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The 2 State Columbia, South Carolina Saturday, April 19, 1986 Capital Report Good morning THIS WARM, DRY weather isn't showing any signs of going away. Today's temperatures will climb again into the middle 70s. Tonight, the low will drop into the upper 40s. NEIGHBORHOOD FESTIVALS continue, with bicentennial celebrations from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

at Hopkins, Olympia, Shandon and Arsenal Hill. The Hopkins festival, "Yesterday, Today a and Tomorrow," will be held at Hopkins Park; the Olympia Community Festival, "Life and Times of a Mill Village," will be at Olympia Middle School; the Shandon Neighborhood Festival, "Early Suburbia," is on the grounds of Hand Middle School; and the Arsenal Hill Neighborhood Festival, "From a Proud Past Towards a Prouder Future," will take place on Gadsden, Richland, Lincoln and Laurel streets near the Governor's Mansion. A TASTE OF COLUMBIA, the annual gour- met's delight at Riverbanks Zoo, is expected to again attract thousands of people today. The event will feature dishes from 18 Columbia-area restaurants from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Another annual rite of spring May Day at Columbia College begins at 1:30 p.m. on the front lawn of the campus. THE RICHLAND Convalescent Center is holding its annual rock 'n' roll jamboree at the Center on Hartford Street to benefit the Leukemia Society of America. "The Spring Fling Concert" at the University of South Carolina will feature three bands, including Jason and the Scorchers, from 6 p.m. until midnight on Field near the Solomon Blatt P.E.

Center on Wheat Street. EXPO '86, featuring area Scouting groups from the Indian Waters Council, will be held fron noon until 6 p.m. today at the State Fairgrounds. Gibbes Planetarium at the Columbia Museums of Art and Sciences will feature The Return of Comet Halley at 2, 3 and 4 p.m. today and Sunday.

The South Carolina chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects is at the Marriott this weekend for its annual meeting. An exhibition of watercolors by Ann Swanson opens this weekend at Fort Jackson, in the post's arts and crafts center on Imboden Street. The center will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. today.

ON STAGE, The Electric Eighties, the Lexington County Arts Association's annual revue, will be presented in the Batesburg-Leesville Middle School in Batesburg tonight and Sunday night. Brigadoon is being presented at 8 tonight in the Irmo High School Activities Arena, and The Miss Firecracker Contest i is at Trustus, beginning at 8. Sen. Patterson wraps up trip Sen. Elizabeth Patterson, D-Spartanburg, an announced candidate for the 4th District congressional seat, has wrapped up a two-day trip to Washington, where she spent considerable time getting briefed on several issues and huddling with potential campaign contributors, pollsters and media experts.

She said she met with several political action committees and members of Congress, including the state Democratic lawmakers, and was briefed by experts on various subjects pending before the House. She also talked with her pollster, Paul A Maslin, who also is conducting surveys for Lt. Gov. Mike Daniel in his Democratic gubernatorial campaign. Mrs.

Patterson, accompanied by her husband, met briefly with House Democratic Leader Jim Wright of Texas in his Capitol office. Mrs. Patterson, daughter of the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Olin D.

Johnston, stood outside Wright's office Friday and said, "I used to rollerskate around in these halls." She is thus far unopposed in the Democratic primary. Four Republicans are seeking the nomination to succeed GOP Rep. Carroll A. Campbell who is running for governor. More candidates come forward Two more congressmen filed for re-election Friday, and three Republican candidates are planning to file for an open congressional seat in Charleston.

Third District U.S. Rep. Butler Derrick and 5th District Rep. John Spratt paid filing fees with the state Democratic Party. Neither is expected to have serious opposition for re-election.

Republicans Arthur Ravenel, Steve Jones and J. Patrick Vanderhoof are planning to file Monday for the seat vacated by U.S. Rep. Thomas Hartnett, who is not seeking re-election. Hartnett is planning to file Monday for lieutenant governor.

