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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1976
Page
2
Local page features brief news items and community notices from Aiken and surrounding area. Highlights include civic updates, upcoming events, and light human-interest bits reflecting Friday’s community life in 1976.
Death notice for Mrs Dora Holloway Jackson who died Monday plans 4pm Sunday service at Mount Harris Baptist Church with Rev WH Hightower officiating. Burial at Jessamine Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers named Stallings Scott Johnson Patterson Patterson Walker Allen. Viewing at residence or Jackson-Brooks Funeral Home Aiken from 1 pm Saturday to 3 pm Sunday.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. David Ferriter of Batesburg has died. Funeral services were held at Ridgecrest Memorial Park with Rev. Rodney Gunter officiating. Surviving are his parents paternal grandparents Paul Ferriter Lorick Aiken and John Lister Lorick Batesburg maternal grandparents.
Funeral services for James Thurmond who died Monday will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Bell Grove Baptist Church with the Rev. J Ivory officiating. Burial follows in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the residence or Jackson-Brooks Funeral Home in Aiken.
Carl Earnest Heeren 80 of 1277 Alfred St. died Thursday in an Aiken County hospital. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Sunday at George Funeral Home chapel with Rev Jerry Robinson officiating. Heeren, a Jersey City native, a Cooper Union and NYU engineering graduate, worked 41 years at Consolidated Edison. He lived in Aiken 13 years, active in scouting, awarded Silver Beaver. Survived by two sons Richard H. Heeren Wayne NJ and Robert D Heeren Franklin VA, and one sister Helen Heeren. Visitation at George Funeral Home Saturday 7 to 9 p.m.
The Aiken Standard established in 1867 publishes most days in the afternoon except Saturday and Sunday. It lists contact details, box address, and ZIP code 29801, notes AP dispatch rights, republication rules, and accuracy obligations for ads and payments.
The national forecast calls for rain today from the eastern Gulf to southwestern Pennsylvania. Cooler conditions are expected in the East and Southeast with mild temperatures elsewhere.
Registration staff urge reinstatement for non voters and extend hours ahead of the election. Voters may get duplicate cards, sample machines at the post office and library, and polling hours run 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Straight party votes require page six for president and vice president races.
Protestant leaders forecast a new surge of IRA violence including assassinations street shootings and bombing in reprisal for the murder of Maire Drumm a 56 year old IRA woman leader shot by three men at Belfast Mater Hospital where she was recovering from eye surgery on the third floor.
Ford administration plans two advanced Control Data Corp computers for China. One aids oil exploration, the other helps earthquake detection. Pentagon reservations cited. Sale requires COCOM approval and French intermediary. reflects U S willingness to show friendship to new Chinese regime.
Defense attorneys Hemphill Pride Jerry Screen and Thomas Leevy object to admitting the gun without a warrant Pride argues it was not in plain sight and discovery shows it. Judge Agnew overrules the objection and admits the weapon as evidence The trial proceeds with state witnesses motel clerks and a parking lot attendant confirming the suspects checked in and gave a false tag number Investigator Lt Manny Brooks says Augusta authorities were involved The case resumes with the defense presenting its case Roosevelt Edwards Jr and Freddie Roosevelt Taylor receive one year and $350 fines for grand larceny of an automobile Both will be suspended and placed on probation for two years Larry Chandler pleads guilty to housebreaking and grand larceny two year sentence $250 fine suspended probation three years
Tonight events include the Aiken Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind at Weeks Activities Center and a Senior Citizens Club gathering. Dusk to 11 pm features New Ellenton Jaycees Haunted House. Tomorrow lists meetings from AA groups to civic clubs and a busy slate at Smith Hazel Rec Center and Ramada Inn with multiple organizations meeting across the area.
The Jackson town council will hold its regular meeting Monday evening at 8 p.m. in the town hall. A routine agenda is expected for the session.
A Democratic rally in South Carolina lauded Carter with quotes from Miller Riley and Sanders praising his leadership and humility. Ravenel urged voting to secure a Carter White House, while local candidates for county and state offices attended, including Turnipseed Setzler Knotts and McGowan.
In Cleveland and Cincinnati public stops, President Ford and Senator Carter spar over Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and nuclear policy. Ford pledges U S support for freedom while criticizing Soviet influence. Carter accuses Ford of timidity and opposes a uranium enrichment plant unless safe and economical. Dole riffs on Potsdam and Yalta to tie Soviets to Democrats.
Edward G. New of Gloverville was charged with indecent exposure in Hitchcock Woods near 7 10 p m yesterday. Virgil Wilkins of the Aiken County Sheriff’s Department said there had been prior reports of a man exposing himself to horseback riders and this was the first time he was clearly identified.
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