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South Carolina THE ENDEX-JOUMAL 2A Area news State news AMLANB8 MONDAY, July 1,1996 ware SheWS, "STv fcMcCormlck TODAY'S WEATHER pi ii 'it -11 More than 900,000 gallons pumped out of Reedy River GREENWOOD (AP) Crews have collected more than 914,000 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled into the Reedy River last week after a pipeline burst Officials now will begin sampling the water, sediment and surrounding private wells to detect any contamination, said Thorn Berry, spokesman for the state Department of Health and Environmental Control. They also will take samples from nearby Lake Greenwood, which supplies drinking water, just to make sure no fuel traveled that far downstream, he said Sunday. Cleanup crews that had been working round the clock since the spill was discovered Thursday will cut back to working only during daylight hours. Although almost all of the recoverable fuel has been collected, Berry said the company that is responsible for the accident, Colonial Pipeline, will work to restore the habitat to the condition it was in before the leak. That could take months or even years.

Wildlife officials have not said how many fish were killed by the pollution, but the number is suspected to be in the hundreds. Berry said DHEC officials will be investigating the incident, but it is too early to discuss possible enforcement action. Colonial spokesman Noel Griese said the company has opened a claims office at the Holiday Inn Select and set up a hotline for property owners and individuals affected by the spill. Griese said company officials regrets the accident and accepts responsibility. The spill is the worst in state history, Berry said.

Previously, the worst fuel spill was a 1991 Colonial Pipeline leak in which 500,000 gallons were Staff photo by Samantha Hams' Community Action Team member Lauren Hastings! back row: Ronald Dowey of the S.C. Highwajj Patrol, Chuck Humphrey of the Greenwood Sheriffs Department, Greenwood Mayor Floyd Nicholson, Ninety Six Mayor Charlie Harts and) Roger Collins of the Highway Patrol. Mary Ann Smith, Greenwood Insurance agent, donates a portable breathalyzer to the Ninety Six Police Department. Attending the presentation, from left, front row: Smith, Linda Butler of Greenwood Sheriffs Department, Chief Travis Dudley of Ninety Six, Officer Patrick Long of the Greenwood City Police Department and Greenwood get ADD for holiday released. Three face drug charges Local groups By SAMANTHA HARRIS Index Journal "staff intern GREENWOOD Law enforcement agents say drinking and driving within the next few weeks in Greenwood and Ninety Six just became an even worse idea.

Local authorities are teaming up to make the roads safer during July 1-7, National Sobriety Checkpoint week. Lauren Hastings is a Greenwood resident whose sister was involved in an accident with a drunk driver. She is the organizer of the Greenwood Community Action Team. The team is in the final stages of becoming a MADD chapter. "It's time to catch and punish these drunk drivers.

We have a right to safe streets," Hastings said. Recently, Greenwood Mayor Floyd Nicholson and Charlie Harts, Mayor of Ninety Six, signed procla GREENWOOD City police nabbed three Greenwood residents for drug-related activities during a recent undercover operation with the State Law Enforcement Division. All three arrests occurred Thursday afternoon within 20 minutes of each other near New Market Street and Taggart Avenue, half a mile from Central School. Gregory Jerome Richardson, 39, 102 Corley was arrested and charged with distribution of crack cocaine and distribution of crack cocaine within the proximity of a school, booking reports show. Richardson sold $20 in crack cocaine to an undercover SLED agent on Taggart Avenue at Squires Court, according to reports filed at the Greenwood City Police Department.

Angela Marie White, 28, 1011 Parkland Place, Lot 43, was arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine within the proximity of a school, booking reports show. Officers with the police department and SLED recovered 4.75 grams of crack cocaine inside White's pocketbook after she consented to a search on Squires Court, reports said. Officers also confiscated $278 that was found in White's purse. In the third incident, reports said law enforcement officers observed a man standing outside New Haven Apartments on New Market Street engaged in an what appeared to be a drug transaction. Corey Lamar Moates, 26, 114 Mills Road, was arrested and charged with failure to heed lawful command after fleeing on foot when approached by a police officer, reports said.

Moates was not carrying any narcotics when arrested, according to reports. All three subjects are being held in the Greenwood County Detention Center. Partly sunny. High in the middle 90s. Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms.

Low near 70. Partly sunny with a chance of thunderstorms. High in the lower 90s. NORTHERN GREENVILLE, NORTHERN OCONEE, NORTHERN PICKENS: Today sunny except a slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High 90 to 95.

Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west. Rain chance 20 percent. cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low in the upper 60s. Light wind.

Rain chance 20 percent. sunny with a chance of thunderstorms. High around 90. Rain chance 30 percent. ANDERSON, CHESTER, SOUTHERN GREENVILLE, SOUTHERN OCONEE, SOUTHERN PICKENS, SPARTANBURG, UNION, YORK: Today sunny.

High in the middle 90s. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west. cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low near 70. Light wind.

