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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1981
Page
3
Kathy Woodham reports that 5000 adults aged 18 to 65 in Aiken County are functionally illiterate, part of 155,762 South Carolinians or 12 percent statewide. Coordinator Jeanne Knotts urges tutoring, explains centers, and a 10 hour training for volunteers to erase illiteracy and break poverty cycles.
Cape Canaveral Florida AP reports a space shuttle technician Forrest Cole aged 50 died from injuries suffered during a Kennedy Space Center rehearsal accident. He was at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville after entering an oxygen free shuttle chamber, becoming the second fatality from the incident that claimed another worker earlier. Cole was a Rockwell International employee.
Jerry Taylor of Trinity on the Hill Methodist Church remarks that AMBUCS aims to fund speech and occupational therapy scholarships for cerebral palsy victims. Augusta chapters report AMBUCS has raised over $1 million since 1955 to fund therapy student scholarships, with 127 awarded last year. The new Aiken chapter seeks 25 members to gain charter status.
In Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Janet Nichols 18 and John Rudd 19 from Sarasota Fla. had a passing by own action pact. Rudd was found dead after a three day hunt two miles from their camping site. Nichols, with a self inflicted wrist wound, walked out and told rangers of the pact. Nichols's father is Florida's deputy education commissioner.
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