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.wire swallows invade house SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) ? Barn swallows flew into a house and crashed into its walls and windows "like a scene from 'The Birds,"' forcing a mother to scoop up her Untx, 1 <1 -11 . * " uauj anu ncc iu u neignoor s nouse, oniciais said. Sandra Dillard likened the invasion of her home to Alfred Hitchcock's horror movie about a town terrorized by sadistic birds. Dillard, 29, was bathing her 7-month-old daughter Monday night when she heard noises in the living room of their home. When she came out to investigate, she saw what looked like inousanas and thousands" of birds flying around and beating against the walls. Animal control supervisor John Place identified the invaders as barn swallows that apparently had taken roost in Dillard's chimney. He explained that barn swallows travel in large flocks, and it's relatively commmon for them to become disoriented and tly into a house. It took animal control officers more than an hour to round up about 35 swallows, including some in an aquarium and others that knocked themselves senseless by flying into the walls and windows. Dillard said Tuesday she and her family were still finding stunned birds behind the refrigerator, under furniture, in shoes, on window ledges and hanging limp from the curtains. Half house to be moved MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ? A house divided cannot be allowed to stand for long in a Memphis neighborhood, leaving a man with a $500 problem. City officials are giving Mike Burch until Monday to get his (lAitCP in nrrlnr D*ip^?U 'r 1 1/^ 1 1 uvsuov nt \>iuu . uuiui o jjujuicni is uiai nc nets i f i jL. nouses anu the half is sitting on a trailer in his front yard. The half house actually is the second story of a garage apartment that was on a nearby lot before Burch bought it. He __ 1 1 -A ? 1 ' ' ? " * piannea 10 pui me two-oearoom, one-Dath structure into his back yard and convert it into a recreation room. But after the structure was trucked to his house a week ago, he found he couldn't get it into his back yard without tearing down his current home. "I never even conceived that the problem would arise," he said Wednesday. Burch's neighbors have complained and the city has given him until Monday to move the half house or be fined up to $500. "I'm just stuck between a rock and a hard place," said Burch, who would have to shell out $500 to move the half house again. "I've been trying, but I don't think I can do anything by that time. I mean, I couldn't move it to a friend's house and say, 'Could you hold this for a while?' " Rare quadruplets born m U TOKYO (AP) ? Rare quadruplets ? two sets of identical twins ? were born to a farmer's wife in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, the woman's obstetrician said Wednesday. Myoko Hane, 32-year-old wife of Eiji Hane, gave birth Tuesday to the four boys at a Iwamizawa hospital. Two sets of identical twins at one birth is rare, said Dr. Hiroyoshi Hayashi of the Sorachi Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in Iwamizawa, 400 miles north of Tokyo. Mrs. Hane nad not taken fertility drugs, he said. "The Asahi Evening News" reported that quadruplets are born in only one out of 510,000 births. The four babies weighed between 3 pounds, 8 ounces; and 5 pounds, 10 ounces and were placed in incubators. They are doing well, the doctor said. The couple also has a 4-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl. Actions to be evaluated BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) ? The fraternity member wh( originated a plan to freeze a kitten in a block of ice used in ? punch bowl at a party will face a conduct review, Montan. State IJniversitv nffirialc Assistant Dean of Students Rolf Groseth said Wednesda] that the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has been placed 01 probation by the university and by the national fraternal SAI organization following the incident at a party April 9. The fraternity member most responsible for the punch which was consumed by several frat members, was no identified. USC todau . i RH film "Marty" 7 and starring J ?rnest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. FREE. ' ' The Outdoor Film Festival as part of the Spring (tAMlrt /it O. II m Mn Cintrl A TUrt {!!? <. puaitt? WIH uoym a?> w p*?n. UII riqiu /v lire wins are "The Road Warrior," "Caveman," and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." - . Men's tennis ? USCvs. East Tennessee State at 2 p.m. at Sam Daniel Tennis Stadium. .. Group says I workers to CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? A S.C. anti-nuclear group fighting the Catawba nuclear nlant rharowl vestpr day that federal records show Duke Power Co. told workers to falsify records in an internal investigation of welding inspections at the plant. Spokesmen for the Palmetto Alliance also said they have asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to conduct a complete review of worker complaints. "All opposition to this plant is well known, hut the dncnmentatinn relpas ed by the NRC increases our skepticism about the ability of the NRC and Duke Power to deal effectively with workers' safety concerns," said Michael Lowe, director of the alliance. Lowe said the charges by Duke employees date to February 1981. Lowe said federal documents show Pui^^ove I ico \A/oll/nr otnnr> tn nlnu m!*U l?