Aiken Standard (Newspaper) - December 4, 1972, Aiken, South Carolina Have You Heard City Councilman Charles Marvin is recovering rapidly from his illness which started this summer He says that be plans to start working an hour a day at his office this week Mrs who has also been ill is doing better too Mr and Mrs CW KUbey have had tome exciting days recently Their youngest daughter produced their seventh grandchild in Kentucky and another daughter is visiting them from the Panama Canal Zone Secretary and companion to the late Mrs C Oliver Iselin Mary Roberts was in town recently to buy an Aiken home Put two and two together and youll only confuse the com puter Council Bluffs Iowa Nonpareil Kissinger Meets N Viets Twice PARIS AP Henry A Kis singer met twice today with top North Vietnamese negotiators as they sought a final agree ment to end the Vietnam war After a restricted morning session a villa near North Vietnamese headquarters in the southern suburb of Choisy le Roi a larger afternoon meeting was held in the village of Sainte Gemme to the west of Paris The morning session lasted 2Vz hours The afternoon talks started at 4 pm The Florida White House announced that the conversations will continue Tuesday Apollo Preparations On Schedule CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP Free of a strike threat prep for the last Apollo flight to the moon went on a clockwork schedule today for Wednesdays night launching Im verv happy to report that there will be no striKe said Bernard Mamet attorney for 60 aerospace workers whose proposed walkout in the final days threatened to wash out the liftoff Communication Lines Bombed SAIGON AP American warplanes made heavy bomb ing attacks against enemy com lines in an attempt to curb the resupply of North Vietnamese troops fighting a government counteroffensive just below the demilitarized zone US Command sources reported today US pilots flew 315 tactical air strikes against Communist targets in South Vietnam more than half of them in north Quang Tri Province the US Command announced Troop Level Drops To 25500 SAIGON AP US troops President Nixon set for Dec 1 strength in Vietnam dropped to the US Command announced 25500 men last week well low the ceiling of 27000 men Large Quake Shakes Japan TOKYO AP A powerful earthquake shook Japanese islands in the Pacific and met Tokyo today dam aging roads and disrupting telephone service There were no reports of casualties Early reports from Island near the center of the temblor said roads were de in several places ai that the 10000 inhabitants fled their homes is about 200 miles southeast of Tokyo Police said telephone service on the island was disrupted and officials of All Nippon Air ways said the island was blacked out as power lines were cut in places 5 Jailed In Killing Of Lawmen By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Five persons were in jail today charged in connection with the separate weekend kill ings of a rookie North Carolina highway patrolman and a Clay ton city policeman And the commander of the state Highway Patrol Col Ed win C Gy predicted that more and more policemen will be killed in the line of duty until society stops focusing its sympathy on lawbreakers in stead of victims Charles H Lee the Clayton officer died early Sunday of bullet wounds he received while investigating a possible viola tion of motor vehicle laws He was shot twice in the head Sat night Claytons death followed by less than 24 hours the fatal shooting of state Trooper LT Walton 26 whose body was found beside his pa trol car Saturday near the South Carolina border IRA Men Flee N Ireland DUBLIN AP Dozens of Irish Republican Army men are believed to have fled to Northern Ireland to escape the Irish Republics tough new anti guerrilla law security chiefs sav IRA leaders were reported to have gone underground over the weekend as President Ea mon de Valera signed the new legislation designed to keep the terrorists from finding sanc tuary in the republic Allende To Denounce US Firms UNITED NATIONS NY AP i President Salvador Al lende of Chile in a speech to the UN General Assembly today was expected to de the way US corpo rations arc fighting nation of their properties in his country Allende a Marxist who was elected in 1970 was the only speaker at a morning meeting of the 132nation assembly He said his theme would be eco nomic aggression WAGENER CHRISTMAS PARADE DRAWS SCORES The Wagener Salley High School Band is led by the majorettes left in the Wagener Christmas Parade on Saturday Warm weather brought out scores of people to see the parade One favorite float was this tiny Santa Claus right pulled by a go cart His Ho Ho Hos high but the candy he tossed out was well received by parade watchers Several bands and many many floats made up the parade which wound around nearly all the streets in Wagener Staff Photos by Su san Schubert Vol 105No 241 18 Aiken South Carolina Monday December 4 1972 lOc Per Single Copy Telephone 6482311 Fog Slows Area Traffic A chance of showers and warm temperatures be coming chilly later in the week are in the weather forecast for the Aiken area today This mornings heavy fog which slowed traffic to a crawl on major highways lifted at midmorning to re veal partly cloudy skies over the city Daytime highs should be in the 70s until Thursday when the predicted high is in the 60s and Friday in the 50s Tonights low should be in the low 40s Wednesdays and Thursdays in the 50s Fog Causes Wreck SPARTANBURG AP Fog contributed to a traffic pileup on Highway 85 West of here at this morn ing injuring six persons and involving 12 vehicles The wreck began when a loaded with beer struck the rear of a car on the fog shrouded road The truck swerved across the median and into oncoming traffic Cars and another truck in the North and South bound lanes of the interstate high way began jamming brakes and colliding Fire broke out hi one of the autos struck by the beer truck and it another car and the truck burned and Fridays around 40 again Probability of rain is around 20 per cent tonight and 30 per cent tomorrow with a chance of showers continuing Wednesday and Thursday Southerly winds at 5 to 10 miles per hour are expected to prevail through tomor row Candidate Concedes Race To Mrs Rudnick Lowery Urges Election Reform By STEVE CRAW Staff Reporter Republican John D Lowery today conceded the race for Aiken Countys fourth House seat to Mrs Irene Rud nick I do not plan to pursue the process of further chal lenge of the vote count in the race with Mrs Rudnick said Lowery He added in a prepared statement I concede