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2-C The S.C., Friday, December 7, 1984 lot ed. Lottery to allocate students' Gator Bowl tickets Metro Report Richland Columbia Lexington Baby sitter acquitted in death of her charge A federal jury in Columbia has acquitted a Fort Jackson woman of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a infant she was babysitting. The three-day trial concluded Thursday with an innocent verdict for Elizabeth Ann Taylor, 26. She had been charged in October by a federal grand jury with voluntary manslaughter after the death of Amoke Abiyana Wanton. An autopsy revealed the Wanton youth died of a massive head injury March 28.

The maximum penalty Ms. Taylor could have received was three years in prison. Help for small business studied Columbia City Council has organized a task force to study the role local government should play in helping local small businesses stay Carl Espy, chairman of the task force, said he hopes members can help make Columbia's 300 small and minority business owners aware of where they can seek help. "Right now, it's mind-boggling for small businesses, because there are so many places to seek help," said Epsy, a South Carolina Federal senior vice president. The $40,000 study, funded by the federal Economic Development Administration, will try to determine whether local businesses are aware that certain agencies exist to help them.

The city's community development office estimated that about 25 local public and private agencies provide services to small and minority businesses. The study also will try to gauge the businesses' attitudes toward city government and what they think government's role should be. The federal Small Business Administration estimates that about three to four out of every five businesses will not make it past their fifth Food baskets to be distributed The Columbia Urban League and WOIC Radio will distribute 550 Christmas food baskets to needy families in the Midlands. The project, in its 17th year, is aimed at making Christmas more pleasant for less fortunate families by providing them with enough food to prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner on Christmas Day. Recipients of the baskets will be referred to the League by 20 social service agencies.

Phone: requests will also be taken by the Columbia Urban League from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The baskets will be distributed Dec. 20 at Alcorn Middle School. Fund-raising events have been scheduled for Friday at Giant Food World at Midlands Shopping Center and Dec.

14 at Giant Food World at Northside Plaza. Discos will be held, with live broadcasts, Dec. 10 at the Lime Lite and Dec. 17 at the Fountain Bleu. A gospel sing-out is scheduled for Dec.

16 at Benedict College. Admission will be four cans of food or $2. Persons interested in volunteering to pack food baskets or in donating canned goods should call the League's office at 799-8150. Injured pedestrian 'stable' A 45-year-old Columbia man was reported in stable condition Thursday after he was hit by a car on Gervais Street Wednesday night. The Columbia Police Department identified the victim as Eddie Lee Goodwin.

According to police, Goodwin was knocked onto the windshield of a passing car as he tried to cross Gervais Street about 8:30 p.m. Goodwin initially was said to have been critically injured and was taken to Richland Memorial Hospital. The hospital on Thursday said he was in stable condition. According to police, no charges had been filed in connection with the accident, one of about 60 traffic accidents that took place as rain covered the Midlands on Wednesday. School board meeting moved Richland School District One has rescheduled its December board meeting from Dec.

11 to Dec. 17. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the district's administration building, 1616 Richland St. The public is invited to attend.

Fugitive surrenders to officers A 39-year-old Columbia fugitive was being held Thursday in the Lexington County Jail after he turned himself in to Cartersville, police earlier this week. Calvin Hall Jr. waived extradition procedures and arrived in Lexington County Wednesday night, according to Lewis McCarty, assistant Lexington County sheriff. McCarty said a bench warrant was issued for Hall in July after he skipped out on a $1,000 bond in connection with grand larceny and breaking and entering charges. "One of our officers received a call Monday night to go to a local motel, which was the Quality Inn," Cartersville Police Chief Paul Whitley said.

"When they arrived, this fellow, Calvin Hall, said he was wanted in South Carolina and he wanted to turn himself in." "He told them (officers) he was tired of running," Whitley said. "Yeah, it's kind of unusual, but it happens occasionally. I guess they really do get tired. I guess every time they see a police officer, they wonder if he's going to arrest them." McCarty said initial news reports that Hall had escaped from the Lexington County Jail were not accurate. He said Hall simply skipped out on a bond set in Richland County.

By DEBRA-LYNN BLEDSOE State Staff Writer Although Gamecock Club members have been allotted only 13,937 tickets to this year's Gator Bowl, applications have poured in for 33,000 of the precious commodities. And University of South Carolina officials, fearing the same enthusiasm might. cause problems among students, have decided to cancel Saturday's ticket sale at Carolina Coliseum and do things lotterystyle. USC had initially planned to put the students' allotment on sale at the coliseum for four hours Saturday morning. Anticipating mayhem at ticket win- Rep.

