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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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GREENVILLE (AP) ? State and
federal agencies warned Savannah
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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
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(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.
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Shaw said Monday.
ASKED WHY DHEC did not force
the plant to stop using the basins when
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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."
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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.
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Greene said the Hollings campaign
committee is negotiating a possible
appearance by the OrangeburgWilkinson
High School Band.
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to attract several prominent
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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
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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.
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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.
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he state still needs about $1.8 million to
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come from excess personal service funds
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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
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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
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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.