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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1982
Page
1
The Aiken Standard invites submissions promoting Aiken County as a great place to live and shop. Top three ads win 80 50 and 30 dollars. One per person. Entry must be on 8 by 11 paper and received by 5 p.m. Monday August 2. Winners announced Friday August 6. All entries become property of the paper.
Aiken County Council will hear a resolution to renovate and expand the present courthouse site with design plans and a nine member advisory committee. The meeting at 7 p.m. on Richland Ave will consider a remodel versus new construction and discuss contracts and tax digest updates.
In a five minute session the Aiken City Council gave final approval to a 107 mill property tax ordinance on second reading after a near empty council chamber public hearing. The millage falls from 147 mills last year and sits below the previously projected 110 mill ceiling under an $8 million budget approved June 14.
The Rotary gathering featured a joke about aging and a quip on back pain. The item notes Millbrook Baptist Pastor Sidney Gwinn visiting Six Flags with the church youth group and mentions a bubble gum trick of producing three bubbles from a single stick.
Classifieds and community calendar items fill a page with local notices. Columns include Dear Abby and Erma Bombeck style humor in brief formats. Obituaries honor residents, while sports and weather provide quick region updates.
Bombs exploded in two London parks injuring 36 and killing eight as IRA claimed responsibility for a car bombing near Queen Elizabeth II's Household Cavalry in Hyde Park. A second blast hit a military band in Regent's Park. Witnesses described horrific scenes as horses were casualties and streets filled with debris and blood. Scotland Yard corrected an earlier report of a third explosion.
Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker told the Senate that the Fed will keep a tight grip on the money supply and will not let it surge. He projected a likely but weak recovery in the second half of 1982 and said targets for next year would stay near current levels, with broader measures growing 6 to 9 percent.
Midland Valley High School hosts a weekly can cutting to judge yield weight and appearance against price for school meals. Venders submit bids for about 570000 dollars in food funds from August to December while samples are tasted uncooked to gauge quality.
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