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Prison regains original name OSSING, N.Y. (AP) ? The Sing Sing prison, rechristened the Ossing Correctional Facility in 1970 under a state policy switch, will again be called Sing Sine at village leaders' request. "Most people still call it Sing Sing anyway," Lou Ganim, spokesman for the Department of Correctional Services, said Tuesday. He said villagers asked in September that the modern name, adopted when the state began naming prisons to conform to their locales, be changed back to the original. Hollings offends Catholics CHARLESTON, (AP) ? Catholic leaders in Sen. Ernest Hollings' home state have demanded he apologize for the "anti-Catholic bias" he showed in his speech on the Senate floor against tuition tax credits. Making stinging references to the White House-backed proposal to provide tax relief to parents of non-public school children, Hollings described the proposal as "a church move" and an attempt to finance "white flight academies." Hollings, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, derided the Catholic bishops for "running around the hallways of Congress like a bunch of kids looking for votes . . .it is a disgrace." Msgr. Thomas Duffy, vicar general of the South Carolina Catholic diocese of Charleston, responded, "Since when are Catholics unwelcome in the hall of Congress? "Since when are Catholics barred from taking part in the democratic process, or from trying to persuade elected members of Congress to pass legislation to strengthen education and the family," he said. .Qiiri/oi/c Hicanrpp nupr rnffpp V/UIVOJTf w-w. -----BOSTON (AP) ? Is coffee bad for the heart? Three major surveys published yesterday say no, but two others say maybe. The question, which has been asked for years, arose again in June when Norwegian scientists discovered Norwegians who drank a lot of coffee had 14 percent more cholesterol in their blood than those who did not. Cholesterol causes hardening of the arteries, and the doctors concluded coffee could at least double the rise of heart disease. Now, in a rebuttal to five followup studies also contained in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine, the Norwegians say coffee consumption's link to cholesterol in their population could result from how Norwegians drink their coffee ? black and boiled. "Not only the method of growing, roasting and brewing but also the duration and temperature of the extraction process may influence the biologic properties of the ultimate brew," said Dr. Dag Thelle and colleagues from the University of Tromso in Asgard, Norway. To check the Norwegians' results, five medical 'earns around the world analyzed the results of large population studies. Three found no link between coffee and cholesterol. One found coffee raises cholesterol only in young people, while the other suggested it does so only in women. "As far as serum cholesterol goes, I know of no reason for people in the United States who consume coffee in customary amounts to be concerned," Dr. Richard Shekelle said in an interview. At Rush Medical College in Chicago, Shekelle and other doctors analyzed the habits of 1,900 middle-aged men and found no relation between coffee and cholesterol. Dr. Albert Hofman and others from Erasmus University Medical School in Rotterdam looked at data gathered from 10,532 people in the Netherlands. They also could not confirm a link. Police charge men with arson PAWLEYS ISLAND (AP) ? Three Pawleys Island men have been charged with burning down a 100-year-old plantation house just hours after one of the men was accused of illegal hunting on plantation property, said Georgetown County sheriff's deputies. Charles William Moore, 37, Ray W. Roberts, 62, and Dean Russell Altman, 26, were all arrested and charged with arson Tuesday, officials said. Moore was also charged with trespassing on True Blue Plantation with intent to hunt. Plantation caretaker Chip Lachicotte said the house was burned to the ground before midnight and 3 a.m. Friday ? a few hours after a warrant was obtained against Moore for allegedly killing a deer on plantation property. Roberts and Moore were released on bond Wednesday. Altman was being held in lieu of $25,000 bond. True Blue is a 900-acre former rice plantation on the Waccamaw River, which dates from the early 1700s, according the A.H. Lachiocotte, one of 14 private investors who bought the plantation in 1971. Me saiu ne naa no estimate on me nome s vaiue. "An awful lot of historical value went down the pipe . . .that's what makes you sick," Lachiocotte said. | USC today j TIGER BURN ? USC pep rally for Clemson football game. | Begins at Russell House, 6:30 p.m. j RH FILM ? "Gandhi" (1982). Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud. j Director Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning epic. 2:30, 8 p.m. Free. i ^ WirF Bank withi *AP) ? Bankers Trust chairman w. w. "Mootie jonnson says nis DanK will not revise its earlier offer to merge with First Bankshares and has decided to withdraw its bid. The announcement came Wednesday, apparently after South Carolina National Corp. made First Bankshares a better offer. SCN was the first bank to try to merge with First Bankshares, the holding company for First National Bank. But last month, Bankers Trust made a counter offer, besting the SCN offer by $49 million. The developments came as First Bankshares held a lengthy board of directors meeting Wednesday afternoon and evening to consider its decision on the offers bv its two suitors. Society hope (AP) ? A cigarette bonfire in a Geor day's Great American Smokeout as n< addicted into quitting for 24 hours- v wiches, chances at free vacations and fi up by "gum and candy and clubs." Eight psychiatrists put taped messi 0% * * * * * I Statistics glc for heavy sit WASHINGTON (AP) ? Unless habits change, one tenth of everyom States today could die prematurely < surgeon general said yesterday. People who smoke two or more pac are 200 percent more likely to die of t smokers, while average smokers are 7C said Surgeon General Everett Koop in nual report on the effects of smoking Heart disease each year kills 170,00 cent of whom smoked, the report reli The risk of dying from the disea! number of cigarettes smoked each di cigarette smoking and the degree of i said. "Unless smoking habits of the / change, perhaps 10 percent of all pers< prematurely of heart disease attribu behavior," Koop said. "The tou premature deaths may exceed 24 mill However, the risk of heart disea: reversible when smokers give up the h .? A I *1 I j r icpuu. r\iiu iiic iiumucr 01 ueains ir been declining for several years. Smoking also has declined, most 5 and 1970. Between 1964 when the fi report was released and 1980, the pro] the population declined about 25 per However, Dr. Edward Brandt, the health, said of the new study: "The report is clear: cigarette smoking she most important of the known modi; coronary heart disease in the United Mental health (AP) ? Some employees at the Department of Mental Health may have committed crimes by failing to report deaths of patients or cases where patients were abused, says the director of the Legislative Audit Council. George Schroeder said Wednesda> failure to report a patient abuse anc deaths of patients who were recently admitted is a crime. But we said it's th< audit council's job to point out th< MlUctllUU, I1UI IU CIIUI&CN. "We are suggesting that people sucl as solicitors and the attorney general': staff should have a chance to reviev the files," said Schroeder after thi council issued a report highly critica of DMH. THE ATTORNEY General's offio was examining the report Wednesda; and had no comment, spokesmai Mark Dillard said. SLED spokesmai Hugh Munn said Wednesday the agen cy had not gotten a request to look int< iiAnd U.S. Attorney Henr t J draws bid foi Neither First Bankshares Chariman Bill Bruner or SCN Chairman Jim Lindley would comment on what offers had been made or accepted. But it was apparent that SCN had put in a higher bid, and First Bankshares declined the Bankers Trust bid. Ed Sebastian, vice chairman of Bankers Trust, said First Bankshares investment banking firm contacted his bank Wednesday and said SCN had upped its offer for First Bankshares. * He said they were informed that SCN "had stepped up to the trough," but he could not be more specific about the SCN offer. In a statement released Wednesday night, Johnson said his bank will not revise its earlier proposal to merge with is 20 million sti giatown kicked off to- hotline, offering tips Dnsmokers cajoled the hoped would be 20 m vith cold-turkey sand- habit in the seventh ai iendly support backed An estimated 19 mi participated last year, ages on a nationwide theme, calling on nor the day without a ciga 10 IT1V SMOKERS WERE "** y west Georgia town of m especially dangerous inlfPrQ pied?e to i)uil imwl "if i see a cigarette scissors or douse it w ; cigarette smoking Daniel Jackson, publi i alive in the United branch. 