Aiken Man Bets $500 to End Controversy Over Industry Plan
Vernes, a longtime State Development Board member and Aiken Distributing Co. president, announced plans to raise $30,000 to support a North Augusta industrial land purchase. He cited the need for industry to ease tensions between Aiken and North Augusta and urged broad contributions, hoping the fund would quiet the controversy over a $5 million German textile machinery plant site.
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Eric Higgs
Stathy J. Varus
Aiken County
North Augusta
Vernes
Verenes
Aiken
North
Augusta
U.stries
Aiken County Board of Commissioners
Washington, D.C
Warren M. Miller
Irene K. Rudnick
Nolle Prosequi Used In July General Sessions Context
Staff reports detail 39 of 107 cases not pressed in a July general sessions special term. Rape, unlawful drugs, assault with intent to kill, larceny and other charges were dropped at the solicitor’s discretion. Key figures include Aiken County Solicitor C LaVaun Fox, Judge Rodney A Peeples, Magistrate L Glenn Holley and Public Defender Sylvia W Westerdahl.
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General Sessions Court
Nolle
Rodney A. Peeples
Peeples
Grand Jury
L. Glenn Holley
Aiken County
C.lavaun Fox
Evans
Sylvia W. Westerdahl
Fox
Inflation Backlash Deepens as Wholesale Prices Jump
The Labor Department reported a 1.2 percent rise in the Wholesale Price Index for July led by food and farm products up 4.6 percent and fuels. Analysts cite renewed inflation pressures with 12 month gains at 8.7 percent versus a year ago.
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Washington
Labor Department
Brazil
Rain Chance Forecast With Warm, Cloudy Skies
Variable cloudiness and warm conditions continue with a 40 percent chance of rain today tonight and Friday. Thunder showers expected mainly in the afternoon and evening with highs in the mid 60s and overnight lows around the upper 60s.
Odd life cycle of tropical fish draws remark
Linda Rhodes comments on the wrass life cycle where the fish starts as female becomes bisexual then male. A tennis marathon runs this weekend at Virginia Acres beginning 3 p.m. Friday and ending 3 p.m. Sunday with Cy 8 Tepats Seslelyn bogies at 3 p.m. Friday.
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Linda Rhodes
Linda
Virginia Acres
Take-Off Delayed as Red Army Frees 15 Hostages
Five Japanese Red Army militants release 15 hostages at Kuala Lumpur airport including U S Consul Robert Stebbins and two other Americans. The airliner then carries freed radicals and substitute hostages toward Libya. Stebbins says deaths would have occurred if demands were not met.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Red Army
U.S
Robert Stebbins
Libya
Stebbins
Clovis, N.M
Hoffa’s Son Demands O’Brien Lie Detector Test
James P. Hoffa calls for Charles O’Brien to take a polygraph regarding Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance. O’Brien, Hoffa’s foster son raised by him since age three, says he has no knowledge of Hoffa’s whereabouts and hesitated when asked about a test.
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Detroit
Jimmy Hoffa
Charles
Chuckie
O'Brien
Hoffa
Teamsters
O’brien
James P. Hoffa
Gurney Out of Justice Dept Clutches Seeks Health First
Former Sen. Edward J. Gurney, 61, declares he's free of federal case burdens after a jury acquits him on bribery and illegal compensation charges in a $233,000 slush fund scandal. He plans to focus on health before any political comeback. Two counts remain unresolved.
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Tampa
Fla
Justice Department
Edward J. Gurney
Gurney
Charges Reduce in Little Case in Raleigh
Attorneys for Joan Little opened defense against a reduced charge to second degree murder in the death of a Beaufort County jailer. Judge Hobgood cut the charge from first to second degree murder on Wednesday and kept remaining charges alive. Dr Page Hudson testified as the first defense witness.
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Raleigh
Joan Little
Beaufort County
Page Hudson
North Carolina
Fense
Hamilton Hobgood
Hobgood
Arnold makes pig of himself on first birthday
Arnold the pig celebrated his first birthday at Bethel Mason's filling station in Fork Mountain Virginia. The 600 pound porker devoured a cake containing one can of diesel and the candles. Arnold shares the station with two German shepherds and weighs about 100 pounds more than a typical year old pig.
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Fork Mountain
Arnold
Bethel Mason
Mason
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