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2B. SDxe CTmwillf Now greenville piedmont. Sunday May 22, 1988 Mother oi inn 1 '9 Tl Tl mi Confusion angers fans seeking tickets for Baryshnikov cumcuii; says wai case is asked to call 223-4389. The reward, which was initiated by County Councilman Tuck Wooten, includes private donations and $1,000 from Greenwood County. Contributions to the "Malakia Zali Logan Fund" are still being accepted at The County Bank in Greenwood, which is handling the account, Riley said.

Authorities continued Saturday to track down leads on a man they are looking for in connection with the case. Authorities are searching for a man they now say was probably driving a 1981 faded dark blue or black Chevrolet Monte Carlo. The man is described as 35 to 40 years old with blond or light brown, medium-length hair, By Bob Piazza Staff writer More than 100 people were turned away from the ticket window at Greenville Memorial Auditorium on Saturday morning after tickets sold out for the Mikhail Baryshnikov ballet performance in Spartanburg July 13. No more than 18 of the 200 or more people who were in line for the tickets were able to get them, said Clifford "Chip" Gray, spokesman for the auditorium. People in the crowd were angered because their credit cards were not accepted and because ticket sellers had to make a telephone call to the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium every time a sale was made.

The telephone lines at the Spartanburg auditorium were tied up and only about four calls got through from the Greenville auditorium before the performance was sold out, Gray said. Tickets could be bought in blocks as large as 12. People in line produced newspaper clippings stating credit cards would be accepted. "But it says right here that 'Only MasterCard, Visa or cash will be exclaimed one person in the crowd. "How can they do that?" Gray said the message from the Spartanburg auditorium Saturday morning was not to accept credit cards, and he pointed out that the Greenville auditorium was simply an outlet for the other facility, that it was not the host auditorium.

"There wasn't a thing we could do," he said. "We sold tickets as long as they were available. And we were just as disappointed as the people were they didn't get tickets." Baryshnikov, a world renowned ballet star, will showcase his talents in Spartanburg in a single performance that includes three ballets. Brenda W. Bruce contributed to this story By Daniel Dighton Greenwood bureau GREENWOOD The mother of an 8-year-old Greenwood County girl missing since last Sunday said it is the sleepless nights and not knowing anything about her child's whereabouts that have been the hardest for her during the past week.

"If it weren't for the nights, I'd be all right," Bemetta Logan said Saturday. Her daughter Malakia, or "Kia" as she usually is called, was last seen on the evening of May 15 riding her bicycle near her home at Georgetown Apartments just north of Greenwood. Mrs. Logan said she has not been able to get more than one or two hours of sleep a night over Show time mmMM iffi jfij- kf Life Mt mm izu Garrison's attendance blasted by challenger Senator says figures misleading fwSI PBeIP lip WfB yrsl ffllirJt dfcy' 1 rAAvl ft iT? 1 rrtld 111 1 1trm xr! Obi Eig is the past week. "It is the waiting and not knowing anything" that make it so bad, she said, adding that she just wished she would get a phone call that would let her know her daughter is all right.

Mrs. Logan also said she wanted to thank the community for a reward fund that has been established for her daughter. According to Maj. Sam Riley of the Greenwood County Sheriff's Department, a "$2,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the recovery of Malakia Zali Logan and the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for her disappearance." Anyone with information in the Thurmond joins birthday celebration PICKENS U.S. Sen.

Strom Thurmond, took time out Saturday to wish a lifelong Pickens County resident a happy 85th birthday. Elmer Willis, a former County Council member and former county supervisor, was toasted by family and friends at a reception at Pickens Junior High School. "Mr. Willis has had a lot of experience, and in every position he has filled he has done well," Thurmond told the audience of about 60 people. Willis was police chief of Pickens from 1949 to 1951, when he went to work for the county supervising the roads and prison systems, said Elizabeth Hayes, his granddaughter.

a 1 I Malakia Logan Missing since May 15 which may have bleached suns-treaks. He has a light complexion and a thin face. Authorities have not been able to account for the man, who was seen in the vicinity of Georgetown Apartments about the time Kia was last seen. A massive air and ground search by the Greenwood County Sheriff's Department, the State Law Enforcement Division, and the FBI has turned up nothing. Photo by Herb Reeves died Saturday after his motorcycle collided with a car six miles east of Ninety Six in Greenwood County.

