Wagener auto parts owner dies after short illness
Joe Holifield 57 of Wagener Route 1 died yesterday at Medical Center Columbia. Funeral 3 p.m. tomorrow at Selvern Baptist Church with Rev. Glen Mills officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Survived by widow Ruby Hydrick Holifield and three daughters. Community notes mention pallbearers and Blizzard Funeral Home in charge. Specific local obituaries follow for Betty Culpepper Leila Ellis Myrtis Hightower Truth William Steelman and Orlena Weaver with service details and burial plans.
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Wagener
Joe Holifield
Medical Center
Columbia
Selvern Baptist Church
Glen Mills
Church
Laurel, Miss
Holifield
Holifield Auto Parts
Order of Moose
Ernie James
Joe Donahue
Charlie Atkins
Larry Roberson
Ross Williams
Harvey Phillips
Blizzard Funeral Home
Wagoner
Church of the Most Holy Trinity
Elynor Chamberlain
Belvedere
Claude Scott
Charles Harris
Gary Baker
Gary Sharp
Joseph Oller
William Reynolds
American Cancer Society
Trenton
Myrtis Hightower Truth
Mount Canaan Baptist Church
G.L. Brightharp
Hightower Family
Stiefletown
William Clay Steelman
Howlandville Baptist Church
Ronald Hasty
Sunset Memory Gardens
Steelman
Posey
Langley
Willine Glover Steelman
Highway 421
Stiefeltown
S.C
Carrie Steelman
Dana Steelman
Matthew Smalley
UNC Researchers Probe Heredity Link to Alcoholism
Dr James Garbutt at Dorothea Dix Hospital Raleigh leads a study on genetic factors in alcoholism focusing on brain biochemicals like TRH. Past research shows higher alcoholism risk in relatives, while Swedish adoptee studies suggest heredity plays a role. A student questionnaire at NC State seeks patterns in drinking and related problems to expand the data.
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Raleigh
University of North Carolina
James Garbutt
Dorothea Dix Hospital
Sweden
Ronald Thurman
Unc-Ch
Center For Alcohol Studies
Thurman
News and Observer
Garbutt
North Carolina State University
Rural Vermont shelter opens as first of its kind
Coventry Vermont opens the state’s first rural homeless shelter in a renovated four bedroom farmhouse. North East Kingdom Community Action Inc. completed the project this month with a 29000 dollar boost from the Vermont Housing Finance Agency. The shelter will provide seven to 30 days of temporary housing for families, including battered women with children and workers facing rising rents and slow wage growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coventry
Vermont
North East Kingdom Community Action Inc
Margaret Nicely
Burlington
Brattleboro
Vermont Housing Finance Agency
Panamanian Police Prepare For Strike
Panamanian government orders thousands of police and soldiers to patrol Panama City during a nationwide general strike demanding the ouster of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. The Civic Crusade calls for an afternoon protest at the attorney general’s office over an August 4 arrest order for six opposition leaders.
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Panama City
Panama
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Eric Arturo Delvalle
National
Civic Crusade
Attorney General’s Office
Weather update shows scattered storms across regions
A forecast calls for thundershowers tonight and tomorrow with varying chances and highs in the low to mid 90s. Parts of the state expect partly cloudy skies, humid conditions, and light westerly winds with scattered evening thunderstorms and daily warm temperatures.
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Midlands
Thousands Gather for Harmonic Convergence Worldwide Event
More than twenty thousand believers joined two days of peaceful gatherings at sites from Mount Shasta to Chaco Canyon to mark a harmonic convergence cleansing preparing Earth for contact with alien intelligence in the 21st century. Organizers and police reported roughly 22 500 participants across parks mountains and sacred sites.
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Earth
Tim Young
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Portland
Ore
Johanna Vandenburg
New York City
Central Park
Chaco Canyon
N.M
Mount Shasta
California
Serpent Mound
Ohio
Glastonbury
King Arthur
Pyramid of the Sun
San Juan de Teotihuacan
Mexico
Ken Showalter
Niagara Falls
Cincinnati
Fajada Butte
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Colorado
Jose Arguelles
Boulder
Arguelles
Also Mentioned on This Page
Betty A. Culpepper
Augusta
Betty Ahern
Dan W. Jr.) Culpepper
Magnolia Drive
St. Joseph Hospital
Beverly Ahern Loveless
Kathy Ahern
Leila Ellis
Croft House
York St
Clinton Henderson
Ellis
HCA
Aiken Regional Medical Centers
Aiken
Cheatham-Brightharp Mortuary
William C. Steelman
Varnum
Varnum S. Seaman
Morton Ave
William R. Johnston
Morgantown
W.va
Seaman
Beaumont Glass Co
Mary D. Seaman
Pat
Robert
Romine
Sandy
R.L.) Riley
Sally Davis
Charles $. Seaman
Virginia Cowell
Presbyterian Home
St. Andrews Road
Stephen D. Posey
Orlena T. Weaver
North Augusta
Orlena Timmons Weaver
Pisgah Road
Posey’s
Thomas M. Billings
Westover Memorial Park
Calvin Geer
Pete Brodie
John Hope
Bobby Dodd
Don Gibson
John Buckner
Faith Bible Class
First Baptist Church
Labor & Industry
George
Aiken County
Casey
Ricardo Arias Calderon
Christian Democratic Party
Arias Calderon
Porky Bradberry
Whiskey Rd
JOE B. Babb & Company
Chesterfield Street
the Salvation Army
Thrift Store
Park Ave
Aiken, S.C
New England
Texas
Oklahoma Panhandies
Great Lakes
Accu- Weather, Inc
Tierney
Frank D
Julia M
Landreth Monument CO
Monument Sales & Service
Richland Avenue
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