Answers vague in CAC evaluation report
The Aiken County Community Action Commission CAC dodges key issues in a state evaluation report including nepotism gas purchases from a CAC official’s brother and a director’s wife hired for a summer feeding program. The CRCs are described as dirty and poorly managed with no organized services for about a year and one located in a living room.
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Two Trucking Giants Bankrupt Amidmerger Fallout
Associated Transport and Eastern Freightways, merged as Associated Eastern, enter bankruptcy. They employ about 6,000 across 24 states, including roughly 1,000 in the Carolinas, with 500 at the Burlington terminal slated for layoffs as the 75 terminals wind down. A skeleton staff will finish orderly closing.
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Fantastic Quarter For GM As Profits Soar In Q1
General Motors earned about 800 million in the first quarter, up 132 times from a year ago, with earnings of 2.78 a share on record sales of 11.4 billion. Analysts called it a dramatic auto industry turnaround and near perfect for GM globally.
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Investigators Inspect Crash Site in Virgin Islands
Federal investigators say they will spend 10 days to two weeks examining wreckage of the American Airlines jetliner that crashed during landing in Charlotte Amalie Virgin Islands. NTSB head Edward Dreifus notes focus on structure and power plants while voice recorder remains missing.
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Pro-Syrian Moslems Threaten to Use Arms in Lebanon
In Beirut the Baath Socialist party and its Lebanese branch warned they would resort to force to prevent delays in electing a new Lebanese president. They accused Jumblatt allied leftists of pressuring parliament as fighting escalated overnight.
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FTC rules Grape Nuts ads deceptive for children
The Federal Trade Commission said Benton & Bowles will not use a similar pitch again. FTC alleged the Post Grape Nuts TV commercials misled by encouraging children to eat wild plants that could be poisonous.
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Euell Gibbons
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Benton & Bowles
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Bay Firm Charged In $3 Million USSR Electronics Exports
A Bay Area company II Industries Inc. faces federal indictment for illegally exporting $3 million in advanced electronics manufacturing equipment to the Soviet Union. The case alleges fictitious firms and middlemen used washing machines and ovens as disguises to evade customs, with three officers and three West German nationals implicated in violations of export controls to Communist bloc states.
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Soviet Union
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Sunnyvale
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Immig Authorities Plan Wide Return of Illegal Aliens
In Washington the INS says thousands of illegal aliens may be sent back to their home communities in interior Mexico rather than the border route. Spokesman Verne Jervis says the plan tests whether this discourages repeat attempts to enter the United States.
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Wagener Woman Ma Jo Named South Carolina Senior Citizen of 1976
Ma Jo Josephine Matthews, a 77 year old former midwife from Wagener, has been chosen as the outstanding senior citizen in South Carolina for 1976. She delivered more than 1,300 babies and helped many families, now volunteers with the Council on Aging feeding and meal delivery programs.
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Josephine Matthews
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Council On Aging
Presidential race widens as Carter and Humphrey clash in Texas
Dallas AP wire reports Carter leads Democratic contest with strong Pennsylvania win as Humphrey weighs entering the race. Brown enters late with energy. Ford targets Texas GOP delegates while Reagan campaigns with Hollywood stars. Wallace and Bentsen remain factors as the Texas primary looms.
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Saturday Rain Forecast Shifts To May For Aiken Area
The forecast calls for a mostly cloudy April ending with no rain tomorrow. A 20 percent chance of rain is expected, with showers predicted from Saturday through Monday, delaying May flowers for local residents.
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Aiken
Valchem hearing adds April spill to show cause list
DHEC lists an April 7 spill of about 300 gallons of chemical mix at Valchem Inc in Langley as part of a show cause hearing in Columbia. The spill entered a four drain system and an effluent box, discharging untreated into Horse Creek, deemed due to employee negligence and preventable with closer operation oversight.
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MR-9 Radar Joins Aiken Police To Catch Speeders
Aiken police introduce the MR-9 moving radar system to monitor speeds from patrol cars and at stops. Capt. O W Ray and Public Safety Director Carroll Busbee announce the device records speeds of all vehicles and alerts officers when limits are exceeded.
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