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Fowl painting angers owner LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND (AP) ? Things are anything but ducky for art lover Maureen Gledhill, incensed because the abstract painting she purchased for $104 turned out to be the work of a sculptor's web-footed friend. ^hp WJ Qnf C Kpr mAtlAU Kop \r Kn# Mrocauci^a TroHinn ^?*v ?*vi inv/iivJ uuviv, i/ui iiiv iTAivovjroiuv i i auuig Standards Department said Friday she's unlikely to get it because no foul deed appears to have been committed. Gledhill, 28, a wine merchant in this northwest city, said she bought the framed 2-foot-square canvas from sculptor and pet shop owner Ernest Cleverley, thinking it was by local artist Brian Burgess. She became suspicious only when a friend said the picture looked as though a chicken had walked over it. Cleverly said his pet Muscovy duck, with the artistic name of Pablo, had gotten its feet in some pigment as he was painting. "I noticed what an interesting pattern it made and it just developed from there. I tried him on canvas with different colors. He has got a real eye for composition." He said he and Burgess were in the shop discussing the painting when Glendhill came in. "We were saying how good it was, but I never said it was by a human being. She seemed to like it. I did not really want to sell but she insisted. She's got a bargain." World War veterans unite ATLANTA (AP) ? At 80 years of age, it's hard to be the youngest member of anything. But Sam Hart is the baby of the Retreads. Membership in the group is limited to veterans who served in both world wars, and those ranks ? never large ? have dwindled to 500 over the years. Those who could make it gathered inAtlanta this week for the third annual reunion. The average age is 88; Hart is younger because he enlisted at 14. It was just four days after the United States declared war on Germany in World War I that Hart signed up. He was young for his age, he said, and "at that time they just wanted some bodies. They didn't pay any attention to age in those days." Hart said he was on the crew of the first U.S. troop ship torpedoed by a German submarine. He and the others from the ship were picked up from their lifeboats by a destroyer the next day. He stayed out of the water for the rest of his time in the Navy, and mustered out almost as soon as the war was over. Between the wars, he finished eighth grade,high school and college and went into the cosmetics business. But when the United States entered World War II, he enlisted again, this time in the Army. To old at 38 to fight overseas, he completed officer candidate school and trained younger men for combat. He was released from the Army in 1945 and returned to the cosmetics business. Biblical parable viable today COLUMBUS, NEB. (AP) ? Members of a church are looking for a modern way to stretch their loaves and fishes reliving a Bible parable to multiply their aid to the hungry.' The Rev. Lee Hicks said members of the Federated Church have been given $1,000 worth of $2 bills in hopes thev can in vest the money to increase the church's food pantry program feeding needy families. The collection in reverse is based on the parable in Luke 19:11-27 concerning money given to the three people, two of whom made more money from it, while a third wrapped his in a napkin and earned nothing. Nov. 20, church members will be asked to return the money they have made the pastor said. Hicks conducted a similar experiment at another church 12 years ago by giving out silver dollars, and those church members made a profit of several thousand dollars. One woman, Hicks said, used her money to bake a loaf of bread and continued to multiply the earnings until she made 74 loaves. "Basically this is to show that the parables are as timely today as they were then," the pastor said. Dog has surprising tastes T / A A /-* .1J v _ 1 I ...!AL Lunuun ? /\ *juiucn l.aoraaor wiui me appeine of a Billy Goat is being sent to obedience school after munching on her master's paycheck, tin cans, clothes, china and kitchen pots. "Ever since we got her she has been bent on destruction," said Sandra Wood, owner of the 2-year-old dog, Shacha. "But as I could never get rid of her, we must change her ways." Sacha once swilled a bottle of rum. Twn hmir?; after aettino Hrnnk. the dr?o nroveH it haH recovered by crunching into some china plates and saucers, Wood said. "Sacha has made me laugh," she chewed the foot of our bed, ate most of the sheets and the arm of a sofa." But when Sacha devoured David Wood's paycheck and some precious vacation photographs, Mrs. Wood knew that something had to be done. "We took her to a local dog training class," Mrs. Wood said Monday. The trainer said it might take several months to get Sacha to eat only dog food, Mrs. Wood said. WirE Hollings has I CHARLESTON (AP) ? Sen. Ernest Hollings went into Saturday's Democratic presidential straw poll in Maine with high hopes to finish third, but said regardless of the outcome, he proved in the Northeast state that his campaign sells. Hollings built a cushion for himself in case he faltered in Maine. "I think we've already been a success," he said, noting he was able to form a coalition of liberals, moderates and conservatives to support his candidacy in Maine. "I've proved in Maine what I really had in mind last year, and that is that my politics are marketable . . .South Carolina politics are national politics," Hollings said before the vote. The straw vote Saturday binds none of the delegates to the candidates picked, but Hollings said he needed a strong showing in Maine to infuse a shot of credibility into his national Kflbk " 9 r H f JP ' Waiting for a friend Christopher Camlin, 5, of Columbia waits S.C. prison sys (AP) ? The number of inmates in Soul isn't declining but "prison operating ca] according to Hugh Clements, c< commissioner. The state's prisons still hold about 10 despite the early release of 244 during 1 Gov. Dick Riley declared the state dangerously overcrowded. The number is only a third of what p had originally proposed, but a further sentences may not be needed, Clements THE TRANSFER of 75 sick and el< Moncrief building at State Park Health should bring the system closer to its goal on which corrections officials will deci Riley for another rollback, he said. The move may bring the state's prison capacity," Clements said. In addition, the parole department original supervised furlough program, Police chief rec (AP) ? Columbia Police Chief Robert Wilbur expressed regret Friday about an incident in which a woman made an emergency call to police and then was raped after a dispatcher sent a patrol car to the wrong address. The police dispatcher, whom The State newspaper reported Friday had been tired, took down the wrons address when the woman called Sept. 20 to report a stranger at her door. Wilbur told a news conference that some procedural changes had been made to reduce the chance of a similar incident happening again. But he refused to say what action had been taken against the dispatcher. The caller, a 31-year-old ward of the I high hopes for c effort. t By doing well in Maine, the South Carolina Democrat would send a r message to the nation that he can work F against the odds and win votes away v from home. Hollings went into the contest defin- n ing doing well as finishing third. He c made the Maine straw vote his first c real target of opportunity and cam- h paigned there for six weeks. "It's the first legitimate poll we've ever had." Hollings' campaign, which had been ti picking up steam, seemed to lose some ti momentum during the final week as he wnc fnrrpH tr? ?H hie c11r?r>nrf r?f " state right-to-work laws and opposi- b tion to legislation extending the t< ratification period for the Equal t< Rights Amendment. o "There's no question it stalled his K campaign," acknowledged Severin M. Beliveau, former Maine Democratic p chairman and a co-chairman of Holl- it ings' state steering committee. "Right- si fl v jgTTpjpt-Z: for his friend to come running by at the Governor' tern's capacity ri: ;h Carolina's prisons violent inmates senteno pacity is going up," prior adult convictions jrrections deputy The program, coup granted by the parole 0 inmates too many, population down to 7, :he four weeks since state Budget and Conti corrections system HE SAID the South >rison administrators has received little nega rollback of inmate went into effect Sept. ; said. "We got a few comn A I.. 5 * - - ' ? jcriy inmaies 10 me people realized they ca Center in November The state correction by Nov. 3 ? the date between 570 and 620 i ide whether to ask strict guidelines and re pret the intent of the 1 population to a "safe Under the law, pass* lawsuits claiming Soutl will soon resume its crowded, the governor , designed for non- dates of inmates up to * i jrets dispatcher s Midlands Regional Retardation Center, was raped and robbed minutes after she telephoned Columbia police, according to police reports. The victim, a retarded woman, had been placed in a $175-per-month apartment in a high-crime area, the newspaper quoted numerous sources close to the investigation as saying. The phone conversation, automatically recorded by the police radio room, indicated that someone was trying to break into the woman's apartment. On the tape, said the sources, someone could be clearly heard knocking and banging on the apartment door. After the woman's call for help, the \ ? :ampaign o-work is a serious problem for him." Boliveau insisted rigljt-to-work was lot a major issue in the Maine camtaign, but he said it didn't help in the waning hours. Boliveau said Friday if (Pollings did lot run a respectable third, "It'll be all >ver for the senator," in Bbliveau's pinion. "His candidacy will be listory." But Billy Keyeserling, Holli^gs' naional campaign manager, took exoepion to that opinion Friday. While a fourth-place finish would 'disappoint us," he said, it would not e fatal. "It would just put us back in3 our original plan and that would be 3 dig back into New HamDshire f the nation's first primary)," [eyserling said. Keyserling said despite the public rominence given Maine by Hollings, was still a "side trip." "New Hamphire is still the first real test." Ml .' I y>:' v'' " 1 x ...^t vv^> aBjgira :. 4 \&??j!9U Photo by JewHw Wovtan s Cup Saturday. ses ed to five years with not more than two led with the usual monthly releases department, could bring the inmate ,630, the safe limit established by the rol Board, Clements said. i Carolina Department of Corrections tive public reaction since Riley's order 2. lents when we were starting, but 1 think n't have it both ways," Clements said, s board at first asked Riley to release nmates, but the number was cut after strictive conditions were used to interaw. :d this year by legislators wary of three i Carolina's prisons are extremely overwas authorized to roll back the release 90 days. error, rape telephone fell or was put down. Seconds later, there was a muffled sound and a click on the tape, the sources said. A police car was dispatched to investigate a suspected break-in in progress, but Patrolman J.L. Brown found nothing at the address given him by the dispatcher. About 30 minutes later, the woman called a second time, crying. "He came in here and got my $4," she said, according to the sources. Police found the woman's apartment had been broken into, and she had been raped and robbed of her last e> A t ... - * j>h. ino suspect had been charged in tne case by late Thursday.