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City State The Index-Journal Tuesday October 30, 1979 English teacher tells ghost stories Hood begins sentence CHARLESTON (AP) J- Former Sum-merville police lieutenant Bart Hood has begun serving a life sentence plus 10 years on charges stemming from his relationship with pornographer Michael Thevis. Hood was sentenced Monday in Charleston to the maximum prison term on charges that he harbored Thevis while a federal fugitive. Only three days before in Rome, Hood was sentenced to life after being found guilty of federal conspiracy charges in the slaying of a former Thevis associate. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lionel Lofton said Hood was taken into custody by a U.S.

marshal and began serving the consecutive sentences by 6 p.m. Monday. Authorities would not say where Hood was being held. Hood was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Charles E.

Simons Jr. on one count of conspiracy and two counts of harboring a fugitive, Lofton said. Hood was accused of hiding Thevis hr Summerville between April 1978, when he escaped from a federal prison, and last November, when Thevis was arrested in Connecticut. Hood and his wife, Barbara, were named in a three-count indictment for helping Thevis get lodging, identification documents, credit cards and a gun while he was one of the FBI's 10 most wanted men. The Hoods were standing trial together in U.S.

District Court in Charleston last August when Hood pleaded guilty to the three counts. When presiding Judge Simons announced Hood's change of plea, he said the former police officer had agreed to the maximum 10-year sentence. Simons then granted a defense motion to sever the trial of Mrs. Hood, and Lofton said he would not try her again. Thevis was serving an 8V4-year sentence for interstate transportation of obscene material when he escaped from a federal prison in New Albany, Ind.

Last week, Thevis was convicted on charges of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy and pse twisting slowly at the end of the rope. Ann spent the rest of her life wandering aimlessly about the halls of Fenwick Castle. Even today, Olsen maintains, the legend goes that "one can hear ringing through the halls plaintive, insane little calls of 'Tony, Tony, where are you Tony' as the ghost of Ann calls for her lost love." Love of a different kind is the subject of another story having to do with the ghost of a young girl who was struck by a car and killed while trying to hitchhike from Charleston to Columbia to see her dying mother. Each year, on the anniversary of her death, a motorist along the highway encounters a young female hitchhiker who gives him an address on Pitt Street in Columbia. After riding a short distance, the girl simply disappears.

If the driver goes to the Pitt Street address, he will probably meet the girl's brother who, by this time, knows to expect a caller on that particular night as the girl's ghost continues to try and get home. If those two stories haven't sufficiently raised the scalp hairs on his audience, Olsen has plenty more. There's the young aristocrat who accidentally shot himself on a hunting trip and now occasionally turns up, still dressed in his bright green hunting vest and green felt hat with a feather in it, in the library of his family's Legare Street house. Or, how about the good doctor Joseph Ladd Brown who died following a duel and whose ghost still climbs the stairs of the Church Street house where he was a boarder. His ghost isn't your normal chain-rattling variety, but rather prefers to clomp up the stairs whistling the quaint Old English ballad so favored by Brown before his ghostly days.

Olsen also tells of friendly ghosts such as the Gray Man of Pawley's Island whose appearance brings good luck and salvation from disaster for those fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of him stalking the sand dunes along the beach. Olsen doesn't consider ghost stories just an exercise in fiction writing. "I've never encountered a ghost let's put it that way," he responds to questioners. "But I've heard so many ghost stories that sounded reasonable, I wouldn't be surprised to encounter one. I'm inclined to believe ghosts do exist." CHARLESTON If spirits truly walk on Halloween then South Carolina, and especially Charleston, must need a ghostly traffic director on Oct.

31. The states surplus of ghosts is perfectly all right with College of Charleston English professor Norman Olsen. They provide him with plenty of material for his talk "This Dark and Bloody Ground: Ghosts of the Carolinas and the Low-country." As a member of The Speakers Bureau, a coordinating agency which matches the expertise of college faculty and administrative staff members with clubs and organizations seeking speakers, Olsen has spoken on ghosts to some rather diverse groups. "I can't believe the groups I've given this talk to." he says, listing organizations such as senior citizen's clubs. Lion clubs, church groups and a home for unwed mothers.

His talk is also popular during this time of year with sororities and fraternities holding Halloween parties. James Island's Fenwick Hall provides the setting for one of Olsen's favorite ghost stories. Edward Fenwick. master of the house until he, as a loyalist, fled to New York at the beginning of the Revolution, was a stern and demanding man but one who loved his daughter dearly. So, when the daughter fell in love with a groom working in the family's stables, Fenwick was enraged.

The fact that the groom, Tony, was the perfectly respectable son of a cergyman made no difference. Fenwick would not hear of his daughter marrying a mere groom. Tearful pleadings proved unsuccessful, so Ann and Tony decided on a dangerous alternative, but the only one available to them. They would elope. After the wedding ceremony, the newlyweds returned to Fenwick Hall to tell her family.

