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Bang!
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 11 p.m.
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   Spectators watch fireworks at the Riverwalk last year
Photo: Matthew Craig/Staff

Wait - don't pick up that library book! Before you head to the Richmond County Library, check out our list of holiday closings and Independence Day events. Then, check out this travel information, these patriotic Web sites and the not-so-evident truths about Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. Finally, don't forget to stay safe this Fourth of July. It's all part of our holiday guide.

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News

No asbestos found
at Seminole Mill

Web-posted July 3,
1996 at 11:30 p.m.

CLEARWATER, S.C. - Tests of steel beams removed from the abandoned Seminole Mill last week showed no signs of asbestos contamination, state regulators said Wednesday. However, Goldberg Brothers Inc. will still have to hire an abatement team to decontaminate all of its equipment before it can be removed from the former textile plant.

Where did the chicken go?
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 7 p.m.
AIKEN - Caveat emptor poultrium! That is: ``Let the buyer beware of stolen chicken.'' A trailer that had held 52,000 pounds of frozen chicken drumsticks was found empty near Aiken Tuesday after being stolen in North Charleston last Thursday.

Traveler pleads not guilty
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 6 p.m.
DECATUR, Ga. - Dressed in an orange jump suit from the county jail, an Irish Traveler from Murphy Village sat quietly on a courtroom bench as his attorney entered a plea of not guilty to charges that his client defrauded elderly people in roof repair scams.


Features
photo: Kids have super summer
Super Summer
keep kids busy

Web-posted July 3,1996 at 7 p.m.
AIKEN - The halls of North Aiken Elementary School resounded with the sounds of a poet, a retired bank executive and about 200 children. Part summer school, part camp, Super Summer '96 targets children of low-income housing and financially at-risk families, providing a cultural, learning, and above all, fun experience. Learn more about it and other summer activites for youngsters in our Kids section.

Truths about Jefferson not so self-evident
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 11:30 p.m.
To Thomas Jefferson, these truths were not ``self-evident''; they were ``sacred and undeniable.'' And if he had gotten his way, America would have condemned slavery instead of bowing to delegates from Southern states.


Sports
Columbia Bombers explode in 8th to bury Jackets
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 11:45 p.m.
COLUMBIA - Capital City erupted for five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning in defeated the Augusta GreenJackets 6-2 at Capital City Stadium Wednesday.


Computers & Technology

NBC NBC provides Olympics live online
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 7 p.m.
Much of the information NBC will deliver during the Olympics will also appear on the network's World Wide Web site.

NASA unveils new spaceship
Web-posted July 3, 1996 at 4:30 p.m.
NASA unveiled the design for America's first new spaceship in a generation Tuesday, a reusable, wedge-shaped craft called VentureStar that would take off and land almost as easily as an airplane and open space to more people.


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