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HAnd a one, a two... j Astros sign USC's Brian Williams page? 1 ,, I I asked me if I would consider tying my Conductors gather for I ?? ?? l mother up, smearing her with cream I , . , I cheese and throwing her into a pit orchestra WOrKSnOp I ^ ^ ^ _ x ^^laI filled with rabid armadillos." Carolina Life, page 5 I Two USO t?3niS CJ?t fl?W C03Cm6S Page 7 I ?Columnist Dennis Shealy " The Gamecock Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 83, No. 2 - Wednesday, July 18, 1990 T BRIEFLY IN THE NEWS Philippine quake kills at least 230 Authorities said today that more tnan people were killed in an earthquake, and television reports said the worst affected areas were woefully short of blood, medicine and rescue equipment. U.S. military units rushed to two of the worst affected areas with medical supplies and engi neering equipment to help clear rubble. Japan and other countries also provided help. President Corazon Aquino today visited the quake-stricken city of Cabanatuan and declaed a state of emergency in the affected-areas. Figures compiled by the Office of Civil Defense and the Philippine Red Cross showed 234 people were killed and more than 600 injured in the quake, which measured 7.7 on the Richter scale and struck the country's main island of Luzon, muiuuiiig manna. lis epicenter was 60 miles north of the capital. Radio show host back after remark I J 3g?A radio talk show host who was suspended for banning black callers returned to the air Tuesday after his station manager said his action was not malicious. Tim Lennox, suspended Thursday, returned to the air oft WERC-AM. But station manager Berkley Fraser said Lennox was removed from his job as news director and will be on probation for a year. Lennox also will be required to develop, produce and serve as host of a special series for the station on the topic "Birmingham faces the future," focusing on race relations in the city. Lennox said early in his twohour talk show on July 11 that he would take no calls from blacks that day. Lennox imposed the ban after three employees saw a black youth break into an fellow employee's car and take her purse. Lennox, 40, said later he made "an emotional spur-ofthe-moment decision." QgQ Clemson official resigns after arrest A Clemson University administrator resigned after he was arrested on charges of embezzlement, forgery and attempted breach of trust, officials said Friday. Freddie Asinor, director of academic special projects at the university, resigned Thursday after his arrest on three counts of forgery and one count each of embezzlement and attempted breach of trust. He is free on bond. Asinor is accused by the State Law Enforcement Division of placing a nonexistent employee's name on the university payroll last month. Authorities said he also forged someone else's name on an income verification report to a realty company in 1989, forged employment documents last month and forged a request for travel reimbursements of more than $500 in February. The breach of trust charge stemmed from an allegation that he attempted to get the university to pay for $5,000 in counseling services that were never rendered. State still woi By The Associated Press Nearly 10 months after Hurricane Hugo bi struck the coast of South Carolina, state and w federal officials agreed upon a plan to re- a( move leftover debris from streets in the Lowcountry. & But a week after removal started, local w officials launched an investigation into con- ^ iTflrfnrc whn aHnmnincr th#? 01 bris on highways almost as fast as they are picking it up, authorities said. tr "We had one situation ... where a private contractor was hired to clear 40 acres of ^ land and has started pushing that into the street. That is illegal," said Kenneth Rosen- & baum, engineering superintendent for Charleston County. ? Ant alert: picnic in progress The Call and the Queen families enjoy a p Hilton Head impo By The Associated Press The posh resort of Hilton Head Island ? g hard-pressed to supply water for everything sy from bathing to keeping golf greens green ai ? this week imposed mandatory restric- tx tions on non-essential use of water. <t?r_ J t _ *-? 1- t-i we aon i nave a waiei suppiy pruoiem, u we do have a water delivery problem," said tc Kent Langley, district manager of the Broad Creek Public Service District. The district is ar one of nine public and private utilities supplying water to the island. pi The town council Monday night ap- ti< proved an ordinance declaring severe nc drought conditions and requiring residents ac to cut back on non-essential use of water. State representative for profits in sale of By The Associated Press A state representative is under investigation making more than $6,000 profit from the sale < backhoe to the town of Eastover, according to a re published today. The State newspaper quoted unidentified source saying Rep. James Faber, D-Eastover, may have lated state law by not reporting the sale on his fii cial disclosure form. Under South Carolina law, 1 slators must report any business they conduct \ local governments or state agencies. The State T .AW Pnfnrppmpnt ni x/to-irvri ic ini/ncfi ? ' ' uiiAVAVVIIlVllt L/l T 1JIU11 ll3 111 WOW ing the sale, said spokesman Hugh Munn. He wc not elaborate. Solicitor James Anders is expected to bring the < to the Richland County grand jury this month or n sources told the newspaper. Faber was not at his legislative office in Colun today and could not be reached at his office or home in Eastover. The newspaper reported that Faber bought the F backhoe from Fairfield Tractor Co. in the name of Judge finds no grot) in case of light-skim By The Associated Press cause of hei ?z ? ? j Lewis had A light-skinned black woman error-prone, who claimed her darker-skinned late and dist boss fired her from the IRS because of her skin tone had a poor U.S. Disi attitude that eventually led to her Moye Jr. s; dismissal, a federal judge ruled. "There wa Tracy L. Morrow contended she mony, not was targeted for harassment by her but from ot boss, Ruby Lewis, and was fired unlike her 1 from her job as a clerk-typist be- have been rking to rem Rosenbaum said the county may have to ring charges against some property owners ho hire private contractors to get the point :ross. "It is a hazard to the traveling public, imaees storm drainage svstems. and road ays, and can cause flooding on the road, /hat these people are