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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
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"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.
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But she's not overly hopeful. "The kids are expecting bin
eggs to match the car," she said.
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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. ^
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"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
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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
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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
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"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
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Chapman told The Greenville News
many countries are blocking U.S.
manufacturers from selling fabric
abroad by erecting tariffs and non
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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.
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"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
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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
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No such effort has b
The House and were "politically im
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e South Carolina "We're learning as
3f Colored People have to learn how to
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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
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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.
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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
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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