Christmas Shopping Tour Aids Aiken Needy
The Aiken Jaycees sponsor a Christmas Shopping Tour to buy clothes and gifts for needy children at Wal-Mart on Saturday. The drive, led by Ray Blanks, closes Friday, with donations to the Aiken Jaycees Christmas Shopping Tour P O Box 707. The Salvation Army targets 33000 for food checks toys gifts and year round programs via mail appeals and kettles. Local industries contributed 12000 to Valley Empty Stocking Fund last year.
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Valley Empty Stocking Fund
Aiken Jaycees
Jaycees
Wal-Mart
Jaycee
Ray Blanks
P.O
Aiken
Army
South Carolina Grants SRP Five Year Path to Meet Water Rules
South Carolina DHEC issues a 63 permit order for the Savannah River Plant allowing up to five years to meet state water standards. The order, covering non radioactive discharges, excludes L and R reactors but covers three operating reactors. SRP will conduct nine month water studies and may amend the order within a year. Temperature discharges of 180 F from reactors total about 250 million gallons daily, exceeding the 90 F limit and not to raise stream temp more than 5 F.
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Columbia
Savannah River
South Carolina
Mel Sires
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control
Robert Jackson
DHEC
U.S. Department of Energy
SRP
Jackson
Robert G. Gross
Bureau of Water Pollution Control
Sires
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Energy Department
USC Aiken housing near approval eyed for next term
USC Aiken may have on campus housing ready for the next term pending private development proposals. Two private developers submitted options for 240-bed apartment complexes south of campus to be leased from the Aiken County Commission on Higher Education. Ground could break in January if negotiations wrap up before Christmas.
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Aiken County Higher Education Commission
USC Aiken
Robert Alexander
Alexander
University
George Gibson
USCA
Gibson
Aiken County Commission On Higher Education
Seventeen Go To Hodel Seeking Reactor For SRP
A seventeen member state and county delegation planned to meet U S Energy Secretary Donald Hodel in Washington to urge the Savannah River Plant be chosen for a new plutonium production reactor. The project could create about 4 000 construction jobs and 2 000 permanent jobs for Aiken County with an estimated cost of 3 000 000 000 to 6 000 000 000 dollars not operational until the 1990s. The State Development Board funds the trip and resolutions from local governments in Aiken and Richmond counties were to be presented.
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U.S. Energy
Donald Hodel
Savannah River
Aiken County
Washington
Hodel
Aiken
Richmond
State Development Board
Department of Energy
Idaho
Aiken Chamber of Commerce
SRP
Aiken County Board Approves Pilot Alternative School
The Aiken County school board approves a night pilot alternative school at Aiken High for expelled students appealing suspensions. Classes run 5:30 to 9:30 with limited credits per year, starting pending staff assignment and year-end review.
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Aiken County
Sally Bigger
Stu
Choirboy Williams Dies in Louisiana Electric Chair
Robert Wayne Williams aged 31, a convicted robber who shot Willie Kelly in 1979, was executed at Angola State Prison. He entered the death chamber at 1:01 a.m. and died 14 minutes later after five electric shocks. The Supreme Court had refused to stay his execution.
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Angola
Robert Wayne Williams
Louisiana Electric Chair
Williams
Willie Kelly
A&p
Angola State Prison
U.S. Supreme Court
Georgia
Alpha Otis Stephens
Super gardener Byron Hunter grows late corn bounty
Byron Hunter, 24, of New El Lenton reports a patch of corn with stalks five to ten feet tall and ears ten to twelve inches long ready to pick. He planted the corn on Sept. 2 and notes the unusual timing has neighbors amazed.
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New Ellenton
Byron Hunter
Byron
Willcox Hotel Rezoned for Central Business District
Aiken Planning and Zoning Commission voted to rezone the Willcox Hotel from multi family residence to central business district. Weldon Wyatt and Raphael Jones of St Johns Securities seek approval to restore the historic Willcox pending City Council acceptance of the zoning change.
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Aiken
Weldon Wyatt
Raphael Jones
St. Johns Securities
Charleston
Willcox
Commission
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