The Herald from Rock Hill, South Carolina • 21

Comics ix Crossword Ate Classifieds Tbs Zsrcfd Tuesday March 2 1993 Ufaityiaa edRor Jane Outo 3294077 1 Disabled couple live -as age-assembly workshop and then return home to an hour of and of or They are happy They love each other and it is their love that helps diem overcome die challenges they face every Indeed die Lees try not to let their disabilities get in die way of their Inside track By PAT FITZGERALD HmldRMtyfiiwttar they settled into in die beginning I was opposed to the says Seon Ki Kim 62 Chong father speaking through interpreter Bonnie Kim who counsels die IfW mostly I was worried that Chang Han would change his mind about Chong Mi because her physical handicap prevents her from doing many things especially house chores But then I saw how much Chang Han loves I look at them sometimes I get frustrated because of their says In Sung Lee 53 Chang oldest sister we have managed to overlook that We know that Chong Mi and Chang Han are not lonely By MICHAEL QUMTANLLA las Angdis Hsus LOS ANGELES Wrapped in each other's amu Chang Han and Chong Mi Lee view a videotape of a wedding dial supposed to be Han says I am his says Chong Mi as she watches herself in a pun of white lace sitting in a wheelchair pushed by her groom handsome in a tuxedo Yes says Chang Han are like a modern-day Romeo and talking about a suicide pact die Lees say they would have carried out if their parents had not allowed diem to live their wedding two years ago They love each other and It Is their love that helps them overcome the challenges they face every day Sung Lee Han's oldest sister The families concerned because Chong Mi 28 has cerebral palsy and Chang Han 36 is mentally retarded had vehemently opposed the marriage But after Chang Han said he would slash his wrists and Chong Mi said she also would kill herselfi the families agreed to support the couple of JhangKee Korean chess they have built a life without die safety nets once provided by families and counselors says Chang Han' are Two years ago die Lees were secretly married in a civil ceremony at Los Angeles City HalL After they told their parents trouble erupted Chong Mi's parents vowed to move her to Las fegas Nev to keep die couple apart Chang father expressed disgust- LOVEfeagatt their own place moving away from an apartment complex designed for die disabled and supervised by counselors where they lived for almost a year after their marriage Now in their one-bedroom apartment they share household chores he does the laundry she handles the cooking they both pitch in with the cleaning Tbgether they work at a pack- She left with art The last thing JQl Swafford left die Inn Homeless Shelter on Sun- day was to pay diem back What used to be a dingy wall at the daycare center is now a dehghtnil prehistoric scene complete with Barney die dino and his sidekick Baby Bop of TV fame The dinos and a couple of smiling trees with big inviting eyes are products of imagination and paint brash Kids stop every morning touching the mouths and eyes like says center assistant director Amy Sexton looks like going to bite diem" She and Open Arms Child 'v I II 11 v- f- A PBP ThtVMtambuaxhfl3ftl bonlwtd by wfet md omn bunkers barracks and a hospital hsflcoptsratrivsr prtroi boat and i mortar posMon "'S' director Kim Waldron wanted to spruce up the 'and I to help "I told them if they bought the paint" Jill says Td do it" Jill 25 wants to be an ait teacher andstudiedartin school and the Uhiversity of California at Riverside but when tuition junmed 70 per- cent she had to (frop ouL Then she got a divorce and things in LA went from bad to worse In December she and her fiance landed in Rock Hill near his hometown and she and her two children found refiige at die Homeless Shelter run by Inn "Thanks to being here" fill! says are falling into She wants to take her career a step father and study how art is used as therapy for emotionally disturbed children Inn helped her enrollinYork Ttechnical College and gave her a place to live while she job hunts At the shelter she sketched to pass the TYish 111111 ents Tbe mural project took 25 hours from peeling off oki wallpaper and preparing the: walls to painting the hpy scene contributing some- 1 dung" says Jill who is on the vergeof getting a retail job owe them far too much This is only a small portion" Snippets Clover amateur photographer and freelance artist Libby Draffin turned her artistic eye into prize at Mount Patriots Point entitled South will give the public a more accurate idea of how die war was fought and more than that how it was lived The one-acre 1 true-to-scale exhibit which took three years to create was dedicated Rb 20 Retired Gen William West-moreland USA was in 1 attendance It shows the living conditions and operations areas once used by Vietnam naval base veterans die Brown Water Navy Rock roll music plays from observation tower speakers just as it did during the war Some other Medivac helicopter UH1M gunship helicopter indoor displays artifacts and authentic weapons 7 Some items are personal belongings donated by Westmoreland and retired Adm Ehntl Zumwalt Jr USN the two men in charge of our armed forces for most of the United combat involvement in Vietnam Sturgis mentions James Elliott Williams barn in Rock Hill who received the Congressional Medal of Honor is today die most decorated man in naval Williams along with Sturgis served on the