University of South Carolina Libraries
_wi re Illinois airport strikes it rich HARRISBURG, III. (AP) ? Crude oil gushing up between two runways has already brought high-flying dreams to officials at a tinv airnort not to mention thousands of dollars in tax relief for local residents. "It's sort of like striking oil on the courthouse lawn," said Richard Davenport, a member of the Harrisburg-Raleigh Airport Authority Board. Thanks to the oil profits, of which the airport gets about a 9 percent share, the board decided Thursday to abolish a local property tax for the airport paid by Harrisburg and Raleigh t i~: ? : J :J u, 4 PlAmmnnc luwiiMiip rcaiucuid, aaiu m/aiu cuau man uaviu viciiuuuuo. "We've operated that airport for about $35,000 a year," Clemmons said. "This well might easily bring in between $20,000 and $25,000every month." "They think we have enough free oil to flow for 20 years," said board secretary John Baker, who said the well draws from an enormous oil-filled cave 3,400 feet beneath the runways. The airport serves a rural community of 9,500 near the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. Exploratory drilling had been done in and around the airport property for at least a dozen years, until a geologist with Rue Oil Co. of Mount Vernon found the gusher, Baker said. With permission from the FAA, drilling for "Illinois crude" began and oil was discovered. Man takes detour to Japan ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ? All Robert Patterson wanted to do was fly from Los Angeles back home to St. Paul. He ended up in Tokyo. "They told me my airplane would be leaving at Gate 41 in 45 minutes," said Patterson, 54, a union representative for railway workers. Somewhere over the Pacific, Patterson said, a flight attendant came by and asked "something to the effect of how would I like Tokyo?" From that point on in his adventure on Wednesday, Patterson was a celebrity. His wife, Ora Lee, was called and told he would be late. On the flight from Tokyo to Seattle, Patterson said, "There was champagne and all kinds of booze and everything else. They gave me a traveling kit, a deck of cards, a set of wings, bottles of wine." Patterson doesn't drink, so he passed the refreshments around and started a party, he said. In Seattle, after a bit of tension with customs authorities over the lack of a passport, Patterson caught a flight to St. Paul, arriving Thursday, about 24 hours later tha" he planned. Schoolchildren go to prison S11ELTON, Wash. (AP) ? Some parents weren't too happy about their grade-school children being hauled off to prison, but the kids wound up having a riot of a time watching a convict circus show. The children's laughter bounced off the walls of the Sheltori Correction Center as a group of inmates entertained the youngsters. Among the entertainers were men doing time for murder, rape and robbery. After some assurances were made, school principal Free Ebey said, there "wasn't a single parent who refused to lei their kids come." The convicts put on a one-hour show Tuesday filled with clown antics, tumbling, a limbo-dance contest and an alterec version of "Little Red Riding Hood." A clown named "Dumptruck" made a hit when his turn bling skills failed in a big, sprawling way. Under th< greasepaint, a red Atro hairpiece and red and white clowi garb, was inmate Greg Burgess, 17. "This is something that helps us a lot," Burgess said. "It i: something to work toward." Persistent bird nests on car DECATUR, 111. (AP) ? Dennis and Bonnie Jones have fine-feathered friend they would just as soon be without. The Jones' troubles began on April Fool's Day when the found a robin's nest between their car's outside mirror an the window. They removed it and drove off. But the determined robin rebuilt the nest that evening. Th couple removed it, but found another nest in the morning. Jones called the Decatur Audubon Society for help. Sh was told to nail a wooden box to a post near the nest to see the robin would move. But the robin merely built anothe nest ? on the car. Rfpontlv sho ha<4 hf?p?n nlnr'ina thf* n??ct nn tVio ru^ct tr\7ir? * y V??V- V/U v V/il HIV ^/VUV, VI J 111 to make the bird accept the new location. But she's not overly hopeful. "The kids are expecting bin eggs to match the car," she said. USC today RH film "Anna Karenina" performed by the Bolshoi pallet at / ana y:^u p.m. starring Maya Plisetkaya, j Aleksandr Godunov, Vladimir Tikonov rt~4 Yuri padimirov. FREE. j} * The USC Cultural Series presents "?vita," a pla\ about Argentina's Eva Peroo, at The Township at J p.m. y + -j - - ^j-jy , Audit finds 91 CHARLESTON (AP) ? A recent A< audit has found hundreds of cases in the 9tn judicial Circuit in which y criminal suspects have been held for ni months without indictment, according ai to court officials. ra "There are cases in Charleston County that would absolutley boggle your mind," said 9th Circuit Judge VI Lawrence Richter Jr. ^ a I "Unconscionable activities have occurred in this county like leaving a 17-year-old kid incarcerated for a C< year's time without indicting him and e) then dismissing the charges,'' Richter hi said. "I find that hard to justify." lc The 9th Circuit consists of Charleston and Berkeley counties. A a) March 25 audit found 952 warrants in al violation in the circuit, according to th Mabry Binnicker, regional representative for the state Court T Playing against the odds Carl Wessinger of Chapin deftly plays his for about two years. i : i ; Activists lobby 1 L (AP) ? Civil rights activists have forged that this state hasn't seen before" in the ba 1 Senate doors to black candidates, said lobbyi Taylor is a 34-year-old veteran civil right by the Southern Christian Leadership Cor ~ been one of the leaders in the fight to give S first black state senator in nearly 100 years. Taylor has focused on the current deb reapportionment in the House of Repres 