Aiken Standard (Newspaper) - August 15, 1972, Aiken, South Carolina I J p ox The FBI is in Aiken checking on Marion H Smoak act ing chief of protocol My goodness I wonder why theyre af ter me Smoak mused from his Washington office Specula tion is that he will soon be named chief of protocol Gear tows wows were raised whet GMT tn rJ center fold of Miss M Maj Gen James VF Duekett of The Citadel in Charles ton said yesterday he does not know Dr Govan T Myers of Aiken School Superintendent by the name Govan When My ers and Gen Duckett were in the service together much was made of Myers southern drawl When discussing weapons one day Myers made the statement that they needed machine guns When the laughter died down the now school superintendent was given the name Mo Myers The Fred Coopers who are in the travel business as everyone knows will be taking off in midSeptember for a visit to Southern Ireland and England Rep Cain Defends Judicial Reform By STEVE CRAW Staff Rep Marshall Cain R yesterday defended a pro posed judicial reform a against charges by House candidate Mrs Irene Rudnick that it takes power away from the peo ple Cain called the objections to a provision in the reform amendment minor and efforts to change it would defeat the entire judicial reform measure The controversial revision is in Article V Section P and replaces specific nam ing of county and state of with a generalized description of officers and duties It would eliminate the identification of such of as county sheriff coroner clerk of court and solicitor The amendment goes be fore the voters for approval in November and is part of the continuing revision of the states 1895 constitu tion Mrs Rudnick said at a Jackson meeting last week end that the new amendment would give the General Assembly the power to stip ulate how the county cers would be selected and the setting of their pay Cain admitted the legis lators would have the power but said the provisions of the 1895 constitution pro vided no protection of these offices from legislative tampering either But I can assure you that no one in Columbia is con templating getting rid of the office of sheriff or any other said Cain Why that would be po suicide added the Aiken lawmaker Cain expressed fears that the recent argument over the section would defeat the entire judicial revision which is the product of three years of study by a gov committee The controversy cropped up last week when Richland County Sheriff Frank Pow ell and Fifth District So John W Foard of Columbia took issue with the section Their demand that Gov John West call the General Assembly back into special session to change it was rejected by West Saturday Powell began a campaign yesterday to get the South Carolina Sheriffs Associa tion to help defeat the meas ure in the November refer The revised section re places a listing of the of and duties with this paragraph The General Assembly shall provide by law for the selection duties and compensation of appropri ate officials to enforce the criminal laws of the State to prosecute persons under such laws and to carry on the administrative func tions of the courts of the state The Attorney General shall be the chief ing officer of the State with authority to supervise the prosecution of all criminal cases in courts of record Cain observed that the revised section clears away unnecessary language and a cluster of amendments added onto the bulky con He stated it is part of the effort to make the con modern and flex ible Turning to charges that the section would infringe on the duties of county of Cain said that this was being done already under the old provisions The General Assembly under present provisions can pass a law saying the sheriffs duties would be no more than a process server In fact theyve Sec JUDICIAL IV Jets Attack 7 N Viet Targets Vol 105 No 162 12 Pages Aiken South Carolina Tuesday August 151972 Telephone 6482311 lOc Per CODY SAIGON AP The US Command said Navy jets at tacked seven targets in the Thanh Hoa area of North Viet nam Monday but it denied charges by Hanoi that a busi ness center and the cathedral area were bombed Asked about a North Viet claim that 100 civilians were killed or wounded in the raid a spokesman said I have nothing on it The command denied any strikes inside the city limits of Thanh Hoa a port 80 miles south of Hanoi It said the tar gets attacked were a highway bridge a fuel storage depot and two antiaircraft sites a mile north of Thanh Hoa a gun site a mile to the northeast and an army barracks and another fuel storage depot a mile and a half southwest of the city Firms Stock Trading Probed NEW YORK AP The New York Stock Exchange to day confirmed that it was in recent trading ac in the stock of Liggett Myers Inc The Big Board declined to elaborate but the investigation reportedly seeks to determine whether brokerage firms or in dividual investors received any inside information before the company announced that sec were ond quarter earnings sharply lower The company issued its earn ings announcement July 18 But in the previous trading session the price of the stock fell a share to without any apparent explanation The week before that the stock had been trading at about a share Liggett Myers dosed Monday at down 25 cents Jackson Backed On SALT Demand WASHINGTON AP Sen Henry M Jackson