15 Jun 1989
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1989
Page
1
About 35 preschoolers joined a summer reading program bug race at the Loris Branch Library. Insects including crickets and other small bugs competed in the parking lot circles while a turtle race was canceled due to a single entrant. A blue ribbon went to a cricket owner and a child hoped for a toy.
Edwards Air Force Base California reports Capt Jacquelyn S Parker becomes the service's first female test pilot. The 28 year old graduates from the Air Force Test Pilot School among 25 navigators pilots and flight engineers and aims to test aircraft and someday fly the space shuttle.
TonightReader s forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Friday will be mostly cloudy with high temperatures in the mid 80s. Details appear on Page 8A.
Obituary notices list Alma C Barnette Langley Bracknell Major Josie Elizabeth Bracknell Major McCormick Josie Lott Smith Augusta Thomas Washington Augusta Henry W Webb Aiken James Luther Wombles Augusta Readers are directed to Page 8A for full details and arrangements.
Steven Naifeh and Gregory Smith, authors of The Mormon Murders, purchase Joye Cottage in Aiken for residence and writing space. They plan permanent relocation from New York after selling their apartment and staying at the Willcox Inn while arranging move. The three acre historic property on the National Register was listed at 650000 for two acres of the tract not included in the sale.
Aiken County officials urge the U S Department of Energy to raise its annual payment in lieu of taxes to about 1 million dollars, far above last year’s 161 625 for Aiken and similar requests from Barnwell and Allendale counties as DOE weighs the case.
President Bush said Lee Atwater is doing a great job while Ed Rollins questioned Atwater's knowledge of a memo attacking Speaker Thomas Foley. Rollins criticized the tactic as outrageous as Bush called the memo disgusting and Mark Goodin resigned. The leaders urged staying on issues and integrity.
Dr Jan Cools a Belgian hostage with NORWAC was freed after 13 months in captivity in Sidon and handed to Mustafa Saad, head of the Nasserite militia. He was kidnapped May 21 1988 near Rashidiyeh refugee camp outside Tyre. Soldiers of Justice claimed responsibility and said the release was a goodwill gesture.
Beijing reports three death sentences linked to a Shanghai train fire and assault on security forces amid pro democracy protests. State television shows leaders detained in police vans with shaved heads as nationwide arrests exceed one thousand amid a seven week reform movement end.
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