1
his brother inside, she said
side of the boat until she wa
Miss S.C. '81
(AP) ? Miss South Ca
drunken driving after beii
early Sunday morning in i
pageant.
Jill Lorraine Rankin, 22, ]
in Forest Acres and repori
cell at the Richland Count
police said. She also refuse
which automatically result
influence.
<4It wasn't anything reall;
spokesman. "She just put i
Rankin, who lives east
around 2:45 a.m., accordin
at the county jail until 8:00 i
use todo
Floyd
p.t$ .00,11 <f0.
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Sports office, the Carol!)
gent gets busted
? The Bishopville City Police
drug and liquor investigation after
ted the city's undercover agent,
h lasted one-and-a-half months,
over agent, but you might more or
' Bishopville Police Chief O'Dell
e just closed the investigation out
osed, we didn't have any use for
ton Truesdale and three deputies
ler where the agent was living on
re the agent and three others,
who was not named, and two men
te third, Prince Lee Gregg, 30, of
the unguarded back door of the
d Monday.
released without being charged.
?nt got wind of this, and they said
\ auoui rum une agent;,'' uoroett
Mcoholic Beverage Control Comled
warrants to 14 Lee County
with liquor law violations, helped
idercover work for the city police,
ficers and ABC officials were the
he investigation.
uch of the investigation pointed to
He said six drug cases had been
iff's department for further inlefor
comment.
ig lawsuit settled
? A Summerville High School
have agreed to pay a $40,000 out
tiing a special education student's
mes for swearing.
accepted the settlement rather
> for the teachers' appeal of a jury
0,000.
for the student, said Wednesday
ly for the teachers will pay the
jry in December awarded the
$25,000 in actual damages and
after a two-day trial.
rg said the teen-ager, a retarded
;y, was disciplined in November
i "damn" in class during a
vork with teacher Janis Fry and
The girl was 17 years old at the
jen left Summerville High School.
isaving medal
') ? The Boy Scouts of America
Michael Jones of Charlotte for
>ther and 2-year-old brother last
of the Scouts' National Court of
Feb. 11 the Medal of Merit, the
showing courage during a family
'eekend.
>ther, Nancy, and his 2-year-old
g on Lake Wylie when a gust of
about 600 yards offshore. Mrs.
spe and had to fight to stay above
'earing a life vest.
ichael, who was wearing a life
turned the boat upright and pulled
. He then tugged his mother to the
s able to pull herself in.
arrested DUI
rolina of 1981 was charged with
lg stopped in a Columbia suburb
i car she won in the state beauty
put up a struggle during the arrest
tedly kicked a hole in the holding
;y Detention Center in Columbia,
d to submit to a Breathalyzer test,
s in a charge of driving under the
y unusual for a DUI," said a police
ip a little fight."
nf ~ - 4 A
w /\cres, was picKed up
g to police 1 "oorts. She was held
a.m., the spokesman said.
, The Wa?" 2:30, 7 and 9:30
i p.m. to 2 a.m. st the P.E.
the Intramural/Recreational
ia Program Union and the Biatt
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Thurmond d
(AP) ? The U.S. Justice Department
says its investigators have so
far found nothing to substantiate an
"ambiguous allegation" that Sen.
Strom Thrumond took a bribe from
convicted smuggler Edwin T. Wilson.
Thurmond, who has denied the
allegation, requested the investigation
after Jack Anderson,
quoting an unnamed witness, gave an
account of it in his syndicated
pnliimn WoHnpcHav
Wilson, a former CIA agent, also
denied the allegation.
"The inquiry now being conducted
has produced no substantiation of the
allegation," said Thomas DeCair,
chief spokesman for the U.S. Justice
Department.
ANDERSON ALSO SAID Thurmond's
name had appeared in the
earlier incident in which an unnamed
man proposed to Frank Terpn, an
associate of Wilson's, that Thurmond
be offered money to help secure
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SUMMERVILLE, GA. (AP) ? A
Chattanooga, Tenn., man wrote a
statement saying he killed two
reclusive north Georgia men because
"they were devils," a Chattooga
County sheriff's investigator testified
yesterday.
Investigator Tony Gilleland read
the statement by Samuel T. West, 30,
alias Tony Wells West, at a
preliminary hearing for West, one of
two men charged with murder in the
deaths of reputed devil worshipers
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miatics ocuuua, do, ana Joseph
Odom, 37.
Gilleland quoted West's statement
as saying, "All I can say is they were
devils, and I killed them. That's all I
can say about it."
Scudder, a former Chicago medical
school professor, and Odom were
found shot to death Dec. 16 at "Corp
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sewooa Manor, tneir castle-like
home near Trion. Authorities have
described the men as devil worshipers
who kept an occult library, hex signs
and skulls in their home.
The other man charged in the
killings, Kenneth Avery Lowrance
? Brock,.. 17,. was -boundaver- to .the -
enies bribery i
release of eight C-130 transport planes
to Libya.
Anderson gave no indication that
the offer was ever made. In the incident
under investigation, the
columnist said it wasn't clear for what
purpose Thurmond was alleged to
have accepted $10,000 in each of two
separate meetings with a middleman
acting for Wilson.
