Repeal of Vehicle Inspection Ends Frustration for Drivers
The state scrapped its vehicle inspection program effective immediately by executive order. The $3 fee, with $2.50 going to participating stations, failed to ensure thorough inspections and led to dropouts and shortcuts. enforcement now rests with police to curb unsafe vehicles. June 20, 1995 also marks a pivotal step in racial reconciliation as the Southern Baptist Convention denounced racism and slavery’s legacy, urging broader changes including the Confederate flag at the Statehouse.
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David Beasley
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Japan
Southern Baptist Convention
Atlanta
Statehouse
Public Help For Refuge Hopes Center on Outreach
Public hearings show broad support for a wildlife refuge plan spanning Georgetown and Horry counties. A coalition of wildlife officials landowners and conservationists guides the effort but a highway fund land purchase recommendation has yet to succeed. Public backing could persuade major landowners to sell or ease covenants to restrict development, as seen with the ACE Basin refuge.
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Horry
Ace Basin
Charleston
West and
Aiken Standard News Tips Contact Details
Local readers are invited to share noteworthy happenings with the City Editor Features Editor or Sports Editor via the Aiken Standard Communications Inc. Postal address box 456 124 Aut Aiken South Carolina 29802 Readers may send address changes to the same P O Box for second class mail.
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Labor insurgents rally to challenge AFL-CIO leadership
In Washington a noon time campaign rally launched an insurgent bid to replace retiring AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland. John Sweeney heads the ticket with Richy Trumka and Linda Chavez-Thompson, pledging at least 20 million annually for organizing and a Sunbelt fund to expand in fast growth areas.
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Washington Park
Afl-Cio
John Sweeney
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Organized Labor
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Sweeney
Kirkland
Donahue
Federation
Trumka
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CIO
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George Meany
McBride
Sompers
Max Hayes
Gomers
Green
Meany
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Fourth of July in the middle of America
Myre Roe reflects on the 4th of July across America in Wichita Eagle style, noting parades picnics and patriotic rituals amid contrasts of celebration and danger, from graveside services to alcohol fueled risk, family joys to hunger and homelessness, and a belief that citizens can still set right wrongs.
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