Aiken Standard (Newspaper) - May 24, 1998, Aiken, South Carolina 4Softball mania abounds Page 1C 1997 A I K E N Springtime Hopeland Gardens in full bloom 6A Playoffs Pacers cut into Bulls lead in NBA semis 1B Vol 132 No 144 Aiken South Carolina Sunday May 24 1998 Staff photos by South worth Lynn Thompson of North Augusta wears period garb as she prepares food at the Beech Island Heritage Day festival at Granville Plantation Heritage visitors welcomed By NINA J NIDIFFER BEECH ISLAND James Good man has welcomed visitors to his home before but never on the scale of the thousands who turned out Saturday for the 12th annual Beech Island Heritage Day The festival celebrating the areas uncommon ancestors was held at the authors private residence at Granville Plantation for the first time The stately old home sur rounded by ancient oaks and pecan trees was built in 1840 by Alfred N Dicks I think this is one of our best turnouts ever said Goodman the president of the Beech Island His Society We even have Gov David Beasley and Lt Gov Bob Peel er here We enjoy sharing our home with our guests although I dont think weve ever had so many here at one time before By 1 pm festival organizers were directing cars into the overflow parking lot Crossing the freshly mown field beneath a fiery sun guests could hear piping music the laughter of children and the unmistakable sound of a hammer striking an anvil The robust smells of bubbling wax roasting meat and Please see HERITAGE page 11 A Gov David Beasley with daughters Sarah Cather ine 6 and Mary Hunter 7 watch a crafter at the festival Lottery a bonanza for Ga education EDITORS NOTE The Georgia Lottery will celebrate its fifth anniversary June 29 In a three part series Associated Press writer Dick looks at where the money is going the effect on gamblers and the future of the lottery By Associated Press ATLANTA John Atcheson has never won more than at a time playing the Georgia Lottery But he still drops or a week on the games and tries not to figure out how much more he has lost than won I dont want to know that said Atcheson 65 who is semi retired You enjoy the excite ment of trying You cant expect to win millions every week Once in a lifetime maybe Because Atcheson and thou sands of others keep playing the games Robert Owens is going to college practically for free So are Brad Adamson Heather Bodner Rea Frye and 59480 other stu dents at Georgia public colleges and 55000 more students at technical schools Another 18000 students are get ting help with their private school tuition costs from the lottery and 61000 are going to prekindergarten classes again with lottery players paying the And thats not all Because of the lottery 44 percent of the pub lic secondary school classrooms in Georgia are now computerized compared to just 2 percent before the games started The Georgia lottery has been a huge success said David Gale executive director of the associa tion which represents the 37 states plus the District of Colum bia with lotteries Few in Georgia disagree As the fifth anniversary of lottery ticket sales approaches on June 29 the lottery is wildly popular and a political sacred cow Yet when the issue went before Georgia voters in 1992 it passed with a margin of less than 100000 votes out of more than 2 million cast The lottery used to be a real hot topic for us said the Rev Timothy McDonald president of Concerned Black Clergy But once our stu dents started to get a college educa tion that they never would have been able to do otherwise we do not talk about the lottery as much By law the profits must be spent for specific pro grams to enhance education rather than to reduce the ers educational burden So it is hard to overstate the impact on education In its first five Please see LOTTERY page 5A Georgia Lottery funds July 1 1993June 301997 Operations 2 Advertising t Contractor fees 4 Retailer commissions and bonuses million Education 35 billion Source Georgia Lottery Corporation Will SC voters get lottery choice By CARL LANGLEY Rep James Roland Smith has never been an advocate for a lot tery or other forms of gambling but he is willing to let the public decide the issue I have voted three times to put a state lottery on the ballot said Smith a Langley Republican He remains adamantly opposed to video poker Sen Tommy Moore water isnt a vocal supporter of either a lot tery or video poker but he points out that he too believes in letting the people decide the question Moore also is skeptical about the claims of some concerning the amount of money the state could get out of a lottery I am not sure that our state will generate near the revenue that some say said Moore But since Georgia has initiated the lottery the percentage of the pro Moore going there from South Car olina is pretty impressive Smith said the last estimate he heard on annual revenue was million but has no way of telling if that is close to or on the mark At any rate we are a smaller state than Georgia and we could not raise nearly as much money as they do Moore said he has heard over the last few years from many many people who say we deserve the right to vote on it I say it is time to let people vote on it The senator said he finds it rather amazing that people who call him and voice their opposi tion to video poker inevitably say they are in favor of the lot tery I think at some point it the lottery is going to get on the bal lot Smith said Obviously sup port is growing in the House to allow the people to vote and there is no organized opposition to it in the House Smith said holding a public vote on a lottery probably would be the right thing to do But he Please see WILL page 11 A Index Deaths Police Kinkel lunged at officer with knife Dear Week J Robert Ferguson Graniteville Rosa Diggs Lovett Trenton Annie Mitchum Lowe Aiken Charles Robert Phibbs Sr Aiken Obituary notices on page 10A Ga lottery Saturdays winning numbers Cub 8 Midday 687 Cuk 3 Evening 120 CMk 4 3451 Lotto 124172734 Fridays late numbers 4 289S 5 110212386 Associated Press SPRINGFIELD Ore After he was arrest ed in a school shooting rampage that left two classmates dead Kip Kinkel lunged at an cer with a knife that he smuggled into the police station authorities said Saturday Police said Kinkel who is also charged in the shooting deaths of his parents had a hunting knife taped to his leg that escaped notice when he was arrested fol lowing Thursdays morn ings cafeteria shooting at Thurston High School The 15yearold was hand cuffed and placed in an interview room at the School shooting Kinkel police station while an officer left briefly to secure his weapon said police spokeswoman Rosemary Pryor Kinkel maneuvered his handcuffed arms to his front and lunged at the returning officer she said The officer stepped back and used pepper spray on Kinkel Police made the disclosure after finally clear ing away the bodies from Kinkels home along with five sophisticated bombs one of which exploded as demolitions teams were attempting to disrupt it There were no injuries Also found in the home were 15 other inac tive explosive devices and detailed ing instructions that had been taken off the Internet Police confiscated a computer from the home On a shelf in his bedroom there was a hand grenade confirmed as empty Two empty howitzer canisters sat at the foot of his bed In a crawl space underneath the house there was a 6inch cube of a white chalky sub stance wired to batteries and a kitchen timer In his closet there was a onepound device made from three soda cans and set with a hobby fuse In the attic there were fireworks that had been cut open to collect the explosive powder Investigators also found vinyl ed devices that had electronic circuits and fuses that needed only a filler to make them into pipe bombs One was 3 feet long I continue to be taken aback by the youth fulness of the offender said Lane County Sheriff Jan Clements V
