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iTte QJtmcg anH Ucmacrat The big stories Page 4 Orangeburg, S.C., Saturday, February 15, 1997 lODAtl TftOUQMT MMI 11 WfitT 11 lr it tftirtl ane rt -PXtftttJ Greer artist wins duck stamp contest for 2nd time in 3 years NlMI.WI HU, 4) Imiemml cmairuti' Hmmm KciNmMLjUIMUlwott, iit. orrom i. iwi wamoikjm. I I ItCtlONI, Cameron Man Din In Freak Accident Orangeburg Patrolman Is Brutally Murdered Afeibrr Irtii ImkiM Milttai Me Mfaat tea: dm 1. 1 4 it'e Afr.eatir (but Ue (1 Kl I timir i.l.irl CB IM al I Irr'itt tn nfr.bi' flV.) Ml IU.Jll I Uufl flllf-W Jh (1tM Tbt debut btrlMit r.t" I'f I'M" IM twW tl tad Wntttw IMflkl lUfeifl-Mi I (talhtl tttt TM tetar.tr l't IM mn Date tetemt emit rm IM iret-iot it tun 'Me a canal, tii.illieiMi en le un ef Me pin-ntl arteieeih lb? ifl mt lire la nit fell be irucb Hit nt-4 or ike f-l atuM rvitr.

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"He really articulated them (the ducks) in flying and the colors. It's an outstanding piece of art work." The number of entries was down from 68 last year. Brazell said he really doesn't know why. But he suggested it could be that this year's painting required an unusual species of duck some artists might not have been familiar with. Revenues from the duck stamps and the sale of prints help pay for waterfowl projects around the state, Brazell said.

Since the program started in 1981, more than $4.2 million has been raised. Some of the money is used for wood duck nesting boxes and some for wetlands preservation, he said. By The Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. Greer artist Rodney Huck-aby won the South Carolina Duck Stamp competition on Friday for the second time in three years. Huckaby, whose acrylic painting of a pair of old squaw ducks flying over the water with the Cape Ro-main lighthouse in the background, also won the contest in 1995.

This year's painting was selected over 46 other entries in the competition during judging at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition. John Wilson, of Watertown, S.D., who won in 1990, placed second while last year's winner, D. J. Cleland-Hura of Redmond, was third. Paintings in the competition were required to show both the ducks and the lighthouse.

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Trez noted some people describe such events as "knobby fun games" and asked if it was a fun event. "I think it was intended to be but to me personally, it wasn't," Ms. Mentavlos replied. She said she felt like she couldn't tell anybody in authority, even a female military officer assigned to the corps, about her experiences. "All of these people were, like, connected," she said.

"So there was nobody I could go to. No matter who I went to it was like, them against me." She added she and Ms. Messer were singled out more than the other female cadets to the point that one of them, Petra Lovetins-ka, was concerned about it. "She was crying, really crying, and saying she couldn't understand why I was catching all this hell and she wasn't getting anything," the statement said. Ms.

Mentavlos also described incidents in which her T-shirt was set afire with nail polish remover and in which she and Ms. Messer were forced to stand in a metal clothes cabinet while being punched and kicked. She also told how a male cadet rubbed his body against her in formation. Another cadet saw what was happening and spoke to the male cadet. "Mentavlos, I checked that out," she said the other cadet later told her.

"He said he didn't mean anything by that so I am going to let it go." Freshmen cadets also were taken by upperclassmen to a meeting room where there was alcohol, she said. "I can remember one incident where upperclassmen came in and gave me the cup and said, "Drink this, knob'," she said. Cadets are called knobs because of their short haircuts. Ms. Mentavlos also described having to get down on her knees and sing "You've Lost That Loving Feeling to the girlfriends of a I ContinFtege 1A main at the college.

The statement was given to Commandant Joseph Trez, who will hold disciplinary hearings for cadets next week. Ms. Mentavlos also described how one male cadet, against school rules, would enter her room in the middle of the night and she would have to jump out of bed at attention. Noting she wore bicycle shorts and a T-shirt to sleep, she said the cadet "repeatedly made sexual comments about me in my span-dex shorts." She said another male cadet routinely came into her room wearing nothing but boxer shorts and flip-flops. Other male cadets entered women's rooms when the women had just returned from showers and were wearing only bathrobes, she said.