Anderson said Wilson also denied
the alleged bribe through an attorney.
Wilson is on trial in Houston, accused
of smuggling more than 21 tons of C-4
plastic explosives from Texas to
Libya.
, THE COLUMNIST WROTE he
heard in September 1981 that the
Justice Department was looking into
the earlier allegation that someone
offered Thurmond's services "for a
price" to Terpil.
A government witness named Devin
Mulcahy, who died last October, told
an Anderson associate that Teroil was
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North Carolina, auth
f| "He was scared th
|| Police Chief R. A. Phi
Lindy Lawrence,
^ was being sought, i
fg ployers, the Cha
distributorship, couk
Phillips said the t
H after telling police he
I chief said the truck<
where a driver was s
Another truck was
1 or a rock earlier y<
national strike by in
fl increases in gasoline
! The Highway Pa
j cocktail on a tru<
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S Hospital for glass pai
Newberry County
attack occurred less
4k trucker was shot fro:
post office near the said ^ sheriffs def
ig through the wall. attack.
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Chattooga County grand jury
following a two-day hearing last
week.
Prosecutors claim they have two
eyewitnesses to the slayings, but one
of the two, Theresa Lynn Hudgins,
failed to appear in court yesterday
morning. Attorneys for West had
subpoenaed her for the hearing, and
Justice of the Peace Ralph Brown
ordered sheriff's deputies to find her
and bring her to court.
Joey Lavon Wells, a nephew of West
and the other reported eyewitness to
the killings, was in court but was not
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vV VVUVIIJ JCOICI uay morning.
McConnell said West told him
during questioning at the Rossville
Police Department just after midnight
Christmas Day that he and
Brock had killed Scudder and Odom
on Dec. 12.
McConnell said West told him that
he and Brock then took Scudder's
Jeep and drove to Mississippi, where
they stopped at an interstate highway
rest area, killed another man andf
stole his car.
West also faces a murder charge in
. .the shooting-death jof Kirby Phelps of . .
charge
trying to get the government to
release eight C-130 transport planes
purchased by Libyan dictator
Moammar Khadafy.
The State Department stopped
delivery because of Khadafy's support
for international terrorists, and
Anderson said Mulcahy reported
Temil was to receive a *1
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commission for each plane he could
get delivered.
The columnist said Mulcahy's story
was that Terpil offered a middleman
$250,000 per plane and an equal
amount for Thurmond if the middleman
could win the senator's
support. Anderson said the middleman
denied any such discussion.
Nothing further apparently came of
that story. But in the alleged bribery
incident, Anderson said a witness told
investigators that a middleman met
Thurmond at least twice at an
Arlington, Va., company sponsored
by Wilson and handed over $10,000
each time to the senator. (
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ckers' strike j
nore violence j
lot through the windshield of a tractorster
Countv as darkness fell vesterdav
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he national independent truckers' strike i
jlence to South Carolina highways.
s hit by gunfire at 5:30 p.m. as it passed
U.S. 78, but the driver was not injured,
lway Patrol.
Columbia patrol dispatchers said the
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juciuia Lsepciriiuem was investigating
rer's name was not immediately known.
Late, a Moncks Corner trucker allegedly
e his 18-wheeler with a gunshot blast
because he was afraid to make a haul to
oritiessaid. I
jn and he's still scared," Moncks Corner
Hips Jr. said.
40, was arrested and a second suspect
iccording to Phillips. Lawrence's emrleston-based
Wetterau Inc. food
1 not be reached for comment.
rucker allegedly confessed to the ploy
! feared for his life on the open road. The
;r was headed to Newton Grove, N.C.,
lain Monday night.
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ut wjf a in cuumu ciiiu cs inn u uy a uriun
isterday, marking the fourth day of a
dependennt truckers against scheduled
taxes and highway fees.
trol said someone threw a Molotov
;k on Interstate 26 near downtown
a.m. yesterday. The firebomb hit the
vasn't injured and there was no major
ater, an unknown object shattered the
z traveling on 1-26 in Newberry County,
old Carroll Wayne Crenshaw of Whitand
released from Newberry County
tides in his eyes.
Chief Deputy Tom Summer said the
? than two miles from where another
m an on-coming car Tuesday night. He
>artment had made no arrests in either
i
rderer says
Jacksonville, Fla., a Navy lieutenant
whose body was found Dec. 15 at an I20
rest stop near Vicksburg, Miss.
Johnson testified that West gave
him the following account of the
killings:
Brock went into the house alone and
shot Odom with a .22-caliber rifle
while West, Hudgins and Wells drank
wine and sniffed "toot-a-lu" ? a
mixture of paint thinner and lighter
fluid ? with Scudder in an adjoining
room guest house.
Brock then returned and gave the
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esuu iu vvesi, ana ine enure group
entered the house, where West and
Brock tried to get Scudder to tell them
where he kept his money hidden.
When Scudder started walking
away, West shot him. West and Brock
then took Scudder's Jeep and drove to
the home of Wells' mother, where
they left West's car, and then the pair
began driving westward in Scudder's
Jeep.
Both McConnell and Johnson
testified that they interviewed
Hudgins and Wells on Dec. 17 and
were given a similar account of how
Muixig$ occurred.. .