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■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Court votes in Forsyth judge as chief.
The Georgia Supreme Court voted Wednesday to elevate Justice
Harold Clarke to the position of chief justice in January when
Thomas Marshall steps down from the bench. The court also elected
Justice George Smith to succeed Clarke as presiding justice of the
court when the changeover occurs. Marshall announced last month
he planned to leave the court at year’s end to join an Atlanta law firm.
Another justice, Hardy Gregory Jr., also announced plans to retire at
the end of the year to return to private practice. Gov. Joe Frank
Harris will appoint successors to serve until the next general election,
but he is not expected to act at least until next month. Members of the
court select their chief justice and the presiding judge. Clarke, 62, a
life-long resident of Forsyth, served in the Georgia House of
Representatives from 1961 to 1971. He was appointed to the court in
1979 by then-Gov. George Busbee. Smith, who turns 73 this month,
was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1963 through
1966, and served as lieutenant governor from 1966 to 1971. He was
elected to the Court of Appeals in 1976, and to the Supreme Court in
1980.
RESACA (AP): Governor supports AIDS home idea. Gov.
Joe Frank Harris said an effort to build a home for people with AIDS
is a project worth exploring. In a Sept. 21 letter to Father Damian of
the Monastery of the Glorious Ascension, the governor said the
proposed home, Saint Raphael's, could help care for terminally ill
residents of Whitfield and surrounding counties. Damian, who offered
the land for the project, contacted the governor’s senior aide Tom
Lewis of Cartersville in August. The home would offer residential
care. Residents would receive nursing and medical aid from Hamilton
Medical Center’s licensed hospice program. No license is needed,
officials said. Harris said in his letter the average cost for inpatient
hospital care for an AIDS patient in the state is almost four times
that of residential hospice care. ‘The potential savings in cost, as well
as the benefit of more homelike and humane care, makes Saint
Raphael’s a project worth exploring,” Harris wrote.
■ NATION
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP): Chase ends in bed. a man was
awakened when a stranger jumped into his bed and police followed to
yank the intruder out. “Basically, I think the guy was just trying to
hide,” said Officer Tim McCarty. The man did not know the people in
the house, authorities said. Officer K.J. Winger stopped the man’s car
for speeding early on Monday. When the man was unable to produce a
driver’s license or identification, the officer asked him to step into his
squad car. Instead, the man ran. Winger gave chase, and McCarty
saw the man trying to enter the house. He grabbed at the man, but
the man pushed his way into the house, McCarty said. The woman
who owns the house said the stranger ran through several rooms
before charging up a staircase and into her 20-year-old son’s room.
The startled resident looked on as police pulled the man out of bed.
The man was arrested on a charge of burglary because he entered the
home without permission, McCarty said.
WASHINGTON (API: Plumbers down on Fowler plan.
Plumbers and toilet makers told a Senate panel Wednesday the
American public won’t sit still for Sen. Wyche Fowler’s plan to reduce
by more than half the amount of water used in each flush of a toilet.
“When the amount of water is cut in half, there is reason to doubt
whether the system will operate properly,” said George Bliss,
assistant director of training for the United Association of Plumbers
and Pipefitters. Bliss, testifying before the Senate commerce
consumer subcommittee, said further research is needed, on such
issues as “to what extent will bowl staining become a factor due to low
flush,” before Congress sets national standard water efficiency
standards for toilets and other plumbing fixtures.
■ WORLD
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP): Dirty bathroom gets man fired.
President Saddam Hussein was so shocked by the dirty bathroom and
dirty towels in a district governor’s office that he fired him, an official
announcement said Wednesday. “If the governor himself is not clean
and tidy, how will we manage to raise the standard of our people,”
Saddam was heard saying on television earlier in the week while
visiting the office of the governor of Darbandikhan, 188 miles
northeast of Baghdad. He was shown at the time inspecting the
private bathroom in the office of the governor, Mustafa Fatah.
Television viewers heard Saddam angrily rebuking Fatah because
the facility and the towels were dirty and declaring that the
government would fire any governor who failed to look after his
district’s hygiene. A decree issued Wednesday by the ruling
Revolutionary Command Council confirmed Fatah’s early retirement
and demotion to a lower grade pension.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP): East Germans go free.
About 10,000 East German refugees began leaving Prague for the
West Wednesday, and thousands of others reportedly lined the train
route hoping to join their historic exodus. On Tuesday, for the second
time in a week, East Germany’s Communist leaders agreed to safe
passage to the West for thousands of its citizens who had thronged
West Germany’s Embassy in Prague, the capital. Later in the day, the
leaders banned unrestricted travel into Czechoslovakia in a
desperate bid to stop the embarrassing exodus. Fourteen buses
carrying the East Germans from the embassy compound to Prague’s
Lieben train station left about 4:30 p.m. The first train carrying 1,000
East Germans departed Prague about two hours later, reporters at
the station said. Fifteen trains were made available by the East
German state railroad for the transfer. The trains were to travel
through East German territory via Dresden to the West German
border town of Hof.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Athens Pro-Choice Action
League will meet tonight at 7 in
the conference room of the
Athens Regional Library. All are
welcome. For more information
call 353-0488.
