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The State from Columbia, South Carolina • 23

Publication:
The Statei
Location:
Columbia, South Carolina
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23
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tT T- 4 fw I mw 9' THE Columbia Wednesday August 30 1967 Thurmond pilings Campuses Are Asked 111 2 Areas Payrolls Total $143293 By LEE BANDY Washington Boreas WASHINGTON The payrolls of Sens Strom Thurmond R-S and Ernest Hollings INS totaled $14329375 for the first six months of this year according to the secretary of the Senate Some $7199784 was doled out by the Democratic lawmaker to 30 staffers Meng III home secretary Douglas Dent special assistant Michael Joy legislative assistant Andreas Evans home assistant and Donald McLeese home assistant are scheduled to get bewteen $8700 and $10000 a year Sheila Joy a secretary and wife of the legislative aide to Hollings is expected to get $6584 to receive about $13624 Betty Dent wife of state GOP Chairman Harry Dent and listed as a Thurmond secretary was reported as receiving $228214 between Jan 16 and June 30 Nancy Moore of Aiken Miss South Carolina 1965 and a student at Duke University was awarded $26839 between Dec 19 1966 and Jan 9 1967 fori her performances as a clerk and $38143 for serving as a secretary in June Miss Moore has served as a college intern in office the last two summers Others fisted on the payroll for the first half of this year are Dorrill Workman Roger CPeace III and Mary Coth-1 ran Thurmond's payroll for the first half of this year amounted to $7129591 The high salary $15608 is going to Sam StilweU legislative assistant James Lucier research assistant is next with $15060 Administrative assistant Edward Kenney is getting $14196 and Warren Abernathy home assistant is slated Continues Miller of the Public Service Commission Robert Blair of the Development Board and Dr Henry Scultz of the Development Board The hearings which were attended by about 200 persons will be resumed at 9:30 a today Opposition To Nuclear Plant THURMOND Featuring Dally 11:30 AJL to 11:36 PJL Roast Prime Ribs of Beef STADIUM STEAK HOUSE OppoaUs Carolina Football Stadium mmo TRANSMISSIONS' They included Rep Bryan Dorn D-S Joe Rogers mayor of Walhalla Sen Snead Schumacher D-Oconee Reese Hubbard Oconee County supervisor Sen Earle Morris Jr D-Pickens William Linton of the Water Pollution and Control Board Rogers WORLD'S LARGEST TRANSMISSION 'SPECIALISTS semee sacks tr OKI JOS MNCO CENTERS COJUT TO COAST Tranamfufon prob Tama aofvarf faslf JtaaaonabJapricaaf Oppandabb lamca frw MaiU-ClMck ISafl Fra Tw Tanaa Am Cl AAMCO Centers In COLUMBIA 256-8906 FLORENCE 669-5171 3 lfll Hugar (al Blwwa4) Darlinctoa Highway Crawford Cook administrative assistant received $1000410 Carried out to the end of the year that would give the Columbia aide a salary of $2000820 highest of any member of the two Palmetto senatorial offices Lee Ruef the senator's press secretary is slated to get $12868 for the year The other staffers Bernard board composed of Samuel Jensch Dr John Buck and Hugh Paxton Alter the arguments and rulings on procedural matters William Lee vice president of engineering with Duke Power Company gave details of the proposed plant He testified the plant could be built without undue risk to the health and safety of the public and its construction would not be detrimental to the defense and security of the United States Earlier Tuesday the project was endorsed by more than a dozen South Carolina officials GUIMARIN and COMPANY Inc Mechanical Contractors Established 1903 1641 Blending Street p'1! i -i I -V (Continued from 1-B) lUmsburg County Such a location one commission mem Ip suggested might lead to a common tax-sharing by both Georgetown and Wit LUmsburg counties 'Tbe commission was told feel certain by 1968 we would have at least 100 student enrolled in the college" he Colleton County delegation headed by Mrs Mabel Pierce said it had been told by the University of South Carolina in 1965 that it could contract for a regional campus but that the contract was put off because the university asked for tune "io make a further study" delegation said it had land available outside Waiter-boro Sen Harrelson D-Colleton said an anticipated 'M million increase in assessed valuation of property in the county would provide an additional tax source to finance the building of the col- 4fie site he said would asd be convenient to Interstate Highway 95 a swell as Ik'S Highways 15 and 17-A The college he said would probably have between 80 and 100 students the first year Rights Of (Continued From 1-B) would become prohibitive Officials said that before -the highway department would proceed with prelimi- nary engineering some agen- cy'pr organization in the county would have to take the right-of-way responsibility Tty? Board of Administrators have assumed that task in 1 gfchland County Thomas said that an esti- qiated total of $34 million will he required for right-of-way purchases and the state will provide 75 per cent of that amount Of the 87 million for the two countieo to pro-I vide 8756000 most come from -Lexinton County he said -Sen Shealy said would like to see the state pay ail of the right-of-way costs as it has in the past" Woodrow Taylor state high-rway commissioner for the dis- trict which emcompasses Lex- ington advised that since Dec 21 1950 the highway de-! partment