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Porn trial ends in guilty verdict rftNWAY JAP* A 111 r\r hprA Qahir/^nt; f/\?irt/4 D?a F\a/i ^ ' ?? ? - * \i ? y i m jui j tiviv uuiui v? ?j i v/ LI a1VI 1 w l/vt News Service guilty on all 46 counts of distributing obscene magazines in Horry County convenience stores. Jurors in the pornography trial deliberated seven hours and 40 minutes before reaching a verdict shortly before 6 p.m. Circuit Judge Ralph Anderson fined the Florence company a total of $46,000 or $1,000 for each count. Solicitor Jim Dunn said he brought the case to trial because of numerous complaints by citizens in Horry County. The managers of 30 Horry County convenience stores that sold the magazines can enter a plea of nolo contendere, or no defense and no admission of guilt, to a similar charge of distributing obscene material with store owners paying the nnes, uunn saia. Conway police Lt. John Hipskind said the magazines already have been pulled from the shelves of stores in the county. Defense attorney Walter Bilbrow of Charleston said he does not know what Pee Dee News Service will do with the stock of magazines declared obscene. Anderson called the decision of the jurors one of "major importance" in terms of other obscenity cases in South Carolina. Bl 1/ I .1 H im.y. nas gnostiy suoway stop NEW YORK (AP) - If they peer closely through the windows of the train into the dimly lit tunnels, riders on many of New York's subway lines can glimpse the ghostly outline of abandoned subway stations. Although many people are not even aware the stations existed, those stops once bustled with activity. The stations were originally built close together to accommodate five-car trains. But in the 1940s, the platforms were lengthened to handle 10-car trains. Since the longer platforms would have resulted in one continuous station, in some instances various stations along the line were closed. Among the stations is the City Hall station on the IRT Lexington Avenue line, which in 1904 became New York's first subway stop. USC today RH FILM ? Animation Fest. Ninety minutes of some of the best cartoons with the all-time animated greats, including Betty Boop and Mighty Mouse. 2:30, 7, 9:30 p.m. Free. ^ontemporar^c I yese<* TW< mil 111 u 1111 i i iaii i ii iiiiHiimi?11> iiwmi?i? WirE Education plan nu (AP) ? Gov. Dick Riley's campaign Some lawmakers to boost public?education by $200 taxes in an electi million through a penny sales tax hike after a similar pro may be in trouble before it even gets Riley died in the off the drawing board. year. House memb Several members of a key House arguing over whetl committee that oversees tax proposals tra money to imj: and the budget question whether this is lower residential p the year to be seeking a tax increase for cut taxes on indusi education or otherwise. "1 don't think it's going to pass/' MANGUM PR! said House Ways and Means Commit- harder fight the s tee Chairman Rep. Tom Mangum, D- survives his comm Lancaster. "It's going to b Rep. Bob McLel RILEY IS preparing a major televi- of. Riley's first tax sion address on education, to be man of the Ways \ broadcast by ETV from the Gover- tee's education pa nor's Mansion at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22. want to be the chl Commercial stations in Greenville and 441 just don't w Charleston have agreed to carry the limb and have it ss program live, ETV news director Tom the Oconee Cour Fowler said Friday. "I'm not 100 perc Despite a publicity blitz by Riley and gram myself." the creation of a task force to study public education, the idea of a tax hike MCLELLAN A has little support in the committee that garner public suj oversees all tax legislation. education spending Senior members of the committee an issue (in the said Friday they anticipate heavy op- whether the sta< position in the General Assembly to Education can wis raising the 4 percent sales tax. dose of $200 milli Pelicans no longer endange MIAMI (AP) ? The sight of brown pelicans along Florida's coast has become so common the federal government has recommended the birds be removed in several states from the Endangered Species List. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Friday recommended 13 years of special protection for pelicans in Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama be discontinued. D,.t f? 11 I :: : uul lilt, IJIl I Idling, CIS well 111 l^UUIMcllIcl, IVll^l^Mppi and Texas, where the pelicans will remain on the list. So will California pelicans, a different subspecies. Officials said actual removal of the pelican from the list may take a year because public comment first must be invited. A hearing also could be conducted. lands & The Golden O GREAT SPC I jE|g| iy be in trouble \ are wary of raising The total education budget is about r>n venr. esrwelallv $800 million. f ' posal supported by Ways and Means Committee House earlier this member Rep. Herb Kirsh, D-York, ers spent five weeks said the Education Department, which tier to spend the ex- takes $15 million and 1,000 employees >rove education, to to administer from Columbia, first >roperty taxes or to needs to reorganize and get rid of tries. waste. "AH they're interested in is getting EDICTED an even the money," he said. "I don't think econd time ? if it they're ready for it." iiiee. e tough," he said. RILEY SPOKESMAN Russ McKin Ian, a key supporter ney said the governor has 'had some proposal and chair- discussions with some legislators" and Means commit- about sponsoring a tax hike bill, nel, said he doesn't "He certainly is not going to have ef proponent again. any problem getting it introduced on ant to get out on a the floor of the House," McKinney iwed out from me," said. ity Democrat said. But Lowell Reese, executive director ent sold on the pro- of the state Chamber of Commerce, warned Riley not to mistake the business community's cooperation for UDVISED Riley to support. "I would caution anyone not pport for boosting to confuse good manners with good g. "I think it will be feelings," Reese said. election campaign) "We have never said that we supte Department of ported a penny sales tax. That has been ely spend a massive interpreted by some individuals on in a single year. incorrectly." ired, wildlife service says Being removed from the Endangered Species List won't make much difference to Florida birds, the largest pelican population in the nation estimated at between 18,000 and 20,000. The only change will be the pelican won't have to be considered in planning federal projects that might affect it, said Judy Jacobs, a wildlife service biologist. But Steve Nesbitt.a biologist in Gainesville with the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission cnirl rpmnvino pelicans from the list doesn't mean they have a secure future. New chemicals about which little is known could easily appear in the environment to threaten the birds, he said. Increasing development of coastal areas also will reduce their habitat. JRSHOW^I I*-f---" i Mi i All BiiWHIMUIliA lilfiiM In ilr/iffJiiiitii fii^iltBWHHBllHIr