Oscar Mayer trains 13 grads as motorized hot dog tour crew
Madison based Oscar Mayer Food Corp. trains 13 college graduates to drive a 23 foot long promotional hot dog vehicle around the country. Ja mie Willard, a Aquinas College grad from Grand Rapids Michigan, joins the team to promote the brand as a roaming “hotdogger.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison, Wis
Willard
Oscar Mayer
Oscar Mayer Food Corp
Aquinas College
Grand Rapids
Mich
Slimy Sewer Chase Captures Several Burglary Suspects
Albuquerque police chased burglary suspects into a storm sewer on the west side. Five or six men fled with items, and three were arrested ages 28, 22, and 16 after a cramped hourlong pursuit described as slimy and spider infested by Sgt. G. Morimoto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
G. Morimoto
Morimoto
Campbell May Call Lawmakers Back For Special Session
Gov. Carroll Campbell said he likely will decide early next week whether to summon lawmakers to Columbia for a special session. Legislators remain split on returning, with confusion at adjournment as time ran out before a late June resumption to finish business and address vetoes in the 3.6 billion dollar state budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Carroll Campbell
General Assembly
Senate
Tom Marshall Williams
Orangeburg
Herb Kirsh
Clover
Statehouse
Campbell
Cheney Orders Checks On Missiles Safety Grounding SRAM-As Over Plutonium Risk
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ordered the Air Force to ground its SRAM As missiles on all bombers until safety studies prove they will not leak plutonium. The move affects about 10 percent of the nuclear arsenal and follows lab directors urging caution amid fire or crash risks. Officials say a mishap could disperse toxic plutonium, though the warhead cannot detonate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Defense
Dick Cheney
Air Force
Cheney
Pentagon
Tom Zamora
Federation of American Scientists
Senate Armed Services Committee
Storm Leaves Some Wet, Some In Dark
Friday nights thunderstorms left many wet and lights flickering. 882 SCE&G customers in Graniteville lost power about 20 minutes while Crosland Park saw about 45 minutes without electricity when a power line failed. Six customers lost power after a transformer strike. Sergeant Drayton noted three blown transformers one house fire two downed power lines and numerous alarms triggered by lightning. Flooding limited to the intersection of Chesterfield and Abbeville Avenues. North Augusta Public Safety reported no mishaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sid Ballantine
Sce&g
Graniteville
Crosland Park
Ballantine
Drayton
Aiken
Czech Vote Seats Break With Communist Party
Voters in Czechoslovakia cast ballots in the first free elections since 1946. President Vaclav Havel and wife Olga voted amid cheering crowds as the two day election for 300 deputies to a new federal Parliament began. Civic Forum and Public Against Violence were favored to dominate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Vaclav Havel
Olga
Restart Hearings Split in Aiken Over SRS Reactor Restart
At a Friday public hearing in Aiken DOE audience heard two thirds favor restarting the Savannah River Site reactors while one third opposed. About 130 attended the morning session and a similar crowd for the 7 p.m. session. The reactors, idle since 1988, would be reassessed in a draft environmental impact statement amid environmental protests led by critics who say restarting jeopardizes the environment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah River
Aiken
DOE
H. Odell Weeks Activities Center
Savannah
Columbia
SRS
U.S
Weeks Center
Davis Folsom
Tiffany Hatcher Practices Skit for History Finals at UMD
Schofield Middle School student Tiffany Hatcher, 12, prepares her National History Finals skit to be presented Monday at the University of Maryland. The article notes the event and directs readers to Page 5A for the full story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Webster
Schofield
Tiffany Hatcher
University of Maryland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Page
Abby
Aiken, South Carolina
Aiken Standard
Scott Web
Amy Conley
Atlanta
Globes
Greenpe 7E
Communist Party
Alison Smale
Associated Press
Havel
Slovakia
Communist
Ostrava
Civic Forum
Public Against
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!