Titanic Sinking Echoes In Aiken On April Fifteenth
Residents recall the 1912 disaster as a country ballad airing on a 1930s radio tells of the Titanic maiden voyage. Prominent Aiken Winter Colony families including John Jacob Astor IV and Maj Archibald Butt perished. The Archibald Butt Bridge memorializes him.
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Atlantic
Aiken
Winter Colony
John Iob Astor IV
America
Maj
Archibald Butt
Augusta
William Howard Taft
White House
Augusta Canal
Titanic
Tax deadline here code reform urged
Washington reports a multimillion dollar lobbying push by groups like Americans for Fair Taxation to replace the federal income tax and payroll taxes with a 23 percent national sales tax. They plan a mock funeral at the IRS Baltimore office and a $10 million spending drive by year end.
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Washington
Americans For Fair Taxation
Internal Revenue Service
Baltimore
R-Texas
Atlanta
Jackson
Miss
Christian Coalition
Congress
America
Fanfair
Randy Tate
IRS
Charles C. Rossetti
National Press Club
Wency
Rossetti
Louis Harris & Associates Inc
Humphrey Taylor
Louis Harris & Associates
Lafayette Park
White House
Aiken Post Office Extends Hours To Midnight Tax Day
The Aiken main post office at 307 Laurens St will stay open until midnight on tax day for filings with April 15 post marks. Officer James Sizemore notes this is the fourth year of late hours. armed security will be present and windows open. Southside office closes at 5 pm. Silver Bluff Road notices announce the change. Patrons must sign forms include payments and affix proper postage.
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Aiken
Laurens St
James Sizemore
Silver Bluff Road
Death notices and lottery numbers listed on page 2B
The page lists obituaries for Evelyn D. Fulmer Springfield Irene H. Taylor Aiken Clarence J. Helper North Augusta and Beatrice Hutto Bates Croft Williston. Lottery results show Ga Lottery Tuesday May Tah 3 May 283 ah 3 Evening 00 7 and 648.9.5 Pantasy 5 17-20.28.28-20.
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Evelyn D. Fulmer
Springfield
Irene H. Taylor
Aiken
Clarence J. Helper
North Augusta
Beatrice Hutto Bates Croft
Williston
Graham proposes loan forgiveness plan to recruit teachers
Rep. Lindsey Graham promotes a Higher Education Act plan offering up to 17 750 in loan forgiveness for USCA students who teach in Title I needy schools for at least three years. The incentive provides 30 percent forgiveness in year one, 30 percent in year two, and 40 percent in year three, funded without extra cost to taxpayers.
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Lindsey Graham
R-S.c
University of South Carolina Aiken
Linda Eldridge
Aiken County
House of Representatives
Emer
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Grover Jackson
Coca-Cola
Nations Bank
Hugh McColl
House Ways and Means
Bill Archer
Abby
USCA
Rep
Graham
Robert Alexander
Cher
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