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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1970
Page
5
A birthday message outlines Aries to Pisces traits for April 13 14 1970. It notes resilience in face of failure and travel love while cautioning against excessive trust and misplaced monetary sacrifice. It ends with daily guidance for tomorrow based on birthday selection.
In Columbia AP report filibusters blocked adjournment hopes of South Carolina's 1970 legislature. Debates stretched past 2 a.m. over an omnibus bond bill and two tax and lending measures. One bill would tax exempt Shrine property in Charleston County, another would require origination fees for lending institutions.
Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas will address the Governor's Dinner in Greenville. Mills chairs the House Ways and Means Committee and has served in Congress since 1938. The Greenville event closes three Democratic fund raising functions this year after stops in Columbia and Charleston.
The House Ways Means Committee reviews a proposal to limit government health program doctor fees to typical rates, not the top prices, a plan dubbed the 75th doctor plan. Closed-door discussions indicate growing support for the measure.
South Carolina Teenage Democrats at a Columbia convention endorsed a unitary school system and condemned racial violence tied to desegregation in Lamar. About 75 delegates, ages 13 to 18, approved resolutions on environmental protection and relief for domestic textile industries. Harry Heizer was elected president, with Vince Eck Betsy Rader Paul Vernon Susan Lavyak and Eddie Lee as officers. Judy Corley named Teenage Democrat of the Year.
A gasoline truck filled with water inadvertently pumped into the station’s underground tanks causing many stalled cars across Pensacola. The service station remained closed while the watered fuel was pumped from the tanks.
RCA delivered the AN MPS-36 mobile missile tracking radar to the U S Army at White Sands Missile Range New Mexico. The two trailer mounted unit can be towed by road aircraft or ship and deploy within eight hours. It tracks targets up to 40 000 mph at 32 000 nautical miles and uses a digital data processor on a magnetic tape recorder.
Wofford College to remove D and F grades starting next fall substituting placement credit and no credit options while maintaining A B and C. The change ends the grade point system and requires 120 semester hours with C or better for graduation eligibility.
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