State aircraft rentals eyed after Turnipseed flight flap
Columbia AP The state Aeronautics Commission says it may stop renting planes for lawmakers when the fleet is booked after a dispute over a Turnipseed flight to Washington. Gov. Riley’s office denies requesting the plane. The agency operates six aircraft and two helicopters and logged 200 flights in four months for officials and other state workers. Riley aides led usage with 42 flights, followed by SLED 23, Dennis 17, Waddell 16, Carter 6, and Goodstein 5.
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State Aeronautics Commission
Commission
William C. Goodwin
Tom Turnipseed
Washington
Dick Riley
Goodwin
University of South Carolina
Riley
Rembert Dennis
Berkeley
James Waddell
D-Beaufort
Allen Carter
D-Charleston
Arnold Goodstein
Lander College Closure Criticism Sparks GOP-CHEC Debate
Greenwood lawmakers challenge a commission member's remark that Lander College duplicates state services. Rep. T L Hughston says the claim lacks substance while the Higher Education Commission later backs Lander. Arthur J Clement criticized USC Medical College similarly.
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Greenwood County
Lander College
T.L. Hughston
State Commission On Higher Education
Lander
Commission
Arthur J. Clement
Charleston
Clement
Medical College
University of South Carolina
Columbia
Hughston
Higher Education Commission
Age Makes Penalty Futile in 13-Year-Old Charge
Prosecutor Henry Raines says he will not seek the death penalty for a 13-year-old charged with killing Ruby Lewis, 62, during a home robbery attempt. The youth, held on a $25,000 bond, may be evaluated at State Hospital in Columbia after a family court decision. The case awaits grand jury indictment in July.
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Walter T. Cox
State Hospital
Columbia
Three N C River Segments Nominated For National System
The U S Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service recommended 85 miles of the Dan River from Patrick County Virginia to Surry County North Carolina for national designation along with 24 miles of the French Broad in western North Carolina and 113 miles of the Lumber River from the North Carolina South Carolina line to its headwaters. The action awaits Presidential recommendation to Congress. The Dan River segment is also under study by the Army Corps of Engineers for a hydroelectric dam, though preservation options are being considered. officials say the corps will continue its dam study.
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N.C
Dan River
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
John Fisher
U.S. Heritage, Conservation and Recreation Service
Patrick County
Surry County
North Carolina
North Carolina-South Carolina
Fisher
Carter
Congress
Corps
John Wilson
Drowning Brings Total To Six In South Carolina
A 9 year old boy drowned near Sumter while playing with his brother and a friend. On Sunday two Pauline residents, Alice Thomas Anderson 54 and Fannie Mae Gory 74, died when Anderson’s car hit a tree on a rural Spartanburg County road. A Columbia pedestrian Benjamin Boyd 38 was struck by a car on S C 555 and Aubrey Champy 60 of Orangeburg died when his pickup hit a pole on S C 33.
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Associated Press
Sumter
Bill Gamble
Spartanburg
Pauline
Alice Thomas Anderson
Fannie Mae Gory
Anderson
Columbia
S.C. 555
Benjamin Boyd
Aubrey Champy
Orangeburg
S.C
Court To Decide Jenkins Bond in Supreme Court
The South Carolina state Supreme Court planned to rule today on whether television evangelist Leroy Jenkins can be freed on bond while appealing his conspiracy conviction. Jenkins, sentenced to twelve years, was found guilty of conspiring to burn the homes of a state patrolman and another man and to assault the patrolman and a newspaper reporter. His attorney Kermit S. King said the decision would likely come this afternoon and noted bond is not guaranteed as a matter of right. F. Lee Bailey agreed to handle the appeal.
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State Supreme Court
Leroy Jenkins
Jenkins
Kermit S. King
Supreme Court
King
Grhdly
F. Lee Bailey
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