Rain chance 20 percent. sunny wiih a chance of thunderstorms. High in the lower 90s. Rain chance 30 percent. AIKEN, ALLENDALE, BAMBERG, BARNWELL, CALHOUN, CLARENDON, EDGEFIELD, FAIRFIE LD, KERSHAW, LANCASTER, LEE, LEXINGTON, NEWBERRY, ORANGEBURG, RICHLAND, SUMTER: Today and humid with a slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms.

High 95 to 100. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Rain chance 20 percent. cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low in the lower 70s.

Light wind. Rain chance 20 percent. and humid with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High in the upper 90s. Rain chance 30 percent.

CHESTERFIELD, DARLINGTON, DILLON, FLORENCE, MARION, MARLBORO, WILLIAMSBURG: and humid with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High in the upper 90s. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Rain chance 30 percent. cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms.

Low in the middle 70s. Light wind. Rain chance 20 percent. sunny with a chance of thunderstorms. High in the middle 90s.

Rain chance 30 percent. GEORGETOWN, HORRY: Partly and humid with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High in the upper 80s coast to middle 90s inland. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Rain chance 30 percent.

Tonight. cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low around 75. Rain chance 20 percent. sunny with a chance of thunderstorms.

High in the upper 80s coast to lower 90s inland. Light wind. Rain chance 30 percent. BERKELEY, DORCHESTER, HAMPTON, NORTHERN COL-LETON: and humid with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High in the upper 90s.

Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Rain chance 30 percent. cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low in the lower 70s. Light wind.

Rain chance 20 percent. and humid with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High in the upper 90s. Rain chance 30 percent. BEAUFORT, CHARLESTON, JASPER, SOUTHERN COLLETON: and humid with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms.

High near 90 coast to middle 90s inland. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Rain chance 30 percent. cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low in the lower 70s inland to upper 70s coast.

Light wind. Rain chance 20 percent. Tuesday. sunny with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. High near 90 coast to middle 90s inland.

Rain chance 30 percent. CLINTON Terrorism fight KLAN mations supporting the use of random sobriety checkpoints to protect the citizens of their cities from the "hazardous actions of impaired drivers." The proclamations declared June 24-July 7 as local checkpoint week, which is state checkpoint week as well. With the holiday weekend approaching, Nationwide Insurance and MADD, along with law enforcement officials and community leaders are hoping to prevent holiday deaths because of drunk driving. Ninety Six has a new weapon to protect its residents from drunk drivers, thanks to a from Mary Ann Smith, Greenwood Nationwide Insurance Agent. Her agency donated a portable breathalyzer to the Ninety Six Police Department.

Police use the instrument to measure blood alcohol levels of apparently impaired drivers. "We're going to try to make the And there was an indication that Republicans have begun looking for a way to insert terrorism into the political debate. Sen. Arlcn Specter, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Sunday his panel will hold a hearing July 9 to try to determine whether lapses in security allowed the bombing in Saudi Arabia to occur. "I think there's a real need to shake up the Department of Defense, and a real question as to whether William J.

Perry is the right man to be secretary of defense," Specter, said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "The president has full and complete confidence in his secretary of defense," said David Johnson, spokesman for the president's National Security Council. Johnson noted that Clinton has ordered an administration review of security procedures at military installations to be headed by retired Army Gen. Wayne Downing, a former chief of the armed services' special operations forces. Man admits to grabbing purse, police reports say GREENWOOD A 33-year-old Saluda man was arrested and charged with purse snatching after making off with the pocketbook of a 76-year-old woman. Joseph Nelson of Rt.

3 Box 79 admitted to stealing the woman's purse Friday afternoon outside the First Union bank on Main Street, according to reports filed at the Greenwood City Police Department. The Greenwood woman was just outside the bank when Nelson allegedly snatched her purse and ran toward Phoenix Street, police reports said. The woman told police that she chased the man to Small Engines and called E-91 1. Sgt. Bruce Johnson apprehended Nelson coming out of a fenced area between Bay Court and Baptist Street, where he had discarded the purse, reports said.

All of the woman's belongings were recovered. Continued from page IA summit countries Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Italy over U.S. legislation aimed at punishing Cuba, Iran and Iraq, three nations branded by America as suppordng terrorist activities. America's allies complained loudly that the United States was unilaterally trying to impose its policies on other nations and got language inserted into the final communique that took a swipe at the U.S. initiatives.

Clinton was undeterred, saying he would continue to try to persuade other countries to join the U.S. boycotts. But the European allies, who have been victims of terrorist bombings for far longer than the United Slates, said they believed Clinton's hard-line stance had more to do with his re-election campaign. They noted at every opportunity that the United States had opposed similar economic sanctions, known as secondary boycotts, when Arab states applied them against Israel. roads especially safe these next sevj-eral days by acting on any indicaj-tion of alcohol consumption by drivers," said Ninety Six Police Chief Travis Dudley.

When a driver reaches a check)-point, an officer checks to see if th? driver is impaired. The officer is also able to make certain, the driver is wearing a seat belt and following other safety rules. This helps to encourage saff practices from all drivers, Dudley said. "In 1995, 134 people were killefl by drunk drivers in our state alone," Hastings said. "Something has got to be done." Hastings says approximately two out of five Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetime.

