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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1969
Page
1
The Dow closes down 7.99 points at 793.36, the first sub 800 finish since Jan 1967, with 1,177 declines to 246 advances on 1,606 issues. The AP 60 stock average drops 3.4 to 272.9 as volume rises to 11.3 million on the NYSE amid profit forecast gloom.
In Hawaii the large surf from a distant storm battered Oahu's north shore over two days, destroying or damaging about 100 homes and leaving 600 homeless. Wave heights reached 50 feet before diminishing to 10 to 15 feet by Wednesday. A sailor vanished at sea and a rescue worker died of a heart attack after hours of night work. Other areas suffered mainly minor damage. The Weather Bureau linked the swells to a storm 1,500 miles northwest.
In Cahokia Illinois school officials say seven seventh graders at Wirth Junior High joined an auto mechanics class this fall as part of a broader program. The pupils, accompanied by six other seventh graders, start lessons at 7 30 each morning and study engines carburetors and fuel pumps amid smudges and dirt on their dresses.
The Soviet Union launched Cosmos 313, an unmanned earth satellite, for undisclosed space studies. An AP report said the Sputnik was placed in an orbit from 171.5 miles high to 126.8 miles above the earth.
Workmen dredging beneath the Pulaski bridge in New York uncovered a large active bomb described by police experts. Initial reports likened the object to a 500 pound aerial bomb and it was moved aboard a special truck with a woven steel cable cushion.
Mayor Kevin H. White arrived 20 minutes late at Logan Airport on Wednesday due to traffic while preparing for an aerial survey of the city’s rush hour congestion.
In Columbia the House Education Committee chair urges at least 1 million dollars for kindergartens next year with a view to permanent preschool. He cautions the pilot program may not be expanded in 1970 and funding at 500000 could be tough to maintain. Governor McNair supports expansion as a priority.
A neatly dressed gunman robbed the Sumter Highway branch of Standard Savings and Loan Association in Columbia of nearly $2,500 on Wednesday. He drew a pistol after telling manager William Fowler he wanted a savings account and then forced Fowler to help collect money from two teller cages.
The annual Christmas Parade sponsored by the Aiken Jaycees will feature bands religious floats business displays marching units and Santa on a fire truck. It starts at 7 p.m. from Union Street and Park Avenue proceeding to Laurens Street then Barnwell Avenue where it ends. Trophies will be awarded in civic religious and business float categories and the Alee Shrine Temple Motorcycle Unit from Augusta along with Shrine Go-Carts will thrill spectators. High school bands from Aiken Senior High Schofield High School and Jackson High School will march, with religious floats from several churches and schools. Local businesses plan commercial floats and the champion palomino Oakland Flying Streak ridden by Herbert Herrin will appear. Downtown Christmas lights display will be illuminated.
Israeli troops backed by artillery crossed the border into Lebanon for a search and destroy mission. They reported 12 guerrillas killed and a captured weapons cache including rifles machine guns and bazookas. One Israeli soldier died and five wounded. The target base was at Jebel Rus near the Lebanese Israeli cease fire line.
About 500 North Vietnamese troops attacked Tuyen Binh 58 miles west of Saigon in the Mekong Delta. South Vietnamese and allied forces claimed a costly repulse with 14 defenders and 15 civilians killed, 50 wounded, while the enemy suffered unspecified casualties. The town sits near the Plain of Reeds, defended by a small local force.
One man William C Walker of Warrenville died from chemical explosion burns at the Walchem plant of United Merchants and Manufacturing Co. in Georgia. Two other workers were injured aiding Walker. Funeral set Friday at Pentecost United Methodist Church Warrenville with burial in church cemetery.
Sen. Tran Van Don leading South Vietnamese legislators in My Lai inquiry says no conclusion on U S troops killings in 1968 due to Viet Cong influence. He notes court martial of Lt. Calley must occur before final report and cites local officials and survivors.
Deadline approaches for the seventh Christmas RSVP mailing to servicemen in Southeast Asia. Packages priced at 3.50 are sold at Winn-Dixie Kalmia Plaza Colonial in Mitchell Shopping Center Belks downtown and Piggly Wiggly Charleston Street York Street Hampton Avenue intersection. Purchasers write name and return address and leave the package in store or mail checks and return addresses to Aiken RSVP Farmers and Merchants Bank Aiken S C 29801. Packages will be flown by Marine plane to Southeast Asia on Dec 12.
The Aiken Jaycees and county residents raise 379 dollars for a December 20 shopping tour aiding over 400 underprivileged children. Donors include Mr and Mrs W P Beddington, Mrs June Henderson, Aiken Civic League, and others contributing to help Santa reach needy families.
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