Home Blown Up With Bug Spray
A woman evacuated two children and a pet bird before detonating 18 bug fogger cans in a mobile home. A pilot light likely ignited fumes. no injuries. The blast blew out a wall and windows. 18 cans found in rubble could treat 90,000 cubic feet. Neighbors said Dorothy Clayton stepped outside moments before the explosion.
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Luweta
Oklahr
Coweta
Bill Osburn
Osburn
Dorothy Clayton
Janice Ramage
Home Sites Offered To Lure Students
Big Cabin Oklahoma AP report: Supt Wes Watson secures 15 acres to develop a 40 lot trailer park. Families receive free lot space and water sewer service for a year in exchange for relocating with school-age children to the district of about 120 students and a town of roughly 270 residents.
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Big Cabin
Okla
Wes Watson
Watson
Obituary Notices Common to Allendale Augusta and Nearby Areas
Death notices list Myrtle Gould Allendale Wile Greene Augusta Ruby Hiers Allendale Ed Hodges North Augusta Carletha Jackson Edgefield Fussell Nelson Wagener Alaya Payton Augusta Betty T Quarles Edgenieta Thomas Smith Sacramento Co William Smith Pembroke Pines Fla See Page 3B for details.
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Myrtle Gould
Allendale
Wile Greene
Augusta
Ruby Hiers
Ed Hodges
North Augusta
Carletha Jackson
Edgefield
Fussell Nelson
Wagenera
Alaya Payton
Betty T. Quarles
Edgenieta
Thomas Smith
Sacarmento
Wiliam Smith
Pembroke Pines
Fla
Barnes Expected To Fight Settlement In Aiken County
Aiken County Administrator W Scott Barnes will receive 9172 89 in severance pay after a two hour executive session. The package covers 240 hours of annual leave plus 612 86 in FICA and 548 77 in retirement money. Barnes attorney B Henderson Johnson says he will pursue the payoff in court, arguing he is entitled to his annual and administrative leave in addition to their contract. The council vote to approve came after Barnes was suspended and dismissed following his June 14 arrest on unlawful use of a county telephone.
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Aiken
W. Scott Barnes
LaWana McKenzie
Barnes
Joan Wilson
B. Henderson Johnson
Tory
Johnson
S.C
George Booth
Allies Agree To Limited Soviet Aid At G Seven Summit
At the 17th annual G seven economic summit held by industrial democracies leaders vow limited aid to the Soviet Union to ease its economic crisis. President Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev plan to sign a landmark arms treaty and will meet in Moscow later this month.
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London
United States
America
Soviet Union
Bush
Mikhail Gorbachev
Moscow
Gorbachev
Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Canada
Japan
Econo
Inflation Shows .2 Percent Rise in June
Inflation eased or held steady as energy costs declined while fruit and vegetable prices jumped in June producing a 0.2 percent CPI gain. For the first half of 1991 prices rose 2.7 percent annually, well below 1990’s pace, with core prices also easing. Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan urged gradual policy to build on slowing inflation.
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Nashington
Laor Department
Iew
Iraq
Kuwait
Labor Department
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Alan Greenspan
Retired Admiral Named New Manager At SAS
The Department of Energy named retired Navy Vice Admiral Peter M. Hekman Jr. as manager of the Savannah River Site replacing P W Kaspar who was reassigned after an audit found the Westinghouse Savannah River Company and Bechtel Savannah River hid millions in cost overruns. Hekman, head of Naval Sea Systems Commands since 1988, takes over the Savannah River Field Office effective August 1 1988.
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Department of Energy
Savannah River
Peter M. Hekman, Jr
Westinghouse
Kaspar
Bechtel
Kaspars
James D. Watkins
Westinghouse Corporation
Paul E. Lego
James Moore
Scattered Storms Bring Relief to Water-Starved Crops
Scattered thunderstorms over two days dampened Aiken County and are expected to continue for two more days, offering relief after two weeks of dry weather and high temperatures. Farmers report topsoil stress while deeper soil holds moisture. about an inch fell Tuesday, with relief potential across the region.
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Aiken
D.J Smith
Ater
Soi
National Weather Service
Clemson Extension Service
Tom Earle
Man Bleeds From Gasoline Blast Races Mile For Help
Will Riley a 24 year old sanitation worker sustained second and third degree burns after a gasoline canister ignited on city property near Greendale Elementary School. He ran and walked nearly a mile to reach the New Ellenton mayor’s office where aid was called. He was rushed to Humana Hospital in Augusta in serious condition.
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New Ellenton
Will Riley
Humana Hospital
Augusta
Randy W. Shaw
Bil
Aiken
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Serence Hunt
Ste
British Airways
Raisa
Dave
SAS
Hekman
Nies
Stan
Carl Langley
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