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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1995
Page
1
The state Baptist convention approved its largest-ever budget of 23.7 million dollars for 1986, about one percent more than this year. The body also approved an agreement with the Women's Missionary Union, added trustees for Anderson College, and backed a resolution to dedicate church efforts to saving marriages.
Charleston authorities said a dead 33 foot female whale was found floating under a Cooper River dock. Biologist Thomas Murphy of the state Natural Resources Department said the young whale may have been dead for about a week.
A television station agreed to air a retraction and pay a settlement to Erin Kirby, a Coastal Carolina University student wrongfully identified as having AIDS in a WBTW-TV broadcast two years earlier. The settlement followed a two day trial as Kirby’s supporters described the harm caused.
Obituary notices catalog multiple deaths including James Benjamin Anderson of Williston Edith Bagwell of Ware Shoals Brigadier General James Herbert Butte of Aiken James Thomas Garner of North Augusta Davis Hallman of Ward Sadie Fowke Moseley of Clearwater Francesca Villa Rutherford of Hobe Sound Florida Mario Henry Smith of Wagoner Verdi M Sumner of Lakeland Florida.
Aiken County, with Richland and Lexington counties, is selected to participate in Project BEGIN a USC led CDC funded trial aiming to boost health and education for children from birth to age three. The program targets families where mothers lack a high school education and will provide family centered community based services. Karen Papouchado lauds the effort as welcome for Aiken and Growing Into Life has long worked toward healthier outcomes. Processed through a national clinical trial, the project carries an estimated 16.9 million price tag.
President Clinton and the Republican-led Congress remain at odds over budget priorities after private talks and public recriminations. The partial shutdown may continue past Friday as negotiators seek to balance the budget by 2002, aiming for large Medicare savings and tax cuts.
Kim Giusti of the Department of Energy says the Savannah River Site will continue operations during the federal government shutdown with 1,500 employees funded to maintain essential functions and payroll. The site expects no furloughs despite the deadlock.
South Carolina Rep Lindsey Graham and a private consortium manager tell a House Commerce subcommittee that privatizing tritium production could speed upcoming missions. Energy Secretary Hazel OLeary is to issue a decision on siting and technology by month end, amid calls for a bias-free, cost efficient approach. The task force recommends a multi purpose reactor burning plutonium to produce tritium, electricity for sale.
Aiken County Council authorized Chairman Ronnie Young to sign an agreement with Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority to join a regional environmental compact. The plan envisions a regional landfill on Savannah River Site property, with counties including Edgefield McCormick Saluda Bamberg Barnwell Allendale Orangeburg Calhoun. TDSC must close Langley and Wagener landfills by Jan 1 1997, per health department.
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