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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1982
Page
2
James Olen Herring 58 a former New Ellenton resident died Friday in Covington County. Funeral Sunday at Pittman Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Early Town Cemetery. He worked as a reactor operator at the Savannah River Plant and was a WWII and Korean War veteran.
Local events include a Family Planning Clinic at Margaret J Weston Health Center in Clearwater at 4 p.m. and multiple 7 30 p.m. gatherings across North Augusta Belvedere Aiken and other venues. Tomorrow features health clinics museum activities and social clubs with times ranging from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Contact Ellison Garvin at Aiken Standard for date drafting.
Registration for children entering public school this fall in Aiken County runs April 14 and 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the nearest elementary school. Birth certificates and immunization certificates are required. five-year-olds by Nov 1, 1982 enter kindergarten and six-year-olds by that date enter first grade.
Senator Charles H. Percy will record aloud Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America for a blind reader, Kathleen Brandt of Maryland, as part of Recording for the Blind Inc. sessions starting April 23. The Illinois Republican, who has a hearing problem, aims to create cassettes for 17,000 borrowers and others. Brandt, a Goucher College alumna, praised Percys work and said the choice fits his government focus.
The forecast predicts a mix of clouds and warmth for Aiken County with springlike conditions. Tonight low temperatures in the mid fifties and tomorrow highs in the upper seventies under partly cloudy skies. From Thursday to Saturday expect mostly sunny skies with highs in the mid seventies to mid eighties and lows around the fifties.
School Superintendent Robert Paskel outlines how 88 percent of the budget funds personnel while demands for instructional materials and maintenance rise. State funding doubles yet local costs grow, prompting talks of fiscal autonomy and potential cuts in supplies, programs, and class sizes to meet DMP mandates.
Aiken County residents submitted 17 reports to the Soil Conservation Service on the proposed USDA soil and water conservation program. Respondents favored stronger local state and federal cooperation and tax incentives to promote conservation systems, while opposing federal matching block grants and a national conservation board. Bobby McGee said Columbia analyzed the comments from across the nation.
Salley Town Council approved purchasing more street name signs and signs warning motorists to watch for children playing. Town Clerk Brenda Walker said the council has not set a quantity yet.
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