Aiken Standard (Newspaper) - July 10, 1973, Aiken, South Carolina Have You Heard The residents of the Aiken Nursing Home yesterday had a pretty good idea for solving the heat problem During a pro gram of singing good old songs put on by some of the women in town a couple of women suggested that a few Christmas songs might change thoughts of heat to thoughts of cool So the 30 or more residents and visitors began gaily singing about jingle bells and snow Bicycling is growing all the time as evidenced by the cy M the highway and the multitude of them in town How ever there is a large segment of the local population who will wait to take op that sport until they come out with an air con model of the old two wheeler 0 097 S C 611371 Vol 106No 137 14 Pages Aiken South Carolina Tuesday July 101973 lOc Per Single Copy Telephone 6482311 Land Use Plan Approved County Public Library It was five months ago this week that Aiken was snugly nestled under 14 inches plus of snow City To Purchase New Garbage Trucks t fay O Graham Strained By Crusades MINNEAPOLIS Minn Graham who will be 55 in November says his years of holding huge outdoor evangelistic services around the world are becoming a phys ical strain He told a news conference Monday that he cant continue preaching from second base much longer The crusades soon will begin depending more on television to carry his mes sage he said Graham said the 11day cru sade which he will open next Friday at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St Paul may be one of his last stadium cru sades By SKIP SEISER Staff Reporter A 20year Community Facilities Future Land Use and Public Improve ments Plan as a guide to future development and the recommendation to pur chase three rear loading garbage trucks were ap proved last night at the City Council meeting The Community Facilities Plan presented by Richard Pfefferkorn Sydney Carter engineering consultants from Augusta sets out the buildings equipment streets and utilities which support the health safety and general welfare of Ai kens citizens Pfefferkorn said that the extent of these facilities determine where the future development of the city will take place This 20year plan 1973 Pfefferkorn said in cludes growth plans for schools fire and police protection water sewage streets parks and recrea tion facilities the library hospitals and other health facilities municipal build ing communication facili ties and transportation He said the city will need a fire station in the growing western area of the city by 1990 along with 10 recrea tion areas per 1000 persons It was recommended by Sydney Carter that the city build a new administration building within the next five to 10 years and expand the runway and security fencing at the municipal airport on Highway 1 north City Manager Roland Windham said the city will purchase three Dempster diesel trucks rear loading refuse packers for about The trucks will be sold to the city by Sanco Corp of WinstonSalem NC Windham said the city will go from the train system of refuse removal presently used by the city to the more efficient time saving and sanitary garbage trucks The Future Land Use Plan deals with the orderly de velopment of the city from 197393 The Public Im provement Plan consists of a fiveyear capital improve ment program Public Works Center Public Safe ty Building and pose and a second 15year period 197893 of public property improve ment said Pfefferkorn at the last City Council meet ing The Director of the Aiken County Association for Im proved Justice Gary Allen told City Council that black people have been beat up by the city police and should be investigated Chief JC Busbee tor of the Public Safety Department in reply to Allens charges denied any police brutality on the part of Aikens Police Depart ment Set PLAN Pi If US Czechs Set Negotiations WASHINGTON AP Be War II fore leaving Czechoslovakia Foreign Minister Bohuslav Secretary of State William P an energetic advo Rogers set the stage for of closer contact with the ping up the will visit the United tions with the Communist state States for the UN General As Three dates were set In meetings in September tember US officials will begin and October and see Rogers negotiating in the Czechoslovak then capital of Prague claims for Third negotiations will begin compensation for million in here Oct 22 on a possible scien property that education and cultural ex was nationalized after World change program Fight Shapes Over Farm WASHINGTON AP The the level of guaranteed income House was ready today for a for farmers a socalled target battle over a that would price system of supports for the plow new ground for Americas three basic crops of cotton fanners and eventually could wheat and feed grain such as have its sharpest impact consumers and taxpayers Under the target price con Fights were