The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 04, 1987, Page 4, Image 4
Campbell stresses
reforms for state
compensation laws
Bv The Associated Press
Gov. Carroll Campbell, in his
Jan. 28 State of the State speech
to the General Assembly, called
for several reforms in the state's
system of compensating workers
injured on the job.
"Our high workers' compensation
rates are discouraging industry
from locating in our
state," Campbell said.
Campbell proposed the
legislators bar lawmakers irom
appearing for a fee before the
Workers' Compensation Commission
of the State Fund
because the practice has "eroded
public confidence in the system."
Campbell also said commissioners
should not be allowed to
hear claims brought by their colleagues
or commission
employees.
"I call for the creation of an
I independent appeals panel made
up ot circuit court judges 10 near
appeals of any ease concerning
commissioners or commission
employees," he said.
House Speaker Robert
Shebeen, D-Kershaw, said he
< agreed that changes are needed in
the Workers' Compensation
system, but said it will be among
the most difficult legislation for
him to push through.
Camobell Draiscd Sen. John
Drummond, D-Grccnwood, and
Rep. Larry Martin, D-Pickcns,
for "identifying the problems in
the current system."
Drummond said Campbell was
"on the right track" with his
proposals.
Both the House and the Senate
arc considering proposals to
reform the Worker's Compensation
Fund and the commission,
including a ban on lawyerlegislators
practicing before the
State Fund.
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A new concept in fencing out unwantables ? or
fencing in criminals ? foils would-be climbers.
The new fence is semi-circular and curls inward
from the bottom to the top. It is also covered with
metal mesh that makes climbing virtually
impossible.
Ellis MacDougall, a USC criminal justice professor,
designed the fcncc. He said people climb
fences using their hands to grip and their legs, the
strongest part of their bodies, to push.
"The reason you cannot climb the fcnce is that
you cannot get a spot to put your feet or hands,"
MacDougall said.
Intruders would have to cut through the galviniz
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of the semicircularly-curled fence, thus adding
to the time it takes to escape.
"All a fence can do is slow you down," MacDougail
said. "Prisoners can climb a regular
12-foot fence in about three seconds."
MacDougall added that detectors can also be
placed inside and outside the fence to alert
authorities that someone is tampering with the
fence.
The invention was tested at Central Correctional
Institution by 15 inmates and three mountain
climbers. No one succeeded in getting over the
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Climbers who would try to get over the fence
would find themselves 8 feet back inside the fence,
15 feet in the air, and exhausted.
Marnmionll nnd his nnrfner. Charles Weston of
Columbia, have patented the fence and plan to sell
it worldwide. Weston has been in the fencing
business for 15 years.
MacDougall said although they have already sold
their first fence to a prison in Florida, he did not
think that prisons will be their biggest market.
"It (the biggest market) will probably be private
industries and governmental projects such as water
towers and plants," MacDougall said.
The fence already meets the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission's standards for fences around power
plants.
MacDougall said producing the new fence is more
expensive than producing a normal fence.
But he added that once a prison puts up two
12-foot fences with razor ribbon, which is common
for most correctional institutions, the cost is about
the same as his new fence.
"I have been in the prison business all of my life
and I have constantly tried to improve the quality.
"I felt that there had to be a better way to do it
(keep criminals inside)," MacDougall said.
MacDougall worked at CCI for 10 years before
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Columbia company Pepsi-Cola captured 18.5 pertn
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as follows: Diet Coke, 7.1 perPoliey
Management Systems cent; Diet Pepsi, 4.3 percent; Dr.
Corp., a Columbia-based in- Pepper, 4.1 percent; Sprite, 3.6
surance software company, will percent; and Seven-Up, 3.5
join marketing forces with IBM. percent.
The joint venture is part of The rest of the top 10 included: A
IBM's Industry Marketing Mountain Dew, 2.6 percent; new
Assistance Program, which Coke, 2.3 percent; and RC Cola
allows both companies to present and Cherry Coke tied at 1.7
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they feel will respond positively.
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Mercedes-Benz ups
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U.S. s 1987 prices
Gov. Carroll Campbell
Mercedes-Benz will increase remembered one of his stronger
the prices on all United States im- campaign issues when he gave the
ports by 3.9 percent, beginning State of the State address last
March 2. week to the General Assembly.
The increase will add $1,700 to Campbell, who focused his f|
mc average price 01 a campaign un duiu tuauiauw
Mercedes-Benz car, said A. B. reform, offered three auto inShuman,
spokesman for surance and highway safety
Mercedes-Benz. proposals:
The price change will not effect # Largc automobile insurance
cars already in dealers claims should be redistributed to
showrooms or cars ordered from prevent insurance companies
dealers before Jan. 17 but from jnciucjjng t|lcm jn their redelivered
as 1987 models. quests for rate increases.
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that 18.9 percent of the $38 traffic violations should be
billion soft drink market chose reduced provided the motorist
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