27 May 1995
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1995
Page
1
Page 2A report notes defense efforts fail in the Simpson trial with no immediate verdict but continued proceedings. Names and organizations referenced include the jury and court officials shaping the ongoing case. The article emphasizes the legal strategy and procedural developments affecting the pace of the trial.
Philip Morris USA halted sales of 26 Marlboro styles and other brands after contaminant concerns in a small percentage of filters. The recall affected Marlboro red and gold boxes, 100s, Lights variants, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Merit, Cambridge and Basic. Up to 8 billion potentially tainted units were collected. public harm unlikely but not ruled out. The move aimed to prevent health risks amid industry pressure.
Friz Freleng, 89, animator of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, died Friday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. No cause released. In three decades at Warner Bros he shaped Sylvester, Tweety, Speedy Gonzales and Yosemite Sam and later created the Pink Panther. Survived by wife Lily, two daughters and four grandchildren.
Obituary notices list deaths including Annie Bettis Gilliam Monetta Mary E Page in Cleveland Tenn Janice Clark Stanley in Graniteville and John H Williams Sr in White Pond with brief lines noting their passings and locations.
Senator Maggie W. Glover challenged Aiken Technical College's 22nd graduating class to use their education to feed the hungry, aid the sick, clothe the naked, and teach the ignorant. She urged graduates to live with social consciousness and to measure life by what they do for the least of society. Edward Wheaton and Norma McCarthy earned campus honors as Faculty Member and Support Staff Member of the Year.
The Hofmann Regional Piano Competition at USC Aiken narrows to Judy Fussell and Winnie Zeng for tonight's final round. Fussell, 21, study seeks a master in music at North Carolina School of the Arts, born in Taiwan. Zeng, 25, pursues master's and doctorate at Florida State University, born in Beijing. Other contenders included Robert Halbruner, 21, and Eun Ah Kam, 26, with Halbruner muting and drumming inside the piano during Diemer's Toccatta and Kam impressing with rag tunes and Stravinsky and Bolcom pieces. Zeng receives a $500 prize for Hofmann Berceuse performance and a $300 audience-favorite prize, from the Polish Heritage Association of the Southeast.
A weekend of family entertainment in Aiken County features two festivals. The Etherredge Center Orchestra hosts Greekfest with tickets at the Center box office, 5 dollars, parking near Park Avenue. Beech Island Heritage Day at Redcliffe State Park honors World War II with Sen. Strom Thurmond as grand marshal and a parade from Urquhart Drive to Beech Island Avenue. Admission to both events is free. Greekfest runs noon to 10 pm with food stalls from Acropolis and others. Thurmond appears at about 8:30 pm.
Senate Energy Committee chairman Sen. Frank Murkowski urged temporary storage of thousands of tons of highly radioactive spent fuel at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Hanford reservation in Washington. He cited these sites as interim options while a permanent underground repository is developed, amid debates over 28,000 metric tons stored at 109 civilian reactors in 34 states.
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