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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1975
Page
2
Monetta Hood Cullum, 95, died yesterday in Aiken County Hospital. Funeral arrangements by Davis Funeral Home Ridge Spring. Burial planned at the church cemetery. Friends may call at the residence or Jackson-Brooks Funeral Home Aiken.
Walter Franklin Rich 55 of 111 Lehigh Ave died Wednesday. Services held today at 3 p.m. at Poseys Funeral Home Chapel North Augusta with Father Quay D. Rice officiating. Burial in Pineview Memorial Gardens with Masonic rites. Active and honorary pallbearers are Belvedere Masonic Lodge members.
Todd West on Story infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Story of 113 Hawthorne Place died Wednesday morning in an Augusta hospital. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Pine View Memorial Gardens with surviving relatives including sister Karin Lyn Story and grandparents listed.
The funeral for Miss Helen Holston age 23 of 141 Jefferson Ave Brooklyn will be held Sunday at 4 30 p m in Thankful Grove Baptist Church with Reverend H J Dicks officiating.
Aiken Standard established 1867 publishes each afternoon except weekends. The paper lists contact and postal details, leased wire AP use rights, and policy notes on republication, errors, and advance payments.
Dr Wilbur Tuten Jr and his wife Sudie were wounded about 3 am when a gunman entered the Fairfax home. The couple, ages about 60, were hospitalized in Charleston after emergency surgery. The intruder left no break in sign and cut telephone lines. the doctor fired as he pursued him. The State Law Enforcement Division joined the investigation.
Transportation Secretary Coleman says the eight month Daylight Saving Time period modestly reduced energy use traffic deaths and violent crime. He urges extending DST through 1977 to allow further analysis and confirm its national impact.
Community Calendar lists Today events at Acacia No 315 AFM in North Augusta and tomorrow activities including Beech Island Agricultural Club, AA meetings at St Bartholemew Episcopal Church, and Sunday worship options. Weekday items include Social Security info at the Old Jail House Barnwell, museum hours in Aiken County, Rotary and Sertoma at Commercial Hotel, Lions Club at Lions Hut Hey, and Palmetto Toastmasters at the Commercial Hotel.
Health officials declare war on the mosquito to halt an epidemic of the St Louis strain of sleeping sickness in Mississippi with 103 suspected or confirmed cases across 20 counties and 11 deaths in the Greenville area. Officials expect sporadic cases statewide and urge mosquito control and personal protection.
Congress enters a month long recess amid a looming presidential veto on energy price controls and a heated divide over renewing US arms shipments to Turkey. The Senate approved resuming Turkish arm sales, while House delays action until Sept 9.
President Ford told the European security conference that peace is not a piece of paper and urged a charter that means what it says. He emphasized human rights, denounced empty pledges, and called for arms reduction and East West cooperation to ease tensions.
Greene outlines county readiness for nuclear and natural disasters with 16 mobile detectors on Paramed ambulances and 10 stationary detectors. Aiken County trained for a mock airplane crash with fake nuclear materials, while county offices offer free safety booklets.
AP report on 1973 LEAA crime study based on Census polling in about 9,900 households and 1,535 businesses per city finds Miami and Washington among the safest big cities. San Francisco and Minneapolis show highest victimization rates. burglary rates also lowest for Miami and Washington.
The Johannesburg Star reports Portugal plans a two month airlift beginning Monday to evacuate about 200000 Portuguese from Angola amid war. No official confirmation yet from Portuguese authorities.
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