Delegation to study North Augusta hospital proposal
The Aiken County Legislative Delegation agreed to study a North Augusta citizens group plan for a small 40 to 50 bed satellite hospital serving Belvedere Beech Island and North Augusta. Funding would be through taxes and Hill Burton funds with possible two district bonding. The group asked official status to continue the study.
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North Augusta Hospital
Aiken County
North Augusta
Carl Shealy
Shealy
Belvedere
Beech Island
Gilbert E. McMillan
Aiken Hospital
John H. Williams
Robert Smith
Hill-Burton
Lower Savannah Development Commission
McMillan
Ditch
District 1
Sonny Boy Holley
Aiken
Savannah River
LEAP
Aiken Area
Progress In Aiken Rehabilitation Workshop Moves Forward
The Aiken Rehabilitation Workshop, seeking its own facilities, aims to self perpetuate services to the handicapped. Al Sauerborn, its chairman, notes the advancement and the upcoming May completion if weather allows, with related updates on Rollingwood Road.
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Aiken
al Sauerborn
Rollingwood Road
Arkwright Mills to End Operations at Camp Croft
About 340 employees at the Camp Croft division in Spartanburg will lose their jobs as Arkwright Mills plans to shut yarn and weaving operations due to foreign competition and rising cotton costs. The shutdown, beginning around April 15 and lasting several weeks, includes relocation efforts to other plants or local industries.
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Spartanburg
Camp Croft
Arkwright Mills
M. L. Cates Jr
Arkwright
Cates
Actor Hugh O’Brian Ordered to Increase Support
Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Everett Porter ruled that actor Hugh O’Brian must pay $550 monthly in child support for his 17 year old son. The order raises the previous $250 payments as the youth attends college and has his own apartment.
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Los Angeles
Hugh O'Brian
Everett Porter
Hugh Donald Krampe
Stravinsky Dies at 88 in New York Home
Igor Stravinsky, famed composer of the 20th century, died of an apparent heart attack at his Fifth Avenue apartment in New York. He was 88, after about a year of illness. Born June 18, 1882 in near St Petersburg, he rose to fame in 1910 with The Firebird in Paris.
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New York
Igor Stravinsky
Fifth Avenue
Stravinsky
St. Petersburg
Russia
Paris
Armstrong Improves After Heart Ailment Hospitalization
Doctors at Beth Israel report Louis Armstrong stronger and more cheerful after heart ailment hospitalization on March 15. He developed respiratory problems and was on the critical list before improving and resuming oral nourishment.
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New York
Beth Israel Hospital
Louis “Satchmo
Armstrong
Abrams On Vacation In Formosa For Six Days
Gen. Creighton W. Abrams commander of U S forces in Vietnam is on a six day vacation in Formosa with his family. He arrived Sunday night from Saigon and will tour central and southern Formosa before leaving Friday for Hong Kong en route to Bangkok and then Saigon.
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Taipei
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S
Vietnam
Formosa
Abrams
Saigon
Hong Kong
Bangkok
Last Chance for $530 Stumper at Aiken Standard
The final chance to win the 530 prize Stumper puzzle is before noon tomorrow. Pick up extra copies at the Aiken Standard office located at 124 Rutland Drive and return them with name address and telephone number.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Soviet leaders hint at cooling tensions with United States
White House observers note Brezhnev and Gromyko offered unusually conciliatory remarks at the Communist Party congress. Sources say the moderating tone may reflect domestic economic troubles and a desire to ease international strains for now.
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Washington
White House
Brezhnev
Gromyko
Last American Troops Pull Out Of Khe Sanh
AP recounts the final U S withdrawal from the Khe Sanh base amid ongoing North Vietnamese pressure in the central highlands. A convoy of 300 men and equipment exited at dawn with tear gas crystals used to deny access, while clashes and shelling continued at Tan Canh and other outposts.
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Khe Sanh
Saigon
South Viet
Nam
Laos
Quang Tri
Central Highlands
Trung Hien
Tan Canh
22Nd Infantry Division
Clark criticizes Nixon intercession in Calley case
Former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark says Nixon acted from emotion by intervening in Lt. William L. Calley Jr. case. Clark argues a government of laws requires the judicial system to proceed without executive influence and notes concerns about Vietnam-era prosecutions and broader policy.
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Athens, Ga
Atty
Ramsey Clark
Nixon
William L. Calley Jr
Clark
Vietnam
Calley
My Lai
Lyndon B. Johnson
Southeast Asia
National Democratic Party
University of Georgia
Law School
Drug Use May Soon Decline
Washington AP The nation’s top narcotics officer says drug use may fall within five years if Vietnam veterans do not open a new heroin source. John E. Ingersoll director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs says the bureau is going all out to prevent Indochina heroin traffic and notes a dramatic rise in heroin use by American soldiers in Southeast Asia but has no figures. He cites some success in cutting off sources in Turkey and France.
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Washington
John E. Ingersoll
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Indochina
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Ingersoll
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Defense Department
Turkey
France
Thurmond signals independence from Nixon in 1970 bid
Local GOP leaders react with little surprise as Sen Strom Thurmond states he will not campaign as a Nixon Republican next year. Thurmond stands by his independent stance while acknowledging past strategy and possible reelection strength. Some see the move as best for Thurmond ahead of future elections.
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Strom Thurmond
S.C
Gilbert E. McMillan
District 7
Wallace Blackwell
North Augusta
Blackwell
Thurmond
Nixon
Albert Watson
Watson
McMillan
Sen. Thurmond
State Senate
Hoover Becomes Political Football in FBI Row
Democratic Leader Hale Boggs accuses the FBI of tapping congressmen’s phones and spying on campuses as he calls for J. Edgar Hoover’s resignation. Attorney General John N. Mitchell replies from Key Biscayne.
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Washington
John Edgar Hoover
FBI
Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Hitler
Germany
Soviet Union
Boggs
United States
J. Edgar Hoover
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Key
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Paul Grant
Orvel Kelly
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Andrei Gromyko
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Carl McIntire
Collingswood
N.J
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