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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1979
Page
3
Senate approval and Gov. Dick Riley's signature loom as key steps for a penny-a-gallon gas tax rise. The plan would dedicate about $12 million to highways and $4 million to counties for farm to market road work, with votes detailing support and opposition across several reps.
A Lexington County attorney Lee M. Ramsey 53 and his son Cecil Zed Ramsey 26 were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Hemphill to 10 years and 15 years respectively after jurors found them guilty of conspiring to smuggle 12,000 pounds of marijuana from Jamaica into South Carolina and conspiring to distribute cocaine and distribution of 2.2 pounds of cocaine.
State Social Services Commissioner Virgil L. Conrad says audits of nearly 5.5 million in Medicaid overpayments found no fraud. He cited insufficient attention to Medicaid payments before his tenure. The department recovered 2.8 million during a spring recovery effort completed July 1.
Digital Equipment Corp plans a 150 acre Wenwood subdivision plant in Greenville to manufacture printed wire circuit boards. The Maynard Massachusetts firm will hire 25 transfers initially and reach 300 workers, with construction starting next spring and completion expected mid 1981.
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