Deaths And Funerals Edgefield Jim Pickens 88
Jim Pickens 88 died Wednesday at a Columbia hospital. Funeral services are today at 3 p.m. Mt. Olive Baptist Church Edgefield County with Rev. Joe Tate officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Surviving: one daughter Lizzie Mae Holmes and eight sons Charlie Joe Melvin Tommy Willie Lawrence Edward John Henry Robert. Blalock Funeral Home Edgefield in charge.
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Edgefield
Jim Pickens
Columbia
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Edgefield County
Joe Tate
Lizzie Mae Holmes
Charlie Joe Pickens
MacArthur Pickens
Melvin Pickens
Tommy Pickens
Willie Pickens
North Augusta
Lawrence Edward Pickens
Miami
Turner Joseph Alvin of Clearwater dies at 53
Joseph Alvin Turner 53 of 204 Pine Land Dr Clearwater died Monday at home. A World War II veteran and Graniteville employee, he was a member of Vaucluse First Baptist Church and survived by wife Catherine two sons Charles and Ronald sister Malena Anderson brothers Edward and Loami and two grandchildren. Funeral at Vaucluse First Baptist Church with burial in Sunset memory Gardens. pallbearers listed and friends may call Poseys Graniteville until 1 30 p.m.
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Clearwater
Joseph Alvin Turner
Pineland Dr
Vaucluse First Baptist Church
Eugene Daggerhart
William L. Brown
Sunset Memory Gardens
Edgefield
Aiken County
Turner
Graniteville Manufacturing Company
Malena Anderson
Warrenville
Edward Turner
Aiken
Loami Turner
Langley
Patrick Alvin Turner
Traci Elizabeth Turner
Ronald Gurley
Haskell Heath
James Rhoden
Marvin Spires Jr
LaVerne Spires
Woodrow Key
Phil Miller
Gary Russ
T.W. Mappus
J.M. Russ
Harold Enloe
Posey
Graniteville
James A. Foreman Funeral Services Held in Aiken
James Aldrich Foreman 72 of Silverton Street Jackson died Sunday in Aiken County Hospital. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. at George Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Charles Mason and Rev. H Lawson Shepherd officiating. Burial followed at Jackson Memorial Park. Pallbearers were J P Sullivan Alvin Clements Jimmie Joe Foreman Cecil Greene Jr Robert Thornton and J M Brown.
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Jackson
James Aldrich Foreman
Silverton Street
Aiken County Hospital
Chapel of George Funeral Home
Aiken
Charles Mason
H. Lawson Shepherd
Jackson Memorial Park
J.P. Sullivan
Alvin Clements
Jimmie Joe Foreman
Cecil Greene Jr
Robert Thornton
J.M. Brown
Funeral services for F Myron Carter in Salley
Funeral services for 65 year old F Myron Carter of Salley, who died Monday at Baptist Hospital in Columbia, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Salley Baptist Church with Rev. R D Parkinson officiating. Burial will follow at Salley-Oakview Cemetery. The body will lie in state at George Funeral Home in Aiken until noon Friday and then at the church.
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Salley
F. Myron Carter
Baptist Hospital
Columbia
Salley Baptist Church
R.D. Parkinson
Salley-Oakview
George Funeral Home
Aiken
Aiken Standard Publication Details and Rates
The Aiken Standard established 1867 publishes each afternoon except weekends. Address 124 Rutland Drive Aiken SC 29801 P O Box 456. Rates: carrier 1.73 weekly 22.00 yearly by mail 11.60 six months 6.40 three months. AP uses rights reserved.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken
S. C
S.C
Associated Press
Mrs Martin Hill of North Augusta Dies Sunday
Mrs Martin Hill aged, of 801 Gentry Lane North Augusta dies Sunday. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Peoples Funeral Home. Surviving are her widower Martin Hill Jr and her father Robert Coleman.
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North Augusta
Martin
Rubye) Hill
Gentry Lane
Peoples Funeral Home
Martin Hill Jr
Robert Coleman
Bentley Died. RFD 1 Jackson Resident
Carl A. Bentley of RFD 1 Jackson died Friday at his home. Services were held today at 11 a.m. at Adams Funeral Home in Taylorsville, N.C. Burial followed at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery in Granite Falls, N.C.
