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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1977
Page
2
Obituaries report the deaths of Lennie Bertha Osteen 75 in Manning and Benjamin Franklin Maroney 57 in Bath with funeral services at Bethel Baptist Church Langley and Piney Heights Baptist Church Langley. Trenka Bates infant of Williston buried at Thankful Grove Baptist Church Windsor. Survivors and pallbearers listed. calls at Posey's Langley residence.
Obituary notices report deaths of Charles A. Doc Carpenter of Graniteville Annie Kirkland Carpenter Lillie B. Walker Nettie Wolf Wellmaker and Rene Powell. Services are outlined with dates officiants and burial sites in Graniteville Buck Creek Church Hephzibah and Clearwater First Baptist Church with family survivors listed.
Mrs Inez Brown Miller of Route 1 Box 616 died Friday Funeral arrangements by Jackson-Brooks Funeral Home Aiken native formerly of New York survived by daughter Louise Holloway Jamaica NY son Herbert Callahan Jamaica sister Ellen Robinson Aiken four brothers James Brown Johnny Brown Willie James Brown Monroe Brown Aiken Jamaica Clark Hill Sam Briscoe died Thursday funeral arrangements by Your Funeral Home Clark Hill member Laura Grove Baptist Church Briscoe family listed including Annie Mae G Briscoe six daughters and three sons with spouses and birthplaces listed
Obituary notices report the deaths of Mrs. Fannie Long of Williston and George Eubanks of Graniteville and Aiken, with details on survivors and church affiliations. Baby Antonio Gadson of Aiken died at three months, with funeral planned at Pine Hill Baptist Church Johnston and listed survivors and relatives.
Aiken Standard established 1867 issues afternoon editions except weekends. Post office box 456 124 Rutland Drive Aiken South Carolina 29801 ZIP code 29801. Second class postage paid at Aiken South Carolina. Leased wire dispatches AP exclusive use for local news and AP news. Right to republication of other matters reserved. No responsibility for omissions or errors in advertisements but correction will be made in next issue. Subscriptions payable to Aiken Standard PBM. We cannot accept advance payments beyond five weeks to a carrier.
The Hall of Fame showcases horse images silks trophies and memorabilia with a rotating gallery of equine art loaned from galleries and private collections. Jaycees led the project rebuilding the carriage house spokesman James McNair and Mayor H Odell Weeks praised community support and planned future expansion possibilities.
Mrs Lola S Ergle 79 of Monetta died Sunday after a short illness at Lexington County Hospital. Services held Tuesday at 3 p.m. Mt Pleasant Baptist Church Ridge Spring with Rev John Wrenn officiating. burial in church cemetery. Survived by two sons Jake B Ergle Walter Ergle of Batesburg, daughter Gertrude Rhoden Johnston, two sisters Elise Plunkett Monetta and Madelene Satcher Johnston, nine grandchildren, seven great grandchildren. Cumbee Funeral Home Ridge Spring in charge.
British efforts for a Rhodesian peace conference collapsed as the white minority government rejected new proposals. Ivor Richard, chairman of the Geneva talks, blamed Prime Minister Ian Smith and said he felt sad and apprehensive about the colony’s future after a 50 minute meeting with Smith.
The Aiken City Council meets at 8 p.m. to consider issuing 2.2 million in sewer and water revenue bonds for the Wastewater Treatment Facility and other improvements. Second readings address water rates, billing dates, reconnection charges, and annexation of Bernard W Healey and Elda V Healey property.
A Saturday blaze destroyed a four room house on Highway 49 Foxtown near I 20 after an electric water pump sparked the fire. G Dean Jones and his wife Martha lived there with no fire insurance. Neighbors and forestry crews halted a surrounding brush fire and a Monetta volunteer unit arrived too late to save the home.
Charlie Chaplin short comedies The Immigrant The Pawn Shop One A.M. Easy Street and Buster Keaton's The Navigator screening at USCA in Room 107 tomorrow at 8 p.m. The event is open to the public with no admission charge.
Gov. James B. Edwards urged residents at the North Augusta Chamber banquet to drop thermostats to 66 degrees to save natural gas and pressed for his office to gain control of the DSS for 18 months. He backed Walter Pettis to head the agency, cited chaos after nine studies and $1 million spent, and called the energy shortage a long term issue.
Aiken County Sheriff Paul D. Grant will have open heart surgery in Atlanta at Emory University Hospital, arriving this weekend and admitted tomorrow or Wednesday. Virgil Wilkins will supervise the department in Grant's absence, and the duration of the sheriff's leave is not yet known.
Activities include museum hours Rotary Club at Ramada Inn and several 7 30 p m events at the Paramedical Service Headquarters Community Band National Secretaries Association Aiken Capt er Lions Auxiliary City Council and Valley A A at Our Lady of the Valley Church Tomorrow adds Child Evangelism Training 50 Plus Club Choral Society American Legion Post 26 and others with Aiken A A at 123 Linden St for alcoholics only
Candidates for the February 1 Aiken County School Board elections will hold a public question and answer session tonight at 7 30 at Aiken Junior High.
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