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The State Columbia, South Carolina Saturday, November 5, 1988 Capital Report Good morning IT'S EVEN MONEY it's going to rain today. Highs are expected in the low 70s, with lows in the upper 40s. THE SOUTH CAROLINA Literacy Association's fall conference continues today at The Townhouse. GOVERNOR AND MRS. Campbell will attend the University of South State football game tonight in Columbia.

Masons urged to vote If the nation's Masons don't vote Tuesday, don't blame Governor Campbell. Campbell is pictured on the November cover of The New Age magazine, a publication for the fraternal organization of which he is a member. Inside is an article he penned urging readers to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Campbell even managed to mention the names of two South Carolina towns Kingstree and Cowpens in a reference to Revolutionary War battles. Rabbi, pastor to speak A rabbi and a Southern Baptist pastor will present their perspectives on Israel at an interfaith meeting in Columbia today.

The event will be held in Reinartz Hall, below Christ Chapel, at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, 4201 N. Main St. Speaking on "The Messiah, Redemption and Israel: Jewish and Evangelical Perspectives" will be Rabbi James Rudin, national interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee, and the Rev. Glenn Anderson, pastor of Columbia's Forest Drive Baptist Church. "The purpose of the program is to learn why Jews and Evangelical Christians attach such great importance to modern Israel, giving special attention to the political significance of Israel for Jews as well as the religious significance that different groups see in the Jewish state," said Meta Miller, president of the Christian-Jewish Congress of South Carolina.

Mayor may eat crow A column published in 1927 could cause the mayor of New York to eat barbecue and the mayor of Columbia to eat crow. Columbia Mayor Patton Adams and New York Mayor Ed Koch wagered a tasty bet earlier this year over the origin of New York's nickname, "'The Big Apple." Adams, who claimed the name originated in the 1930s at a dance hall in his city, said if he was proven wrong, he'd provide Koch a barbecue dinner. Koch countered by offering to give Adams a New York pizza if the Columbia mayor was right. On Friday, Koch said he has evidence to aid his case. The mayor said he has documentation that the late columnist Walter Winchell referred to New York as the "Big Apple" in December 1927.

The reference was made in an article in a publication, The Bookman, Koch said. The article was sent to Koch by Merwin Dembling, a Manhattan editor of medical magazines, who found the reference in a bookstore. Koch said Winchell's article was entitled "The Real Broadway" and contained the following sentence: "To the lonely and aspiring hoofer, the fannie-failing comedian, the ukelele player with the special technique and the singer with something peculiar about his voice, trouping the onenight stands in the southern swamps and western prairies, Broadway is the Big Apple, the Main Stem, the goal of all ambition, the pot of gold at the end of a drab and somewhat colorless rainbow." Adams, who was out of town Friday, could not be reached for comment. The only question now may be whether Koch likes mustard-based or tomato-based barbecue. Setting It Straight The curtain hasn't fallen yet on Side by Side by Sondheim at the Ridge Community Theatre of The Weekend calendar closed the show prematurely Friday, but the final show will be tonight at 8 Haynes Auditorium.

Tickets are $6. Call 532-9320. Elementary school is site of protest by elderly By HOLLY GATLING Pee Dee Bureau More than 100 elderly Williamsburg residents sang "'We Shall Overcome" waved "Senior Power" posters as marched Friday to protest the closing of tery Park Senior Citizens Center. "We want our center back," 81-year-old tivist Pansy C. Pressley told the group met before the march at Mount Seal Sports complex planned Facility to be built near USC stadium By FRED MONK Business Editor A group of Columbia investors is taking condo parking near WilliamsBrice Stadium a step further they are including a multimillion-dollar sports center with a parking space.

Potential members in what will be called Stadium Courts Club will hear plans today for the $3 million indooroutdoor tennis and sports complex and club within the shadows of Williams-Brice stadium. A group led by John W. Etters of Columbia has laid the groundwork for the complex on a 10-acre site at the end of South Stadium Road behind the Gate House Restaurant. They have scheduled a 6 p.m. promotional meeting at Seawell's at the Fairgrounds before the Florida State game.