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Jackson
Carl A. Bentley
RFD 1
Chapel of Adams
Taylorville
N.C
Antioch Baptist Church
Granite Falls
Miss Mamie Anderson 1911 1970 Darlington teacher dies
Miss Mamie Anderson of 2411 Haskell Ave died Monday in Forest Hills Nursing Center. A school teacher in Richland Fairfield and Aiken counties she retired after 16 years at A L Corbett Elementary in 1970. Survived by two sisters and a brother services at First Calvary Baptist Church with burial in Asheville.
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Columbia
Mamie Anderson
Haskell Ave
Forest Hills Nursing Center
Darlington
Elijah
Hanna McCoy Anderson
Richland
Fairfield
Aiken
First Calvary Baptist Church
The
Neighborhood Club
Eastern Star
Wagener
A.L. Corbett
Elizabeth Ray
Weaverville
N.D
Virginia Dowling
Elijah Anderson
Winston-Salem
N.C
Maxie S. Gordon
Asheville
Salvation Army Captain to Speak at Senior Citizens Meeting
Captain Fred Carver of the Salvation Army will address the Senior Citizens at their Friday meeting at 7 30 p.m. in the Senior Citizens Club on Crosland Drive.
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Fred Carver
Salvation Army
Senior Citizens Club
Crosland Drive
Area No. 1
Council On Aging
St. John's United Methodist Church
Duplicate Bridge Club
Senior Citizens
Crosland Park
Aiken al Anon
Linden St
North Augusta Patrolman Hixon Named Policeman of the Year
Doug R. Hixon of the North Augusta Department of Public Safety was chosen as Policeman of the Year by the North Augusta Exchange Club. The 29 year old patrolman, on duty since 1968, received a plaque from club president Gus Kotti for outstanding performance and devotion to duty.
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North Augusta
Doug R. Hixon
North Augusta High School
North Augusta Exchange Club
Gus Kotti
Hixon
Aiken
USC
Walter Newman
S.C. Police Academy
Columbia
Traffic Institute
Northwestern
W.E. Frost Jr
S&s
North Augusta Plaza
Aiken County
Paul D. Grant
Raymond Walters
T.W. Green
Public Safety Committee
A.B. Sanders
Richard Johnson
Newman
Exchange Club Committee
Ed Seigler
Barry McIntyre
Nuclear Power Safety Study Proposed by AEC Leader
Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, new head of the Atomic Energy Commission, asked the AEC for a complete nuclear power safety study. She said public concern is the agency's No. 1 problem and urged review of national laboratories and their interaction with headquarters.
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Richland
Wash
Dixy Lee Ray
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Commission
National Laboratories
Man Refuses To Stop at Snowbound Roadblock
A car ignored a traffic blockade on snowbound I-95 near Florence. Patrol cars halted the vehicle. the driver refused to unlock doors, jumped out, and knocked a patrolman down. He was shot and hospitalized with a chest wound. Authorities did not yet release the suspect’s name.
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Columbia
Florence
Frank Thompson
Highway Patrol
New Carpet Plant Slated for Trenton Edgefield County
Senator Strom Thurmond announced an Economic Development Administration loan of 456 407 for a Brigadier Corporation yarn plant in Trenton South Carolina. The project aims to create 130 jobs with total cost 829 831 funded by public private and local contributions. Production 5 million pounds annually of heat set filament yarn for carpet begins late March with output by late July.
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Trenton
Strom Thurmond
Economic Development Administration
Edgefield County
Brigadier Corporation
Highway 25
Highway
Thurmond
Business Development Corporation
Butler Derrick Jr
Brigadier
South Carolina
Edge
Field County
Derrick
State Development Board
Governor's Office
E. R. Scott
Brigadier Corp
PCA Squelches N. Augusta Plans
North Augusta faces a March 1974 deadline for a sewerage treatment plant with only two options left after the Pollution Control Authority rejects building a new plant or redesigning an alternative. The city may link to an Aiken County regional plant in Horse Creek Valley or pipe waste to Augusta across the Savannah River. Mayor Raymond Walters says tying into Augusta could meet the schedule.
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North Augusta
North
Augusta
South Carolina
Aiken County
Horse Creek Valley
Savannah River
Raymond Walters
County commission approves mobile classrooms for recreation
The county board discussed building four tennis courts two outdoor basketball courts lighting and grading of an athletic field and relocating two mobile classrooms for recreation. They approved 5000 for the mobile classrooms to be used immediately for ping pong and pool tables. Overtime pay was approved for equipment operators during a snow storm and the Augusta Area Transportation Study was deferred to September. Taxpayers criticized a recent property reassessment and were directed to the tax review board.
