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_wi re, m m a a a _ a woman admits baby is hers YORK (AP) ? A York County woman who told authorities she found a baby boy in her carport last week is actually the child's mother, says Circuit Solicitor William "Red" Ferguson. Ferguson said 31-year-old Carol Erieau of Catawba, the mother of three other children, admitted the infant is hers. The child, who weighed 10 pounds, eight ounces at birth April 17 has been in the custody of the York County Depart ment ot social services since bneau reported finding him. A Family Court judge will hold a hearing to determine if Erieau should be prosecuted on criminal charges of abandonment, Ferguson said. At the hearing, which has not been scheduled, the mother could also face court determination of the parental rights to the baby, making the child eligible for adoption. Erieau, who drives a Rock Hill high school bus, could not be contacted Monday. However, the day after claiming she found the child, Erieau talked to reporters. Erieau said she and her three children had returned to their rural home from a clogging event to find a baby boy wrapped in a plastic trash bag atop the freezer in her carport. The child UI9C ahmit in minnt#?c nIH Qiitlinritioc catsl TTMU UUV/Ui. V IlltltUlVJ V1W f UUIUV/1U1VJ OUtU Erieau said she wrapped the baby, called police and waited for an ambulance to take the child to Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill to be examined. Nurses at the center named him Baby Boy John. The following day, she said she didn't understand how a mother could abandon a baby. "Really, myself, after having three children and the feeling of carrying those three children for nine months, I just don't see how anyone could do it," she said. Patrolmen run for Ronald (AP) ? Motorists along a 165-mile stretch of road between Columbia and Myrtle Beach can expect to see 12 more highway patrolmen than usual this weekend, but the officers won't be chasing speeders. Thpv'll hp nn font The patrol's District 1 SWAT team plans a run to raise money for Columbia's soon-to-be-opened Ronald McDonald House, which provides a place to stay for the parents of seriously ill children being treated in area hospitals. "We want to show people that Smokey's not always a bear," said patrol Sgt. Jim Braddock. head of the SWAT team and organizer of the "Law on the Run" project. The run is scheduled to start in Columbia Friday morning and end in Myrtle Beach around noon Saturday. The project springs from the experience tfiat Patrol Cpl. Bill Morris of Darlington had with the Ronald McDonald House in Pittsburgh, where his daughter Sherri underwent a liver transplant. Morris and his wife, Judy, stayed at the house for about three months while Sherri recovered from the surgery. Morris estimated the savings approached $4,000. "The houses are so important to families in a time of real emotional crisis," said Sally Hardy, board chairman for the Columbia house. "We are forever indebted to the Highway Patrol for all their efforts. It's something we won't forget." \A/ritor \A/nn't \/ioif 'Erienn v v II Lis I VVUII I VIOIl I K lOLfU CHICAGO (AP) ? Columnist Mike Royko ? a Chicago chauvinist from the City of Big Shoulders ? has turned down an invitation to visit San Francisco, calling it the "city of slender, swiveling hips" and a haven for "quiche-eaters and wine-sippers." Royko, who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times, declined the invitation from San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who promised to show him the real flavor of Baghdad by the Bay, including a quiche-less dinner. In his April 19 column, Royko rapped San Francisco as the Democratic party's choice for the 1984 national convention. <?n? ?u~ rv ? -1 - vjkj me lvcniucraib warn 10 oe inougni oi as tne party of quiche-eaters and wine-sippers?" Royko asked, suggesting Chicago as an alternative. The 27-member site-selection committee last Thursday chose San Francisco to host the convention over Chicago, Detroit, New York and Washington, D.C. "It's very nice of her," Royko said, "but it's too far to go for dinner." : 1 '1 ':11-11111 11, j1.. . USC todaij RH film "Stalag 17" 2:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m. starring William Holden, Dan Taylor, Otto Preminger and Peter Graves. FREE. Carolina Appreciation Day at the Carolina Col laowjn www ww u*>u rtuiwicSf cnsBnoaofirs and Cocky at 7 p.m. followed by the Department of Music's Symphonic Band, Left Bank Jazz Band and the Concert Choir. The Percussion Ensemble will perform at 8 ....... - - - ?^l ...I.:.f::^, |n . ''-if ' * South Carol! ( jl o\ TKo v...^ ?* r:?11.. - i \xtlm / iiiw ouut a uuu^^i id iiuaiiy 11 balanced after a see-saw year, and state Auditor Edgar Vaughn says the si improving state economy should pre- a vent further shortfalls in the 1982-83 t< budget. b Vaughn told the state Budget and Control Board that the entire $59.5 5 million budget shortfall has been r covered and the budget balances for n 1982-83. "We're in good shape if the revenue a comes in at the projected level," Vaughn said yesterday. t JUST BEFORE the meeting state a Treasurer Gradv Patterson said that d from all appearances the recession ap- I pears to be easing and interest rates are t H^MwBpram 8 Bh m\ I H 81H |?|?i ^ ^8 ' ( . - ; . .'