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14 The Index-Journal, Greenwood. S.C., July 20. 1988 An AP news analysis Brief platform should help Dukakis calendar voters have "a right to know what is being concealed behind the vague generalities." South Caro lina Gov. Carroll Campbell said the Democrats were trying to shield Dukakis from the liberal tag and "pulling together to help perpetuate the fraud." Vice President George Bush has argued that theme since it became clear that Dukakis would be the Democratic nominee. But the Democratic platform will supply scant ammunition.

Michael Barnes, the former Maryland congressman who worked on the platform for Dukakis, said nothing in the document "would in any way commit the next Congress or commit the next president, even theoreti His plan was to avoid the kind of baggage lugged by past Demo cratic tickets. It succeeded. The new platform is a 4,500 word statement of Democratic tenets, longer on rhetoric than on specifics. It carries no price tag and defies any effort to compute one. Republicans are trying to paint Dukakis in liberal colors, but the Democratic platform is no help.

GOP campaign spokesmen said the Democrats are just trying to cloak their liberal intentions. "It is the tax and spend wing that is in control," said Gov. John Sununu of New Hampshire. "They have written a platform that attempts to hide that." Sen. John Warner of Virginia said the cally" to any specific spending program.

Nor does the platform seek tax increases on business and the wealthy, as Jesse Jackson sup porters wanted. Republicans never let Walter F. Mondale for get his 1984 convention statement that if he were elected, taxes would have to be increased. They will argue that a Dukakis admin istration means higher taxes, but they'll have make the case without a specific target this time. Introducing.

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It never did them much good. Nobody elects platforms, which are widely ignored, even by the candidates who theoretically run on them. Presidents Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Gerald R. Ford in 1976 both accepted platform planks they opposed rather than risk convention votes they might have lost. The platform episodes were quickly forgotten.

So, for that matter, were the platforms. Ford lost to Carter in the 1976 election, and Carter to President Reagan in 1980, but not because of platforms or platform concessions. The Dukakis departure from the wordy promises of the recent Democratic past actually was the handiwork of Democratic Na tional Chairman Paul Kirk, who urged long before the primary campaign that the 1988 platform be a broad statement of prin ciples, not a wish list for interest groups. Bus suits reach six Two additional civil suits have been filed against Howard V. Boles and Boles Bus Line as a result of the April 19 bus wreck which injured 38 Pinecrest Elementary School fourth graders and eight adults.

The suits, filed July 11 in the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Common Pleas on behalf of Sheila B. Marino and her daughter Sheila Noelle, brings the number of suits pending against Boles and the Greenwood charter bus com pany to six. The two recent suits seek actual and punitive damages to be determined by the court. Also named as a co-defendant in the suits is Citizens Bus Lines, Inc. New Jersey bridge becomes undersea fish habitat TRENTON, N.J.

(AP) With Franklin-like frugality and inventiveness, the state will convert the concrete roadbed slabs of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge that opened 62 years ago into an undersea home for lobsters and sea bass. The 6,000 slabs removed in the $70 million resurfacing of the bridge are being dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to form an artificial reef 5 feet high, the size of five football fields. "Ben was for anything innovative. He would have liked this idea you know, a penny saved is a penny earned," said Bill Lynch, a spokesman for the Delaware River Port Authority, which operates the bridge between Camden and Philadelphia. "I don't know how much they saved, but I bet it was more than a penny," said Bill Figley of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, who is overseeing the construction of the state's largest artificial reef.

The Port Authority is paying a contractor $1.6 million to barge the slabs out to sea eight miles off Cape May, Lynch said. Bids for landfill disposal of the slabs went as high as $3 million. "The nice thing is they're actually doing some good," Figley said. "It's going to help out Cape May's fishing industry for the next 20 or 30 years," until sand covers the slabs. Artificial reefs attract fish and other sea creatures by providing a surface for them to live on and protection against predators, helping to increase marine populations.

For the past five weeks, the contractor has loaded the slabs, each about a foot thick, 6 feet wide and 10 feet long, onto a barge moored under the bridge on the New Jersey side. Each Saturday, the 250-foot-long barge makes the 18 hour trip down the river, through the Delaware Bay and out to sea, where Figley and his staff are waiting to meet it. Although it takes five days to load the barge, it only takes about an hour for a front-end loader to dump the slabs into the sea at spots carefully marked by buoys, Figley said. The job is expected to take eight weeks more. The completed reef will be at least three times the size of several tankers the state has sunk, and will dwarf other reefs made from smaller vessels or old tires, Figley said.

"Other than the Shrewsbury Rocks, we really don't have any natural reefs off New Jersey," he said. I'lTI I In order to keep renders formed of community activities. The Index-Journal runs a daily listing of local meetings or events sponsored by civic clubs, community groups and govern ing bodies. The listings include events for up to seven days fol lowing publication Important events receive detailed treatment in separate stories. The Community Calendar is intended as a reminder.