has required that in 'urban areas 25 per cent of right-of-way costs come from local sources The group was told that i both Greenville and Charles- ton have initiated studies since i COATS was begtin in 1964 Grqfcnville plans to make a straight-out purchase of a large amount of right-of-way Ncgro School (Continued from 1-B) take the lead in an intensive i 15-state effort to: the tradi-jtionally Negro institutions be-' cause strengthened they will provide a valuable educational resource" I post-high school vocational technical and academic opportunities for Negro students at all types of insti-jtutions The commission urged that -long-range plans be devised to the evolution of the dual system of higher 'education into a single system serving all students" Specifically the board was nrged to establish a Regional institute for Higher Educa-tional Opportunity to assist states In a concerted drive to- eqnal opportunity The commission stated: has been argued that the Negro institutions should i simply be closed or phased of existence That may I prove to be the sensible course for some of them but i it would be tragic to assume that general action of this nature would further the cause of equal educational opportunity at this time 4 fact many of the traditionally Negro colleges and universities i sufficiently hened can contribute to the efforts to provide equal education to Negroes particularly during the transitional period In the overall area of high er education the commission proposed: Southern state i should commit itself to pro-r Tiding equal higher education-al opportunity for Us Negro citizens and should develop comprehensive plan for doing so white institutions should adopt a ly-'i UMw A IIOLLINGS Station WNOK Dedicates New Broadcast Plant WNOK had deification ceremonies Tuesday for its new Hampton Hill facilities on Garners Ferry Road The combined radio and television operation moved into its 21000-square-foot plant earlier in the summer Previously it had operated from studios in the Jefferson Hotel The new facilities cost in excess of a half million dollars and were built on a three-acre tract about a quarter-mile from the city limits More than twice the space available in the old Jefferson studios is available in the new quarters The modernistic structure has around the building WNOK which includes AM and FM radio TV and functional music is owned by Palmetto Radio Corporation Way to avoid procurement problems later not saying that la a race for project approval with Greenville and Charleston" Sidney Thomas of the Planning Commission said I'm pointing out the fact that Greenville and Charleston are learning by oar experience and they are moving faster than we are" Charles Moorefield of the highway department explained that while only 10 per cent of Lexington land area is involved in the study or 52 per cent of the people and almost half of the cars are in the land area- By 1985 about two4hirds of the population will be in the land area" Rep Lucius Porth commented we're going to continue to compete with other areas in economic development going to have to take steps now ready Soviets And Turkey Sign Aviation Pact ANKARA (AP) Turkey and the Soviet Union signed a civil aviation agreement Tuesday allowing airliners of both nations to land and rick up passengers at airports in the respective countries Need Cited quotas for the admission of educationally disadvantaged students should provide funds above and beyond regular appropriations for public Negro in-stitutlons until they are staffed and equipped on a par with other state colleges It was noted that as of December 33 of the 104 Negro institutions were not accredited and 29 of the 33 were privately controlled accreditation appears unattainable within a reasonable the report continued possibilities of merging with another institution reducing the breadth of offerings or discontinuing operations altogether should be Poverty (Continued from 1-B) One of the most difficult problems to overcome Sloan said is getting poor whites into the program Unlike the Negro the poor white are unorganized and difficult to contact The only solution has been door-to-door canvassing He said Southern states have missed out on at least 8100 million in federal benefits because they failed to put up matching funds South Carolina has been a leader nationally In manpower training programs such as TEC STEP and Project T-Square all designed to provide jobs for the unskilled The state is also leading the way hi obtaining closer cooperation between state agencies Sloan said Every Southern governor he said has expressed strong interest in getting literacy and job training programs to take the unemployed and place them in jobs (Continued from 1-B) neys contend the issue is one of wotfaiMi importance a question or whether municipals owned electric utilities will be protected in their right to own their fair shares of the nuclear commercial stations licensed by the Atomic Energy Commission or whether the privately owned electric utilities of the country can force the electric cities to purchase virtually all their power supply from the investor-owned segment of the industry In the hearing witnesses of the regulatory staff said the nuclear station proposed by Duke was economically feasible and sate to the public The hearing which was held in the Oconee County Courthouse wis before and 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