riverboats in South Vietnam but at different times Sturgis adds that the base exhibit is dedicated to Williams and the so-called Brown Water Navy per- sonnel In 1966 the US Navy became involved in die interior of South By DEBORAH SAME Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum deputy curator Buddy Sturgis formerly of Rock Hill served Vietnam from 1969 to 197a During his tour he says he saw nothing resembling Beach" or He knew no one like who could save scores of pris- oners of war with a few weapons and a lot of muscles TV and the movies have detracted from history he says tiling I have trouble with is so many of die movies and screenplays show one man taking on 50 people If that was so we didn't need as many troops We wouldn't have had nearly as many casualties" Sturgis hopes that a new exhibit 1 Vietnam supporting ground troops and counter-insurgency operations throughout the vast network of waterways The main goal of the naval operation called the Brown Water Navy because they at sea was to block movement of supplies while keeping die Vietcong from South Vietnam Nicknamed by Westmoreland these naval fere groups operated from a of strategically located camps' Much of the work chugging between two banks of jungle or paddies Though many times coming under fire the support bases were relatively secure areas for the wardens rir So far as Sturgis knows this is die only exhibit in the country that so wartime! fined with a memorial he adds of the 1 accoutrements include a 31 -foot river patrol boat ammunition bunker combat information center 24-foot gun and observation tower Looking back lasf fall on a family trip to mountains She spotted a huge rainbow in the clearing rain at 'Rock Park and out her camera was so she says way above us and coming tkwn all die way to the ground! below She oerense replacing Robert McNa- Looking back Is a weekly feature In which wo bring a Mt of history to our by scouring news pages of the The following la a look at what the week of Feb 21 through Winthrop to be converted to a dry-The information until die meeting were filed in dty public records this week Hie proposal The Good a wu body contested Shop hu long been Run Bentley a producer for Walter Gronldtcrs evening news broadcast on CBS wu struck by mortar fragments while filming attacks on Khe Sanh Vietnam He wu evacuated to the Naval Hospital at Da Nang where a rocket attack put shrapnel in his belly No report on his condition Four of the five South Carolina winners of a NASA-sponsored science project contest are from Rock HiTL Guy Guy Puxsley Old South black people and other minorities His books include Friends: The Pennsylvania Anti-War and Rights Odyssey He collaborated on County: A Pictorial which should be published this fell You can get good price on an IV pole morgue table or oral suction unit at me three-day auction taking place at the recently dosed York General Hospital SgL Linda Beckham York native is in command of the US Army Recruitment Station on Charlotte Avenue Rock Hill Beckman who used to be a drill some strenuous disapproval tram at least four people who appeared before the city council The council has decided to table the plan a little while PTL has taken building permits to construct a hotel about four miles north of Fort Mill The Christian retreat area saw a groundbreaking last week for new television studios The hotel will have at least 96 units and 32432 square feet and cost as much as $1 million 25 years ago (1968) A 4000-man brigade of the US 82nd Airborne Division arrives in Vietnam to bolster allied efforts in a war now characterized by renewed jungle fighting and continued Communist pressure on Saigon Clark Clifford becomes ninth secretary of ajphoto in the photography contest Her shot won die $50 fourth prize and lots of pride Rock Hill musicians had ilanned to serenade Walter Roberts at Westminster Tbwers on his 100th birthday Thursday but when he passed away Saturday they made a special tribute The York County Choral Society sang Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place" for the former Winthrop College music dean's memorial service on Monday 10 years ago (1983) York County Manager Gene Kuril calls home from a meeting of the National Association of Counties in Washington DG He says the federal revenue sharing program looks like it will be extended for up to five years If it York Cninty stands to lose $800000 right off the bat The final airs on 1 Arnold Shankman 37 an historian at Winthrop College dies at Piedmont Medical Center American history was his field and he specialized in the history of die cpwde or Snow and rain give some relief from dangerously dry conditions but then within a couple of days two Chester County fires and five York County fires destroy aeons of acres of woodlands and scrub 1 President Lyndon commission on the nation's race riots blames much cm racism and poverty and calls for creating 2 million fobs 6 million housing units and better shim schools Critics reply tint money will not solve LOONNOfeagaSC Whisonant Bob Randall and John Parkinson will go with teachers Evelyn Oates and Ollie Mu Blakely to Langley Research Center in Hampton It turns out that the Rock Hill Zoning Board of Adjustments decided in an unannounced Feb 13 meeting to allow The Good instructor more recently trained other soldiers to be drill Plans to give York's historic district some control over the structures in it have prompted 1 a.