House Approves PSC Hearing Bill in South Carolina
The South Carolina House passed a bill forcing the Public Service Commission to hold hearings on rate increase requests in the areas affected. It moves to the Senate where a separate measure to elect or appoint PSC members was rejected. The chamber honored 29 police officers slain in the line of duty as thousands protested police brutality in Spartanburg and the State House.
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Columbia
State Public Service Commission
South Carolina
House
Senate
Ralph K. Anderson Jr
Florence
Regulatory
Richard T Hines
Spartanburg
State House
Aiken Standard Publication Details
Aiken Standard established 1867 publishes every afternoon except Saturday and Sunday. Address listed as 124 Rutland Drive Aiken SC 29801 with PO Box 456. Leased wire dispatches AP material used, with republication rights reserved and no responsibility for ad errors.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken
S.C
Associated Press
Weather forecast by region across the nation
The national forecast calls for snow flurries in the Northeast from Maine to Pennsylvania. Rain in the Northwest and snow in the Great Plains. Warm conditions in Florida Southern California and New Mexico. Colder weather elsewhere.
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Maine
Pennsylvania
National Weather Service
Great Plains
Florida
California
New Mexico
Peaceful March in Columbia Sparks Racial Tensions
More than 10 000 Black marchers converged on the South Carolina State House on a King birthday drive for a state holiday and to denounce police brutality and racism. Speakers attacked the legislature and Governor Edwards while the crowd, drawn from churches and civil rights groups, demanded real integration.
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Columbia
Martin Luther King Jr
South Carolina
King
State Law Enforcement Division
I. Dequincey Newman
NAACP
House of Representatives
Allwhite Senate
State House
James B. Edwards
Edwards
Capitol
Nationwide King Day marches demand full employment and new inquiry
Tens of thousands joined events from Atlanta to Hawaii for the 47th King birthday observance. Coretta Scott King led a 15,000 strong Atlanta march from Ebenezer Church to the business district, echoing We Shall Overcome but calling for full employment. In New York activists urged a new investigation, while Beame noted the nation’s shift from King era anger to current economic concerns.
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Associated Press
Martin Luther King
Atlanta
Hawaii
Coretta Scott King
King
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Memphis, Tenn
James Earl Ray
New York
FBI
Mrs. King
U.S
Andrew Young
D-Ga
King’s
Murray Finley
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Martin Luther King Jr. Center For Social Change
Federal
Abraham D. Beame
America
Martin Luther King Jr
Housing Law Tested in South Carolina Supreme Court
The South Carolina Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of a new state law to provide affordable home ownership for low income residents. A taxpayer suit challenges the State Housing Authority’s power to issue notes or bonds to fund sanitary, safe housing and potential $30 million bond issuance in the current fiscal year.
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Columbia
South Carolina Supreme Court
State Housing Authority
General Assembly
Property Tax Bill Gets Tentative Yea in Senate
In Columbia AP report the Senate tentatively approves a cleanup property tax bill. It would treat mining as manufacturing for taxation and define agricultural classes for uniform statewide taxation. The measure advances to final Senate action and mirrors a House effort to streamline the 1895 constitution.
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Columbia
Senate
James M. Waddell
Beaufort
Senate Finance Committee
Military Briefs highlight air and army awards
KARAMURSEL Turkey Airman 1C Jimmy Scott son of Mr and Mrs L D Scott Salley is part of the Air Force Communications Service Unit earning the U S Air Force Outstanding Unit Award Airman Scott a 1973 Wagener Salley High School graduate FT POLK La Army Pvt William T Boyd son of Mr and Mrs William Boyd Aiken completed the One Station Unit Training program at Ft Polk He is a 1975 graduate of Aiken High School.
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Karamursel
Turkey
Jimmy Scott
L.D. Scott
Rt 2. of
Salley
Air Force Communications Service
U.S. Air Force
Scott
Wagener-Salley High
FT. Polk
William T. Boyd
William Boyd
Aiken
Aiken High School
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Redfern
Federal Reserve Building
New York City
Research Action Group On Assassinations
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Silas N. Pearman
Quarles
Edgefield
Gilbert E. McMillan
R-Aiken
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Christian Science
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Whiskey Road
Hayne Avenue
Church of God
H. Jenkins Bell
Church of God In Christ
Prince Hall Masonic Temple
Gervais Street
J. O. Patterson
Memphis, Tennessee
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Charleston St
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Assemblies of God
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