28 Sep 1997
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1997
Page
1
Florida faces Kentucky as S.C. State and Tenn. State are also in play a slate of college football games. The day’s schedule features teams from major and smaller conferences competing across the region.
The Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum opens its fall season today with a public reception honoring artists Anne Lattimore and Georgann Crawford. Lattimore displays equestrian works from Aiken to Paris and had work shown in the White House during the Reagan era. Crawford is a metallic sculptor and product designer whose designs appear with Royal Doulton, Lenox, Waterford, and Hamilton Collection. The Hall sits at Hopeland Gardens, Whiskey Road and Dupree Place.
Obituary notices list Clyde G Key of Warrenville Theron Long of Saluda Louise O Hearn of Livingstor and North Augusta in brief memorial notices on page 8A.
The Atomic City Festival revived in New Ellenton after 11 years, drawing over 300 visitors and more than 75 crafters and performers. Organizers say the event, rooted in 1956 and tied to the Savannah River Site relocation, will be held annually on the last Saturday in September. Local residents praised turnout despite rain and pledged future support.
Space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian Mir station to unload American astronaut David Wolf and swap crews. The ten orbiting crew members and mission controllers celebrated as Mir’s central computer remained stable despite prior worries and repeated hardware failures.
In Washington 400 Democrats heard Al Gore and Dick Gephardt split over trade policy ahead of 2000. Gephardt urged labor and environmental protections with sighted critique of NAFTA while Gore defended fast track as essential to the Clinton era.
In 1951 Bill Evans left Pageland to join a vast Du Pont crew building the Savannah River Plant now Savannah River Site. Decades later, he recalls long hours, $2 an hour wages, and uncertainty about what was being built as a huge regional project drew 38 000 workers to the area and left many with stories of the unseen outcome.
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