Graniteville End to Police Subsidies Sparks Negotiations
Graniteville Company will stop subsidizing police and utility services for Graniteville Village prompting negotiations with Aiken County officials. An executive session was held with Graniteville representatives to discuss contractual terms, with no action taken publicly. The company has funded part of 13 deputy salaries and water sewer and garbage services, and may continue services for a fee.
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Aiken County Council
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Marylin Smith
H.M. McElhaney
William Clyburn
Fay Hatcher
Ralph Cullinan
Mim Woodring
Carrol Warner
Aiken Horse Show Opens In Hitchcock Woods
The annual Aiken Horse Show opens at 10 a.m. in Hitchcock Woods with spectators driving to the show ring via the South Boundary entrance or parking nearby. Refreshments available and prize lists offered at the event.
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Aiken
Heters
Alba
Hugh Fenwick
Barante Tors
Rons Flaudlery
Supply
Birds Hatch Above Earl Starkey’s Kitchen Sink
A pair of birds built a nest above Earl Starkey’s sink and have hatched chicks singing. On WIS TV Joe Pinner noted a question from Aiken third grader Joanna Holley about whether weathermen lie. The dad answered no, implying it only seems so.
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Earl Starkey
Joe Pinner
Joanna Holley
Reagan Hails Pope Quest in Fairbanks Airport Meeting
President Reagan greeted Pope John Paul II in Fairbanks Alaska praising the pope's quest for human rights and world peace. The brief airport conference touched on arms control Poland and East West relations as they prepared for the pope's Seoul trip.
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Alaska
Reagan
John Paul II
Poland
Alitalia
Rome
Seoul
South Korea
John Paul
China
Witness Links Two Fireworks Factories in Conspiracy Case
Four star witnesses for the prosecution testified in a U S government conspiracy case about illegal fireworks manufacture in Orangeburg County. Dan Lee Webb linked the Orangeburg plant to a Tennessee factory, with both sites exploding in May last year killing 13 people. All four witnesses pleaded guilty to lesser counts in exchange for testimony. Webb admitted 11 counts of manslaughter and one count of conspiracy. Other witnesses testified about fusing fireworks at the Dial home in Pelion and receiving unfused devices. Bramblett and Day face conspiracy and explosive manufacture charges as the trial continued.
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U.S
Orangeburg
Tennessee
Dan Lee Webb
John T. Dial
Lou Ellen Dial
Ronnie C. Jeffcoat
Dial
Pelion
Webb
Rowesville
Orangeburg County
Robert S. Day
Aiken
Howard E. Bramblett
Ocoee
Tenn
Day
Bramblett
South Carolina
McIntyre weighs resignation as extortion conviction looms
Augusta Mayor Ed ward McIntyre plans an 11 a.m. Thursday news conference while he weighs stepping down after a federal extortion conviction. Acting Mayor I E Washington fills in, and the council awaits his decision before Friday. McIntyre, 52, faces sentencing June 4 for using office to extort money from a would be land developer.
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Augusta
Edward McIntyre
McIntyre
City Finance Committee
I.E. Washington
Charles DeVaney
Aiken County Board Approves New Elementary School Specs
The Aiken County Board of Education approved building specs for three new elementary schools in Aiken North Augusta and Jackson planned for the 1985 86 year. Specs include fast track skeleton first roofs weatherproofing and four inch block exteriors plus standing seam metal roofs.
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Aiken
North Augusta
Jackson
Laurens Street
Fleetwood
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