Valarie Newsome murder case progresses with suspect charged
Valerie White Newsome, 30, was abducted September 6 from an Augusta shopping center. Warrenville man Paul F. Koon, 40, is charged with her murder after investigators traced the body found near Pearson's Pond Road to his information. The body was badly decomposed and taken to the Medical University in Charleston for cause of death.
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Valerie White Newsome
S C 19
Pearson’s Pond Road
Warrenville
Paul F. Koon
Newsome
National Hills
Koon
Aiken County
Aiken
Paul D. Grant
South Carolina
John Mills Hunter
Greenville
Georgia
Hunter
Columbia County
Augusta
Richmond
Ano Man
Ginny Southworth
American economist Klein wins 1980 Nobel Prize in Economics
Lawrence R. Klein of the University of Pennsylvania won the 1980 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for creating computer based econometric models. He advised President Jimmy Carter in 1976 and was cited for applying models to analyze economic fluctuations and policy. The award highlighted American dominance in the year's prizes.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Lawrence R. Klein
University of Pennsylvania
Klein
Jimmy Carter
Swedish Academy of Sciences
Stop Drugs at the Source campaign praised by Mizell
Bill McKee praised Raymond Mizell for his speaking style at the 50 Plus Club noting he provides a fluent talk with no notes and speaking in-between his tars. A petition reached from Texas along with school and state involvement highlighted the publicity surrounding the campaign.
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Texas
Bill McKee
Raymond Mizell
Mizell
McKee
Book Store Employees Arrested in Aiken County
SLED charged Lewis Epperly Jennette Perry and David Malpass with selling obscene materials after undercover work prompted by the attorney general's office and resident complaints. Epperly and Perry are Augusta managers, Malpass works for Foxes Bond in Bath with bond set at two thousand dollars.
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Aiken County
Lewis H. Epperly
Augusta
Clearwater Road
Jennette Perry
Foxes Adult Books
David Malpass
Bath
Foxes
SLED
Hugh Munn
Munn
Attorney General’s Office
Board reviews four Eustis Park options for handicapped students
Aiken County Board of Education heard four proposals for Eustis Park, including renovation costing 1500 to 2000 for a feasibility study, building more Pinecrest classrooms, placing portable rooms at Pinecrest, or transferring students to community schools. A final decision awaits the South Carolina Department of Education report. The board also approved implementing the Basic Skills Assessment Program for first graders.
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Eustis Park
Aiken County
Pinecrest
Special Services
South Carolina
Belvedere Hosts 1980 Campaign Stump Meeting Crowd 250
Belvedere last night hosted a campaign stump meeting with Governor Richard W. Riley and 42 other state and local candidates along with delegates for Carter Reagan Anderson Clark and others. Riley praised Carter as facing tough issues, while Cain attacked Carter’s record and touted Reagan’s economic plan as strong leadership. Independent Al Jabs spoke for Anderson and Ron Heaton presented Ed Clark’s libertarian platform.
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Belvedere
Richard W
Dick) Riley
Carter
Harry Truman
Riley
George Bush
Ronald Reagan
Rep
C. Marshall Cain
R-Aiken
Reagan
Cain
Ford
Voorhees College
al Jabs
John Anderson
Jabs
Anderson
Ron Heaton
Ed Clark
Heaton
Clark
Wastewater Rates Rise Slightly for PSA Users
North Augusta reports a rate increase at the Horse Creek facility of 25 percent from 20.3 to 25.33 cents per 1000 gallons. PSA had proposed 32 cents per 1000 gallons and a 50 percent hike. The budget, about 1.45 million, was trimmed by 401,244 after talks with Aiken, North Augusta, Graniteville Company, and AM&M.
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North Augusta
Horse Creek
Public Service Authority
City of
Aiken
City of North Augusta
Graniteville Company
United Merchants and Manufacturers
PSA
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Aiken County Today
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the Butcher
Pine Log Road
Mackie Scott
Willis
Am&m
Graniteville
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