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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1981
Page
7
The Aiken County Board of Education will hold a special meeting tomorrow at 7 30 p m in the Educational Center conference room at 843 Edgefield Ave Aiken. Discussion will cover policy and discipline code review with principals area advisory council chairmen and administrators.
New Ellenton City Council re schedules a 7 pm meeting to hire a new police officer and discuss repairing a sanitation truck. The session, normally held on the first Monday, takes place at City Hall 200 Main St with Mayor Carl E Langley Jr presiding.
Early Friday a fire gutted Rosa Lee Medlock's wooden house at 1228 Morningside Drive. An Aiken Department of Public Safety report cites an electrical fire, with all rooms damaged and property valued around $3,000, while the home was valued at $21,000.
The Atlanta Shoestring Opera founded in 1978 performs tonight at Hopeland Gardens at Dupree Place and Whiskey Road. Audiences are urged to bring blankets and lawnchairs as simple sets and a shoestring budget drive performances of Cavalleria Rusticana and more.
The North Augusta City Council meets tomorrow at 7 30 p m at 400 Buena Vista Ave to discuss eliminating city county double taxation and to second read a revised commercial sewer service charge ordinance The change would let commercial customers choose a winter base rate or actual monthly usage for sewer charges with the option set by March 31 annually The council will hear about CATV rate changes with Fred Kennedy Jr CSRA Cablevision president invited to attend.
A 22 year old Batesburg man Carlton J. Clark Jr. was killed when the car left a highway in Aiken County and overturned. Three others were injured and transported to Richland Memorial Hospital by a Medivac helicopter, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
The city public works department sprays crabapple and other trees in Aiken parks with insecticide. Spraying began last week and will continue for some time. Citizens are warned the insecticide could be harmful and fruit should not be eaten.
Weekend thefts in Aiken include a window air conditioner from the Department of Social Services on Richland Avenue and Williamsburg Street. Four air conditioning units valued at 1357 dollars were stolen from Home Comfort Center at 112 Union Street after a padlock was forced. A John Deere tractor mower worth 2500 dollars was taken from Odell Holmes’s truck at 307 Charleston Street between Friday evening and Saturday morning.
Ted B. Willis, superintendent of Aiken County schools since 1973, received the Superintendent of the Year award from the South Carolina Association for Public and Continuing Adult Education at the state Conference of Adult Education in Myrtle Beach. Willis retires this month after leading the district for decades.
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