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" 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."
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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
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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
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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