Apollo 13 Lands Safely After Near Moon Mission
Apollo 13 splashed down in the Pacific southeast of Samoa ending a perilous four day flight. Astronauts James Lovell Fred Haise and John Swigert were rescued by USS Iwo Jima and USS Hall after a service module explosion aborted the moon landing. The crew used a push pull separation and re entered using the lunar module as a shield. Heaters and batteries were reactivated to ensure a safe return.
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Moon
Earth
James A. Lovell Jr
Fred W. Haise Jr
John L. Swigert Jr
Pacific Ocean
Lovell
Swigert
Lovell and
Haise
Samoa
Pacific
Mission Control
America
James Lovell
Jack Swigert
Fred Haise
Pago Pago
American Samoas
Iwo Jima
UPI
Newspaper Schedules Adjustment of Prices
Beginning Monday the Aiken Standard will raise prices for subscribers due to higher costs for supplies newsprint labor and transportation. A portion of the increase will reward carriers for prompt delivery. New rates by carrier are 35 cents weekly 1.50 monthly and 18 annual. Mail rates: 5 for three months 9.50 for six months and 18.50 per year.
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Aiken Standard
Morgantown Coeds Found Dead After 3 Month Search
The headless bodies of Karen Ferrell and Mared Malarik, both 19, were found by National Guards men and state police about 10 miles from West Virginia University. One body was nude and the other clothed in a ravine near a lovers lane after they were last seen hitchhiking home from a movie on January 18.
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
Brezhnev Plants Tree at Lenin Anniversary Ceremony
Brezhnev joins Soviet dignitaries in Ulyanovsk to mark Lenin's birth centenary. He vows Leninism will bring the end of exploitation and oppression and the worldwide triumph of socialism, while acknowledging the struggle and efforts required to win final victory.
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Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party
Ulyanovsk
Lenin
Brezhnev
Auction of Dallas Book Depository Sells for 650000
The Texas School Book Depository, the site linked to President Kennedy's assassination, sold for 650000 to Aubrey Mayhew of Nashville. Mayhew, a Kennedy memorabilia collector, may turn the seven story building into a shrine. Kennedy was struck by a rifle from a sixth floor window during the 1963 motorcade. The Warren Commission attributed the shots to Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Dallas
Texas School Book Depository
John F. Kennedy
Aubrey Mayhew
Nashville, Tenn
Kennedy
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
Singer Bobbie Gentry and William Harrah Divorce After Four Months
The four month marriage of singer Bobbie Gentry and William Harrah ended in Reno divorce court. A Reno office release said the parting was friendly with no property settlement and no alimony. Harrah, 58, and Miss Gentry, 27, wed in Reno last December after her showroom appearance at his casino.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Bobbie Gentry
William Harrah
Reno
Harrah
Able
Nevada
Miss Gentry
Inquest Transcript Impounded Delays Public Release
The transcript of testimony and the judge’s report in the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest will remain sealed at Suffolk Superior Court for several days. Clerk Edward V. Keating said documents will not be public before next Tuesday. A suit by Sidney R. Lipman delayed Wednesday’s planned release.
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Boston
Suffolk
Edward V. Keating
Sidney R. Lipman
Edgartown
Massive Allied Buildup Along Cambodia Border
South Vietnamese and American forces mass along the Cambodian frontier near Route One. A U S 25th Infantry Division battalion has relieved Vietnamese troops 10 miles inside Cambodia and seized the Blue patrol base 34 miles northwest of the border crossing. Radar teams at Blue relay data to Cu Chi headquarters.
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Vietnam
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Cambodia
25Th Division
Blue
Cu Chi
Rescuers Battle Landslides After Deadly Sanatorium Avalanche
Endangered workers sift debris of the Roc des Fiz avalanche that killed 72 at a children's tuberculosis sanatorium. Rescue teams worked through the night under floodlights, recovering 42 bodies by midmorning as new slides halted efforts. Skeptics questioned the official ruling that the disaster was unforeseeable.
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Sallanches
France
Roc Des Fiz
Public Defender Approved for Aiken County
Aiken County Bar Association approved a Public Defender Corporation with a five member board to hire counsel for those unable to pay for criminal defense. The state funds about 150 per 1 000 population, with local matching needed, and operational start set for July 1 1970. Board includes Frampton Toole Jr Julian B Salley Jr B Henderson Johnson Jr C Marshall Cain and Benjamin Surasky.
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Aiken County
Frampton Toole Jr
Bar Association
Julian B. Salley Jr
B. Henderson Johnson Jr
C. Marshall Cain
Benjamin Surasky
Education Association Installs New President in Aiken
Dr Lelia Bradley was inducted as president of the Aiken County Education Association at a meeting in the Aiken Junior High auditorium. New officers Marion Webb Flossie Hammond and Grace Clark were installed. Retiring teachers were honored with tokens of appreciation as about 200 educators attended.
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Lelia Bradley
Aiken
Lula Nicholson
Marion Webb
Flossie Hammond
Grace Clark
L. B. Ergle
Ergle
Light Peach Crop Expected In State
South Carolina’s 1970 peach crop will be smaller than last year’s 6.3 million bushels and 17.8 million dollars in value. March freezes cut into prospects across the Piedmont, Ridge, Coastal Plains and Sand Hills as overbudded trees were thinned. Aiken County’s James Evans notes a fair area crop, with some varieties destroyed by cold and late frosts and others yielding about a half crop. Some Monetta Ridge Spring orchards will require thinning due to late blooming.
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South Carolina
Federal State
Piedmont
Ridge
Coastal Plains
Sand Hills
James Evans
Aiken County
Aiken
Monetta Ridge
Antiwar Trial Resumes In Columbia
The trial of operators of Columbia's padlocked UFO antiwar coffee house on charges of public nuisance resumed with lawyers warned to stay past midnight if needed. Judge E Harry Agnew allowed the Berkeley Barb excerpts to be read, debating whether passages are profane.
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Columbia
E. Harry Agnew
General Sessions Court
Berkeley Barb
California
Thomas D. Broadwater
John Foard
Foard
Broadwater
One Dead In Highway 215 Two-Car Wreck Near Aiken
A two car crash on Highway 215 east of Aiken near the patrol office left at least one person dead and three others seriously injured. Two ambulances transported victims to Aiken County Hospital. details were not immediately available from the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
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South Carolina Highway Patrol
Highway 215
Aiken
Aiken County Hospital
Humane Society Aiken Aims To Supplement SPCA Work
Aiken residents form the Aiken Humane Society to supplement the county SPCA. The group plans a separate shelter on Wire Road and funds a spay program for stray dogs. It will improve care for pets and push for stopping dyed chickens and ducks sales during holidays.
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Aiken Humane Society
Wire Road
Humane Society
SPCA
Crusade
Stueres
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Virginia Elkins
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Mary Daechler
Salley Mae Watson
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Francis C. Wade
Langley-Bath-Clearwater
Straford G. Woodberry
Ethel H. Glover
Mamie Anderson
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Ronnie Hoover
Wagener High
Pinecrest
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Henry Bergh
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