Sometimes they would enter the rooms alone, in violation of college rules. fA Ml Arrest made in 1972 slaying of patrol trooper 'Cooling off' period ordered Continued from Page 1 A Continued from Page 1 A ment: "I want to thank all those, involved who have been instrumental in working with this case. I have often thought about how I would feel if and when an arrest -took place. Now that it is a reality, all I can say is thank God, at least I can look at my parents' grave and I say I did the best I can do. And to those who knew all along, may God bless those" souls." The 1972 death of Roy Caffey: has stood as the only unsolved killing of a South Carolina law enforcement officer.

vestigation alive. His annual newspaper memorials and interviews about frustrations over not knowing who killed his father helped spark renewed interest in the case in the 1990s. With unspecified new information cited in 1993 and tips growing out of national TV exposure on "Unsolved Mysteries" in 1994, officials said there were "substantial leads" in the case. Robert Caffey became more hopeful. From his home Friday night, he issued the following state leads and looked into them." Investigators found "those leads were real hot." It is unclear when Betsy Kem-merlin became a suspect in the case, but Bailey confirmed she has been interviewed on more than one occasion.

During the 25 years since the Caffey killing, his son Robert of Orangeburg has made a life's mission of trying to keep the in For more than 2 decades, son seeks answers to killing Cities with major American operations include Dallas-Fort Worth the company's headquarters -New York, Chicago, Miami and Nashville, Tenn. Pilots want raises totaling 11 percent through 2000 and increased stock options. The company has offered 6 percent and smaller stock options. Another sticking point is who would fly smaller jets on commuter routes. A president has not acted under the railway labor law in an airline strike for more than three decades.

Clinton did become involved in American's flight attendant strike in 1993 when he asked the airline to accept binding arbitration. American had canceled most overseas flights to avoid stranding planes on foreign soil and begun canceling some domestic flights. One major dispute was over who would fly smaller jets on regional routes. The union wants its pilots to do the job and offered lower pay scales for those flights if the company accepted other demands. But American's parent company, AMR said it wants its American Eagle subsidiary, with lower-paid pilots from another union, to continue flying the commuter routes.

The average American Airlines pilot makes $120,000 a year. The average American Eagle pilot makes about $35,000 a year. Lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC'S "THIS WEEK" Topics: United Nations, with new U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson; campaign fund-raising scandals, with Sens. John McCain, and Robert Torricelli, CBS' "FACE THE NATION" -Topics: Democratic campaign fund raising and Whitewater.

Guests: Sens. Don Nickles, and Carl Levin, and Michael Chertoff, former chief counsel, Senate Whitewater Committee. NBC'S "MEET THE PRESS" Topics: District of Columbia problems and campaign finance investigations. Guests: Washington Mayor Marion Barry, Rep. Dan Burton, special associate White House Counsel Lanny Davis and New York Times columnist William Safire.

CNN'S "LATE EDITION WITH FRANK SESNO" Topic: White House scandals. Guests: Rep. Dan Burton, and Ann Lewis, White House deputy communications director. "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" Topics: Did the Chinese government try to buy its way into Democratic Party and the Clinton and guns in schools. Guests: Special associate White House Counsel Lanny Davis, Sen.

Thad Cochran, rap music artist Chuck and ACLU President Nadine Strossen. on the talks, said Clinton was acting under a 60-year-old provision of the Railroad Labor Act designed to protect the economy against labor strikes. Negotiations will continue during the 60-day "cooling off period," but the strike won't be allowed. In addition to the stranded passengers, an administration study said the strike would cost up to $200 million a day and force layoffs of 90,000 airline workers. While the pilots continued to fly, a Presidential Emergency Board appointed by Clinton will take 30 days to propose a settlement.

The parties would get another 30 days to resolve the dispute. If that doesn't work, Congress could impose a settlement. Politicians from cities with major American operations joined the airline to urge Clinton's risky eleventh-hour involvement; the union had told him to butt out. The White House announced Clinton's decision at 12:07 a.m. EST, after four days of marathon talks produced few results.