The plans include development of a $2 million, sports and fitness center that will have two indoor tennis courts, racquetball courts, exercise and weight rooms, sauna, business meeting rooms and a bar and grill. There will be a jogging path around the facility and a croquet lawn. But the center will not have a swimming pool because Etters said See Courts, 10-D STUCKEY Methodist Church. "We were happy there until we were shut out, and we're still shut out." Joseph Washington, 77, said, "You who are County denying the senior citizens, you will become and old one day." they Located on the property of Battery Parked Bat- Elementary School, the center closed in July after the South Carolina Commission on Aging ac- and the State Health and Human Services Fiwhich nance Commission cut off funds to the WilUnited liamsburg County Council on Aging for alleged John W. Etters with a model of the $3 million mismanagement.

however, continues to operate with a $6,400 Investigators found, among other things, allowance from the Williamsburg County that the aging council charged elderly clients Council. for meals in 1 violation of state and federal law. The council had operated four centers inLast month, Santee Senior Services, operat- cluding Battery Park, which is leased from the by the Sumter County Council on Aging, school district. It now concentrates its services took over services to Williamsburg County's in Kingstree, while Santee concentrates its serelderly clients. vices in Greeleyville, Stuckey and Hemingway.

Funds which had gone to the WCCOA now The protesting seniors receive meals at are paid to the SCCA. See Protest, 2-D The Williamsburg County Council on Aging, Chaikin decision expected From Staff and Wire Reports SLED Chief Robert Stewart and 5th Circuit Solicitor James Anders will meet early next week to determine whether to continue investigating Tommy Chaikin's allegations of drug use by the University of South Carolina football team. Anders and Stewart were scheduled to meet Friday, but Anders left town for a weekend trip to the North Carolina mountains. The meeting could come as early as Monday. State Law Enforcement Division spokesman Hugh Munn said Friday that SLED agents have questioned a number of people to determine if criminal charges should be brought.

He said he did not know who had been questioned, however. "The chief will sit down with Mr. Anders and tell him what our investigation has turned up, and they'll decide where to go from there," Munn said. Anders told The Associated Press on Friday that he is beginning to question the truthfulness of Chaikin's See Probe, 2-D School says mother OK'd discipline By DAWN HINSHAW Staff Writer A Columbia woman agreed to allow a private school to discipline her son when he was enrolled, according to the school's response to a $1 million negligence lawsuit. In the suit, Lila Powell claimed that her 11-year-old suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the headmaster and another employee at the Timmerman School.

She specifically objected to her son being forced to stay in a 16-square-foot room "for unusually long periods of time," and Off-duty deputies OK at polls By DAVE MONIZ Staff Writer No state law prohibits off-duty law enforcement officers from supporting candidates outside polling places, according 1 to the state Election Commission. The issue was raised Wednesday when Van Hipp, chairman of the state Republican Party, asked the U.S. Justice Department to assign marshals to watch the sheriff's race in Dorchester County. Hipp said the presence of sheriff's deputies outside polling places i in Dorchester County would intimidate voters. The Election Commission's spokesman, Conway Belangia, said Friday that while law enforcement officers may only enter polls to vote or answer a summons from poll managers, the law says nothing about activity outside polls.

A 12-year-old attorney general's opinion, Belangia said, also allows off-duty officers to participate as "poll watchers" if they are qualified and not in uniform. He said, however, that some local or county laws may prohibit law enforcement officers from supporting candidates. U.S. Attorney Vinton Lide said Friday that Hipp's request was not feasible and referred it to the state election commission. The Justice De- See Sheriff, 10-D Stadium Perry State fights with fellow students, was disrespectful to his teachers and "refused to cut his hair after repeated warnings." Named as defendants in the lawsuit were the school; John Timmerman the headmaster; and Katherine Ward.

