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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1990
Page
1
Guam launches the first annual Sweep Snakes contest inviting residents to trap brown tree snakes over a month starting June 23. The aim is to reduce the 2 million snakes that threaten native birds and can injure humans, with a pickup truck prize for the top collector.
Obituaries list Merle E. Davis of Graniteville and Freddie Henry of Spartanburg among recent deaths. Page 38 provides full notices with biographical details, surviving relatives, and funeral arrangements.
The Aiken Planning Commission approved a revised site and landscape plan for Silver Bluff Commons a $4.5 million strip shopping center on 7.3 acres near Silver Bluff and Pine Log roads The project centers on a Bi Lo supermarket and a Blockbuster Video store with a goal of ten high quality stores The commission required drainage and landscaping agreements and continued one large office complex item to June 12 An annexation of 24.3 acres south of Aiken Mall was also approved for neighborhood business zoning and mixed professional office space and retail development
U S Senators Hollings and Thurmond push the Textile Apparel and Footwear Trade Act to shield domestic textile jobs citing 400 000 lost positions over five years. Bush administration opposes the bill arguing it would trigger retaliation and hamper trade while proposed limits set 1 percent annual growth for imports and freeze footwear at 1989 levels.
June temperatures run five to ten degrees above normal after April and May were cooler. State climatologist John Purvis notes a persistent high pressure system on the East Coast and a forecasted weather front early next week to bring cooler air. Augusta Bush Field recorded a 98 degree high tying a daily record.
Purvis says January and February ran well above normal with March partly high while April and May cooled. Forecast calls for mids to high 90s today through Sunday with evening storms tonight and possible afternoon storms tomorrow. Sunday to Tuesday hot humid with scattered thunderstorms. widespread storms across many regions today with warm fronts and jet stream moving east.
In Aiken a forum showed strong support for restarting the Savannah River Site reactors with officials like Mayor H Odell Weeks and Rep Irene Rudnick urging readiness for defense and safety. Chamber chair Timothy Simmons cited financial benefits while protesters and environmentalists voiced opposition outside Weeks Center.
Washington reports a health commission warns adolescents face violence, drug use, and pregnancy risks. The study finds 1 million teenage girls get pregnant each year, 39 percent of high school seniors drank in two weeks, and teen self-harm deaths have doubled since 1968.
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