DI Court Martial at Parris Island Over Recruit Shooting
Sgt Robert F Henson senior drill instructor at Parris Island Marine recruit depot was court martialed for shooting recruit Pvt Harry W Hiscock in the hand on January 3 He pleaded guilty to eight charges including wounding hazing and cover up and received a bad conduct discharge 15 months hard labor demotion and forfeiture of pay Sgt Douglas A Wright was convicted for helping to shoot hazing and failing to report with penalties including demotion and a $1200 fine Other instructors received various punishments and four faced nonjudicial punishments.
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Parris Island
S.c.ap
Robert F. Henson
Harry W Hiscock
Rochester
N.Y
Hiscock
Henson
Paul F. Henderson
Maj
Edward Condra
Base Public Affairs Office
Tryig
Douglas A. Wright
Tidelands
House-Senate
House
Robert Woods
Charleston
John C. Land III
D-Clarendon
Pro And Con Opinions Voiced On Russell Dam
About 50 people debated dredging and filling at the Richard B. Russell Dam site in Elberton Georgia. The public hearing drew roughly 500 attendees with speakers split on benefits, costs, and environmental impact.
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Russell Dam
Elberton. Ga
Richard B. Russell
Elberton County High School
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Savannah River
Elberton
Calhoun Falls
S.C
Corps
Aiken Standard Publication Note and Post Details
Aiken Standard established 1867 publishes every afternoon except weekends. Address: 124 Rutland Drive, Aiken South Carolina 29801 box 456. Leased AP dispatches. publisher not liable for ad omissions but will correct in next issue. Advance payments capped at five weeks.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken
S.C
Associated Press
AP News
1.2 Million Unemployed Exhausted Benefits in the South
AP reports that over 1.2 million Southern unemployed workers exhausted unemployment benefits in 1975 and remained jobless, with a projected rise to 1.6 million by March. The Southern Regional Council cites lack of available jobs, not lack of incentive, as the cause. States listed include Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina and Tennessee. Georgia's 1976 legislature passes a bill: after 13 weeks, claimants must accept work paying at least 60 percent of prior earnings or the minimum wage or lose benefits.
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Atlanta
Southern Regional Council
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Sam Caldwell
Action Would Halt 2nd Med School in South Carolina
South Carolina lawmakers debate a halt to funding the second medical school. Representative Stroud presses the measure to stop all activity, while Speaker Carter and other officials note potential effects on already appropriated funds. The House weighs a tidelands bill and a harsher housebreaking penalty proposal, with conference talks planned on the former.
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House
Ways and Means
Rex Carter
Greenville
Carter
General Assembly
South Carolina
Sol Blatt
D-Barnwell
Tidelands
Senate
Bill Campbell
D-Richland
Amendment On Taxation Barely Survives In 2019 Vote
In Columbia a Senate panel narrowly kept alive an amendment to delete a one percent tax on intangible property such as stocks and savings from a property tax measure. The vote to kill it failed 19 to 20, with debate over taxing thrift and workers savings. The proposal would be part of a constitutional revision on property taxation and bonded indebtedness.
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Columbia
Senate
James M. Morris
Clarendon
Sen. L. Marion Gressette
Judiciary Committee
House
James M. Waddell
D-Beaufort
Walter J. Bristow
Drichland
Court Asked To Decide New South Future
Columbia AP The South Carolina Supreme Court is asked by the state Insurance Commission to assume original jurisdiction in a case about the financially troubled New South Life Insurance Co The commission seeks a ruling on whether the Guaranty Association must back New South policies The association resists saying the firm's problems began before its creation and retroactive responsibility would be improper The guaranty body is designed to back insolvent insurers
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Columbia
South Carolina Supreme Court
The
Insurance Commission
New South Life Insurance Com
Guaranty Association
Edwards Calls to Abolish Midlands Community Action Agency
Gov. James B. Edwards urged lawmakers to abolish the Midlands Community Action Agency and create a new body to administer about 3.5 million dollars in anti poverty programs. He met with 21 legislators from Richland Newberry Lexington and Fairfield counties amid accusations of mismanagement and a veto of a 243000 grant.
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Columbia
James B. Edwards
Midlands
Edwards
MCAA
Richland
Newberry
Lexington
Fairfield
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Condra
H.W. Hiscock
Bryan Dorn
Tennessee Valley Authority
al Stocks
Friends of the Savannah River
Corps of Engineers
Fox
Clark Hill Lake
South Carolina Environmental Coalition
SCEC
South Carolina Wildlife Federation
Ernest Vandiver
Elbert
Aiken Standard - Pbm
Great Lakes
Plains
Dakotas
Midwest
2Nd Med School
Columbia (Ap
William H. Stroud
Ing
James M. Arthur
D-Union
W. Howard Ballenger
Oconee
Morris
New South Future
Dewey Duckett
United States
St. Augustine, Fla
Christian Guidance
Betty Vann
Bank Purorra
ALCOA
North By-Pass Hwy
He Gragi
Dale Bunyan
Mobile Home Central Air
Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc
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