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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1989
Page
1
Charleston officials use updated banners and mounting to deter theft at the Spoleto festival. Parks Superintendent Danny Burbage notes banners draw interest as keepsakes but are not highly valuable. The city switched from rope ties to angled tops with metal rivets after 30 banners were stolen in 1987.
Voyager 2 has closed to 73 million miles of Neptune and begun photographing the planet on its final leg of the solar system tour. The probe, launched 12 years ago, is about as far from Neptune as Earth is from Mercury and will swing within 3,000 miles of Neptune on August 24 as six pictures per three hours are captured.
Forecast calls for cloudy skies tonight with a 70 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Wednesday remains mostly cloudy with a chance of storms, lows in the 60s and highs in the upper 80s.
Death notices include William E. Brown Wagoner Stephen Fulmer Greenwood Ollie E. Robinson Mabel N. Sharp Ella B Weeks Horace H Wilson Sally B White and others across South Carolina cities Augusta Aiken North Augusta Brooklyn New York.
Civilians and soldiers in Beijing faced fierce fighting as rival armies contend for control near Tiananmen Square. Reports say the 27th Army engaged the 28th and 38th Armies with tank and small arms fire, with casualties reported as authorities put nearly 300 dead and over 7,000 injured in four days.
Severe thunderstorms whip Midlands and Upstate causing scattered power outages and tree damage across Anderson Easley Clemson Seneca Westminster and Walhalla with no injuries reported A tornado sighting in Cherokee County remains unconfirmed and a Weather Service warning was later cancelled.
Aiken County Council trimmed the 1990 budget by about 1 million and reduced the millage by 4.0 to 4.5 mills with Plan B. The plan preserves a 20 million spending ordinance and adds 700 000 to a Reserve Fund while keeping key offices with new staff. A public hearing is set for June 13 and a third reading before adoption.
In Warsaw the Communist Party suggests Solidarity join a governing coalition after a sweeping opposition win in national elections. Solidarity candidates could receive Cabinet posts as the union signals willingness to discuss power sharing, while the Senate result marks a historic shift from the postwar Communist era.
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