Retired Circuit Judge Frank Eppes filed for the Democratic nomination for governor, but former Winthrop College president Phil Lader has not yet filed for that race. A report in Thursday's editions of The State incorrectly said that Lader had filed, but that Eppes had not yet filed. Sen. Hugh Leatherman, D-Florence, and Lt. Gov.

Mike Daniel also have filed for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Setting It Straight The number to call in Columbia for information concerning the Kings Mountain State Park quilting and weaving workshop May 10-11 was incorrectly listed in Friday's Weekend section. The correct number is 758-3622. The St. Louis Symphony will perform at 4 p.m.

Sunday at the Carolina Coliseum, not 8 p.m. as was reported in Friday's Weekend section. $55,000 in damages paid for fish kill By JOHN COLLINS Newberry Barcas EDGEFIELD The operators of a Greenwood County sewer treatment plant and the contractor and engineer for an expansion project at the facility have agreed to pay $55,000 in damages for a massive fish kill last July in the Saluda River. Members of the S.C. Wildlife and Marine Resources Commission voted at a meeting Friday to accept "voluntary donations" of $20,000 from G.E.

Moore Inc. Construction Co. and Davis Floyd consulting engineers, both of Greenwood, and $35,000 from Lane change I-126's new name honors past mayor By MARGARET CORVINI State Staff Writer Motorists entering and leaving Columbia on Interstate 126 will now find themselves traveling instead on the Lester Bates Freeway. The highway, stretching from the Elmwood-Huger Street interchange to Bush River Road, has been named in honor of former Columbia Mayor Lester Bates Sr. Bates, 81, was honored Friday during a luncheon attended by "about 50 of Bates Lester's triends," said host William B.

Harley of Columbia. One of those friends, former state Sen. Hyman Rubin told the group that Bates "was a great mayor because he was bold and innovative." Rubin, who served on Columbia City Council during Bates' first two terms as mayor, added that Bates' "remarkable sense of humor" helped him diffuse tensions among city leaders. Bates attended the luncheon accompanied by several family members. His son thanked the gathering for the honor, and Bates "seemed deeply moved," Rubin said.

While the luncheon was in progress at the Sheraton Columbia Northwest, crews from the S.C. Department of Highways and Public Transportation unveiled new road signs at each end of the highway. In addition, highway department officials later unveiled a replica of a granite marker that will be placed in See Freeway, 4-B Joe State A sign of change State worker Leroy House helps erect sign on 'old' 1-126 the Greenwood Metropolitan Commission. The sewer commission runs the Wilson Creek treatment plant, which has been blamed for discharging waste that robbed the water of oxygen and killed an estimated 130,000 bream, bass and catfish along an 18-mile stretch of the Saluda River. The kill took place July 15 between Lake Greenwood and the backwaters of Lake Murray.

The companies are involved with a $5 million expansion and renovation project at the plant, which treats waste for the city of Greenwood. wildlife department had estimated the total cost of the kill at $84,000 using a nationally accepted formula based on the type and weight of fish. That figure does not include the salaries of workers who investigated the kill. William Webster III, wildlife commission chairman, said the money received from the settlement will be used to "defray the costs of investigation, a restocking program on the Saluda and to further the wildlife and freshwater fisheries programs of the department." The wildlife department stocked the river with bream fingerlings last fall and plans to release bass fingerlings this 15,18 a Lester Bates Freeway Logan, the department's director of freshwater fisheries, said. The sewer commission also faces a fine to be levied by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control, probably next week.

DHEC Spokesman Warren Hardy said Friday that the agency is in the process of finalizing a consent order with Greenwood Metro that will establish the amount of damages to be paid and a timetable for correcting problems that led to the fish kill. spring, Joe Garbage shipments rile Riley Governor urges banning privately owned landfills By CHARLES POPE State Staff Writer Alarmed by a "growing tide of garbage from out of state" being disposed in South Carolina landfills, Gov. Dick Riley Friday repeated his call to the General Assembly to pass legislation outlawing privately owned waste burial facilities. In letters to Lt. Gov.

