Williams Wins on Brittish Wooen at Aiken Trials 1965
Julian Williams of Columbia rode the winning thoroughbred Brittish Wooen in the 1965 Aiken Trials. He later spent time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and is now reported as a returnee by his family. Tomorrow marks Groundhog Day but rain may hide his shadow signaling an early spring. When in charge ponder when in trouble delegate when in doubt mumble. The horn of plenty is often on the car behind you at the traffic light.
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Julian Williams
Columbia
Aiken
Vietnam
US Casualties In Indochina Final Week Totals
AP reports the US Command closed weekly casualty summaries noting 45,941 American deaths in action in Indochina from Jan 1 1961 to the cease fire start last Sunday. Wounded in action reach 300,635 and 1,811 missing or captured, plus 10,303 nonhostile deaths. One death and five wounded after the truce began are excluded.
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Saigon
Indochina
Nixon Opposes Amnesty Amid Indochina Talks Plans
President Nixon will send Henry Kissinger to Hanoi February 10 to 13 and arrange a spring meeting with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in California. He cited postwar relations and a reconstruction program for all of Indochina as chief topics, but offered no cost figures for U.S. aid and reiterated opposition to amnesty for deserters and draft dodgers.
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Washington
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Hanoi
Nguyen van Thien
California
Indochina
U.S
Stennis Shows Improvement After Holdup Injuries
Senator John C. Stennis, 71, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, remained in very serious condition but showed slight improvement after a comfortable night. A hospital spokesman said at 6 am EST that he was awake with stable vital signs and that the recovery prospects remained guarded.
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Washington
John C. Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
Stennis
Union merger collapses over autonomy demands
In San Francisco the effort by Harry Bridges to fuse the West Coast longshore union with the Teamsters has failed. The trucking union balked at granting autonomy for the 60,000 members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union within the 2.5 million strong Teamsters.
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SAN Francisco
Harry Bridges
Teamsters Union
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union
Truitt says home robbery planned months before slayings
In Marietta Cobb County, witness Larry Wade Truitt testified that he Creamer Roberts and George Emmett planned to rob the home of Dr Warren B Matthews and his wife Rosina in December 1970. The Matthews were killed in the early hours of May 7, 1971.
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Marietta, Ga
Cobb County
James Edward Creamer
Creamer
Charles Benjamin Roberts
George Emmett
Warren B. Matthews
Rosina
Matthews
Robber Takes $12 From Mrs Black in Home Invasion
Mrs. Hugo L. Black, widow of the late Supreme Court justice, was robbed at knifepoint in her Alexandria home. A young man, wearing cheesecloth over his face, demanded money and fled after Mrs. Black handed over $12. she was uninjured. Police report the incident followed a doorbell ring on a shopping trip return.
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Alexandria
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Five Nixon Cabinet nominees confirmed by Senate
The Senate approved five of President Nixon's six new cabinet picks and Caspar Weinberger was likely to win confirmation next week. Peter J. Brennan was approved 81 to 3 as Secretary of Labor. James T. Lynn, a Cleveland attorney, was confirmed by voice vote to head Housing and Urban Development.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
Caspar W. Weinberger
Peter J. Brennan
New York
James T. Lynn
Cleveland
Ohio
Housing and Urban Development Department
Airlines Won't Buy Concorde
AP reports the nation’s two largest international airlines decided not to exercise options to purchase the Concorde. The move likely ends American carriers’ plans for supersonic planes in the near term.
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Airlines
New York
Eeasonic
Nixon proposes phasing out OEO impact on local action funds
President Nixon proposes ending the Office of Economic Opportunity. Aiken Edgefield County community action funding could drop by 750000 with 75 percent spent in Aiken County. Local director George Anderson plans to seek community funding and remains optimistic about community support.
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Nixon
Office of Economic Opportunity
Aiken- Edgefield County
Aiken County
Aiken - Edge
George Anderson
OEO
Anderson
Sire
Viet Cong General Tra Returned To Tan Son Nhut In Exchange Effort
U S helicopters moved Lt Gen Tran Van Tra and 28 Viet Cong fighters from Loc Ninh to Tan Son Nhut to join a four nation cease fire commission. Tra, deputy COSVN commander, holds key to POW releases as talks resume for prisoner exchanges and observer patrols.
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Saigon
U.S
Tran van Tra
Tan Son Nhut
Tra
COSVN
South Vietnam
Four Party
Joint Military Commission
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Panel Hears Debate On Strip Mining
A South Carolina legislative panel hears debate on a proposed Mining Act requiring permits for strip mining, with reclamation plans and bonds. Mining firms and environmental groups argue about bonding, site substitution, and highway fill materials near Columbia and Aiken.
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Columbia
State Highway Department
South Carolina
C. H. Wistline
Charles Foster
Highway Department
Paul W. Traylor
Aiken
Officials Deny Report on POW Release in Saigon
In Saigon US Command and official sources rejected a claim that three American prisoners of war were released by the Viet Cong and flown to Saigon. A U.S. Army officer’s account described the prisoners as happy and given candy before transfer to a Saigon hospital, but command spokesmen found no substantiation.
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Saigon
Saigon Army Hospital
U.S
Associated Press
Rain Expected To Continue In Aiken Area
Rain began this morning in the Aiken area and is forecast to continue through tonight and probably tomorrow. The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts slightly warmer temperatures with highs in the mid-50s today and lower 60s tomorrow, and tonight’s low in the upper 40s. Rain probability is 80 percent today and tonight, 30 percent tomorrow. Easterly winds 10 to 15 mph will become southerly tonight and shift to westerly tomorrow afternoon.
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Aiken
U.S. Weather Bureau
Derrick receives brass spittoon for mule race win in State House
Ten months after his victory in the Aiken mule race, Rep. Butler C. Derrick Jr. of Edgefield was presented a brass spittoon trophy in the South Carolina House. Derrick rode his mule Agnes to beat 16 rivals in a bareback, color judged race after the Aiken Steeplechase.
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Aiken
Butler C. Derrick Jr
Edgefield
State House
Columbia
C. Marshall Cain
House of Representatives
Derrick
Agnes
Mike Laughlin
Wm. J. B. Darn
Cain
South Carolina
Rep
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Larry Wade Truitt
TraHolds
Loc Ninh
Camp Davis
Signal Corps
Paris
North Vietnam
Traylor
Georgia
J.M. Huber Clay Co
Aikenome
Strep Mining
Spows
Victor
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