5 battle that has apparently brought the blac success. Last week, the House tentatively ap portionment plan that would create nin< districts, two more than the Senate approve* Seven of the nine black-majority distrii version would havp minnritv rvmnlatinnQ In a considered "electable" for black candidates A final House vote is expected this week y Senate versions would then go to a conferem d Despite the gains in the House plan, th National Association for the Advancement < e s Textile manufat WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. g Va. (AP) ? The "survival" of the domestic textile industry rests on ie stricter curbs on foreign imports and increased exports by U.S. manufacturers, said James Chapman U Jr.. chairman of South Carolina based y Inman Mills Inc. "We don't object to foreign com| petition," said Chapman, elected | president of the American Textile I Manufacturers Institute here Saturday. I "But we do object to it being a oneway 'free trade' street ? free for them to invade our markets but absolutely barring us from their imai Chapman told The Greenville News many countries are blocking U.S. manufacturers from selling fabric abroad by erecting tariffs and non mmmmammmmmmmammammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :h Circuit Coi ^ministration office. Ninth Circuit Solicitor Charles ondon has disagreed with Bin icker's audit, saying an internal adit showed about one-fourth as lany violations. But the solicitor issued a directive st week to his staff to clean up the olations, Richter said. Condon also as granted 45-day extensions for Imost 200 warrants. Sandra Jones, administrator for ondon's office, said that with the (tensions signed and administrative jusekeeping complete, the circuit no nger is in violation. "Under our system of justice, we're 1 presumed innocent until convicted I trial, so there is no room to tolerate lat kind of delay," Richter said. Justice delayed is justice denied. hat is a truism. ^ nLri IFmVrh ^iSHBfflS'.t3 [Kii^v^iiHg] 5* :W^&i>.... " ' iOS^L unusual instrument despite his physical h or support in S "a unified effort (NAACP) Political i ttle to open state isn't enough, ist Jesse Taylor. "While the House ;s organizer paid by the Senate, neithe iference. He has chairman Nelson Ri outh Carolina its Taylor said the co of last year's marc! ate over Senate the 1965 Voting Righ entatives. It's a Local black group :k coalition some individual reoresen reapportionment ar proved a reap- watched with an eye s black-majority It's produced the 1 i in February. may be used to froi cts in the House from blacks, accord irge enough to be "What's different No such effort has b The House and were "politically im xcuiiiiuiiicv. " wg vg made a 1* e South Carolina "We're learning as 3f Colored People have to learn how to ;turer calls for tariff barriers. urging ttie U.S. government to break down those barriers, Chapman said, "The survival of the industry is at stake over trade. "There's a left and a right foot ? imports on the left and exports on their right," he said. "Without our ability to export, and with nvor. increasing imports, you're just gradually reduced to zero." The U.S. textile and apparel industries suffered a $7.2 billion trade deficit last year, up from Sfv7 billion in 1981, according to the textile institute. Chapman said he has first-hand knowledge of the impact of imports on the industry. Last year, two of Inman Mills' plants were forced to shut down for seven weeks because of a flood of Chinese print cloth imports. The textile leader said much of the irt violation * Richter SDecificallv mentioned thp case of 17-year-old Stephen Simmons^ an escapee from the State Department of Youth Services who was charged in 1981 with criminal sexual conduct, burglary and petty larceny. Although Simmons was indicted on the charges last May, state lab tests ? made on evidence nearly a year after it was collected ? nrnv??H hie " ? *? " * *1111 blood type did not match the assailant's. After spending more than a year in jail, the charges against Simmons were dropped two months later. Condon blames the indictment delays on a lack of manpower, and said he is requesting Charleston County to give him three to five more staff attorneys in next year's budget. ? He said each of his nine assistants is handling 100 to 200 cases at a time. Photo by Capers Hammond andicap. He has been playing it this way I ienate remap \ction Committee indicated yesterday it plan is a little better than the one passed jr one is acceptable," said committee covers III. alition's success to date is an outgrowth h (fl Wnchinatnn tn cimr\nrf nvtnncinn nf ? VV ? f vv/ ouppui t ^AlVIWiUU V* ts Act. s have been organized to meet with their tatives to let them know their votes on id minority interests will be carefully toward the 1984 elections, Taylor said, kind of Dolitical nressure that legislators m other special interest groups, but not ing to Taylor. here is it's a statewide effort," he said. ieen seen before, he said, because blacks mature" and had to find their own way. * ot of mistakes in the process," he said, we go. It's a maturing process, and we play it." import limits imported fabric can be produced cheaply "because they are made with labor under laws and regulations that would be illegal in the United States." The institute intends to file more "anti-dumping" lawsuits this year to J iurce me unued states into seiimg countervailing duties on imported fabric that has been subsidized by foreign governments and sold in this country below fair market prices, Chapman said. Moreover, the institute plans to participate in a national campaign to promote U.S.-made textiles and apparel to consumers, he said. Textile trade agreements to limit imports were negotiated last year between the United States and its three largest fabric importers ? Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan