Fund Woes To Close North Augusta Girls Home
Helping Hands Inc will close its North Augusta girls home temporarily on April 15 due to a money shortage. The Perry boys home will shelter all teenage boys during the six month closure, preserving emergency space at the Aiken shelter for girls. The decision awaits reevaluation if funding improves.
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Helping Hands
North Augusta
Juanita Edwards
Helping Hands Inc
Aiken County
Aiken
Perry
Helping
Terre Bohman
Aiken Banquet Includes Comedy Yoga Lesson
Attendees at the Aiken County Heart Unit awards banquet were amused by Lewil Cushman performing as Lillian Lovelace who gave a brief Baptist Yoga session to the men. Sue Lorch quips about her dogs describing them as Jane Russell terriers. Barbara Sieczkowski, Aiken High graduate, leaves Saturday for a two week Air Force leave to visit family in Thailand after about 12 years.
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Aiken County
Barbara Sieczkowski
Thailand
Aiken High
Air Force
Aiken County Schools Face Budget Block as Millage Held
The Aiken County Legislative Delegation kept the operations millage at 78 mills for next year, rejecting a 1.7 million supplemental request. A 5 mill one time operations tax was reinstated, while a 13.5 mill increase was not approved. The district seeks budget cuts and proposals due by April 14, with a balanced budget due by May 1, as state revenues and reassessment pressures loom.
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Aiken County
Columbia
Robert W. Paskel
General Assembly
Peta
Dr. Paskel
Thomas L
Tommy) Moore
D-Aiken County
Reagan Offers To Cut European Missile Plans
President Reagan proposes trimming midrange missiles in Europe if the Soviet Union agrees to reduce its NATO bound arsenal. Deployment of Pershing 2 and cruise missiles would begin in Europe this year if accepted, while Moscow must dismantle some missiles.
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Washington
Reagan
Europe
Soviet Union
NATO
United States
Kremlin
White House
Ll Yang
U.S
Moscow
Geneva
Indicators Up 1.4 Percent Signals Slow Economic Recovery
Washington report shows the Leading Index of Economic Indicators rose 1.4 percent in February, the sixth gain in a row. The increase followed January’s 3.5 percent revision, with economists viewing the streak as evidence that recovery from the 1981-82 recession will continue, aided by a money supply rise while two indicators were unavailable.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Public reaction to 5 cent gasoline tax
Readers in Thompson Georgia and others weigh in on the new five cent per gallon federal gasoline tax. Most say it will fund road work and create jobs, though some worry about consumer prices and alternative uses for the revenue.
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Sue Lorch
Asken
Thompson, Ga
E.E. Kemper
Mark Haywood
Frank Price
Lynn Culpepper
Joyce Quinn
Mauldin
Freda Grover
Frances Carter
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