25 Apr 1997
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1997
Page
1
City of Aiken honors volunteers in a United Way ceremony highlighting community service. Local leaders recognize dozens of residents for their time and impact across education, health, and neighborhood projects.
The South Carolina Senate Finance Committee kept the 1997-98 budget close to the House plan, preserving property tax rollbacks for homes up to 100000 and adding 200 more Palmetto Fellows scholarships funded partly by Chem-Nuclear landfill fees. The panel shifts to stricter scholarship criteria and eyes future reforms while a $1 million target sits atop a $4 million shortfall.
Obituary notices list Mae G Bowden Windsor Mary S Shealy Lexington and Rosetta Jones Swindler Aiken. The page 2B item references obituaries and local notices including lottery game results and fantasy 5 numbers with mixed details.
The state attorney general's office filed a 45 page response asking that convicted murderer Jerry B McWee be denied a new trial. Commissioner Michael Moore of Corrections was listed as respondent. The filing rejects McWee claims of trial illegality and Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment violations. The response also addresses alleged prejudicial remarks by Solicitor Barbara Morgan and asserts mental instability claims lack merit.
Former officer Jerry McWee faced death penalty for the 1994 Perry murder. Defense presented psychiatric testimony claiming suicidal impulses and voices from dead kin, while forensic psychiatrist Dr. Donald Morgan countered with evidence of criminal responsibility and lack of real mental illness.
Spring project at South Aiken High School brightens the campus with biology students parents and local business partners donating labor soil flowers and bark to revamp the front area A pond is planned to be stocked with fish and plants and a new environmental studies class may begin to sustain the landscaping effort.
Ambrose L. Schwallie, president of Westinghouse Savannah River Co., received the University of South Carolina Aiken Distinguished Citizen Award at the Annual Academic Convocation. The award honors an Aiken citizen contributing to the university and education.
Community leaders lawmakers and church figures gathered in North Augusta for a Citizens Against Violence forum. Panelists included Max Cauthen Sen. Tommy Moore Rep. Scott Beck Kay Mixon Officer G A Shaw and Rev Alfred Holmes. Mixon noted CARP aided 1784 domestic violence victims in 1996 and urged sustained community involvement.
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