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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1985
Page
8
Paula Daniel reports on five local business stories highlighting startups growth job creation and community impact across the region. The piece profiles entrepreneurs investment trends and the evolving local market and economy.
George Burgess traces the origins of the Yellow Pages from the first city directory printed in Philadelphia in 1785 and notes early telephone exchange work in New Haven 1878. The early telephone book was a small 6 by 9 inch sheet with 60 customers and no numbers. The piece previews the evolution leading to modern telephone directories.
The article traces the origins of Yellow Pages from Detroit in 1906 and notes Aiken County’s late 1800s telephone rollout with 95 phones in 1904. It cites Steve Griffin about the 1939 Aiken phone book containing Yellow Pages ads and discusses consumer use patterns with 68 percent reading the directories three or more times monthly.
Joe W. DeVore of Aiken and Wesley K. Wilber of North Augusta win officer and board roles with the American Heart Association of South Carolina. DeVore gains a three year board term. Wilber becomes treasurer.
The South Carolina crop service forecasts 1985 wheat at 27 bushels per acre and total wheat production 11.3 million bushels, down from 1984 due to real cold and drought. Corn yields are not profiled, but early planting and recent rains influence expectations amid ongoing dry conditions.
Aiken’s Jean T. McFerrin, executor and personal secretary to Christine Featherstone of Greenwood, is named one of four PSI finalists for International Secretary of the Year. Finalists will be judged on a written essay and panel questions at the Louisville convention July 21 to 26.
Columbia attorney John D. Elliott a former Aiken police officer is one of four lawyers nationwide to receive the American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award for free legal work aiding the poor and children. Elliott, 36, previously Richland County assistant attorney, has led juvenile advocacy efforts and chaired the state family law division, now practicing in Columbia.
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