Sovich had ordered the strike only four minutes earlier. Clinton formally signed the order minutes later and appointed the three-member emergency board. This story by Staff Writer Joyce W. Milkie was published Oct. 8, 1992, the 20th anniversary of the killing of Highway Patrolman 1st Class Roy O.

Caffey. Mrs. Milkie was involved in initial coverage of Caffey's death in 1972. The 20 years since the murder of his father have been a study in frustration for Robert Caffey, who feels he has been beating his head against a stone wall in his attempts to get information from police sources as to the status of the investigation. South Carolina Highway Patrolman 1st Class Roy O.

Caffey, a highly respected and honored 25-year veteran of the SCHP, died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head the night of Oct. 8, 1972, alone, beside his patrol car on a dark stretch of Interstate 26. Robert Alan Caffey, who was 15 at the time of his father's death, lost his mother, Mrs. Mildred Caffey, only three years later. He said she died of a broken heart.

This week, on the 20th anniversary of Caffey's death, the son brought in a memorial to be published, as he has done in years past. He was willing to discuss the case. Caffey said he has about given up his attempts to learn more about the investigation. He is "tired of the frustration" and the failure to get more cooperation from the investigating officers. "It's gotten to the point where I just want to put it behind me," Caffey said.

But he doesn't know whether he can. It was, after all, his father who died, and that tragedy, he believes, led to his mother's death. Authorities, he said, have failed to keep him up to date on any of the investigation. Outside of telling him they have no new evidence, there has been little communication. "It has been a matter of "Don't call us, well call you', but they never call," Caffey said.

"I believe there was some response to my mother's questions, but she didn't tell me much about it, and since her death, I have been able to find out almost nothing. "Even today, they don't want to even look at me, or talk to me about the case." On a dark stretch of road, sometime around 11 p.m. on Oct. 8, 1972, S.C. Highway Patrolman Roy Odes Caffey, 56, was found lying beside his patrol car on Interstate 26, about a mile east of the Highway 601 interchange.

The fatally wounded officer was found by Charles Webster of Mount Pleasant about 11:20 p.m. Webster used the patrol car's radio to call for help. Caffey was taken to the then-Orangeburg Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Caffey, alive when he was found lying on the right side between the car and the highway, died en route to the hospital. Evidence at the scene indicated Caffey struggled with the person, or persons, who shot him.

Investigators said his body had wounds and bruises that would not have been caused by the gunshot wounds. There also was another gunshot wound to Caffey's thigh. Two guns were involved. All available law enforcement personnel in the area responded and an intensive search of the loca tion where the shooting occurred got under way. There was information that a truck driver passing the patrol car about 11:15 p.m.

saw Caffey putting "three hippie-type" youths into the patrol car. Later, Georgia authorities arrested two soldiers. But South Carolina authorities later said the men, who were found to be absent without leave, had no connection to the Caffey killing. A year later, Capt. J.C.

Pace, head of the Orange-; burg Patrol District at the time, said his "gut instinct" and evidence, which he said he couldn't divulge, led him to believe more than one person was involved. It also had been determined Caffey was shot with two different weapons. Pace said they had questioned the truck driver but this gave no new leads. He said they also had questioned the two soldiers and two other men apprehended in North Carolina. None could be tied into the Caffey case.

In a Dec. 16, 1973, story by former writer John Faust, Pace was asked how many leads the various law enforcement departments had tracked down. Pace laughed "a little bitterly," and responded "Every single rumor, piece of gossip, hearsay, re- port, official information has been followed through to the absolute end we've still nothing concrete." Now, Hugh Munn, spokesman for the State Law Enforcement Division, said the case definitely has not been forgotten. "The murder of Patrolman Caffey is still in our, files as an active investigation," Munn said, "but we can't keep an agent actively working on it. But if any new evidence comes up, we check it every time.

This case is still not solved, but it is definitely not forgotten." Robert Caffey life has gone on. He was graduated from The Citadel, married the former Anne McCoy and they have two children, Scott Carlyle Caffey, age 4, and Ashlyn McCoy Caffey, seven months. Caffey is an assistant vice president at. First National Bank. Told that his father surely would have been proud of him, Caffey brushed away a tear and said he now-wants to concentrate on his family, his job, and try to" forget the anger, the frustration, the feeling of failure because his father's murderer never has been caught.