is claiming growing Senate support as well as White House backing for his demand that the United States negotiate equality with the Soviet Union in any future agree ment Jackson counted 27 sors for his equality amend ment going into todays third day of Senate debate on the fiveyear interim agreement limiting offensive missiles Crash 2nd Worst In History BERLIN AP An East German jetliner carrying vaca to the Black Sea crashed and burned shortly after taking off from East Ber lin Monday night and all 156 persons aboard were killed It was the second worst disaster in the history of commercial aviation ADN the East German news agency did not identify the vic tims but the Dyu shin 62 was on a charter flight operated by the East German government airline and there was no indication that any Westerners were aboard Partly Cloudy Hot Weather To Continue Partly cloudy hot weather with little chance of rain is expected to continue in the Aiken area through tomor row The extended forecast calls for Thursday and Fri day to be mostly fair with scattered showers mainly in the eastern half of the state Saturday Predicted highs are in the lower Ms and lows around 78 Probability of rain is 10 per cent Winds will be light and variable Chemical Warfare Charged BELFAST AP A 19year old member of the Irish Re publican Army is dying be cause the are using a chemical for explosives that can be more dangerous for the bombers than the bombed the British army said today The chemical is nitrobenzene and IRA bomb factories have been stocking it for two months a spokesman said When the highly toxic sub stance is absorbed into the bloodstream it produces symp toms of cancer and there is no cure he added Japanese Observe Anniversary TOKYO AP Emperor Hirohito led the Japanese today in observance of tie 27th anni of Japans surrender in World War II In a tone similar to that he used when he announced Ja pans surrender 27 years ago the emperor told a gathering of about 5000 relatives of war dead that his heart still aches with pity when he thinks of those who died in the war At noon the hour of the em broadcast on Aug 14 1945 bells tolled at shrines temples and churches to signal a minute of silent prayer for the nearly 3 million Japanese soldiers and civilians who died in the war Hope For Settlement Of Strike LONDON AP one Of the union leaders mens delegates vote je was fairly hopeful of day on a proposal to end Brita settlement ains 18dayold dock strike Mass Arrests Promised SAN FRANCISCO AP demonstrators tried to disrupt Atty Gen Richard G Republican National Con says the Justice in Miami Beach next would make mass ar rests on a May Day scale if Pacemaker Implanted MIAMI AP I just keep thinking that I might blow up joked Virginia Recupero from a hospital bed after becoming the only woman in America with an atomic powered heart Mrs Recupero a 53yearold grandmother from Key West Fla Monday became the first American woman to have a nu pacemaker designed to regulate and stabi lize the heartbeat implanted in her body The device used on Mrs Recupero was manufac tured in France It uses Plu 238 to power the pacemaker The Savannah River Plant in Aiken produces the un clear fuel that can be used in such devices Less than an hour after the 30minute operation Mrs Recu pero said she felt just wonder ful and found it really hard to believe I underwent surgery at all They just gave me a local anesthetic and the doctor ex what he was doing dur ing the operation she said Dr Sol Center a Miami sur geon who performed the im plantation said there was no hazard of radioactivity facing his patient or anyone else un der normal situations He said Mrs Recupero would be required to wear an fication bracelet in the event she was injured in an accident and the atomic device was damaged Maintain Phase 2 Controls Key Nixon Advisers Report POLICEMAN ON TARGET Sgt Wesley L Brindle of the WinstonSalem NC police department displays the form he used in achieving the highest individual score among 75 competitors from North and South Carolina in pistol competition held in Greenville yesterday The competition opened the meeting of the North and South Carolina Law Enforcement Conference The photographer used a lens to shoot the marksman through a bullet riddled target AP Platform Testimony Urges Spending Curb A Press Writer MIAMI BEACH Fla AP President Nixons top economic advisers told Republican platform writers today that federal spending must be curbed and Phase 2 economic controls maintained to prevent a resurgence of inflation and higher taxes Price and wage controls need to be continued and improved for the time being said Coun cil of Economic Advisers But we need to look forward to getting rid of them An important reason for great care in adhering to noninflationary fiscal and monetary policy now is to permit the controls to end without major disruption of the economy Payment Deficit Improves WASHINGTON AP The nations balanceofpayments deficit improved dramatically in the quarter the Commerce Department said to day The department said by one 1 measurement the official re serve transactions basis the j deficit improved by billion j over the first three months of j the year i Council Of Governments Hammond Aiken Must Join By SUSAN SCHUBERT Staff Reporter Aiken County will enter the Metropolitan Council of