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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1980
Page
2
The forecast calls for mild temperatures across the Southeast through tomorrow morning while many regions expect cooler weather. Snow is anticipated across the northern and western Plains and Minnesota to the Midwest with rain over the central Gulf.
Magistrate Woodrow Wilson will relocate his office Friday to the Gary Walker Building. Public meeting rooms won’t be disturbed, despite earlier confusion over a jury box and platform built in a public room. The move provides space for the magistrate as construction continues and a conference room could host jurors if needed.
The Aiken County Board of Education plans to discuss replacing four attendance areas with high school zones at an 8 p.m. meeting in Aiken. The proposal, spurred by Silver Bluff High School, would attach feeder schools to their high schools while keeping areas for election purposes.
The Aiken County Republican Party meets tonight at 7:30 at Aiken Junior High School with Raymon Finch as keynote. Officers for two years are to be elected and delegates chosen for the district convention March 20. All 18 delegates to the national convention are pledged to Reagan on the first two ballots. Six at large delegates for the state convention April 12 are also Reagan pledged.
Seven jurors are seated for the trial of Fesse Laney Roosevelt Bryant and Robert Hightower charged with the January 4 1979 armed robbery and murder of Charles and Mary Holoway operators of the College Acres Zippy Mart on Whiskey Road.
A brief sunny interlude breaks a prolonged gloomy spell. The forecast calls for clouds to return tonight and tomorrow with a 70 percent chance of rain. Temperatures tonight on the upper 30s, tomorrow’s high near 55, with highs in the 60s later in the week and nights in the 40s.
Aiken and surrounding areas report the deaths of Margaret Austin MacLennan 70 Bath Blanche Kitchen 90 Langley Mildred Royal 38 Swainsboro Ga Pauline Wilson ? Allendale Batesburg Chester Columbia Smoaks and S wainsboro. Survivors include multiple children stepchildren and relatives. Funerals set or held at George Posey and Shealy funeral homes with services in churches and burial in local cemeteries.
Aiken man Ivan Sterling Brown, 21, was arrested after a robbery at Taco Bell on Richland Avenue. Clerk Alan Wilson reported a black male fled on foot after threatening to rob unless fed, with the suspect receiving two tacos and 50 cents.
Status reports on city operations were presented by the various town departments. The next council meeting will be held on Monday, April 14.
Today and tomorrow lists of 64 meetings and events across North Augusta Aiken and surrounding areas including Exchange Club Overeaters Anonymous Organ Club Retired Federal Employees PTC Episcopal Church Aiken County Mental Health Association Choral Society Windsor Town Council Belvedere Fire District NOW USC Aiken Board of Education A A St Bartholomews Health Care Clinic Dental Clinic Museum DAR Senior Citizens Bridge Thoroughbred Hall of Fame Knights of Columbus and A A at churches clubs and public venues with contact line for Lynne Katonak at the Aiken Standard.
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