expected over cept crop subsidies that run the level of guaranteed incomes about billion a year would for farmers and proposed new be eliminated as long as cur limits on government payments rent relationships between farm to largescale growers The and crop production visions were in a fouryear costs continue In effect i farm program and food stamp prices stay high there would be no government payment to The Nixon administration has farmers attacked the heart of the Uruguay Demonstrators Arrested MONTEVIDEO Uruguay tial palace Monday night wa AP Hundreds or largest were arrested and demonstration so far The scores injured as police sang the national an tacked 5000 marchers and repeated the phrase ing the dictatorship in tremble guay The police attacked the Leaders of the outlawed labor marchers on 18th of July Ave unions ordered a stepup in the nue near the palace and the general strike that has nearly fighting raged more than two paralyzed the country since hours The police fired tear gas President Juan M grenades then moved in with dissolved congress two weeks billy clubs Mounted officers ago and began ruling by in using the flat side of cree their sabers The march on the presiden Convoy Runs Phnom Penh Gauntlet Mitchell Says First Plan Involved Taps Girls Code Names Horror Story Witness Reveals WASHINGTON AP Former Atty Gen John N Mitchell testified today that when G Gordon Liddy first broached plans for 1972 political espionage it was a complete horror story that involved wire taps girls and code names Mitchell told the Senate Watergate committee that in hindsight he not only should have thrown Liddy out of office I should have thrown him out of the window Testifying about a meeting on Jan 27 1972 Mitchell said Liddy outlined a political intelligence proposal that just was beyond the pale Mitchell said as he recalls the meeting I told him to go burn the and said what President Nixons campaign organization was interested in was informa tion gathering and protection against demonstrators A CHAT WITH REPORTERS Mitchell talks with reporters prior to appearing before congressional committee AP PHNOM PENH Cambodia AP Five oil tankers and an ammunition barge reached Phnom Penh Monday night after running a gantlet of heavy fire from insurgents on both banks of the Mekong Riv er Another tanker was aban in flames 27 miles down river from the Cambodian capi tal US Phantom and Corsair soon clouds hampered them The rebels raked the river con voy with 75mm recoilless rifle fire rockets and small arms fire The tanker Mekong Trader was hit and set ablaze as it rounded Koh Island two miles above the Cambodian riv er base at Luong The vessel was beached on the island and the Filipino crew was taken off by Cambodian Food Store Cited For Stamp Violations Aiken Bounty food of 307 Center Street been removed from the federal food stamp program for violations the US Department of tures Food and Nutrition Serv ice in Atlanta reported today The grocery which is owned by James A Johnson Sr was disqualified from the food stamp program for six months starting June 24 after being charged with selling ineligible items for USDA food stamp coupons Among the items were cig diapers drug products baby lotion and motor oil An FNS regional official explained that the store will not be allowed to accept food coupons during the cation period Theft Of Laughing Gas Doesnt Bring Laughter By JUDY RICH Staff Reporter The theft yesterday of six empty ders of nitrous oxide better known as laugh ing gas is no laughing matter according to Public Safety Director J C Busbee and Hospital Administrator Samuel Nesbit said the cylinders were stolen yes about noon from a fenced in portion of lot at the Aiken County Hospital The cylinders were described as 30 to 36 inches tall and five to six feet in diameter Busbee said a chain link fence was cut to re move the cylinders Although the cylinders are empty Nesbit said they are still extremely dangerous and may explode if handled incorrectly or over heated Nesbit said nitrous oxide used as an anes thetic at the hospital may remain inside the cylinders to some degree People dont realize these gas cylinders are highly dangerous and if a leak develops and someone lights a cigarette they could blow a car to pieces warned Busbee Thundershowers Hot Weather On Tap Again The Aiken vicinity weath er forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with continued hot temperatures and a chance of thundershowers this afternoon tonight and tomorrow High temperatures today will be in the lower 90s with an overnight low tonight in the lower 70s and a high to morrow around 90 The probability of rain is 40 per cent today 30 per cent tonight and 50 per cent tomorrow Winds will be variable at 5 to 10 miles per hour or less tonight Winds will be briefly stronger and gusty in the vi of thundershowers