Aiken School Board Plans Additional Bond Sales
The Aiken County School District proposes selling another 3 to 4 million dollars in bonds to fund three new schools and offset rising construction costs. A July 1980 timing is likely for a 33.5 million bond, with a 975 thousand bond another year later, under strict millage-use rules.
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Aiken School Board
Aiken County
T.B
Ted) Willis
B.T. Brinkley
J.P. Kneece
Coastal Plains
Midland Valley High School
Aiken High School
Silver Bluff High School
Aiken Clerk Appeals for CETA Workers Survival
Aiken County Clerk Sue H. Roe has asked the South Carolina Supreme Court for help to save two CETA workers in her office. County council plans to drop 52 CETA positions, citing cost, while officials reiterate no preferential treatment and a local decision.
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Aiken County
State Supreme Court
Sue H. Roe
Edwin Atwater III
Supreme Court
Atwater
Carrol H. Warner
CETA
Family Court
USC Aiken Library to Get $100000 for New Books
Representative C Marshall Cain announced that the Ways and Means Committee approved a $100,000 supplemental appropriation for USC Aiken to expand and improve its campus library. He noted USC Aiken’s four year status was tied to library expansion and that funding comes from the Gregg Graniteville Foundation and Aiken County. The bill totals $20 million in supplemental appropriations and moves to the full House.
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Usc-Aiken
C. Marshall Cain
R-Aiken
Ways and Means Committee
State House of Representatives
Usc-A
Cain
House
Gregg-Graniteville Foundation Inc
Aiken County
USC
Adoptable Child Panel Meeting in Columbia
The South Carolina Council on Adoptable Children will hold its state meeting Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ on Jackson Boulevard in Columbia. A panel discussion will include speakers from the Department of Social Services the Children's Bureau and Children Unlimited. Officers will be elected for the coming year. Baby sitting will be provided with planned activities.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Council On Adoptable Children
Church of Jesus Christ
Jackson Boulevard
The
Department of Social Services
Children’s Bureau and
Children Unlimited
Beads Spark Next Gen Solar Cells From Silicon
A Clemson University project with Texas Instruments launches a four year 18 million dollar program to develop miniature silicon beads as solar cells and a stored energy system. The beads form single crystal pellets mixed with a glasslike matrix to create sheets that conduct electricity wirelessly and store energy for later use in fuel cells. Co inventors include Jay Lathrop Jack Kilby and Wilbur Porter highlighting low cost production and built in storage capacity.
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South Carolina
Texas Instruments, Inc
Department of Energy
Clemson University
Jay Lathrop
Clemson
Jack Kilby
Texas Instruments
Wilbur Porter
Texas A&m University
Coinventor Lathrop
Legislators Schedule Public Hearing on Teaching Exam Bill
The Aiken County delegation will hold a public meeting on House Bill 528 at 10 a.m. June 25 in the Aiken Technical College auditorium. Local educators are invited to speak. The article also notes Interior Department grants for Jackson Park and Virginia Acres totaling $28,184 requiring matching funds.
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Aiken County
S.C. House of Representatives
Aiken Technical College
Jackson Park
Jackson
Virginia Acres
Aiken
Department of the Interior
Butler Derrick
D-S.c
Third
Congressional
Langley High Booster Club to Meet Monday Night
The Langley Langley Bath Clearwater High School Booster Club will hold a public meeting Monday at 7 30 pm in the L B C library. The event is open to community members and supporters.
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Langley
Langley-Bath-Clearwater High School
L-B-C
Aiken Realtors Meet Tuesday With Clyde Wells Speaker
The Aiken Board of Realtors will gather Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Ramada Inn restaurant Clyde Wells a cartoonist from the Augusta Chronicle will speak.
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Aiken Board of Realtors
Ramada Inn
Clyde Wells
Augusta Chronicle
Retirees To Hear Of Center Informational Meeting
An informational meeting for Clemson Area Retirement Center will be held next week at the Senior Citizens Clubhouse in Crosland Park. Walter Dixon will speak at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The center under construction outside Clemson invites retirees from the Aiken area. For information contact Charles E. Miller or Mrs. Fred H. Stofer.
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Clemson Area
Senior Citizens
Crosland Park
Walter Dixon
Clemson
Aiken
Charles E. Miller
Fred H. Stofer
Beech Island Teacher Named Principal at Downer Elementary
Christine Sanders, longtime Byrd Elementary teacher in Graniteville since 1975, is named new principal of Downer Elementary in Area Two. She will assume the post July 1, succeeding Fred Williams. Sanders holds a USC BA in early childhood and elementary education and a Clemson MA in elementary administration. Her husband works for Graniteville Company and they live in Graniteville.
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Beech Island
Christine
Glenn D.) Sanders
Byrd Elementary
Graniteville
Downer
Area Two
T.B. Willis
Aiken County
Ms. Sanders
Fred Williams
University of South Carolina
Clemson University
Graniteville Company
Third escapee recaptured as two more flee youths face charge
The third man who escaped from the Aiken Youth Correction Center is back in custody. Steve Ray Morris, 18, of Bath, was nabbed around 8 p.m. in Warrenville. Two others who fled at 2 a.m. Tuesday were captured in North Carolina. All three face escape charges and likely will be sent to a medium security facility in Columbia to serve the rest of their sentences, warden Lewis Mims said.
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Aiken
Steve Ray Morris
Bath
Warrenville
North Carolina
Columbia
Lewis Mims
ACYCC
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