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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1975
Page
1
Third District Rep. Butler C Derrick Jr warns against excessive deficit spending while noting a 1980 balanced budget target. He calls for saving incentives, reduced fuel consumption, higher mileage cars, and a windfall profits tax to curb oil company gains amid stalled energy policy.
A Continental Airlines 727 crashed after lifting off in Denver, skidding across a grassy field. All 131 aboard survived with 38 treated in hospitals and 15 admitted. The event drew harrowing descriptions from passengers as rescue crews responded.
Hopeful Sargent Shriver visits Jackson Mississippi for a Democratic fund-raising reception. Shriver, who ran with George McGovern in 1972, appears at the event in her bid for the presidential nomination.
Pro Communist Premier Vasco Goncalves formed a temporary cabinet in Lisbon and said the government would use severity and repression against opponents. He warned the nation of more austerity as he struggled to assemble a stopgap cabinet during Portugal's 15 month revolution crisis.
Florence Chadwick sits at a San Diego brokerage desk viewing a news photo of her August 8 1950 English Channel record swim. The 25th anniversary catches her unaware as she recalls setting 15 world swimming marks.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ihsan Sabri Caglayangil warned in Ankara that U S military installations in Turkey would be eliminated if the arms embargo against Turkey continues. He offered no deadline and noted that lifting the embargo could lead to a new defense relationship through negotiations.
Several House and Senate delegations travel overseas during the August recess at taxpayers expense. Trips include France, the Soviet Union, Romania, England, Germany, Cuba, China, Italy and Switzerland. Critics call them junkets. defenders say they broaden knowledge. Spouses often accompany members, but their expenses are not funded by Congress.
Rep Mendel Davis may join Sen Strom Thurmond on a fact finding trip during August. A 19 member House delegation led by Speaker Carl Albert tours the Soviet Union Romania and Yugoslavia meeting leaders and visiting industrial and agricultural sites. Robert Michel says the mission aims to ease tensions after Apollo Soyuz and Helsinki and to secure firm dollars and good prices for US grain sales.
The Majik Market on York Street and Rutland Drive marks one year since the 23 year old female employee Jane Alvarez was murdered. A warrant was issued in December for a suspect held in the Central Correctional Institute Youth Division, with ongoing police and SLED laboratory investigations.
James P. Hoffa expressed hope his father James R. Hoffa would be found alive as FBI questions center on Charles O'Brien. O'Brien, Hoffa's former bodyguard, was questioned in Detroit and West Memphis and reportedly asked to take a lie detector test. Hoffa vanished July 30 after a lunch near Machus Red Fox. his car was found July 31.
Mostly cloudy and mild with possible showers today and tonight. Highs near 80s and lows around 70. Saturday looks partly cloudy and warm with a 60 percent rain chance and highs in the upper 80s.
Aiken Technical Education Center seeks more classroom space as enrollment rises. TEC Director Ashley J Little calls it a major phase II project but avoids cost estimates. The Board vows to meet the TEC Commission soon, aiming before Sept. 15 to discuss funding from federal state and county sources. Enrollment in fall 1974 stood at 875 with day and night student projections.
A mail reveal notes Ginny Samsel as conversation chairman for Recycling Day. The item humorously suggests a conservation chairman title. It also recalls George Funeral Home defeating Jackson-Brooks 17-7 in the Women’s Softball League championship game.
About 50 antique automobiles in 17 classes will be shown Saturday at the H Odell Weeks Activities Building Virginia Acres. The free event runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Photographers are invited to capture cars described as better than museum condition.
Stathy J. Verenes announced a $30,000 fund drive to erase the county board’s pledge to subsidize 30 acres for a $5 million textile machinery plant. He reported strong pledges and $1,300 collected so far, amid ongoing controversy since the June 30announcement.
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