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lOTifffli Killy ill 2Y wtnMsm'i nn coot YORK SC THF (IUKIOIIF OBSERVER I vuhirlotlecom Historic diversity in SC House Around tbe State Haleyh mlY Governor signs bill limits stolen car storage costs POLICE COLUMBIA Car owners face unlimited storage bills for stolen cars that police recover under a bill Gov Mark Sanford signed Hiesday The same bill also bars police agencies from investigating accidents where their own officers were involved in crashes or chases That had been the law for some time some of the police agencies were interpreting it differently than said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Harrison R-Columbia Under the new law police have three days to notify owners their cars were recovered The owners then have four days to pick their cars up After that tow companies can charge storage fees The legislation also creates a statewide standard for handling abandoned vehicles ASSOCIATED PRESS crfy cWi1' if State workers lose pay for war service i 5 '-Wr- W' MILITARY COLUMBIA A bill Gov Mark Sanford signed Ties-day keeps state workers called up for active duty in the military from losing pay The legislation lets the workers continue to receive up to 30 days of paid military leave from their state jobs for service tied to Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Noble Eagle That benefit goes to workers who are called up to US or overseas duty because of those operations The state had paid the benefit previously but it was taken out of the state budget this year during a conference committee said Rep James Smith D-Columbia and a bill co-sponsor Smith and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bobby Harrell R-Charleston rushed the bill through the legislature in the last couple of days of the session last ASSOCIATED PRESS TRACY GLANTZ STATE PHOTO Nikki Haley (right) talks with Alicia Mashbum outside the Lake Murray Community Center during her campaign last month Haley will become the first person of Asian Indian descent to be an SC lawmaker talked said state Republican Tarty Executive Director Luke Byers of the folks out there just saw her as a fresh face someone new and is House District 87 a chunk of central Lexington County that used to be mostly rural but is rapidly filling with new suburban developments years ago Larry Koon fit that district to a said Byers "Now Nikki Haley fits that district to a It used to be dominated by people who had been there for years and years Now you've got such an infusion of new families folks from all over the Much more than in South Carolina Indian parentage has made news in media serving the Indian community in the United States and even in some newspapers in India itself Many writers saw her win as symbolic Sikhs who have been subjected to periodic racial profiling since the 911 attacks triumph is an important political victory" wrote the Hindustan Times has promised to be a spokesperson for Sikhs and other Indian Not true said Haley promised to be a spokesperson for anybody What I have said is that I will fight discrimination against any group Those articles that are being written all kind of putting their take on But she said mean not proud and feel good about my parents emigrated from Amritsar in northwest India to Canada in 1964 then to the United States in 1969 Her father Ajit Randhawa is a retired biology professor who chaired the science department at Voorhees College in Denmark Her mother Raj runs a $L8 million-a-year retail clothing firm in Columbia Exotica International that she Group wants to honor Revolutionary War hero HISTORICAL SOCIETY CHARLESTON A stone marks Revolutionary War Gen Francis grave in Berkeley County but members of the area Historical Society think he also needs a statue marking his birthplace Jean Guerry is spearheading the effort to honor the war hero guerrilla warfare tactics of striking the British and then slinking back into Lowcountry swamps rattled the enemy and earned him the nickname Swamp Fox He is buried off the beaten path between the manmade lakes that now cover the plantation he once fought feverishly to protect Guerry said she will have to form a committee to determine what the statue will look like and what its cost will be before fund raising can begin but she says she is determined to make it a reality ASSOCIATED PRESS started in a Bamberg motel room in 1976 Nikki Haley is the comptroller the Indian and Sikh community is feeling proud of her mother said People of Indian origin or descent are a tiny minority in South Carolina The 2000 Census counted only 8300 in the state or 02 percent of the population The Sikh religion is a monotheistic faith that fuses elements of Hinduism and Islam teaching that God transcends religious distinctions Haley said that during the campaign she was often questioned about her religion was bom and raised with the Sikh faith my husband and I were married in the Methodist Church our children have been baptized in the Methodist Church and currently we attend she said Before this year she went by the name of Nikki Randhawa-Ha-ley But she dropped her maiden name once she began campaigning fit on a yard she said campaign never openly raised the issue of ethnicity although it did point out in a mailing and a newspaper ad that she is registered to vote as Nikki is middle name Rod Shealy campaign consultant denied any attempt to make ancestry an issue is no Nikki Haley registered and I finally deduced that this other name was in fact he said point was that she had voted in only one primary as a campaign also reported having seen an e-mail that said remember that she is a Buddhist I can only vote for a Shealy said the Koon campaign had nothing to do with such tactics no point was her religion raised by the he said whatever word of mouth might have existed might have Campaign consultant Walt Whetsell who worked for Haley in the runoff said the tactics were part of an effort by the opposing camp to make voters aware of her background County is unfairly stereotyped as a place where that kind of tactic might Whet-sell said this election flies in the face of Clemson University political science professor Bruce Ransom who studies minority group politics said win contains little in terms of broader implications run on her ethnic background and by having only a limited number of members of that community she looking for a voting he said ran as a mainstream If there is a lesson to be drawn Ransom said that when voters knew about (her background) it apparently make a difference Therefore those who made a point of it had to be subtle because of fear that there might be a WE TREAT: Auto Accident Injuries Headaches Neck Pam Back Pain Arm or Leg Pam Carpal Tunnel Athletic Injuries 1 Dr Drew Kjmc hlrupraclic Physician option: Bunk in pool house APPOINTMENTS NOW AVAILABLE kJL 103 Dotson St Rock Hill "JLiZiZ (C orncr of 9t Dotson) Sanford mm jy Do something good for yourself Monday's Health section offers advice from a variety of health-care professionals Connect with good 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