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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1969
Page
4
Randy Davidson of the Aiken Chamber of Commerce highlights a 22 million dollar yearly outflow to Georgia and urges action to curb the rivercrossers. The piece praises chamber leadership and calls for further study while noting skepticism and broader regional concerns.
The Aiken High School senior class thanks the public for their help with Project Santa Claus, noting that Christmas joy comes from giving. The letter also responds to Mrs. Florence Woodoff on private schools and integration, praising Dr Wannamaker and private education as a growing, high quality option.
The 1969 letters praise the Lower Savannah Regional Planning and Development Commission for new services and funding. Executive Director Joel B. Gunnells pledges continued cooperation and better resource development. Albert W. Howerter urges immediate rail crossing safety upgrades on U.S. Highway One with red lights bells or automatic gates and roadbed improvements.
ACLU drawn as foe or ally of policing as critics recount long history. The piece cites groups in Los Angeles and across major cities and names figures such as Otto Otepka, Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Williams, and Lawrence Speiser while arguing the ACLU’s stance shifts on crime, protests, and due process.
John E. Lewis of the National Small Business Association warns that regardless of ad media, a businessman reaches only newspaper readers today and tomorrow. Reagan denounces the tax reform bill as backroom, dark-night work, while Rep. Van Deerlin counters with long public hearings. A Sumter home built in five days signals rapid construction progress. BUCKY GRANT's party highlights sister Kelli's gift guidance. Terry Anderson, Clemson graduate, visits Aiken and praises the city. Lt. Joseph Lloyd Carter earns pilot wings and heads to Seward AFB. Local judges rank by status at Palmetto Golf Course as others hold office.
The essay lauds Alfred Kohlberg as a steadfast American figure who fought against policies seen as dangerous to U S interests in China and Asia. It recounts his business career, ABMAC involvement, visits to China, clashes with Currie line reporting, and his ongoing, ultimately unresolved push to awaken America to what the author views as harmful foreign policy.
The speaker says self consciousness is natural and common to all public speakers. Nervousness does not prevent duty and exaltation of Christ. He notes that anxious feelings are largely imaginary and urges replacing self consciousness with God consciousness.
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