Desegregation Plan Gets Second Year Funds
South Carolina’s Budget and Control Board approved 2.9 million dollars for the second year of the desegregation plan for higher education. The package adds 1.6 million over last year and funds 27 new positions at four colleges to boost minority recruitment and programs. South Carolina State College will get 22 positions, Denmark Technical 2, Winthrop and The Citadel one each, plus a full-time coordinator and graduate fellowships funding.
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Columbia
State Budget and Control Board
South Carolina
State Commission On Higher Education
Howard R. Boozer
Commission
U.S. Department of Education
Education Department
Boozer
South Carolina State College
Orangeburg
Denmark Technical College
Winthrop College
Citadel
Higher Education Commis
Sion
Dick Riley
Two Aiken County Men Charged In Food Stamp Fraud Indictment
An AP report notes 33 South Carolinians indicted on food stamp fraud in a 16 month, six county, three state undercover probe termed a joint task force effort. Involving over $125000 in food stamps, the case also targets illicit liquor and firearms.
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Aiken County
Columbia
Donald V. Myers
Myers
Lexington County
Saluda County
Fed
Eral Grand Jury
Aiken
Richland
Florence
William T. Groomes
William Thomas
Groomes
Thomas
Steel Firm Indicted Over Training Funds Fraud
A federal grand jury charged Reinforcing Steel Placers Inc of North Carolina, two officers, and 10 others with defrauding a government job training program. The indictment alleges illegal disbursement of federal funds to ineligible individuals under the Comprehensive Employment Training Act administered by the Labor Department. Defendants include Ronald Brooks of Laurinburg and Lonnie Dale Maynor Jr. of Pem broke, both officers, Edward J. Alexander of North Myrtle Beach, an Association for Employment Opportunities employee, and nine steel company workers.
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Columbia
North Carolina Steel Company
Reinforcing Steel Placers Inc
U.S
Henry Dargan McMaster
Dick Riley
Governor’s Office
U.S. Labor Department
South Carolina
Ronald Brooks
Laurinburg
N.C
Lonnie Dale Maynor Jr
Pembroke
Steel Company
Edward J. Alexander
North Myrtle Beach
Association For Employment Opportunities
Supreme Court to hear bid to activate appeals court next month
The South Carolina Supreme Court will hear arguments on September 8 over whether Chief Justice J Woodrow Lewis can order the controversial intermediate appeals court to act without Legislature approval. Attorneys McLaren and Warner seek urgent hearings for 12 clients in divorce and child custody cases amid a two to three year backlog. The judges could be appointed and funded via Lewis authority and the Budget and Control Board.
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Columbia
State Supreme Court
J. Woodrow Lewis
Daniel R. McLeod
High Court
Jim McLaren
Appeals Court
Lewis
McLaren
Sumter
Jan Warner
General Assembly
Supreme Court
Warner
State Budget and Control Board
Guard Vows Action Against Detonations
An environmental group in Columbia says it will use legal and nonviolent means to stop the detonation of about 100 hazardous waste containers in Richland County. Officials say detonation is planned eight miles from Bluff Road with a police escort and safety measures.
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Columbia
Richland County
Natural Guard
Chris Kueny
Bluff Road
Kueny
South Carolina
Robert E. Malpass
Department of Health and Environmental Control
Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
Burwell
NRC poised to issue license for V. C. Summer plant
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to grant a limited operating license for the V. C. Summer nuclear plant today. Workers may load the first uranium fuel batch and run two months of low power tests after the licensing board's permission. Becky McSwain of South Carolina Electric & Gas hailed the anticipated approval as the project nears completion.
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Columbia
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
V.C. Summer
NRC
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
Bill Kane
Bethesda
South Carolina
Oconee
H.B Robinson
Hartsville
Becky McSwain
South Carolina Electric & Gas
V.C
Cothran Funeral Set For Today
James W. Cothran Sr. 67 former USC Board of Trustees member and past VFW commander in chief dies in Bishopville after a long illness. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. at Bishopville Presbyterian Church.
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Bishopville
James W. Cothran Sr
University of South Carolina Board of Trustees
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Cothran
Bishopville Presbyterian Church
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