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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1990
Page
1
The Aiken Standard continues its election series with profiles on the four candidates for School Board District 3 in the Nov 6 general election. Page 1B previews and promises more profiles in upcoming editions and a special Nov 3 election tabloid. Tomorrow: District 5 profiles.
A 15 year old Charlotte boy died after a hangman gag inside a basement haunted house where the noose tightened unexpectedly. He wore pirate costume amid fake decorations and died Friday night. A similar death occurred a week earlier in Lakewood New Jersey during a hayride prank.
Death notices reported for Fred H. Barker Myrtle M. Bean Carey B Carter George Gray Brian K Jerome Bessie L. Spears Evelyn Walling across Pelion Aiken Barnwell Cordova North Augusta Augusta Neeses with details continued on page 10A.
Republican candidate Barbara Nielsen for state superintendent of education wins a key boost from Sen. James Waddell D Beaufort chair of the Senate Finance Committee He calls Nielsen more qualified than incumbent Charles G Williams and argues education should be nonpartisan Nielsen thanks Waddell and expects support from other Democratic officials.
After 17 years away Tom Abbott III returns to Aiken to run the Southside Gallery with his wife Brenda. He passed lucrative offers to stay local, noting the value of family, roots, and a personal stake in his hometown venture. Loans linked to the gallery were to be cleared by 1992 as Brenda also took a banking job.
President Bush campaigns to maintain support for the Gulf buildup, rallying for Sen. Pete Wilson in California while visiting Oklahoma to back Bill Price. He defends U S actions in the Persian Gulf, cites Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and honors wartime service at Hickam Air Force Base.
The 101st Congress ends with a sweeping tax and spending plan set to cut the deficit by nearly 500 billion over five years. It includes a child care grant program, expanded tax credits, air pollution controls, and immigration reform, plus all 13 annual spending bills completed despite late adjournment.
A summary notes the 101st Congress aims to cut the federal deficit by about 500 billion dollars over five years and marks progress on a clean air law after 13 years.
Congress approved a broad package expanding federal child care subsidies to over 750000 children in the first year and a major rewrite of immigration law raising annual legal immigrants to 645000 through 1994 and 675000 thereafter. The measures also include foreign aid, crime legislation, and offshore drilling limits as the session ended. President Bush signed a stopgap funding measure to keep government open through November 5.
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