Irrigation Watering Crops Could Aid Aiken County Farms
Aiken County farmers touring South Georgia heard how irrigation lifted profits in 1975 with corn yields rising to 173 bushels per acre and higher peanut output. They cited water access, center pivot systems, and potential for new processing plants as irrigation expands, predicting pivots will become common within five years.
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Aiken
Buddy Platt
Cedar Creek
Platt
Tom Craig
Mackey Scott Jr
Bob Scott
Jim Evans
South Georgia
J.H. Evans
Aiken County
Douglas Bean
Bambridge
Wyman Book
Mitchell County
Albany
Garden of Eden
Decatur County
South Carolina panel weighs sunset agency plan
The South Carolina Reorganization Commission could draft a law to abolish state agencies when they are no longer useful. Lawmakers doubt the panel is best suited to run a sunset commission, fearing political bias and overlap with other bodies.
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Columbia
South Carolina Reorganization Commission
Commission
Phillip G. Grose
Grose
House Judiciary Committee
John G. Felder
Dcalhoun
Reorganization Commission
House
Wade R. Crow
Marlboro
Second Arrest in Cochran Slaying Ties to 19 year old clerk death
A second suspect, Darrell Moore of Cochran, is charged with armed robbery kidnapping and vehicle theft in the December slaying of 19 year old Teresa Carol Allen a Cochran convenience store clerk. Monroe County authorities also charge Moore with murder as the investigation widens.
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Moore
Miss Allen
South Carolina Asked to Reshape Higher Education Board
The South Carolina Legislative Audit Council urged a new direction for higher education. It proposed expanding the Higher Education Commission from nine to 18 members, all gubernatorial appointees with Senate consent, and removing ex-officio college trustees. The report cites fragmented responsibilities and duplication across institutions and calls for termination of any program deemed unnecessary by the commission.
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Crow
George Schroeder
Legislative Audit Council
General Assembly
Felder
Audit Council
Rcl
Columbia
South Carolina
Higher Education Commission
Senate
Council
Commission On Higher Education
Commission
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Cochran
Georgia
Bleckley County
Monroe County
Christian Science First Church of Christ, Scientist
Whiskey Road
Hayne Avenue
First Mortgage
Financial Statement
Palmetto Federal
F.S.L.I.C
Federal Home Loan Bank
Palmetto Federal Savings & Loan
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation
Savings and Loan Association
Savings and Loan Association of
Barnwell
Clearwater
Edgefield
Johnston
North Augusta
McCormick
van Vanuch
Associated Press
Hampton Avenue
Church OF God
Reverend Herbert Carter
Donald E. Wiggings
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