New Volunteers Join Public Service This Fall
The cover highlights volunteers entering Peace Corps Vista Teach USA and Habitat for Humanity as good jobs remain scarce. Also previews fall TV changes and travel highlights to Miami El Paso Santa Fe St Augustine and California coast venues.
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Peace Corps
Vista
Teach USA
Habitat For Humanity
USA
Miami
el Paso
Santa Fe
St. Augustine
California
Real Estate Section Debuts in Aiken Standard
The Aiken Standard launches a new Friday pullout real estate section focusing on different neighborhoods in Aiken County. This week highlights Gem Lakes on the south side of Aiken off Silver Bluff Road, aimed at home buyers.
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Aiken Standard
Aiken County
Gem Lakes
Aiken
Silver Bluff Road
State AA Champion Silver Bluff Faces Offensive Test
SportsPLUS previews feature Gregg Holshouser examining Silver Bluff, champions in State AA, and its offensive line. The section promises tonight’s high school results and previews for Clemson and South Carolina games, plus baseball races and U.S. Open tennis notes.
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Clemson
South Carolina
Sportsplus
Aiken Standard
Gregg Holshouser
Silver Bluff
Deaths in the region list multiple individuals
The notice lists deaths including Mattie R. Boyles and Sara F. DeWitt with locations North Augusta and San Antonio Texas, and William M. Duryea Evans Findley Rev J Harrison Sr Calvin Morgan Thomas Morgan Mamie Storey Doris Williams with various Georgia and South Carolina places. Details are on page 5A.
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Mattie R. Boyles
North Augusta
Sara F. DeWitt
San Antonio
Texas
William M. Duryea
Glen Head
N.Y
Gaskins Dies Quietly After Long Terror Era
A South Carolina legend Donald Pee Wee Gaskins was electrocuted at 1 a.m. for killing a fellow inmate with a homemade bomb in 1982 and admitting to 13 more murders from 1970 to 1975. He faced the chamber after slashing his arms in the hours before execution and gave a thumbs up to his attorney as witnesses cried.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Donald
Pee Wee
Gaskins
Billy Barnes
Florence County
Corrections Department
Robyn Zimmerman
the Devil
Charlie Manson
Prospect
Rudolph Tyner
Central
Kremlin Grants Baltic Freedom
Moscow reports the Kremlin and its new State Council recognized Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as independent, ending over five decades of Soviet rule. The move followed the August coup and broad international recognition, with leaders praising a turning point for the Baltic states and the Soviet Union.
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Kremlin
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Baltic States
State Council
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Baltics
Congress of People’s Deputies
Gor- GORBACHEV _bachev
Yeltsin
Vytautas Landsbergis
Soviet Union
Landsbergis
Vilnius
Baltic Sea
Poland
Nazi Germany
Baltic
Gorbachev
Bush
United States
Britain
France
DOE scales Savannah River cleanup cost with new five year plan
Washington DOE proposes 3.2 to 5.2 billion dollars for Savannah River Site cleanup from 1993 to 1997, reflecting methodology changes that cut estimates by over 1 billion from last year. spokesperson Julie Madden notes funds depend on priority, with focus on corrective activities waste management and environmental restoration.
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Savannah
Washington
Energy Depoe
Savannah River
DOE
Julie Madden
Fred Lash
Madden
SRS
REM dominates MTV awards with six wins
R E M from Athens swept the 8th annual MTV Video Music Awards winning best group and video of the year for Losing My Religion. The band also took honors in editing direction art and breakthrough categories as Pee- Wee Herman made a public appearance since his arrest on indecency charges at the Universal City ceremony.
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Universal City
Calif
R.E.M
Pee-Wee Herman
Athens, Ga
Michael Stipe
Univer
Planners Favor Fringe Zoning Protection in North Augusta
Aiken County Planning Commission voted to protect single family residential developments in fringe areas for North Augusta and Belvedere. The two hour hearing at the Nancy Carson Public Library reviewed unincorporated land use plans from U. S. 1 to the Edgefield line and shifted map designations toward a conservative housing policy. Commission chair James Baggott noted mild proposals and anticipated public feedback from critics in six months. Plans include Belvedere fringe near I 20. Wismer, the consultant, noted a second draft after Aiken area work.
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North Augusta
Aiken County
Commission
James B
Jim) Baggott
Baggott
North Augusta-Belvedere
Dan Wismer
Columbia
Aiken
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