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Achievers to get rewards TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ? Students cheering at an "academic pep rally" got the chance to win a pizza, to play video games and to see a school principal named Green painted blue. aii u:~ ...:ii u :r ?i L*L .J /ah uus win uuppcii u inc eignui giaucib ai luuu ivnuuie School in Tallahassee do well on standardized state tests this week. On the eve of basic-skills tests Monday, the school sponsored its second test assembly in the school's gymnasium. Principal Paul Green told the students that those who score 100 percent will be invited to a local pizza parlor-video arcade. And if Cobb eighth graders score best in their district, Green also said he will agree to be painted blue and come to school as a Smurf. Teachers led the students in a foot-stomping cheer: "Concentrate, concentrate Right on down We'll make the highest Scores in town." "Wp pnrnnraop thic tvr?#? r*f thino " stuff fpcfino rlirpr * * v VI.VVM! ?.???** V. fcw?w..0 tor Tom Fisher, who witnessed the pep rally. "We support anything you can do to remove anxiety about the test and make students think positively about the experience." "They had an academic pep rally at Cobb last year, and apparently it worked," said Fisher. "Test scores went up." Immigrant hits the jackpot CTATPI IMP ^.T / A n\ T...^ ? 1 1 ~ j i /\ i cljIixi iicy. ? 1 wu can uc as lutKy a:> unc, or, in the words of a Chinese immigrant who hit a $250,000 jackpot after helping his friend do the same: "When you're lucky, you're lucky!" Henry Gee, 70, of Stockton, Calif., who acted as an interpreter when a friend won a $250,000 jackpot a few months ago, won the same amount Monday, according to Harrah's Tahoe Casino. Gee, a native of Canton who worked as a cook at the Golden Gate Grill in Stockton for 30 years, was with Kam Chin Lee when Lee won his jackpot on a $1 progressive mopJiinA in In no A nrl t K ii/arn t A.tot Kor iwVtort hit o iiiaviiiiiv iai juiiv. r^iiu iiiuj uviv lu^ciuvi vtuvii vjvv iail a $250,000 payoff on a similar machine Monday. "I was surprised," the casino quoted Gee as saying. "I just looked at Kam Chin and said, "It belongs to me this time.'" "When you're lucky, you're lucky!" he added. "I was lucky today." Gee said he'll spend the money on his two daughters and four grandchildren. Lee said he bought a home with his winnings and is trying to bring his family to the United States from mainland China. S.C. man seeks presidency GREENVILLE (AP> ? Another South Carolinian has joined the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Jerry Fowler of Greer, a 34-year-old construction superintendent, announced Wednesday that he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination. Fowler said he will enter the New Hampshire primary if he can raise enough money. He said he is running for president because he is tired of politicians "telling the same old lies and using the working people of this country. "They say they are going to run on their record," Fowler said. "Their record, however, is that while we are losing our jobs, tightening our belts and staying the course, they voted themselves a nice tax break and a raise in salary." He said part of his disillusionment with government arose lrom being charged with perjury and then acquitted in federal court this summer. Fowler maintained he is "a serious candidate." "Ask those people who question me if the Constitution is serious," he said. "Any one can run for the presidency. If I can't run, then the Constitution is a bunch of bunk. I'm just as qualified as any of the other candidates running for office." Columbia book sells well (AP)- Book sales have shown that it's not just young women who are huntine for elieible men. "The 50 Most Eligable Men in Columbia" hit the bookstore shelves last Tuesday and co-editor Sandra Boozer said "There have apparently been a lot of older and married women purchasing it, as well as a number of men who have bought it just out of curiosity." Nearly one-thind of the 3,000 books printed are gone, said associate publisher Helena Rossomando. "Several bookstores haved already sold out and reordered," she said. The book, on sale for $5.95, was written by 12 Columbiaarea women with more than 60 women aiding in the selection process. Work has also begun on a similar book featuring women called "The Girls of Columbia." i USC todav STUDENT SENATE ? Meeting. Calcott, room 015. 5:30 p.m. RH FILM ? "Mildred Pierce" (1945). Joan Crawford, Jack Carson. Crawford's Oscar-winning performance. 2:30, 7, 9:30 p.m. 50 cents, 75 cents. WirE Firing spurs lii (AP) ? The biggest jolt to employment oractices in South Carolina could result if an appellate court holds a ruling awarding damages to a man fired for refusing to take a lie detector test, attorneys say. The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce says the 1979 ruling in favor of a former insurance agent J. Wendell Todd of Horry County could cause a "deluge of litigation" unprecedented in the state. The case has been appealed to the state Supreme Court. IN RECENT action before the new state Court of Appeals, the company that administered a stress test to lodd offered to settle. But Todd's former employer, the South Carolina Farm Bureau, refused, according to Todd. The Chamber of Commerce has filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the Supreme Court to overrule the lower court. The case challenges the belief that an employer has the right to fire an employee without explanation or reason. That's known as employment at will, and it's reputedly