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Investigators sear i/-_ I / I ivenneay s luggagi RAPID CITY, S.D. ? Investigators obtained rant to look for "controlled substances" in tl Robert Kennedy Jr. after he got sick on flight t officials said yesterday. There is "an ongoing investigation involving nedy Jr.," Rod Lefholz, Pennington County st? said yesterday. "The investigation could take da Kennedy, son of the late senator, is a for district attornev in New York Citv. The pilot of the Republic Airlines plane radioi day night for the medics after passengers of fli* noticed Kennedy was ill, said Bob Vanderwaal Republic's Rapid City offices. "He got sick or something; I don't know how Vanderwaal said. Magistrate Jack Klauck said yesterday he si] warrant that allowed investigators to open Ke Kort t r\ * f r*r r*Antrokinrl nurl n t rr\ 1 ln/^ c u?5 v\j ovai tu iui v,uuiiauauu auu cuiiu uiicu c Kennedy, 28, was conscious when he left the ; taken to .the airport's VIP room and later manager Ernie Hansen said. Hansen said he didi made Kennedy sick. Keendy has a friend, Bill Walsh, who is part Franklin Hotel in Deadwood. Kennedy visited t in July and August and rented a cabin. A receptionist at the Franklin Hotel said reserved a room, but had not checked in. He first visited the Black Hills in June 1980 wl ing for his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-M Hfe. . Deaths spur su (AP) ? Two employees have been suspended indefinitely at Midlands Regional Mental Retardation Center after a severelyretarded resident of the facility was found drowned in a nearby pond. The discovery of the body of 18-year-old Ann Bissey early Sunday ended an all-night search by Richland County sheriff's deputies, who had groped through underbrush by the light of a circling airplane, hoping to find the deaf-mute woman alive. Bissey was the second resident of the mental retardation facility to be found dead on campus within the past two months. Richland County Coroner Frank Barron ruled both deaths accidental. Mental Retardation Commissioner Charles Barnett told a Monday morning staff meeting the employees who failed to "properly execute a shift-change client survey" were suspended indefinitely. The headcount would have shown Bissey was absent. THE STATE Department of Mental Retardation also appointed an administrative committee to determine exactly what happenbed to Bissey. That committee, headed by Former senator (AP) ? Former state Sen. Tom Turnipseed judge's refusal to dismiss his 4-year-old $1.4 m utility rate setting practices is "a giant step fo could result in the trial going to court by the ei The suit accuses members of the state Public mission of conspiring with other legislatoi Carolina Electric and Gas Co. officials to quas fight against a utility rate hike request in 1979 Judge Matthew Perry ruled on the case Mondj In his suit, Turnipseed said PSC members < South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. and kej keep him from opposing rate hikes and the pra tance of legal retainers from SCE & G by ce legislators. "We just felt like we were a little too hot to nipseed told reporters Monday. "We were un< that would not stand the light of day." If he wins, Turnipseed said he would use the Grand jury ind UNION (AP)? Baptist evangelist Ken Carter and five members of his singing family were to on trail yesterday on charges of beating a 16-year-old with fists and baseball bats on July 4 after a dispute over a girl between the youth and one of Carter's sons. Carter of Jonesviile, five family members and a seventh defendant who is not related to the Carters were all indicated Monday morning by a Union County grand jury on charges of assault and battery with intent to kill, said Solicitor William L. "Red" Feguson. The charge stemmed from the beating of Wi ic luggage of 0 Rapid City, I 1 Bobby Kenite's attorney, ys or weeks." mer assistant 2d ahead Sun- H ?ht attendants . I, manager of I sick he was," " ' j ~ gned a search - , nnedy's flight glf substances." Kennedy had SingilT III the Sp iile campaign- Two USC students play dodj ass.. spension of re Philip Massey, is also expected to make recommendations to prevent future deaths or injuries at the state facilities. Bissey had been missing since Saturday afternoon. Mental retardation officials were uncertain when she wandered away from her dormitory because a standard headcount supposedly done at every shift change apparently was not done that afternoon. The woman was probably missing about an hour before her disappearance was noticed and a search party organized, Barnett said. Bloodhounds tracked the woman's scent to a pond on the state-run residential campus for the mentally retarded, and a search team found the woman's tennis shoes and socks at the edge of the water about 10 p.m. Saturday night. The body was pulled from the pond about 8 a.m. Sunday. The other death was discovered July 8. LISA RENAE Goddard was found facedown on an anthill, wearing only underpants. Her clothing had been neatly folded and stacked beside her. An autopsy at the Medical University of South Carolina showed Goddard had died either from an acute allergic reaction to fire ant bites or stress on pleased with ju said a federal old debts from his campaigns illion suit over gressman and to set up a "F r justice" and committee to back candidal id of the year. other reforms. : Service Com- At the time of the suit, Tu rs and South senator from Lexington and r h