doing is very dangeris," he said. The debris ? huge piles of molding matesses, rusting refrigerators and rotting ees ? is left over from the cleanup of urricane Hugo, which struck the coast on ept. 21, killing 29 and leaving $5.9 billion image. For months, federal and county officials abated who was responsible for paying to E m Nick Leor* ft t icnic on the Horseshoe Tuesday. ses most recent That would include use of water for irriating golf courses and gardens, filling dimming pools, washing down sidewalks ad tennis courts and washing cars and aats, town manager Martin Gainer said. In addition, restaurants are not to rounely provide drinking water unless cusimers request it. Violators could face fines of up to $200 id 30 days in jail, he said. "The utility companies have been having oblems with their wells and storage facilijs. That's where the biggest problem lies, >t that there's a shortage of water in the luiler," Gainer said. At least nine other communities across under investigatioi equipment to Eas company, Eastover Lumber, for $22 for 1988. 3f a Two days later, the town bought port $28,345, town records show. The money for the purchase < s as $100,000 sewer grant Faber had inse vio- state budget on Eastover's behalf, ; lan- newspaper. egi- The grant was a direct appropriatioi vith to state audits, said Mike Gulledge, d vision of local governments for the S gat- Control Board. )uld The town was not required to shop before making a purchase, he said. :ase Faber told SLED the town bought t ext, him because he could get a better de; Tractor, where he is a good customei ibia reported, his But municipalities generally rece 'ord counts than do businesses, said Dai nis manager or rairtield Tractor. inds for discrimin tied black's dismi; lighter skin tone. Ms. hire, impatient, d said Ms. Morrow was unmanageable." belligerent, frequently Moye last year lonest light vs. dark, bla< crimination is poss trict Judge Charles A. issue should be d< aid in ruling Monday, leading the way I s considerable testi- trial held earlier tl only from Ms. Lewis, Morrow's claims, hers, that the plaintiff, Moye, who mad* :ellow employees, may examining closing insubordinate, imma- both sides. love debris le remove the trash from in front of homes in the rural Lowcountry. The Federal Emergency Management Agency finally agreed to reimburse Charleston County for a final cleanup. On July 9, the county awarded Tompkins & Associates a contract to clean up the mess for $155,500 and the company began debris removal two days later. The contract requires the refuse in front of residential nrnnerties he nieked iin hut specifically was not intended for removal land clearing or locations where an entire building is being demolished, Rosenbaum said. Many residents say it took too long to SLED agi Santee Co PBy The Associated Press The State Law Enforcemc vision is investigating w Santee Cooper misspent m of dollars in coal purchas< cording to a report pub Tuesday. SLED agents are trying to V mine if the utility was bill i \ coal it never received and ii gratuities were "cloaked" as ases, The News and Cour ported, quoting an unr Also, SLED is investigati legations that gratuities passed off as costs to repa road coal cars, the newspape SLED began investigating mhhH tee Cooper's coal purchases a year ago. At least two 1 I employees also are being ii :avallo/TheGamecock gated for possible une conduct. "THA AOCA IP iiiv vaov 10 wwiiLinun i?, understand it's going to water-use restrict] South Carolina have urged voluntary water conservation because of this summer's drought, state climatologist John Purvis said. The big problem, he said, is pumping capacity. "There's probably enough water down there in the ground for everybody," he said. "But where they have, marginal pumping equipment this (demand from the drought) gives them problems." Purvis added, "The demand has cut down somewhat because of the recent clouds and rain. The demand is down this week compared to last week." In the Aiken County town of Beech Is ruled that such :k-on-black disible and that the ^MiHl scided in court, to the non-jury lis year on Ms. Look Ma, no ha t his ruling after u. UhSC banld plidi? Parti briefs filed by Hl9h sch00' students frc music camp. ft by Hugo begin the cleanup and are concerned that much of it may remain after Tompkins completes its contract. Since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed an initial Hugo cleanup of the county in February, more than two miles of refuse has accumulated on U.S. 17. "The highway mess is nothing compared to the stuff piled up here," said McClellanville resident Debbie Thames. "People around here have complained a lot because it has taken so long." Said Jewel Coan of Awendaw: "It always seems like we get looked after last" Rosenbaum said the delay was partly caused when the first bids for debris removal were rejected by FEMA as too high. ?nts probing oper purchases lengthy investigation," SLED jnt Di- spokesman Hugh Munn said, hether Santee Cooper conducted its iillions own investigation and found that it *s, ac- received all the coal it purchased lished during the period under investigation, utility spokesman Jerry Staf1 deter- sa^ed for "That's been examined very f some carefully. We've investigated the purch- procedures and records," he said, ier re- "T? our knowledge we have retamed ceived what we ordered." The president of a Kentucky ing al- coai company with whom the utilwere jjy does business has been interir rail- viewed twice by SLED agents, the r said. newspaper reported. I Sanabout Clyde E. Goins, president of former Great Western Coal Inc. in Harlen nvesti- County, Ky., said SLED asked him thical if he was aware of any kickbacks that went to any high-ranking Sanand I tee Cooper officials. He said he be a knew of none. ions in state land, voluntary conservation has helped, said Gloria Farmer of the Beech Island Water District. "It has relieved our problem," she said. "We were hoping we would not have to get into this thing of policing. But we're just hoping for some rain." On Hilton Head, a lot of water is used to irrigate the island's 25 golf courses, Gainer said. "The utility companies have facilities built to handle the routine, normal situation. Because of the big surge in demand for water, their facilities have been taxed pretty heavily," he said. Lou Mazur/The Gamecock nds! cipants practice their tosses Tuesday. >m around the state are attending the