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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1985
Page
4
A reader discussion weighs safety and discipline concerns about student bus drivers versus adults. Some favor adult operators for accountability and control while others advocate screening and staged opportunities for capable students.
Aiken planning commission discussed whether bed and breakfast inns should be allowed in residential R-1 zones. Absent members led to no formal recommendation, with a decision to revisit the issue when all members attend. Other business included annexation and zoning actions near Pine Log and Powder House Roads.
The MacArthur Foundation opened a peace research fellowship offering 6.25 million dollars to individuals who commit two years to study. Demand runs high with thousands of inquiries and hundreds of applications. Only four to 16 scholars will be funded in the first group, said program head Richard Rockwell. The Chicago based foundation, renowned for large no strings grants, awards about 80 million annually.
The Health and Human Services Department proposed barring Paradyne Corp from future federal contracts after alleging the Florida firm misrepresented its product in a $115 million Social Security computerization bid. HHS said Paradyne could finish stalled terminal installations to avoid retirement system disruption.
A lowly Naval Institute Press title becomes a surprise bestseller. Tom Clancy, a 37 year old insurance broker, writes The Hunt for Red October, a first novel about a disaffected Soviet skipper seeking defection. President Reagan and aides acclaim the thriller as a top seller among military readers.
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