Governments its just a matter now of finding administrators to suit Jim Hammond executive tor of the Lower Savannah Regional Council told Aiken City Council last night We have to have COG he told Council He said that the Aiken County legislators agreed to designate LSRC as ad ministrative coordinator However the Central Sa vannah River Area and De velopment Planning Com mission and the Augusta Richmond County Planning Commission did not agree We have to have COG he said He told Council that Aikens share of the funding would come to be tween and Council moved to receive Hammonds report as in formation Roland Windham city manager said that he had received a good many comments concerning iSre COUNCIL Fife Rogers Seeks To Calm COG Foes By STEVE CRAW Staff Reporter Wayne Rogers acting director of the Council of Governments of Aiken and Richmond counties COG came to Aiken today to smooth ruffled feathers over Aiken Countys forced membership in the inter state council Just prior to speaking at a luncheon of the Board of Realtors at the Commercial Hotel Rogers said he came not to debate but just to provide information on the COG He said he had been urged by members of the COG to come and try to allay fears that have been aroused in Aiken over joining an Au gusta dominated COG I leave debate of the issue up to the policy mak ers of the council of govern ments said Rogers The COG at present is made up of six local govern ments the city of Aiken New Ellenton North Augusta Augusta and Richmond County Aiken County has been un der pressure from the fed eral Department of Housing and Development HUD to join the COG but local leaders have been reluctant to do so HUD officials say partici pation in the COG is neces sary to coordinate planning between Aiken and Rich mond counties They have backed up their reasoning with the threat of cutting off federal grants and aid if some sort of arrangement is not reached At the last delegation meeting Aiken lawmakers endorsed an alternative to the proposal of establishing the COG and giving it its own planning staff Jim Hammond executive director of the Lower Sa vannah Regional Planning and Development Council told the delegation they could join the COG But in stead of setting up another planning staff they could use bis staff Under this alternative proposal Hammond would serve in a dual role as exe cutive director of the Lower Savannah Agency and of in coordination for the COG This said Rogers is un acceptable to the two plan ning agencies in Georgia just as it would be to Aiken County for this coordination task to be handled by one of the Richmond County planning agencies The director of the COG said Rogers cannot have such a dual role He must be a full time director re sponsible solely to and paid by the COG Rogers is on loan from the County Planning Commission where he used to be a senior plan ner He said in his contacts with the HUD regional office in Atlanta it was pointed out that the key to resolving the dilemma is for the director to be responsible strictly to one agency and not to er planning agency at the same time The fear is that such a dual director could conceiv ably put in more time for she county h e originally serves said Rogers HUD officials says Ro gers have been informed of the alternative plan en fay Aiken and are waiting in hopes that local leaders will straighten out the conflict If they dont HUD will step in at a later date to mediate according to Ro gers We want to get people in the two counties talking to each other before that would have to happen add ed Rogers The councils statement was presented in advance of testi mony before the 108memfaer GOP Platform Committee by the three council members Chairman Herbert Stein Ezra Solomon and Marina N Whit man The committees draft platform goes to the Republi can National Convention which opens here Monday The councils statement sup ported in effect President Nix ons call to Congress for a billion ceiling on budget outlays for fiscal 1973 and bis warning that he will veto programs that he considers to involve ex spending The key here is the federal budget the council statement said and our effort must be to prevent an explosion of spend ing which will make inevitable both more inflation and more taxes The council painted a rosy picture of the economic outlook declaring that the economy is rising at an extraordinary rate in the most recent quarter this was twice as fast as nor mal The gains promise a sub further reduction in the OD per cent rate of unemploy mem the statement said The economy is well on its way to a healthy combination of high employment and rea sonable price stability But we are not there yet The near term task is to prevent a resur gence of inflationary pressure while keeping the economy ris ing steadily the council I added i The statement suggested a need exists for reform of con gressional processes for ing overall spending and for a more constructive relation ship between Congress and the on mst ters Preliminaries Are On Schedule MIAMI BEACH A Preliminaries for nest weeks Republican National Conversion are rolling along on as top Nixon administration I proclaim administration I achievements to the full Plat form Committee and potential i dissenters appear before sub committee sessions Three members of President Nixons Cabinet and his Council
