05 Nov 1994
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1994
Page
1
Yugoslavian crisis tensions rise as clashes erupt amid protests and government moves. Officials report casualties and international calls for calm while regional leaders urge restraint and seek mediation.
As Breeders Cup events approach, trainers prepare runners for prime races. Top owners and jockeys mobilize stable plans for the big event with last minute workouts and entries expected from major outfits.
The Aiken Standard will print complete election information in Sunday edition including sample ballots, brief candidate biographies and photos, and polling place locations. Wednesday edition will feature precinct by precinct totals for all contested races.
Obituary notices for Rev. E H Moseley of Warrenville and Herbert E Spann of Salley along with Thomas M Belton of Ward and Helen M Bonnette of Orangeburg appear on Page 6A detailing their deaths and brief memorials.
Investigators in Aiken County probe a bizarre shooting that led to the capture of escapee Timothy Wayne Glanton. A 4 year old girl Tiffany Marie Glanton was shot through her bedroom window with a shotgun while asleep in her trailer near New Ellenton. The attack occurred around 3 10 am Friday as a black car stopped outside the window and fired. Tiffany sustained pellet injuries to her thigh and was moved from ARMC in stable condition. Neighbors recall hearing the gunfire and the car speeding away.
Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Nick Theodore visited Risen on Friday and framed the contest as mainstream versus extreme. He accused Beasley of being a Charismatic puppet of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, which he said distorts facts in churches to sway voters. Theodore named Robertson and Buchanan as national figures endorsing Beasley and warned against their influence in leading South Carolina.
Susan Smith, 23, appeared briefly as a bail hearing was waived after nine tense days of denials she abducted her two sons. A crowd jeered as she was led into the courthouse and later moved to a prison near Columbia for safety. Prosecutors may seek the death penalty as divers investigated a car found submerged in John D. Long Lake with the children inside.
Union residents faced heightened racial tension after Susan Smith claimed a black man hijacked her car and abducted her children. Authorities pressed Black men like Fred Smith while whites faced distrust as the investigation unfolded. Smith later confessed she drowned her two sons, triggering a townwide reckoning on race and scapegoating.
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