Clarence Dorn, of 310C Walker died at Self Memorial Hospital, said Highway Patrol Trooper J. L. Reese Jr. Dorn was pronounced dead at Self Memorial Hospital at 4:26 p.m., said nursing supervisor Susan Creswell. A passenger on the motorcycle, James Eugene Moore, 22, of Greenwood, was treated and released from the hospital, Creswell said.

James D. Kirby, 73, and Marion S. Kirby, 70, both of 105 North-wood Road, Greenwood, were in the car and were taken to the hospital, Reese said. Marion S. Kirby was treated and released from the hospital, Creswell said.

James D. Kirby was in the emergency Saturday evening and would probably be admitted, Creswell said. The Swingin' Medallions entertain the crowds at the sixth Pride of the Piedmont Jubilee with music of the 50s and 60s in Laurens Saturday. The four-day festival is scheduled to end Sunday at the Laurens County Park. Investigations under way in sub mishap lieve.

"I think they're wrong," said Garrison. "I've been there as often as the average senator has." Garrison, who is chairman of the Senate Education Committee, said attendance figures can be misleading, because legislative responsibilities can pull members away from the floor. "If somebody comes down from my hometown and wants me to do something for them, I'll leave," said Garrison, "but I've been there every day this year but one." Garrison, who is a member of the University of South Carolina Board of Trustees, said his only absence from Columbia this year was to attend a recent USC board meeting in Aiken. Committee assignments also require travel away from Columbia from time to time while the Senate is in session, he said. However, Garrison did say he missed Friday's session because he returned home Thursday night thinking the Senate had completed its week's work.

This year's records show Garrison present at 75 percent of quorum calls and 81 percent of roll call votes, an average attendance of 80 percent, said Senate Education Committee director of research Dr. Jo Anne Anderson. Mullinax, 42, questions Garrison's effectiveness as a proponent of state education and says the senator has been the main sponsor of only six bills which have emerged as state law in the past four years. Garrison, however, said those figures are also misleading, and they exclude bills of his which later emerged as committee bills. Current legislation of which Garrison is the senior author and that are awaiting the governor's signature include a tuition grant bill for non-profit schools, the sex education bill, and a bill pertaining to qualifications for the state's college education majors, said Ms.

Anderson. Also pending in the House is a bill sponsored by Garrison to provide state tax relief for school dis-tricts feeling the pinch from appeals of tax assessments. take was a typing error. Littlejohn said he found "that there has been no prejudice resulting to the plantiffs." As for the April 7 board meeting, Littlejohn said that it was held in anticipation of an April 8 meeting with the Bush River Planning Committee to present points of agreement and disagreement between the two groups, and not to take any official action. "Under the Freedom of Information Act in effect at the time," he wrote, "the matter was one which could have been considered in an executive session.

"Whila I cannot find that the School Baord has meticulously complied with all the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, I do find that they have not willjully or intentionally violated the Act," he By Robert Bonier Anderson bureau ANDERSON State Sen. T. Ed Garrison has a poor attendance record in the Legislature that has diluted Anderson County's political strength in state politics, according to his challenger in the June 14 Democratic primary-Anderson lawyer Mike Mulli-nax says the veteran legislator has missed one-third to nearly three-fourths of key Senate votes in recent years. Garrison says those figures are misleading, and that he has recovered from health problems that caused him to miss a number of days in the legislative sessions of 1985 and 1987. Moreover, Garrison, who is emphasizing his seniority in the race against Mullinax, says that he has authored significant legis-lation in recent legislative sessions.

Mullinax, who is challenging Garrison in the Democratic primary for the Senate District 3 seat, said data pulled from the South Carolina Senate Journal shows that Garrison missed from 41 percent to 73 percent of roll call votes and quorum calls in 1985 and 1987, and 36 percent of roll call votes and quorum calls this year. "These (counts) are all taken when an issue is being debated," said Mullinax. "I think the figures speak for themselves. I'd pledge to be there when the rolls are called and votes are taken." The absentee marks claimed by Mullinax were highest in 1985 58 percent and 1987 73 percent both years in which Garrison said he suffered from bouts of depression that forced him to return home from Columbia. Garrison, 66, said Friday his use of medication has prevented any recurrence of depression, which kept him away from the Senate last year for four weeks.

