Anita Bryant and Faith Groups Stir Public Opinion
Anita Bryant led a national public opinion survey opposed to anti homosexual legislation and later expanded efforts to broader moral issues. The article lists church events and evangelism notices in Aiken and surrounding areas including Homecoming at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and various gospel concerts and revival meetings across South Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dade County
Fla
Anita Bryant
Miss Bryant
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Law M. Mobley
Unity Baptist Church of
Gastonia
Mobley
Myra Epting
Swansea
U.S. 1
Ridge Spring
Sweetwater
Mack Roberts
Sweetwater Baptist Church
North Augusta
Roberts
Fayetteville
N.C
Pat Roper
Greenville
Five Notch
Sweetwater Roads
Holiday Inn Expands with 36 New Units in Aiken
The Aiken Holiday Inn opened a 36 unit wing adding to its 148 total. Executive suites rent for 80 dollars featuring three rooms with a living room-like center, blue and burgundy decor, wooly carpets and coordinated drapes. Building cost was 425 thousand dollars and took about 100 days. Local mills and factories sustain most guests, with traveling business people and families fueling demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken Holiday Inn
Charlie R. Jones
Jones
Holiday Inn
Savannah River
Pepperidge Farm
Students to receive letters as rezoning takes effect
Dr. Beecher E. Morton announced that 500 plus students will get welcome letters from new principals this summer as rezoning takes effect. Teachers reassigned by seniority preferences and vacancies. school opens August 28 half day, 29 full day. council approves several school expenditures including $947 film projector and $4,761 microscopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beecher E. Morton
Area I
Advisory Council
Morton
Aiken High School
Schofield
Kennedy Junior High
Happy Harry wins humanitarian award at Aiken Hospital
Harry Scott 57 of Aiken, a behind the scenes maintenance worker at Aiken Community Hospital, receives the Dr. Thomas F. Frist Humanitarian Award chosen from 500 employees. Supervisor J.A. Williams praises his cheerfulness and varied duties, from painting to chatting with patients, as Scott recalls his surprising honor and life at home with fishing and butter bean gardening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Scott
Scott
Aiken Community Hospital
Thomas F. Frist
Harry
Hospital Corporation of America
J.A
Shorty) Williams
Williams
Vaucluse
Lin Smithwick
Meatballs and Human Comedy Drive National Lampoon Style
National Lampoon blends humor with pathos in Meatballs starring Billy Murray at Camp North Star with Rita Roxanne and a mischievous CIT cast. Tripper guides Rudi and Spaz as Camp Mohawk rivalry heats up, while romance, hijinks, and misfit bonding unfold amid a PG summer-camp comedy.
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National Lampoon
Saturday Night Live
Billy Murray
Animal House
Tripper
Murray
Camp North Star
Roxanne
Kate Lynch
Camp Mohawk
CIT
Rudi
Chris Makepeace
Joker
Makepeace
Masters Four
Augusta
The Flicks North Dallas Forty at Regency Mall Augusta
Aiken Standard lists films playing in Augusta and nearby: North Dallas Forty with Nick Nolte at Regency Mall Augusta. The Muppet Movie at Daniel Village. Concorde Airport ’79 at Weis Cinema. Escape From Alcatraz at Imperial Theater in Ata. Moonraker at Regency Mall. More American Graffiti and Sunburn at Masters Four. The Brood at Mark I Cinema in Aiken.
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North Dallas
Phil Elliott
Nick Nolte
Peter Gent
Elliott
Regency Mall
Augusta
Kermit
Hollywood
Daniel Village
Washington
Paris
Moscow
Alain Delon
George Kennedy
Robert Wagner
Susan Blakely
Weis
Alcatraz
Clint Eastwood
Frank Morris
Patrick McGoohan
Eastwood
Imperial Theater
Ata
James Bond
Moore
Bond
Earth
Michael Lonsdale
Aiken
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Our Churches
Jan Boylston
Public Opinion Survey
Full Gospel Lighthouse
S.C. 421
Clearwater
Tabernacle Revival
Tabernacle Baptist Church
George Koon
Couchton Baptist Church
Kitchings Mill
S.C. 4
Redds Branch Baptist Church
Eddie Penland
Matlock Baptist Church
Jackson
Glorious Kings
Glorious Kings of
Eddie Key Gospel Chorus
Four Mile Youth Choir
New Ellenton
Friendship Musical Choir
Salley
Celebrate Life
Grace United Methodist Church
Grace Singers
Wayne Lord
Georgia Ave
Children’s Crusade
Children of North Aikien Assembly of God
Joshua Chavis
Kim Cooper
Joshua
Kim
New Bethcar
Bethcar
Albea-Day Church of God
Union Gospel Holiness Church of God Inc
Camp Rawls Road
Zion Branch Baptist Church
York St
Elizabeth Harrington
Harry Is
Bloomington
Ind
Cift
Columbia I
Peter Falk
Alan Arkin
CIA
Amityville
James Brolin
Margot Kidder
Lutzes
Aiken County Today
Lynne Voit
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