Soybean price rally boosts South Carolina farmers
Unusually hot dry Midwest weather and lower imports lift soybean futures to $5.89 to $6.11, sparking talk of increased South Carolina plantings and potential profits if growers lock in high prices. Experts expect acreage to rise above 800,000 amid favorable prices.
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Midwest
South Carolina
Clemson University Extension
Max Loyd
Loyd
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Leadership Grants Announced For School Administrators
The Education Department awards nearly 7.1 million dollars in leadership grants to 49 states plus the District of Columbia. Grants average about 141000 dollars for technical assistance and training centers designed to develop principals superintendents and other administrators. Indiana has not yet completed its competition to establish a center. Centers will assess leadership skills coordinate training aid districts with improvement plans and provide leadership information resources.
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Education Department
District of Columbia
William J. Bennett
Indiana
Vanna White Signs Books at Myrtle Beach Kroger
Hundreds lined up for three hours at a Kroger supermarket to meet Vanna White and purchase her new book Wanna Speaks. About 350 copies were sold as roses at 99 cents each were offered and cameras clicked while fans wondered what she would wear.
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Myrtle Beach
Vanna White
Vanna
Miss White
Wanna
Lawmakers doubt House approves SSC funding incentive ban
A ban on using state incentives from Illinois, Texas and others in site selection for the 4.4 billion Superconducting Super Collider faces slim odds in the House. Senator Domenici's Senate amendment aims to stop DOE from considering cost-sharing inducements. Rep. Terry Bruce calls the approach a poor way to run the program.
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Texas
Pete Domenici
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Senate
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Domenici
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Terry Bruce
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Clemson Official Backs Tobacco Industry Post
Milton Wise, Clemson University's new vice president for agriculture and natural resources, says tobacco and traditional crops will remain central to South Carolina's farm economy. He has quit a 30-year two-pack-a-day habit and took office May 1 directing the university's College of Agricultural Sciences, College of Forest and Recreational Resources, Experiment Station and Extension Service.
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Clemson University
Milton Wise
Agriculture and Natural Resources
South Carolina
Wise
College of Agricultural Sciences
College of Forest and Recreational Resources
South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Cooperative Extension Service
Prime Minister Karami Killed in Lebanon Helicopter Bombing
Beirut Lebanon AP Prime Minister Rashid Karami was killed when a bomb exploded under his seat on a Puma helicopter between Eqaa Sefrine and Beirut. Interior Minister Abdulla Rassi and three others were wounded as the craft landed at Halat base. Karami 66 longtime leader backed by Syria died undergoing surgery per hospital reports.
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Lebanon
Rashid Karami
Karami
Eqaa Sefrine
Syria
Abdulla Rassi
Antoine Bustani
Halat
Byblos
Amin Gemayel
Some Businessmen Gearing Up For Pope Visit
Private vendors prepare to sell commemorative items along the pope's motorcade route and near Williams Brice Stadium during Pope John Paul II's visit. Officials caution the church will not endorse sales and licensing queries surge, with hundreds of thousands of spectators expected.
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John Paul II
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Diocese of Charleston
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Bill Roland
U.S
Secret Service Office
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Pentagon Plans Larger Gulf Role in Oil Shield
Pentagon officials plan a bigger U S naval presence in the Persian Gulf to protect Kuwaiti oil tankers from Iran, with a carrier and Aegis cruiser expected to move in. Reagan aims to avert a Congress showdown over the plan, which may include reflagging tankers and expanding escort operations in coming weeks. Talks with Saudi Arabia Kuwait Bahrain and others seek landing rights for fighters tankers and surveillance planes, though prospects are uncertain.
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Reagan
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U.S
Persian Gulf
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Richard Armitage
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U.S. Unlikely To Get Billions From Loan Sale Plan
Washington version of an AP report notes the deficit relief plan involving 5 billion dollars in government loan sales has drawn cool reception from investors. No loans have been sold so far and a VA trial run ended with an 84 million housing loan sale canceled.
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Federal Trade Commission
FTC
United States
U.S
OPEC
The
Washington Post
Veterans Administration
Emergency numbers service advertisement notice
Local emergency numbers feature provided by the Aiken Standard details contact media outlet information. It outlines publication schedule and postal address for the newspaper and address changes.
Aiken Standard Contact and Office Details
The notice lists subscription and advertising phone numbers for Aiken Standard and provides office hours and address. It also states mailing address P O Box 456 Aiken SC 29802 and subscription payment instruction.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
P.O
Aiken
S.C
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