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Bathtub trip ends in havoc NEW YORK (AP) ? Six Ohio fraternity brothers were mugged after wheeling a bathtub from Cleveland to New York in a fund-raising effort, authorities said vesterdav. Adding insult to injury, police later towed away the illegally parked van and trailer where the bathtub was stored. A sympathetic Police Department official arranged to have the trailer returned to the students without a fine, said Tom Kelly, a spokesman for the mayor's office. The six members of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Cleveland State University wheeled the bathtub 600 miles to raise $4,000 in contributions for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. They arrived Saturday night at the Empire State Building. The students told police they were on their way to a bar in Manhattan to celebrate when a pack of theives tried to steal their wallets, striking one of them with a bottle. Then on Monday, they discovered their van, trailer and bathtub had been towed away. "New York is a great place ? it has been an education," Ed Buchner, 23, said after being given 10 stitches over his left eye. "But I wish we hadn't experienced it." Police chief takes squad car LuuuKu, ukl. v/\rj ? ine mystery or ine missing ponce car has been solved ? a chief of police took it. The story dates back to May when officer Sam Cordell went to pick up the car in Springfield. He used $950 of his own money to pay for the used vehicle because he didn't have a city check, and he was never reimbursed. So when Cordell became the police chief of the town of Sisters last week he took the car with him. Cohnre nffirials at first didn't know what had hannpnpH tn O ? ----- the car, one of only two squad cars in the small Willamette Valley city. When they found out that Cordell had kept it, city council members told him they would have a $950 check waiting for him if he would bring it back. Cordell had to agree to one condition, however. He promised to hold the check until Monday to allow city officials time to put money in the bank to cover it. Educators 'irked' at Snoopy SANTA ROSA, CALIF. (AP) ?Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comics strip, concedes educators might have had a point when they became irked by a poster depicting a pizzaeating Snoopy saying he'd rather party than study. "It's always a mystery to me" why people complain so much, Schulz said. "We live in an age of complaining." William Johnson, spokesman for the poster producer, Hallmark Cards, said Monday in Kansas City, Mo., that Hallmark "is not in the business of making people unhappy," and so the message will be changed. Donald Virtue, a high school principal in Hanover, Mass., had complained about the poster's message. "Maybe this is just one time that Hallmark didn't send the very best," he said. II I L. A " a _ unusual snaite auracis xounsis MIAMI (AP) ? A two-headed water snake has become the reigning reptile at the Miami Serpenatarium, munching six goldfish at a time with both heads, although it sometimes seems confused as to whether it's pair is better than one. The West Virginia reptile, appropriately named Hatfield and McCoy, has been furnished with a house and private swimming pool in its new Florida home. The serpentarium bought the striped "siamese snake" for $50 from a teen-ager who discovered the 6-inc-long wriggler three years ago while sunbathing beside Campbell's Creek, near Charleston W.Va. Now, say reptile keepers, Hatfield and McCoy catches food with both mouths and "he's doing just great." "He's been eating goldfish for three years this month," said 13111 Iiaasi, Uirccior Ul II1C .SCI [JCIIUtl lulll, a iuuhsi aui atuun and venom production center. "He's almost 3 feet long now." Hatfield and McCoy, named after West Virginia's infamous feuding clans, lives in "a very fancy little home with its own swimming pool and plants," said Nancy Harrell of the serpentarium, who carried the snake from the Mountain State tc Miami in a cold-cream jar. Hatfied and McCoy is a voracious eater, munching six goldfish at a time with both heads in action, said Harrell. "It\< like two individuals, and it just depends on who wants to gc for the fish." Haast said the snake seems confused as to whether twc heads are truly better than one. "The left one, I would say, is dominant. If he lies relaxed the left bead lies more in line with the vertebrae. But botl tongues come out. And if you cover one head, the other on< can see." I I USC today RH FILM ? "Bananas" (1971). Woody Allen, Louise Lasser. An inventor becomes dictator of a South American country. 2:30, 7, 9:30 p.m. $1, $1.50. WirE Thurmond: no j: GREENVILLE (AP) ? Sen. Strom Thurmond doesn't plan to share any of the political wealth he's amassed in a profitable year of fund raising, according to the senator's camDaien treasurer. Even if no credit le candidate appears to challenge the veteran lawmaker next year, Thurmond is unlikely to use the money to aid the efforts of fellow GOP politicians, campaign treasurer Emory Sneeden said Wednesday. 'He sort of feels that whoever contributes might not contribute to another fellow," Sneeden, the Columbia lawyer heading Thurmond's fundraising campaign, told The Greenville News. Sneeden says Thurmond "has his own ideas about things." THURMOND TRADITIONALLY has drawn broad support from Democrats and Republicans. Sneeden said the senator would not toy with his i i * r power case oy diverting money irom his campaign to bolster other GOP candidates. -r' u ?