Mike Daniel, president of the Senate, and House Speaker Ramon Schwartz, Riley asked for legislation prohibiting privately owned waste facilities for all types of waste, including nuclear and hazardous waste as well as common household debris. "I call on the General Assembly to consider again prohibiting privately owned waste burial facilities in our state," Riley wrote. "This is the only way I now see that we can legally keep -state waste from pouring into our rural countryside." Riley spokesman Russ McKinney said the letters were triggered by recent attempts by a contractor for the city of Philadelphia to bury 70 tons of waste residue in several private Lowcounty landfills. McKinney said that Riley hopes legislation will be introduced this session but that the governor also wrote the letters to rekindle interest in the issue. "The Philadelphia case brought to light another aspect of the problem that we have in this state being able to control out-of-state waste," McKinney said.

"I don't think there is any question (Riley) would certainly love to see something be done this year although he's realistic enough to know it's getting sort of late in the session." The Legislature is scheduled to adjourn in early June. Riley also urged the state Department of Health and Environmental Control, other regulatory agencies and local governments to "review this undesirable and unfair situation where our state's environment can be bought and sold for the benefit of the city of Philadelphia or any other out-of-state interest." Riley also recommended that citizens press for action. See Garbage, 4-B See Fish Kill, 4-B Former allies voice dismay with French By JAN TUTEN State Staff Writer ORANGEBURG Instructors who trained French pilots during World War II said Friday that they were surprised the French government did not allow the United States to use a route over France during Monday's air strike in Libya. But the instructors, who donated a PT-17 Spearman training plane to France in 1981 for the Le Bourget Museum as a gesture of friendship, said most of the French pilots with whom they stay in contact don't sup port the position of President Francois Mitterrand. "I think it's just stupidity on their part, after what we've done for them," said Vic Lebednik, an Orangeburg resident and former flight instructor at Hawthorne Field.

"But I'm sure it's mostly the socialist leaning of Mitterrand, who has never been favorable toward our thinking," Lebednik said. The instructors gathered Friday in Orangeburg for the annual reunion of personnel assigned to Hawthorne Field in Orangeburg, one of two schools that trained French pilots in 1944-45. The group gathers each year to reminisce, glance through old pictures and share tales of their lives. Many became pilots for commercial airlines, some went home to work in family businesses, and others remained in Orangeburg after the barracks became the Methodist Home and the field the site of Greenwood Mills. Although few French pilots were expected at this year's reunion, Lebednik said that members of the WWII (Hawthorne Pilot Training Association keep in touch across the Atlantic, and that pilots who live there call Mitterrand "a dirty dog." "They don't like Mitterrand at all, and they're surprised he's been in there that long," said Glenn Sneed, a former instructor who lives in Eugene, Ore.

"I realize we have a lot of hard feelings now and are called warmongers, but I don't know how long you could put up with someone robbing from you and stealing from you. It's a good thing we did it because it seems to me we've backed off on everything else," said Sneed, a retired chief pilot for an aircraft company. See Pilots, 4-B Doug State Plenty of pasture A horse grazing in a field off U.S. 1 near Lexington finds itself more than knee-deep in clover Navy, S.C. agree on high-tech plant By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press The Navy signed a $3.8 million contract with the S.C.

Research Authority on Friday to develop a computerized manufacturing facility that officials predict will put the state in the forefront of research and development. Under the contract with the Naval Supply Systems Command, the authority will work with the Charleston Naval Shipyard to develop a plant that uses computers and robots to make small military parts. The project is part of a program called RAMP Rapid Acquisition of Military Parts. The contract is the first of several expected to total as much as $50 million over the next five years. Rear Adm.

Edward K. Walker, the commander of the Naval Supply Systems Command in Washington, said during the signing ceremony that the project will provide the state "a window on advanced technology for its citizens to participate in into the 1990s." "For the Navy, this project will allow us to move rapidly into an area which has caused us significant problems in the past," Walker said. He said that Navy equipment is purchased for the long term and that it's sometimes difficult to get quick response on orders for spare parts for ships that may be decades old. Under the RAMP project, the research authority will develop a manufacturing facility that allows a worker to sit down at a computer, order a part See Navy, 4-B.