Special church services will be published in the church column run each Friday. Deadline for items to be run on the church page is noon Wednesday. Items for the calendar can be mailed to O. Box 1018. Greenwood, 29648.

ttKDNKSDAY Jtl.Y 20 Alanon and Alcoholics Anonymous. 7 Faith Home 1'iedmunl Multi County Mental Re tardation Hoard, i Emerald Center conference room Using Wordl'erfecl, Part II. 7 10 p.m., Piedmont Tech Cost is $75 and limited to 12 Call 223-K357 Ext 342 or I 800 868 5528 Alanon Family Group, 8 Street Building Brice Easy Does It Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m.. Episcopal Church of the Resurrection Open discussion and step meeting Renewal Group of Alcoholics Anonymous and Alanon, 8 p.m., Brice Street Building Closed meeting The Museum and the Greenwood Artist Guild will feature an exhibition of water colors by Ellen Baskin of Columbia in the second floor gallery THIRSDAY Jll-Y 21 Thrifty Variety Shop. 10 a to 5 p.m., 1436 Main St All proceeds go to the Faith Home Thrifty Variety Shop of Ninety Six, 10 a to" 5 in 106 W.

Main St All proceeds go to the Faith Home Thrifty Variety Shop of Abbeville. 10 am to 5 pn Ill Washington St All proceeds go to the Faith Home Meals on Wheels volunteer workshop, 10 30 am to noon. Greenwood Senior Center Lunch will be served at no charge Call 223 0164 for reservations Leisure Hour Craft Shop, 10 a to 5 pm 1148 Edgefield St Project of the Greenwood County Council on Aging Early Bird group of Alcoholics Anonymous, 10 a Brice Street Build ing Wise Penny Thrift Shop, 10 a to 5 115 Alexander Ave All proceeds go to the St Nicholas Speech and Hear ing Center Introduction to Microcomputers 9 a to noon. Piedmont Tech Cost is $75 and limited to 15 Call 223157 Ext 342 or 1 800 868 5528 I Pi 30 p.m.. Piedmont Tech Cost is $75 for five weeks Enrollment limited to 15 Alanon contact for family and friends of alcoholics in Ware Shoals Call 456 3282 Alanon Total Family Group, 8pm, Harris Community Center Night Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, 8pm.

Brice Street Building New Life Narcotics Anonymous, 8 i) in St Mark I'nited Methodist Church Open meeting The Museum and the Greenwood Artist Guild will feature an exhibition of water colors by Ellen Baskin of Columbia in the second floor gallery FRIDAY Jl'LV Thrifty Variety Shop. 10 a to 5 1436 Main St All proceeds go to the Faith Home Thnftv Variety Shop of Ninety Six, 10 am to 5 106 Mam St All proceeds go to the Faith Home Thrifty Variety Shop of Abbeville. 10 am to 5 111 Washington St All proceeds go to the Faith Home Wis" Pennv Thrift Shop. 10 am to 5 115 Alexander Ave All proceeds go to the St Nicholas Speech and Hear ing Center The leisure Hour Craft Shop 10 a to 5 1148 Edgefield St Project of the Greenwood County Council on Aging up of Anonvmous. in i Brice Street Build ing The Museum and the Greenwood A.tist Guild will feature an exhibition of water colors Fllen Baskin of Columbia in the second floor gallery Night Group of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Brice Street Building Open dis cussion New Life Narcotics Anonvmous 10 Brice Street Building Open meet SATl RPA ju a Thrifl ariet Shop 10 am to 5 14. lain St All proceeds go to the 'k Home community Thrifty Variety Shop of Ninety Six, 10 a rn to 5 106 Main St. All proceeds go to the Faith Home Thriftv Variety Shop of Abbeville, 10 am to'5 pm, 111 Washington St All proceeds go to the Faith Home. Fellowship supper, 6 p.m., chapel ser vice 7 30 Faith Home. Featuring the Providence Baptist Church of Hodges choir Merry Mixers Square Dance Club, 8 First Baptist Church Greenwood Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Brice Street Building Open discussion Early Bird Group of Alcoholics Anonymous.

10 am, Brice Street Build ing New Life Narcotics Anonymous, 10 St Mark United Methodist Church. The Leisure Hour Craft Shop, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.. 1148 Edgefield St Project of the Greenwood County Council on Aging. The Museum and the Greenwood Artist Guild will feature an exhibition of water-colors by Ellen Baskin of Columbia in the second floor gallery.

SUNDAY JULY 24 Brewer High School Class of 1965 4:30 p.m.. The Hut Greenwood High School Class of 1972, 6 GLEAAMS building. Brewer Class of 1969 call meeting, 7 p.m., Raintree Community Center. 11th Step Grou; Anonymous, 10 a ing of Alcoholics Irice Street Build- The Museum and the Greenwood Artist Guild will feature an exhibition of water-colors by Ellen Baskin of Columbia in the second floor gallery. Night Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Brice Street Building.

