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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1986
Page
5
New Ellenton residents will learn about the 911 emergency system at a council meeting led by Mayor Randy Shaw. The first regular meeting with the new mayor and three new councilmen is at 7 p.m. at the town hall.
A child registry initiative by the New Ellenton Ministers' Association and Police Department will collect dental records photos and fingerprints to aid locating missing children. Parents must accompany children to register with times at five local churches and the Civic Center facilitating fingerprinting and registry books.
Aiken County officials revisited county government history at the Confederate Memorial Day ceremony. W Scott Barnes outlined three development phases from 1868 to the present, noting the legislature controlled local boards and the system’s unique South Carolina character. Camp 1245 leaders defended the Confederate flag as regional independence, while reenactors from the 10th Georgia Infantry and Boy Scout Troop 121 provided color guard and volleys.
About 50 direct descendants of Civil War veterans attended Confederate Memorial Day events in Aiken. Delegates from Abbeville, Aiken, Edgefield, Greenwood, and Newberry counties joined Ridge District of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Houndslake Country Club for the annual meeting led by Esther Cope. Mayor H Odell Weeks welcomed the group and Rev. Edward Kemper gave the invocation.
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