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Newspaper Page Textn.,-- ■ ««Afl Shopping TROY, N.Y.,—This unnamed canine strolls across the parking lot of a local grocery store in Troy with a loaf of bread In his mouth. (AP) Georgia-South Carolina They’re still fighting over their borders By PEGGY WALSH Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) — First it was gold. Now it’s oil. After 190 years, Georgia and South Caro lina still can’t decide where one state ends and the other begins. “We know the area is ours,” said state Rep. Tom Taggert of Georgia about the latest battle over his state’s eastern bound ary near Savannah. “It’s an erroneous border” is South Carolina’s reply. The dispute began almost two centuries ago, when gold depos its were found in the Savannah River, which provided a natural boundary between the two states. Officials from both states met in 1787 at the Convention of Beaufort in South Carolina and agreed to split the river down the middle. The issue seemed settled. But at least three times since the 1700 s, both states have wrangled over who owns what in the area. The question of another form of gold — oil — and dis agreements over shipping and shrimping laws prompted the latest argument over where the boundary should be drawn. In February, the South Caro lina Budget and Control Board authorized the creation of a negotiating team to talk with Georgia officials about the east ern portion of the border. In April, representatives from both states met in Atlanta to discuss the way the U.S. Ge ological Survey (USGS) had drawn a topographical map of the area in 1971. The legislatures of both states authorized legal appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court if a decision cannot be reached. South Carolinians claimed the USGS map gave Georgia an area they had considered part of their state, including Barn well Islands 1 and 2 and Oyster Bed Island. There are no in habitants on the islands. Other areas of dispute center around shrimping laws, which differ in both states, and a Georgia shipping facility lo cated in the river which allows a vessel to unload barges of cargo instead of going into port. But the main reason for the border battle is a federal gov ernment proposal to lease off shore areas for oil exploration. The recent USGS map ex tends the Georgia border north eastward in the Atlantic Ocean by the South Carolina coast. The older map’s border extends straight out from the mouth of the Savannah River, giving South Carolina more ocean ter ritory. Currently, states do not have jurisdiction over the submerged lands of the Outer Continental Shelf, but |4OO million in grants are to be issued to coastal states to compensate for the impact of drilling — and South Carolina and Georgia both want their share. Although officials don’t know where, or how much, oil may be found, *’we do know that there are certain areas the oil companies are interested in,” said South Carolina state Sen. James Waddell, a member of the negotiating team. “If we don’t correct the pro jection of the boundary,” he said, “the money will go to Georgia.” But if South Carolina is ada mant about the border — so is Georgia. “From the evidence we saw (at the meeting), there’s not much to negotiate,” said Tag gert. “We feel very strong in our legal position,” said a spokes woman in the Georgia attorney general’s office. The Georgia delegation bases its opinion on an unwritten rule that a boundary doesn’t change when a river is altered by man and not by nature. “The general rule as applied to private land is that boundary lines can change by natural ac cretion and erosion,” the spokeswoman said. “Avulsion, a sudden change in the earth, wouldn’t change the boundary,” she said. “And the courts have treated man made changes like avulsion. If the Corps of Engineers builds a dam or a levee, that does not change the boundary line.” According to Joe Talley of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, several manmade changes in the Savannah River area have occurred since the Beaufort convention. “Several island points, in cluding Oyster Bed Island which is now part of Jones Island, were filled in by the Corps or by silt from dikes,” he said. “Where the channel is now does not reflect where it was in the past.” South Carolina officials haven’t addressed the man made changes, but they have raised a question of their own — the validity of maps used by the USGS to determine the border. The USGS gathered maps dating back to 1780 in an effort to determine the course of the river at the time of the Beaufort convention. But several of those earlier maps had unknown authors, said Pete Bermel, chief of the USGS’s eastern mapping cen ter. “The authorship of the maps is crucial,” said a spokes woman for the South Carolina attorney general’s office. “If you don’t know the authors, how can you vouch for their va lidity?” Ironically, in 1969, the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution setting the boundary in the middle of the river — exactly where South Carolina now claims the boundary should be. But the U.S. Congress failed to ratify the legislation within the required three years so the resolution became inactive and was repudiated by the 1977 Georgia Legislature. “They didn’t look into the his torical boundaries or at the changes made by man,” said Talley. “They really weren’t aware of the problem,” said a spokes woman in the attorney gener al’s office, “We don’t feel that action is binding.” <—Radio/haek —, BIRTHDAY BARGAINS (OUR PRESENT TO YOU), ■■ d & NEW & REG. ITEMS AT OUR FAMOUS LOW PRICES! 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