10 Jul 1988
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1988
Page
1
A look at minor league baseball in Augusta highlights a Graniteville native, Tommy Dunbar, stepping up to Atlanta's AAA farm team in Richmond Virginia. Major League Baseball rounds are noted across pages 4B and 5B with golf results on 3B.
Summer demand fuels a thriving ice cream market in Aiken. Page 1C highlights local vendors benefiting from higher sales and foot traffic as heat drives customers to frozen treats.
Anna Graham Reynolds, Miss Greater Greenwood, 23, Greenwood, a University of South Carolina graduate, won the Miss South Carolina title at Greenville Memorial Auditorium and will compete in Miss America in Atlantic City in September. She secured an $8,000 college scholarship. First runner up was Kimberly Ann Meeks of Anderson, a Clemson graduate, with others named as Altman Ann Allen of USC Spartanburg, Wanda Michele Nichols of Furman, and Kimilee Karyn Bryant of Converse College.
Partly cloudy conditions Sunday through Monday with a 20 percent chance of mainly afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Highs will reach the upper 90s and overnight lows near the lower 70s. See Page 6A for details.
Jackie Presser, longtime Teamsters president from 1983, died at Lakewood Hospital aged 61 after battles with brain cancer and tumors. He had stepped aside for four months in 1984 amid federal racketeering and embezzlement probes as prosecutors moved to break Mafia influence in the union.
Troubleshooter Red Adair began capping efforts on the Piper Alpha rig after a North Sea disaster that killed 149. His team used a camera sub to assess damage and seal gas leaks for Occidental Petroleum, aiming to save connected wells and stabilize the site while confirming a multiday to weekly recovery window.
Aiken County's final budget increases from 18.1 to 19.4 million with a 1.3 million rise by refunding an illegal road maintenance fee. Property owners bear 51 percent of the revenue burden as salaries for magistrates masters in equity and probate judges adjust under Senate Bill S-1. The plan includes a 4 percent raise for county workers and a 200 thousand dollar contingency. millage rises 14.8 mills to 70.2 mills, with 6.3 mills for the fee refund.
SRP officials reported a technician breached procedures by releasing about 360000 gallons of water containing 2-3 millicuries of cesium-137 into Four Mile Creek from the H-Area evaporator area. The release, which neared the year's limit for the creek, would dilute by the time it reached the Savannah River, with no detectable radiation expected.
A notices page lists obituaries for Glenwood Bryan Edgefield Bernice Bryan Carswell Sardis Ga Thomas L Carter Bath Thomas N Eubanks Tallahassee Fla Mary Caudle Gavin Edgefield Verdis E Hydrick Augusta Ga Allen Key Detroit Mich Richard Kim Mackling Aiken Richard A Oliver Edgefield Bessie Cogburn Stulb Aiken. Page 6A provides full details and funeral arrangements.
In The Darkest Moments there is hope after years of physical and mental abuse Virginia divorces her husband. She kept children safe and left when violence against them began. Domestic violence affects all races and classes with most batterers being male and often having grown up in violent homes.
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