| Council votes to put riverboat gambling on April ballot
Despite a loud public outcry from citizens who oppose gambling, the Jefferson City Council voted 6-4 Monday in favor of giving voters an opportunity to overturn the city's ban on riverboat casinos.
The citywide vote is scheduled for April.Two amendments were not successful. The first, offered by Second Ward Councilman Richard Koon, would have delayed the election until November, when a larger voter turnout is anticipated. The second would have limited where a new casino could be built.Six council members - Kevin Brown, Ken Ferguson, Mike Harvey, Dan Klindt, Ron Medin and Koon - favored the April public vote. Four others - Brian Crane, Cindy Layton, Jim Penfold and Jane Smith - did not.After the decision, opponents were deeply dismayed, even apoplectic.Jefferson City resident M.L.
Teen arrested after BB gun found in bag
One teen has been arrested at Mauldin Middle School after authorities said a BB gun that they believe was used in a motel robbery was found in his book bag. The 15-year-old teen, along with another 14-year-old teen authorities said was an accomplice in a Jan. 9 robbery at The Quality Inn on S. Pleasantburg Drive, were charged with armed robbery and attempted armed robbery. The arrests follow a Jan. 17 incident at the intersection of Augusta and Frontage roads, according to a Greenville County Sheriff's Office press release. The teen found in possession of the BB gun was arrested Jan. 18, according to an incident report. .
President's daughter was singer and writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Margaret Truman Daniel, who was the only child of former President Harry S. Truman and became a concert singer, actress, radio and TV personality, and mystery writer, died yesterday. She was 83.
Mrs. Daniel died at a Chicago assisted-living facility after a brief illness, said Susan Medler, a spokeswoman for the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo. She had been at the facility for a few weeks and was on a respirator, the library said.
Her father's succession to the presidency in 1945 thrust her into the national spotlight while she was a college junior.
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Griffin's 'Journey's End' a moving tale of wartime
The British military officers in the trenches in R.C. Sherriff's "Journey's End" know that German soldiers sit in their own dugouts less than 100 yards away. They know both sides are cold, lonely, afraid and ready to blow each other to bits. But they don't know a lot else about the progress of World War I, even though they drink their morning whiskey in spitting distance from its front lines.
"My wife reads the papers every morning," remarks one of the officers to his colleague. "And writes and tells me."
To experience this immensely powerful 1929 drama today is to marvel at the level of ignorance in which those who risked their lives were once kept. But the advent of mass communications has done nothing to staunch the human weaknesses that precipitate war and demand the sacrifices of others.
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