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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1985
Page
2
Charleston AP reports Spoleto Festival U S A faces record pace for tickets in the ninth edition with over $500 000 in sales eight weeks before opening. Officials note last year’s pace and a budgeted $1 090 000 in ticket revenues as they aim to surpass 1984 totals.
A group of twelve lawmakers led by House Speaker Thomas O Neill will travel to Moscow and Leningrad April 7 to 12 for talks with Soviet leaders including Mikhail Gorbachev. The delegation follows a visit by Soviet officials who met President Reagan on March 7.
The Census Bureau reports federal spending averaged 3022.21 dollars per American in fiscal 1984. Direct payments to individuals topped the share, averaging 1359 dollars per person, as expenditures reached 724.7 billion for nearly 240 million people. The agency released a three volume study detailing spending by area and purpose.
Senator Bud Long Jr says colleagues will start a course next week that could reshape the state's criminal justice system and cautions against debating individual crime bills. The omnibus crime bill will be introduced Tuesday.
The Commerce Department reports the Index of Leading Indicators rose 0.7 percent in February after a 1.5 percent January gain, signaling moderate growth ahead. The rise came from strength in five of ten components, led by new plant and equipment contracts and higher stock prices.
The USSR maintains state production of all computers and restricts private ownership. Computers influence traffic and schooling but are not used for reservations and are tightly controlled to limit information flow. Officials acknowledge a lag in technology and consider buying micro computers from the West for schools.
In Harrisburg protesters denounced the plant owner as unfit to run the facility at a mall gathering near the capitol. Two demonstrators were arrested for blocking a gate at Middletown’s Three Mile Island plant as the 1979 accident’s legacy includes a $1 billion cleanup and $4 million in personal injury settlements.
Teenage twins Willie E. Goodwin and Wilbert G. Goodwin pleaded innocent to murder in the shooting death of Edna M. Wells. Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty. The brothers, both 15, were arraigned in Richland County after their August arrest.
The South Carolina House passed a bill allowing Sunday openings after 2 p.m. and ordering the attorney general to monitor enforcement. Sheriffs could be suspended by the governor for repeated violations, drawing ire from Sheriff Jimmy Metts who urged lawmakers to reconsider. Lex County Sheriff spokesman Bob Ford noted concern over vagueness in the amendment.
At the American Textile Machinery Association meeting in Charleston about 30 executives discussed survival strategies. Harold Wilson urged selling textile processes and collaborating with fiber producers and chemicals makers to develop new fabrics, yarns, and processes. He called for tighter control of overseas agents amid foreign competition and a strong dollar.
The Aiken Standard lists a carrier rate structure showing a base charge of 90 with additional increments of 3.90, 11.70, 23.40, and 46.80 for specified service tiers.
List of key emergency contacts including Aiken Community Hospital line 649 7911 Volunteer Fire Departments 648 6811 and Aiken County Sheriff 648 6811 for public safety and medical assistance.
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