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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1990
Page
1
Ground controllers failed Friday to open the Hubble Space Telescope’s sensor cover amid a night of communications problems. A Goddard Space Flight Center spokesman said the telescope entered automatic safe mode to protect optics, with no word on a possible spacewalk rescue as ground commands faltered.
Obituary notice lists Angie Boulineau Augusta Rebecca Dees Burnettow Loulse G Hiers Augusta Amanda Mauer Belvedere Eva J Miller Ward Eugene Lee Pinson Myrtle Beach Pearine S Stil Hilda Hattie Waldo Edgefield Mattie White North Augusta details on page 4A.
Just hours before execution in South Carolina Ronald Rusty Woomer reaffirmed faith in God and asked for the pain to end for victims' families. He described ongoing torment from memories of four murder victims and others he shot, including Wanda Summers. Woomer, in standard prison garb, said the death penalty is the wrong response and that Jesus would not flip the switch. He embraced Christianity during 11 years on death row and said his last thoughts would be of going home to rest.
DOE tiger team report on a two month review of the Savannah River Site notes 400 plus safety, health and environmental deficiencies but finds no serious threat to public health or the environment. Eleven issues require immediate correction. the team did not evaluate the 1960s era reactors that produced tritium.
Staff writer Carl Langley profiles forty five men on South Carolina’s death row and notes prominent figures from Aiken and Edgefield including Paul Koon of Warrenville and William Keith Victor of Aiken. Gaskins, Pee Wee, stands out for a 1983 inmate death, while Victor’s 1968 beating death and Koon’s 1980 New some murder tie to long appeals and postwar sentencing trends. The piece recalls World War II era exceptions and the Logue case, where officials pursued arrests amid a tense Edgefield context led by Strom Thurmond’s intervention.
Michael Lowe of the Energy Research Foundation argues that SRS should halt operations and retrain workers following a critical tiger team assessment. Dean Hoffman of Westinghouse Savannah River Co. stresses no immediate risk to public or environment and notes corrective actions already underway.
The Commerce Department reports 1990 first quarter GNP at 2.1 percent annual rate, outpacing 1989's weak fourth quarter. Inflation rises to 6.5 percent tied to the GNP, heightening concern about sustaining growth. Analysts warn one time factors may fade and Fed policy could curb the upswing.
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