According to their response, school administrators had informed Ms. Powell prior to the 1987-88 school year that her son was not abiding by school regulations and it agreed to allow him to oll only after being assured he would behave. At that time, it said, Ms. Powell "agreed to support the school." Dispute over audit of family business lands brother in jail By DAWN HINSHAW Staff Writer A dispute between two brothers over a business deal landed one of them, R. Trippett Boineau in jail Friday on contempt of court charges.

Boineau, 62, was sentenced to 30 days in jail by Judge C. Victor Pyle after Boineau repeatedly refused to allow auditors for his brother, Charles, to inspect financial records of a family moving business. R. Trippett Boineau Sr. and a nephew cited for contempt along with 1 R.

Trippett Boineau Jr. were released on $10,000 personal recognizance bonds Friday evening, their attorney, John Young, said. A condition of the bond was that they open the books first thing Monday morning. Young and Harold W. Jacobs, Charles Boineau's attorney, said the dispute has been simmering for several months.

the center of the family fight is a lawsuit brought by Charles Boineau to dissolve Boineau's Moving and See Boineau, 10-D said he was ridiculed for having long hair and refusing to play sports. The school's attorney, Dana A. Morris of Camden, answered the lawsuit's allegations in paperwork filed earlier this week in the Richland County Court of Common Pleas. While the school denied that its discipline was severe and said other claims were unfounded, it maintained that as part of a contract enrolling her child, Ms. Powell "waived and consented to the schools disciplinary action." It further contended that the Powell child had "a discipline problem." instigated Black vote crucial in 4th race By LEE BANDY vote for the Washington Bureau vote is the Although the 4th District has the smallest chairman of the black vote in the state, it could prove to be tion for the pivotal in what is rated one of the tightest and president of congressional contests in the nation.

The forecast Democratic Rep. Liz Patterson of Spartan- "Blacks are burg needs every vote she can get to retain her kakis, and that seat against a stiff challenge from Republican ticipation. If that Knox White of Greenville, sources say. have a negative The key, of course, is turnout. "An overwhelming majority of blacks will Sheriff's department targets devil worship By BHAKTI LARRY HOUGH Staff Writer The Lexington County Sheriff's Department has launched a program to educate the community about signs of devil worship and the occult.

And one local high school is offering counseling to students who have shown an interest in the occult. Sheriff James Metts said the problem is not a big one in the area, but "There is a lot of public interest i in the subject, and we have had some isolated incidents" of crimes that appear to be linked to the occult or satanism. The department's concern led to the development of an educational program, which it is taking to schools, civic groups and churches. The program includes a slide presentation showing satanic and occult symbols and their meanings. "Our approach is more of an educational and preventive one.

We have nothing to indicate there is a widespread problem, but we want people to know this kind of thing is going on and crimes are often committed in the process," he said. Law enforcement officials have long been concerned about crimes related to satanism and occult practices, See Satanism 2-D Democratic ticket, but how many question," said William Gibson, board of the National AssociaAdvancement of Colored People the state chapter. is for a low turnout. not enthused about Michael Dunormally means low voter parproves to be the case, it will impact on this race," said state See Blacks, 10-D ELECTION '88 Van Hipp Vinton Lide Prophecy Bush appears in crystal ball By MIKE LIVINGSTON Staff Writer Media analysts, pollsters of various sorts and political sages of all stripes aside, the outcome of the presidential race of 1988 also has yielded to the more intuitive and psychic crafts. "I feel that Bush is going to get it," said Columbia seeress the Rev.

Millie of West Columbia. "I feel Bush that's just what I feel. When I look at him, it gives me that feeling that he will be the president. It involves some kind of telepathy." The Rev. Millie said she really doesn't know whether her prediction comes from psychic powers or just womanly instincts.

Indeed, she sometimes has trouble sorting out the two. "You know, I question Mother Nature about that every day," she said. "But Bush is what I truly feel it is a feeling that comes from within." Checking with the stars, as they shine in the 1988 Farmers' Almanac, candidates Bush and Dukakis See Psychic, 10-.