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1_wire__ Second kudzu f CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. <A1 first one, Chattanoogans are Kudzu Ball as a tongue-in-che that plagues property owners a The gala is planned for Aug.. thAVY> u/nomMr* lni/Jr... * ~ ' nv^oi lllg IVUU?U*UCCUr<ll6( Kudzu Ball last August which r Chattanooga Birth Defects Cen "Because of the success < changing very little about the spokesman for the Long-Ran Out-of-Sight Planning Commiss Chattanoogans have been h< which has been an unlikely tar Hamilton County Commission, Wednesday, voted to designate the county, whose seat is in Cha responded to a request by A.J the Kudzu Ball's sponsoring cor Kudzu is a native plant of J 1930s, the U.S: Department of farmers to plant the tenacious \ battling widespread soil erosior Camping contes ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) ? for six months on a billboard as was arrested and removed froi police who said he had sold agent. Dalton Young, 23, of Beth billboard on Route 22 at 10 a.i drug charges before District Ju Ernst ordered Young held in 1 County prison. Young and the two other cor Northampton and Ron Kistler their sixth month of continuoi According to contest rules, the 1 a mobile home valued at $18,00C Rick Musselman, station rr sponsoring the contest with a said Wednesday he did not ki disqualifies him from the contei Young was charged with p< intent to deliver and with use , according to a clerk in Ernst's o Jailed 'drug grai CANBERRA, Australia (Al va/nman noil rrV-* f irvmvll ?.uuglH Willi (lllllUbl I camper van were freed from pi plane for home, nine years b expire. Florice Marie Bessire, 66, am La Pine, Ore., were arrested ir found the hashish hidden in tl Benz camper they were driving had an estimated street value oi Attorney General Gareth E became known as the "drug advancing age, had served enc their release. The women, who pleaded g imprisoned at the Parker Cem would have been eligible for par Officials at Canberra airport Qantas Airways flight bound foi i rney prevented the large crow the pair, who smiled and waved Bill would legali; ANDEKSON (AP) ? Puttin definitely be legal under a bill Garrison, D-Anderson. But it will be legal only if tl Clemson "Tiger Paw" ? is sm letters or numbers on the licens< Although Garrison is a Clems Tiger fan, he consented to mak legal on tags too. And you don't have to be a o booster club symbol also would I The bill, co-sponsored by Sen: and Harvey Peeler, D-Gaffney senate Detore moving on to the I ! USC today I; RH film "Raiders of thi 9:30 p.m. starring Harrison Freeman, Denhofen Elliott $1.00, $1.50. j Baseball double-header ~ s 6 p.m. at Sarge Frya Field. * Men's tennis - USC m, Daniel Tennis Stadium. tr nfti"- :;-y estival planned P) ? In case you missed the planning their second annual ek celebration of a pesky vine cross the southeast. 12. About 1,000 people, many of j vujiuuico, anciiucu U1C ursi aised more than $7,000 for the ter. of last year's ball, we are event," said Tex Greenwood, ge, Way-Down-the:Road and ion, which sponsors the ball, raping recognition on kudzu, get for praise in the past. The during a lighter moment last ! kudzu the "official weed" of ttanooga. The commissioners , Bulstrode, vice chairman of nmission. fapan and China. During the Agriculture urged southern fine on hillsides as a means of i. ;tant arrested One of three men camped out i part of a radio station contest Ti the platform Wednesday by marijuana to an undercover lehem, was arrested at the n. and was arraigned on two istice Edward Ernst of Stiles, lieu of $2,500 bail at the Lehigh itestants, Michael MacKay of of Coplay, on Sunday marked is camping on the billboard, last to leave the platform wins i. lanager of WSAN, which is mobile home manufacturer, low whether Young's arrest >t. jssession of marijuana with and possession of a narcotic ffice. nnies' released P) ? Two elderly Oregon wo tons of hashish in their ison Wednesday and put on a ifore their 14-year sentences d Vera Todd Hays, 65, both of 1 1977 after narcotics officers le false floor of a Mercedes; across Australia. The drugs F ?19 ^ million ' Ivans said the women, who grannies" because of their >ugh time in prison to justify uiity to drug charges, were | ter for Women in 1978. They ole in 1986. escorted the women aboard a r San Francisco via Honolulu. ; d of reporters from reaching c s 70 ton C+mixrtro LC? lUlj OUUI\CI d c g a tiger on your tag would sponsored by state Sen. Ed r c le tiger ? or more likely, a r all enough not to obscure the j, e plate. P on University alumnus and a ing Gamecocks and Paladins ^ allege fan ?- any high school ^ be legal. a 5. Robert Lake, D-Newberry, , awaits third reading in the 1UUSC. | k 3 Lost Ark" 2:30, 7 and cs Ford, Karen Allen, Paul c and John Rhys-Davies. s a t U$C vs. Ohio State 3 and f V V NS State 2 p,m, at Sam 1 " h ., " Polygraph te who said U.( GREENVILLE. (AP) ? The PRI has scheduled a lie detector test Friday for a man who allegedly witnessed Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., accept $20,000 in bribes, said the man's attorney. Robert Flynn, a Washington attorney representing William W. Pearce, told The Greenville News Wednesday his client will be given the polygraph test by federal agents on his grand jury testimony that implicated Thurmond in the alleged bribery transactions. Pearce was given a private polygraph test earlier this week, ITIl.nr, ml ' t ij>ui aaiu. me anurney, nowever, refused to reveal Pearce's performance. Syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported this month that Pearce testified before a federal grand jury in Washington last month that he saw Thurmond accept $10,000 in bribe payments on two occasions. Pearce said the payments came from a middleman acting on behalf of So this is spring? During yesterday's brief snowstorm, thi: Mouse grounds ? wlietiiur or not there we Gasoline prices NEW YORK (AP) ? Despite OPEC's d< ;ut the base price of its crude oil by $5 a I it gasoline