South Carolina’s Thurmond Hollings Wealth Revealed in Disclosures
The State reports Senators Strom Thurmond and Ernest Hollings are the state's wealthiest lawmakers based on 1981 disclosure filings. Thurmond's assets approach over 1 million with buy price valuations and real estate gains. Hollings tops 1 million with liabilities around 400 thousand and substantial stock activity.
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Columbia
Strom Thurmond
Ernest F. Hollings
South Carolina
U.S. Senate
House
Kiawah Island Co
Thurmond
Hollings
Rep. Butler Derrick
Edgefield
Washington
Senate
Charleston Democrat
Nancy
Peach crop in South Carolina faces losses from April freezes
Peach farmers in the Ridge area and across South Carolina await May drop figures to gauge damage from two early April freezes. Forecasters project about 170 million pounds this year, roughly 40 percent of last year’s 430 million, with Ridge-area crops most likely to persist.
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Ridge
South Carolina
S.C
Smith
Aiken
Edgefield
Saluda
Lexington
Clark DuBose
Ridge Spring
Anne
DuBose
Man Held In Davis Death In Augusta Murder Case
Sheriff reports the arrest of 25 year old Charles William Bright II of Augusta in connection with the March 14 death of Charles Allen Davis whose body was found at Petticoat Junction Bright is jailed in Aiken County with no bond set A warrant for 28 year old Jerome Pritchett has been issued after he fled to New Jersey Investigator Bennett Smith led the case
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Charles Allen Davis
Petticoat Junction
Ralph Gunnells
Charles William Bright II
Seventh Ave
Augusta
Bright
Aiken
Gunnells
Jerome Pritchett
Pritchett
New Jersey
Bennett Smith
Benton Cofer Leads Extra Large St Bernard
Aiken Rotary Club bulletin notes Benton Cofer guiding a large St Bernard as a gentleman asks the dog’s master where he plans to go. The reply: I just wait to see where he wants to go and then I take him there.
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Benton Cofer
Aiken
Mother Convicted In Starvation Case Receives Three Years
Aiken County judge sentenced Pamela Anderson 20 of Richland Avenue to the maximum three years for involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 3 month old son Corey from malnutrition and dehydration. The prosecution argued for the maximum penalty while noting the child’s weight loss. Anderson’s attorney portrayed her as functionally limited. Court also listed numerous other guilty pleas and sentences from that day, including property damage, gun, and drug offenses, with judges presiding through the week.
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Pamela Anderson
Richland Avenue
Marion H. Kinon
James Whittle
Aiken County
Lucy Knowles
Kinon
Ms. Anderson
Thomas Busbee
Graniteville
SRP Workers OK After Radiation Spill at Plant
Nine Savannah River Plant employees were exposed to small radiation doses on May 10 while observing the removal of a steam jet pump from a waste tank. A crane touched a protective cover, causing a leak. all workers were decontaminated and reported no health risk beyond skin and clothing exposure.
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Savannah River
du Pont
Cliff Webb
U.S. Department of Energy
Webb
Chastain Promoted to Corporate Director at Riegel Textile
Roger W. Chastain named corporate director of consumer goods operations for Riegel Textile Corp. He will oversee the Convenience Products Division in Aiken and the Consumer Products Division in Johnston and the Sports Division in Gastonia, N C. Dr James E Bostic Jr succeeds him as head of the Aiken operations.
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Roger W. Chastain
Riegel Textile Corp
Chastain
Riegel
Convenience Products Divison
Aiken
James E. Bostic Jr
Bostic
S.C
Johnston
Gastonia
N.C
Greenville
E. Erwin Maddrey II
University of South Carolina
Lexington
Consumer Products
Aiken Chamber of Commerce
S.C. Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Bostic
Riegel Ventures
Charlotte
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Floyd Spence
H.T. Holmes and Sons
Trenton
Walker Holmes
David Willing
Betsy
Jutlook Holmes
Tommy Holmes
Trudy Holmes
Holmes
Joe Holmes
Ginny Southworth
Davis
Abby Erma Bombeck
Pines
Cofer
Alan Nathaniel Black
Larry Ways
Sumter Street
John Edward Perry
Anthony Derek Franklin
Evans
Audierd
Warrenville
Thomas Martin Hall
Pine Log Road
William Clinton Young
North Augusta
Cleveland Mackie
Walter Badger
Jackson
J Men
Monetta
Randy Lamar Bryant
Bath
Penn
Donald Keenan
Langley
Shane Penn
Red Oak Drive
Cynthia Diane Greer
New Ellenton
Roland Graham
Ligon Street
Samuel Schropshier
Beaufort
Lester Johnson
Terry Joe Patterson
Steve F. Davenport
Sharyn Lane
Joseph Meacham
SRP
Roger Chastain
James Bostic
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