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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1981
Page
3
Former President Jimmy Carter aims to fish trout streams near West Yellowstone during a five day family vacation. Tony Breen of the local chamber says Carter plans to fly in with Rosalynn Amy and possibly Chip for the trip starting Tuesday.
President Reagan at his Santa Barbara ranch jokes with reporters about Interior Secretary Watt showing up to strike oil. He signs landmark budget and tax legislation while defending oil leasing and preserving America's beauty, saying Watt does not want to harm the landscape but recognizes people are ecology too.
Nixon has already paid pentagon whistle blower Ernest Fitzgerald 144000 and may pay another 34000 to drop a 35 million damage suit. Halperin says the payments threaten his separate damages claim against Nixon in Supreme Court briefing.
Senator Norma Russell leads a small bloc against a two cent per gallon gas tax increase approved by the General Assembly to fund the Department of Highways and Public Transportation. She and six other senators opposed the bill, criticizing budget practices and calling for tighter controls.
The South Carolina House gave tentative approval to a congressional reapportionment plan after a 26 hour session, with a 55 to 49 vote. Newberry moves to the Fifth District while Saluda and Barnwell join the new Third. other lines stay the same.
If the House approves its plan on third reading today it would clash with the Senate plan. Without one chamber yielding, no final remapping resolution seems near. The Third District plan would redraw the district from the Piedmont to the coast after a long bitter struggle.
Sen. Ernest Hollings told the Oconee County Democratic Women’s Club that President Reagan’s tax cuts and spending reductions are faulty. He warned of rising interest rates and a sinking market and predicted growing public cynicism if the plan fails to revive the economy.
Anderson businessman Dick Willis said television star Larry Wilcox of CHIPs asked to buy his 1951 North American Navion after seeing the ad. Wilcox wired a $1000 binder. Arnold Stone flew the plane from Anderson County Airport to Los Angeles after the sale agreement.
Democrats consider runs by Lexington Solicitor Donnie Myers and former state Sen. Travis Medlock to oppose State Attorney General Daniel McLeod in 1982. The push follows McLeod’s testimony before a House subcommittee advocating expiration of the Voting Rights Act.
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