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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1987
Page
2
Hulda Crooks of California becomes the oldest woman to reach Mount Fuji summit at 12 385 feet after a three day ascent. She telephoned Elmer Digneo mayor of Loma Linda California to report she was fine and tired. Dentsu Inc employees greeted her at the shrine gate as she planted the American flag on the peak.
The Beatles file a 40 million lawsuit in Manhattan against Capitol Records EMI seeking return of master tapes and accusing the label of delaying CD releases and taking 25 percent of CD royalties. Named plaintiffs include Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr Yoko Ono and Apple Records though McCartney is not named in the suit.
Ex Creighton captain Kevin Ross, once a top college player who quit to address illiteracy, was released to a priest's custody after authorities say he held 40 officers at bay in a hotel room for three hours while claiming a gun. No weapon was found.
The State Department condemned nighttime Cuban radio transmissions interfering with U S broadcasts on 1040 kHz. FCC reports complaints from WHO Des Moines WHBO Pinellas Park and WYFX Boynton Beach, with simulcasts on 1160 kHz drawing no complaints.
The FTC says Removatron International Corp of Boston was ordered by an administrative law judge to stop claiming its electronic hair removing device can permanently remove hair. The device uses radio waves through electronic tweezers to heat hair roots.
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart calls for a national policing body with teeth to audit money handling by TV preachers. He says failures have damaged credibility and urges disclosure of salaries and fundraising practices while supporting a watchdog via the National Association of Religious Broadcasters.
Heat and humidity blamed for three deaths in South Carolina Illinois and Nebraska as temperatures reached the 90s and 100s. A stalled Southeast high pressure system pushed hot air from the Gulf of Mexico across the region with scattered showers forecast from northern Iowa to northern New England. Highs hit 102 in Macon and 101 in Augusta Alma and Waycross while Washington DC saw 100.
Soviet officials say cosmonaut Alexander Laveikin, 35, developed an abnormal electrocardiogram during the six month space mission aboard Mir and will be replaced and brought home next week after the TM-3 docking with the space station. The TM-3 capsule carried two Soviet cosmonauts and Syria’s first man in space.
Pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad says French captives will die if demands are not met in their first authenticated statement in eight months. The group claims responsibility for four of six missing Frenchmen and has killed one, with two Americans also believed held. The message to An-Nahar carried a hostage photo of Jean-Paul Kauffmann.
Information for subscriptions classifieds news tips and display ads. Editors list contact numbers 649-5316 649-1555 648-2311 and office hours 8 30 a m to 5 30 p m weekdays 8 a m to 10 30 a m Sundays at 124 Rutland Drive Aiken SC 29802 PO Box 456 mailing address included.
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