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.wire Grand Strand is topic of book MYRTLE BEACH (AP) ? The beach wasn't reallv in vented by a man from North Forks, Neb., looking for a suntan. But that's the way it happened in the tongue-in-cheek world of Michael Ritchie. Ritchie, a 34-year-old refugee from the advertising wars in 4L? L2w 111 1 _ it.! - I t- A 1 - me uig cny, semea in uiis oeacn resori iwo years ago. ne liked what he saw so much, he decided to write a book about it. The volume, with the unassuming title "The Book to Read While You're On the Beach," began rolling off the presses last week. He swears he 11 never return to the snow and the pressure of Chicago ? "a great city, but it's too cold." Ritchie labored for eight years in advertising, working for Walter Thompson and the Leo Burnett firm. He helped create the Little Sprout in Green Giant Foods commercials. He now works as editor of the "Grand Strand Guide," a local publication for tourists, and is director of public i_i! n hk :- A u relations iur uie neacn music nwarus prwsemeu uere annually. Ritchie's book runs the gauntlet of beach life. "On or near most beaches you're sure to find an amusement park," he wrote. "They're called amusement parks because the owners are constantly amused at how much people will spend for nothing." He also advised, "never go to a pavilion or arcade and order Chateaubriand on a stick. The cut is generally of a lesser qualtiy and there's rarely enough for two." The 156-page volume published by Progressive Publishers of Virginia Beach, Va., will be test-marketed in Myrtle Beach, Nags Head, N.C., and in Virginia Beach, Ritchie said. After that, he said, the $4.94 volume could be distributed to other cities in the southeast. Pauper had thousands in bank SHHEVEPOKT, La. (AP) ? Local officials squabbled lunuay over paymem 01 uuriai expenses ior margarei Aiders, 92, who wore wooden false teeth and scavenged to urvive, yet had at least $250,000 in local banks when she lied. Dr. Robert Braswell, the Caddo Parish coroner, said Siders' body would remain in his morgue until someone tgrees to bury the woman who for 20 years pulled a wagon through downtown Shreveport and rummaged through garbage bins for food. Siders' fortune remained a secret until a close friend, Shreveport police Detective Bettye Brookings, got permission to enter the home to find the records of savings acnAiinf p nmrl n 1 r ?-* /\? ? 311C adiu one IVI1CVV WU K IIIUUCI1 L1ICI c. Brookings said bank books showed about $250,000 in savings accounts at four local banks, and that she had reason to believe there was more money in yet another undiscovered account for which there were no known rerorHs Carl Rice, the lawyer who is handling Siders' will, said it would be days before an accurate count of the fortune is completed. Rice said she specified, however, that it should go to the Missions Divison of the United Pentecostal Church. Although the source of the fortune is not known, Brookings said she believed Siders' hushand was a retired Armv nffieer J ? who received a monthly check from the government. Others said they believed he was retired from the railroad. Brookings said Siders' only two known living relatives are a sister, Annie, who is in an Asheville, N.C., nursing home, and Annie's son, Billy. Brookings said Siders spoke often of Billy and sent him a handkerchief and shaving cream on his birthdays. The detective said she talked with Billy, however, and was told he could not afford to bury his aunt. Cows overturned on freeway DALLAS (AP) ? A truckload of cows overturned on a city freeway Monday and rush hour traffic was snarled for miles while a sheriff's posse rounded up the critters. "Our livestock control guys got a real workout," said sheriff's spokesman James Ewell. He said as many as 3G cattle were injured and some had to be shot. The Dallas County sheriff's department posse was called nit to help round up the cattle, which romped along the South ft.L. Thornton Freeway and into the Trinity River bottom. The truck overturned about 4:30 a.m., blocking all nor ihbound lanes of the freeway, Ewell said. Diverted traffic ,vas bumper-to-bumper along side streets in the Oak Clifi area, he said. "It threw Oak Cliff traffic into a gigantic snarl that spillec over into the major