17 Oct 1988
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1988
Page
1
A man in a stolen car led four patrol cars and two helicopters on a 15 minute pursuit through Los Angeles ending in the downtown jail parking lot. Frankie Hull, 32, was booked for assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and held on $8,000 bail after ramming a police car and saying he knew where to go.
The Kentucky chapter of the National Organization for Women elected Jim Newlin its president, making him the second man to lead a NOW chapter. Newlin, from Henryville, Indiana, said he joined NOW for equal rights for everyone and noted he attended his first meeting in 1985 as the lone man among 19 women. Former Kentucky NOW President Jean Varble acknowledged some members’ discomfort but argued against excluding half the population. only Washington, D.C. has had a male president.
Weather outlook calls for cloudy skies today with a high in the upper seventies. Tonight should be fair with a low around the mid fifties. Details appear on Page 6A.
Obituary brief notes the deaths of Howard Barton Bath James Bing Jr Boston Gerald Facteau Sr Bath Bennie Belle Johnson Jackson Adams D McKelvin Aiken JohnThomas Reynolds Edgefield and E Frank Wood Aiken with reference to page 6A for details
State officials warn the Savannah River Plant could be shut for water discharge violations at K Reactor, while SRP argues it adheres to a government order aimed at eventual compliance. They anticipate no delay to DOE plans to restart K Reactor by December 31, the permit expiry date for river discharges looms.
Washington Congress moves to place nuclear weapons reactors under nearly electric-plant safety standards after evidence of mismanagement at the Energy Department. Some lawmakers seek even tougher action amid ongoing concerns about reactor safety.
A Uganda Airlines Boeing 707 with 52 aboard crashed in fog near Leonardo da Vinci Airport Rome. Police say 30 feared dead while 22 survivors were injured. The jet struck houses and a rental car lot before bursting into flames as it broke apart near the runway end.
About 150 Easley residents were evacuated after a northbound train derailed spilling 8000 gallons of caustic soda solution from an overturned tanker car. No injuries were reported as 20 cars derailed near Allan crossing around 7 am Sunday.
Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute awarded 1988 medicine prize to Gertrude Elion George H Hitchings and Sir James W Black for drug development advances. Black described for receptor blocking drugs and cimetidine. Elion and Hitchings credited with cancer therapies and treatments for leukemia malaria and organ rejection.
A Media Geneva Press poll shows Americans optimistic about personal finances and overall economy a year after the Oct 1987 stock crash, yet wary of Wall Street. Most view the market as risky, yet three quarters say their lives were little affected, with cautious spending rising. Dow drop cited.
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