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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1981
Page
1
Readers may enter a score prediction for the Carolina Clemson game to win $50. Submit separate entry forms by midnight Friday Nov 20 to Football Contest Aiken Standard Box 456 Aiken SC. If no exact score is chosen a closest correct score winner is declared, with ties drawn.
Du Pont will boost pensions for 1,344 Savannah River Plant retirees starting December 1. Retirees before July 1979 gain 12 percent plus 0.5 percent per year since retirement, while those after June 30, 1979 receive graduated adjustments. Plant manager W John Granaghan says the raise reflects ongoing care for pensioners and is part of a companywide adjustment.
Aiken Rotarian Randy Davidson told the club a joke yesterday. The remark was a quip about people who listen to both sides of an argument being only the neighbors.
Aiken County Council considers amending an ordinance to authorize an EMS sub station and sheriff s office at the A L Corbett Middle School site in Wagener using fire insurance funds. The plan faces public input and a 7 p m vote in the council chamber.
First Baptist Church of North Augusta plans to purchase the Georgia Avenue block for 320000, despite petitions with about 690 signatures from business opponents. The church voted 58 46 to proceed after community concern, with eight local businesses to relocate and three months rent offered to ease the move.
Aiken's Whiskey Road traffic jams between north and south sections prompt City Manager Roland Windham to seek a solution. A 1975 study showed 14,000 weekday cars vs a 10,000-car safe limit for two lanes. Proposals to widen or build a parallel road met opposition tied to Hitchcock Woods heritage, with real completion feared to take a decade.
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