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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1986
Page
1
CAPE CANAVERAL FLA AP The remodeled Columbia on its first flight in over two years was postponed for a record seventh time as heavy rain pelted the launch pad. Seven astronauts were told conditions were not improving and no new date was set.
Lee Atwater, 34, deputy director of the Reagan Bush 1984 campaign, is to be named chairman of George Bush's political action committee and later campaign committee. He will become Bush's campaign manager as the PAC evolves into the 1988 campaign apparatus.
Forecast calls for cloudy skies this evening with a 60 percent rain chance and a low in the 40s. Tomorrow should clear with a high in the 50s as the weather improves.
Obituary notices announce deaths of John Davis Amaker Waynesboro Ga George G Biddle Aiken Joseph C Davidse Blackville George Ramsey Harlem Ga Frederick West North Augusta details continued on Page 7 with funeral arrangements and survivors listed where available
James Terry Roach, 25, was put to death in the electric chair at the Central Correctional Institution after the Supreme Court rejected his last stay request. Governor Riley declined clemency despite appeals from the United Nations Mother Teresa Jimmy Carter and human rights groups.
U S wholesale prices posted a 1.8 percent gain for 1985 the smallest three year inflation pace in two decades. December prices rose 0.4 percent led by easing food and gasoline costs while economists foresee a slight rise in 1986 due to dollar weakness and farm price pressures.
Retailers called the Christmas season modest and satisfactory despite six fewer shopping days and weak bargains. Sears led with a 1.7 percent rise, Kmart up 5.7 percent but comp store sales down 0.3 percent, J C Penney up 8 percent, Federated up 1.1 percent, and Dayton Hudson up 5.6 percent.
Aiken County residents Larry Gilbert and J D Gleaton are reportedly next in line for execution among South Carolina death row inmates after being convicted in October 1977 for killing a service station owner The attorney general's office says they are farthest along in state and federal appeals They appear set to follow James Terry Roach on the electric chair list A state corrections table lists current death row inmates with their ages counties and sentencing dates
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