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STATE
Tupperware Corp. to
lay off 250 workers
HEMINGWAY — Tupperware Corp.
will lay off nearly half its workforce
when it moves work to other plants to
save money, company officials say.
About 250 of the plant’s 515 workers
were told Friday of the layoff, said
company spokeswoman Jane Garrard.
Those employees will work until early
March.
About 30 employees are eligible for
voluntary retirement packages and the
company will offer career transition
services to laid-off employees, company
officials said.
Williamsburg County had the state’s
second-highest unemployment rate at
17.5 in November.
Community mourns
loss of councilwoman
GREENWOOD — A former
McCormick County councilwoman, her
husband and two children have died in a
plane crash in Greenwood County,
authorities said.
Robin Strom, her husband James
and their children . Bradley, 11, and
Brittney, 15, died Friday night when
their small plane went down in a densely
wooded area near Bradley, Coroner Jim
Coursey said.
The four-seat Piper PA-28 was
heading to Greenwood from
McCormick when it crashed near U.S.
Highway 221 and state Highway 10,
about 200 yards off the road, Coursey
said.
NATION
Submarine wrecks
near Guam, kills one
HONOLULU — A nuclear submarine
that ran aground about 350 miles south
of Guam, killing one crewman and
injuring 23 others, was due back at its
home port in Guam on Monday,
according to a Navy spokesman.
There were no reports of damage to
the USS San Francisco’s reactor plant,
but the extent of damage to the 360-foot
submarine would be determined when it
gets to port, said Jon Yoshishige,
spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
The vessel was moving under its own
power.
Record snowfall hits
the Sierra Nevada
RENO, Nev. — Areas of the Sierra
Nevada, famous for paralyzing amounts
of snowfall, have been hit with a
dumping like they haven’t seen in
generations.
The string of moisture-laden storms
has dropped up to 19 feet of snow at
elevations above 7,000 feet since Dec.
2$ and 6 1/2 feet at lower elevations in
the Reno area. Meteorologists said it was
the most snow the Reno-Lake Tahoe
area has seen since 1916.
Storms also have caused flooding in
Southern California and Arizona, deadly
avalanches in Utah and ice damage and
flooding in the Ohio Valley.
WORLD
16 militants charged
with plotting terror
AMMAN, Jordan —Jordan charged 16
Islamic militants on Sunday with plotting
terror attacks, including strikes against the
U.S. and Israeli embassies in Amman.
The suspected cell members were
detained between August and
September, but details about the
allegations against them, surfaced only
after they were charged at the office of
Jordan’s military prosecutor. One of the
suspects remains at large.
No details were available on how the
men were arrested or how the plots were
foiled.
Iranian leader urges
torture investigation
TEHRAN, IRAN — Iran’s president
called Sunday for an investigation into
journalists’ allegations they were
tortured into confessing to charges such
as insulting sacred beliefs and
endangering national security after
publishing articles critical of
conservatives in the government.
About 20 journalists from print,
Internet and other media outlets have
been detained in Iran since a crackdown
on the pro-reform press was launched in
September. Several of those journalists
told a presidential commission last
m$yith that they were tortured.
’ BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nemcova
recovering
in Prague
hospital
PRAGUE, Czech Republic —
Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova,
injured in the Asian tsunami, has
returned to Prague for further
treatment, a news agency reported.
Nemcova, who appeared on the
cover of the 2003 Sports Illustrated
swimsuit issue, was vacationing in
Thailand with her boyfriend,
photographer Simon Atlee, when the
waves swept through their beach
hut. She reportedly clung to a tree
for eight hours as the water swirled
around her.
Atlee, 33, a well-known fashion
photographer, remains missing.
Nemcova had been recovering
from her injuries, including a broken
pelvis, in a Thai hospital. She arrived
in Prague on Saturday and was to be
hospitalized there for at least a few
days, the CTK news agency said.
Nemcova, 25, has appeared in
magazines . including Sports
Illustrated, Marie Claire and Vogue,
and also has modeled for Victoria’s
Secret.
Singers perform to
raise tsunami relief
AUSTIN, Texas — For Willie
Nelson, picking and singing to raise
money for relief efforts from the
Asian tsunami is a natural gesture.
“There really are a lot of people
who would like to do something,”
Nelson said. “We’re glad to offer
those people opportunities to help
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Willie Nelson performs at a
sold-out fundraiser in support
of tsunami victims.
out in different ways.”
The Austin Music Hall
performance Sunday by Nelson and
others sold out* in less than seven
hours, generating $75,000 for the
Red Cross, UNICEF and CARE.
The event joins a slate of concerts
organized around the world,
including New York City, India,
Australia and the United Kingdom.
