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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1970
Page
4
The piece assesses the United Nations twenty five year mark noting failure to unify nations and veto power obstacles. It critiques the League of Nations legacy and U S financial burden while warning of fragile peace and Vietnam crisis. It also mentions South Carolina Senate committee reforms and ongoing population growth concerns.
The Senate small business subcommittee chaired by Harrison Williams Jr has finished hearings on the franchise industry awaiting a formal report. Testimony suggests some celebrities from sports and show business may face fraud indictments for licensing their names to promoters. The sector earns about 90 billion dollars annually, about 10 percent of GNP, with many ventures legitimate while others show fraud and questionable practices.
Letter highlights cruelty to animals and humans, praises the newly formed Aiken Humane Society, urges support and memberships, notes charity aims including spaying, better bird care in stores, and securing homes for strays. Society seeks shelter funding and oversight of cruelty, with officers led by Mrs. Culbreath and others.
The 1899 Downer School portrait in Beech Island features Orville Freeman then principal and three teachers plus numerous local pupils. Freeman, Auburn graduate, later worked in a Washington Agriculture division. the image includes many area residents and notes missing classmates and a welcomed teacher Miss Lottie Chafee of Aiken who later married Alfred C. Hammond.
A critical piece arguing that government decay follows from permissive labor policy and frequent strikes by federal workers. It traces origins to 1962 and Kennedy era unions, notes New York and Rockefeller era lax penalties, and urges Congress to curb federal unions by terminating strikers and restoring constitutional limits.
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