Masters Golf Preview and NCAA Final Highlights
The Oklahoma Sooners and Kansas meet in a key NCAA Final clash while N C State coach will stay at the ACC school, rejecting UCLA. Louisiana Tech and Auburn contest the NCAA Women's Championship as baseball returns and MLB season previews appear on multiple pages. Collegiate crews race Savannah River and Masters coverage fills Section C with a special 8th Masters preview.
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S N.C
ACC
UCLA
Louisiana Tech
Auburn
Savannah River
Time Changes Daylight Saving Time Returns
Daylight saving time is back as clocks move ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. The period runs until Oct. 30 when the hour is returned and standard time resumes.
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Washington
Romantic rendezvous sparks as Scot speaks to Illinois teacher
AP reports Dick Ferry, who wrote about loving the voice at an ATM, will meet Sally Masterson 29 year old Scottish radio host visiting central Illinois. The British press calls the story a romantic rendezvous fueled by a Scottish accent driving an American teacher wild.
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Decatur
Weather Outlook Shows Rain Likely Then Clearing
Today's forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a 60 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms. Highs will reach the 70s and overnight lows stay in the 60s. Tomorrow the rain risk continues but skies are expected to clear by Tuesday. Page 8A has details.
Deaths Alvin Dorn Cecil Harley Powell Poythress
Obituary notices list death announcements for Alvin Lynard Dorn of Dublin Georgia Cecil C Harley of Ninety Six South Carolina William L Powell Sr of Columbia and Eugenia S Poythress of Gloverville South Carolina details continued on Page 6A with funeral services and survivors not listed here.
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Alvin Lynard Dorn
Dublin
Cecil C. Harley
William L. Powell Sr
Columbia
Eugenia S. Poythress
Gloverville
Easter Traditions Take Spotlight
The Associated Press reports Greek bakers in Detroit labored on Easter Bread while a small Illinois town preserves a Russian decorated tradition. Pastors worry daylight saving time ends up delaying services as Grand Haven delays Easter egg duties due to a stuck drawbridge. Terre Haute organizers fear parents cheating at Deming Park Egg Hunt drawing 1000+ children.
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Detroit
Illinois
James C. Benfield
The
Daylight-Saving Time Coalition
Congress
William deHeyman
Lutheran Church
Philadelphia
Grand Haven
Mich
Terre Haute
Ind
Deming Park
Indiana
DOE Seeks Plan to Address Savannah River Safety Issues
DOE still has not produced a clear plan to fix safety problems at the Savannah River nuclear weapons plant, despite a January 1 deadline. NAS findings blamed weak oversight and deficiencies across the facility's three aging reactors producing plutonium and tritium for weapons.
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DOE
Department of Energy
Savannah River
National Academy of Sciences
Energy Department
Joseph Salgado
NAS
Renee Doe
Spring Tourism Boosts Aiken County Economy
The Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce plans to push tourism as a major project for the year. Nationally tourism ranked as the second largest state industry with 36,845,812 travelers in 1987 spending 3,748,073,000 and supporting 89,130 jobs and 216,612,767 in state taxes. In Aiken County 249,868 travelers spent 26,746,348 creating 557 local jobs and payrolls of 4,990,740 with 1,532,461 in state taxes and 218,713 in local taxes. The chamber aims to capture a larger share of tourism.
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Aiken County
Hopeland Gardens
Greater
South Carolina
Murff
Judge States His Case In Aiken Sulky Races
Judge Frank Eppes entered Aiken general sessions court then won the Harry Short Race at the Aiken Mile Track aboard Crafty Yankee, owned by Charter Oak Stable, with a 2 13 in the one mile. In the Har ry Whitney Memorial Race the pair finished fourth as Cardinal Almahurst set the day’s fastest time 2 06 3 5. World Traveler and Rand followed.
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Frank Eppes
Aiken
Eppes
Crafty Yankee
Aiken Mile
Charter Oak Stable
Harry Whitney
South Carolina
Rand
Cardinal Almahurst
Gene Casham
Jim Larente
World Traveler
Twas
Larentes
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Kansas Beach
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Oma
Ginny Southworth
St Mary Help of Christians Catholic
Associated Press
Kelly Greene
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Greater Aiken Chamber of Ce
Phil Jones
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