Open discussion and step meeting MONDAY JULY 25 Woodlawn Grange, 7 30 p.m., Hall, Grange Road Grange Early Bird Group of Alcoholics Anonymous. 10 a.m.. Brice Street Building Night Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., Brice Street Building. The Leisure Hour Craft Shop, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 1148 Edgefield St.

Project of the Greenwood County Council on Aging Basic programming for junior and senior high students, 1-4 Piedmont Tech. Cost is $45 and limited to 12 Contact Tech at 223 8357 Ext. 342 or 1 800-868 5528 High tech high for junior and senior high students, 14 p.m.. Piedmont Tech. Cost is $50 Basic robotics, 9 a mont Tech Cost is $50 to noon.

Pied Parents Anonymous, 7 Are you a troubled parent who feels, confused, guilty or frightened by your behavior and feelings toward your child? Feel trapped and think no one understands? Call Parents Anonymous for help and meet ing place 227 TALK Nar Anon (parent support group! 8 St Mark United Methodist Church Open meeting. Call 223 5218 after 5 p.m. TOPS take off pounds sensibly Chapter 96, 6 15 Harris Methodist Church Call Gail at 229 2816 Alanon Family Group. 8 Brice Street Building TUESDAY JULY 26 Early Bird Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1(1 a Brice Street Build ing The Leisure Hour Craft Shop, 10 a to 5pm. 1148 Edgefield St Project of the Greenwood County Council on Aging Coaching and counseling, 6 30 9 30 pm, Piedmont Tech.

Cost is $60 Call 223 8357 Ext 342 or 1 800-868-5528 Prevention and treatment of common sport injuries 8 30 a to 5 Pied mont Tech Two sessions are $65 and in eludes lunch both davs Greenwood Civitan Club. 7pm, idav Inn Hoi The Rotary Club. 1 American legion Building Speaker Kevin McDon-nough Alateen A fellowship of voung people whose lives have been affected by al coholism a family member or close friend We help each other by sharing our experience, strength and hope 7pm, Brice Street Building Call 229-0850 Newcomers Group of Alcoholics Anonvmous 8pm Brice Street Build ing Adult Children of Alcoholics Freedom to Group 8 Mark United Methodist Church Discussion Call 22.1 8907 New Life Narcotics Anonvmous 8 St Mark United Methodist Church Open meeting The Museum and the Greenwood Artist Guild wili feature an exhibition of water rolorv Fllen Raskin of Columbia in the second floor tallerv Aiken officials preparing for 8,000 possible jobs Iruh Get to Know the Republican Candidates before the August 30 primary 6:30 to 8:00 pm County Council: Dist. 2: Tom R. Taylor Dist.

3: Jeffery L. Steelman Dist. 4: Calhoun Mays III John "Trey" Ward III Dist. 5: Dan Richardson Dist. 6: Alan Boatwright Joe O.

Matthews Dist. 7: Terry Hahn Raymond P. Lifts NORTH AUGUSTA (AP) -Aiken County officials already are preparing for up to 8,000 new jobs that could be created because of changes at the Savannah River Plant The Coordinating Council on Economic Development received approval from the county council on June 21 to study the effects of changing operators from Du Pont to Martin Marietta or West inghouse Electric. CCED, made up of county poll ticians, educators and other area leaders, also is considering the effect of a new nuclear production reactor that might be built at the SRP One of the group's committees will present its findings to the whole group on July 21 The group will then develop a community response plan to meet the new challenges. Chairman of the CCED, Tommy B.

Wessinger, told the North Augusta City Council Monday night that about 500 families will be brought into the area by the new operator of the SRP In addition to the new families, at least 750 to 1.000 of Du Pont's employees will retire in the Aiken area "Both (contractors) are com July 21, Mathews Community Center July 25, Harris Community Center Aug. 2, Ware Shoals Town Hall Aug. 4, Room 200, County Courthouse Aug. 9, Greenwood Airport Terminal Everyone Is Invited Greenwood Republican Party 223-1776 mitted to spend 25 percent (of their gross income) within 50 miles," Wessinger added. That will bring new business to the area, because unlike Du Pont, the new contractor will be required to contract with area companies for a percentage of their supplies.

J. David Jameson, director of the Economic Development Partnership, said the changes at SRP could create as many as 8.000 new jobs. LET US GIVE YOU A QUOTE ON YOUR PERSONAL PROPERTY INSURANCE MABRY-SANDERS INSURANCE REAL ESTATE 328 Main St. Phone 229-3814 AGENTS Bobbie Bowie. Coleman Bowie Betty Kay.

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