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with our new digital archives! Take a scroll through HISTORY Remember that you can find almost anything in our digital archives! Here are a few headlines from August 18, 1982. TheTandD.com/archives 149 Centre Street • P.O. Box 844 • Orangeburg, S.C. 29116-0844 GERALD J. DAVIS, ATTORNEY geralddavislaw.com AUTO-ACCIDENTS • CRIMINAL DEFENSE • PERSONAL INJURY • DUI & TRAFFIC THE DAVIS LAW FIRM, P.C. 803•531•3888 • FAX (803) 531-3322 TheTandD.com Grand jury takes tour of law enforcement complex The Orangeburg County Grand Jury – preparing to hear testimony regarding sex, use of drugs and other activities at the detention center – were taken to the Orange- burg-Calhoun Law Enforcement Complex for a fact-finding t our Tuesday. The detention center of the LEC has been under investiga- tion by State Law Enforcement Division agents, headed by Lt. Jack Kemmerlin, during the past several weeks. SLED spokesman Hugh Munn verified several weeks ago that there was in investigation under way but said no informa- tion would be available until after its completion. He said no arrests had been made. Charges involving sex, drugs and other illegal activities in the detention center area were brought as the result of complaints made by inmates. SLED agents have been looking into the allegations. First Judicial Circuit Solici- tor Norman Fogle presented the grand jury with more than 100 indictments Monday with the jury returning about 103 true bills. Fogle would not, however, discuss the investigation at the detention center until after the grand jury has considered testimony and indicated its opinion. Although any activity by the grand jury is strictly off-limits to the media until this body makes recommendations or returns indictments, Kemmerlin and another agent were seen in the hall awaiting a call to testify before the jurors. Neither of the agents would discuss any of the elements of their investigation into the allegations of misdeed at the LEC detention center. Dip in prime rate will likely reflect in are over period of time Consumers may have to wait awhile for installment loan rates to reflect recent declines in the prime lending rate, local bankers said Tuesday. The prime rate – the one banks quote for their best corporate customers – has fallen to as low as 14 percent in recent days in reac- tion to adjustments by the Federal Reserve Board. The Fed has cut the discount rate – the interest rate it charges financial institutions for money – three times since July 19. The rate was 9.75 percent Monday compared to 10-22 percent the previous week. G. Flynn Bowie, senior vice president and Orange- burg city executive of Bankers Trust, said he anticipated the discount rate is close to bottoming out. However, the decrease in the rate helps free up money. Banks will be more willing to make loans now rather than putting their deposits in government securities, because the return on loans is bet- ter, Bowie said. State tourism industry booming Columbia – South Carolina’s multibillion dollar tourism indus- try continues to beam like unex- pected sunshine through the state’s shadowed economic picture. From the beached of the Grand Strand to the rolling hills of the Upstate, tourism is booming, officials say. With only a few weeks left in the main season, April through September, state tourism officials are predicting a record year for the number of visitors to the state and the amount of money they leave behind. “It’s just been hand-over-fist business,” said the state tourism director. “With the rest of the economy like it is, this is somewhat of a surprise.” The upsurge indicates that even in a time of severe economic recession, people apparently won’t give up their vacations. “A lot of people are saying, ‘I’m still going on vacation even if I have to delay buying that car or washer. I’m going to go ahead and go anyway because who knows where the economy is headed.” “Cool-aid” Six-year-old Jennifer Martin (left), daughter of Charles and Connie Martin, set up a refresh- ment stand in her front yard to make a little extra spending money before school starts. She serves up a cold cup of “Cool-aid” for Shawna Culler, 4, daughter of Cary and Dodie Culler.
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Take a scroll through
HISTORY
Remember that you can find almost anything in our digital archives! Here are a few headlines from August 18, 1982.
TheTandD.com/archives
149 Centre Street • P.O. Box 844 • Orangeburg, S.C. 29116-0844
Gerald J. davis, attorney
geralddavislaw.com
AUTO-ACCIDENTS • CRIMINAL DEFENSE • PERSONAL INJURY • DUI & TRAFFIC
THE DAVIS LAW FIRM, P.C.
803•531•3888 • FAX (803) 531-3322TheTandD.com
Grand jury takes tour of law enforcement complex
The Orangeburg County Grand Jury – preparing to hear testimony regarding sex, use of drugs and other activities at the detention center – were taken to the Orange-burg-Calhoun Law Enforcement Complex for a fact-finding t our Tuesday.
The detention center of the LEC has been under investiga-tion by State Law Enforcement Division agents, headed by Lt. Jack Kemmerlin, during the past several weeks. SLED spokesman Hugh Munn verified several weeks
ago that there was in investigation under way but said no informa-tion would be available until after its completion. He said no arrests had been made.
Charges involving sex, drugs and other illegal activities in the detention center area were brought as the result of complaints made by inmates. SLED agents have been looking into the allegations.
First Judicial Circuit Solici-tor Norman Fogle presented the grand jury with more than 100 indictments Monday with the jury returning about 103 true bills. Fogle would not, however, discuss the investigation at the detention center until after the grand jury has
considered testimony and indicated its opinion.
Although any activity by the grand jury is strictly off-limits to the media until this body makes recommendations or returns indictments, Kemmerlin and another agent were seen in the hall awaiting a call to testify before the jurors. Neither of the agents would discuss any of the elements of their investigation into the allegations of misdeed at the LEC detention center.
Dip in prime rate will likely reflect in are over period of time
Consumers may have to wait awhile for installment loan rates to reflect recent declines in the prime lending rate, local bankers said Tuesday.
The prime rate – the one banks quote for their best corporate customers – has fallen to as low as 14 percent in recent days in reac-tion to adjustments by the Federal Reserve Board. The Fed has cut the discount rate – the interest rate it charges financial institutions for money – three times since July 19. The rate was 9.75 percent Monday compared to 10-22 percent the previous week. G. Flynn Bowie, senior vice president and Orange-burg city executive of Bankers Trust, said he anticipated the discount rate is close to bottoming
out. However, the decrease in the rate helps free up money. Banks will be more willing to make loans now rather than putting their deposits in government securities, because the return on loans is bet-ter, Bowie said.
State tourism industry booming
Columbia – South Carolina’s multibillion dollar tourism indus-try continues to beam like unex-pected sunshine through the state’s shadowed economic picture. From the beached of the Grand Strand to the rolling hills of the Upstate, tourism is booming, officials say.
With only a few weeks left in the main season, April through September, state tourism officials are predicting a record year for the number of visitors to the state and the amount of money they leave behind.
“It’s just been hand-over-fist business,” said the state tourism director. “With the rest of the economy like it is, this is somewhat of a surprise.”
The upsurge indicates that even in a time of severe economic recession, people apparently won’t give up their vacations. “A lot of people are saying, ‘I’m still going on vacation even if I have to delay buying that car or washer. I’m going to go ahead and go anyway because who knows where the economy is headed.”
“Cool-aid”Six-year-old Jennifer Martin (left), daughter of Charles and Connie Martin, set up a refresh-ment stand in her front yard to make a little extra spending money before school starts. She serves up a cold cup of “Cool-aid” for Shawna Culler, 4, daughter of Cary and Dodie Culler.