Btu they didn't find the resigned Edward Fenwick they had hoped for. Instead, Tony was up against a furious father-in-law who ordered servants to bind the young man and set him astride one of the horses he had tended so faithfully. A rop was tossed over a tree limb and placed around the young bridegroom's neck. A whip was pushed into the hand of his new bride. Ann was then forced to strike the horse, which bolted, leaving her husband's cor- was critically injured when his glider later.

Crowell's injuries were so severe he to live through the night. Now he is and anxious to be back in the air. Hang gliders land into the wind, and with one of his crotches Robert Crowell signals the wind direction to fellow pilot Joe Foster approaching the landing area a Grandfather Mountain. Crowell holds the hand gliding en-cluf drtce record of over eight hour set in. August at Grand Report on MUSC to be presented Rev.

Jackson tells educators Education must give students survival skills 0 Signals wind direction father, where he crashed four days was not expected recovering rapidly business leaders be more involved in school programs and that schools make evaluations of programs public. Jackson emphasized the benefits of vocational education teaching job skills. "To be a great nation, we must see shade and lumber in a tree. We must see glass in sand, and in every child we must see infinite possibilities." He said the liberal version of formal education has given America a false sense of independence and isolation from the rest of the world. "If most of the world is brown, yellow, red and black, non-Christian and non-English speaking and if education is for real we must learn to live in the real world," the black leader said.

On another topic, Riley said he would be meeting with Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials in Washington next month. He said he has invited the governors of Washington and Nevada, where low-level nuclear waste dumps have recently been closed. Riley said he is trying to deal systematically with the problem of what to do with the nation's nuclear waste, besides bringing it to South Carolina. He again called for a national plan to address the problem of low-level nuclear waste disposal and said he would elaborate on the issue at a news conference Wednesday in Columbia. chairman all South Carolinians." Tax deductible contributions should be sent to Christmas Seals, P.O.

Box 1609, Columbia. S.C. 29202. RUSS FATS cultures. "It's a tool to prepare us for life," the black leader said.

Gov. Dick Riley called for improved education through stronger community and parent involvement. School advisory councils could be improved, and schools could become the focal point for community activities, he told the educators. The governor also suggested that for GOP post proposed state Republican presidential primary March 8 and told reporters that talk of a power struggle within the state GOP had been exaggerated. Former Gov.

James B. Edwards is no longer titular head of the party, Greer said, but he is still one of its most influential members, along with U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, U.S. Rep.

Floyd D. Spence and U.S. Rep. Carroll Campbell. "The chairman should be the leader of the party," he added.

Greer said he is ready to debate its merits with state Democratic Party chairman Donald L. Fowler. Last week Fowler said the GOP may be operating "outside the law" in holding the primary, which state law neither approves nor MYRTLE BEACH (AP) Education must give students survival skills, self reliance and a worldwide understanding, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told South Carolina educators. The Greenville native and organizer of "Operation PUSH" in Chicago encouraged the 600 persons attending a developmental education conference Monday that education "is the tool for liberation in all Greer to run GREENVILLE (AP) Richard E.

Greer says he's not running against current state Republican Party Chairman Dan Ross. "I'm running on what I think I can con-' tribute to the Republican Party of South Carolina," the 35-year-old chemical company president said Monday in announcing he'll run for the state chairmanship. Ross of Blackville said Monday he will say within four or five days whether he will seek his third two-year term as state GOP chairman. The election will be held at the state party's convention in Columbia next April. Among those at the news conference who endorsed Greer were state Sen.

Jeff Richardson and state Rep. Thomas both -Greenville. In other comments, Greer endorsed the developed from the commission's findings. In any case, he said, there would be some rules and regulations developed on how MUSC should handle certain areas. As a result of Wednesday's report, the commission will decide whether it will continue with the investigation, stop it or take a different approach.

The audit council reported that it had found "numerous examples of poor management decisions" at MUSC. Children's deaths investigated KINGSTREE (AP) Three state agencies are looking into the possible responsibility of county welfare officials for the deaths of six children in a Williamsburg County home fire last year. The probe by the Department of Social Services, attorney general's office and State Law Enforcement Division began today. The children, ranging in age from 1 to 8, died in the fire Feb. 18.

1978. while their mother was at a neighbor's home. The mother, Lilly Mae McFadden, told authorities she had gone to the neighbor's house about 15 minutes before the fire started to ask someone to cut wood for the stove in the house. Mrs. McFadden was receiving welfare benefits under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, administered by the county DSS office.

The investigating agencies are trying to determine if the county DSS should have removed the children from the custody of their mother or taken other steps to assure proper care'. Williamsburg County DSS director Allen llinnant defended his agency's action, saying it followed the letter of the law in allowing the McFadden children to stay with their mother. llinnant said the investigation comes in the wake of charges of negligence leveled at the Charleston County DSS office by a county grand jury. The Charleston County agency was negligent in not preventing the death of a 2-year-old boy who died at the hands of his mother, the panel said in a report earlier this month. The boy had been taken from his home by case workers and then returned several times.

