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Page 2 ? October 8, 1984 Dateline THE GAMECOCK j Bakkers plea for PTL funds \A/hilp hu\/inn DflD hnncp WW IIIIU MM ^ IllVj T I I W/ f V/ WW I9UUUU Associated Press CHARLOTTK ? While Jim and T nmy Bakker made pleas to get their television ministry, ti.e PTL Club, out of debt, they were buying a $449,000 "hideaway," plus a Mercedes and a Rolls Roycc costing about $100,000. During the Jim Bakker show Thursday, the couple told viewers they bought the house at Palm Springs, with their own money for vacations and retirement. " . . .We knew that we just had to have a little place of our own," Bakker said Thursday, speaking from his Palm Desert home where he and his wife. Tammy, are vacationing. "So we found this house in the desert and it's just a marvelous hideaway." The Bakkers bought the furnished home May 25 with a $149,000 payment and a $300,000 loan, public documents obtained by 1 he Charlotte Observer showed. Soon after, -k . i ? . i j i / \r i ri 11.. n j* l ... c c c /\/\/\ naKKcr purcnaseu a iv.m koiis kovcc ioi uuuui and a 1984 Mercedes-Benz lor $45,000. Hui in an Aug. I telecast, Mrs. Bakker said P'I'L supporter must pay the bills for the organization. "Jim and I can't," she said. "We've given everything we have. And litterally we have given everyting. I have offered to sell everything I own because things reallv don't mean that much when it comes to getting the gospel of Jesus Christ out. But if I sold every single thing I owned, Jim, it would probably keep us oti the air one more day." "Oh, no," Bakker responded, "it wouldn't be that long." On Aug. 27, Bakker told viewers, "We're in the biggest crisis we've e\er had," and last month began a telethon to r:ilVf* imlliiMi finish rt ^ 'ntitiir 'in/I 1^1.-v ?|.>V V I -? i I V1 I IV/ I nil 111 I i iv. | Ul UIV.I V V.1HV.I UKU I1V.1}/ |?tl) TV bills. Bakker has said he and his wile arc paid from money raised at Heritage USA's church, not from funds donated by viewers to PI I.. l ast month Bakker told \iewers PTL. owes S5 million to about 200 television stations he says carry the Christian program. Several creditors have filed liens and lawsuits in Charlotte and York County, S.C., saying PTL owes them more than $324,000. In one recent action, a California concrete firm filed a lien protecting its claim to $121,352 for work done in May, June and July at Heritage USA, PTL's 2,000-acre headquarters between Charlotte and Port Mill, S.C. PTL officials say then need $8 million to complete the Partner Center, which Bakker describes as the greates Christian retreat and conference center ever. The $33 million nroiect includes ;i S04-rnnm hot<?l ch^nninu m-iii I J " - ,,v" V,1 /..V?|/J/|||^ I lie* I I and conference center at Heritage USA. Lower meat packing standards pose health risk, inspector says Associated Press WASHINGTON ? A scrappy, 70-year-old government meat inspector claims that loosened standards in many packing plants threaten public health and that the Agriculture Department is trying to silence his efforts to sound the alarm. The inspector, Carl Telleen, is a veterinarian who has spent nis z^-year government career in the department's meat inspection program, including a stint on a special national team evaluating inspections nationwide. There is a "substantial and specific danger to public health and safety due to the USDA's failure to enforce the meat and poultry inspection laws," Telleen charges. He says the department's trusted stamp of approval on meat and poultry has become meaningless because of recent inspection changes aimed at helping the industry boost its productivity. "Now it is not a scientific program to protect the people, but rather a program . . .to enhance public confidence in the product," he said in an affidavit filed with civil service officials and in an interview last week. Telleen's superiors insist just as vehemently that no health threat has been proven and that the changes were put in effect only after careful testing. The GAMECOCK is (he student' newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published three times a week on Monuays. 