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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1980
Page
5
The Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce plans a study on city entrances at today’s 7 30 p m Aiken City Council session. Other items include appointing a Code Enforcement Appeals Committee a National Public Works Week proclamation for May 18 24 and discussion of Housing Authority term expiration.
Belvedere residents form a committee to oppose changes that would balance enrollment at Paul Knox and North Augusta Junior High. They plan to present data to the Aiken County School Board Tuesday night and seek to delay or alter the rezoning that splits North Augusta and shifts Pinewood Plantation and Laurel Lakes students to Summerfield Elementary.
The regular monthly session of the New Ellenton Town Council is set for tonight at 7 p.m. in the council chamber at New Ellenton Town Hall. A taxi valued at 1000 dollars was reported missing from Efron Taxi Company on Laurens Street Friday, per Aiken DPS.
Scott Payne of 732 Geneva St Homewood Illinois reported a hitchhiking incident on I 20 near North Augusta. A female rider produced a gun and stole his wallet and vehicle, with losses totaling 1700 dollars in cash and property.
Tina Vuick an Aiken High junior won Miss Aiken County Shrine with her dance pantomime talent. Her father Hugh Vuick was master of ceremonies and announced his daughter’s name at the party. Deborah Sanders was first runner up and Catherine Weeks second runner up.
Sen. Gilbert E. McMillan spoke at the Confederate Memorial Day service on the steps of the First Baptist Church in Aiken. Wilber Thompson led the ceremony in a Confederate colonel’s uniform and recalled the Battle of Aiken in February 1865 amid Union force resistance and a single Sherman defeat.
Former UN Africa representative George Ivan Smith says he has documents showing promising oil deposits near Lake Albert Uganda. He says Libyan leader Khadafy pressured Amin to drop Western deals and plans to publish a book detailing Amin’s 1971 find and a region northwest of Kampala where oil appeared in drill holes.
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