thoroughfares through Oak Cliff," Ewell said. "I know there are going to be thousands of office workers late this morning." The livestock control unit brought its portable corral anc trailers to transport the cattle to a south Dallas livestocl* control center. use today RH film "Cat on a Hot Tin fioof" 2:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m. starring Paul Newman, Elizabeth Tavlor. Burl Ives. Judith Anderson and Jack Carson. FREE. "Everyman" will be performed at Longstreet Theatre at 8 o.m. Admission is $4 for the public. $3 for faculty/staff and $2 for students. The USC Cultural Series will present the last appearance of "Einta" at 8 p.m. at The Township. 1 I i fili*t IIiifnili'iill111i'ii'iij'i'i11ViiiniiiiiiiiiiYiI'if f IIHI miiim Ilium IIIIHIImill!Im ii niiim SRP knew of GREENVILLE (AP) ? State and federal agencies warned Savannah r*i rvi i i- a ruver jriani umciais iwo years agu ui the dangers of holding radioactive and other dangerous materials in open storage ponds, The Greenville News reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted internal government documents in a story published in yesterday's editions. Last Friday, officials at the nuclear weapons plant announced that about 50 tons of suspected cancer-causing chemicals had escaped from one of the 11 earthen basins and contaminated a major underground water system that supplies drinking water for towns in South Carolina and southern Georgia. STATE HEALTH officials said Monday no contamination of outside drinking water supplies has been found. According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents, the basins contain radioactive material, chemicals and metals ? all considered dangerous. The contamination of the underground water system prompted the state Department of Health and Environmental Control to increase its effort to convince the facility to close the other basins, said Lewis Shaw, chief of the agency's Bureau of Water Pollution Control. "I think they're aware that we would like to see some other disposal Wmfpi im m j . ' !:m . ... , : L k Dee Taber, a sophomore education mi I discovered a new way to study - in her i. 1 111 1 i j Hollings will ai (AP) ? Sen. Ernest Hollings, who will formally enter the Democratic presidential sweepstakes Monday, 1 will start the ball rolling Saturday | with a huge barbecue rally at the I State Fairgrounds here. Between 1,00() and 1,500 supporters and friends are expected, according to Milton Greene of Hollings' | Columbia office. Some 7,000 tickets are being offered | at $15 a head throughout the state by a steering committee group. "We just want to make sure we cover the expenses. But if we raise some money in the process, that'll be fine," remarked Greene. dangers, pap or treatment technique developed," Shaw said Monday. ASKED WHY DHEC did not force the plant to stop using the basins when * -? ii? t. *:?i tne agency learned 01 uie puieuucu hazards two years ago, Shaw said the problem did not pose an immediate health danger. He said the agency has the legal authority to force the plant to stop using the basins, but decided to give SEP officials time to work out a solution. Operations at the plant, which produces a major share of the nation's nuclear weapons material, could be halted if DHEC orders an end to the use of the basins before an alternative is developed, Shaw said. SRP spokesman Cliff Webb said Monday plant officials have formed a task force to study waste disposal practices. HE SAID the plant is dumping less dangerous materials into the basins, but the materials already discharged are still contained in them. A copy of an internal EPA document that revealed the results of a 1981 analysis of the Savannah River Plant's waste disposal practices indicated the seepage basins "have contaminated the groundwater in certain areas." llAiirAirnr nnnnnnnnmanf locf Aiuwcvti , nic aiiiiuuu^iii^ui' iaoi Friday by SRP officials was the first confirmation that dangerous |H Some st hold the jHtate (AP> ? Some sU over tne past two yei year, state Auditor I "It's illegal to coir it's a large amoui problems later." Vaughn, after tell the illegal practice, offending agencies c THE AUDITOR Si recent years to deal Vaughn said he n on during the auditii "It's nothing anyl Vaughn. "We just w He saia tne practi ^^*5* money and was beii declined to name thi jM/.: VAUGHN SAID t ^mMj close up the $60 mil money would likely ^ in the state coffers. shortfall on the agei JBHHH Vanflhn tnM tho H whole thing wrappe State Treasurer C was wrapped up, h unsatisfactory shor the budget i meinuers 01 me budget deficit. Le properly informed | During the meet: photo by Mary Ann Hotiis remain 4'frugal" < parently been pate ding money they h overconfident. aior. snnms to hau? Alter tne meetir sleep. budget shortfall we of tax collections. 