Trouble in Space as Voyager 2 camera platform falters
Voyager 2's Saturn encounter faced a glitch when the instrument platform carrying its cameras stuck, interrupting photo transmissions. Project officials said the issue appeared after reacquiring signals and may affect the Uranus mission, with details expected midmorning.
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Pasadena
Calif
Saturn
Voyager
Earth
Project
Alan Wood
Uranus
Esker Davis
Reagan Aides Maintain Single Digit Inflation Outlook
The Reagan administration and private economists expect inflation to stay in the single digits for 1981 despite July price spikes led by housing costs. The CPI rose at a 15.2 percent annual rate, though economists view it as temporary. Council adviser Jerry L. Jordan argued CPI housing measurement exaggerates the rise.
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Washington
Reagan
Jerry L. Jordan
Council of Economic Advisers
Cereus blooming sparks board meeting misspelling quip
Sunday night at Ann Suichs Aiken Estates home celebrated the yearly Cereus bloom. Aiken County School District Superintendent Bob Paskel found a playful excuse for a spelling error in last nights school board agenda. He joked the typewriter simply cant type sometimes.
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Ann Suich
Aiken Estates
Aiken County
Bob Paskel
Aiken County Schools Propose Energy Savings Plan
The Aiken County School District adopted an Incentive Energy Conservation Study plan led by Dr. Robert W. Paskel. It allocates 80 percent of saved funds to schools for supplies or upgrades and 20 percent to the county maintenance fund, with individual schools designing local programs.
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Aiken County
Robert W
Bob) Paskel
Paskel
Aiken County Board Finalizes Special Services and Meal Moves
The Aiken County Board of Education approved a $5,000 special services grant to The Child Development Center for care of a terminally ill student and renewed the CDC contract for 1981 82. It accepted a South Carolina Department of Education deaf blind grant and enrolled three Edgefield hearing impaired students at Pinecrest School. Milk prices rose to 15 cents extra per unit and adult meals to 1.30. Transportation costs for ninth graders in North Augusta and Paul Knox schools were authorized from contingency funds as interstate attendance rules shift.
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Aiken County
John B. Bradley
CDC
Paskel
South Carolina Department of Education
Edgefield County
Pinecrest
Edgefield
Aiken
North Augusta
Paul Knox
Aiken County Hones Administrator Selection Steps
Aiken County Council advances toward hiring a new county administrator after a closed meeting. Three candidates are under review as the council finalizes salary benefits and moving expenses, with negotiations slated to begin this week and a decision expected early next week. Joe W. Busby has been acting administrator since June. The council also votes to temporarily retain two AMVETS funded workers and faces policy questions on outside help and liability releases. County Attorney C Wesley Smith cautions against accepting outside funds and notes department heads cannot hire without council approval.
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Aiken County
Carrol H. Warner
Warner
Joe W. Busby
L.C. Greene
Veteran’s Affairs
Amvets
H.M
Mike
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