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_wi re Licenser recaps rejects HOUSTON (AP) ? Of the thousands of driver's license ap plicants flunked by Jim Alexander, one failure stands out ? s prospective bus driver who flattened a parked pickup truck, "He just looked at that pickup," said Alexander, a troope with the Texas Department of Public Safety. "He didn't hav< much to say." Alexander, who has been testing applicants since 1967, said hi can now sense when some people aren't quite ready to drive, v "You'll ask them td hit the left turn signal and they'll hit thi luinHcViiplH uiirtorc " ho cairl "TKaf'c uihfn I Irnnw I tn cfar Vf IIIUJIIIVAVt TTipVIJ) IIV auiut A llUi J fTIIVII A l\IIVTT A kV kHHl worrying about my safety. I've jumped out of a few cars over th< years when the drivers forgot about their clutches." Another time, a driver he was testing came within a split secon< of causing a pileup on Interstate 45. "I finally got her stopped on the shoulder and she was alread; crying," he said. "I preferred to walk back to the office, and was proud to have the chance. She just wanted to sit in the car an< crv until someone from her family came and drove her home." Robber works in briefs MILLBROOK, Ala. (AP) ? A clerk gave police an unusuall detailed description of a scantily clad man who robbed a conve nience store at gunpoint. Thp hanrlit u/hn hf>lH nr* fhp lact u/ppk wdc wparino a rpi cap, gray sweatshirt, high-top tennis shoes and white underwea briefs, the clerk said. "We even have a brand name on the briefs, Fruit of th Loom," said Police Chief Don Buzbee. The clerk also told police the gunman was in his early 20s an was armed with a pump-action shotgun, Buzbee said. Reagan rumored dead LONDON (AP) ? Rumors circulated yesterday in financi, markets in Europe and the Far East that President Reagan wj dead, but White House spokesman Robin Gray said it was n< true. The rumors prompted several telephone calls from nev organizations, Gray said. The report appeared to be having no a feet on the markets. The source of the rumors could not be immediately determine< but callers to The Associated Press in London said the repor started in the Far East, Amsterdam or London. USC today RH film "The World According to Garp" 2:30, 7 and 9:30 p/rn. starring Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close 4 * i ? ? i ^ ana John uthgow. $l, $1.50. * ''Everyman'' continues ot Longstreet Theatre at 8 p.m. Admission is $4 for the public, $3 for faculty/staff and $2 for j . t - 1 ' ^students, The Driveways will appear at the Golden Spur at 9 p.m. as part of the Miller High Life Rock Series 1983. Admission IWI?VV}I!| II Baseball <? USC vs. Baptist College of Charleston at 7:30 p.m. at Sarge Frye field. ARCADE ipr 920 Main St. 254< 1 Friday S Saturdc , J 25<t Draft & 3 J ok ' I 12 - 5 n.m ,1 * ! DON'T FORGET the pe I at 5:00 TOD/ Court to dec education f < r e RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? A decision on whether the Greenville County school e district should pay for a handicapped adolescent's education through a private e program is now up to the 4th U.S. Cir t cuit Court 01 Appeals. e Attorneys for the school district and the multi-handicapped adolescent, J William Dunn III, argued before the court in Richmond Wednesday. y The district has appealed a ruling by I U.S. District Judge Ross Anderson that 3 the county must pay for Dunn's education in a private residential school because the public schools could not supply the "free appropriate education" i-A-J i aI r.J i r?J A! c niauuaieu uy me icueiai cuutauun iut ^ All Handicapped Act. i I r \. :,'r /v ,;VH; " " e Sailing away The empty pool on the Russell day as Sidewalk Sam worked ur | Publicity p KEV WEST, La. (AP) ? Complainin publicity, two defense lawyers convinc :| transfer the murder trial of an acci it Clearwater. Monroe Circuit Judge Bill Chappell or Edward Swindler moved to the Gulf Coa lawyers Mary Brennan and William F || stories from two newspapers and two rac possible to seat an impartial jury in the R Swindler, an Arkansas Death Row I bludgeoning to death a vacationing Pittsl the Upper Keys. The decomposed remain 13 19, were found tied to a bedpost in a shi I** 111 % I m 1121 5 lbs N * a ...I I y | 1 ens - jjg |i * * * I jK' irtv out-back I ' mm MI a I HI HHH HIHiHA mh ride if district ir handicappei Ross' ruling overturned decisions by local and state hearing officers. Lawyers for the district argued Wednesday that it met federal requirements when it educated Dunn in the public schools even though the private program may have been superior. "If what the school offers confers benehts, it doesn t nave to pay tor a residential program just because it's better," said Dean Rainey, a lawyer for the school system. Rainey also argued that federal law does not require the school to offer services that will "cure" a handicapped student's problems. n. rc r uunii, i /, suiicis iioiu an uigamc piublem that has stunted his growth and ^gsfecgjgfgy jf?_ ?jp!p?% W S^'' House Patio was in the midst of becom ider cloudy skies to paint a sailboat on rompis mov ig of extensive pre-trial Jan. 11, 1976. ed a circuit judge to The victim had be< lsed pick-ax killer to the body was identifi Swindler. 41. mnlr dered the triai of John sentenced to death in st city Wednesday after Smith policeman and riedlander argued that killing two teen-agers lio stations made it im.eys. The inmate has bee inmate, is accused of here in January. De )urgh college student in unable to take part i: s of Jeffrey McNerney, Psychologists have ack on Matecumbe Key in his defense. iMmmwgCTH Slawl ^ ^|iyg) I /8 lb. all beef C v mustard, homemade < 7S Gameroom a Open ti i ????Qgggr >4 K vnuvuiaic r With Vanilla Ice Cr< Chocolate Syru| Gameroom ar Upen til iMHMBi HHBB H mmmea ? "" ? mrhmb i FJMB BH^PI bagj^aiq tl?it||?i pfg^sla gag^^a > ~~ ^wwa Ifjmnn 1 3l(*,0"s ?a4?w I must fund i . a m. _ D STuaemrs caused behavioral and neurological problems. Under federal law, the public crhrtr>l? miicf nffpr him an ediirafinn nn til he is 21. Rainey said achievement test scores ^ showed the teen-ager, who has average intelligence, improved considerably after his last full year in a public school program during 1980-81. His parents have since put him in a private school. However, William Ehlies, Dunn's lawyer, argued the case involved the facts of his progress, not just a legal question of the school's responsibility. 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