a longhonored perogative of employers in South Carolina. "Trial by jury of all employment decisions would cause a tremendous and non-productive drag upon the Working on the phone C.A. Crider (1) and George Eleazer prepare Columbia and Camden. S.C. woman narr (AP) ? Margaret Bethea, Gov. Dick paign manager, says she feels "Just greal national manager of George McG campaign. Bethea said her new boss is "some believe in, he's the conscience of Ameri McGovern announced Bethea's appoi speaking to a convention of the Natio Women in Washington. The South Carolina native is the only tional campaign for a candidate runnin presidential nomination. "There's no doubt that Richard Nixoi in 1972," Bethea said in a telephone Washington home. However, McGove right through the years about absol said . . .certainly about the Vietnam W; Money giveawc (AP) ? What do vou jzet when a radio station and a bank team up to offer free money to motorists? You get a traffic jam and a lot of happy people. 'This is the easiest $25 I've ever made," said cab driver Thomas Aid, one of about 200 people who doubled their money in the promotion Monday morning. The cars descended on a branch of 4 e detector tes economy of the state and render it i much less attractive sit of attractinj out-of-state businesses to locate in new areas," the chamber said in its lega brief. TODD ALLEGES the Farm Bureai acted in bad faith when it fired him foi refusing to take a polygraph test. Th< Farm Bureau counters it simply wai trying to determine Todd's loyalty tc the company. For several months before the firing the Farm Bureau contends it had beei getting claims for fires that it though were suspicious. The company hired Equifax Service: Inc. to look into the possibility o arson. The Equifax investigators began t< focus their attention on Todd, a nine year employee at the Farm Bureau when they came to suspect someone ii the company was leaking informatioi to an arsonist. TODD HAD once been accused o forging an adjuster's name on a hai damage claim and had once been pu on probation for falling sales, Th State newspaper said Sunday. At Equifax's investigation, Tod< agreed to take a voice stress test. The tape allegedly showed that hi voice had "stressed" on some of th answers. :^,.''Vvv ~ - a _ > \x' .^ , Icf-i QHUl 'V:^o - .A*. ' ~~~ "" *T| * r H IHi ! line i to make loss tests on a section of cable just ififi Mnfinvern's r - ? - - - w W V I I V* Riley's former cam- The 35-year-old about being named and has held vari overn's presidential years. She was Riley' body you can really governor. She ha ca." former Reps. Mei ntment Sunday while and worked in C< nal Organization for for lieutenant gov "I know that sc woman to head a na- battle to get McG g for the Democratic that are coming u and Glenn. And h 1 crucified McGovern ago. interview from her "I feel like Mc :rn has been proven important to peop lutely everything he he is against miliu ar. involvement in C< ty causes city t fice of Standard Federal Savings and Loan Association before 7 a.m. yester uay. /\i me peaK, tne tramc jam clogged roads a mile away. "I had to hold the midnight shift over and assign most of the day shift to cover the event ."said Columbia police Lt. J.W. Swisher. The drivers lined up to take advantage of the bank's promise along with radio station WCOS-FM to receive t controversy i He was then asked to take a I polygraph test. Todd testified later / that he had second thoughts and refus1 ed to take the test until his lawyer could be present. The Farm Bureau said he simply refused to take it. Todd says she was fired on the spot. The company says it gave the standard 10 days' written notice provided in its contract. CIRCUIT JUDGE Rodney Peeples told the jury, generally, employment can be terminated for any reason, except when it's a bad-faith termination that violates public policy or state law. s "The giving of a voice stress analysis f in South Carolina is unlawful and may be considered by you as evidence of ) recklessness, maliciousness and / or wilfulness," Peeples told the jury. , The jury ruled in Todd's favor, i awarding him $20,000 in actual i damages and $40,000 in punitive damages against Equifax and $10,000 f in punitive damages against Southern 1 Farm Bureau Casualty Co. t e In their appeal, attorneys for Farm Bureau contend that Peeples erred in i telling the jury it could consider badfaith termination as a cause of action s against an employer. "No such cause e of action exists in South Carolina." the defendants' brief says. -m' ^;r.Tv^EE" Photo by Edward I. KaUch rilarpH Tho rahlp uiac nlantarl hotmoon r.?.?vv.. MW ?VU?I piuillbu UUl ?V Ubll | tational manager I South Carolina native is a graduate of USC ous positions in Democratic politics for 14 C pomnoirtn rv *? 1 A. l_ 5 ' f .j v-uinpaigii manage! in ooin nis races ior is also been an administrative assistant to ndel Davis and Ken Holland, both D-S.C., 3mptroller General Earle Morris* 1970 race 'ernor. ?me people are saying that it will be an uphill overn nominated," she said. "But the polls ip show him in third place behind Mondale e only announced his candidacy three weeks Govern is speaking on issues that are truly >le," she said. "These issues concern the fact iry involvement all over the world; certainly, Mitral America and Lebanon." raffic problems double their money. The station announced the giveaway three weeks ago but did not disclose the branch location until yesterday morning. "I've never seen so many smiling faces on a Monday morning in all my life," said Jim Tice, WCOS morning disc jockey. Tice handed out a total of $5,602.