Our View Clearwater Plant Closing Has Its Own Silver Lining
The Clearwater Finishing Plant closure left about 350 workers jobless and worried about basics. Local groups and officials quickly offered help with unemployment benefits, career planning, retraining, and collections for families in need. The community response, led by Aiken Technical College, the Employment Security Commission, Sen. Tommy Moore, and religious organizations, aims to ease the transition and reinforce community ties.
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Clearwater
Clearwater Finishing Plant
Aiken County
Danny D. Smith
Aiken Standard
Aiken Technical College
Aiken
S.C. Employment Security Commission
Tommy Moore
The
Employment Commission
Cess
Paul Blowers
Sen. Moore
Aiken Ministerial Association
Together Serving
ACTS
Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church
Valley Outreach Interfaith Center
Citizens debate tax policy and party growth in letters
Letters critique tax burdens and federal deficits citing rising revenues and spending. They urge support for a Balanced Budget Amendment and reference Congressman Derrick. Other letters criticize Blockbuster pricing and celebrate local Republican organizing in Horse Creek Valley with a July 17 meeting featuring Ray Haskett.
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Washington
Citizens For
U.S
Congress
House of Representatives
Derrick
Greenwood
Cannon House
D.C
Helen Wallace M. Pressly
Grace Street
Greenwo
Horse Creek Valley
Republican Party
Wisham Center
Langley
Ray Haskett
Letters to The Aiken Standard Welcome Submissions
The Aiken Standard invites signed letters with writer mailing address for publication. Letters should be legible and preferably typewritten, concise, and subject to editing. Send to The Editor Box 456 Aiken 29802.
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Aiken Standard
Aiken
Rudolph case deserves televised hearings for war crimes claims
The piece argues for a public congressional hearing to clear Arthur Rudolph, a rocket scientist linked to Nazi V-2 production and slave labor, contending OSI misled Germany about the case. It cites Rudolph’s U.S. citizenship, Bonn’s Germany review, and calls for accountability and education on Project Paperclip.
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Andrei Sakharov
Sakharov
Solzhenitzyn
Ivan Denisovich
Arthur Rudolph
Hitler
Harz Mountains
Rudolph
U.S
Germany
Canada
Redstone Arsenal
Huntsville
Ala
Ohio
Jim Traficant
Traficant
OSI
Neal Sher
Congress
United States
Bonn
Cone
USS. Department of Justice
Richard Thornburgh
West Germany
OST
Dora-Nordhausen
Allan Kiron
Harry Truman
Buchenwald
S.S
Cout
Interim USC President Pledges Momentum Over Mediocrity
The incoming interim president argues the role is not a caretaker job and vows to accelerate USC momentum. He recalls James Holderman era gains, stresses teaching over research, and outlines funding reforms and need based grants to keep the nine campus system moving toward top ten public universities by 2001.
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Terim
University of South Carolina
USC
James B. Holderman
Beaufort
Spartanburg
Salkehatchie
Coastal Carolina
Night of violence in Central Park shocks Manhattan trial
Trial in Manhattan replays a half hour of Central Park mayhem. A bicycle outrider, a 30 youth assault, multiple beatings, and a brutal gang rape cited as evidence. Elizabeth Lederer urges conviction while defense questions coercion.
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New York
Central Park
State Supreme Court of
Manhattan
Asistant District
Elizabeth Lederer
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Blockbuster
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Tribune Media Services
Arthur K. Smith
Southeastern United States
General Assembly
Commission On Higher Education
South Carolina
Smith
Ashley Cooper
New York Times
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