Court Reform Study Ready for Legislature Action
South Carolina plans a unified court system under a 1973 constitutional amendment. The Judicial Reform Study Committee led by Sen Richard W. Riley aims to have the plan ready for the first week of the General Assembly convening January 13. The proposal includes screening for family court judges and barring current legislators from such posts, plus expanded circuit and statewide family courts with power to commit mental patients. Probate judges want the commitment power retained, and probate officials will be heard at the January 20 meeting.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Judicial Reform Study Committee
Richard W. Riley
General Assembly
Riley
Greenville
County Bar Association
James B. Stephen
Spartanburg
Decisions Of Court In Question To Be Argued
The South Carolina Supreme Court will hear next week the validity of decisions by judges whose courts were ruled unconstitutional. The case involves laws creating more than 20 local judgeships, challenged as violating the 1973 state constitution amendment. Also on the docket is a challenge to the 1975 Housing Act allowing 30 million dollars in bonds for low and moderate income housing. Maude Pride of Rockland County challenges a bond enforcement order in General Sessions Court for four defendants who missed court, with bonds ordered to be collected from Pride.
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Columbia
South Carolina Supreme Court
State Attorney General's Office
High Court
Joanne T. Reith
Maude P. Pride
Rockland County
General Sessions
Mrs. Pride
GOP
Gay Suber
Suber
Police Impersonator Violator Cheats with $15 Fine
LeRoy Malette of Gadsden was duped by a man posing as a Columbia police officer. The impersonator stopped him at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in a white 1975 Plymouth with a flashing blue light, issued a ticket, and collected a $15 fine without providing a copy. Malette learned Monday at 8:30 a.m. in Municipal Court that the officer was not with the Columbia Police Department.
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Columbia
LeRoy Malette
Gadsden
Malette
Columbia Police Department
Gag order in rape case ruled unconstitutional by judge
Superior Court Judge Hamilton Hobgood declared a Columbus County gag order barring news reporting on the Linwood Purdie trial unconstitutional. He said the Oct 28, 1975 order was broad and violated First Amendment press freedoms. Eubanks, Purdie’s attorney, noted the defense was indifferent to the ruling.
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Whiteville, N.C
Superior Court
Hamilton Hobgood Hobgood
Wilton Hunt
Columbus County
Linwood Purdie
Hobgood
Alid
Purdie
James Eubanks
Giles Clark Dee & Clark
Eubanks
North Carolina Press Association
Whiteville News-Reporter
James Highs
Press Association
William Lassiter
Alliance Francaise of Aiken Epiphany Party Tonight
The Alliance Française d Aiken hosts an Epiphany party at 8 p.m. at St Angela Academy. The program features games songs and stories in French with galette des rois prepared by Mrs Louis Carrier Mrs Charles Combier and Mrs Michel L de Pujo. Hostesses are Mrs Arthur D Gindin and Mrs de Pujo. The event also marks the ninth anniversary of the local chapter.
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Alliance Francaise d Aiken
St Angela Academy
Louis Carrier
Charles Combier
Michel L. dePujo
Arthur D. Gindin
dePujo
Alliance Francaise
Miss Eula Key Receives Army Commission Pending Graduation
Miss Eula Key of Windsor route one will become a United States Army second lieutenant upon completing her mathematics degree at South Carolina State College in May. A 1972 Aiken High School graduate, she is a distinguished military student and daughter of Mr and Mrs James Key.
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Orangeburg
Eula Key
James Key
Rt. 1
Windsor
South Carolina State College
Key
United States Army
Aiken High School
Helen Hayes Film Scheduled at Aiken County Library
The Aiken County Public Library will show Bank sia Helen Hayes Portrait of an American Actress on Wednesday at 10 30 a.m. The 90 minute film is free.
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Aiken County Public Library
Banksia
Helen Hayes
Environmentalist Calls Nuclear Fast Breeder Plan Idiotic
Townsend Belser of Environmentalists Inc. in Columbia labels the fast breeder reactor program idiotic, arguing it risks humanity. ERDA head Robert Seamans Jr. defends continued funding, citing economic benefit and uranium supply insurance, amid lawsuits seeking to halt interim plutonium facilities including Barnwell plant.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Townsend Belser
Robert Seamans Jr
Federal Energy Research and Development Administration
Seamans
Belser
Environmentalists Inc
Barnwell
ERDA
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Fowler Proposes Democratic Campaign Spending Limits
Democratic officials in Columbia urged a pledge to follow party finance rules and eight spending recommendations. The plan would cap primary spending at 12 cents per eligible voter and six cents in runoffs, require records for $10 plus contributions, and ban any single donation over $1,000. Suber questioned full disclosure, arguing it harms small donors and may chill support for both parties.
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Columbia
Donald L. Fowler Fowler
Fowler
Bayles Mack
Fort Mill
Democratic Party
GOP
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