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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1973
Page
1
Roxanne Newman of North Augusta and Robbie Sims with Tanjia Dawn Wilkins of Aiken earn recent Who's Who honors. Aiken USC campus buzzes with activity as heat and broken AC keep students moving between classes with books and fans.
Mission Control said Skylab 2 could end as early as Friday due to a problem in the propulsion system of the command ship that will bring the astronauts home.
Rep. Vanik lists 11 major firms including McDonnell Douglas Republic Steel Occidental Burlington Northern Eastern Airlines Trans World Airlines UAL United Airlines Northwest Consolidated Edison American Electric Power and Pennzoil as reporting substantial net income yet paying no income tax due to legal writeoffs. International Telephone & Telegraph paid an effective tax of 1 percent.
Cambodian government troops battled infiltrators as insurgents severed Highway 1 at Deyeth, 13 miles southeast of Phnom Penh. U S airpower kept pressure on rebel positions around the clock while defending forces fought to clear bunkers in Robas Angkanh amid rumors of a militia collapse and about 100 missing soldiers.
The AP notes the dollar strengthening against European currencies with a rate of 4.105 francs in Paris and 2.8560 Swiss francs in Zurich. It also opened at 2.5155 marks in Frankfurt and at 2.35 francs in London, with minor gains and losses across markets.
A federal judge held International Business Machines in civil contempt for refusing to provide documents in a government antitrust suit. The court imposed a 150000 dollar daily fine starting Friday unless IBM hands over about 700 requested documents. IBM planned to seek a stay at a Bridgeport appeals hearing.
President Nixon vetoed a $185 million emergency medical services program calling it too costly and an intrusion on state and local governments. He urged a limited federal role as a demonstration effort while states and communities build their own EMS systems.
St. Thad deus Episcopal Church will lease a York Street residence to Helping Hands Inc to house neglected and abandoned children. The facility aims to relieve jail overcrowding by providing foster care options, with a $22,000 first year budget and $5,000 for salaries.
The Aiken vicinity forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with warm temperatures and a 50 percent chance of rain today. Tonight and tomorrow bring lower 90s highs and overnight lows in the lower 70s with rain chances of 40 and 30 percent respectively. Winds will be southwest at about 10 mph today, easing to 5 mph tonight. The weekend outlook shows warm temperatures and a high possibility of showers and thundershowers.
About 15 people attended the first session of magistrate's school at USC Aiken with participants from Aiken's magistrates, constables, sheriff and police departments. Judge William C. Stanley noted long standing issues such as education, pay and press scrutiny while outlining the evolution from shade tree courts to the modern South Carolina Code of Laws and promising next lessons on the 1895 Constitution.
HEW in Atlanta says obstetric Medicaid work will not be done by Dr. C H Pierce until the sterilization issue is resolved. Dr. Niles Borop and Dr. Kenneth Owens in Aiken County also decline new Medicaid cases. University Hospital in Augusta will bill indigent patients referred by Dr. Archie Ellis and include Aiken County in federal stats under these referrals. The Attorney General's office and Social Services probe potential coercion and equal treatment across cases.
The Labor Department reports the largest monthly drop in wholesale prices in 25 years for July, led by farm products and processed foods and feeds. Declines were 4.1 percent unadjusted and 4.6 percent adjusted, with farm prices posting the biggest one month drop on an adjusted basis.
A 19 year old North Augusta youth Thomas William Robinson was killed by a 12 gauge sawed off shotgun at the Belvedere trailer park. William Reno 21 of Carroway Trailer Park Belvedere was arrested for murder. Police also report Willie Lloyd of Aiken charged with unlawful weapon possession. Event investigated by Woodrow Wilson and Ben Willis of the Aiken County Sheriff’s Department. The report includes unrelated July wholesale price index figures from the Labor Department.
Aiken County farmers Oliver and Arthur Mowry lost their suit after U S District Judge Robert F Chapman ruled electricity needs outweighed ecological objections. The Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc line through Warrenville North Augusta and New Ellenton was deemed lawful despite claims of habitat and stream damage.
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