Weather outlook shows showers across large swathes
The national forecast calls for widespread showers from Texas to the eastern plains and Great Lakes with cooler tonight. Skies stay cloudy and warm with 20 percent tonight and tomorrow and scattered thundershowers Sunday across regions including the coast and beaches.
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National Weather Service
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Texas
Plains
Great Lakes
The
Gulf
Georgia
Mountains
Midlands
Aiken Man Indicted In Explosives Case Linked To Orangeburg Fireworks Plant
Former Aiken resident Robert S. Day, 41, is indicted on conspiracy and interstate fireworks charges tied to a May 27 1983 Benton Tennessee explosion at an illegal factory that had earlier killed two and injured five in Orangeburg. Co defendant Howard Bramblett also named in the indictments. Separately, Iowa man Robert Eugene Bruns, 37, died in an Aiken motorcycle crash when his bike struck a highway island near Therm O Disc on U S 1. He was employed by Young Love Construction and was working at Owens Corning Fiberglas.
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Aiken
Robert S. Day
Howard Bramblett
Orangeburg
Day
Courtney McGrady
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Benton
Tenn
Bramblett
Iowa
Sue Townsend
Robert Eugene Bruns
Little Rock
U.S. 1
Townsend
Bruns
Young Love Construction Company
Sioux City
Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Adults Registering for School Adult Education Program
Adults may enroll for the year in Aiken County adult education with registration on Sept. 3 at 7 30 p.m. at five centers Aiken Midland Valley North Augusta Ridge Spring Monetta Silver Bluff and Wagoner Valley high schools. Classes meet at centers on Tuesday and Thursday and a daytime Learning Lab operates year round at 760 N Laurens Street Aiken.
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Aiken County
Aiken
Midland Valley
North Augusta
Ridge Spring-Monetta
Silver Bluff
Wagoner Valley
N. Laurens Street
Deaths and Funerals in South Carolina and Arizona
Bertha Turner Miller 50 of 516 Clearwater Road Richmond County died Monday in a hospital in the area. Funeral at Bel-Ridge Baptist Church at 2 p.m. with Dr. James W. Rivers and Billy Emmett officiating. Burial in Sunset Memory Gardens Langley. Survivors include husband George H. Miller two daughters Diane Battle and Deborah Ferguson her mother Bell Turner and six sisters and two brothers. Pallbearers named. Will call at Posey's North Augusta and at sister Hattie Jenkins home then at Jackson-Brooks in Aiken. Samuel G Morrall 72 of Graniteville died Sunday in an Aiken County hospital. Graveside service 11 a.m. today at Graniteville Cemetery with Rev. Milford Oswald officiating. World War II veteran retired textile employee member of First Baptist Graniteville. Survives sister Ella M. Hall. Posey’s Graniteville in charge. Rev William Salter Porter retired Presbyterian preacher and South Carolina native died Monday in Willcox Arizona. Memorial services 10 a.m. today at First Baptist Willcox. Porter was a graduate of Presbyterian College and Columbia Theological Seminary. He served as Army and Navy chaplain and pastored multiple churches. Survivors include widow Mary English Law Porter daughter Mrs. R O Bowen two sons William S Porter Jr and Robert L Porter three sisters and three brothers and grandchildren. Sundays starting Oct 6.
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Belvedere
Bertha Turner Miller
Richmond County
Marietta
George H. Miller
Diane Battle
North Augusta
Deborah Ferguson
Aiken
Bell Turner
Margie Pittman
Audrey Anderson
Helen Reece
Pickens
Ruby Reeves
Doris Poteat
Louise Cantrell
Greenville
Albert Turner
Jessie Turner
Travelers Rest
Warrenville
Samuel G. Morrall
Aiken County
Morrall
Graniteville
Milford Oswald
Trenton
First Baptist Church
Ella M. Hall
Punxsutawney, Pa
Posey
First Baptist Church of
Willcox
Porter
Presbyterian College
Clinton
Columbia Theological Seminary
Decatur
Presbyterian
Washington, Ga
Ninety Six
Kershaw
Dublin
Wauchula
Fla
Clearwater
Mary English Law
Funeral service for Alvin M. Curry in Trenton
Alvin Mitchell Curry of Route 1 Trenton died Sunday. Funeral at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Mount Canaan Baptist Church with Rev. G L Brighthorp officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Calling hours begin after 1 p.m. today at Liberty Mortuary North Augusta.
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Trenton
Alvin Mitchell Curry
Mount Canaan Baptist Church
G.L. Brighthorp
Curry
Route 1
Liberty Mortuary
North Augusta
Funeral for Mildred Scott Newell Held at Abysinea Baptist
Newell deceased died Friday and resided at 1054 Morris Ave Bronx. Funeral is at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Abysinea Baptist Church with burial in George Washington Cemetery New Jersey.
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New York
Mildred Scott Newell
Abysinea Baptist Church
George Washington Cemetery
New Jersey
Mrs Jowers Dies at 100. Rites Set at Posey Funeral Home
Mrs Lessie Cox Jowers entered into rest August 25 1985 at age 1006 Russell St Augusta Ga wife of the late B Jowers. Funeral services 4:00 p.m. August 28 1985 at Posey Funeral Home Chapel officiated by Rev Hoyt Murray. Interment Sunset Memory Gardens. Friends may call at the residence or Posey Funeral Home Langley S C.
Robin of Batman to Appear With Circus USA in Aiken
Burt Ward known as Robin will perform comic excerpts from the Batman series with Circus USA. Showings are 5:30 and 8:00 p.m. on September 5 at Jaycees Fairground Highway 1. Tickets are sold by American Legion Post 26 for the Aiken engagement.
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Burt Ward
Robin
Ward
Circus USA
Jaycees Fairground
Highway 1
American Legion Post 26
Soonesf
Aiken
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Hattie Jenkins
Sumter St. N.E
Jackson-Brooks Funeral Home
Rev
William S
Arizona
William Salter Porter
Donald M. Law
Alvin M. Curry
Mildred $. Newell
George
George Funeral Home
Cosey
Donald C. Pratt
M.D.P.A
Office
Hickman St
Aiken Carpet Mart
Whiskey Rd
Batman
LYKES
Ike
Lykes Bros., Inc
U. S.A
Lykes Bros, Inc
P.O
Mt. Prospect
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