Citadel approves fee hike to offset state budget cut
The Citadel board voted to raise fees up to 6 percent to offset a $788,000 state budget cut. Freshmen in state pay about 9,879 dollars, up 691. out of state freshmen pay 13,878, up 980. Upperclassmen face smaller increases. The college budget is about 40 million, with new expenses including a 2 percent state employee pay rise. Ronald Reagan will speak at commencement at no cost, funded by a donor. A plaque memorializing 23 Confederate sailors and marines will be placed at Johnson Hagood Stadium, with 13 more sailors reinterred at Magnolia Cemetery after discovery beneath the stadium.
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Magnolia
Ex-Judge Parker Refuses to Answer on Money and Land
Former probate judge Shelton J. Parker balked at questions in bankruptcy court about funds taken from widows and orphans and about buying over 1 million dollars in land with others’ money. He invoked the Fifth Amendment as about a dozen widows gasped. Parker pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of fraud, admitting he siphoned up to 350,000 from an elderly widow’s estate while trustee, a role he acknowledged drafting himself.
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South Carolina weighs Mercedes site options near Columbia
About a dozen potential sites in South Carolina were proposed for Mercedes-Benz 300 million U.S. plant plans. Two sites lie near Columbia and one in a nearby county, with several others in Anderson, Charleston, and near the North Carolina border. The State Development Board cites incentives similar to BMW’s Greer package and notes land conditions will influence Mercedes’s choice.
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Burriss Nelson
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BMW
Greer
Spartanburg County
State Development Board
John Warren
Partanbury County
State Ports Authority
Authority
Robert Royall
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