Clemson President stays at campus, declines nuclear waste post
Clemson University president Bill Atchley announced he will remain in office and not assume management of national nuclear waste disposal programs. He cited unfinished work at Clemson and patriotism as reasons for declining the offer. In Alabama, the second annual June Jam drew about 37,000 for a charity concert featuring Alabama, Lee Greenwood, and Janie Fricke behind Fort Payne High School stadium.
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Fort Payne
Ala
Alabama
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States to raise fuel taxes despite lower wholesale oil costs
Oil industry analyst Dan Lundberg warned that more states will hike gas taxes in coming months. He said the consumer price trend is unclear due to wholesale price declines, but the public may see modest pre tax price declines in summer offset by higher state and local taxes.
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Los Angeles
Dan Lundberg
Lundberg
Congress Debates Budget Patch and Tax Withholding Repeal
Congress negotiators resume talks on domestic spending revenues and defense while aiming to repeal the tax withholding on interest and dividends. The Senate may revisit votes on curbing senators outside income as part of the week’s budget discussions.
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Peaches in South Carolina Fall Sharply in 1983 Forecast
South Carolina growers expect 125 million pounds of peaches this year, about 40 percent below 1982. The Crop and Livestock Reporting Service bases the drop on June 1 conditions, with production down 11 percent from May and likely totaling about 60 percent of last year’s 210 million pounds.
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Columbia
South Carolina
South Carolinians Split Over Cotton Dust Standards Change
Greenville AP reports both sides in South Carolina oppose Reagan administration moves to revise federal cotton dust standards. The Textile Manufacturers Association seeks a milder rule while the Brown Lung Association warns the change would relax current protections.
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Aging Soviet Leaders May Fill Key Job
The Soviet top leadership, weakened by deaths and illness, will meet this week to likely name a president. Dmitri Ustinov, 74, favored for the post, would shift military duties to Vasily Petrov if chosen, though Western diplomats doubt he would give up defense to assume the presidency.
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Vasily I. Petrov
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Man at Soviet Central Committee Faces Health Struggles
Andropov aged 69 leads a 11 member central committee amid health issues including heart and kidney trouble and possible Parkinson's. Rival Chernenko, 71, has pneumonia and frail public appearances as Andropov plots personnel shifts before the plenary session.
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Chernenko
Pioneer 10 Exits Solar System Speeds Toward Interstellar Space
Pioneer 10 sped from Earth’s solar system becoming the first man made craft to pass Neptune’s orbit and sail beyond the nine known planets. NASA officials hailed the milestone as a historic leap into the cosmos, bearing a gold plated message for future finds.
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State To Face Drinking Age and Betting Legislation
State lawmakers closed the first half of the 105th session with holdover measures including raising the legal drinking age banning open containers in moving vehicles and pari mutuel betting on horse racing A push led by Rep Tom Ervin aims to curb drunken driving while spending limits constitutional spending controls and other bills await debate next year Gov Riley previously backed spending limits which passed the Senate in 1981 but died in the House in 1982.
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Dick) Riley
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Ella Fitzgerald to Keep Singing Beyond 65 in Pittsburgh
Ella Fitzgerald, who turned 65 in April, says she plans to continue singing as long as audiences want to hear her. She spoke before a Sunday concert at Point State Park where more than 100000 fans crowded the venue, and she noted she would return after short breaks to be with her fans.
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Ella Fitzgerald
Point State Park
Fitzgerald
Gordon MacRae recalls rock bottom in Greenville comeback tribute
In Greenville five years after a drunken show, entertainer Gordon MacRae, 62, headlined the North Greenville Alcoholism Treatment Program homecoming at Furman University. About 600 attendees gave standing ovations as he, honorary National Council on Alcoholism chair, sought to make amends with a January return at a reduced price.
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Gordon MacRae
South Carolina
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National Council On Alcoholism
Beach Boys Dedicate Song to Nancy Reagan at White House
Mike Love calls Nancy Reagan a California Girl as the Beach Boys perform at the White House. The event ends a week after Interior Secretary Watt’s reversal over a planned Fourth of July concert, which later drew praise from President Reagan and officials.
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Paraplegic Walks For Her Diploma At Wright State
Nan Davis, paralyzed by a 1978 auto crash, walked 10 feet to receive her Wright State University diploma in front of 1,300 graduates. A camera-sized computer guided her paralyzed muscles, triggering electrical impulses to move them.
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Nan Davis
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St. Marys High School
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