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Tuesday Court OKs parole hearings every 2 years North man arrested for murder i -f -4, 1 Claflin frb Panthers fall toNo.4 Benedict. 7A Cloning sheep signal of brave new world? 6A no Grand usy indicts woman in Caffey murder By CAROL B. BARKER Staff Writer happened," Bailey said. He also has said of Kemmerlin, "I'm confident she was a major participant in the killing." Bailey said the two people identified by Kemmerlin are both males and both deceased Kemmerlin's brother, Benjamin Douglas Kemmerlin of Santee, who died on Aug. 28, 1981, at the age of 29 when he was struck by a vehicle while refueling his own car stopped alongside Interstate 95 near Santee, and Durham Lee Mizzell, a Eutawville grocery fice.

She was held in the Dorchester County Jail until a family court hearing before Judge Maxey Watson on Feb. 19 when she was bound over to general sessions court to face a murder charge. First Circuit Solicitor Walter Bailey said the indictment was presented to the grand jury just four days after the Feb. 19 family court hearing because "the grand jury just happened to be meeting today and, after 25 years, I didn't see any need to wait." He said SLED agents involved in the investigation presented evidence to the grand jury Monday prior to the indictment. The indictment charges that: "Betsy Rourk Kemmerlin did in Orangeburg County on or about Oct.

8, 1972, feloniously, wilfully and with malice aforethought, kill one Roy Caffey by means of shooting andor aiding, assisting and abetting other persons in shooting the said Roy Specifics of what the woman has told investigators about the Caffey case remain a mystery, but Bailey has said she told investigators she was at the scene of the killing. "She was with two people when the killing An Orangeburg County grand jury Monday morning indicted 40-year-old Santee resident Betsy Rourk Kemmerlin for murder in connection with the Oct. 8, 1972, slaying of S.C. Highway Patrolman Roy 0. Caffey.

Kemmerlin who was only 16, and therefore a juvenile, when Caffey was shot to death 25 years ago on Interstate 26 was taken into custody on Feb. 14 by SLED agents and detectives from the Orangeburg County Sheriff's Of 1 3 1 A PPn AL 3 ay ak "i i Photo illustration by Ken Tyler I. Excited experts find new residents of Orangeburg Please see Caffey, 4A Betsy Kemmerlin Trucker testimony leads to not guilty verdict for deputy By CAROL B. BARKER Staff Writer A former Orangeburg County sheriffs deputy charged with driving under the influence on Dec. 3 has been found not guilty by Magistrate Willie Robinson thanks in large measure to testimony from the state's key witness in the case.

Joseph Keith Bonnette, 25, of Orangeburg, was driving an unmarked 1996 Ford Crown Victoria owned by the Orangeburg County Sheriffs Office while off-duty. The vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer truck, causing an estimated $5,000 in damages to the patrol car. The accident occurred on S.C. Highway 210 about six miles south of Bowman as the truck was entering the highway. S.C.

Highway Patrol 1st Sgt. F. L. Lingard, the investigating officer, said Monday "the most ing evidence" against the state's first-offense DUI case against Bonnette came from the state's "star, key witness" Carl Wayne Carpenter, 46, of Diana, W. who was driving the tractor-trailer.

Lingard said the driver's testimony in Friday's trial proved "favorable" to the defendant Carpenter testified he was around Bonnette for 20 to 25 minutes following the accident and never smelled alcohol on his breath. He said he did not see any indication that Bonnette was intoxicated or had been drinking. The trucker also testified that he would not have pulled out in front of Bonnette's patrol car if he had been able to see Bonnette's headlights, Lingard said. The truck driver was not charged in the accident Acknowledging that he did not perform a field sobriety test on Bonnette at the scene of the accident, Lingard explained such tests are "left to the officer's discretion." He said he did decide to have a Breathalyzer test done on Bonnette because he "smelled alcohol on Bonnette's breath and noticed his eyes were red." However, he said the Breathalyzer was not ad-Please see Deputy, 4A -4 By KARL BURGDORF Staff Writer "Peering from their nest, two symbols of the United States emerged Monday in an unexpected place. Although their nest looked as though it could have been an OS-prey's, their white heads gave away their identity as bald eagles.

Bald eagles the national bird depicted on most U.S. currency and symbols aren't known to be in the vicinity of the City of Orangeburg, though some are found A. Biologist Charlotte Hope with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources scans a newly identified bald eagle nest morning just outside the Orangeburg city limits. photo by Van Hope) around Santee. Monday morning, that changed.

After receiving a report from Brenda Dukes, the wife of S.C. Department of Natural Resources Officer Billy Dukes, a team of endangered species specialists made their way to a tall pine tree only a few miles from the Orangeburg city limits. The found a nest similar to that of an osprey. There were no birds. But checking their special her son home from school so he could experience the "opportunity of a lifetime." "My husband is a wildlife biologist.

