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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1997
Page
4
Wagener Chapter of the John Birch Society will meet Monday March 10 at 7 p.m. at Wagener Tire and Oil Co. 146 Main St N. The public is invited and video Trimming the Big Government will be shown. Call Andy Windham at 564-5159 for details.
Voters head to 15 polling places for Republican primary shaping city government. Mayor Tom Greene and Councilman Bill Gray not seeking re election boosted field. Incumbents Carolyn Baggott Lark Jones vie with Dane Anderson for mayor. Council candidates include Pat Carpenter Phil Mottel John Felak Don Smith Danny Geddes Ken McDowell plus others.
The Sam Savitt Exhibition opens Sunday March 16 at the Thoroughbred Hall of Fame and Museum in Aiken with a 2 to 6 pm reception. Savitt tells stories in oil and other media, drawing horses since youth, and credits a high school art teacher for guiding him to Pratt Institute.
Workers at former Durawool sites say the Rhodes American acquisition and rebranding to Global Materials Technology lifted morale. In four months, shifts in attitude and daily life reflect a new lease on work, with improved facilities and broader international reach cited by supervisors.
The Aiken City Council will meet in an executive session at 6 p.m. Monday, March 10 to discuss contractual matters. A 6:30 p.m. work session will cover Youth Correctional Site cleanup, with a 7 p.m. pre meeting review. The 7:30 p.m. council meeting will consider boards and commissions appointments, CDBG entitlement funds, fiscal year goals, mobile radio bids, and petitions from local groups. The session is in council chambers at 214 Park Avenue S.W.
In a lifetime of reporting the writer recalls marching orders from Louis Harris to cover Aiken for Augusta papers at $65 weekly. He credits mentors like Harrison Jenkins and Ken Crabbe, recalls Marian McKnight Miss America, and narrates campaigns of Johnson, Eisenhower, Nixon, Goldwater and Thurmond, noting the shift from rally days to modern campaigns.
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