> 1?f? }( tit* H A W I* i Reagan supporter Gladys Swindler of West Columbia was Spoleto organ CHARLESTON (AP) ? Spolet organizers are planning an ambitious 1! three operas following word this year's fc below projections. Meanwhile, festival directors are c< Austrailian officials about the possibili cultural festival, Spoleto Down Under. "The Merry Widow" by Franz L "Juana La Loca" are on next year's p Charleston, as is "Ariadne Auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. The first two operas h the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in "IT'S THE same old story. I've alwa to have a decent festival we needed t smaller one. Now everyone is convinc Gian Carlo Menotti told the board n Tuesday. Among other events, organizers hope man in recital and a performance by tl Stars. The drama schedule includes David Williams, "Secrets" by Nig< Characters in Search of an Author" b> Board treasurer O. Johnson Smal > Watt apologizes > I WASHINGTON (AP) ? Last spring, President Reagan gave Interior Secretary James Watt a shot-in-thefoot trophy for comments that riled the public. Tuesday, Watt found himself apologizing again. This time, Watt remarked that an advisory panel on coal sales had "every kind of mixture . . .1 have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple." Within hours, Watt acknowledged his choice of words "was unfortunate." I = _____ dans to share po The veteran lawmaker's most impressive fund-raising effort took place Tuesday, when president Reagan visited the state to stump for him. A dinner drew some 3,000 Thurmond cnnnnrters who nlunked down $100 to $500 apiece to attend. Sneeden predicted the dinner would gross "well over $300,000." Thurmond had already raised $400,000 for his re-election effort before Tuesday. If the campaign does not realize a net profit of at least $250,000 from the Reagan visit, Sneeden said he would be "really disappointed." SNEEDEN EXPLAINED that the campaign committee would have to pay for part of the cost of flying the presidential entourage from Washington to South Carolina. Other costs of the trip will be paid for with federal taxes and by the University of South Carolina, which awarded Reagan an honorary doctor of laws degree. USC officials said this week an ac one of hundreds of presidential boosters on the I izers plan ambii 0 Festival U.S.A. figures for the 198: ?84 festival featuring revenue ? up about :stival deficit was well The deficit was onl of the baord, said t Dntinuing talks with deficit could run as i ty of starting a third THE BOARD ap year's festival. .ehar and Menotti s panej a|so a iroposed schedule for festival. a one act opera by "Yes, we would a< ave been presented at ancj we have comple John Kessler, the ficer, said a committ iys insisted that for us ^or such a festival. wo big operas and a until the board hear ed," festival founder phiHp Semarkt , leeting in New York Festival U.S.A., sai< _ , would be responsibl to have Benny Goodhe Dizzy Gillespie All "WE WOULD 1 The Perfectionist" by also receive a licensi ;1 Triffitt and "Six he said. ' Luigi Pirandello. Stern said there hi 1 reported unaudited Spoleto festival. for 'unfortunate c It was hardly the first time the cabinet officer has regretted his language. Speaking to a group of California farmers in 1981, Watt said: "I never use the words Democrats and Republicans, it's Liberals and Americans." The secretary said later he meant the comment as a joke, adding that "some of my best friends are liberals." Watt got into trouble in August last year for a letter he wrote to Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, litical wealth counting of the trip's cost to the statesupported school had not been made. Sneeden said all of the money from the dinner was earmarked for Thurmond. None was tarceted for the state Republican Party or other GOP politicians. While the 80-year-old lawmaker has not formally announced he will fun for another term, he has said he assumes he will have opposition. HOWEVER, THURMOND is not expected to face any major opponent. Gov. Dick Riley and U.S. Rep. Butler Derrick, both mentioned as possible Democratic challengers, have said they have no plans to opose Thurmond. And former Lt. Gov. Nancy Stevenson, another prominent state Democrat, has said she does not expect to be a Senate candidate in 1984 because of her work for Democratic Sen. Ernest Hollings' presidential campaign. i * Photo by Joe Jockton f torseshoe Tuesday. j tious festival I festival chnwpH $7 4 millinn in tntal 20 percent from the previous year, ly $31,000. Theodore Stern, the chairman hat in May, officials had predicted the much as $100,000. proved a $2.7 million budget for next greed to continue talks for next year's :cept, as long as it's a tryout for one year te artistic control," Menotti said. board's president and chief executive ofee would be appointed to discuss finances He said there would be no final decision - 1 1 a s auuiuouai reports. the new general manager for Spcleto i the government of the state of Victoria e for management and financial support. be responsible for the programming and ng fee for the use of the name 'Spoleto," ave been many cities that have requested a IIUIUK UI MMUILib warning that U.S. support for Israel could be jeopardized if Jewish liberals opposed the Reagan administration's energy program. Five days after the letter was made public, Watt backed down, telling Jewish leaders they had "every right to be upset" and promising to be more sensitive in the future. Also this past January, Watt compared his environmental critics to communists and Nazis in their pursuit of "centralized planning and control of the society." One environmentalist said Watt had "gone bonkers."