Andretti Named Indy 500 Winner After Penalty to Unser
Andretti was crowned winner of the Indianapolis 500 after officials penalized Bobby Unser one lap for passing cars under a yellow during a late pit sequence. Unser had led at the finish by 5.3 seconds before the penalty moved Andretti to first. Unser’s team planned an appeal. The race featured a fiery crash injuring Danny Ongais and involved signatures from Andretti and teammates demanding a review.
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Mario Andretti
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Bobby Unser
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Andretti
Danny Ongais
Penske Team
U.S
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City Taxes To Hold, Some Fees To Rise
Coping with cuts is the theme of next year's budget for the City of Aiken. The proposed budget will be presented by the Aiken City Council tonight at 7 30 at the Municipal Building 214 Park Ave. The budget proposes no tax millage increase but rising utility and fuel costs have forced increases in other areas. Fire protection rates for non City residents are to be raised as well as off street garbage collection rates according to the proposed budget. Changes in sewer rates reflect increases levied on the City by the Public Service Authority but no actual increase by the City. Other business includes companion ordinances concerning the levy of taxes expenditure of revenue sharing funds and amendments to garbage fire and sewer service rates. Other business includes An ordinance for the annexation of property fronting Cherokee St SE and bounded by Park Avenue and South Boundary Consideration of community residence on the 600 block of Chesterfield Street N Development of seven lots on south Columbia Drive Approval of S C Highway Department plans for improvements to S C 19 An amendment to Housing Rehabilitation ordinance directing loans to homeowners in target areas Land use plans for the Aiken Municipal Airport.
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Park Avenue
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Chesterfield Street
South Columbia Drive
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S.C
Aiken Municipal Airport
Burned Body Identified in New Ellenton Ford Mustang II
Authorities identify the burned body found in a 1976 Ford Mustang II as Walter Vernon Slayton 20 of Ellen ton Avenue New Ellenton. The body was taken to MUSC Charleston for tests after the car was found Thursday evening on a Sizemore Street logging road and described as intentionally set.
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New Ellenton
Walter
Wally) Vernon Slayton
Ellenton Avenue
Slayton
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston
Sizemore Street
Salvation Army Ball Field Brims With Neighborhood Softball Fun
Mamie Williams leads Parks and Streets in a Sunday softball clash on the Salvation Army field. The Sanitation Department teams, backed by John Page, fall 21 to 17 to Fairfield Street pirates as spectators including mothers and children enjoy ice cream and cheering healthful pastime.
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Mamie Williams
Salvation Army
Aiken Sanitation Department
Fairfield Street
John Carter
Salvation Army Field
Elizabeth Harrington
Figures For Schools Now Before The Board
Aiken County School District financial director B T Brinkley presents the anticipated General Fund budget figures to the Aiken County Board of Education. The eight fund system covers operations, federal and local grants, debt service, construction, lunch, pupil activities, fixed assets and long term debt. Brinkley emphasizes the budget remains flexible and must reflect input from teachers principals area superintendents and the public.
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Aiken County
B.T. Brinkley
Brinkley
Ted B. Willis
Memorial Day Remembers Vietnam War Solder Chuck Parks Jr
Aiken couple honors their son Charles H. Parks Jr who died in Vietnam in May 1969 as his mother recalls his pride and fear. Chuck, a Navy Corpsman attached to the Marines, trained in San Diego and served in Hawaii and Quang Nam Province earning a Purple Heart and several medals. The Parks express pride over his service and losses.
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Vietnam
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Chuck) Parks Jr
Chuck
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San Diego
California
Hawaii
Aiken
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Aiken County Today
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Esther Hickson
Sonji Pope
Nin
Jeanie Seamster
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State Education Department
Kathy Woodham
Quung Nam Province
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