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SiisvT MB II I Area handbell choirs love to make 'a joyful vjr 1 1 i 1 1 I. I I 17 is customers to see gas bills climb ppxl-by $4 a month. 8B Blue Jays win Game 3-1 lead. 8A Serving Orangeburg and surrounding counties for 111 years oad show takes unique turns Calhoun school board chairman announces change in procedures i I Time to go President George Bush looks at his watch as he prepares to head for his campaign train after having breakfast at the Waffle House in Spartanburg, S.C., Wednesday morning. Shown are (from left): Jesse Martin, Marvin Bush, President Bush and Scott Cromer.

(AP Photo) I 1 ft 1 By NANCY COLEMAN WOOTEN Staff Writer ST. MATTHEWS, S.C. -Apparently, the children aren't the only ones being educated in Calhoun County schools. Michael Moss, chairman of the Calhoun County School District Board of Trustees, says alcohol will no longer be purchased by the district, that board committee meetings will hereafter be held in the district office, and that he is asking for a study to be made of appropriate reimbursement to board members. Moss, the board and Superintendent Ernest W.

"Bucky" Stokes have been openly criticized by local citizens concerning the board's payment of a $55 per diem for a relatively large number of committee meetings, for meeting during lunch hours at Orangeburg County restaurants with the district picking up the tab, and, most recently, for the school's purchases of alcohol and a plane ticket to California for Stokes' wife. The expenses came to light after local activist Pamela Phillips made several Freedom of Information requests to the board. "Hindsight is always 2020, A Clinton pans for gold; President: So this duck walks into a bar and Two board candidates ready for election, but seat may not exist long Michael Moss but if Dr. Stokes had had the advantage of hindsight, in my opinion he may have handled it (the purchase of alcohol) differently," Moss said Wednesday. "If we had known about it, I know the board would have handled it differently." Moss said that he had not known about the liquor purchases until Jeff Reid, owner of Reid's liquors, called him last summer to ask if the board approved.

Please see Change, 6A the justice department." Felder still thinks the county would have been better served if the election had been postponed in court Monday. "It would have been so much better for the schools and the people if we could have quietly gone on until we could get the board plan submitted and approved," he said. Lewis Lanier, attorney for the Calhoun County School District Board, went to the Court of Common Pleas at the Charleston County Courthouse Monday to ask Judge James Edward Lockemy to enjoin the Calhoun County Election Commission from having the school board election. Lockemy ruled that only a federal judge would have the authority to do that, saying that delaying the election would require interpretation of the federal Voting Rights Act. Ott, Moss and Felder all said Please see Candidates, 6A By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent SPARTANBURG, S.C.

The Waffle House was too irresistible a gimmick for President Bush to pass up. Then it turned into the Riddle House. When Bush sat down for breakfast at the Waffle House restaurant Wednesday, it was supposed to underline his claim that Bill Clinton takes both sides of every issue and that he shouldn't be allowed to turn the White House into the Waffle House. Get it? Bush and his son Marvin took two seats at the counter and were served scrambled eggs, bacon, waffles, syrup and coffee. Bush loaded the butter on his waffle, drank most of his milk and ignored the eggs.

"This is just like the Clinton White House," spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. "They have a limited menu and they cook it all different ways." After watching the president from a booth, a mid-fortyish man with shoulder-length blond hair, dressed in jeans and a plaid lumberjack-style jacket, and two women less than half his age approached the president. The man, AC. Wilson, showed Bush Please see President, 6A Y'" --iru, i' -i' By NANCY COLEMAN WOOTEN Staff Writer ST. MATTHEWS, S.C.

The two candidates for chairman of the Calhoun County School District Board of Trustees are poised to run for the election, but the seat may be abolished if Rep. John Felder gets to decide the issue. Michael Moss, chairman of the board, and former board member Harry Ott are scheduled to face one another in the race Nov. 3, but Felder said Wednesday that he would be inclined to do away with the at-large seat of chairman when the Legislature is asked to approve the school district lines. "Also, if a private citizen or group protested the election in a federal court," Felder said, "I'm satisfied that the court would rule that the election should be delayed pending approval of the lines by the state legislature and Bush slams Localstate 1B Markets 8B News at-a-glance 3A Polly's Pointers 6B Sports 8-1 OA Theaters 12A TV-Entertainment 11 -1 2A Weather 3A Deaths Master Travis Omar Brown -Bowman, S.C.

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1 lT'lt)Hnaint I X' readiness By DAVID ESPO AP Political Writer Bill Clinton panned for electoral gold in the West on Wednesday, offering traditionally Republican voters a "new Democratic party" rather than the tax-and-spend habits of the past. Presij dent Bush likened his young rival to a "struggling Little League manager" not ready for the Oval Office. His presidency in peril, Bush was asked point blank if anyone had told him his re-election race was already lost. "Not anybody I trust," he replied to his CNN interviewer. "Not anyone I trust," he added with emphasis.

With less than two weeks re-, maining until Election Day, -it wasn't so much what the candi-; dates said that counted; it was where they said it. Clinton's chartered jet was touching down in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana as he bid for victory in a region of the country that has voted Republican each year since 1964. By contrast, Bush had his ticket punched aboard a chartered train across North Carolina, a state Republicans usually have locked up in the race for the White House. Ross Perot was back home in Texas, pursuing his independent Please see Clinton, 6A Weather Thursday, sunny. High in the middle 70s.

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See for yourself the results classified can bring. Call 536-4607 or 533-5533. Thumbs up! President George Bush gives a thumbs up as he boards his campaign train in Spartanburg, S.C., Wednesday morning en route to Gastonia, N.C. (AP Photo) Three vie for the Senate seat vacated by Lourie's retirement This is the seventh story in a series of articles about candidates and issues in Orangeburg area election races. a runoff.

Neither Johnny Jackson nor Brooks had primary opposition. Bill Brooks Loune, the Senate majority leader, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1964 and to the Senate in 1972. He is retiring to launch a 1994 campaign for lieutenant governor. By TUCKER LYON Government Writer Whatever your political persuasion, the race to fill the District 21 Senate seat, held since 1973 by retiring Sen. Isadore Lourie, has something for everyone.

Democrat Darrell the Richland Electiony92 I i. 1 mm. Four sections Today's Times and Democrat has four sections: The A and news and sports sections, an eight-page ServiStar supplement and a two-page Little Caesar's supplement. Subscribers not receiving all sections should call 536-1812. Index Ann Landers 6B Astro-Graph 6B Bridge 6B Business 8B Classified 9-1 2B Comics 7B Crossword puzzle 6B Dear Abby 6B Deaths 2B Editorials 7A Health 6B 'flit Darrell Jackson County school board member who won big in the August primary, will face Republican John L.

"Johnny" Jackson, a Richland County businessman, and Calhoun County Libertarian Bill Brooks in the Nov. 3 general election. Darrell Jackson, who received 5,322 votes in the Democratic primary, won a decisive victory over Julius Murray (2,462 votes) and Sam Linton (853 votes) to avoid Buoyed by his strong showing in the primary, Darrell Jackson says he's most proud of the black and white support he generated. "A lot of Democratic politicians never thought Td generate the type of white support in Calhoun County. The Republicans usually didn't offer a candidate.

The premise was whites don't support black Please see Senate, 5A John Jackson.