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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1974
Page
2
Tommy F. Harmon 61 husband of Mrs Margaret Dodgen Harmon of Route 2 died yesterday at his home. Funeral service 3 p.m. today at Wightman United Methodist Church. Burial at Newberry Memorial Gardens. Survivors include widow two daughters and four siblings plus many grandchildren. Pallbearers listed. Friends may call.
Luther Walton Walt Jordan husband of Ora Mae Padgett Jordan of 113 Kenmont Street died Wednesday in an Aiken County hospital. Funeral services are today at 4 PM at Posey’s Funeral Home Chapel Graniteville with Revs Albert Atkinson and Finley Sizemore officiating. Burial at Sunset Memory Gardens Langley. Aiken County lifelong resident and Graniteville Co retiree and First Baptist Church member and World War I veteran. Surviving: widow Ora Padgett Jordan. two daughters Edith Carpenter and Faye Burden. two sons James W. Jordan Ft Gordon.
The Aiken Standard, established 1867, published each afternoon except weekends. Located at 124 Rutland Drive, Aiken, SC 29801 with ZIP 29801. boxed in the second-class postal system. AP dispatches rights stated. publisher not responsible for ad omissions but will correct in next issue. Subscription terms note advance payments limits.
Mrs Vivian Stewart Long of Augusta died Wednesday at a local hospital. Funeral at 4 p.m. today at Platts Funeral Home Chapel officiated by Rev. Morris Wood. Burial in West View Cemetery. Survived by husband Robert O Long son Bobby E Jordan mother Mrs George Stewart four brothers two sisters and other relatives. Friends may call at the funeral home or residence of Mrs Flossie Summerall 2010 Warren St.
Funeral services for Mrs Nathaniel M Virginia Simons Mann will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at South Aiken Presbyterian Church with Rev. G Dana Waters III officiating. Burial will follow at Aiken Memorial Park.
Two men were arrested near Eustis Park School for breaking and entering. Larry Swearingen, 20, and Robert Rogers, 19, were found with bacon cabbage eggs and other foods valued at $25 and are held at the Aiken County Jail. Seven traffic accidents in the city yesterday were not major.
Mrs Sarah B Patterson aged 66 of Rt 1 Box 278 died Tuesday. Service set for 3 pm Sunday at Zion Fair Baptist Church with Revs J R Riley and H J Dicks officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Friends may call at Jackson Brooks Funeral Home Aiken until 12 30 pm then at church.
Alva D Powell of Stiefeltown died Wednesday. Funeral services were held today at 2 p.m. at Posey’s Funeral Home Chapel in Graniteville with Revs Dixie Dooley and Franklin Hammond officiating. Burial followed in Graniteville Cemetery. Powell, born in Graniteville, was a former policeman in Aiken and Augusta and a member of Warrenville United Methodist Church. Surviving are his widow Ina Mae Moseley Powell of Stiefeltown, two daughters Patricia and Laura Joe Powell, and three sons David E Powell James A Powell and Leonard A Powell, all of Stiefeltown.
Anson Burette Barber 72 husband of Suzanne Riot Barber of 708 Casena Drive S.W. died yesterday in Aiken County Hospital after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements by George Funeral Home with burial in Pittsburgh. Barber a Flat River native lived in Aiken since 1972, taught at Duquesne University, and held degrees from Central College Harvard University. Survived by widow Suzanne, daughter Bonney Mayers of East Lansing and son Anson Richard Barber of New York. He was a WW II veteran and member of St Thadeus Episcopal Church and several clubs.
Salvation Army update notes continued fundraising efforts and street kettle placements at 439 Aiken with ongoing appeals and collection points.
Curtis Coleman age 22 of Rt. 2 North Augusta faces armed robbery charges for a May incident. The victim, Loren E Moores of 1131 Ridge Crest Ave, was robbed on Highway 278 in daylight of $65 and a Remington automatic shotgun from his pickup.
The Planning Commission discussed possible funds from a new community development act and Southern Metropolitan Statistical Area monies. A three year plan for community development and housing aid would be required to qualify. James Baggott resigned from the North Augusta Planning Board to join the county board. Crosland noted a prohibition on serving two honorary commissions simultaneously. S. Eugene Hamlet must choose between the Valley Public Service Authority and another post.
An armed robbery attempt in the Schultz Hill area of North Augusta left Mrs. W. Floyd of Floyds Grocery and a store clerk wounded. A unknown shooter fired from behind a tree around midnight as the pair walked to their home behind the store. both were treated and released from University Hospital in Augusta.
Prices rose in November with gasoline at about 53 cents a gallon and premium at 57 cents. Food costs jumped 14 percent, driven by sugar and sugar products, while vegetables pork and poultry edged higher and beef fruits and eggs fell. Nonfood items rose eight tenths of one percent, with real wages down and real spendable earnings off 1.7 percent, the largest monthly decline since 1964.
About 102 million of the 205 million persons in a March 1972 Census Bureau survey reported one of eight ancestry categories. The largest group, English, Scottish or Welsh, numbered 29,548,000.
The meeting with Governor West featured two Freedman students, Marlene Council and Billy Key, presenting Christmas cards to the governor. Aiken Rehabilitation Workshop Board members thanked him with a silver tray praising his leadership of South Carolina's Vocational Rehabilitation program.
The narrative links Edgefield figures to the Fort Sumter crisis with Jefferson Davis ordering Beauregard to evacuate. It notes the 1861 Confederate establishment in Birmingham and the April 13 evacuation after a two day bombardment. The piece visits Edgefield cemetery where Rhett Pickens and family graves illustrate local memory of war losses.
Today Senior Citizens Club meets 7 30 p m at the U S Clubhouse. Tomorrow Aiken County Museum 3 5 p m Chesterfield St AA and Al Anon Miracle Group 8 30 p m St Bartholomew Episcopal Church North Augusta. Sunday p m at Chesterfield St Monday Aiken County Ambulance Commission 7 30 p m at Paramedical Services Headquarters Newberry St Aiken Community Band 7 30 p m Aiken County Playhouse.
Saint Angela Academy will start accepting applications for the scholastic year 1975 76. Interested applicants should call 649 4717 or visit the school on Berrie Road between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. starting January 6.
Youth at Bel-Ridge Baptist Church present a live Nativity in Belvedere from Sunday to Tuesday evenings 6 30 to 9 00 in front of the church. It offers a seasonal tableau with stable site and carol listening.
James D. McNair president of Farmers and Merchants Bank awarded Miss Susan Tice a $25 savings bond for winning the best design in the Erco Bicentennial School Book Cover Contest. Tice, an art student at Aiken High School, is daughter of Mrs. Marjorie Tice of Aiken South Carolina.
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