Avalanche Disaster Strikes French TB Sanatorium
In Lallanches France a massive avalanche buried two dormitories and a nurses residence at a tuberculosis sanatorium. Ninety bodies feared after the slide, with only nine recovered after 11 hours. rescuers worked through the night as fear grew for the 70 missing tubercular boys under 15. Fourteen children and three adults in the main building wing survived unharmed.
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Lallanches
France
Ministry of Interior
Resi
Poets Write Odes At White House Tea Event
Eight foreign poets attending the International Poetry Festival at the Library of Congress met at the White House for tea with Mrs. Nixon. Louis Untermeyer and William Jay Smith improvised verses about fashion and the miniskirt prompting quick couplets about a knee and its absence.
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Washington
White House
Richard M. Nixon
Louis Untermeyer
Library of Congress
William Jay Smith
Nixon Signs Six Percent Federal Pay Increase
President Nixon signed a law granting a six per cent across the board raise for all civilian federal employees and Post Office workers retroactive to December 27. Military personnel receive a roughly eight point one per cent total compensation increase retroactive to January 1, costing about 2.6 billion dollars for 5.3 million workers.
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Washington
Nixon
Post Office Department
Soviet Naval and Air Maneuvers Begin Abroad
Moscow report says Soviet forces started large naval and air maneuvers in the North Atlantic the Mediterranean and the Sea of Japan. Krasnaya Zvezda notes the drills run through May with no start date or participant tally disclosed, though most of the navy is believed involved.
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Moscow
North Atlantic
Mediterranean
Sea of Japan
Defense Ministry
Krasnaya Zvezda
Red Star
Ministry
Record 121 Days Without Screwworms Reported
The Agriculture Department announced a mid month record of 121 days with no screwworm cases. Veterinarians from USDA ARS say this is the longest screw worm free period on record. The last confirmed case was Dec 15 in Comal County Texas. Screwworm larvae infect livestock through wounds and can maim or kill cattle and other animals.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
USDA
Agricultural Research Service
Comal County
Texas
Group Nudity Proposed as Coping Tool at Psych Association
A psychologist at the 1970 Western Psychological Association convention in San Francisco argues that properly supervised group nudity can ease loneliness. S F Kreitzer of Encino says therapy helps people shed the fear of rejection by allowing others to accept their true self through this method.
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Los Angeles
S.F. Kreitzer
Western Psychological Association
Carrier Hancock Returns From Vietnam War Patrol
ALEMEDA CALIF. AP The attack carrier Hancock brought back its 3000 man crew after patrols in Vietnamese waters. Air Wing 21 planes performed loops as sailors lined the dock on arrival. Two customs inspectors, Shirley Serena and Doris Mather, were flown out to clear red tape so the crew could depart the ship.
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Alemeda
Calif
Hancock
Vietnam
Air Wing 21
Toms
Shirley Serena
Doris Mather
Bureau of Customs
Benton Honored on 81st Birthday by Missouri History Society
Kansas City AP report says the State Historical Society of Missouri honored artist Thomas Hart Benton for distinguished service on his 81st birthday Wednesday.
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Kansas City
The
State Historical Society of Missouri
Thomas
Hart Benton
Senate approves consumer protection bill on unsolicited cards
A Senate backed bill banning distribution of unsolicited credit cards via mail moves to the House Post Office Committee. The measure, approved 79 to 1, covers banks retailers oil airlines and makes it a federal crime to use a stolen or lost card by anyone other than the holder.
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Washington
House
Congress
Senate
Post Office Committee
SPCA History and Humane Society in Aiken
The Aiken SPCA, 35 years old, operates a Banks Mill Road shelter with an endowment from Mrs. Fitch Gilbert and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark. It funds six staff, facilities, and care for abandoned animals, led by President Mrs. David Dows and a 13 member board.
