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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1983
Page
1
State transportation officials will study the S C 19 and S C 191 intersection north of I 20 after an Oct 22 collision killed William and Christina Taylor. Joyce Nave of Spartanburg drove the other vehicle, breaking her neck. Framouria Taylor suffered multiple injuries. The study spans three years and reviews all crashes at the site.
Scott Warther 27 of 3412 Saratoga St was sentenced to 12 years and fined 12500 for conspiring to traffic drugs in Richland County. A separate marijuana trafficking count was dropped because of a prior Florida conviction. The sentence runs concurrent with the Florida term. Warther was described as the leader of a drug ring tied to a April raid that seized over 2 million dollars in marijuana. Four Aiken men also faced charges in the Deerfield area raid. Warther was detained in Florida on a fugitive warrant at the time of the raid.
Motorists reported a body along U S 125 near Stallings Welding Shop but deputies found a pine and straw dummy dressed in blue jeans and a flannel shirt. In a separate incident about $640 in checks and cash was reported stolen from the Couchton Fire Department during an alarm response.
City residents began voting at 8 this morning in Aiken as polls opened for three city council seats and a mayoral race. Incumbent H Odell Weeks seeks another four year term unopposed, with several challengers for at large seats. absentee ballots numbered 76 by mid morning.
MIT researchers report injecting frozen deuterium pellets into the Alcator C Tokamak plasma to achieve unprecedented confinement at lower temperatures, signaling a major advance toward practical fusion power. Experts call it a milestone and caution further challenges remain before commercial electricity.
Ashley J. Little president of Aiken Technical College joined the South Carolina Trade and Investment Mission to the Far East. Southeast officials met Japanese and Korean leaders to discuss economics before Reagan’s six day Asia visit. Little recalled a tense mood in Seoul after a bombing and assassination threats from North Korea. He noted courtesy of Japanese and Korean people and the rapid modernization of Seoul since the Korean War era.
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