Expo '93 Expo Attracts Visitors To Aiken Fairgrounds
A steady stream of visitors toured Expo 93 at the Exhibition Building on U.S. 1 in Aiken. Free admission, booths from cellular telephones to home builders offered brochures and raffles, with food booths drawing crowds. Children enjoyed edible giveaways as vendors promoted local business and services.
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Aiken Jaycee Fairgrounds
U.S. 1
Greater Aiken
Bobby’s Bar-B
Westside Bowery
Restructuring Debate Grows In Health Field Hearings
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee chaired by Sen. Thomas Moore heard from more than 50 speakers backing health and environmental restructuring proposals at the Aiken City Conference Center. The sprawling measure would fold 100 agencies into 16 cabinet style departments and has drawn limited crowds statewide.
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Aiken City Conference Center
Senate Judiciary Committee
Thomas L. Moore
D-Clearwater
Sen. Moore
Aiken
Senate
House
Greg Ryberg
John Russell
Spartanburg
Joe Wilson
Lexington
Taxes and district split dominate Aiken school board forum
At a Thursday forum at Aiken Technical College thirteen candidates discussed boosting taxes and splitting the district to cover a 1993-94 shortfall. In District One incumbent Williamson and Windham oppose any tax increase, while Carver Millwood and Walker support a raise. District Eight candidates Bradley Stultz and Maroney offered varying views on tax increases and budget cuts.
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Aiken County
Aiken County School Board
Aiken Technical College
Wagoner Area
North Augusta
Aiken Area
Inease P. Williamson
Andy Windham
Windham
Steve Carver
Carol Millwood
David Walker
John B. Bradley
Robert Stultz
Preston Maroney
Bradley
Stultz
Maroney
SRS Section To Publish On Sunday
The Savannah River Site faces uncertainty as new missions are explored. On Sunday the Aiken Standard will publish a special section titled SRS: Evolving Mission in a Changing World detailing the site's past present and future possibilities.
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Savannah River
Aiken Standard
Alabama’s Gov Hunt ousted for theft in ethics case
Alabama Governor Guy Hunt is ousted after a jury found him guilty of violating ethics law by illegally spending 200 000 dollars from his 1987 inaugural fund. Lt. Gov Jim Folsom sworn in, Hunt faces possible prison. Prosecutors linked purchases of cattle furniture and a marble shower stall to the fund.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jim Folsom
Folsom
Alabama
Guy Hunt
James E
Big Jim” Folsom
Hunt
U.S
Maryland
Marvin Mandel
News tip contact numbers and names listed
Call 648 2311 with ideas or news tips. Names include Joe Allen New Ellenton J Michael Boyle Falls Church Va Furman Fickling Saluda Johnnie Hall Daytona Beach Fla Ida S LeRoy Bath Reuben Steele Saluda Fannie Wade Warrenville See Page 2B for details.
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Joe Allen
New Ellenton
J. Michael Boyle
Falls Church
Furman Fickling
Saluda
Johnnie Hall
Daytona Beach
Flo
Ida S. LeRoy
Bath
Reuben Steele
Fannie Wade
Warrenville
Money Crunch To Leave Prisons Empty In South Carolina
Corrections Commissioner Parker Evatt warns that without $13 million to fund two new prisons in Jasper and Clarendon counties, the system will overload and 1,600 inmates could be released early. The House blocked the request. Senate actions may save the plan.
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Columbia
Parker Evatt
Jasper
Clarendon
Evatt
House
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
U.S
Wes
Ton Houck
Theo Mitchell
Greenville
Mitchell
Senate Corrections Committee
John Drummond
D-Ninety Six
Russian Doctors Seek American Medical Culture Experience
Two Russian physicians Dr Sergei Rasskazov and Dr Anatolievna Filatova arrived in Aiken to study the U S medical system and culture under a cultural exchange arrangement with Dr Jack and Dr Brenda Ratliff. They will reside for up to a year at Aiken Regional Medical Centers and Augusta while observing U S medical practice and language use.
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Aiken
United States
Sergei Alexeevich Rasskazov
Irina Anatolievna Filatova
Washington, D.C
Jack Ratliff
Brenda Ratliff
Ratliffs
Rasskazov
Anatolievna
American Medical Center
Moscow
Ken
Augusta
Russia
Moscow Institute of International Studies
Boston
Kenya
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