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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1981
Page
1
Jesse Curry, 29, of Celeste Avenue, faces murder charges for the Saturday shooting of neighbor Jimmy L. Price, 48. Price was shot at 8:30 p.m. at 518 Celeste Ave. and died at 11:30 p.m. at Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital. A .22 caliber pistol was used.
Bernard Scott Gymer was found dead Saturday at his Piney Heights home in Langley A .22 caliber rifle lay nearby according to the Aiken County Sheriff's Department. The investigation is closed and foul play is not suspected.
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Valley residents are urged to donate to the Valley Empty Stocking Fund Salvation Army and Jaycee Shopping Tour before December 25. Funds totaling 17,196 toward a 23,000 goal are being mailed to local box addresses in Graniteville Langley and Clearwater. Contributions to the Salvation Army can be sent to Aiken or delivered to 322 Gayle Dr. in Aiken with the Jaycee drive also accepting gifts at Box 707 in Aiken.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin angrily rejects U S reaction to Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights and cancels the new strategic pact. He tells U S Ambassador Samuel Lewis Israel can live without the memorandum and asks if America treats it as a vassal or banana republic. The clash follows Reagan suspending talks on the memorandum of understanding.
The line cues a playful gag about a green yodeling figure credited to Limb Whitman in a comic quip.
The Savannah River Plant will close its heavy water extraction unit, the nation’s last of its kind. DOE orders a three month interim shutdown to save about 10 million dollars yearly with no layoffs, while assessing a permanent closure in spring. 125 Du Pont workers will be reassigned.
New York AP NBC poll of 1,602 adults from Dec 14-15 finds unemployment now the public’s top economic worry, with 41 percent naming it as the main issue for government action over the next three years. Inflation comes in at 29 percent, with 24 percent citing high interest rates.
Unofficial dispatches claim priests were beaten and arrested in Wroclaw and Gdansk as the government threatens the church for backing Solidarity. Archbishop Glemp urged calm for the church and nation, while Poland’s U.S. ambassador Spasowski sought asylum calling the church Poland’s moral force.
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