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Children 'dip' snuff frequently
TULSA, Okla. (AP) ? Elementary school children seem to
be "dipping" snuff more frequently, educators and health officials
say, and instructors are adding warnings about
smokeless tobacco to oral hygiene programs.
"it's a Dig thing around here to have a snuff can ring in
your back pocket," said Sue Cousatte, Ottawa-Delaware
County dental health educator.
Use of smokeless tobacco among children has become a
"peer pressure thing," she said.
4,It may be worse in the Southwest because of our cowboy
heritage, but smokeless tobacco use by younger children seems
to be increasing nationwide," said Dr. Mike Morgan, who
heads state dental health education programs.
Dr. Joan Leavitt, state health commissioner, said informa
tion about the dangers of smokeless tobacco is being added to
oral hygiene programs in elementary school classrooms this
year.
Ghost-hunter searches Capitol
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? There've been persistent reports of
something rattling through the state Capitol other than resolutions
and bills, and ghost-hunter Norman Gauthier is hoping
to nail down the tales in time for Halloween.
"I look for buildings that are unusual and unique and with
historical significance," Gauthier said Monday as he arranged
to arrive at the Capitol at about sunset Wednesday to begin a
vigil on the fifth floor of the 19th century structure.
Through his recording equipment he hopes to catch the
sound of footsteps or perhaps even an eerie phrase or two.
For years there have been reports of something moving
through the night on a usually deserted top floor of the
Capitol.
"I've heard the cleaning crews don't want to go up there,"
said Daniel Barr, a former press aide to the late Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller.
Generally, the ghost stories suggest the "spirit" may be that
of night watchman Sam Abbott, killed in a fire in 1911. Or,
according to Gauthier, it might be the lost soul of a construction
foreman who supposedly died when he fell through a
floor at the Capitol in 1877.
However, the Capitol's unofficial historian and author of
"Capitol Story," C.R. Roseberry, says "if they have to have a
candidate" ? and if he believed in ghosts ? he'd pick artist
William Morris Hunt.
Roseberrv said Hunt, a Boston artist, renortedlv killed
himself after murals he produced for the Assembly chamber in
the 1870s were described as mere "ornamentation" and funds
were cut off.
"Here 1 am in my own world, and 1 want to stay here,"
Hunt had been quoted as saying.
"The common thread (among haunted houses) seems to be
a violent death," says Gauthier, whose car is easier to spot
than most spirits. Just look for the license plate: "GHOSTS."
Video game popular in Japan
TOKYO (AP) ? For the price of a video game, Japanese
can pretend to prosecute former Prime Minister Kakuei
Tanaka in the Lockheed bribery scandal and send him directly
to jail.
The trial that resulted in Tanaka's real-life conviction last
week dragged on for nearly seven years. The video computer
game "Prime Minister's Crime" took its developers three
months to create and put on the market.
Masami Sato of Computer Services Corp. said the case
made for a good subject for a game and denied any political
motive in designing "Prime Minister's Crime," which sells for
the pnnivalpnt of
Tanaka, 65, was found guilty by the Tokyo District Court
of taking aircraft in Japan while he was prime minister from
1972 to 1974.
Tanaka immmediately appealed the verdict to a high court
and was released on bail. He has defied demands from the
media and opposition parties that he resign his seat in
parliament.
Players in the video game, Sato said, take on the role of prosecutor,
questioning "Tanaka," other defendants and
witnesses.
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Later, the video "Tanaka" starts confessing, something the
real politician has never done, Sato said. A player can also
"search" Tanaka's house.
The more pofnts the player scores, the higher the penalty,
up to the prosecution's actual demand of a five-year prison
term, Sato said.
The district court gave Tanaka a four-year sentence.
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Center, 6:30 p.m.
! RH FILM ? "Camille" (1936). Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore.
Alexander Dumas' romantic tragedy. 2:30, 7, 9:30 p.m.
50 cents, 75 cents.
Appellate coi
(AP) ? South Carolina's new interim
appellate court has begun the job
of whittling down the backlog of ap
pcais piling up in iiic Mitic ? wuu
system.
The first day of court for the new
South Carolina Court of Appeals was
Monday, culminating five years of
legislative debate over it.
"This court is new, but it is the child
of a very old legal system," Alex
Sanders, the court's chief judge, said
during an inaugural ceremony.
"IT IS the beginning of much hard
work to overcome the delays in our appellate
system, which the chief justice
of this state (Woodrow Lewis) has
described as a grievous impediment to
justice." Sanders said.
The court is a temporary one,
authorized to operate only until July 1,
1985.
The first order of business for the
court Monday was a tax case between a
fund-raising group for the Citadel and
Greenville County.
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1980 census.
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lawsuit over the five-month-old redistrii
conference committee fails to come up \
end of the month.
Gressette, saying he thinks an agreei
called a Thursday meeting of the panel.
"While he (Sheeheen) may have given
Group raises in
CHARLESTON (AP) ? A Dreser
vation group hopes to raise $300,000
so the flags that flew from Fort Sumter
during the opening hours of the Civil
War can once again return to the spot
where the epic struggle began.
"Flags simply put are symbols.
These flags associated with Fort
Sumter have come to symbolize a fouryear
war, a nation, a cause, an outcome
of unity," retired Gen. William
Westmoreland told about 100 people
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"It is the beginning of much
hard work to overcome the
delays in our appellate system,
which which the chief justice
of this state has described as
a grievous impendiment to
justice."
Chief Appellate Court Judge
Alex Sanders
THE CASE involved the Daniel
Building in Greenville, owned for two
years by the Citadel group.
Lawyers for the Citadel group said
the property was exempt because the
state-supported military college
benefited from the money it raised and
was there for that purpose.
But lawyers for Greenville County
said the foundation had "none of the
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ened to file a federal over how to reap
cting stalemate if the viewed by many
vith a solution by the the remap effort
But Matthews;
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gathered at the windswept for
Monday.
"Next to the 'Star Spangled Banner
of Fort McHenry fame, these flag:
stand ironically together as a symbo
of loyalty and national unity in thes<
United States," he said.
The three flags - the Union garrisoi
flag, the storm flag and the Palmeth
Guards flag - are presently in storagi
at the National Park Service'
curatorial facility in Harper's Ferry
W.Va.
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And they wanted $239,000 in back
taxes.
THE APPEALS court will act as a
new layer of judges, halfway between
circuit court and the S.C. Supreme
Court.
Officials said the Court of Appeals
is needed because the Supreme Court
had a hard time handling all the appeals
from the circuit court. From
now on, the Court of Appeals will handle
many of the appeals that Supreme
Court used to get directly.
Cases can still be appealed from the
Court of Appeals to the State Supreme
Court. But the Supreme Court isn't expected
to have nearly as heavy a
caseload since cases it hears must meet
certain strict guidelines.
The backlog of cases awaiting
review in the Supreme Court has risen
to 1,700, creating a four-year waiting
time for litigants.
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once the York problems are worked out, he
?hn Matthews will be able to come to terms
m-Orangeburg area.
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portion their neighboring counties had been
lawmakers as the major stumbling block of
and Gressette said Monday they are in a posileir
differences.
; we'll have any problems," Gressette said.
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t The group hopes to raise the money
so the flags can be treated to protect
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"It is here, 100 years later we
i preserve the momentos of a singular
3 struggle that while it split the country,
e it also brought it back together," said
s Arthur M. Wilcox, the chairman of
, The Association to Save the Fort
Sumter Flags.