Aiken Standard (Newspaper) - January 2, 1997, Aiken, South Carolina A I K E N Mideast Palestinian militants vow revenge Page 2A First of 1997 Aiken Countys first baby of the new year Page 1B Vol 128 No 2 Thursday January 2 1997 250 Briefly Man is stung by wasps while stuck in chimney GEORGETOWN AP A 19yearold Georgetown man was hospitalized for severe wasp stings he suffered while stuck in a chimney Dewain Lang was in inten sive care Wednesday after being charged with burglary and malicious injury to prop erty according to a sheriffs office report EMS and firefighters low ered a rope to Lang after a neighbor alerted by two boys to cries for help called 911 Lang told deputies he goes on the roof of the house to smoke crack and that he dropped his lighter down the chimney and was trying to retrieve it when he fell Principal charged with not reporting abuse MCBEE AP A school principal has been charged with failing to report the sus abuse of 7yearold Rachel Nelson who later was beaten to death Ernest Witherspoon 57 of Lancaster was arrested late Tuesday said State Law Enforcement Division spokesman Hugh Munn Rachels foster mother Joyce Edmond was charged with murder in the Dec 3 beating death A teacher and a guidance counselor at McBee Elemen tary School reportedly told Witherspoon that the girl said she had been beaten by Ms Edmond and displayed a burn on her hand and a bruise on her shoulder Munn said The principal was told the girl wanted the abuse reported to her social worker but he failed to contact police or the Department of Social Services Munn said Beasiey names second woman to commission COLUMBIA AP The Higher Education Commission is getting its second female member Dianne Chinnes was named to the 13 member panel Tues day by Gov David Beasiey She is a Hemingway native who takes over the seat vacat ed by Columbia banking execu tive Roger Whaley who resigned to become president of in Oklahoma Chinnes president of Junior Achievement of Greater Columbia joins Rosemary Byerly of Spartanburg on the 13member panel Education is near and dear to my heart Chinnes said I have a vested interest in what happens in this state Its my home Index Bridge 6B Classifieds 4B Comics 3B Crossword 7B Dear Abby 3B Movies 7A Opinions 4A Sports 6A Television 3B Weather 2A Deaths Winston Chadwick WC Clark Irene Toole Padgett Langley Dot Elston Rowell Oklawaha Fla James Vincent Seigler Aiken Obituary notices on page 2B Ga lottery Wednesdays winning num bers 3 627 Fantasy 5 1718243335 Whos No 1 Sugar Bowl tonight decides national championship Florida vs Florida State Bobby Bowden Florida State TV 8 pm ABC Details on Page 6A Steve Spurrier Florida Rolling along Suspect in Permit is appealed new prison Staff photo by Ginny Southworth Shirin Rothermel 11 left hangs onto Shahim Rothermel 9 as they skate around the track at Virginia Acres Park on Wednesday The newly expanded track now welcomes roller bladers as well as walkers and joggers New Years fairly calm MICHAEL W GIBBONS Law enforcement authorities rang in the New Year quietly as they responded to minimal dis during one of the biggest party nights of the year Lt Michael Frank of the Aiken County Sheriffs Office said officers responded to a total of six traffic stops and acci dents from 7 am on Dec 31 through Jan 1 He could not say how many were alcohol related The major disturbance for the was an armed robbery at a convenience store I would say with the exception of an armed robbery last night at a convenience store overall it has been a fairly quiet New Year Frank said The robbery occurred at the Kwik shop on SC 19 and SC 191 Wednesday night Frank said two men entered the store at about 8 pm The first pulled out a hand gun and demanded money from the clerk The second subject went directly to the stores restroom The first subject received an undisclosed amount of cash from the clerk The clerk was ordered to lie down on the ground and the suspects left the store The first subject is described as a black male between the ages of 18 and 25 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 100 pounds The second subject is described as a black male between the ages of 18 and 25 and six feet tall Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriffs Office Capt Pete Frommer of the Aiken Department of Public Safe ty said four subjects were brought into headquarters for breathalyzer tests Two of the subjects were DUI The other two subjects who were brought in for testing by the SC Highway Patrol refused to take the test Weve had previous years where weve run many more tests than that Nobody was off that night so we were out there enforcing It was just a quiet night Frommer said for nuclear laundry Associated Press COLUMBIA A company that launders radioactive clothing and opponents of the plant have appealed a new state permit but for different reasons Interstate Nuclear Services says the fiveyear permit issued Dec 16 by the Department of Health and Environmental Con trol is too strict Critics however say the state should not have issued a license at all because the operation is in a residential area It probably will be this spring before an administrative judge hears the appeals The Colum bia State reported Wednesday A decision probably would come 45 to 60 days after the hearing The Sierra Club of South Car olina two neighborhood groups and three nearby residents filed the appeals opposing the permit We still feel this facility poses a threat to those neighborhoods said Tom Perlic of the Sierra Club The separate appeals by the Sierra Club and the neighbor hood groups say did not adequately study the potential threat of cleaning clothing for the Savannah River Site The groups also say failed Please see PERMIT page 3A Associated Press AIKEN The man charged with killing three Aiken County social workers has been moved from a Columbia prison where he was recovering from a self inflicted gunshot wound to a new facility in Bishopville State Corrections Department spokeswoman Susan Mont gomery said her records show that David Mark Hill was moved to Lee Correctional Institution on Nov 22 Hill 36 had been held at Kirk land Correctional Institution in Columbia since his Oct 2 release from a Georgia hospital Police say Hill angry that his children were being put into fos ter care walked into the North Augusta office of the Department of Social Services on Sept 16 and shot three caseworkers He fled into nearby woods where police found him the next day He had shot himself in the head Hill is charged with three counts of murder one count of kidnapping and one count of assault with intent to kill Inaugural weather has taken its toll Associated Press WASHINGTON When Harry S Tru man received the formal invitation to his 1949 inauguration he replied Weather permitting I hope to be present The weather did permit Truman took the oath of office beneath sunny skies in 38degree weather Mother Nature hasnt always smiled as Americas leaders accepted the job for which they campaigned so hard Indeed Inauguration Day weather has been the death of some January 20 William Henry Harrison declined the offer of a closed carriage and rode on horseback to the Capitol braving cold tem and a chill northeast wind on March 51841 After speaking for more than an hour he returned to the White House on horseback catching a chill that eventually turned to pneumonia He died a month later He was the first American president to die in office a victim of his militant dis dain for the elements historian Patrick Hughes observes in Weatherwise maga zine Ronald Reagan who broke Harrisons record as oldest man to become president was more cautious in 1985 when the coldest weather in inaugural history struck Wash ington moved the ceremonies indoors anu canceled the parade When Franklin Pierce was sworn in on March 4 1853 the weather was raw and windy with light snow falling Abigail Fill more wife of outgoing president Millard Fillmore caught cold while sitting on the windswept inaugural platform She died of pneumonia within weeks Hughes reports Originally presidential inaugurations were held on March 4 a date selected in an era of slow travel so that all the partici pants could be present for the ceremony By the 1930s transportation was much better and politicians wanted to end that long lame duck period between the November election and inauguration so a decision was made to change the date to January Weather bureau records showed that Please see INAUGURAL page 3A
