30 Oct 1984
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1984
Page
1
Aiken Standard page 4B runs a chart listing this year’s U S Senate and governor candidates by state with spaces to record votes in the November 6 general election. Tomorrow’s chart will cover U S House races.
The Radiology Department at Aiken Community Hospital will X ray children's Halloween candy for harmful materials from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow Halloween night. Parents should enter via the emergency room entrance to reach radiology for the screening.
Doctors at Loma Linda say baby Fae has left the critical list and drank water as she nears four days with the cross species heart. At 18 days old she becomes the longest living cross species heart recipient, surpassing previous cases.
The forecast projects fair tonight with mid 60s low. Tomorrow brings mostly sunny skies and afternoon scattered thundershowers with highs in the mid 80s. Thursday to Saturday feature 80s highs, 60s nights, and partial cloud cover with scattered showers tapering by Saturday.
Belvedere Ridge residents heard from County Councilman Mike Toole Rep Tom Huff and Sen Tommy Moore about speeding and dangerous crossings near Belvedere Elementary. They discussed using state road funds to fund sidewalks and possible traffic enforcement while noting past injuries and a fatality in the area.
Two Aiken County Council veterans, H Michael McElhaney and Carroll H Warner, compete for the chairmanship in the November 6 general election. McElhaney, 40, a Bath resident and Kimberly Clark supervisor, seeks unified, progressive government while avoiding tax increases and funding courthouse renovations. He favors state law changes to grant counties broader revenue options beyond property taxes.
McElhaney calls for more organization in meetings and annual agendas while backing dual tax fixes and pay upgrades for county workers. Warner, longtime chairman, emphasizes economic development, urban transition, and keeping taxes low to attract industry.
North Augusta city officials study the 1985 budget as a 5 percent pay raise for employees, with no tax increase and an 88 mill rate. City Administrator Charles Martin says sessions continue with a goal to finish by November 8, meetings tonight and Thursday at 6 30 in City Hall conference room on Buena Vista Avenue.
Knighton, 38, died at 12 17 a.m. in Angola Louisiana after a last prayer and confession that drugs drove his crime. Barefoot, 39, followed seven minutes later in Huntsville Texas, dying by lethal injection amid protests and court rejections to stay the sentences.
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