Turnipseed's "The People are Coming." ?. U.S. District critic of the state's system fc ay. The General Assembly ha conspired with ding legislators from represe / legislators to irg more than $1 million, a tctice of accep- refusing to allow Turnipseed rtain attorney- Perry later overturned tha was still not allowed to ask S? handle," Tur- power plant. :overing things money to settle Defendants in the suit are icts Baptist ei Scott Green of Jonesville in a grocery stor parking lot. Authorities said the fight ap parently was caused by an argument betweei Green and Carter's son 17-year-old Kell Carter, over a girl they both knew. Green, hospitalized for four days, said h was held down in the Community Casl grocery store lot while he was kicked and hi with aluminum softball bats, according t< police Investigator Johnny Arrington. Carter, 43, is pastor of the Truth Baptis Church. His family has appeared regular! on a Greenville television station as a singin evangelical group. I "P ire __ jrejcR Sgf jMS jRv JSSI irinklers? ae the sprinkler system on the Horseshoe. The scene ha: itardation centei her heart caused by the allergic reaction. i i >i 11 vjouuara was considered only mildly retarded and had campus privileges, which meant she could walk freely over the campus unattended because her retardation was not extensive enough to require constant supervision, he said. CONSEQUENTLY, NO one knew she was missing until it was too late. She had died within an hour of leaving her dorm and within minutes of her first contact with the fire ants. Her body was not found for five days. Bissey, however, was severely retarded ? institutionlized all her life ? reportedly because of a hospital nursery accident in which she was struck by a falling light fixture. Thp irifirlpnt fIio > ??v ..iviuvui | Tdiivil UVVUi 1 VU VTU^U was one day old, left her badly burned, deaf, mute and brain-damaged. She was supposed to be attended when out of her dormitory. "When you have a tragedy like this one, there is nothing to do but analyze what happened and try to prevent its happening again," Barnett said. "That is the process we are going through now. due's refusal to i for lieutenant governor and con- eluding Chairn 'eople PAC" or political action chell, Julian Le tes who support utility rate and Moss. Also named rnipseed was a Democratic state Grcssette, D-C epresented a reform group called Dennis, D-Berl Turnipseed himself was a vocal Turnipseed s >r choosing PSC members. in rate cases w? d recently enacted a law forbid- eluded parli ami nting parties in rate cases involv- wiretaps on his ind the PSC invoked the law in Perry reject I to cross-examine witnesses. should be disir it ruling, but Turnipseed said he legal issues anc CE & G about its planned nuclear suits. The judge al attorneys may I1CAI Ul I the 1979 PSC commissioners, in- will be gathere rangelist, family e In addition to Carter and his son, those i- charged are Carter's 40-year-old wife, Barti bara Fay Carter; his 46-year-old brother, y Albert Lee Carter; his 17-ycar-old nephew, Vance Carter; his 25-year-old daughter, Pene ny Lynn Alexander; and James Wayne h Fowler, 36. t Chief Magistrate Earl Hyder bound the D Carters over for grand jury action after a 45-minute preliminary hearing attended by it more than 80 people in July. The defendants y were grrested July 6 by sheriff's deputies g after an investigation was requested by Jonesville Mayor Talmadge Lindsey. MWBMMWMSBBBBgai?, -' Q | j s become a familiar sight across campus recently. ' employees "When you have a tragedy like this one, there is nothing to do but analyze what happened and try to prevent its happening again. That is the process we are going through now." _ Montol Dntnrilntiox -I iiiunioi noiai uauuil UUIIIflll&SIUIItlf Charles Barnett "IT BECOMES very difficult to explain to the public, because most people seem to think that everyone who is retarded is the same, that they are all helpless, and that we keep them locked up in the institutions all the time. That simply isn't true. "We have the paradox of providing what normalization we can, including the right to take normal risks like everybody else, for those who are capable of eventually living in the community, and of providing protection for those who are more helpless." Jismiss suit lan Henry Yonce and members Rudolph Mit;amond, Guy Butler, Fred Fuller Jr. and Lewis as "co-conspiritors" are state Sens. Marion alhoun, Robert Lake, D-Newberry, Rembert <eley, and former Sen. John Long, D-Union. aid the law forbidding legislators to intervene is part of the alleged conspiracy, which also insntary maneuvers on the Senate floor and ; phone. ed PSC attorneys' arguments that the case lissed because it involved political rather than 1 because PSC members are immune from civil Iso ruled in a separate order that Turnipseed's take depositions from the defendants in the he case, in which documents and other evidence d. for assault If convicted, the Carters and Fowler each face a possible maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. rnrtAr'c attnmc. U/lli: c f >v> .. uuuuajf, tv miaiii i;. w iimicy ui Union, said the pastor passed a lie-detector test Sept. 1 that questioned whether he took part in the attack ori Green. According to the polygraph examiner's report, Carter denied striking, holding or kicking Green during the altercation. The examiner, Sonny Sutton of Greenville, said the defendant was telling the truth. None of the others took the test.