3f heart disease, the Mayor Tracy Stalli his cigarettes at noon 1 at a Wednesday night ks of cigarettes a day A half-dozen smokers i J: ?i lie un.caac mail nun- At Sundstrand Dat? I percent more likely, firm that has non-sm the government s an- inspector Pam Cour 4< ; on Health. qUit for the 0 Americans, 30 pereased yesterday said. "WE'LL BRING ii se increases with the jn line," she said, lau ay, the total years of Mayor David Coey nhalation, the report not proud? of his , Somersworth mayor ( Vmcrican population f?r the winner aroun 3ns now alive may die a" 1"8' . . . . ted to their smoking Bald who heads th il number of such avoid the consequenc a nnnkev I act vpar se from cigarettes is Hennessey to quit, i abit, according to the Christmas parade in i om heart disease has At the Monmouth society s local unit \\'i iharply between 1966 cold ,urkey sandwic rst surgeon general's surest way to qu"' portion of smokers in REGION AI cent Chicago-based Midw with Muse raffling of assistant secretary for Disneyland as well as overall finding of this [ os Angeles >uld be considered the ' Qn the American fiable risk factors for 900-210-KWIT, for a States. advice on how to v. ' habit." employees accus McMaster said he passed the audit report to officials with the Justice ' Department who are already looking into complaints aobut the sate Mental Health Department. But the audit report cited a wide variety of management problems ' beyond the reporting of patient abuse. I The General Assembly should hold f public hearings to determine a correcJ tive action plan for the department, J the report said. 1 MENTAL HEALTH officials s responded most deficient areas cited / by the audit report "have been dealt 2 with or favorable alternatives are being 1 considered." Department public affairs specialist J.P. Neal said the agency agrees with e some recommendations and partially y agrees with others. "We're not in any i posture of being defensive," he said, n The most serious charges alleged the department reports only a portion of Q the patient deaths and patient abuse incidents to the authorities, y "There may be a reluctance on the 1/ r merger First Bankshares, and "therefore withdraws its offer." SCN, the state's largest bankholding company, and First Bankshares, the third largest, announced Sept. 2 that they planned to merge. Under the proposal SCN would give First Bankshares shareholders 1.16 01 shares of SCN for each share of First Bankshares, a deal at the time worth about $124 million. That is a nontaxable transaction. Oct. 20, Bankers Trust, the fourth largest bankholding company in the state as of Sept. 30, made a proposal to 1-,t - t _? ? a r y f\ _ rirsi tsanKsnares ooaru ior aou a share cash and two-tenths of a share of Bankers Trust for each First Bankshare share, valued at that time at $9.20 a share, or $173 million total. op smoking '* for what the American Cancer Society illion Deoole trying to kick the tobacco nnual event. Ilion of the nation's 55 million smokers The society hopes its "adopt-a-smoker" l-smokers to help smokers get through irette, would enlist even more this year. warned that lighting up today in the Carrollton, population 15,000, could be to their health because of a townwide being smoked, I may cut it in half with ith cold water, whatever it takes," said Jl c education chief for the society's local ngs, a pack-a-day smoker, threw away Wednesday and joined about 250 people rally where the high school band played. ; threw packs into a bonfire. i Control, a suburban Seattle electronics oking and smoking stalls in restrooms, fhr*?p cmnlfprc whr? r?1f?rlopH In i gum and candy and clubs to keep them ighing. "It's kind of a game." man of Concord, N.H., admitting "I'm ^ heavy habit, took the challenge from jeorge Bald. The stakes: A rickshaw ride d his city hall, with the loser doing the le state smokeout, quit two years ago to es ? riding backwards through town on he challenged Dover Mayor Raymond ind wound up marching in the Dover red flannel underwear. Mall in Eaton Town, N.J., the cancer is raffling off frozen turkeys and serving hes to remind smokers of the fastest, - airlines, Dallas-based Muse Air and ^ /ay Airlines, promoted the smokeout, f two expense-paid, round-trip tickets to a "complete non-smoking vacation" in Psychiatric Association's hotline ? 50-cent-charge ? eight doctors offered let go of what is, after ali, an acquired ;ed of crimes part of the department to discipline because they don't want the publici- *5 ty," Schroder said. SEVENTY-ONE patients died in state mental health facilities, although some were managed more poorly than others. DMH denied any knowledge of patient deaths or abuses not reported to authorities. ine report listed 14 incidents ot improper sexual activity between patients, Mental Health employees or unauthorized visitors to the grounds. Many instances of abuse came because f patients were left unsupervised, the report said. THE AUDIT report cited areas of financial waste that could be changed . to save the state $10 million initially and $7 million a year after that. The department could gain S3 million by selling 933 acres it owns north of Columbia, the report said. o;