pumps has ended and retail pr o go but up," said industry analysts. Oil companier eager to widen their shri tarted raising prices to gasoline dealers American motorists are expected to show "If the oil companies get their way, ii joing to go any lower," said Vic Rasheed >f the Service Station Dealers of America. That would be an abrupt about-face fro etail gasoline prices fell 6.7 percent ? t lecline on record, according to the govt eport also said gasoline prices last mont ower than in March 1981, when the nati< eaked at about $1.38 a gallon. The government does not report spe< larch 11 survey by the Lundberg Letter verage price for all grades of gasoline i ear ago, the national average price u, ccording to industry analyst Dan Lundbe Grocery store c (AP) ? A grocery store chain has Licked off a campaign to fingerprint hildren patterned after a program [oing on in several areas of South Carolina and the nation. Officials of Winn-Dixie and the Jtate Law Enforcement Division innounced Wednesday their part in he program for parents who want to lave records of their children's ingerprints in case the youngsters yind up missing. Of one million children missing ationally, 150,000 cannot be acounted for, said SLED spokesman lugh Munn. Munn said he believes a ngerprinting program would enable sst scheduled 5. senator aci Edwin Wilson, an ex-CIA agent who has been convicted of running arms to Libya. Tk.mm/vnJ J : 1 I L ~ J 1 ! L - x nut iiivstiu uctucu nt; atxejjieu unot; payments and called the allegation a "contemptible lie." The U.S. Justice Department confirmed it is investigating the charges, but refused to comment further. Pearce was described by Anderson as an informant and bodyguard to Wilson. Anderson said Pearce was instructed by Wilson to spy on Wilson's middleman, who allegedly delivered the payments to Thurmond. Following his alleged testimony against Thurmond in Washington, Pearce was indicted on fraud charges in Norfolk, Va., stemming from his employment with the Honeywell Corp. as branch manager of its protective services division. In a lawsuit Flynn filed for Pearce in Washington last week, Pearce charged that Thurmond was part of a conspiracy to prevent Pearce from s student donned a T-shirt and shorts, deterr re any to be had. to rise, industr ecision last week to Oil companies an )arrel, the big drop prices in recent mor ices "havenoplace demand depressed heightened competit nking profits, have The steep decline; , and increases for panies themselves ; up soon. sales under a variety t (the price) is not He cited Arco's eli , executive director ceptance of all cred Amoco, Chevron, Ex >m February, when The direction of g he largest monthly depends mainly on i ;rnment. A federal and whether the m h were 16.6 percent avoid flooding the m; onal average price said. The 5-cent-a-ga set to take effect Ap zific prices, but a cutting, analysts saic showed a national Lundberg said th< it $1.12 a gallon. A immediately becauc 'as $1.24 a gallon, made as of April 1. ] rg. gasoline they have or a. _ - r" nam 10 Tingerpi parents and police to more readily identify missing children. "We have no missing children in South Carolina that I'm aware of," Munn said. "But all the statictinc point that someday we will. It's nice to have a head start. "If we have access to the fingerprints, it will help get positive identification of children who are missing, whether they ran away, had an accident or were abducted." Parents can bring their children into one of Winn-Dixie's 96 stores in South Carolina, have their children fingerprinted and take the samples home. No duplicates will be made or for man * cepted bribe delivering further grand jury testimony by having him indicted in Virginia. Fiynn said the suit was filed against ^ Thurmond, Honeywell Inc., a . Honeywell attorney and U.S. District Judge Calvitt Clarke of Virginia. Flynn said Thurmond's role in the alleged conspiracy was "very, very incidental" and no monetary damages are being sought against the senator. The alleged middleman, a Virginiabased consultant working in Washington, who Pearce says he saw delivering the alleged bribe payments Q to Thurmond has not been publicly identified. ^ His attorney, Mark Sandground, said last week the allegations that his client delivered bribe payments to Thurmond were untrue. He said his client was not guilty "of anything" and said he was sure Thurmond did not do anything improper. What the alleged bribe payments were for was not made clear. ..<....** #>s?fcw -??s?-<^vm-.i^ .^. . -.v.w'-JwSWlMftStx^S >??35w? ... wix* :: ' :"' ..;. >-'. Photo by Julie Schnoor 9 nined to catch some rays on the State v analysts say d retail dealers were forced to reduce ^ iths because excess supply and a drop in prices on the open market. That ion for a shrinking retail market. s were partly sparked by the oil comas they pressured dealers to increase r of new marketing plans, Lundberg said. imination of credit cards, Shell's acit cards and cash discounts offered by t xon and Mobil. asoline prices this spring and summer ji whether demand for gasoline increases ^ ajor oil-producing nations are able to ^ ai-ket and sparking a price war, analysts non increase in the federal gasoline tax, Til 1, is expected to outweigh any price i increase will not be felt everywhere J it will only affect tanker deliveries But some dealers may hike the price of i hand to reap a windfall profit, he said. int children turned over to police, Munn said. One of thf* hicrooof 1 An O 1 *-v-* o in WSax/ pyl L iwai in Richland County, where the sheriff's department and the Army at Fort Jackson are joining forces with the goal of fingerprinting 60,000 children in the county's schools. Fort Jackson spokesman Doug Cook said Wednesday the program, which started last month, is running smoothly and should take at least a month more to complete. ' Cook said the Richland County effort is the only such program with military involvement. "It's been such a good program that other military posts are considering doing it."