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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..
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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
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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 $2,500 bail at the Lehigh
itestants, Michael MacKay of
of Coplay, on Sunday marked
is camping on the billboard,
last to leave the platform wins
i.
lanager of WSAN, which is
mobile home manufacturer,
low whether Young's arrest
>t.
jssession of marijuana with
and possession of a narcotic
ffice.
nnies' released
P) ? Two elderly Oregon
wo tons of hashish in their
ison Wednesday and put on a
ifore their 14-year sentences
d Vera Todd Hays, 65, both of
1 1977 after narcotics officers
le false floor of a Mercedes;
across Australia. The drugs
F ?19 ^ million '
Ivans said the women, who
grannies" because of their
>ugh time in prison to justify
uiity to drug charges, were |
ter for Women in 1978. They
ole in 1986.
escorted the women aboard a
r San Francisco via Honolulu. ;
d of reporters from reaching c
s
70 ton C+mixrtro
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c
g a tiger on your tag would
sponsored by state Sen. Ed r
c
le tiger ? or more likely, a r
all enough not to obscure the j,
e plate. P
on University alumnus and a
ing Gamecocks and Paladins ^
allege fan ?- any high school ^
be legal. a
5. Robert Lake, D-Newberry,
, awaits third reading in the
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3 Lost Ark" 2:30, 7 and cs
Ford, Karen Allen, Paul c
and John Rhys-Davies. s
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t
U$C vs. Ohio State 3 and f
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NS State 2 p,m, at Sam 1 "
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."