Edgefield crowns new beauty queen at pageant
Beverly Louise Martin swept top honors at the Miss Edgefield County Scholarship Pageant held at Strom Thurmond High School Cafeteria. She was named Miss Edgefield, Miss Congeniality, and talent winner, earning a $1000 Made in the USA Scholarship and a trophy. First runner up Julie Caldwell and second runner up Paige Green each received trophies and scholarships. Entertainment came from Laura Ketron and Tracie Luquire. The event theme was Escapade.
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Edgefield
Beverly Louise Martin
Edgefield County
Miss Martin
USCA
Roger
Brenda Martin
Jueline Lea Caldwell
Jack A. Caldwell
Eloise H. Fleming
Paige Elizabeth Green
Leon Green Jr
Strom ‘Thurmond High School
Laura Ketron
Miss Edgefield
Tracie Luquire
Ridge Studio of Dance
Deaths in Georgia and South Carolina Obituaries
Georgia Louise DeHart Aiken Norman Bennett Brady L Howard James Wesley Johnson Beech Island listed among recent deaths with details on Page BA. Names indicate community figures connected to Aiken and Beech Island areas and are noted for obituary notices pending full details.
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Georgia
Louise DeHart
Aiken
Norman Bennett
Brady L. Howard
Bath
James Wesley Johnson
Beech Island
Doctors defend prescription probe as overly aggressive
Area physicians protest a probe into drug dispensing practices, saying it harms patient care. The S C Department of Health and Environmental Control is led by Thomas D Wyatt Jr with one full time and one part time staffer on the case. The inquiry focuses on Schedule Two substances and faces no charges at this time.
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Xaacee Stee
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control
Thomas D. Wyatt Jr
Bureau of Drug Control
DHEC
Corey
Wyatt
Attitude It Saved A Hospital Edgefield Transformation
Edgefield Hospital faced deep losses and staff turnover before Administrator Robert J. Welsh arrived in 1988. Under his leadership the hospital returned to profitability, morale rose, and staff felt more secure, contrasting past tensions at Self Memorial Hospital in Greenwood.
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Faeteld County Hosp Sin Deeply Hospital
Robert J
Bob) Welsh
Edgefield Hospital
Eis
Bob
Ann Carpenter
Edgefield
Self Memorial Hospital
Greenwood
Lanier quits amid more controversy in South Carolina
Lanier, the South Carolina Highway Patrol commander, announced his retirement after a series of episodes including the driving under the influence case involving a federal agent in charge and federal probes into lobbyists and lawmakers. State Sen. Thomas Moore called the move a bombshell as he sought to explain the fallout from recent events in Columbia.
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South Carolina Highway Patrol
J.H
Red) Lanier
Thomas
Tommy) Moore
Columbia
Sen. Moore
Clearwater
Aiken County
Lanier
Col. Lanier
Col
Carroll A. Campbell Jr
Highway Patrol
FBI
Hilton Head Island
South Carolina Municipal Association
General Assembly
House
Senate
Sherry Martschnik
Charleston
Campbell
Military In Control In Kuwait
The Baghdad government announced a nine member Kuwaiti leadership drawn from Iraqi officers, while Iraq claimed to build a Kuwaiti army backing the installed regime. Diplomatic sources questioned the authenticity of listed names and Iraqi TV showed no pictures of the government members. Iraq also said a popular Arab volunteer force would defend Kuwait as 140,820 Iraqis near the border volunteered to serve.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Washington
Mohammed al-Mashat
U.S
Saudi Arawa
Ala Hussein Ali
Gulf
al Sabah
Baghdad Radio
Free
The
Black Golfer Questions Local Course Access and Race Bias
Andrew Hendrix Jr recalls decades of golf memories amid changing attitudes toward race. He says local courses have not denied him access recently, contrasting past barriers with the Shoal Creek controversy and asking whether area clubs discriminate in membership.
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Nassau
Andrew Hendrix Jr
Shoal Creek
Birmingham
Ala
Area
Hendrix
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L.A
Los Angeles
Mexico
Delicias de Michoacan
Robert Moscherak
United States
Dear Abby
Eaves As
Scott Webster
Edgefield County Hospital
Salah Nasrawi
Associated Press
Michael Shady
Schofield
Golf Club
Tom Moore
Dle School
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