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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1982
Page
11
Aiken City Council hosts annual Neighborhood Information Exchange programs. Meetings are tonight at 7 at the H Odell Weeks Activities Center and tomorrow at 7 at the Smith Hazel Recreation Center to hear residents on matters of public concern.
The Savannah River Section of the American Chemical Society meets tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn West in Augusta. Dr. Paul E. Blatz of the University of Missouri Kansas City will speak. Dinner reservations contact Robert Malstrom at the Savannah River Laboratory.
Aiken Technical College offers day and evening classes in engineering technologies industrial programs and business and management. Registration for spring quarter finishes tonight 6 to 730 p m and the quarter starts March 31 with financial aid available for qualified students.
The Aiken County Alston Wilkes Society will host its annual dinner Thursday at 7 at Croft House. Speaker is William D. Leeke, Commissioner of the SC Department of Corrections, which runs two Aiken County facilities. Local officers and directors for 1982 will be elected. Tickets cost $5 from Mrs. Betty McKellar.
North Augusta Duff's Restaurant has closed due to lack of business. Duff's in Aiken and Augusta will stay open. The North Augusta site at 215 Edgefield Ave employed 27 people, about eight of whom found positions at the Aiken and Augusta locations.
Terry McMillan was sworn in to fill the unexpired term of Billy Garvin Corbett on the Salley town council. The meeting included several general discussions per town clerk Brenda Walker.
Aiken shoppers may see Red and White Food Store move into the former Big Star on Richland Avenue this afternoon under owner Nix Loadholt, while Food Town Inc of Salisbury negotiates a lease for the Heritage Square Big Star on Whiskey Road. Piggly Wiggly has already moved into the North Augusta Big Star. Polo centennial info line set at 649-7700 for week events and ball invitations.
Johnston farmer Larry Vance labels this period pins and needles time as temperatures dipped to the upper 20s over the weekend threaten early bloom. S.C. Peach Council president Yonce reports scattered damage and notes risk if temperatures fall to 20s for six hours. Monetta grower Ed Satcher confirms crop injury with lows of 25 and 28. Clemson agent Terry Mathis warns of remaining frosts but explains cold can thin blossoms if not fatal.
Windsor Town Council will meet at 7 30 p m in Town Hall on U S Highway 78 for a regular business session. No agenda was available.
Fifteen members of the World Peace march spoke with residents in Aiken yesterday about world disarmament. The group, traveling from New Orleans to New York, will finish the route in Columbia tomorrow.
The Aiken County Sheriff's Department reports eight weekend drug arrests. Names include Ernest Trull and Lee Vickers both 25 and 26, linked to marijuana manufacture and un taxed whiskey. Others cited include George Kenneth Baldwin 23 Langley area, Maria Griffin 24 Langley, Kenneth Derrick 19 Bath, Jackie Evens 21 Pine Mountain, Clyde Shores 24 Bath, Billy Weatherford 31 Augusta, and Lt. Paul Lagrow noting a crack down on drug traffic.
A woman driver piloted a 150 pound car on a track in Sydney to cover 2 747 miles per gallon of gas. The setup included a 6.5 cc model aircraft motor driving a friction roller linked to a bicycle wheel, with the driver lying under a clear bubble top.
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