/ It?iou vvairvoi oivjjjo iu (JlCiy Willi illl says she decided to name her dog Senator 'plea WASHINGTON (AP) ? Sen. Strom T announcement that he's been officially cle< that he took $20,000 in bribes "brings to most distasteful chapters of my political ca The Justice Department said Wednesday vestigation cleared the S.C. senator of a cla ^ money from a company owned by convict ticiwin Wilson. "I am pleased this episode is over, but I n * almost 60 years of public service I have ne to a more reckless, demeaning and irres ^ Thurmond said in a brief statement follow } ment by U.S. Attorney General William Fi Smith issued a three-sentence statement ment completed an inquiry into the clair ' substantiation whatsoever of the allegation Thurmond, chairman of the Senate Jud requested the probe after the charge surface dicated columnist Jack Anderson in Februai ed the department to release its findings, w { when it completed its investigation. William Pearce, a former Wilson em College offers CHARLESTON (AP) ? In the whirl of activity that makes up Spoleto Festival U.S.A., it's hard to tell the | players without a program. In fact, | you might feel you need a college course to keep things straight. The College of Charleston has come | to the rescue with a four-week continu| ing education course to give festival| goers an overview of what will be go| ing on during the two hectic weeks of II the arts festival that niwns n#?vt mnnth Duke Powc Falcifv nlar shivrhj jrmmmm that at least eight workers complained that welding at the Catawba plant was insufficient. According to the documents, he said, quality control inspectors were "harassed on the job" and that Duke "attempted to whitewash" the probe. About 3,900 people are working on the construction of Catawba in York Countv, S.C. A ' i spokeswoman rejected the charge Wednesday, contending the compan> a internal investigation of welding inspection complaints at Catawba in 1981-82 found no faulty workm. ;hip but recommended procedural cnanges. The investigation was triggered by employee complaints. "There's been absolutely nc recourse against the employees involved," said spokeswoman Mar> Cart wright. lira, her puppy, while taking a wa Indira after seeing the movie, "G sed' invest!] hurmond said the allegations this na ired of allegations take $10,000 fror a close one of the Capitol Hill Club ireer." Wilson and the its 2Vi-month in- Pearce's story, im he accepted the On Feb. 15, a :ed arms smuggler counts of defraud a security employ nust say that in my prison and fined : ver been subjected Dale Van Atta, ;ponsible attack," said Wednesday li ing the announce- statement. rench Smith. "Wp u/pr#> ronn saying the depart- He said the Jus n and found "no no substantiation i." could not obtain < liciary Committee, He suggested any d in a story by syn- claimed knowledf ry. Thurmond ask- Van Atta said ii hatever they were, he could be ope testimony. The ployee, made the possibility Wedne i courses foi "It's aimed at the general public and the idea is that we provide information about some of the major works in Spoleto so people in the area will have a better feel for the artists and the histnrv nf thp wr?rV M tai/l o~? - J ...V tiuirv, JU1U l)Ut OWIIImer, the dean of graduate and continuing studies at the school. The lectures sponsored by the college's Humanities Outreach Program begin Monday with a 1 Vi hour talk by Doug Ashley, a professor of fine arts, mmammmmmmmammwummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ir ordered ? it's records But The Charlotte Observer said yesterday it learned an NRC inquiry into the charges disclosed Duke supervisors required some welding inspec- ^ tors to approve welds they didn't think should pass inspection. "However, they did so at the direction of a supervisor who had made an honest judgment that the item was acceptable," wrote NRC inspector P.K. Van Dorn in a memo Feb. 13. "Duke Power Co. has now implemented policy preventing someone signing for an item which he nr she dries not is acceptable." ; Van Dorn, who is stationed at Catawba, interviewed nine supervisors i and 19 welding inspectors and concluded "harassment is not a legitimate r concern at Catawba. My recommendation is we consider the case closed." -. .Nss-.sxyMsy.^^K^^V.' "^x'x Ml ... jp| ..; ' ..;.v .. .. Photo by Mary Ann Hollis $ ilk on the Horseshoe yesterday. She andhi." DHatiAn And gyMMWIB M ? WIIM ^ st February, saying he twice saw Thurmond n a Wilson company representative at the in Washington. middleman, who was never named, denied federal grand jury indicted Pearce on six ing Honeywell Inc., where he had once been ee. Wilson has been sentenced to 32 vears in S345,000 for selling arms to Libya. an Anderson associate working on the story, le had no reaction to the Justice Department w rting what the allegation was," he said. tice Department statement that it could find for Pearce's allegations may mean it simply :orroboration from other possible witnesses. others involved could be implicated if they ;e of the alleged navments. f the Justice Department believes Pearce lied, n to a perjury charge for his grand jury department would not comment# on that :sday. r Spoleto " on Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," one of the highlights of this year's festival. In subsequent weeks there will be lectures on the role of the critic, dance in Spoleto and "What makes American Music American?" It costs $20 for the four programs. Some of the total cost is being underwritten by the Charleston Higher Education Consortium.