.' . . .' .?: ;" Jazzin' it up The USC Jazz Band II performed M South Carolina has seen lately. Court conside WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Cc a case that may yield a life-and-death timetal 1 1 ? - cunuemneu muraerers nationwide. The justices are expected to use a Texas c them yesterday to decide, by July, how fede should handle emergency appeals from deal At issue is what standard those 12 appeals in deciding whether to postpone the executi< inmate who has filed a new appeal with the THE 5TH U.S. Circuit Court of Appea Orleans, has adopted a policy of denying quests unless the death row inmate can she appeal likely will be successful. Other appeals courts use a much less den granting execution delays if the underlyii frivolous. The standard the Supreme Court select months, even years, of added court proceedi aeiays. Also at issue in the case of Thomas Barel Andropov ans MANCHESTER, Maine (AP) ? ' Ten-year-old Samantha Smith, whose hand-written letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov brought a flood of in lernauonai puDiicuy, says ms response sounded like "a letter from a friend." In his 2 l/2-page letter to Samantha, which she received Monday, Andropov pledged that his country would * * _ - i ucvci .*>1(111 <x mnjicai war. ne aiso invited her to visit Russia this summer. But Samantha liked best the part where Andropov said she seemed to be a "courageous and honest" girl who reminded him of Becky Thatcher in "Tom Sawyer." She said she considered that fl cnmnlimpnt on A r?rr?r?f v. vvilJ/llllIVtl I UiiVI pi VV/I that Andropov is not as grim as she had imagined. WHITE HOUSE spokesman Robin ina budget I eaded down. 1 Vaughn said in an interview that the i rpvpnnpc would have to crow at \ 5.9 percent rate for the year in order o meet the needs of the 1982-83 < udget. i That annual growth rate is now at \ .2 percent, he said, but May and June \ evenues should be heavy enough to i lake up the differences. s He said the 1982-83 budget now has i ciirrtiuc i-\f tni finn , I piMJ Vi r 1 jVVV. \ IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER s ludget reductions this year, the state f >ppropr; 'on will total $1.96 billion, lown ? 'he $2.05 billion starting \ >oint. The tte budget was altered on t hree separate occasions as revenues j llpiiH ?Sr ffl ^HEflRpSwlMgB^^Hre '>*^WI^WRELS**iMPP1 '111."'. j' Jlli>?<yv,!: V?;:- , ':.':" :- > >*&&&&.?'"'.< : onday on the Russell House patio or rs death app >urt is considering die by lethal injection _ I _ f < AArt -ff! * .1 jic iui some i,zuu uuicer, is wnemer ps about a convicted mu ase argued before Barefoot was to die ral appeals courts his scheduled executio: h row. alive and his emergent courts should use Barefoot was convi< 3n of a death row of Carl Levin, a Hark? m. been investigating a n ,1s, based in New A New Iberia, La. postponement re- wanted in New Mexico iw thp iinHprlvino hp chnt T ovin in v* " v..^ V ..15 "V 111 lite II landing standard, THE LEGAL DEF1 ng appeal is not in representing death Association, the natio s could result in posed the 5th Circuit ngs and execution "A stay should be the face of the availa oot, sentenced to are frivolous," ABA iwers Maine | Grey said Monday that the administration had no comment on Andropov's letter. And Samantha's father, Arthur Smith, also was skeptical about Andropov's motives, noting that "nations do things for political reasons" and that the Soviet leader obviously "didn't write to her simply because he's one of her fans." But he said the letter sounded aa 11 nuuiupuv Iiau wrillCIl 11 himself, instead of assigning a member of his staff to do it for him. "When you think of Yuri Andropov, you really don't think about him having any humor," she said. SAMANTHA'S FATHER, an English instructor at the University of Maine at Augusta, tried to manage the lalanced 'ell short of projections because of the 'ri ? ^ ? cccssion. inc amount cui aunng the fear totaled $90,790,953. The first budget cut was 0.31 per:ent, or $5.95 million. The second, a 1.6 percent cut early last fall, totaled 580.08 million. In December, the rndget board announced another $59 ^ nillion would have to be cut from the itate budget, but financial maneuverng averted all but $4.76 million of the :uts. The state legislature accelerated iome tax collections and shifted other \inds to avert the shortfall. Vaughn explained yesterday that he lad come up with the final $1.8 million o close the budget gap by drawing on igencies' unspent personnel money. ^ : ^ttteaBHHHBnalHnf ^wHv Photo by Michael Becker i one of the few spring-like days * eal ruling for the 1978 murder of a Texas police ? 1 1 a l- _ii 1 ??a.:C.. y Lilian 1313 S11UU1U uc auuweu iu icsiuy rder's "future dangerousness." Jan. 25, but less than 12 hours before n the Supreme Court ordered he be kept :y appeal be made a test case. :ted of the Aug. 7, 1978 shooting death 4 ?t* 14piolitc />fi*?U/\ tior 11V151UO, 1 WAaa, U1 1 Ittl Wliu IIM ight club fire. , native, Barefoot was then a fugitive d on criminal charges. Prosecutors said ead at close range to avoid arrest. 7N6r ITITMrfc - . win/, a civil ugius group active row inmates, and the American Bar n's largest organization of lawyers, opCourt's standard. | granted unless it can be determined on ble documents that the inmate's claims President Morris Harrell argued. yirl'c IaHac )ll o flow of calls from reporters, including one from the Soviet news agency Tass. Responding to Sarnantha's question whether "you're going to vote to have a war or not," Andropov wrote that his nation is "endeavoring and doing . everything so that there will be no war between our two countries, so that there will be no war at all on earth. This is the wish of everyone in the Soviet Union." As for her question about a Soviet desire to conquer the world, Andropov wrote that "we want nothing of the kind. "We want peace. We have a lot to do: grow grain, build, invent, write books and make space flights. We { want peace for ourselves and for all people of the planet, for our own kids and for you, Samantha."