that she has won and I offer her my congratulations and best wishes for her term in the State House of Representa tives MORRIS SIMONS PURCHASE MITCHELL CENTER Harold Morris left and Dr James E Simons purchased Mitchell Shopping Center Mrs Cecil I Harte was agent for the land transaction Mitchell Shopping Center Sold For Nearly Million By STEVE CRAW Staff Reporter One of the biggest land deals ever made in the city of Aiken was concluded here Friday with the purchase of Mitchell Shopping Center by Simons Morris Asso Developing Company for nearly million Simons and Morris now have a virtual monopoly on Aiken shopping centers The firm was the major devel oper of Kalmia Plaza Shop ping Center The company purchased the 20acre Shopping Center from J Howard Mitchell of Aiken It is located on both sides of SC Highway 19 diagonally across from Vir ginia Acres Park The devel opers Dr James E Simons and Harold Morris have been associated in the land commercial development business since 1965 They nor Mitchell would divulge the exact cost of the shopping center But the realtor of the land deal Mrs Cecil I Harte of Harte Realty Co in Aiken said it was very close to mil lion Simons and Morris also have interests in the Ra mada Inn development on US Highway 1 and another motel in Anderson Morris said Friday he and his partner made the pur chase because South Aiken is beginning to grow and cited the new Aiken By Pass as one of the reasons for this At present the shopping center has a Whites Depart ment Store Edwards Eck erds Drugs Big Star Food Store Food Store bank branches laundromat cleaners carpet shop bou tique sandwich shops ot fices and other shops Most of the shopping cen ter is on the west side of the highway but the 8 acres of the development is on the east side and Sears are located on this side The developers plan to keep the name of the shop ping center and will add on more of the same type of commercial development to it Morris said the com pany would know by January what would go into the ex shopping center 2 Groups Seek To Raise Funds Contributions are being sought for two worthy causes in Aiken County at Christmastime this year The Salvation Army Christmas Fund will provide food and toys for needy families and children in the county The Aiken Jaycee Fund will allow needy children to buy Christmas gifts for their families during a shopping trip conducted by the Aiken Jaycees on December 16 Donations to the Aiken Jaycee Fund can be made by mailing funds to Jaycee Shopping Tour co Grover Smithwick 1237 Evans Rd Aiken Salvation Army gifts can be mailed to the Salvation Army PO Box 439 Ai ken READY FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Capt Fred Carver and RS Young Salvation Army Christmas Committee cochairmen set up Salvation Ar my booth Photo by Milton JAYCEES There lives a woman and her three children in an old run down house but to them it is home The mother has III SALVATION ARMY A couple with two children is badly in need of help this holiday season The husband is bedridden I SMS ARMY Pift ID 2 To Attend Confab At New Orleans Aiken County Commissioners Larry Murphy and Ralph Cul linan will represent the county at an interstate planning con ference this week in New Or leans The purpose of the confab is to find solutions to problems of local governments which are involved in inter state planning groups The announcement was made today that Murphy and Cullinan will leave for New Orleans i Wednesday evening They have been advised to go with an open mind on inter state councils of governments In other commissioner action today Area 1 Commissioner Jo Ann Price announced that the boards clerk Mrs Josie Wertz has resigned from her position Mrs Wertz was appointed just last Tuesday and the board according to Mrs Price has some replacements in mind but hasnt made a definite choice yet An unanticipated work load was given as Mrs Wertzs rea son for resigning She is already the secretary for the county supervisors of fice during the daytime and the parttime commissioner clerk job would put too much of a burden on her said Mrs Price Mrs Wertz has also submit ted her resignation effective Jan 1 1973 from her job as the county super visor The Board of Commissioners i had voted to join the Counties Metropolitan Council of Gov i at their first meeting last Tuesday i The vote to join was a reluc i tant one and the consensus of i opinion of the commissioners was that the and its annual membership fee was forced upon them by the federal government The Department of Housing and trban Development has threatened to cut off federal grants and aid to Aiken County j unless it joined the interstate I planning agency Lowery in his statement to day called for the new Aiken County Delegation to lead the I election reform movement in Columbia which would re move among other things the opportunity for arbitrary and sometimes unpredictable rul ings by the remote State Elec tion Commission Lowery deplored the state Election Commission hearing held last a week ago which re affirmed Mrs elec tion He complained that it was held without the presence of the principals involved in the dispute from Aiken County Nor did the commission request their presence said Lowery Lowerys concession comes after nearly a month of local and state Election Commis sion hearings over his elec tion protest which he filed against the invalidation of contested ballots Mrs Rudnick today said she was very pleased to accept her opponents concession She said she holds no animo sity towards him nor his sup porters and plans to work with him his supporters and all the people of Aiken Coun ty Lowerys decision makes Mrs 13vote margin of victory the end result of the long election dispute Last week the county Elec I tion Commission had counted 7 more contested ballots ac cording to an order from the state commission That count lead to no change in the 13 vote margin In conceding the election Lowery cited the great need for election law reform and clarification He called it ironic that the seven votes counted last Thursday were not the chal ballots that he and his attorney Glenn Smith were trying to get validated It was the 22 contested bal lots that lacked the birthdate of I the voter which he wanted opened and counted I know my Democratic col I leagues share with me and my fellow Republicans the view I that each voter who has a va i lid registration certificate I should be allowed to have his j vote counted said Lowery Or second best he added as them that a serious at I tempt be made to determine why his name has been re moved from the voter list
