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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1986
Page
1
The Aiken Trials at the Aiken Training Track on Two Notch Road opens at 10 a m with post time at 2 p m. Sponsored by the Aiken Jaycees, advance tickets are 4 for adults and 2 for children 6 11, gate tickets 5 for adults and 2 for children 6 11.
The Aiken Sulky Races will run Saturday April 5 at the Aiken Mile Track on Banks Mill. Sponsors are the Aiken County Shrine Club and Wendy's. Gates open 10 a.m. post time 2 p.m. Tickets 4 adults 2 children 6 11. Railside parking $40 for four adults. Tickets sold at the Chamber Aiken Drug Leminick's Woodruff Drugs and Lionel Smith Ltd.
A cheap potent Mexican heroin nicknamed black tar is spreading across the United States and is blamed for dozens perhaps hundreds of overdose deaths. The drug is linked to the first broad rise in heroin use in more than five years.
The weather page reports sunny conditions and warm temperatures for the Aiken Trials with a high in the mid 70s. Details appear on Page 16A.
Obituaries list Nancy Davis Augusta Willie Hazel North Augusta Lloyd E Donahoo Aiken Odessa H Corley West Columbia Russell Hiday Aikenn William D Wilkins Augusta Herries A Mondy North Augusta see details on Page BA
Cars and horses will fill the Aiken Training Track for the 44th Aiken Trials. Traffic will be one way from South Boundary to the track with barricades on Two Notch Road north of Audubon Avenue. No parking on Two Notch, Grace, or Mead Avenues. violators towed. Badges must be worn at all times. noncompliant attendees may be barred.
Aiken Public Safety officers and ABC Commission reps will staff the Trials with other agencies on duty. Gates open at 10 a.m. for the Trials at the Two Notch track. Post time is 2 p.m. A 30 minute postrace clearance is required or wreckers will be used. The Aiken Jaycees sponsor the race.
The February reading of the Index of Leading Indicators rose 0.7 percent, the strongest gain since December, with January revised to no change. Analysts see improved growth ahead as oil prices fall, lowering interest rates and boosting demand. The index stands at 175.4 percent of its 1967 base, with capital equipment orders and stock prices among the positives.
Declassified US intelligence says the Shikhany Chemical Warfare Proving Ground on the Volga has expanded testing and tripled research and development floorspace since 1970. The plant, built in the 1920s, operates with facilities for research, development, and production of chemical warfare agents and materials.
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