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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1983
Page
1
Six remaining Pentecostalists in the U S Embassy Moscow will depart the compound late today after a five year stay. They expect exit visas ending a two decade struggle to leave the Soviet Union. The group led by Lilia Yashchenko 25 will return to Siberia to file applications.
Belvedere businessman Melvin Miniter threatens court action if the proposed flashing and pulsating sign ban is approved. Council postpones second reading after hearing from Miniter and Williams of Williams Skeen Realty. Williams argues the ordinance is misworded and could ban nonhazardous electronic signs. he proposes an exception for electronically controlled signs with variable graphics for public service or commercial info. The city will study the wording for a month under City Attorney Henry Summerall Jr. before resuming consideration.
Princess Caroline of Monaco is set to wed Robertino Rossellini son of Ingrid Bergman in September reports by the New York Daily News and New York Post. Caroline 26 seeks church annulment after divorcing Philippe Jenets in 1980 making the union contingent on church approval. Franco Rossellini confirmed the impending marriage in Manhattan.
Have You Heard reports six red roses delivered to Crest Travel with a note thanking the ladies for a weekend. The signature reads Tom Selleck, though his presence in Aiken remains unconfirmed. A VFW Post 5877 flag was reportedly borrowed on March 31. the post asks for its return. Claiborne Ray vacationing in the Orient met an English girl in Hong Kong, who said her parents live near Augusta, home of the Masters.
Chicago voters faced a pivotal choice between Harold Washington and Bernard Epton for the city’s next mayor. Absentee voting surged while polls opened 6 a.m. and closed 7 p.m. Forecasts predicted up to 1.3 million turnout in cloudy, potentially rainy weather as candidates eyed liberal lakefront voters and pledged reform of patronage.
The Reagan commission proposes basing 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos in Wyoming and Nebraska with a new smaller land based missile in the next decade. Critics on Capitol Hill denounce the plan as dangerous and costly while favoring rejection.
The Savannah River Plant faced warnings two years earlier about dangers from open storage basins holding radioactive materials and chemicals. Officials announced 50 tons of suspected cancer-causing substances had escaped a basin into an underground water system supplying parts of South Carolina and southern Georgia, prompting heightened state action and a long term cleanup.
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