Aiken Area Civic Events Calendar Highlights
Upcoming Aiken area events include civic group meetings, Rotary Lions Jaycees and senior clubs with weekly and monthly schedules. Recreation options cover chess, bridge, polo, crafts and ceramics exhibits at USCA campus and Virginia Acres Park. The schedule notes skating-like reminders and a Hearts of Aiken dinner by the Chamber of Commerce with speaker Dr. Tom Haggai.
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Aiken Recreation Departments
Virginia Acres Activities House
Whiskey Rd
Aiken Duplicate
Senior Citizens
Crosland Drive
Aiken
Highway 215
Whitney Polo Field
Meade Avenue
Virginia Acres Park Activities House
Aiken Recreation Department
Beverly Britton
Community Service Leaders Association
Hitchcock Rehabilitation
Richland Avenue
Aiken Hounds
Barton's Pond
Hitchcock Woods
Lee Hyder
Harvey
USCA
Aiken Junior High
Kennedy Junior High
Usca-Union
Aiken High Gym
Palmetto Federal Civic Room
Chesterfield Street
Russell Mores
The
Medical College of Georgia
Virginia Acres Park
Local Aiken events listed in the Aiken Standard weekend guide
The Aiken Standard circulated a dense local events calendar for Monday February 8 and Sunday February 14. Listings include civic meetings, health clinics, theatre productions such as Harvey at USCA, camellia shows, fundraisers by the Heart Fund, basketball games involving USCA and Aiken teams, fashion shows, a Red Cross Bloodmobile, scout parades, and school activities at venues around Aiken Greenwood New Ellenton North Augusta and Jackson.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken
S. C
S.C
Associated Press
United Press International
St. Angela-Wagener
Wagener
Aiken - Greenwood
Greenwoo
Harvey
USCA
Aiken Junior High Auditorium
Court To Determine Pay Raise Legality
South Carolina Supreme Court will hear an original jurisdiction case on $10,000 pay raises for the governor and seven top state officials. The March 22 session will decide legality while another term will review the 1970 tuition grants act in a separate test.
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Columbia
South Carolina Supreme Court
Daniel R. McLeod
Court action questions constitutionality of pay raises
The suit, urged by Comptroller General Henry Mills, challenges 1969 pay raise authorizations that were not funded in 1970. Parties include Mills and Treasurer Grady Patterson, with several state officials named for raises. A separate case upholds tuition grants to private colleges amid constitutional objections.
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McLeod
Henry Mills
Mills
Secretary of State
Adjutant General
Superintendent of Education
Grady Patterson
George Hartness
Columbia
John Grimball
Hartness
John West
Court Rules On N C Abortion Law
A three judge federal court ruled North Carolina abortion laws constitutional, denying further liberalization. Plaintiffs included obstetrics leaders and Arthur H Jones, arguing for freer doctor performed abortions. The decision centers on whether a pregnant woman may end the embryo or fetus she carries.
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Charlotte
N. C
North Carolina
Arthur H. Jones
Ecology crisis in Bible lands predates modern pollution
British zoologist George S. Cansdale argues that environmental damage began long before modern times and was evident in the Holy Land. He notes centuries of land use changes, desert irrigation, and oil exploration have eroded plant and animal life, with Palestine as a crossroads showing drastic ecological impact.
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New York
Holy Land
Israel
George S. Cansdale
Solomon
Cansdale
London Zoo
B.C
Palestine
Europe
Asia
Africa
Dansdale
Federal study finds marijuana risks unclear for short-term use
The National Institute of Mental Health reports that most young users suffer no immediate harm from light pot use, but long term effects remain uncertain. The 176 page study notes variability from no effects to psychotic episodes, with rare hospitalizations possible in high doses.
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Washington
National Institute of Mental Health
Congress
Popu
Bertram S. Brown
Brown
Six Charged In Weekend Drug Raid In Rock Hill
Police charged six teens after a marijuana cigarette and two bags of cannabis were found during a weekend raid in Rock Hill. Richard S. Cape 19 and Robert McCann 20 faced bonds of 5000 each. Others named include Claudia Ann Russell 18 Laurie Ann Ditwiler 18 Christopher Carlton Russell 19 and Lee Edward Eastman 18.
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Rock Hill
Winthrop College
Richard S. Cape
Robert McCann
Orlando
Fla
Claudia Ann Russell
Laurie Ann Ditwiler
Charleston
Winthrop
Christopher Carlton Russell
Lee Edward Eastman
Probe Fails To Find Clues In Cuttino Death
Sumter County Sheriff Byrd Parnell says talks with more than 200 people yielded no leads in the beating and strangulation death of 13 year old Margaret Cuttino who disappeared December 18 while walking to school and was found December 30 in a Sumter County wooded area. The investigation involves a dozen officers from city and county agencies and the State Law Enforcement Division.
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Sumter
Byrd Parnell
Margaret Cuttino
James Cuttino
Sumter County
Parnell
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U.S. Highway 1
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Aiken County Museum
Arthur Courtney
Aiken- Barnwell
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Aiken- Barnwell Mental Health Center
Newberry St
Hunter Heart Fund
Horse Show Park
Aiken Baptist Association
Foreman Memorial Baptist Church
New Ellenton
Aiken Electric Cooperative
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Jack Rabbit Field
St. Angel
Jackson
P.m
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Jaycee Community Center
North Augusta
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South Boundary
Usca-Palmer College of Charleston
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