Contractor To Confront N E Council Over Bid Rules
New Ellenton sanitation contractor A Jackson Brown charges New Ellenton Town Council with biased bid rules favoring Brenner Industries unit Sanitary Container Service. Councilman James Jamison defends the invitation as standard to obtain best service. controversy follows a $66,000 Brenner contract.
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New Ellenton
North Augusta
Town Hall
A. Jackson Brown
Brown
Aiken Standard
Sanitary Container Ser
Vice
Brenner Industries Inc
Augusta Chronicle
Brenner
James C. Jamison
Jamison
Robert J. Harte
Aiken
Sanitary Container Service
Ellenton
R. J. Cooper
Have You Heard About the USC Camp Award
Lew Perkins of USC Aiken, praised for a weekly Campbell College basketball camp, won a campers award. Clyde Austin of N C State helped lead the station as the best of the week, while Gary Voit’s brother sang a Virginia song to Auld Lang Syne causing a noise complaint.
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Lew Perkins
USC
Aiken
Campbell
N.C
Clyde Austin
Gary Voit
University of Virginia
Gary
Weather Pattern Holds Steady With Warm, Partly Cloudy Days
The forecast remains consistent with partly cloudy conditions and a chance of thunderstorms. A 20 percent probability rises to 30 percent on Tuesday as highs reach about 90 and overnight lows stay near 70, with Wednesday to Friday showing similar warmth and scattered storms.
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Mercury
Taxpayers Association Meets Tonight in Aiken
The Aiken County Taxpayers Association meets tonight at 7 30 at the H Odell Weeks Activities Center. Any taxpayer can join and is invited to attend. Chairman Frederik B Christensen asks attendees to bring completed taxpayers questionnaires from Thursday's Aiken Standard.
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Aiken County Taxpayers Association
H. Odell Weeks
Frederik B. Christensen
Aiken Standard
Aikens Chamber Breakfast to Hear AGNS Manager
Gale Hovey, manager of Allied General Nuclear Services Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant, will speak at the Chamber of Commerce breakfast tomorrow at 7 19 a m at the Ramada Inn in Barnwell. Reservations through the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Aiken.
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Aiken
Wakin
Chamber of Commerce
Gale Hovey
Ramada Inn
Hovey
Allied General Nuclear Services
Barnwell
Chamber of Commerce of
Greater Aiken
Joanne Greene Sings At Hopeland Gardens In Free Concert
Augusta soprano Joanne Greene performs at Hopeland Gardens in a free 7 p.m. garden concert. The program includes Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz The Daisies by Samuel Barber and Can You Imagine That from Carnival. Audience members should bring lawn chairs or blankets.
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Hopeland Gardens
Samuel Barber
Carnival
Joanne Greene
Augusta
North Carolina School of the Arts
Atlanta
New Orleans
Augusta Players
Augusta Choral Society
Paine College Choir
Aiken County to Receive 164 596 For Law Projects
Aiken County is set to receive 164 596 for criminal justice projects through the Governors Committee on Criminal Justice. Funds support Helping Hands foster home near Salley, a juvenile recreation program in Aiken, and the North Augusta program, with additional support for the Second Judicial Circuit solicitor's office and related screening initiatives.
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Aiken County
Criminal Justice
Helping Hands, Inc
Aiken
Governor's Committee
Salley
Cain
Sylvia W
Allen) Westerdahl
Second Judicial Circuit
Westerdahl
Soviet Dissidents Shcharansky and Ginzburg Face Trials
In Moscow two top dissidents Shcharansky and Ginzburg go on trial amid US protest. Shcharansky, 30, denies spying for the CIA and treason, faces possible death or long labor camp. Ginzburg, 41, charged with anti Soviet agitation, pleads innocent, with Solzhenitsyn linked works cited.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Anatoly Shcharansky
CIA
Soviet Supreme Court
Shcharansky
Alexander Ginzburg
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Kaluga
Ginzburg
Irina
Solzhenitsyn
Gulag
Council weighs jail expansion and courthouse upgrade
Aiken County Council chairman Carrol H. Warner says despite a new budget, major issues loom. The jail needs expansion and improvements to address status offenders, and the courthouse may be renovated or replaced as the council plans a decision within a year. The Sheriff's Department move to the health center could aid planning.
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Aiken County
Carrol H. Warner
Warner
Sheriff's Department
Kitchings Mill
Inside Today All-Star Play Opens In North Augusta
The North Augusta festival features an All-Star play opening today with performances in the downtown venue. Local organizers urge attendance from residents of Aiken County and neighboring areas. Page 8 coverage includes related events and schedules.
Light docket expected at summer General Sessions Court
Second Circuit Solicitor Sylvia Westerdahl said the opening of the summer term should be moderately light. Judge James E. Moore presides and today begins with guilty pleas. Noted cases include David Hall Jr. 18 charged with his father's March 30 shooting death, plus traffic offenses, armed robbery, burglary, and larceny. Four trials anticipated this term.
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General Sessions Court
Second Circuit
Sylvia W
Allen) Westerdahl
Rodney A
Peeples
Westerdahl
Moore
Eighth Circuit
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Lin Smithwick
Seth Mydans
Associated Press
Aiken County Today
Abby
Bamberg
James E. Moore
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