South Carolina House Advances Santee Cooper Joint Ownership Plan
The House approves the 18-year-old rights amendment enabling state owned Santee Cooper to join with private utilities for generation or transmission. It sends the measure to the Senate Judiciary Committee and backlogs other bills on school make up days taxpayer funded restrooms in shopping centers and oil tax penalties.
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House
South Carolina
Public Service Authority
Santee- Cooper
House Judiciary Committee
Santee-Cooper
Senate Judiciary Committee
Tax Commission
State Treasurer backs 25 million reserve fund plan
South Carolina State Treasurer Grady L. Patterson endorsed Governor John Wests proposal for a 25 million general reserve fund. He warned of potential federal cuts, citing 1.2 million in Vocational Rehabilitation funds and other reductions, and urged one time expenditures to avoid future fiscal trouble. Patterson spoke at Columbia American Legion Post six.
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Grady L. Patterson
John West
Patterson
South Carolina
American Legion Post
Budget and Control Board
North Carolina City Electric Bills Rise 10 Percent
The Associated Press reports CP&L municipal customers in 27 NC cities and Camden and Bennettsville SC will see a 10.38 percent rate increase starting March 1. The rise, 30 percent below CP&L initial request, awaits Federal Power Commission approval and would lock in rates through Jan 1, 1975.
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Carolina Power & Light Co
North Carolina
Camden
Bennettsville
South Carolina
Cp&l
Fayetteville
Rocky Mount
Laurinburg
Kinston
Lumberton
Wilson
Federal Power Commission
Memorial Service Honors Five Killed by Police Fire
Orangeburg memorial service marks the fifth anniversary of three students slain by police on Feb. 8, 1968 at South Carolina State College. In Iowa City the fate of the South Carolina state flag remains unresolved as curators debate returning it to a Confederate relics museum in Columbia, DC.
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South Carolina State College
Iowa City
Iowa
South Carolina
The
State Historical Society
Museum of Confederacy
Columbia
D.C
Olympic writer joins South AP News Council coverage
AP reports Will Grimsley, posing as an Olympic official, attended a South AP News Council meeting after the Israeli team kidnapping incident. Charleston and MUSC will jointly offer four new allied health bachelor programs with two years at College of Charleston and two at MUSC.
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Associated Press
Will Grimsley
AP News Council
Grimsley
Tidelands bill eyed by 11 South Carolina groups
Eleven environmental groups representing about 20 000 South Carolinians warned legislators they would grade them on tidelands legislation. Spokesman F Glenn Smith of the Columbia Audubon Society urged support for a bill by Rep Alex Sanders creating an Environmental Protection Commission to map coastal areas and plan management.
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Tidelands
F. Glenn Smith
Columbia Audubon Society
Alex Sanders
D-Richland
Environmental Protection Commission
Columbia Environmental Coalition
Ann Jennings
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