The mother is now serving 10 years for manslaughter. Investigations along the same lines involving the deaths of children are planned in some other counties. COLUMBIA AP) A report on a five-month investigation into management practices at the Medical University of South Carolina will be presented Wednesday to a' subcommittee of the state Reorganization Commission. The report will not be made public until MUSC has had a chance to respond to H. The report covers property management at MUSC, internal control, personnel, purchasing policies, construction management, controlled substances and MUSC Hospital, commission member Victor Rawl said.

The Reorganization Commission began its in-depth management study after the Legislative Audit Council and the Department of Health and Environmental Control accused MUSC of mismanagements "The Legislative Audit Council covered the same areas that the Reorganziation Commission is now covering from an audit perspective," Rawl said. "We are covering it from a management perspective. "In essence, we are trying to explore what is going on (at MUSC) to get a handle on what is being done, and to see whether it is enough," he said. "We are going to assist them by providing recommendations in the areas of purchasing, personnel and management." Rawl said legislation might be Harvard prof to lecture at Lander Laurence Wylie, the first C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France at Harvard University, will give a lecture at Lander College on "French Body Language" on Thursday at 11 a.m.

in Barksdale Physical Education Center. There is no admission charge and the program is open to the public. Dr. Wylie's appearance is funded, in part, through the South Carolina Committee for the Humanities, an agent of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr.

Wylie is the author of "Village in the Vaucluse." an account of life in a southern French community. He is one of the authors of "In Search of France," of the textbook. "Deux Villages" and the study of Chanzeaux published as "Chanzeaux. a Village of Anjou." "Les Francis" is one of his publications based on his general education course on the Civilization of France. Dr.

Wylie has produced two films: "Chanzeaux" and "Repertoire des Gestes Francais." Dr. Wylie has appeared on French television and has received several honorary degrees and awards in recognition of his contribution to society. Pate is Christmas Seal R.B. CURRY III Greenwood native joins endowment CHARLOTTE, N.C. Ravenel B.

Curry III has joined the investment staff of the Duke Endowment, according to John F. Day, secretary-treasurer of the endowment. Curry's responsibilities will include portfolio management. "Mr. Curry's educational background and experience in the investment field will be most helpful to our trustee's committee on investments," Day said.

A native of Greenwood, Curry graduated from Furman University (AB, 1963) and the University of Virginia (MBA, 19671. His previous investment experience includes service as a securities analyst for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, a general partner with H.C. Wainwright Company, and manager of client relations with Century Capital Associates, all of New York City. He served as chairman of the New Jersey Higher Education Assistance Aiuthority and is a member of the advisory board of Furman University. Curry is married to the former Beth Rivers, a native of Chesterfield.

They have three children. The Duke Endowment was established by James B. Duke in 1924 and is among the 10 largest private foundations in the U.S. with assets valued at $380 million at the end of 1978. During 1978.

grants totaling $18.6 million were made to private higher education, hospitals and child-caring instituUcns in the two Carol inas and the rural United Methodist Church in North Carolina. Run and Clinic Nov. 9 and 10 in Columbia with Amby Burfoot, 1968 Boston Marathon winner and East Coast editor of "Runner's World" magazine A native of Springfield, Pate earned a Ph.D. in physical education from the University of Oregon and has published articles on such subjects as the physiological effects of exercise and the, teaching of physical fitness. He is currently chairman of the Physical Fitness Council, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and executive committee member.

Southeast Chapter American College of Sports Medicine. As an athlete. Pate won the 1972 Trail's End Marathon in Seaside, and the 1974 Skylon International Marathon in Buf-; falo, N.Y. He placed seventh in the 1975 Boston AA Marathon. "One of the keys to success as a runner is a healthy set of lungs and as a marathon runner myself, I know how Tital breathing is," Pate said.

"That's why I'm serving as South Carolina Christmas seal chariman this year. Vour gift to Christmas seals will help insure the best possible breathing for COLLUMBIA Healthy lungs are a key factor toward achieving physical fitness is the message Russ Pate is carrying statewide as South Carolina's 1979 Christmas Seal chairman. Pate, a nationally recognized marathon runner, assistant professor of health and physical education at the Univeristy of South Carolina, a ad long-time supporter of the South Carolina Lung Association said he was "pleased to be able to help the association because its goals of lung disease prevention and control are closely related with the ability to be physically fit." The annual Christmas Seal campaign provides the financial support for the Lung associations' programs and activities fighting lung disease. This year's goal is 650,000. As chairman.

Pate is serving as official spokesman foe the South Carolina Christmas Seal campaign. He is producing television and radio public service announcements, engaging in public appearances across the state, and sending special letters to Christmas. Seal contributors. To kick off the 1979 campaign. Pate will participate in the Christmas Seal Lung i.