12 Oct 1978
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1978
Page
1
A Town and Country sponsored demonstration on makeup yesterday featured Disaster Dream. Bunny Makahon quipped about needing it while others shared tips on foundation and powder as Doug Meyers teaches science outdoors and in class. Two students helped push start two ladies' car during an impromptu session.
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with only a 10 percent chance of precipitation tonight and 20 percent tomorrow. Lows near the low fifties and highs in the low eighties set the tone through the weekend with a chance of showers Sunday. By Monday the low around 50 and highs in the 70s.
The trial of Francis Arthur Downs 35 continued with the defense presenting witnesses aimed at showing the defendant feared for her life. Rovene Howard testified she saw Mrs Downs anxious and frightened during the events surrounding the shooting of Clarence Lee Downs the estranged husband.
The South Carolina Attorney General says three county councilmen elected in 1974 will have terms end November 8 1978. The council will shrink to nine members on that date with eight single district seats and one at large district. Dems Cleve Edmunds Forest Kirby and L V Davis held over terms without successors.
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith of Johns Hopkins University and Werner Arber of Basel for discovering restriction enzymes and their use in molecular genetics. They share 165000 dollars as the award honors the genetic tool that cuts genes into fragments.
Clearwater reports a heated path for Thomas L. Moore and Randy Hull as they campaign for District 84 after a tough primary. Moore, the newcomer in a three-term incumbent’s shadow, faces Hull in a general election race that tests party alignment and campaign strategy this summer.
Randy D Huff a Warrenville native and University of South Carolina political science graduate enters his first public election challenging Thomas L Moore in Aiken County. Huff has been active in politics behind the scenes shaping the local campaign scene.
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