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2-C The S.C., Friday, August 26, 1988 Ised Groups in King anniversary march By BILL HIGGINS Religion Writer A few hundred South Carolinians are expected to be among the thousands in Washington, D.C., Saturday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the march that led to the Rev. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. King galvanized the Civil Rights movement and spurred federal legislation for minorities with his speech Aug. 28, 1963, before 200,000 people. Nelson Rivers, executive secretary of the South Carolina NAACP, estimated those memories would draw 200 to 300 from the Cayce teen to get check at reception Workers help dream come true for student Well wishers for Kristi McNair, a former poster child for the South Carolina Muscular Dystrophy Association, will hold a reception for her at 5 p.m.

Monday at Pizza Hut on Knox Abbot Drive before she leaves for the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. Kristi, 15, will be given a check for $5,000 to pay for her Las Vegas, trip, which begins Thursday. The money was raised from a variety of events under the Grant-aWish program, an effort started a year ago by Pizza Hut workers on behalf of Kristi. "She was a customer here and she told me that her lifelong dream was to meet Jerry Lewis, and we were trying to make that come true for her," said Calvin Summers, manager of the Pizza Hut on Knox Abbott Drive. Carolina Sunshine for Children, a non-profit organization with Richland Memorial Hospital's Children's Hospital, provided Kristi's air fare.

A sophomore at Brookland-Cayce High School, Kristi is South Carolina MDA's Goodwill Ambassador. For information about the reception, call 798-7530. Beach From 1-C front legislation, and Council Director Wayne Beam and its chairman, Sen. John Hayes, D-York. It asks for a permanent injunction against the legislation, which took effect July 1.

The legislation is designed to save the state's eroding coastline by banning new construction on the beach, prohibiting new seawalls and other erosion control devices and strictly limiting rebuilding of buildings damaged by storms or fires. Buildings that are destroyed cannot be rebuilt if they were located seaward of the ideal duneline or 20 feet landward of that line, in a so-called "dead zone." The suit says all the plaintiffs' homes are in the dead zone or seaward of it and that the legislation "places a cloud on the title to their property." Coastal Council officials had not seen the suit and would not comment on it directly Thursday. But Hayes said he was not surprised it had been filed. "We anticipated a suit, we anticipated those issues to be brought Hayes said. "That's the way the system works.

If people feel there are problems with legislation, the appropriate forum is the courts." Hayes was one of six members of a House-Senate conference committee that spent several days at the end of the last legislative session working out a compromise bill that would be acceptable both to legislators who wanted to stop construction on the beaches and to those who wanted to make sure the state didn't take anybody's property unfairly. The committee added a provision spelling out an appeals process for one section of the bill. But the suit challenges the entire bill. "The question I think basically needs to be resolved is whether or not the act does violate the Constitution, and I think that's sort of the threshold issue," Hayes said. In addition to Esposito, the plaintiffs are Ronald W.

Dostal, Edward J. Shannon, Dr. Josef F. Stulac II, Edward D. Esping, Betty B.

Esping, Dennis Lowes, Joyce Klepchick, Robert L. McKibben, Betty Moriarty Odom, Mary W. Lancaster, Louise S. Duncan, Dr. Louis B.

Gilham Jo Anne Gilham, Nancy J. Bentz, James A. Warren, Marjorie B. Warren, James A. Warren Wilson Tison, Barbara Tison, Marion Hering, Dr.

William J. Schmalz, Lisa L. Schmalz, Margaret E. Creagh, Dr. William R.

Jarvis, Dr. Janine M. Jason, Richard A. English, Mertland M. Hedges III, Dr.

Walter M. Boehm, Gladys Harms, Dr. Jeff Holloman, Jay Fiorillo, Deborah Fiorillo, Dr. John P. Heard, Ellen W.

Heard, Charles F. Heard, Michael J. Daugherty, Karen A. Dr. Sherman Cans and Elinor Gans.

state. He said, however, that no organized effort had been made to draw participants. "Some folk in the Lowcountry are chartering buses," Rivers said. "Other people are driving. It's hard to say how many will Rivers said NAACP commitments had prohibited the organization from coordinating statewide travel plans.

Organizing the march are King's widow, Coretta, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change; Dr. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that King once headed; and Dr. Benjamin Hooks, president of the NAACP. Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis and the Rev.

Jesse Jackson will speak, as will Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Washington Congressman Walter Fauntroy and John Jacobs, president of the National Urban League. Groups will assemble between 9 and 10 a.m. at the Sylvan Theatre in Washington. The march to the Lincoln Memorial will begin at 11 a.m., and the program will last from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., according to Michelle Combs with the mobilization office in Washington. Two hundred organizations are expected, she said.

As in 1963, legislation will be a key issue in the program, with housing, the economy, health, peace and opposition to apartheid as targets, said Doris Crenshaw, a march coordinator with the King center in Atlanta. In South Carolina, the black Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention has been one organization promoting the march. But its leaders will be unable to attend. Nathaniel Brockman, director of Christian education for the convention, said he would be "tied up." Bishop F.C. James of the African Methodist Episcopal Church said he has fond memo- These nine children were among the first to try out for the Greater Columbia Children's Choir Choir tryouts The Greater Columbia Children's Choir began conducting choir placement interviews Thursday at Washington Street Methodist Church.

Showing up to try out for about 150 slots are, sitting above, left to right, Rebecca Sigman, Brad Davis, Jennifer Sigman, Anthony Curtis and Michelle Nance. Standing are Stephanie Curtis, Tiffany Linebaugh, Aimee Hazel and Kelly Ropp. Other auditions are scheduled Sunday and Tuesday. Perry State ries of the march 25 years ago and supports the aims of Saturday's march, but he also will miss it. "I've been so engaged in institutional work with the AME Church," including Allen University and nearby James Shopping Center.

