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A __________________ College to offer unusual course CHARLOTTE (AP) ? Mountain people have known for years that tossing a dead snake over a tree will make it rain. But starting next month, flatlanders attending Central Piedmont Community College will be able to brush up on the old lore of the hills. Instructor Mary Herrera says she grew up listening to her "granny" tell stories about fireballs that appeared on the mountain after dark and chased "young-uns." She also learned mountain theories on medicine and healing. She was told that pulling the legs off a granddaddy longlegs spider and swallowing the body alive would reduce high fever. She also learned that tying knots in a dishcloth and throwing the cloth out the back door would get rid of warts. "I've been around it all my life," says Herrera, 47. "It wasn't very important to me when I was young because it was cuph o pr\mmAn h i n n NJ r\\xs I annrppiQfp it "People where I grew up believed those things and, to a large degree, they worked," said Herrera. "1 don't know if it was the power of suggestion or the fact that people's faith was so strong, but these things worked a lot of the time." Wife against husband in election HARTSVILLE, IND. (AP) ? The Mackeys have the race fr\r tnu/n L-cnrpr u/ronn^H nn IVfl IV/ TT 14 VIVI l\ VI VUOU1 VI Tf 1 U|/pv\4 U p Harry and Dorothy Mackey, husband and wife, both have filed for the job in this community of 379 located 35 miles southeast of Indianapolis. Mackey, 64, is the Democratic candidate. Mrs. Mackey, 53, is running on the Republican ticket. "She told me she decided to run so we could keep the job in the family," Mackey said, adding that the job's $130 a month salary wasn't their incentive to try for the position. "We've been here four years, and the last time Hartsville had an election, hardly anyone was interested in running," he said. "It got so bad they finally had to draft people. This was our way of preventing that from happening again." Mackey said there's one advantage to having husband and wife compete for the job: "At least this way, we'll be able to have a victory celebration, one way or another. f\ I I I M bnyaer maKes ooscene gesture NEW YORK (AP) ? Former late-night talk show host Tom Snyder has been suspended for a week without pay from his local TV newscasting duties because he made an obscene gesture while on the air, the New York Post says. The Post says the suspension, which began yesterday, will cost Snyder $13,000. Snyder, 47, a newscaster on WABC-TV, described himself as "embarrassed" and "ashamed" over making a finger gesture to someone off camera as he fiddled with his earphone during coverage Friday of the shooting down of a South Korean airliner, according to the newspaper. News personnel at WABC referred all queries about the incident to a public relations spokeswoman who could not be reached at home or at work for comment. Jack Bonanni, WABC-TV's station manager, said he could not say whether The Post report was accurate because he had been away from the station Friday. The Post quoted Snyder as saying, t4l was not aware 1 was on camera. But that does not excuse it in the slightest." rSOUTHERN WOMEN'S SERVICES ...to talk to someone who cares Problem pregnancy counseling j Abortion counseling and services j -x-1 tenancy I Birth control services I ^Trained counselors I ^Speakers for school & civic groups j Abortion counseling & services ? "Confidential Contact With I Someone Who Cares" I 254-4368 v 24-H?ur I ?- - WirF. 8 Fine tuning Harry Gant's stock car, the Skoal Bandit, gi race Labor Day. Veteran driver Bobby Alliso Senator for fur (AP) ? The United States should impose harsher sanctions on the Soviet Union for shooting down an unarmed Korean jetliner if the Soviets don't comply with President Reagan's "firm but measured response," Sen. Strom Thurmond said today. Thurmond praised Reagan's Monday night statement on the Korean airliner incident but suggested that other steps would be possible if the Soviets continue to deny responsibility. Thurmond, who met with President Reagan on Sunday, took credit for several of the proposals that have been adopted by the administration. He acknowledged, however, that some measures were already under consideration by the Reagan administration. REAGAN BEGAN meeting with his advisers to consider options as soon as he learned of the Soviet attack on the Korean Air Line plane carrying 269 people on Thursday. "I applaud this statesmanlike approach, and 1 am pleased the president Muvcrusmy J, * ^flfijj^jr^ ""^^QmmM^ ~.-J *ijk SgJPI ?BB^^5 MMP'foid^BB^t^Wji^^-^^WBi Kb Or"*'! *"v' jHT^WWaHl - ' mhIKuH |Hk * y.*fR\*~,*, ,"' ?' ets new tires among other things during a pit stop in n won the Darlington event. ther sanctions a( % accepted several proposals that 1 made to him when he conferred on Sunday at the White House with other congressional leaders and top government officials. "My proposals included a demand that the Soviets compensate the families of the 61 Americans who died tragically in the attack," he said during a morning news conference in Columbia. Thurmond said he also suggested "that the other countries of the free world join us in discontinuing Soviet Aeroflot service around the globe; and that the United States and our allies enforce a strict ban on all sales of high technology and strategic military equipment to the Soviet Union." THE SOUTH Carolina Republican said he doesn't oppose trade sanctions in the future as well as cutting back the number of Soviet consular officers if warranted by Soviet inaction. But for now, Thurmond said the president's response was appropriate 'in these dangerous and difficult times. Reagan's even-handed response was 777-4249 k I g'j ? I I mmmmwmm. mm \ Photo by Andy Lavalley the 34th running of the Southern 500 ( gainst Soviets likely influenced by pending arms talks and U.S. attempts to reduce Soviet superiority in strategic nuclear arms, Thurmond speculated. "Such an unconscionable act deserves the outrage and condemnation of all decent, peace-loving people around the world," he said. "HOWEVER THESE are difficult and dangerous times, and our response must be even-tempered as well as firm." He said the Soviets will eventually have to take responsibility for a "senseless and barbaric" act that should be condemned by the whole world. During the news conference, he declined to comment on whether or when he would announce for reelection. He also said he would make no comment on whether he would take the chairmanship of the Senate Armed services and veterans At lairs Committee. He said he is considering the step but that he would have to give up his Judiciary Committee chairmanship. SSBj BSHHM