The medication has allowed him to perform productively without any ill effects, he said. He acknowledged lengthy absences in 1985 and 1987, but he said he found Mullinax's charges of 33 percent absenteeism in 1984 and 41 percent in 1986 hard to be public disclosure of activities taking place at (board) meetings." In his decision, dated May 12, Littlejohn noted that the change of locations resulted from efforts to accommodate large crowds expected to appear, and "with one exception, there was no testimony that adequate notice was not given to the (local) newspaper by school officials. That exception was the school board's notice of the April 28 meeting, which erroneously gave April 23, a Thursday, as the meeting date. School board meetings are regularly held on the fourth Tuesday of each month. "The defendants (the School Board) cannot be held responsible for an error by the (local) newspaper unless they in some way contributed to that error," Littlejohn wrote.

A school official said the mis The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Navy is conducting two investigations into the fire and explosion aboard the Bonefish, and both are to be completed in a few weeks, U.S. Rep. Arthur Ravenel One investigation, by the Navy judge advocate general, is consid-; ering all aspects of the accident aboard the Charleston-based sub- marine, Ravenel told the Wash- ington bureau of The News and I Courier of Charleston. The second probe is being con-" ducted by a Navy accident investigation team, which is made up of experts from various naval commands. That investigation is looking at technical matters related to the accident and will report to the judge advocate general, Charleston Naval Base spokesman Lt.

Cmdr. John Tull said. The fire and explosion damaged the submarine April 24 during an exercise in Florida. In 1964, he was elected county supervisor, a position he held for 10 years, she said. In 1975, he was elected to the County Council and served for four years.

Starr woman dies in car, train mishap A Starr woman died Saturday after her car was struck by a freight train on Secondary Road 971 in Anderson County, authorities said. Catherine C. Caldwell, 56, of Route 1, was traveling south on the road about 10:25 a.m. when her car collided with the train, said Anderson County Deputy Coroner Sam Martin. Ms.

Caldwell died at 1:51 p.m. at Anderson Memorial Hospital, Martin said. He said an autopsy would be performed. Motorcycle, car accident kills man A 24-year-old Greenwood man project, which received overwhelming public approval during an advisory referendum on May 10, will come from community block grant money over a three-year period. Those funds will include $89,160 out of the 1988 budget that will be discussed at the public hearing.

Judge dismisses suit against board Redevelopment authority sets hearing on federal block grant By Herb Reeves Laurens bureau NEWBERRY A suit charging the Newberry County Board of Education with violations of the state Freedom of Information Act has been dismissed by retired state Supreme Court Chief Justice Bruce Littlejohn. The suit was filed by the Bush River Planning Committee, a group formed to support the rebuilding of the Bush River Elementary School. The school's main building burned to the ground Jan. 19, 1987. The suit charged the board with violating the Freedom of Information Act by holding an unadvertised board meeting on April 7, 1987 to discuss the fate of the school.

It also claimed that the board changed meeting sites at the last minute without public notification or adequate publicity, in an attempt "to hinder and suppress By Anne Perry Greer bureau GREER The Greenville County Redevelopment Authority has scheduled a public hearing Tuesday in Greer to seek comments on the proposed $364,374 in federal community block grant money and income account the city will receive for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. The proposed uses for the grant and income money have been divided as follows: For Central Business District improvements, a total of $121,337 has been proposed with $89,160 for streetscape improvements; for planning; $12,133 for admi-nistration; and $1,544 for contingencies. For neighborhood improvements, a total of $243,037 has been proposed. Of that amount, $77,431 would be used for housing rehabilitation in the Victor Mill village; $76,000 for street improvements in Victor Mill village; $24,303 for administration; $24,303 for contingencies; $20,000 for sidewalks in the East Greer Elementary School area; $10,000 for drainage improvements at Drummond Village; $10,000 for code enforcement; and $1,000 for clearance.

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