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The first battle between South Carolina and Georgia _ : ? i k v ovei a eoiuiovcr siai eousuiuuu s report being used to market the Port of Savannah is over - but the war continues. A Federal Maritime Commission administrative law judge Friday recessed hearings after 3Vi days of testimony here in which the South Carolina State Ports Authority tried to show it has been wronged by the report. Judge Seymour Glan/.er said the hearings will probably resume at the end of the month, depending on w hat court space is available. He's hearing a complaint by the South Carolina State Ports Authority that alleges the Georgia Ports Authority violated the Shipping Act of 1916 by using a report prepared by the consulting firm of Boo/-Allen & Hamilton which "subjects South Carolina ... to undue and unreasonable prejudice and disadvantage" in the P"irketine battle between Savannah anu tlv Port of Charleston. The complaint asks that the report be withdrawn from circulation and Crowning achievement USC Homecoming Queen Kirni Smith is esc( and last year's queen Nancy Holderman wa Purvis optimistic Associated Press FLORENCE ? Democratic U.S. Sens Purvis believes he's got a good cli Republican incumbent Sen. Strom Thurn 1952. "We're right on target with our campa line is anything can happen," Purvis sai< Purvis, a Florence minister, survived ; primary against Orangeburg photograpl Williams asked the U.S. Justice Depart allegations of voting irregularities, and fai ing a write-in campaign. Purvis said he sincerely believes he car who at 82 is running for his sixth term in Committee presents a yQB e and intrigue. Spy Out of That", .begins, \ ;dn;RusseJl,H(^use I , ?: j}QO;p>mi r ? ' *1 . r .1 - , ' r . , > (' I I eorgia over poi seeks damages lor any injury the report may have caused Charleston. During the testimony so far, no /Inll'ir \i?oc c * i fmrl f Ar t UV/IIUI (4111 V/ II 111 V* 14 0|;\.\,ll IVU I U 1 I I IU.1V. damages. Nor has a specific dollar amount been included in a separate lawsuit the SPA has brought against the consulting firm in federal court in Washington. At least another week of testimony is expected here on the complaint after which more testimony will be heard in Savannah. On Friday, Whitemarsh Smith III, the president of the Charleston Branch Pilots Association, testified about technical aspects of the disputed report. He said neither he not state officials knew about the report until a trip last November to Taiwan to speak with officials of Evergreen l ines about the firm's new around-thc-world service. Smith said state officials were asked about the turning radius for ships in North Charleston, how well larger ships could operate in Charleston and about tidal ranges. "Some of the questions were puzzling because they had a service already Kted by President James Holderman during halftin tch. about bid to uns Purvis criticized Tl ite candidate Melvin opposition to abortic lance of unseating "Dogs and cats he lond, first elected in Purvis said. Purvis 5 himself "have freque popular incumbents,' lign, and the bottom "The top political 2 i. and they've begun to ^ .vis said. a bitter Democratic ler Cecil Williams. He said he and Tl ment to investigate relates to big mega-c iling in that, is wag- Thurmond has votec breaks for big busine 1 defeat Thurmond, Purvis said he's nc the Senate. porations should pay _ Vi A I \AJ&\r*r\imrs f f vy I | | u (acros }! | 'Six irieatfe |1 Meat, 3 Vegetal I only $2 I w/coupon i Buy_& Savej rts report there (in Charleston) and could have spoken to their captains going through there," he said during cross examination by GPA attorney George Cham lee. While South Carolina officials object to a portion of the report which says boats over 825 feet will have a hard time turning at the North Charleston terminal, Smith said that only two ships larger than that have ever turned there. And while Smith had objected to the report incorrectly listing the Charleston tidal range, Cham lee show cu inai various guiucs lo tne Harbor used by pilots differ as much as a half foot on tidal range. Earlier this week, SPA Executive Director W. Don Welch said the consultant's report could cost the Port of Charleston millions of dollars in lost business. Glanzer ruled earlier that while the ailthoritv h:i?- lli?> rlnln I1* -.'v ii^ni i*./ ->uc iui iiny damages it may have suffered, the agency could not sue on behalf of the state or of the City of Charleston. ) Photo by Edward L. Kalsch ^ ie Saturday. 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