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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1980
Page
2
Weather outlook shows sunny to partly sunny skies with 10 percent rain risk Tuesday. Temperatures rise to the upper 80s and low 90s with nightly lows in the 60s. A shower chance on Wednesday followed by fair Thursday and Friday with highs cooling to the low 80s by Friday.
Death notices from Augusta and surrounding towns list MAR IAN C LINDSEY STAPLETON 69 and JIM TAYLOR 77 among others. Services and burials are noted at Hillcrest Memorial Park Langley Sunset Memory Gardens and Graniteville with multiple survivors listed. Funeral homes Poteet Posey Shealy and George are named for arrangements.
Graveside services for William C. Sanderson 75 longtime Aiken resident and first city engineer were held at Bethany Cemetery with Rev. John Law presiding. He died Thursday in an Augusta hospital after retiring in 1973 following 14 years with the city. Sanderson planned the engineering department and served as resident engineer.
Local events fill the day from 7 p.m. onward at venues including St John’s United Methodist Church Hopeland Gardens and the Lions Clubhouse with groups such as the Disabled American Veterans and Aiken County Arts Council meeting through the evening. Health services run from morning dental and family planning clinics at Midland Valley Shopping Center to a Teen Health Clinic and a General Clinic at Aiken County Health Department with a full slate of public services listed. Frances Courtney Sanderson and family members are noted in the obituary section detailing siblings and grandchildren.
President Carter convenes ambassadors to Cairo and Tel Aviv for a review of obstacles to a Palestinian autonomy settlement by the May 26 target date. Secretary of State Muskie summoned the envoys for today’s session, as officials stress no crisis exists.
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