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Vol.XXi
Helms, Schwartzkopf Face off for GOP Nod
By KRISTIE GOODALL
Staff Writer
A few determined voters braved Tuesday's
downpour to participate in the primary elec-
tion for the District 8 Horry County Council
seat.
Supporters of Republican Carl
Schwartzkopf outnumbered those of Donald
Helms and Mike Roberts to push him toward
the Dec. 16 general election.
"I'm surprised," Schwartzkopf said. =I did
not expect to be the top vote getter."
However, Horry-Georgetown Technical
College professor Schwartzkopf did not
receive the 50 percent plus one votes needed
to avoid a Nov. 18 runoff wlth Helms. The
run-off originally scheduled for Nov. 11 was
changed because of the Veterans Day holi-
day.
Of the 1,439 votes cast, 1,314 went for
Republican candidates with Schwartzkopf
getting 587, Helms getting 434 and Roberts
getting 293.
This leaves a big job for Democratic candi-
date Brandon Sessions who won the
See RUNOFF P. A-12
No.31 Thursday, Oc oberS0,200S "
DISTRICT 8 ELECTION RESULTS
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Precinct
Coastal Carolina 7 15
East Conway 10 3
Forestbrook 1 0
Jackson Bluff 2 1
North nway 2 5 10
Flacepat 1 0 0
Hill 1 0 2
Red Hill 2 22 23
$ocastee 2 : 2
West Conway 1 3
Wild Wing 7 7
Absentee 1 3
Curbside 0 0
Totals 58 67
88 31 28
3 0 5
70 102 334
15 9 8
27 14 10
2 1 3
434 293 587
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Ghostly Tales
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Lawsuit Alleges Police Misconduct
By KRISTIE GOODALL
Staff Writer
An Horry County man alleged gross negli-
gence, reckless, willful and wanton conduct
brake lights were working properly. The officer
took Herz' license and registration to his vehi-
cle and returned with a citation for no seatbelt
and a warning ticket for brake lights.
Herz again told the trooper that he thought
against the S.C. Highway Patrol, Horry he was mistaken about the brake lights and
County Police and the Horry County Sheriffs " requested that he and the officer check the
department in a civil suit filed this past week lights together. According to the suit, the offi-
Accordin~ to the complaint, a highway
patrolman followed Rudolph Herz, 78, on
Cheyenne Avenue in Socastee to an gas sta-
tlon Oct.24, 2001, At the staUon the officer
asked Herz for his license and registration
and told him he was being issued a ticket for
faulty brake lights.
Herz told the trooper that he thought his
cer refused, returned to his vehicle and left
the station.
After leaving the gas station, Herz went to
Smith "Turf & Irrigation Co. and requested
that a salesman check the brake lights. The
salesman told Herz that the lights appeared to
See LAWSUIT P. A-2
By KATHY ROPP
Editor
A Conway woman
accused of killing her for-
mer boyfriend and leaving
his body in an abandoned
house on Dongola Highway
will be back In the court-
room next week facing her
second trial.
Wanda Ward Haithcock,
50, of 419 Summer Drive,
Conway was found innocent
this past week of armed
robbery, but an eight-
woman, four-man jury was
hung on the question of
murde~ ~ Circuit Judge
John :]~reeden .was forced to
decla~ a mlstrlal.
According to the Horry
County Solicitor's Office the
Jury's vote was 10-2 in favor
of conviction. For Ms.
Haithcock to be convicted of
murder, the jury's vote
needed to be unanimous.
Her new trial is scheduled
to begin Tuesday.
Haithcock is accused of
killing Kenneth Wayne
Coates Sr. by shooting him
twice in the head.
Coates left a friend at a
bar where the two had been
playing pool Jan. 6, 2001,
to go see his girlfriend.
That's the last time any-
one saw him until his dead
body was found Jan. 24,
2001, in an abandoned
home on the 6200 block of
Dongola Highway.
Deputy Solicitor Bert von
Herrman told the Jury this
past week that the case
against Haithcock is cir-
cumstantial, but said
there's enough evidence to
be convinced that she killed
and robbed Coates.
Bill Whittaker of Myrtle
Beach said he and Coates
went to several bars, played
pool and sang karaoke the
last time he saw him.
Coates~left ~-trt his white
Explorer at about 2:30 a.m.
Wade Lawrlmore's mother
owns the house where
Coates' body was found.
Several years ago, when the
house began to deteriorate.
Lawrimore built a room
onto his house and moved
his mother in with him.
Since then, her house has
been empty, leaving it open
to vandals and pillagers.
That's why he went to check
Jan. 6 about midday when
he saw a white Explorer
parked in front of the
house.
He testified that he saw
two people in the Explorer
and thought perhaps they
See JURY R A-12
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Opinions Vary on Wisdom of Allowing Students to Have Cell Phones at School
By ROBERT ANDERSON Colorado. According to spokesman
Staff Writer ~ Jim Foster of the S.C. Department of
, ~ Education, the State General
The bell isn t the only thlng ringlng Assembly liiled a ban on cell phones
at the end of the school day in Horry ~ o'~'i about two years ago, opting to give
County. " i~~! local school districts control over tlleir
Since South Carolina lifted its ban,own policies,
on cell phones in schools in 2002, stu- I think it's ~ especially ff there's
dents are packing more than their ~ emergency, said CHS junior Faith
books when they leave for school in tim WhO notes me SChOOl experiences
the morning. The students can t use a.rash of bomb th~ts this. pa s, t year.
cell phones during the school day, but ~ne, sam smaenm WhO son t drive
a lot of students turn them on as soon need to call their parents during these
as the school day ends. One adminls- ~ ~el~$ emergencies and tl~ere are no tele-
trator believes cell phone usage is the : ~ I phone booths outside.
major contributing factor in the "Why should we have to stand in
majority of after-school vehicle acci-,line and pay to use a telephone when
dents involving students. Conway High School. "I m not in any 1980s to combat their use in drug we already have one?" she said. " If
"All you have to do is stand outside way faulting the parents. Society has dealing and other crimes, but many of,anything like Columbine happened
at 3: I5 and two out ofevery three stu- made It seem as fflt's a necessity to those same states are becoming more here, students would need to call
dents has a cell phone and half are have one. You can always argue for tolerant in the wake of terrorist police.
using them which is a reason not to something you want. The question is attacks and school shootings. Although students in Horry County
come to school between 3:15 and do you need it? Students with cell phones are credited may bring cell phones to school, their
3:30, said Irby Koon, administrative States began banning pagers and with alerting authorities to the 1999 See ~r~'~ ~ ~ a
assistant for student activities at cell phones in schools in the late Columbine High School shootings in "--
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