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Aiken County
SPCA
Henry Bergh
Society For the Prevention of
New York City
Banks Mill Road
Fitch Gilbert
F. Ambrose Clark
David Dows
G.H. Bostwick
T.F. Maurice
Hospital lists county bad debts for 1968 and 1969
University Hospital submits a $122,690.66 write off of county accounts from 1968 and 1969. The indigence criteria were not included and about one third is from uncollected private accounts. Most debts date to 1968 1969 with concentrations in North Augusta Beech Island Belvedere and Jackson areas. North Augusta shows $36 507 versus Aiken $26 206 for individual accounts.
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University Hospital
George Little
Aiken County
Sam Nesbit
North Augusta
Beech Island
Belvedere
Jackson
Aiken
Beech Island A
Bathed
Burnettown
Bad Debt Analysis Highlights 1969 Aiken County Hospital Write‑Offs
University Hospital disclosed 1969 bad debt totaling 122690 for Aiken County patients. Local totals exceed 6000 with balances from 22 cents to near 4000. one outlying account was 13 cents. About half of Warrenville debt centered on a single patient of 5800. Nesbit notes some accounts could be collected and a few names are indigent. Hospital representatives will meet the county delegation Monday.
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University Hospital
Aiken County
Aiken
Warrenville
Nesbit
Aiken Hospital
North Augusta Ordered To Halt Sewage Dumping
The South Carolina Pollution Control Authority orders North Augusta to stop dumping raw sewage into the Savannah River by 1972 and requires United Merchants Co. to halt pollution of Horse Creek by 1973. Mayor Cecil Collins says a new $1.585 million sewage project could be in operation within two years as a response.
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South Carolina
Collins
Savannah
United Merchants Co
Legislators Work on Aiken County Supply Bill
Aiken County legislators debate final additions to the county supply bill with current figures over 1.7 million dollars. Proposed machinery for seven landfills is pending approval, with estimates ranging from 100000 to 250000 dollars. Last year’s county budget stood at 2,058,746 dollars.
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Aiken
Apollo 13 Clears Critical Hurdles
Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell Fred Haise and John Swigert recharged a weak battery and prepared other systems in the command ship as they aimed for a Friday re entry. A 15 hour LM powered recharge followed a crucial engine firing that shifted course toward Earth.
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Space Center, Houston
Apollo 13
Earth
James A. Lovell Jr
Fred W. Haise Jr
John L. Swigert Jr
Pacific Ocean
Space
Lovell
Mission Control
Gerald Griffin
Job Fair Planned For Aiken County Students
The Aiken County Guidance Counselor the Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce and North Augusta Chamber of Commerce with local industry sponsor a Job Fair on April 23 from 3 30 p m to 9 p m at the Aiken County Vocational School Highway 1 six miles south of Aiken for 11th and 12th graders seeking summer or full time employment The program aims to connect youth with firms seeking workers and to showcase abilities with no job guarantees. More local business participation is sought.
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Aiken County
Greater
Chamber
U S Battle Deaths Reach Seven Month High
AP reports that U S battle deaths rose to 141 Americans killed in action last week, the highest since September, while 457 were wounded as rocket and mortar attacks declined. South Vietnamese casualties were 542 dead and 1336 wounded, and enemy deaths reached 3458. US aircraft targeted Cambodian mortar sites after a Chau Doc Province outpost was struck.
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Saigon
U.S
USS
Cambodia
Chau Doc
Mekong
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Mike McManaway
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William Post
Ernest McCreary
Robert M. Goodyear
William K. Laughlin
Seymour Knox
William S. Carr
Wmd
J. E. Thorpe
Hugo Rutherford
Michael Laughlin
McManaway
Pacific
Commission ON Status OF Women
Robert E. McNair
State House
J. Allen Wheat
Association American University Women
Jean B. Berry
Governor's Commission of the Status of Women
McNair
Paul Moore
Anne Kornahrens
Dillon
S.C. Bpw
Carolyn Frederick
Greenville
UPI
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Gloverville
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Ridge Spring
Salley
Windsor
Horse Creek Valley
City of
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