The extended outlook Thursday through Saturday calls for widely scattered showers and continued hot temperatures High temperatures for the period will be in the 90s and overnight lows will be in the 70s jets strafed the gunboats One crewman was on both banks of the river for wounded some 15 miles but low mon Dollar Position Strengthens LONDON AP The US dollar rose the dollar opened significantly markets opened the stronger on Europes foreign day then climbed again on the exchange markets today after a strength of indications that the rally in the closing hours of US government was using Monday some of its foreign reserves to The dollar gained in London support its currency abroad Paris Frankfurt Brussels and Washington denied this but Zurich but the mood of the the belief persisted among Eu markets remained uncertain ropean dealers today Dealers pointed out that the School Board To Decide On 32 Teachers The Aiken County Board of Education will bold its regular meeting tonight in the board room at the Ed Center at The agenda will include approval of 32 teachers to fill vacancies information pertaining to free and lunches agreement between Vo Rehabilitate and School District Coopera tive Program of Services for Handicapped Asphalt Truck Car Collide NA Woman 40 Is Killed NORTH AUGUSTA A 40yearold North Augusta woman was pronounced dead at the scene of an ac cident after the car in which she was driving yesterday was struck by a loaded as dump truck and pin ned to a tree North Augustas second fatality accident victim this year was identified as Mrs Bunnie Ward Winn of 2108 Vireo Drive NA Officers said Mrs Winns daughter Jeanette 16 a passenger in the vehicle was treated and released at University Hospital Mrs Winn was pronounc ed dead at the scene by Ai ken County Coroner J L Gregory The accident occurred at pm at Georgia Ave nue and Road according to investigating officers Doug Hixon Rich ard Johnson and MW Blackwell According to witnesses Mrs Winns car was travel ing south on Georgia Ave when a dump truck travel ing west on Rd apparently ran a red light and struck the Winn car on the right side Witnesses at the scene stated both vehicles travel ed across four lanes of traf fic pinning the Winn vehicle against a tree Public Safety Director Walter Newman had high praise for bystander Mrs Barbara Eaton who admin mouth to mouth re suscitation to Mrs Winn and aided in freeing her from the vehicle Newman described Mrs Eatons alert actions yes as a great assist ance to the police officers there Quick actions were also displayed by officer Black well who administered mouth to mouth resuscita tion Newman said Mrs Winns seat belt had to be cut off of her to extract her through the windshield of the car The truck believed to be carrying about five tons of asphalt was driven by Ed die Lemon of 649 Horry Street Aiken The truck belonged to Aiken Asphalt Company Newman said no charges have been made in the acci dent pending a coroners in quest He added that the Winn vehicle is scheduled to be inspected today by an officer of the state main tenance division Mitchell also said I violently with the earlier testi mony of former campaign dep ty Jeb Stuart Magruder that t a Feb 4 meeting the then general was involved n discussions of the Democrat c National Committee as a tar et for electronic surveillance Mitchell said he made major about Nixons ion campaign while he was till head of the Justice Depart ment Mitchell testifying under sub said Nixon had asked lim to keep an eye on the campaign committee to see hat they didnt get out of line over The former Cabinet officer thus appeared to contradict his own previous testimony before Lhe Senate Judiciary Com where he testified on March 15 1972 that he had no reelection campaign responsi Mitchell said today that he saw frequent memoranda about such things as state presiden tial primaries budgets and hiring of personnel At the start of his testimony at the Senate committees tele vised hearings Mitchell said he joined the late J Edgar Hoover in opposing a domestic in plan that con templated burglaries President Nixon has said he approved the plan but res it five days later on July 28 1970 because of Hoo vers opposition 1 opposed the plan for the very simple reason that in the case of domestic problems I was very much opposed to sur entry mail covers others aspects involved at the time Mitchell told he committee In the opening phase of his under questioning by counsel Samuel Dash Mitchell discussed do intelligence proposals and plans prior to the Water gate political wiretapping He said he had not been aware of the socalled plumb ers operation set up by the White House to ferret out news leaks when that was created Mitchell said he learned of that operation after June 17 1972 the date of the wiretap bur glary at Democratic national headquarters