Nationwide agents say drunj; driving has decreased by 30 percent since the checkpoint progranj began. Continued from page IA burning no churches," he said. Klan leaders held a two-day rally in rural Lexington County thi weekend. They pledged to raise money to fight the lawsuit and labeled Morris Dees, head of tht Southern Poverty Law Center "the devil." Klan groups sold "Dixie" bumper stickers and raffle tickets ai the rally, as well as passed a hat tf raise money to fight the lawsuit. "God is on our side," King said Virgil Griffin, Imperial Wizart of the Christian Knights, als pledged to do whatever he could tt defeat Dees.

"I will not bow down to Morri: Dees," said Griffin of Mount Holly N.C. "The only way he's going stop me is to kill me." About 50 people attended th rally, not counting toddlers an. young children. The biggest dona tion announced during the evenin, was $50 from Barry Black, Imperii Wizard of the Keystone Knights, Johnstown, Pa -based Kim "We haven't done anything i deserve this persecution," Blac? said. "The Klan doesn't buf churches.

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Property Professionals nabbed $100 and a second-place showing with its red, white and blue Independence Day float, complete with Uncle Sam. Riverside Boats, a new business on S.C. 34, came in third and walked away with $50 for their plant-laden effort. With lots of sights to behold both on and off the water, there were two judged contests for up-and-coming beauties. In the Little Miss Flotilla contest, Ashley Corbin came in first place and Cortni Childs, second.

Jordan Bell took the crown as Wee Miss Flotilla, while Summer Sandola came in runner-up. DEATH: Greenwood man Monday inmate count at the Greenwood County Detention Center: 128. The Greenwood City Fire Department responded Monday at 5:44 a.m. to an activated alarm at Heritage Hills, 1 1 10 Marshall Road. No fire or was found.

The fire department also responded Sunday at 12:39 a.m. to an activated alarm at Self Memorial Hospital. No fire or damage was reported. Ninety Six Station 80 responded Sunday at 1 1 :36 p.m. to a fire alarm at Greenwood Mills Adams Plant, S.C.

34. Troy Station 10 responded Sunday at 6:09 p.m. to a grass fire off U.S. 221 at the McCormickGreen wood County line. Greenwood County EMS responded to five non-emergency transport requests and to emergencies at Herin Street, Marshall Road, Taggart Avenue, Booker Street North Street, U.S.

25 North (two), Old Ladder Drive, Spring Street (Ninety Six), Phillip Circle. U.S. 25 North at Crosscreek Mall, Lake Greenwood Stale Park, Dairy Queen, Williams Avenue and Cole Street. The Greenwood City Police Department responded late Friday through Sunday''to seven simple assaults, four drunkenness incidents, four larcenies, three disorderly conducts, three aggravated assaults, three intimidations, two liquor law violations, two shopliftings, two property vandalisms, one forgery, one false pretense, one obscene phone call, one theft from building and one theft from motor vehicle and issued three trespassing notices. The Greenwood County Sheriffs Department responded late Saturday and Sunday to five assault and batteries, five criminal domestic violences, three simple assaults, three public disorderly conducts, two thefts from motor vehicles, two malicious injury to personal property incidents, one simple possession of marijuana, one destruction of real property, one assault with a motor vehicle, one petit larceny, one stolen tag, one disregarding traffic control device, one failure to stop for blue lights, one failure to transfer ownership, one assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, one unlawful use of phone, one motor vehicle theft, one theft and one threatening phone calls: Continued from page IA filed in the sheriffs department.

Gilchrist was seen leaving the club and then' returning a short time later. According to witness accounts, Gilchrist shot Wideman three times point blank in the chest, Gable said. He. was transported by Greenwood County EMS to Self Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:56 a.m., Coroner Hill said. Gilchrist is being held in the McCormick County Detention Center.

This marks the first murder in McCormick County this year. Enjoy the food section each Wednesday Wideman is survived by a mother in McCormick and two young children. BUTLER Continued from page IA doesn't rattle Bultcr. She grew up on a farm; and now lives on a farm with her husband. They own beef cattle and horses.

BuUer said one of her favorite parts of the job is helping organize the Farmer's "I can remember when it was only three or four people selling vegetables on Main Street," she said. Away from her job, Butler likes to cook for her husband Robert and enjoys caring for hftr houseplants. SUN SCHEDULE Set: 8:40 p.m. Rise: 6:17 a.m. TEMPERATURES Temperature at 7 a.m.: 67 F.

Sunday's high: 96 F. Sunday's tow. 61 F. PRECIPITATION Sunday: none. Total precipitation for June is 1.86 inches (4.72 cm).

Averag44recipitation for July is 4.22 inches (10.72 cm). aaM I Hartwel 660.6 no change R.B. But .......475 ......473.4 .1 330 3298 down .2 'Greenwoojf 100 99.1 no change.