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n * Friday, March 21, 1986
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Drop it
Confederate
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wnn siaws
The confederate Hag that
waves over the South Carolina
State House was ripped down
by a thunderstorm last week,
but the high winds left the
American and state flags
llian,.
i I.J nifcSThe
flag was replaced, but it
shouldn't have been.
It could be argued the Hag
represents an important part
of South Carolina's heritage,
but it is a part that needs to be
recognized, not flaunted.
What it represents is a war
that tore our nation apart, a
war that produced countless
political and human wounds.
There are lessons not to be
forgotten in such sweeping
events, but the Hag is more a
reminder of the horrors ol
slavery than deeds of bravery
The Rev. Winston Lawsor
of the l.adson Presbytcriar
Church in Columbia said th<
Mag brings back memories ol
oppression and is a rcmindci
of the discrimination and pre
judice the South has yet t(
eradicate.
(AfloTHER 1
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Guest ed
Catalytic c
n.. riniiru nrTiiniir
oy oiuracf ocinunc
I itty years ago, acid rains
I here were relatively few utili
naces. and lew cars; there wer
lakes in America and Canada.
W ith the slow course of time ;
spent\. and internal expansio
numbers of furnaces and cars
leaps and hounds.
In tlie interim, the number (
United States and C anada has
through the seasons ? to 7,(KM
ami u\ iIK1 iorcsis h was oniy i:
the pioblem became truly noti<
in ihe number ol lurnaces and
sidered almost directly proport
in the number ol dead lakes ar
I or several months, a $100 tr
ifi>-' chemists and other specially
been under v\a\, wnh attern
answer I hes have known suit
and lurnaces, and little or not
mam problem. Nationwide, th
concerned environmental grou
1 litering mechanisms have b
ha\e been made to treat the la
Mad the lederal government hii
was .i master ol nuzzles and
do/ens ot chemists and olhcr v
til the bill, this twofold ans
untavcled in weeks.
All automobiles dating I
catalytic converters. A SKM) lit
and a $V) line, the cost ol th
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flag in conflict
goal of equality
"Black people now will be
driving down the street and see
the flag. That brings back
painful memories," said
Lawson, an organizer of
September's anti-apartheid
rally on the steps of the State
House.
At the rally, civil rights
leader Modjeska Simpkins
said, "Wc arc on holy ground.
, And I don't mean bccausc wc
arc at the Capitol bccausc a lot
of unholy stuff goes on up
, there."
"What about the flag?" someone
shouted.
The Kn KIiix Khni uses the
; confederate flag as a symbol
i of its goals of white
F supremecy. By Hying the Hag,
South Carolina unintentionali
ly associates itself with such
i loathsome and despicable
intents.
F By removing the flag, the
r state would demonstrate that it
is serious about governing
iicnlf in vx/;?vv: hawl nn rnnitv
and rcspcct.
T was AWFUL! There was a )
price war, amp To keep ;
Y Customers, i hap TO
wash their winpShielpS
amp check Their oil ! i
< *At~!
' C(l(^l ^IW JWW O H?w5j'?llA ',
itorial -'T
I
converters wi
should be impo
series using Icac
were unheard-of. have to have a
ty plants with fur* they can pass
e thousands of live have to go up t
If that doesi
md the growth, pro- 1940s, Plan B v
n of America, the With the aci
have multiplied by general, rare, a
There arc on
>f dead lakes in the and vehicles,
likewise multiplied Various vchick
), plus dead streams when convcctio
mo /u years ago mat icic trom exnai
ccable. I he increase Otherwise, the
I cars has been con- I here is a s
ional to the increase lakes and dying
id forests. won't cost the
lillion project featur- 10 hours a yeai
'cd professionals has During all sc
ipis to discover an proceed to the
ur dioxide from cars rain without tf
lung more, to be the flashing red at
icre have been many won't happen
ps. long rain doesn
ltd used, and efforts oeonle would u
kcs, hut to no avail. minutes,
red just one man that We have 50
mazes, rather than Wc have I,
specialists that didn't smokestacks t
wer may have been 9,(KM) cars eacl
furnaces art
>ack to 1975 have rics much tnor
ic lor service stations Efforts on tl
e catalytic convener, of work. Ther<
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-our opinions. Ex- 500 words a
es by writing a let- ture. Photos
The Game
louble-spaced, with letters a mo
words. I hey must will only be
auurcss, telephone and pseuuor
iler can be reached f he dam
letters and gi
elude whether the returned. S
ill or community (iamecock,
must be limited to umbia, S.C.
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Trains, trains, trs
Thp firKt thinv / remrmhcr knowin'
Is that lonesome whistle hiowin'
And a young 'un's dream of yjo win' up to
ride . . .
Merle Haggard, 1968
Railroads don't even move enough to make
you look up these days.
Merle Haggard, 1986
The best vantage point tor watching trains
in Columbia ? with the possible exception of
Hugcr Street during rush hour ? is the
pedestrian bridge just behind Bates West,
where you can leisurely eat your lunch and
watch the trains trundle along a few feet
below.
This may not sound like much fun to you,
but I'm from Batesburg and don't get out
much.