1 ^B ^^ ^ _g iiiiuuiiue candid Hollings will be present to greet his backers. The pre-announcement rally will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hampton Building on the State Fairgrounds. While the program is incomplete, Greene noted all entertainment will be provided by local groups and singers. Thev inrludo thp RranL-iin AoV?i??. ^ ? i lOMIUj trio and young singer Sammy Uovd Greene said the Hollings campaign committee is negotiating a possible appearance by the OrangeburgWilkinson High School Band. In addition, the Hollings rally hopes to attract several prominent tor cauQ IUI VM j w chemicals had traveled as far down as the Tuscaloosa Acquifer, a major drinking water source about 300 feet beneath the plant. EPA examined the plant's waste disposal practices from 1980 to May 1981 after it learned dangerous chemicals were being dumped into the basins, according to EPA 41 documents. DHEC TOLD THE EPA the state agency was monitoring the situation and trying to persuade Savannah River Plant officials to change its methods, according to EPA documents. The EPA analysis of the plant's practices in 1981 found that chemicals and radioactive elements from the basins had seeped "slowly to streams # on the site and subsequently into the Savannah River," the documents said. DHEC's Shaw said Monday the state agency is continuing to monitor urnfnr citrvnlino nf fKn f Atirnc nf To/iItoam VYtttCl VI U1V bVTTllO VI UU^IVOVU and New Ellenton and the Talatha Water District, which draw water from the acquifer downstream of the plant. Plant officials started last month pumping the contaminated water out ^ of the ground, a process that can remove about 720 pounds of the estimated 50 tons of the contaminant each month. Spencer said the cleanup could take 10 years. Ldic ayciibica sir bills over ite agencies have dealt with budget cuts ars by not paying bills until the new fiscal H Sdgar Vaughn said yesterday. imit next year's funds," Vaughn said. "If it of money it can cause the agency ing the state Budget and Control Board of , was advised by the board to notify the >f the law. aid agencies have adopted the practice in with a continuous series of budget crises. oticed the delayed payments were going ag process last year. ? nnarlc f a Ka rtUf ?r>Arl okAiif '' cnirl k/vrvtjr Iittuo w ia: u 151HUIICU OUUUV) ouiu ant to head it off at the pass." ice involved a relatively small amount of ng done by about five or six agencies. He e agencies. he state still needs about $1.8 million to Uion hole in the state budget but that the come from excess personal service funds d had a discussion of the $1.8 million ida yesterday but carried it over. budget board his office "would have the dup" soon. Jrady Patterson told Vaughn that when it e wanted it clearly indicated "there's no tfall." JOARD has come under heavy fire from eneral Assembly for its handling of the gislators said they had not been kept of the methods of dealing with the short D ing, Vaughn also asked state agencies to ^ven though the budget deficit has ap:hed. He said agencies might start spenad saved for the shortfall if they became ig, he said revenues found to patch the Hull/ iAnc Kocnrl AII nnnnloratinn ^ p* vjwviuiio uaocu v/ai mviv*? 'he fiscal year isn't over yet, he warned. acy Monday nnl i tini a r\C f a n?i/ln??c/v fko onnof f\Y* 'c tv V/llUl/l OC l-IAV OVIIMVW* " candidacy. ? S.C. Democratic Chairman Bryan Dorn, according to Greene, "is trying to get some additional folks in here, some prominent names to endorse the senator." On Monday morning, Hollings will formally announce his candidacy at the Midlands Technical College Airport Campus. Following his Columbia an- g nouncement, Hollings will fly t? Washington for a National Press Club luncheon speech and news conference.