Public supports nation’s makeup in age race and income
A Michigan State University designed poll for the National Institute of Education surveyed 1,200 people. It finds public support for college and junior high exams but mixed views on other education reforms including class size and required courses.
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America
Michigan State University
National Institute of Education
Education Department
Market Opinion Research Corp
Detroit
Judge Overrules Jury in Probative Evidence Case
Judge Fields sets aside the jury verdict citing lack of probative value and offers a directed verdict of not guilty. Weeks remains silent as Whittle gestured approval. Solicitor Bob Harte said the office plans an appeal.
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Fields
Whittle
Bob Harte
State Mental Hospitals Violent Neglect Highlighted by Senate
A six month Senate inquiry into state mental facilities portrays a world of fear and mistreatment for patients and staff. The report cites kicking and sexual abuse, poor living conditions, and inadequate privacy, while criticizing the Justice Department for slow action under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Subcommittee On
Lowell Weicker Jr
R-Conn
Justice Department
Department
Cambodian Family Reunited After Ten Year Separation
In Dubuque Iowa Samaith Tath and her husband Khong embrace their two sons Sedah 18 and Phalla 13 who survived presumed deaths in Cambodia and were flown from Bangkok Thailand ending a three day journey. Red Cross worker Mary Kay Schwind described the parents as speechless with joy in a spring snowstorm welcome at Dubuque airport.
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Samaith Tath
Cambodia
Mary Kay Schwind
Dubuque Area
The
American Red Cross
Sedah Tath
Phalla Tath
Dubuque
Cool Weather Forecast Across Regions With Frost Risk
The forecast calls for a cool night across South Carolina lakes with partly cloudy skies and lows in the upper 40s to 50s. Winds will be northwest at around 10 mph, with a warming trend and highs reaching the 60s to 80s by Friday. Regions such as Mountains Midlands Coast and Beaches show fair, cool, and windy conditions with frost risk in the mountains and highs mostly in the 60s to 70s elsewhere.
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South Carolina Lakes
Midlands
DeSoto Route Debate Shifts Cofitachequi Location in Aiken County
Aiken history buffs hear that Cofitachequi may lie near Camden on the Wateree River rather than Silver Bluff. Archaeologists DePratter Hudson and Smith say nine years of study and Juan Pardo accounts support a revised DeSoto route with Savannah crossing below Augusta and Camden sites dating earlier.
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Aiken
Hernando DeSoto
Cofitachequi
Aiken County
Silver Bluff
Savannah River
DeSoto
Chester DePratter
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina
Aiken County Historical Society
Camden
Wateree River
DePratter
Charles Hudson
University of Georgia
Marvin Smith
University of Florida
The
Vannah River
Augusta
Juan Pardo
Glen Hanson
Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
Robert Laird
Usc Aiken
Jane Davis
Society
Independent teacher groups blast unions at Hilton Head meeting
South Carolina and national independent teachers associations bashed unions as harming students and pitting educators against administrators. More than 50 representatives from 10 state groups and two national bodies met for three days, hosted by Palmetto State Teachers Association. Leaders argued unions push forced membership while NEA-backed reforms seek recertification and merit pay controls.
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Hilton Head Island
South Carolina
Palmetto State Teachers Association
NEA
National Education Association
Elizabeth Gressette
Susan Staub
Concerned Educators
Dick Bird
National Association For Professional Educators
Poet David Bottoms to close USCA Spring Writer’s Series
Poet David Bottoms, winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award, will give the final lecture in USC Aiken’s Spring Writer’s Series. He lectures tonight at 7:30 in room 107, Administration Building, and is an assistant professor of English at Georgia State University.
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USC Aiken
Bottoms
Robert Penn Warren
Walt Whitman
Academy of American Poets
Damascus
Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists
Southern Voice
Bottums
Georgia State University
USCA
Division of Arts and Letters
Aiken History Contest and Flower Show Details
The Aiken County Historical Society sponsors a history contest for grades 9 to 12 with $100, $50 and $25 savings bonds for first to third. Part of the prize funds come from Security Federal. the rest from the society. Aiken Sesquicentennial flower show May 4–5 at USC Aiken Recreation Center features three federated garden clubs and open horticulture classes for amateurs.
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Aiken County Historical Society
Aiken County
Security Federal
Historical Society
Aiken
USC Aiken
Federated Garden Clubs
Country Gardeners
Cereus Gardeners
Suburban Gardeners
Federated Clubs
Lil Symonds
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