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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1983
Page
8
The Aiken Standard runs a photo contest from Monday to Friday featuring two Aiken County residents daily in their younger years. Readers identify all ten people to win fifty dollars. multiple correct entries lead to a drawing if more than one person identifies all ten. Entries must be newspaper originals, not facsimiles, and employees or relatives are excluded.
The narrative traces Aiken’s fire safety evolution from volunteer citizens fighting fires before 1889 to the 1980s public safety consolidation led by J. Carroll Busbee. It notes milestones such as the 1889 alarm, 1907 horse era, 1913 gasoline truck, 1952 Savannah River Plant funding, and the 1982 class two fire rating plus a 1983 $2 million budget.
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