Seminole Mills Plant to Close Slashing Local Jobs
Clearwater AM&M plant will shutter within three months, putting about 375 workers in Aiken County unemployed as national recession and foreign imports weigh on demand. State unemployment climbs to 12 percent by year end. AM&M offers aid with claims and job placement while Culp Inc. plans to buy the Elberton mill and rehire 185 workers.
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Clearwater
Seminole Mills
United Merchants and Manufacturers Inc
Jin Aiken County
State Employment and Security Commission
Paul Marx
Am&m
Seminole
Aiken County
Bath Mills
Joe Leon Douse
Douse
South Carolina
Commission
Um&m
Elberton Mills
Elberton
Culp Inc
High Point
N.C
Seminole Mill
Ginny Southworth
USC Aiken expects about 1800 students this fall
USC Aiken projects enrollment around 1,800 for the fall term, with registrar Jerry Norton noting 1,686 new and returning students registered yesterday and about 100 more expected during late registration through Sept. 7 in the administration building. Evening program emphasis outlined by Dr. Joseph Harm as a full time worker option.
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USC Aiken
Jerry Norton
Norton
Joseph Harm
Harm
USCA
Arts and Letters
Teachers Prepare Classrooms Ahead of Aiken County Start
Janice Lee at Midland Valley High School tidies a spotless room as teachers volunteer to register students and distribute texts. She envisions the bustling freshmen and sophomores arriving Monday while anticipating the orderly calm before the fall term.
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Langley
Janice Lee
Midland Valley High School
Miss Lee
Aiken County
Remedial tapdancing tales from clergy amid tv dreams
Father Bob Shahan of St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church joked with Rev. Jim Rivers about remedial tapdancing lessons for a Diabetic Association stage production of Oklahoma. Richard Perry vacationed in Cincinnati hoping to meet Loni Anderson, but met only a three day old giraffe at the 700.
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Bob Shahan
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Jim Rivers
Millbrook Baptist Church
Oklahoma
Richard Perry
Cincinnati
Skipper
Loni Anderson
WKRP
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McArthur Starlings
Usc-Aiken
Linda C. Randolph
Randolph
University of South Carolina
Columbia
William H. Marsh
Marsh
Augusta College
Joanne Finkelstein
Finkelstein
University of Illinois
Knox College
John W. Lisk
Lisk
Pfeiffer College
Texas A&m University
Ingrid Kupprat
Kupprat
Champaign-Urbana
National Institute of Health
Institute of Environmental Stress
University of California-Santa Barbara
Saginaw Valley State College University Center
Usc-A
Alex Riggs
Leavelle-McCampbell Middle School
TGIF
Abby
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