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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1973
Page
2
The Aiken City Council meets at 8 p.m. to consider a contract of sale with Colonial Stores Inc. for property in the Industrial Park. Old business includes zoning amendments and a zoning board expansion. New business covers land sale plus changes to personnel vacation and holiday policies.
A woman recounts a robbery in which she was told to lie on the ground while the suspect fled with money to her car. The robber, a 6 foot tall black man 160 pounds, wore dark plaid pants and a corduroy coat. Police in North Augusta also arrested Mary Joe Hensley, 51, Apt. P1 Plaza Terrace Apartments, for shoplifting over the weekend.
Aiken Standard established 1867 publishes daily except Saturdays and Sundays from 124 Rutland Drive Aiken South Carolina 29801. Associated Press exclusive rights for local news and AP dispatches. Rates listed: weekly carrier 1.73 monthly 22.00 yearly 11.66 half-year 4.4 months 3.
President Nixon faces a congressional panel ruling on possible federal income tax underpayment. Disclosures show $80,000 in taxes on over $1 million income with debated deductions and potential gains from the 1970 San Clemente estate sale.
The Salvation Army Christmas Fund provides a mailing address for donations at 322 Gayle Dr. in Aiken South Carolina 29801. Donors are guided to send contributions to that address as part of year end fundraising.
Eight defendants pleaded guilty to lewd acts and liquor law violations after raids on Belvedere Far East Health Spa Soe’s Health Spa and Aquarius Health Spa. Names include Connie Cantrell Jean Cannon Kikue Klaus Barbara Taylor Shirley Smith Marjorie Goodrich Sue Blackmon and William Spaniard. Bond set at 5000 each and fines capped at 100 dollars. Authorities led by P A Grant Murray Fant Dan Sullivan Jim Perry and deputies W R Wilson and Ben Willis conducted Friday night raids.
At the 1973 Southern Republican Conference in Atlanta Strom Thurmond applauded John Connally and asked if he sounded like a president. Connally delivered a keynote after Reagan and Rockefeller spoke as Watergate loomed but did not derail the party. Reagan defended the party against campaign tricks and voted fatigue, while Connally praised Nixon’s foreign policy and predicted Nixon would not lose to McGovern if they faced off again.
A worker suffered third degree burns covering nearly the entire body after a tank explosion at an Aiken County plant. He was treated at Aiken County Hospital then transferred to the Medical University of South Carolina Burn Center in Charleston. The two men involved were from Inland Pumping and Dredging Company of Pennsylvania.
Gov John C West says states can better develop land use programs than the federal government. In Florence South Carolina a physician his parttime office worker and her husband face sentencing after juries found Dr Kenneth G Lawrence and Mrs Edward Reed guilty on all 16 counts for conspiring to illegally obtain 1600 amphetamine tablets over five months.
Carolina Trailways drivers began a Sunday night strike by 350 workers, halting service in North Carolina Virginia Maryland Delaware and Pennsylvania after union management talks failed. The strike affects routes run by Carolina Coach Co. which operates Trailways buses.
Six members of the Roberson family died when their car collided with a freight train at a rural crossing near Kittrell in Vance County. The victims are Sidney Roberson 16 driver Ricky Roberson 14 Diane Roberson 27 and her children Steven 8 Scott 7 and Suzanne 3.
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