Owens-Corning Fiberglas to Lay Off 100 Workers
About 100 Owens-Corning Fiberglas employees will be laid off effective Monday due to reduced production from a sluggish economy. Plant Manager Bob Hrubala cited difficult economic conditions and weaker markets in industrial, electrical, and reinforced paper and tape yarns. The company has about 1,100 workers after 500 furloughs began last year, with 40 rehired in April to restart a yarn furnace.
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Owens- Corning Fiberglas
Bob Hrubala
Hrubala
Owens-Corning
PLO Drops Demands as Israel Presses Beirut Assault
In Beirut and across eastern Lebanon Israeli forces exchange sporadic fire with Palestinian guerrillas and Syrian troops. Saeb Salam says the PLO has dropped its demands for a political or military presence in Lebanon while Israel aims to storm west Beirut. Salam notes Sharon seeks a broader military push despite concessions.
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Israel
Lebanon
PLO
West Beirut
Tel Aviv
Beirut
Saeb Salam
Palestine Liberation Organization
Salam
Ariel Sharon
U.S
Philip C. Habib
Yasser Arafat
Associated Press
Sharon
Syria
Red Cross
Habib
Saad Sayel
Voice of Palestine Radio
Moshe Levy
Court Term Opens in Aiken With Boyd and Camp Cases
The first cases next week in General Sessions Court include Willie J. Boyd a suspended Aiken Recreation Department director accused of stealing more than 8000 dollars and Gary Leonard Camp 37 accused of kidnapping and armed robbery. Judge Elizah Curran Burnett III presides as new indictments are expected.
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General Sessions Court
Aiken City
Florida
Aiken County Court House
Willie J. Boyd
Aiken
Boyd
Ad Judicial Circuit
Gary Leonard Camp
North Augusta Public Safety Department
Elizah Curran Burnett III
Seventh Circuit
Robert
Bob) Harte
How To Figure Your Taxes
Instructional note shows computing property taxes using 4 percent of assessed value then applying the millage rate. Example uses a $50,000 house with a $2,000 assessed value and a combined county and school millage of 0.13077, yielding a $261.54 county tax bill.
Tax charts aid calculation of owner-occupied property taxes
These charts help compute taxes for owner-occupied residential property. Review your tax assessment notice for fair market value and assessment ratio to ensure accurate figures.
Aiken County Budgets Set For Tax Changes Across Jurisdictions
Aiken County approves a $46.6 million school budget with 89.8 millage including 72.5 operating and 17.3 debt, while county council passes a $9.9 million budget raising 7.12 mills for a 40.87 total millage. City of Aiken posts $8.08 million budget with 8.5 percent rise but reduced millage to at most 110, with final figures pending digest. North Augusta and smaller municipalities also adjust taxes amid reassessment driven value increases.
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Aiken County
Aiken
Roland Windham
North Augusta
Charles Martin
New Ellenton
Belvedere
Congress panel defends FDA spokesman amid transfer
A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee defends Wayne L Pines after the Reagan era transferred him from associate commissioner for public affairs to a lower role as special assistant to the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. The panel calls the move arbitrary and capricious.
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Washington
House Energy and Commerce
Wayne L. Pines
Food and Drug Administration
Pines
National Institute of Mental Health
Have You Heard About Aiken Heart Association Work
Executive Secretary Eleanor Bookstayer spoke to the Kiwanis Club describing her work with the Aiken County Heart Association. She compared involvement to being a Baptist, noting once you join you can’t get out.
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Eleanor Bookstayer
Kiwanis Club
Aiken County Heart Association
Holding Line Likely For OPEC Ministers
In Vienna Iran Libya and Nigeria face quotas after a March session. The 1962 OPEC ministers convene for an emergency meeting to likely keep the current ceiling and pricing, amid Iran's push to raise its limit from 1.2 to about 3 million barrels daily.
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OPEC
Vienna
Austria
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Iran
Libya
Nigeria
Lieved
Mohammed Gharazi
Gharazi
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