• The Zoology Club will meet
tonight at 7 in Room 707A of the
Bioscience Building. All
interested persons are invited.
• U/G/AIDS, a support group for
persons affected by AIDS, will
meet tonight at 7. For location
and more information, call
Nancy MacNair at the
University Health Service, 542-
1162.
• Student League for
Environmental and Animal
Protection will hold its first
meeting of the quarter tonight at
7:30 in Room 145 of the Tate
Student Center. All are welcome.
• The International Business
Club and Finance Club will meet
tonight at 7:30 in Room 141 of
the Tate Student Center. All
majors are welcome. Professional
attire requested.
Announcements
• Student Committe on
Acquaintance Rape is accepting
applications for the 1989-90
school year. They are available at
the Georgian Area Office and the
Tate Student Center Information
Desk. For more information, call
Vernon Wall at 542-7295.
• Novelist Raymond Andrews
will read and talk about his
fiction today at 4 p.m. in Room
265 of Park Hall. Creative
writing students Anne Elstrom
and Gray Stewart will also be
reading.
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Students’ homes devastated by Hugo
By TRISTA SLAUGHTER
Contributing Writer
Whether it’s one of mama’s
homecooked meals, that scruffy
cocker spaniel puppy or that
feather pillow that sleeps so well
on the couch, almost everyone has
their own picture of home.
It’s hard to imagine that picture
as a devastated coastline, a flooded
living room or a pile of twisted pine
trees; but after Hurricane Hugo’s
ravaging winds and rain swept
through the South Carolina coast,
that’s the only home that many
University students have left.
Lara Jenkins, a sophomore fi
nance major, was on the phone
with her mother as the storm hit
Myrtle Beach, S.C.
She said she returned home to
find entire piers, bridges, and ho
tels missing.
“It’s so weird to know that you
leave for school and then two
weeks later, the place where you
lived is gone,” she said. “If someone
had a tree through their house a
week ago it would be big news.
Now it’s not.”
Jenkins said she mourns the loss
of the town that she used to know.
“A lot of memories were lost, and
it makes you sad,” she said. “I just
thank God that a lot of people
weren’t hurt.”
Antoinette Jones, a sophomore
pre-med major, shares the same
sentiments about the damage the
storm wreaked on Charleston, S.C.
She said the storm left her house
with a flooded garage, lost shingles
and large holes in the gutter. Yet,
she is still thankful to have been
spared any worse.
"I wasn’t worried before the
storm,” she said. “I just didn’t
think it would hit Charleston as
hard as it did. It’s just so disap
pointing that it was so pretty —
now it will take years to restore it.”
When Robin Faringer,
freshman, undecided mryor, re
turns home she can expect armed
National Guardsmen posted out
side her local grocery store and raw
sewage leaking out onto the streets
of her neighborhood.
Although her home only suffered
from roof damage and a few fallen
trees, she said her family still has
no electricity.
“It’s hard for me to imagine
things not being the same as they
were. I just want to get home and
touch base.”
Countless other University stu
dents’ homes and property were
damaged, and many that weath
ered the storm are still without
water and telephone service. Steve
McCoy, freshman business educa
tion, said his family is looking at
another month and a half without
electricity.
None of these people hit by the
hurricane are planning to move
elsewhere. Although drastically al
tered by Hugo, the Carolina coasl
is their home.
Jenkins said, "We’re just trying
to get it all back together.”
SA vote tables constitutional changes
By JENNIFER RAMPEY
Staff Writer
Feeling a lack of student input,
the Student Association decided
not to push for approval of consti
tutional changes on Oct. 11. In
stead they will wait until spring.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Junior
Sen. Pete Allen moved to table the
motion to approve the proposed
constitutional changes to allow the
SA time to study the proposed
changes.
The next opportunity for a refer
endum on the proposed changes
will be during SA elections in the
spring.
Allen said the controversy sur
rounding the elimination of
freshman elections — normally
held in the fall — and whether the
SA president and vice president
should maintain a presence on
campus during the summer isn’t
timely.
“I feel the process has been too
rushed,” he said.
The changes were to have been
voted on by the student body on
Oct. 11 afler the SA had approved
them.
“I thought since the constitution
does belong to the students, they
should have adequate say in any
changes,” Allen said.
In other SA news, Senior Sen.
Molly Mednikow said SA members
are distributing surveys to deter
mine whether students still feel
there is a need for extended library
hours.
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