Study questions to "just say no" stance on teen drug use
San Francisco AP reports psychologists Shedler and Block of UC Berkeley find adolescent experimentation with drugs links to better adjustment than abstinence or abuse. Dr. Shirley Feldman of Stanford warns this challenges parents to know when to intervene.
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Jonathan Shedler
Jack Block
University of California, Berkeley
Shirley Feldman
Stanford University
Center For Study of Family, Children and
Healthy Cookies Pulled From Shelves
Phoenix Fiber Cookie promising weight loss and cancer protection is recalled under FDA action. Phoenix International Marketing Corp. of Sparks Nev. will halt distribution of related products after a Tuesday meeting with FDA officials. Lawyer David Weeda said the firm cooperates and will issue a new product soon.
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Washingson
Phoenix
Phoenix International Marketing Corp
Sparks
Nev
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
David Weeda
Deaths of North Augusta Aiken area residents listed
Death notices for Larry Lee Scott of North Augusta Mildred W Keisler of Williston Lila G Lowe of Al Stanley P O Neil of Aiken Thomas J Pennington of Aiken and Cornelia Sweet of Aiken indicate further details on Page 8A with names and locations.
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Larry Lee Scott
North Augusta
Mildred W. Keisler
Williston
Lila G. Lowe
al Stanley P. O'Neil
Aiken
Thomas J. Pennington
Cornelia Sweet
SRS to Add 600 Jobs This Summer at Savannah River Site
Westinghouse Savannah River Co will hire 600 more workers this summer boosting total Westinghouse staff to 12,900 from 12,300. About half will be professional and half nonprofessional. DOE ownership and SRS operations details are provided, with reactor restart planned. Readers urged to see SRS, Page 6A.
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Westinghouse
Savannah River Co
Savannah River
Susie Ferrara
SRS
Aiken County adopts base budget for 1990 91 school year
The Aiken County Board of Education approved a 68.1 million dollar operations budget in a 54 vote to fund portable classrooms and Freedman Central. The millage rises from 78.4 to 84 mills, adding about 12 dollars yearly for a 50 000 house and roughly 4.1 million in revenue. The plan supports salaries, personnel increases, and the five year instructional program while ensuring Freedman Central operates next year.
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Aiken County
Freedman Central
Freedman
Joseph R. Brooks
United Suport
Brooks
Edgefield votes down $16.5 million school bond referendum
Edgefield County voters reject a 16.5 million school bond aimed at two decades of classroom improvements. Clarence Dickert laments low turnout as 1,302 vote yes and 1,821 no, with Merriweather showing the largest gap. The defeat means students remain in inadequate learning environments.
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Edgefield
Edgefield County
Clarence Dickert
Dickert
Merriweather
Edgefield Property
Aiken County Budget Advances With Contingencies
Aiken County Council gives technical second reading approval to a balanced 21 million dollar budget and a 52.9 mill tax ordinance for Fiscal 1991. The plan notes tentative revenues of 21,435,173 and expenditures of 21,081,359 with a 353,000 surplus aimed at a 500,000 reserve in support of a 1.7 million year-end deficit.
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Aiken County
W. Scott Barnes
Carrol H. Warner
J. Allen Bradie
Rosemary English
W. Edward Butler
LaVana McKenzie
Kathy Rawls
Eugene Duckett
Medwell Hill
Willar H. Hightower Jr
Rawls
National Guard Aids Weakened Texas Levees In Flooding
Floodwaters along the Arkansas River reach a record level as the National Guard shores up a leaky levee in northern Texas. Arkansas reports 13 flood deaths across two weeks while more than 300 families flee homes. In Texas 1,600 people seek shelter along the Trinity River. Lake Texoma crest and then falls. Weather risks persist with chances of more storms.
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Arkansas
National Guard
Texas
Little Rock
Donna Booth Johnson
Red Cross
Trinity River
Bill Clements
Red River
Texarkana
Lake Texoma
Oklahoma
Pine Bluff
National Weather Service
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Pnience
Aiken, South Carolina
Aiken Standard
U.S. Department of Energy
DOE
Savannah River Laboratory
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Bechtel Savannah River Inc
Wackmahut Services Inc
U.S
P-Reader
Traci Shelton
Nie Young
Clark
Dana Rodgers
David
Gary Stone
North Little Rock
Ose
Long Lake
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