Taxpayers Press for Cutbacks and Controls in State Spending
LIN SMITHWICK reports a Stroud led town hall where inflation blamed on reckless spending. McMillan and others urge cutting pet projects and limiting state government growth as audience questions probe votes on the last fiscal year appropriation. Several officials pledge stances on a governor veto tied to 1,600 new state employees.
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Stroud
General Assembly
McMillan
Turnipseed
Knotts
Setzier
Cain
Rudnick
Collins
Have You Heard Aiken fishermen and a six inch fish story
Keith Jones ten caught a six inch fish at Lake Murray and planned to keep it but officials urged returning it to grow. A driving under the influence case saw a defendant plead guilty with a breath test reading of .36 as Judge James E Moore noted good attitude in the arrest.
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Aiken
Lake Murray
Keith Jones
Meg Jones
Keith
James E. Moore
Moore
Vance to Geneva to curb nuclear arms race amid Soviet strains
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance travels to Geneva to press for limits on long range bombers and intercontinental missiles as U S Soviet talks stall. He faces dissidents Shcharansky and Ginzburg and weighs protecting land-based missiles from a potential Russian strike by moving missiles between silos in a shell game.
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Washington
Cyrus R. Vance
Geneva
Soviet Union
Anatoly Shcharansky
Alexander Ginzburg
Vance
Andrei A. Gromyko
Carter Administration
U S
America Minutemen
Weather outlook shows slight cooling with storms possible
Forecast calls for tonight lows near 70 with tomorrow reaching upper 80s, not 90s. Partly cloudy skies persist with chances of afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Thursday to Saturday return to near 90 high, around 70 overnight with continued thundershowers possible.
Thurmond and Shaffer to be sentenced in Medicaid fraud case
Dr A George Thurmond 70 and Nell C Shaffer 44 face Friday sentencing in Columbia federal court on 26 counts of Medicaid fraud. They were found guilty in May in Aiken of misusing funds. max penalties include 10000 fine and five years per count.
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North Augusta
U. S
Columbia
George Thurmond
Nell C. Shaffer
U. S. District Court
Robert R. Merhige Jr
Thurmond
Dr. Thurmond
Shaffer
Merhige
Sen. Strom Thurmond
Aiken council debates zoning and SPCA expansion
City hall overflowed as residents split over a proposed group housing in single family zones with density limits. A petition against SPCA facility expansion drew stronger opposition over noise odors and neglect, while officials noted private funding and health inspections amid ongoing sewer efforts.
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Aiken
Society For Prevention of Cruelty To
Melvyn Haas
Planning and Zoning Commission
Nancy Wilds
South Carolina
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Nancy Henderschott
Frampton Durban
SPCA
Blanche Hall
North Augusta Man Receives Nine-Year Jail Term
On opening day of the July General Sessions Court Robert Montgomery, 39, was sentenced to nine years in jail after pleading guilty to housebreaking and larceny for breaking into Thomas Sharp's home and stealing 10 weapons. Roy T. Rabin, 32, also received nine months with two years probation for aggravated assault and battery involving severe lash marks on his seven year old stepson.
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North Augusta
General Sessions Court
Robert Montgomery
James E. Moore
Thomas Sharp
Montgomery
Roy T. Rabin
Rabin
Inside Today To Russia With Copter Competition
Aiken County Today previews a page five feature on a copter competition tied to Russia. The item hints at comics, Dear Abby, editorials, obituaries, sports, television, weather, and a map.
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Aiken County
Dear Abby
Hovey discusses AGNS plant future amid shifting policy
Gale Hovey manager of Allied General Nuclear Services speaks at Aiken's Wakin's breakfast, noting the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant serves storage of spent fuel and a DOE contract. He cites policy changes since 1977 and says reprocessing remains unsettled amid political shifts.
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Gale Hovey
Aiken's
Wakin's
Allied General Nuclear Services
Barnwell
Carter
U.S. Department of Energy
Hovey
Washington
U.S
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Cyrus Vance
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
Eveyln Nolan
Fred Ponder
Harry Smiley
Marilyn Riviere
N. A. Man
N.A. Man
Russia
Keys Plant
Ruth Walker
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