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Blast from the Past

May 16, 2007

Week of May 20, 1957



Deputy Sheriff Bruce Spickler, who arrested a South Carolina motorist for not having a registration card last week, is now waiting for the motorist to send the $5 he borrowed from the deputy for expenses home.

Deputy Spickler found the man sleeping in a car in the first block of Summit Avenue. The man had no registration card. A teletype message to South Carolina brought no reply. The man paid a $1.75 fine for not having a registration card, and Deputy Spickler impounded the car until word of proof of ownership arrives. In the meantime, he loaned the man $5 to help pay his expenses home.




Washington County is increasing its teacher salaries again, continuing to follow a national trend. Statistics show that nationally, salaries for teachers have increased 165 percent from the 1940-41 school year to the 1956-57 school year.

Median salary being paid to all regular teachers throughout the nation during the current school year was $4,682.

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Week of May 13, 1982



About $3,000 worth of men's underwear was recently stolen from the Dart Drug store in Halfway. The items were apparently taken out a front door Monday night while the Valley Plaza Shopping Center store was open, sheriff's deputies said, and they have no idea how the theft occurred. The store manager said it was similar to a theft two or three years ago when a large quantity of underwear was stolen from the store. The case was never solved.

"Why they would pick that of all the things we sell, I don't know," said the manager.

- Compiled by Kelly Moreno

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