I've been fascinated by trains for some
time, but I never rode otic until spring break,
when I went to Palm Beach aboard the midnight
special out ol Columbia. To be honest,
it was the 11:45 p.m. special, but why be
Duld help solve i
scd on any motorist 01 a car in mis a ji mime
led gas. These same vehicles should time for th
working catalytic converter before Using ci
inspection. Inspection costs would 8-foot dial
o $3. top of the
Vt bring levels back down to the double pip
vill. allow cxh?
d rains, the answers arc accurate, when on<
typical and complete. inoperativ
ily two basic problems ? furnaces In each
L-verything else is insignificant. haust fan
;s arc only a factor during a rain wind turn
n and water vapor carry sulfur diox- pipeline h
ists of automobiles into the clouds. pletc with
emission is low-level all the way. In betwi
imnlc answer to savinu 7.(KX) dead could be a
I forests in America and Canada that than 100 c
average American more than five to could he |
r of his time. For less
asons, motorists of older cars could our light
ir destinations and not re-enter the dead stre<
ic catalytic converter. I iglits will be The ex
id changing at the same tunc. I his doesn't pi
15 hours a year to most motorists. A When ii
1't occur once in four years, and most all the tra
et to their destinations in less than 10 then be in
of them a
million automobiles. sides. Mi]
063 16-foot diameter coal and oil and doth
i 1 : ? i ? ..4 .......1.1 u
run prouuce uic equivalent m uvli wwuiu iic
i. taxis, plai
: heavy, a significant factor that car- used only
e weight than all automobiles do. If it ra
lese furnaces would require 5 months business
: needs to be an 18-month deadline or Nobody I
nd the writer may Submit a pic- *
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. ciuuioi oc returned. "
cock will print no more than two
nth by the same writer. Names
r withheld by special exception
lyms are not allowed.
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nest editorials. Letters will not be
lend letters to: Editor, The
Drawer A, Russell House, Col29208.
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honest when you can have romance?
Everybody was asleep when 1 boarded, but
I was too busy watching occasional bursts of
civilization scud past my window to join
them. I must have dozed a bit, though,
because about 3 a.m. I was seized by the idea
that I could reach Palm Beach merely by
walking down the aisle through car after car
aflcr cat into the <lkl:?nrtv and return to Col
umbia merely by walking in the other direction.
For that sort of idea, you have to be at
least partly asleep.
When I told people 1 was taking the train to
Florida and back, most of them arched their
eyebrows and said, "Awful long ride," obviously
under the mistaken impression that 1
was in a hurry and eared more about my
destination than about the getting there.
Nobody invited me to join a high-stakes
poker game, no secret agents got thrown off
the roof past my window, no saloon belles sat
down in the seat opposite me, and I didn't see
a single conductor carrying a biscuit-sized t
gold pocket watch. {.
Hut that's OK. The best thing about taking s
acid rain problen
m f ine. I his 18 months allows plenty ol In I
e purchase of catalytic converters as well. montl
ranes and scaffolding, there need to be may 1
netcr double pipelines coming out of the Foi
smokestack, 25 feet up. Louvers and and of tin
iclincs should be on top of the chimney to up tf
lust to escape on a clear day or on a day lakes
; oi inc lans migru appear 10 oe swim
c. intcrt
pipe, winds 1 (K) mph and faster from ev- plant
s purchased from the manufacturers of gressi
lcls are necessary at the base of cach millif
eld up above the ground by struts, corn- Bel
a way to repair and remove them. blc p
ten the fans and the top of the smokestack been
in 8-foot diameter circular disk with more Re
atalytic converters installed in cach. A fan Co
placed in front of the disk, too. the p
than the nominal one-time $3 increase in Pe
and gas bill, we regain 7,(XX) dead lakes, drive
nm. and dvinu forests nth/?i
trcmc Northwest uses hydropowcr that subsi
Dilute. So
t rains in warm weather, city hall can place time
iffic lights on flashing red. Motorists can 1,06!
istructed to pull up behind the car in front bolv<
nd cut off their engines until the rain sub- one-l
?hway traffic could pull over to the side Ta
e same. The only vehicles allowed to move bota
ambulances, fire trucks, trains, buses, and
lies and the highway patrol. This would be their
for disciplinary action. and
ins at all, a shop owner could extend his the I
time to allow for a salesman's time. Ec
oscs anything. satis
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mda Taylor Aultiani SpoillKhi FxI
wi?ijni c ?p> i>*%v i hirf Ed Chambliss
ruddy Moore Sport* Fdltor
lew* FdHor John Hoyelte
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fling about 'em
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Andy Duncan
he train is the absolute certainty that you've
^ot rails beneath you. That feeling is rather
icarce nowadays.
11, writer savs
m
;he great Northwest, where it rains six to eight
lis out of the year, more and better bus routes
3C the second-best answer.
r the first, by federal law and in a short period
ne, lake owners and ecologists can straighten
icir facilities. For the sake of thousands of
, ponds, rivers, streams and forests, millions of
mers, landowners, foresters, fishermen, and
:sted parties and tens of billions of aquatic
s and fish, whether office worker or conman
in his car, his time doesn't measure up to a
raction of that much.
[ween catalytic converters, hydropower, douipelines
and flashing red lights, acid rain had
solved. These conditions date back 50 years,
storation work needs to be done.
ngressmen will have pass a bill to insure that
receding is taken into account and heeded,
ople will progressively buy newer-model cars to
in any rainy weather leaving fewer and fewer
automobiles owners to wait until the rain
des.
me good comes out of everything. No down
wouiu oc necessary wun mc use 01 any ol the
) coal and oil furnaces. And all of the work in;d
aids the employment picture for less than a
tim cover charge per gas and electric customer,
tx cuts will be reflected. Scientists, biologists,
nist and chemists can wrap up ther activities
return to more meaningful duties relating to
work. Swimmers can swim, fisherman can fish
lake owners can enjoy their investments once
)alance of nature is turned the other way.
rologists from coast to coast can rest with a
ficci mind.
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