"Many of the people most enthusiastic over the first march are engaged today in the kind of job activity we were battling for then," he said. But there are many blacks still "outside the opportunity circle. That's a fact of life in America." Lottie Gibson of Greenville, a coordinator in South Carolina, said she hopes to go, but has been sick. Study calls for changes in state mandates By MICHAEL LEWIS Staff Writer Mandates handed down to local governments by the state should include specific information about costs and funding, a new study says. The study by the South Carolina Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations also calls for wideranging changes to nearly 600 state mandates for local governments.

City and county officials have long complained that the General Assembly has deluged local governments with mandates without providing any source of additional funding. "Mention the word 'mandate' to any group of local officials, and you can see their blood pressure rise," Dan. B. Mackey, executive director of the ACIR, said. The commission is a state-funded agency that researches issues pertinent to local governments.

Its latest study was presented Thursday to the Central Midlands Regional Planning Council. Mackey said most local officials support the general intent of state mandates, such as improving water quality and health services, but bristle at being told what to do. Current state law says "financial notes" should be included with each mandate, outlining costs and funding. But measures frequently pass through the Legislature with no such note or inadequate financial information, the study reported. Mackey said the ACIR staff cataloged about 574 state mandates with which local governments must comply.

The 16-month study, completed earlier this summer, also analyzed the financial impact of some of the most costly mandates. For example, counties incur an average per capita cost of $3.73 to fund indigent medical care. Court-related regulations cost 66 cents per capita and providing space for Department of Social Service offices cost $3.17 per capita, all of which must must come out of local coffers. On the other hand, the General Assembly has limited the options for local governments to raise revenue. In addition to the financial reforms, the study recommends: Revamping the list of mandates to eliminate archaic and inappropriate requirements and revising other mandates that are vague.

Making the intent of each mandate clear from i its inception. Involving local officials in the decisions on mandates. I Developing an appeals process. Choir Director Arletta Raley gives instructions S.C. beat the odds: Unemployment rate remained low in July Job market healthy as economy grows Associated Press Unemployment in South Carolina remained at a low 4.7 percent in July, officials reported Thursday.

Historically, the rate increases in July because of seasonal trends, said Riley From 1-C perspective to national government." "In contrast with George Bush and (vice presidential nominee) Dan Quayle, the Democratic ticket is truly balanced," Riley said. In choosing Quayle as a running mate, Riley said, Bush "has caused a lot of concern. But Dukakis went with Bentsen, a well-known, decorated war hero Southerner, well-respected, conservative." "I don't think Quayle is going to pull any Riley Democrats over to the Republican side," Riley said. Washington said Dukakis won't "talk about morality and then be hypocritical about it." And in prepared remarks, Theodore wondered if Quayle would still be on the ticket next week. Hollings was absent from the news conference because he was out of the country, Riley said.

Also missing was House Speaker Bob Sheheen, Adams From 1-C part of their heritage and to be able to tell you a little about how the name really did originate." After the interview, Adams said, "This whole thing is all in fun, anyway to get us a little positive the executive director of the S.C. Employment Security Commission, Robert E. "Jack" David. "What we experienced is encouraging," David said. "The state's economy has been expanding and has been able to accommodate most job seekers who want to work.

It has been a good summer for students looking for work." the Legislature's most powerful Democrat. Riley said Sheheen will serve on the overall Dukakis steering committee. The speaker, who was state chairman for Tennessee Sen. Al Gore's failed presidential campaign, "will be very much involved in a leadership way," Riley said. He said Sheheen wasn't able to attend the Thursday news conference.

Bowers said the Dukakis campaign is still filling in the blanks in South Carolina. The goal for the next few weeks, he said, will be to "broadcast where Dukakis stands on the issues," to develop the overall state steering committee, and to do "anything else that we feel will increase our visibility." Bowers said the campaign expects to do some direct mailing soon and probably some telephone canvassing. So far, Bowers said, neither he nor anyone else in the state has been getting paid by the national campaign. publicity. Maybe we ought to send (the chamber of commerce) back to New York and ask them if they know where Columbia is Adams was referring to a Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce image survey several years ago when man-on-the-street interviews conducted in major cities revealed few people knew of Columbia's whereabouts.

He said the South Carolina Summer Youth Employment Program has been successful, with many private employers providing jobs. "A large number of economically disadvantaged youths got jobs under the program operated by the governor's office," he said. David said all-time employment records were set in July in the follow ing industries: construction; trade; transportation and public utilities; and finance, insurance and real estate. Manufacturing, however, lost 2,100 jobs due to temporary layoffs in the textile and apparel industries. From June to July, total nonagricultural employment fell by 20,400 jobs, to 1,432,600.

Construction rose by 1,100 jobs to manufacturing fell by 2,100 jobs, to transportation and public utilities rose by 200 jobs to 61,300. In trade, 1,800 jobs were added, pushing the number to 335,600. Finance, insurance and real estate rose by 100 jobs, to services fell by 2,000 jobs to government jobs fell by 19,500, to 236,900. Trying it on for size Four-year-old Justin Whitlock doesn't seem to mind that USC Gamecock free safety Pat Turner's helmet is a little big. Turner paid Justin a visit Thursday at Children's Hospital at Richland Memorial.

He let Justin wear his helmet and gave him a University of South Carolina football jersey. Justin has encephalitis and must wear a helmet to protect his head..