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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1987
Page
1
Myrtle Beach reports an erosion estimate by Walter Stanaland associate professor at Coastal Carolina College. He says if every visitor takes a half pound of sand home annually about 585 dump trucks worth of sand move inland. The remark links visitor behavior to beach loss.
A call for help after a near drowning went to a wrong number but 9 year old Anne Marie Ranschau recorded details and alerted rescuers. Matt Schneider 16 was pulled unconscious from Clark's Fork River as he swam with his twin Mark and a cousin on July 26.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with a chance of scattered thunderstorms. High temperatures reach the 90s, with overnight lows in the 70s. See details on Page 12A.
Obituary notice noting deaths of Zalie Hallman Salley Roswell D Keller and Aiken Will Nimmons with a Salley Glenn Kenneth Smith in North Augusta reference and instruction to see details on Page 6A.
A congressional study estimates that launching a space based Star Wars anti missile defense could cost up to 1 trillion dollars depending on Soviet countermeasures and technologies. The report notes costs hinge on Soviet actions and possible treaty outcomes.
TV footage showed pilgrims attacking cars and clashing with security forces as Iranian pilgrims were rounded up in Mecca. Iran claimed over 200 dead, while Saudi officials denied firing on demonstrators. Embassies in Tehran and elsewhere were damaged or stormed amid tensions and arrests.
Joe Holmes parlayed a public relations degree from the school of hard knocks into a family peach business. The Holmes Packing Shed on S C 191 near Eureka ships 200000 cases or about 7.6 million pounds this season. Brothers Tommy and Walker and mother Trudy run orchards and packing shed operations while father H T Holmes started the business in the 1940s.
The Gas Prince, a 46 723 ton tanker, left Kuwait fully loaded and reportedly met its U S Navy escort in the Persian Gulf. It was faster than the Bridgeton and proceeded through potential minefields with naval shadowing as Pentagon plans called for the return voyage through the Hormuz Strait.
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