Derrick pessimistic on waste pact United Press International U.S. Rep. Butler Derrick says he doesn't expect the new Congress to approve legislation to limit the atomic waste dumped in South Carolina. Derrick, who has led the fight to spread the burden of low-level waste storage, says there has been no effort to build new waste disposal sites in other areas of the country. The lack of new sites complicates South Carolina's plan to restrict by January 1986 shipments of waste for burial in Barnwell County to only a group of Southern states, he said.

South Carolina, one of only three states accepting the nation's low -level nuclear waste, now buries 50 percent of it. Congress' failure to take action in the first few months of its upcoming session could move the five-year struggle over the issue to a showdown. Gov. Dick Riley and state Rep. Bob Sheheen, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, have pledged to move to close the Barnwell site if no federal action is taken.

"I can be hopeful that it will happen, but to be pragmatic about it, there's going to have to be some leverage to bring it about," Derrick said. Congress failed to take action last session on legislation to sanction the creation of re- dows, however, officials decided a lottery would be a better idea. "This is in response to the health and safety of the students," said Rob Chiles, who works in the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs as student adviser to the Student Government Association. Chiles said there was a rash of vandalism, violence and illness among students when they camped out for tickets to the Clemson University game two weeks ago, and officials don't want a repeat. Through the computerized lottery process, students will have three days to get to the Russell House, where they will plug their names into a computer.

"If there are less than 2,000 (applications), it is clear everybody will get Rep. Butler Derrick, 'Compromise may be gional compacts for nuclear waste burial. The group of measures to grant federal approval of the regional burial groups would allow South Carolina to begin cutting back on the waste it accepts at the Barnwell site. The legislation is the first step in the state's plan to close the Barnwell site by 1992. Derrick said supporters of the legislation may have to drop their insistence on a 1986 deadline for restricting waste shipments in return for commitments from officials in the Northeast and Midwest to begin building new burial sites.

tickets," Chiles said. Chiles said the list will be posted in front of the Carolina Program Union on the second floor of the Russell House and in various residence halls. Students can apply in the Russell House from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, and again from 8:30 a.m.

until noon on Saturday. Meanwhile, Jim Petrus, USC's interim athletic ticket manager, said he expects to start filling orders for Gamecock Club members on Monday. By Wednesday's deadline for Gamecock Club applications, about 33,000 tickets had been requested. But only 13,937 tickets are available for the club, for distribution according to the amount of money applicants have contributed during their membership. Applications from staff and faculty have been far fewer, and probably will not absorb the allotted 2,600 tickets.

Any left over in that category, or in the chunk of 1,000 set aside for university administration and public officials, will go to the Gamecock Club. Meanwhile, Gator Bowl officials said Thursday that Oklahoma State had exercised its option on 13,350 tickets, which obligates the school for 90 percent of the total. NCAA regulations allow a school to return up to 10 percent of its allotment. Any unsold tickets must be returned to the Gator Bowl by Dec. 21, and they will go on sale to the general public on Dec.

26 at the Jacksonville Coliseum. Agency severing link with jobs experiment The Central Planning Council management gram that has welfare mothers ity to hire and The state Services has retained the authority to choose which recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children can take the jobs, a Central Midlands official said at Thursday's council meeting. Midlands Regional has voted to end its of an experimental proemployed hundreds of unless it gets authorfire the mothers. Department of Social Thomas The program pays the minimum wage to the mothers, who go into the homes of elderly people to help them provide for themselves. A total of 65 women take part in the program at a time, and they usually are placed in other jobs after participating for several months.

"If you do not have authority to hire the people you want and fire the people you want, then you have an impossible management situation," said Central Midlands Executive Director Sidney Thomas. Thomas said the Midlands program is the first of its kind in the country and is serving as a model for future federal programs of its type. He said it was important to alert federal authorities to the management problem before it becomes a national program. Thomas also said he assumed DSS would seek another public management agency to provide the service in the four-county region unless it changes its mind and relinquishes hiring and firing authority. In other business, the council approved two highway projects, including the widening to eight lanes of a portion of Interstate 126 from Greystone Boulevard to the I-26 flyover now under construction.

The project would cost $5.8 million. That portion of I-126 now narrows to only six lanes from an existing eight-lane section from Elmwood Avenue. The council also approved widening to three lanes, realigning and straightening a portion of Alexander St. in West Columbia and Cayce at a cost of $810,000. MINTESO 04.00 04.00 0 0 SAN SAN 0.00 CUS 04.00 SAN 04.00 01 PO U1 PO 21 SP Finally one that fits.

