Thurmond Appeal Still Possible After Medicaid Verdict
Attorneys for Dr. George A. Thurmond and Nell C. Shaffer weigh appeals after a federal court verdict finding them guilty on 23 counts of preparing and submitting false Medicaid claims. Each count carries up to 10 000 fine and five years. sentencing likely in Columbia after pre sentencing reports.
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George A. Thurmond
Nell C. Shaffer
Thurmond
Mrs. Shaffer
Joe F. Anderson
Glenn
Robert R. Merhige Jr
Columbia
Have You Heard A Braves Phillies game question from a child
A Dixie Youth League fan from Aiken compares big league scoring to his teams in Atlanta. The Pinecrest Standard debuts Friday with a Have You Heard column from Pinecrest fifth graders.
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Atlanta
Pinecrest Standard
Pinecrest
Hiroshima
America
Braves
Showers Move Through State This Week
A cloudy pattern brings widely scattered thundershowers today tonight and Tuesday. Highs stay in the mid 80s with lows around 60. Precipitation chance remains about 20 percent through Tuesday, then 80s midweek and 60s nights through Friday.
Criminal Court Opens June Session in Aiken County
The June term of General Sessions court in Aiken County began amid Memorial Day. Judge Rodney A. Peeples presides as the last 1978 term for him in the Second Circuit with another circuit judge to handle the rest of the year. Peeples returns to the Second Circuit in January 1979.
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General Sessions Court
Rodney A. Peeples
Second Circuit
Peeples
Aiken County
Father Tosses Twin Babies To Safety
In Boston a 25 year old father William Sheridan tossed his 7 month old twins Nicole and Billy to neighbors below as fire trapped the family on the second floor. Neighbors Jimmy Madden and Tom Connally caught the children before firefighters freed the couple.
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Boston
William Sheridan
Jimmy Madden
Tom Connally
First Female Priest Ordained in the Carolinas Attends Controversial Ceremony
Mellie H. Hickey, 61, becomes the first female priest in the Carolinas at a Saturday ceremony in which a dissenting Savannah priest interrupted to denounce the ordination as contrary to universal church practice. The presiding bishop continued the service as the congregation supported Hickey. Hickey's husband, Reverend Howard M. Hickey, also serves at St. Thaddeus. she vows to remain there as director of Christian education and now priest.
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Mellie H. Hickey
Howard M. Hickey
St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church
Carolinas
George M. Alexander
Kuhn
Roderic L. Murray
St. Paul's Episcopal
Augusta
Georgia
Murray
Diocesan Council of
Alexander
Mellie
John E. Hines
Hines
Abraham Lincoln
St. Thaddeus
ACEA Survey Returns Spark Budget Hearing Next Tuesday
The Aiken County Education Association sent a parent questionnaire to all district homes and aims to begin tabulation Wednesday. Results will be presented at the June 6 board meeting public hearing on the school budget. Return rates are around 75 percent with 78 percent in one campus.
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Aiken County Education Association
ACEA
Aiken County Board of Education
Nila Beard
Acea Welfare Committee
Aiken High- Schofield
Brzezinski Sees SALT Accord Within Days If Moscow Accepts
National security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says the United States and the Soviet Union could reach an arms limitation agreement within days if Moscow accepts U S proposals. He notes the talks remain fragile but progress is possible.
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Washington
Zbigniew Brzezinski
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
U.S
Brzezinski
Nbc-Tv
Cyrus R. Vance
Andrei Gromyko
Carter
Gromyko
United Nations
U.N
New York
Europe
Middle East
Africa
Russia
Zaire
Postal Service raises first class rate to 15 cents
Americans pay 15 cents to mail a first class letter as the Postal Service hikes rates for the fifth time in a decade. The 15 cent rate follows a five cent rate as of January 1968, and the 2 cent increase leaves stamp shortages prompting use of a temporary 15 cent stamp or combinations totaling 15 cents.
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Washington
Postal Service
Aiken County Reader Sees Page 70 Today
Local newspaper highlights in depth coverage from Aiken County readers with comics editorials Dear Abby obituaries weather map and a page 70 feature. Includes community notes and recap of today’s listings and sections for age 70 and older readers.
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Aiken County
Doctors To Aid Salley Kids
Two Aiken physicians and their wives along with volunteers from Aiken Community Hospital will provide free physical exams to 126 Head Start children in Salley tomorrow and Wednesday. Dr Z Steve Szymowski, ACH EMS chief, and Dr James Blalock, ACH radiologist, volunteer as South Carolina National Guard physicians with Szymowski also holding the rank of colonel and state surgeon.
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Salley
Aiken
Aiken Community Hospital
Z. Steve Szymowski
James Blalock
ACH
South Carolina National Guard
Szymonski
Col. Szymonski
South
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