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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1978
Page
6
Abigail Van Buren counsels in a Dear Abby column about incompatible magazine gifts and a Christmas spending dispute. She urges not to send controversial reading and advises sticking to agreed gift budgets and graciousness.
The January Crosland Park Civic Association meeting moves to the second Monday with Carrol Warner as speaker from Aiken County Council to discuss operation progress and future plans. The 7:30 p.m. session at the Senior Citizens Club House on Crosland Drive invites all residents. Marion Holston hosts Socialite Club's first 1978 meeting Saturday at 7:30 p.m. guests bring secret pal gifts and Founder's Day Dance reports are due.
A British team under the British Interplanetary Society completes Project Daedalus a plan to send an unmanned two stage spaceship on a 50 year voyage to Barnards Star six light years away using a fusion powered nuclear pulse rocket fueled by deuterium and helium 3. The mission would be robot controlled with international cooperation before a presumed 80 year total project lifespan.
Miss Patti Lee Baker and Mr Richard Anthony Spires will wed July 1 at Bath Baptist Church. The couple announced by the bride’s parents James and Diamond of Bath. Baker is granddaughter of Paul McLaud Langley Gloverville and the late Baker. Spires is son of Dorothy Spires Warrenville and grandson of Mrs Spires Lynwood and the late Mr Spires. Both attended Langley Bath Clearwater High School. Spires works for United Merchants Inc.
Miss Susan Ann Sawilowsky will marry Howard Mark Pelteson on March 4 at Temple Israel in Columbus Ohio. The bride elect is the daughter of Charles and Florence Sawilowsky of Aiken and holds a nursing degree from the University of South Carolina. She works as nursing coordinator at Hannah Neil Center for Children. The groom elect is the son of Edward Pelteson of Columbus and a University of California chemistry graduate who will soon finish at Ohio State Medical School.
Augusta couple Lynn Hughes and Stephen Ernest Johnson plan to wed March 4 at First Presbyterian Church in Augusta. The bride, a Augusta College psychology graduate and Delta Zeta member, works at Mary King Studio of Dance. The groom-elect, son of Edward Nelson Johnson of Graniteville, is a Graniteville Co. employee and Leavelle McCampbell High School alumnus.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ingram announce the birth of their first child Anita Elaine Ingram born December 19 at Aiken Community Hospital. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Broadus Watson and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bolen. Dr. and Mrs. James Robert Forstner announce their son James Dean Forstner born December 7 at Wayne County Memorial Hospital in Goldsboro. Maternal grandmother is Mrs. Buford Burks and paternal grandparents are Dr. and Mrs. James Lee Forstner.
Mr and Mrs Albert C Richie of Chattanooga Tennessee announce the engagement of their daughter Patricia Elaine to Joseph William Taylor son of Mr and Mrs J Ned Taylor of Spartanburg The wedding is set for February 18 at Patten Chapel on the University of Tennessee campus Patricia is a 1971 Tyner High School graduate and holds a BS in historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University She works as a historic preservation planner for the Lower Savannah Council of Governments in Aiken Joseph is a 1971 Ware Shoals High School graduate with a BA from Clemson and an MA in public administration from the University of Georgia He is a community development planner for the Upper Savannah Council of Governments in Greenwood
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