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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1987
Page
1
Evangelist Oral Roberts accelerates a drive to raise eight million dollars to fund medical missionary scholarships with a March 31 deadline. He told followers he still needs about 1.5 million after previously stating a 4.5 million need.
The forecast calls for current sunny skies with a sweater friendly day. Tonight will dip to the low 30s as a cooler air mass moves in. Tomorrow brings sun and highs mid 50s to 60 with extended warmth ahead.
Deaths Aleshia M White Jackson Michael Logan Warthen Ga John Plexico Aiken William Salmon Aiken Patricia Russell Williston William Herlong Johnston Ruby Simpkins Aiken George Hughes Belvedere details on page 9A
A North Augusta group pressed a record at an Augusta studio turning fun into profit by entering the local music business and recording a new release.
President Reagan will address the nation on Iran arms sales and Contras funding, aiming to recover public support after the Tower Commission report and a four-year low in polling. The speech preempts prime time on ABC NBC CBS and Cable News, with radio also carrying the remarks.
The recount traces Reagan’s televised messages from tax and budget cuts to calls for reform. It notes his Lebanon intervention in 1982, MX missile deployment, reaction to the Korean Air Lines disaster, and resulting Soviet restrictions. The piece frames these moments as defining presidential communications on national policy.
County Administrator W Scott Barnes wins 7 2 approval for an austerity plan to trim the 1988 budget by 1.5 million. Readoption of the 1987 amended budget limits new funding and positions, freezes ongoing vacancies, freezes travel registrations, and imposes a 15 percent cut in department line items. Take home vehicle reductions and statutory debt and contract requirements guide the changes. Medwell Hill and LaWana McKenzie opposed.
Gov. Carroll Campbell vows to veto any budget that raises business taxes without safeguards or draws from the reserve funds. The House faces a showdown as Ways and Means, in a split vote, approved a 2.8 billion appropriation by raising taxes on liquor newspapers nuclear waste and mobile homes and diverting 43 million from the rolling reserve for major agency needs.
A New York AP survey of 227 biomedical scientists predicts cancer vaccines by 2000 and AIDS cure by 2010, but no cure for the common cold. The poll covers estimates on AIDS totals, vaccines, and cancer cures, with varied timelines and confidence levels.
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