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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1990
Page
2
On this day in 1681 the Gunfight at the O K Corral occurred in Tombstone Arizona with Wyatt Earp his brothers and Doc Holliday opposing Ike Clanton and his gang in a famed shootout.
Cambridge University researchers led by Dr Terence Kealey announced growing hair in vitro for the first time. The team says this is a step toward understanding why hair growth fails in middle age and may some day yield a cure within a decade.
A dredge broke its anchor in a gale and crashed into the Oregon Inlet bridge at 1 28 am severing the Herbert C Bonner Bridge which links Hatteras and Bodie islands leaving island residents cut off except by ferries. No injuries were reported immediately. Four of ten crew on the Northerly Isle escaped. six remained aboard until waves subside. emergency officials say no one was on the bridge when struck.
The 1990 farm bill passes both houses with bipartisan support and is sent to President Bush for signature. The five year package worth 40.8 billion dollars covers USDA policies, environmental rules, nutrition programs, and commodity support while shaping trade for food products.
The CDC reports 45 hospitalizations and two deaths linked to police and firefighter fitness programs. Massachusetts saw 13 of 50 police trainees ill with one death during a 14 week mental stress program in 1988. New York fire recruit tests hospitalised 32 of 16 506 with one death. The agency notes danger and urges balance with safety.
Classified advertising and display inquiries are directed to specific phone lines including 649 1555 for classifieds and 648 2311 for display and news ideas. Customer service handles missed deliveries at 649 5316 with service hours evenings and weekend mornings.
Congressional negotiators near final approval of a 250 billion deficit reduction package agreed on most elements including tax increases and spending cuts. The plan would raise Medicare costs, phase out dependent exemptions for high income families, and alter earned income credits, with higher rates for top earners and targeted relief for low income workers.
Mayor Marion Barry seeks probation and community service after admitting cocaine possession and saying he is deeply sorry for his actions. Prosecutors urge the maximum sentence of one year, with the U S District Judge to decide. Barry told a probation officer he possessed cocaine two dozen times and apologized in a letter to the judge.
In Donetsk a congress of coal miners approved plans to establish the Soviet Union’s first independent trade union, the Independent Trade Union of Miners, with potential 2 million members. Delegates backed a confederation model and demanded higher wages, job security, and worker control over union leadership amid ongoing reforms and past strikes.
Governor Carroll A. Campbell said he was joking when he claimed he could punch opponent Theo Mitchell over a television ad. He told the Charleston Post-Courier he did not intend harm and would work with Mitchell in the Senate next year.
In San Francisco doctors at Stanford University Medical Center transplanted part of a living mother’s lung into her 12 year old daughter in what is called a first in the United States. The mother and child, 46 and 12, were reported in good condition. The procedure reduced transplant rejection risk due to closer tissue matching, with four of six genetic markers matched versus typical matches with brain dead donors.
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