Legislator Pushes Audit of Highway Department Use of Funds
Columbia AP reporting Rep Ralph Anderson Jr seeks audit by the Legislative Audit Council to examine how the Highway Department spends annual appropriations and to assess tax needs. The request comes after his defeat in opposing a 2 cent per gallon gasoline tax hike. the council will add the audit but not before the current fiscal debate.
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Columbia
Legislative Audit Council
State Highway Department
General Assembly
Ralph K. Anderson Jr
Council
Florence Democrat
George Schroeder
The
Audit Council
Anderson
Highway Department
House
Senate impasse over restructuring of Social Services Board
The South Carolina Senate remains split over plans to expand the Board of Social Services from 7 to 19 members. Senators Gressette and Dennis push a 19‑member panel with governor picks, while others back a 15‑member board. Sen. Taylor favors a three‑person commission to run the department, aiming for action this year.
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Columbia
Senate
State Board of Social Services
L. Marion Gressette
Calhoun
Rembert C. Dennis
Berkeley
David S. Taylor
D-Laurens
Taylor
Department of Social Services
Calhoun Officials Rehired Prompting Continued Civil Rights Fight
Osar Means says the boycott will continue as Calhoun County officials rehire three administrators for the 1977 78 school year The board kept H Thad Ott at superintendent Ernest W Stokes becomes director of programs and information and Walter Lee Funderburk moves to St Matthews High Means objects to the reassignment and promotion of Funderburk noting Cam eron opposed his placement at St John
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Osar Means
H. Thad Ott
St. Matthews High
Ernest W. Stokes
St. John
Walter Lee Funderburk
Ott
Stokes
Funderburk
Means
Cameron
Stormy regional forecast tracks rain from Great Lakes to New England
The forecast calls for precipitation across the area from the Great Lakes to New England and along the Mississippi Valley with a band of rain and snow flurries in the western Great Lakes and Pacific Northwest. The AP Wirephoto accompanies the report.
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Great Lakes
New England
Mississippi Valley
Pacific Northwest
South Carolina Senate OKs higher education reform bill
The Senate tentatively approved a bill to bar trustees of state colleges from serving on the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education. The measure would raise the commission’s membership from 15 to 18 and broaden its authority to oversee college programs.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Sailors Charged With Murder Of S C Doctor
Two 19 year old sailors, Robert Wayne Wilson of Omaha and Michael Albert Cervi of Hayward, are charged with murder in the slaying of a South Carolina physician. The charges were filed at a Toombs County preliminary hearing before Superior Court Judge Robert Stevens, with statements read by Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents. The pair were ordered held without bond for a grand jury appearance.
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