17 Jul 1999
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1999
Page
1
The Federal Reserve reported a 0.2 percent rise in industrial production in June, matching May and lifting the second quarter annual rate to 3.9 percent. Economists cite the best three months in over a year and hopeful signs of recovery after a period eroded by a global financial crisis and job losses.
Washington based Network Solutions Inc will stop filtering vulgar site names as orders from the White House require opening Internet address management to rivals. The change allows registering dozens of objectionable words for domains ending in com net and org, potentially boosting adult sites.
Aiken businessman Carlton Ennis was killed June 23 1997 in his Pawn Shop. The second suspect A Khingrat aiphon an 18 year old Cambodian immigrant will go on trial Monday. Prosecutors seek a life sentence with possible aggravating factors. Co defendants James Wang 17 Kai Yang 17 and Curtis Bruce Kess 21 face potential witnesses at trial. The four were arrested after warrants issued in Charlotte North Carolina and the shooting was linked to gun robbery motive.
Last day to register to vote in the GOP primary on Aug 17 is approaching. Rep. Rudy Mason died June 1 from a heart attack while preparing for the final week of the 999 legislative session, creating a vacancy in District 81. Local candidates Rebekah Sutherland Kathryn Kling and Aiken City Councilman Robert S Skipper Perry qualified for the ballot. No Democrat opponent for the Oct 5 special election. The vacated unexpired term runs through 2000.
NASA marked thirty years since Apollo 11 with a re broadcast of the countdown at Cape Canaveral as Gene Cernan and others recalled the moon landing. Festivities drew Moonwalkers space workers and hundreds in Titusville and at Route 1 celebrations with dignitaries and a Saturn V tribute.
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