Grammy-winning singer Gloria
EStefan announced plans to raise
$ 100,000 at a concert next month at
Donald Trump’s exclusive Mar-A
Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.
Trump allocated 100 tickets to be
sold at $1,000 apiece, with proceeds
going to the Gloria Estefan
Foundation, which will earmark the
money to the relief fund.
Performers at the Austin concert
include Kelly Willis and Bruce
Robison, the Joe Ely Band, Patty
Griffin, Alejandro Escovedo, Ray
Price and Spoon.
Michael Hall, a local musician
and Texas Monthly writer who
Monday, January 10, 2005
“Not everybody is going to
like what you’re doing and
people are going to have
criticism and sometimes it’s
hard not to take their
opinions personally.”
SIERRA MACHADO
BASSIST IN GUITAR SHOW, ON BEING IN A
BAND
MOVING BACK IN
JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMEC.OCK
Katherine Harris, left, a first-year exercise science student, and Jessica Newman, first-year
psychology student unpack for their Spring semester in Patterson.
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suggested the idea to Nelson, said so
many people wanted to perform that
he was “beating people off with a
stick.”
“People want do it because they
want to be part of something. They
see something so horrible and want
to be pan of something to make it
less horrible,” he said.
Connick Jr. to star
in Broadway show
NEW YORK — Harry Connick
Jr., the crooning heartthrob and jaz2
stylist, will star next season in a
Broadway revival’ of “The Pajama
Game,” one of the musical theater’s
biggest hits of the 1950s.
Connick will play the role
originated in 1954 by John Raitt,
according to Jeffrey Richards, a co
producer of the revival. Richards
called Connick “an actor of
enormous charisma and skill, a
wonderful singer and a bona fide
star.”
1 he performer, best known these
days for his role as Leo, the
duplicitous husband on television’s
“Will & Grace,” will begin
rehearsals after Labor Day. The
musical will open sometime in
November, Richards said Saturday.
“The Pajama Game,” which has a
score by Richard Adler and Jerry
Ross,.tells the story of labor unrest
in an Iowa pajama factory and the
romantic involvement between the
plant supervisor (the role Connick
will play) and a union activist,
portrayed in the original by Janis
Paige.
No other casting has been
announced, although Richards said
the production will be directed and
choreographed by Kathleen
Marshall, represented on Broadway
by “Wonderful Town.”
Adler is writing two new songs
for the score, which includes such
hits as “Hey There,” “Small Talk,”
“Steam Heat” and “Hernando’s
Hideaway.” The original book by
George Abbott and Richard Bissell
will be revised by playwright Peter
Ackerman, who co-wrote the
screenplay for the movie “Ice Age.”
Connick appeared on Broadway
with his band in 1990, and he wrote
the score for “Thou Shalt Not,” a
musical based on Emile Zola’s novel
“Therese Raquin,” transplanted
from France to New Orleans. It had
a three-month run on Broadway in
2001.
Comedian gets star
on Hollywood walk
LOS ANGELES — Comedian
Soupy Sales, who once said a pie in
the eye was worth two in the sky,
saw his proclivity for pie-tossing pay
off with a star on Hollywood’s Walk
of Fame.
“I appreciate this from the
bottom of my heart, and I
appreciate you all coming here in
the rain,” Sales, who was seated in a
wheelchair, said Friday.
The rain forced the ceremony to
be held inside the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel, with Hollywood’s
honorary mayor, Johnny Grant,
setting up the 79-year-old comic’s
classic schtick.
Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis
Jr. had pies thrown in their face by
Soupy Sales and 1 want to belong to
that club,” Grant said. He then got
down within Sales’ reach and took a
pie in the face.
The star was the walk’s 2,274th.
Celebrities attending included actor
Peter Marshall and actress Nancy
Allen.
Sales, whose given name is
Milton Supman, was born in North
Carolina. He got his start as a radio
scriptwriter and standup comic,
going on to host immensely popular
local children’s shows in Cincinnati,
Detroit, New York and Los Angeles.
He also has made guest appearances
on numerous1 TV shows,
occasionally appeared in films and
twice had hit records, with the
novelty songs “The Mouse” and
“Spy With a Pie.”
Besides throwing cream pies,
Sales also takes them in the face. He
once estimated he had been hit
25,000 times.
Simmons sued by
former girlfriend
NEW YORK — A woman who
says she is a former girlfriend of
KISS rocker Gene Simmons is suing
him for slander, saying the bass
guitarist made her sound like a “sex
addicted nymphomaniac” during a
‘rockumentary” on VH-1 television.
Georgeann Walsh Ward, 53, of
Chester, N.Y., says in court papers
that a photo of her appeared 11
times during the report on KISS,
shown on the network several times
in July and August, while Simmons
claimed to have had sexual
encounters with 4,600 women.