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Penland
Augusta Area Transportation Study
AATS
Commission
Graybear
South Carolina storm relief efforts expand after record snowfall
Governor John C. West said the people crisis is over after a weekend storm dumped up to 23 inches in South Carolina. He cited 16,700 stranded motorists, rapid snow melt, and damaged chicken houses in Sumter. He ordered Clarendon County liquor stores closed and pressed for federal disaster aid from President Nixon. Schools remained closed in affected counties.
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Associated Press
John C. West
South Carolina
West
Allendale
Orangeburg
Clarendon
Sumter
Claren
Don County
Weather School Driver Aided Stranded Motorists
A Weather School and volunteers aided in clearing streets and transporting nurses and stranded motorists. Helpers included Clifford Courtney, Allan Coward, Clyde Willing, Andy Burchalter, Robert Penland, Captain Stribling of the National Guard, Homer McGee, and firemen’s wives who provided meals. Fire and police personnel offered to chain their own vehicles to assist on I-20.
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Henry Burchhalter
Clifford Courtney
Allan Coward
Clyde Willing
Andy Burchalter
Robert Penland
Capt
Stribling
National Guard
Homer McGee
Busbee
Awards Banquet Honors New and Retired Salvation Army Board Members
The event featured Valentine decor and camellias, a vocal performance by Garret Wike of the United Way, and Augusta Corps Band led by Lyman Kimball. New advisory board members named were L. E. Harrigal Howard J. Larson and R. H. Quattlebaum, while Bill Vernon Lucius Eubanks and W. R. Tyson retired for a year.
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Ship Hall
Garret Wike
United Way
Augusta Corps Band
Lyman Kimball
Salvation Army Advisory Board
L.E. Harrigal
Howard J. Larson
R.H. Quattlebaum
Bill Vernon
Lucius Eubanks
W.R. Tyson
Nurses Meeting Reset March 15
The Registered Nurses of the Lower Savannah District will meet March 15 at the Ramada Inn at 6 30 p m for a dutch dinner The gathering was originally set for February 15 Mrs Jackie Wylie RN will speak on Mandatory Education and Mrs Lillie Mae Tyler RN on Voluntary Education.
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Savannah
Ramada Inn
Jackie Wylie
Lillie Mae Tyler
Bloodmobile collects 40 pints in Belvedere visit
Belvedere residents donated forty pints of blood during the bloodmobile stop. organizer Jay cee Mike Osteen noted the total fell 35 pints short of the goal quota.
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Bloodmobile
Belvedere
Jaycee
Mike Osteen
Osteen
Community Calendar for Today and Tomorrow
Today events include the Chess Club at 7 30 p.m. in the Pet Dairy Building and Knights of Columbus at 8 p.m. on Spaulding Drive a schedule of tomorrow meetings lists the Aiken Heart Board at 10 a.m. and various public service groups across local venues.
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Chess Club
Pet
Knights of Columbus
Spaulding Dr
Aiken Heart Board
Tom Gorrell
Williiams Dr
Food Stamp Office
Wagener
Aiken High School Band Concert Postponed to March 1
The Aiken High School band concert originally set for February 22 is rescheduled to March 1. The Symphonic and Stage bands will perform at the March 1 event.
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Aiken High School
Reward Fund aids chase for killer of two teens
Commissioners debate funding the $4 956 reward and warned against new taxes. The fund started by the Aiken Standard now totals contributions from WBBQ Radio Mundy’s Marine Sales and others. Circuit Judge Julius B Ness will judge admissibility of tips as a one year fund remains open with refunds or charity allocation if unused.
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Carroll Warner
Joanne Price
Price
Graybear
Ralph
WBBQ
Paramed
Aiken Jaycees
Mundy’s Marine Sales
Williston
R.D. Cook
Daughtery Rd
Julius B. Ness
Bamberg
Miss Widgeon
Ludlow Lake
South Carolina National Bank
Aiken
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Joseph A. Turner
James A. Foreman
Mrs
Martin Hill
Miss Mamie Anderson
Carver
Exchange Club
N.A
ARMY
Maj
Fred Ruth
Wendell Hall
PCA
N. Augusta
Nations
Weather Service
NOAA
Apt of Commerce
Flurnes
Man
Gov. West
Nixon
Burger Chef
Kalmia Plaza
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