Senate Approves Final Ethics Bill in South Carolina
The South Carolina Senate passed a comprehensive ethics measure 37 to 0 after two days of debate. It bars lawmakers and their partners from appearing before state commissions, requires disclosure of campaign finances, stock holdings, and business ties, and sets up House and Senate ethics committees to handle complaints with hearings held in private unless cases go to full chambers.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Senate
House
Public Service Commission
Dairy Commission
Insurance Commission
Ers
James Stephens
Spartanburg
Associated Press
Supreme Court
Clerk
House Fails To Recall Dairy Commission Bill
South Carolina House spent most of a 37 minute session on first reading of new bills and defeated an attempt to recall a bill to curb the Dairy Commission price fixing. The measure would strip the commission of wholesale and retail milk price setting though farm level pricing would stay. The Dairy Commission had agreed to end retail price fixing by Feb 1.
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Columbia
South Carolina
House of Representatives
South Carolina Dairy Commission
House
John LaFitte
R-Richland
Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
Dairy Commission
Nightclub Manager Held In Slayings In Georgia
Homer Salter Jr 23 of Baxley is jailed in Clay County awaiting a 48 hour committal after being charged with four counts of murder in the execution style killings at Mansfield Grocery Bluffton area. Police believe robbery motive and at least two weapons used.
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Bluffton, Ga
Georgia
Homer Salter Jr
Baxley
Justice of the Peace
Bill Beardsley
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Beardsley
Salter
Clay County
Fort Gaines
GBI
Paul Chandler
Mansfield
Harris C
Mike’ Mooney
Gainesville
Danny Joey Lashley
Bainbridge
Robert Charles Berry
Coleman
Robert Earl Gordon
John Mansfield
Bluffton
Harvey Favors Gun Control Legislation
Charleston AP Lt Gov Brantley Harvey endorses gun control measures including a ten day waiting period for handguns. He says crimes rise and supports expanding pre trial intervention to deter juveniles and first offenders from the correctional system.
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Charleston
Brantley Harvey
Charleston County Magistrate's Association
Harvey
General Assembly
People of
South Carolina
Goose Creek high school brawl disrupts classes
A cafeteria fight at Goose Creek High School forced a one hour early dismissal as tensions spread among students. No injuries were reported and deputies arrived after the disturbance ended. Officials cited possible racial friction. no arrests by nightfall and extra police presence planned for Friday.
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Charleston
Goose Creek
Berkeley County
Henry Bonner
Berkeley
J. W Rogers
Rogers
Lourie Urges State Transportation Department
State Sen Isadore Lourie of Richland told AARP and the National Retired Teachers Association that South Carolina needs a dedicated Transportation Department. He noted 37 states already have such departments and cited the energy crisis inflation and unemployment as factors worsening public transportation.
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Columbia
Isadore Lourie
D-Richland
American Association of Retired Persons
National Retired Teachers Association
South Carolina
Lourie
Edwards rules out top choice for South Carolina liaison post
Washington AP report says South Carolina Governor James B. Edwards rejected Bernard J. Degan as his liaison pick and said former Lt. Gov. Earle E. Morris will not be named to the Washington post. Edwards noted Degan and he mutually agreed against the $80 000 a year four year job. He suggested Morris may receive a seat on a state board or commission instead.
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Washington
South Carolina
James B. Edwards
Earle E. Morris
Edwards
Bernard J. Degan
Degan
American Society of Oral Surgeons
Chicago
Morris
Board of Commission
Washington Liaison Post
CAP Cadets Attend Ranger Training Weekend Flight
Four local Civil Air Patrol cadets joined Ranger Training in Florida and Maryland. Roy Walker and Jeffrey Risher were among 20 cadets flown to Dover Air Force Base, then over Miami and Nassau. The group returned to Aiken Sunday after a two night campout and training led by Kent Sacks and Douglas Burdick.
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Civil Air Patrol
Ft. Jackson
Miami
Nassau
Roy Walker
Jeffrey Risher
Dover Air Force Base
Aiken
Kent Sacks
Douglas Burdick
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Walter Reed
William C. Westmoreland
U. S
Vietnam
Eisenhower Medical Center
Palm Springs
Calif
Bob
Dolores) Hope
Westmoreland
Walter Reed Hospital
Thomas Smith
Florence
Strong House
Sen
Rembert Dennis
Charles ‘Pug’ Ravenel
Ravenel
Dennis
Knight
William Stroud
Greenville
James Moss
D-Beaufort
Chandler
Atlanta
Transportation Dept
CAP
Daniel M. Samonsky Jr., MD
Edgefield Road
Belvedere SC
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