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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1990
Page
1
Pittsburgh launches the Pittsburgh Community Health Challenge with 100 sponsors and two drug store chains offering a 10 week eating habits analysis to 52000 workers and public. The goal is to move away from fatty ethnic dishes tied to steelworker diets as the city shifts from mills to service and tech jobs.
Obituary notice lists Mary C. Buchanan Bath Alice C. Connor Barnwell Euna M. Johnson Aiken Clara C. Key Philadelphia Nora B. Kitchings Wagener Lorraine S. Martens North Augusta John B. Martin Blythe Ga David L. Middleton Aik Wille Richardson Aik Ruth B. Roberts Wiliston James E. Smith Otar Nero Talbert McCormick and directs readers to Page 6A for details.
USA Weekend will appear in the Aiken Standard each Saturday starting September 8. The edition includes Kitty Dukakis alcohol issue, a review of The Doors film, and a debate on whether football or baseball is superior.
A former South Carolina lawmaker, once famed for saying he never took a dime with strings, admitted to taking a $2,500 bribe to aid a pari mutuel betting bill. FBI videotapes captured him accepting cash on a yacht at Hilton Head Island, with prosecutors planning to reveal more tapes as others plead or await hearings.
Aiken County Development Committee weighs a costly landfill project in a Sept. 18 work session. EPA rules may require plastic liners raising construction to about 10 million dollars for a 100 acre site. Breezy Hill kaolin mine chosen for next dump with seepage barrier cheaper options cited.
By CARL LANGLEY Staff Writer The Economic Development Partnership of Aiken and Edgefield counties asks Aiken County Council to clarify a recently passed ordinance seen as restricting business growth and industrial development. David Jansens questioned the ordinance, saying it may jeopardize the region. The law, effective July 1, sets procedures for public hearings on industrial sites posing health and safety risks. Rejection of the initial kaolin linerless design could delay landfill construction and operation by about 90 days. Davis & Floyd representatives discussed the landfill design with the committee.
Associated Press reports Jordan grapples with tens of thousands of Asian refugees in squalid camps while Western nations seek to move a few hundred from Iraq. King Hussein aims to sustain diplomacy as U S officials seek allied support for the force in the region. Saudi ArabiaReadies for possible conflict. King Fahd calls for volunteers and opens military service to women. Baker heads to the Middle East and Europe while Brady meets Thatcher and travels to Asia.
West eastern refugees return home from Iraq while Tariq Aziz travels to Moscow on a brief official visit. Congress debates Bush Egypt debt relief as a potential deficit risk. Thousands more refugees line up in Jordan for rations as the UN seeks aid. Brady and Thatcher meet in London amid a four nation fundraising tour. Baker plans to visit the Middle East and Europe to secure support for the U S force.
Washington report from Citizens for Tax Justice finds one percent of American families would save about 19,599 on a proposed capital gains tax cut, while 80 percent would pay higher taxes to cover the cost. The group says most people own no capital assets beyond their homes and would gain little to nothing, with gains concentrated among the top 1 percent.
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