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Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Oct 22, 1971

Page

5

Gazebo Set Presents Costume and Craft Challenge for Play

Isabel Vandervelde leads the Aiken Community Playhouse properties team as they improvise furnishings for The Gazebo on a $60,000 Long Island estate show set. Items come from Edgefield and local sources, with a fake safe and reupholstered chair completed. public performances run Oct 29 30 at 8 p.m. in the Aiken Junior High School auditorium.

Long Island Isabel Vandervelde Vandervelde Aiken Community Playhouse Isabel Sue Currie All Somerset Maugham United States Aiken Junior High School

Birds Use Tape and Cardboard in City Nests

A study by young members of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds finds urban birds such as blackbirds and starlings binding their nests with sticky tape nails mats electric cable and carton pieces. Candy wrappers potato chip packs and film fragments are also used as nest bindings in London.

London Royal Society For the Protection of Birds

Songwriter Digs Old Tiger Bones in Nashville Dig

Nashville songwriter Bob Ferguson who wrote Wings of a Dove and Carroll County Accident is named excavation director for the First American National Bank site where saber toothed tiger bones and prehistoric Indian remains were found. He also edits the Choctaw Times and produces records for famous artists while keeping a quiet life.

Bob Ferguson Ferguson Carroll County First American National Bank Nashville Chahta Anumpa Choctaw Times First National Bank Society For American Archaeology Chocktaw Boys’ Club Southeastern Indian Antiquities Survey Inc Chattanooga Chet Atkins Danny Davis Nashville Brass Connie Smith Dolly Parton Porter Wagoner George Hamilton IV Jim Ed Brown Billy Edd Wheeler Lester Flatt Archie Campbell Cherokee N.C Emmett York

Death rate dropping on S C highways

South Carolina highway deaths rate through August fell to 59 percent per 100 million miles of travel versus 6.1 percent a year earlier, while total deaths rose to 827 through Tuesday from 796. August traffic deaths stood at 82, four fewer than the year before.

Columbia South Carolina Highway Department

Contest Opens for Comics at Aiken Standard

The entry contest is open to all except employees of the Aiken Standard and their families. Entries must use the provided blank and submitted by the posted deadline. If more than one winner, prizes split evenly and $16 added to the next week’s jackpot.

Post Office Department Aiken Rutland Drive Post Office Aiken Standard Elgabie Allen Sandard

Unemployment Rate In State Continues Drop

South Carolina's insured unemployment rate fell to 2.6 percent in September from 3.1 percent a year earlier and 2.9 percent in August. The 2.2 percent rate covered 13,613 claimants receiving unemployment compensation.

Columbia South Carolina

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