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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1982
Page
1
Aiken County faces higher workloads after Council Clerk Jean Newsome resigned this week. Although effective Sept 1, she will take accrued leave. the secretary to the administrator will prepare agendas, and other county employees will take on duties formerly handled by the clerk.
The Labor Department reports a 13.3 percent annual rise in wholesale prices in June driven by higher energy costs, marking the sharpest increase since March 1981 and contributing to a 2.5 percent inflation rise for the first half of the year.
The city of Aiken schedules a second reading and public hearing on its 107 mill property tax ordinance for Monday’s council meeting at 5:15 p.m. The ordinance had its first reading last Monday. Meeting at Municipal Building, 214 Park Ave S W.
North Augusta official Ellen Smith questioned a renovation plan for a baseball field saying a remark from another member and the room laughed. The event referenced a report by WAGT-TV's Lee Sheridan about television influence on children told to the Aiken Kiwanis Club. Sheridan recounted two boys praying with the line Amen Lord Now stay tuned for Clarence.
Gary Camp, 38, pleaded guilty to one indictment in the North Augusta attack on Ellen Thomas. The state dropped several charges. Camp will be eligible for parole in 10 years and will face additional charges in Virginia and federal court.
South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. requests 119 million in rate increases now and predicts up to 130 million more in spring or summer 1983. Oscar Wooten, VP for finance, cites non cash income losses from the 1.2 billion Summer nuclear plant in Fairfield County and inflation driven earnings dips. After licensing rulings, fuel loading and low power tests follow, with later book adjustments for the plant’s loss of an allowance for money used to build it. Once on line, nuclear savings of about 75 million annually will benefit customers while offsetting earlier investment losses.
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