His research was waterfowl and I got interested in birding. He gave me a spotting scope for Christmas." The scope was the "big tool" in helping verify the nest was that of a bald eagle. Please see Eagle, 4A scopes one last time, the watchers found the nest-builders. "At the last minute they showed up," Dukes said. "It was frustrating when I heard them say it could be an osprey.

I would have bet my house on it I was just glad they saw it." "We saw one of the eagles bring a twig, actually a small branch, to the nest," she said Dukes was so excited about the discovery she kept Calhoun delays final approval of mobile home moratorium 1 Morning-after pill wins FDA approval HAS I 1 I Home-delivery subscribers of The Times and Democrat should receive three sections today: The A and news and sports sections and a 40-page S.C. Treasurer's supplement. Subscribers not receiving all sections should call 536-1812. Ann Landers Anne Nan Astro-Graph 5B Bridge 5B Business .....68 Classified 7-1 OB Comics 5B Crossword puzzle 5B Dear Abby 4B Deaths 2B Editorials 4B Health 5B 1B Markets 6B Shorttakes 2A Sports 7-9A 10A TV-Entertainment 10A Weather 2A By TUCKER LYON Government Writer ST. MATTHEWS, S.C.

While still weighing input from the mobile home industry, Calhoun County Council on Monday postponed a final vote on its controversial ordinance to establish a mobile home permitting moratorium. "We're not going to have third reading on the mobile home ordinance. The (council) committee is still working on fine tuning it," Council Chairman David Summers said. "We're trying to get the input we've got and what not. We should have all the kinks worked out by the first meeting in March." Eric Anderson, a representative of the Manufactured Housing Institute in South Carolina, appeared in person to offer his assistance.

"We've been following with interest the development of your mobile home ordinance. We understand you have some very legitimate concerns you're trying to address," he said. "We're not here to be a road block." In response to concern about the unchecked growth of mobile home parks and subdivisions, council has proposed an amended ordinance that establishes a moratorium on permitting until county regulations are approved. As amended on second reading, the moratorium would exclude current projects and single tracts not in subdivisions. The moratorium would be in effect until the Calhoun County Planning Commission concludes its work on developing subdivision regulations.

In other business, council gave first reading to an ordinance to convey property to the Fort Motte Volunteer Fire Department. As explained by Ross Lytle, in order to drill a well' for the fire trucks, the fire department needs clear title to the Stump Hole Landing building from both council and flie sheriff. The property or lot, he said, was seized by the sheriff during a drug raid, but the fire department owns the building. According to Lytle, Sheriff D.C. "Bing" Jones had agreed to convey the property to the fire department "if County Council says it's OK and if it is legal to transfer drug arrest confiscated properties." County Attorney Lee Prickett said the sheriff had given the property to the fire department to use, as long as he could also use it as a substation.

Although drug-confiscated property must be used for law enforcement, Prickett said that, therefore, it is permissible as long as part of the property is still used as a sheriffs substation. Also, he said a clause must be included to Please see Calhoun, 4A By LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON American women who are raped, whose birth control fails or who just forget in the heat of the moment can use high doses of ordinary birth control pills to prevent pregnancy, the government said Monday. The Food and Drug Administration said six brands of birth control are safe and effective "morning-after pills," the first federal acknowledgement of the emergency contraception that European women have been prescribed for years. "The best-kept contraceptive secret is no longer a secret," said FDA Commissioner David Kessler. "Women should have the information that this regimen is available." The decision opens the door for companies to specially package birth control pills for women to have on hand in case of an emergency, just as the pills are routinely sold overseas.

Contraceptive manufacturers so far have refused to sell what the government terms emergency contraception here, citing litigation and political fears. So while it is legal for doctors to prescribe emergency birth control and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in December endorsed it few physicians know the proper doses and few women even know to seek it. The FDA's decision could change that. One small company, New Jersey-based Gynetics, is developing a specially packaged version of birth control that it hopes to sell for emergency use next year. And the FDA's instructions were purposefully detailed enough to tell family-planning clinics and private doctors the right dose to hand to women today.

"This should be in everyone's medicine cabinet," said- Janet Benshoof of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. The FDA announced Monday that high doses of six popular birth-control brands, when taken within three days of unprotected sex, are 75 percent effective at preventing pregnancy. For every 100 women who have unprotected sex during the second or third week of their menstrual cycle, eight would normally become pregnant but only two would if the women took emergency contraception, explained Dr. James Trussell of Princeton University. His research convinced the FDA that emergency contracep- Piease see Pill, 4A Tuesday, mostly sunny.

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