In the documentary, “When
KISS Ruled The World,” Simmons
commented that “there wasn’t a girl
that was off limits, and I enjoyed
every one of them,” court papers say.
Ward’s papers say that because a
photo of her with Simmons was
shown during remarks about his
sexual adventures, she was in effect
portrayed as “wild” and
“unchaste.”
I he implication was tnat
(Ward) was a prostitute and/or
solicited prostitutes, and/or (she
was) a sexually loose woman,” court
papers say.
Ward, married with a 21-year
old son, said she met Simmons at a
concert in October 1972 when she
was 21. For the next three years
through fall of 1975, she says in
court papers, they were in what she
believed was “an exclusive,
monogamous, romantic
relationship.”
During much of die time they
were together, Ward’s court papers
say, Simmons was a college student
and then a sixth-grade teacher “until
the success of KISS propelled him
out of the classroom and out of
plaintiff* s life.”
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY
FIRST DAY OF CLASSES '
SPRING SEMESTER
WEDNESDAY
' THE GAMECOCK NEWSPAPER
INTEREST MEETING: Russell House
305,7 p.m.
SPJ MEMBERS MEETING: Davis
College 209, 7 p.m.
SPRING ROOM CHANGE BEGINS
THURSDAY
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS.
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON:
Colonial Center, 7 p.m.
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY OF
SERVICE FORUM
FRIDAY |
LAST DAY TO CHANGE
COURSES WITHOUT A “W”
SATURDAY
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS.
FLORIDA: Colonial Center, 2 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL vs.
TENNESSEE: Colonial Center, 7
p.m.
use BRIEFS
Newspaper to host
interest meeting
The Gamecock will hold an
' interest meeting to recruit new
writers, designers and copy editors
Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Russell
House room 305.
No experience is necessary, and
positions are open to students of all
majors.
TJie Gamecock is seeking three
paid staff writers and one paid copy
editor. The design staff is seeking
one full-time, paid designer and a
part-time designer.
Students interested in writing
columns or covering USC sports
are also encouraged to apply.
Journalist group
holds induction
The LJSC chapter of the Society of f
Professional Journalists will have its
monthly members meeting
Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Davis
College room 309.
The meeting will include a short
ceremony inducting new members
into the society, as well as an update
on the chapter’s plans for the
semester that include conferences,
workshops and professional
mentoring projects. All are
welcome.
Dodenhoff to work
in development
Michelle Dodenhoff was named
assistant vice president for
university development Friday
making her responsible for
directing and coordinating USC’s
fund-raising efforts.
Dodenhoff had 11 years of
experience working with fund
raising and outreach capacities at
Tulane University.
POLICE REPORT
Reports taken from the USC Police Department.
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Each number on
the map stands
for a crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6 a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
© Nonviolent
SATURDAY, DEC. 18
OSuspicious Activity, 500 Sumter
Street
The victim reported that someone
might have tampered with her milk,
which was left in the lounge, a common
area. The milk had a ‘sweet” taste. It was
collected as evidence.
Reporting officer: M. Weiss.
MONDAY, DEC. 20
Q Grand Larceny of Electronics,
Coker Life Sciences, 715 Sumter
Street
Someone stole a Nikon digital
camera worth $800 and a Toshiba
laptop worth $400.
Reporting officer: M Winnington.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22
©Malicious Injury to Personal
Property, Delta Zeta Sorority House,
514 Lincoln Street (Not pictured on
map)
Someone pulled the shrubbery
on the east side of the house and threw
it in the roadway. The shrubs died
when they were replanted. The shrubs
were worth $30. Total cost of plants
and labor was $96.
Reporting officer: B. Timbers.
SUNDAY, DEC. 26
©Grand Larceny of Movies, East
Quad, 1400 Blossom Street
Someone stole 39 DVDs worth
$585, 11 X-Box games worth $440, a
CD worth $20, a Nikon digital camera
worth $400 and an X-Box worth $150.
Police lifted fingerprints from the
scene.
Reporting officer: C. Knoche.
TUESDAY, JAN. 4
@ Grand Larceny of Television,
South Quad, 500 Sumter Street
Someone stole a gray, flat screen, 17
inch Tech View TV worth $1,300, as
well as a pair of red-and-bladt Nike shoes
worth $140.
Reporting officer: C. Knoche.
THURSDAY, JAN. 6
0 Clary Act/Information, 1800
Greene Street
Two victims reported to the
Columbia Police Department that they
were approached by a light-skinned
black male wearing a gray hooded
sweatshirt and robbed at gunpoint.
Both victims were unharmed.
Reporting officer: P. Jones.
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