Photos by Barry State Freshman Kim Brennan finds out what it's like at the end of the list. A touch of class(es) Pre-registration for spring semester got under way at the University of South Carolina this week with all the lines, pressure and frustration such an operation always entails, as students struggled to find the right class for the right time. Daniel calls for self-sufficient state By JAN TUTEN Camden Bureau BISHOPVILLE Proposed measures to freeze federal spending will hurt South Carolina's economic development, making it more important that state become financially selfLt. Gov. Mike Daniel said Thursday.

President Reagan's proposals will affect the state "especially in the areas of grants and loans to municipalities and counties for water and sewer projects," key factors in industry location, Daniel said in Bishopville after a tour of rural Lee County. "It's up to us to find other ways to provide these facilities or we're not going to have industry expansion," he said. Daniel, chairman of the Governor's Task Force on Economic Development Incentives, will be discussing the panel's recent recommendations to the governor and the state's economic survival through 2000 with chambers of commerce statewide during the next several months. Daniel spent the day in Lee County meeting county, city, business and industry leaders before addressing the Lee County Chamber of Commerce at their annual banquet Thursday night. The task force has recommended using a percentage of state employees' pension funds to help finance economic development, he said.

"This is only an example, and there probably are other ways" of developing resources to help the state become more self-sufficient, he said. "Look at what's happened to industrial revenue bonds. The possibility exists that they'll be completely eliminated. Our own Supreme Court has vastly curtailed issuing general obligation bonds. We have to find other sources," Daniel said.

The government and the private sector should work together to find those other sources, he said. He said the task force also recommends that counties invest a percentage of highway funds in a pool earmarked for economic development. Daniel also advocates establishing an office within the State Development Board to guide industries through what he calls one of the state's "disincentives," its license and permit procedures. An "investment bank," a joint venture between public and private sectors, also would promote economic development, he said. Daniel said South Carolina's economic survival also depends on job retraining and on incentives for small and medium-size businesses to locate in the state.

Business, government and education must join forces to promote the state's economic self-sufficiency, he said. "We can start with our small towns and rural communities by paying greater attention to building home-grown, small businesses in small towns that hire local people, that halts the population flow to big cities, that preserves a way of life that is unique to South Carolina," he said. Jobs throughout the nation are shifting from basic industry and heavy manufacturing to fields of technology, communications, information and services, he said. "In South Carolina today, less than 25 percent of our people are employed in manufacturing, which is down from 35 percent six years ago. "Some economists have projected that only 17 percent of our work force will be engaged in the manufacturing sector of our state's economy in 1990, less than half of what it was in 1980." Daniel said the idea of luring industry into the state with cheap labor, cheap land and cheap energy "is a wholly insufficient basis for economic development for our state in the 1980s and 1990s.

"New jobs for South Carolinians will increasingly come from small and mediumsize businesses, entities which face many real barriers to their growth and survival," he said. "Huge plants, with enormous payrolls, cannot and will not be a large part of our economic base in the future." Calling for a halt to the accumulation of massive federal budget deficits, Daniel said strong incentives from the federal government are needed for investment in new businesses and in the conversion of older firms to more productive operations. He said the state must "act boldly" to help traditional industries such as textiles, heavy manufacturing, agriculture and tourism become more competitive. "They need help in adapting modern technology to stay competitive, and their workers need help in upgrading their skills," Police unsure whether death was a murder By BOBBY BRYANT Daniel State Staff Writer Authorities still had not determined Thursday whether the shooting death of a Columbia woman, killed as she drove a car down Falling Springs Road, was a suicide or a slaying. Minnie Stearns, 41, was shot once in the head about 11 a.m.

Wednesday as she was driving a car past Rutledge Forest Apartments. The vehicle swerved off the road, crashed through a tennis court and hit the wall of an apartment building. Mrs. Stearns' husband was in the car at the time, police said, and a gun was found inside the vehicle. Police Cmdr.

Charles Clark said Thursday, however, that investigators hadn't been able to tell who fired the shot. Clark said the husband whose full name has not been released was freed from police custody by Thursday afternoon. Clark said the man told investigators his wife fired the fatal shot. No charges had been filed against the husband, and Clark said police were waiting on the results of State Law Enforcement Division lab tests. Likewise, Richland County Coroner Frank Barron had not yet ruled the death a suicide or homicide.

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