The questions are still there. Caffey said he wish--es he could be sure there would be a more active attempt to solve the case. He'd like to encourage SLED and the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office to begin a serious investigation, make it a priority, but said he doesn't believe that will happen. There were other suspects questioned, and Caffey-wonders how the agents SLED Agent Olin Redd was in charge of the investigation at the time determined that these people were even to be ques-. tioned? The answers just aren't there.

If, however, anyone out there knows anything, one small detail that might help to bring his father's killer or killers to justice, Caffey said he wants very much to hear about it Twenty years have passed, but Robert Caffey said he never will forget that night of Oct 8, 1972. billion in road projects are needed within 20 years. House Ways and Means Chairman Henry Brown, R-Hanahan, and others favor borrowing $1 .5 billion to pay for the most pressing needs. Others have talked about tolls or a gasoline tax increase. The Legislature also is set to reconsider a measure to raise speed limits above current the 65 mph maximum.

AUTO INSURANCE: A bill to abolish recoupment fees and the state's Reinsurance Facility passed the Senate. The bill would replace the system with an assigned risk system similar to one used by 41 other states. RESTRUCTURING: Beasley has scaled back his hopes to gain control over the state Transportation Department, the $770 million-a-year road-building agency. He said it was clear there was too much opposition in the state Senate, but he was not completely backing off. Several prominent legislators say putting Transportation in his Cabinet would give the Republican governor too much power.

Some lawmakers also want to re-examine the 1993 law that created the governor's 1 3-agency Cabinet to see if it is saving money. Some Democrats want to clarify the governor's power to fire directors of state police agencies. EDUCATION: The Senate passed a bill that would give public schools $6.7 million to make up for shortfalls between estimated student enrollment and actual numbers. The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would impose tougher penalties on students who assault a teacher or other school official. The House Education and Public Works Committee also passed a bill that would keep Ebonics, or black English, from being taught in public schools.

Beasley's statewide commission to set and measure standards at public schools says it will work in conjunction with legislation that also seeks to hold schools to certain standards. Beasley and legislators are considering a $250 million bond bill to help fund critical maintenance projects at South Carolina's colleges. CRIME: House budget writers decided to keep monitors at the 400-bed state juvenile prison run by Corrections Corp. of America. This comes after a second mass escape and abuse allegations.

The House Judiciary Committee also extended liability insurance to police officers who pursue a suspect outside of their jurisdiction. A bill also was introduced to increase possible penalties for domestic violence. A hate-crime bill still awaits action, but the Senate passed a bill that would extend the stalking law to cover electronic mail or E-mail. RESTRICTING: The House approved the Senate's redistricting plan, which involves 29 special elections in November 22 in the House and seven in the Senate. Federal judges overturned some districts, saying there was too much emphasis on race.

Six House and three Senate districts were involved, but adjacent ones also are affected. The Senate Judiciary Committee changed an earlier version so two incumbent senators do not have to face each other. The Legislature, Beasley and the U.S. Justice Department must sign off on the plans before they are back before the judges by April 1. Status of key issues in the South Carolina General Assembly: CONFEDERATE FLAG: The Senate Judicaiary Committee will hold a public hearing March 11 on a House measure that would let the public decide if the flag should keep flying above the Statehouse dome.

Senate leaders say they don't favor a referendum. Gov. David Beasley says the flag has been appropriated as a hate-group symbol and it is better to fly it at a Confederate memorial on Statehouse grounds. Beasley's proposal also would protect Civil War monuments, street names and the like from changes. A separate measure to protect Civil War and civil rights monuments won the backing of all but two of the state's senators.

Opponents of Beasley's plan continue to run ads criticizing him. Beasley says they distorted his statements by only airing a portion of a campaign speech. BUDGET: House Ways and Means subcommittees continued preliminary hearings on Beasley's proposed $4.6 billion budget. It includes $9 million to increase average teacher salaries to $33,745, or $200 above the Southeastern average, and $16.8 million to offer optional full-day kindergarten to more children. Also under consideration is whether to borrow as much as $250 million for college and prison construction.

ROADS: Beasley said he would support borrowing $1 .2 billion to pay for road and bridge projects. Consensus has been growing that it is time to find a way to pay for long-delayed improvements. One estimate is that $10.