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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1982
Page
13
The 40th Aiken Trials will feature riders and trainers, sunlit weather, and tailgate feasts. The Aiken Jaycees collect for charity at the gate while spectators are urged to avoid drunken behavior after last year’s 30 arrests for intoxication and disorderly conduct.
More than 500 people filled Midland Valley High School to discuss school board fiscal autonomy. The crowd split roughly two to one in favor, with strong disagreement evident, yet no resolution reached and calls for calm, thoughtful deliberation continue.
Lewis C Hall died March 6 at Aiken Community Hospital after a heart attack weeks earlier. A Savannah River Plant employee, he helped found and led the employee credit union, served in state and national credit union affairs, and led the Columbia Chapter of the Credit Union League. A deacon and teacher at First Baptist Church, he lived in the city 30 years and will be missed. the Aiken Standard offers condolences to his family.
Bertrand Russell asserts hunger drives major political events across history and today. The quote links appetite to power shifts, implying food scarcity shapes public action and policy debates.
The piece attacks David Rockefeller for praising Communist regimes and urging banks to fund governments regardless of democracy. It argues Western banks finance oppression, citing Poland’s debt, Africa’s Marxist labels, and Cuban troops in Angola, while bankers defend profit over principle.
Notice indicates readers can find letters to the editor on page 2-B of the issue. No specific names, dates, or topics are provided in the readable text. The item is a brief navigational notice rather than a substantive story.
The piece argues that nature maintains a balance between predators and prey and that humans sometimes disrupt this balance. It cites a Yellowstone ranger letting a drowning buffalo and questions whether mercy should override natural processes. The tone blends moral reflection with wildlife management debates.
The article recalls the Great Depression era Hoo vervilles with New York Central Park shantytowns and a woman dying in a cardboard box. It cites 36,000 homeless in New York City and nationwide estimates from 250,000 to one million, and describes Reaganville beside the White House with 539 crosses marking homeless deaths.
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