Aiken Trials Highlights Multiple Race Meets
The schedule lists the thirtieth annual thoroughbred races at Aiken Training Track, the second annual trotters and pacers program, the Jefferson-Aiken Training Center steeplechase, the sixth Aiken Hunt Meet on turf and hurdles, and benefits for the Aiken Cancer Society and Aiken County Hospital.
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Aiken
Aiken Training
Aiken Cancer Society
Jefferson- Aiken Training Center
Aiken Hunt
Aiken County Hospital
Catholics Plan New Belfast Protest To Paralyze Province
After a large peaceful Sunday march in Newry with no clashes, Northern Ireland Catholics plan another demonstration Wednesday six months after the Protestant government began interning suspected IRA members without trial. More than 20,000 marched in Newry, following the Londonderry events where paratroopers ended a Catholic march and 13 civilians died.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Sus
Irish Republican Army
Newry
Londonderry
Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, longtime U S diplomat, dies
Ambassador Llewellyn E Thompson Jr a prominent U S diplomat for over two decades died in Washington D C at age 67 He was the top Soviet affairs adviser for the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and twice served as Ambassador to Moscow 1957 1962 and 1967 1969 He entered the foreign service in 1929 after graduating from the University of Colorado.
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Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr
U.S
Washington, D.C
Thompson
Kennedy
Johnson
Moscow
Foreign Service
University of Colorado
UPI Telephoto
Quakes Shake Ancona Italy Prompt Mass Evacuation
More than 200 tremors over the weekend sent about 90,000 residents fleeing Ancona as a 1930 quake fear resurfaced. Ten thousand remained home. one died of shock and two suffered serious heart attacks. Prison inmates were moved, eight escaped, and police recaptured three.
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Ancona
Italy
Adriatic
Israel captures Arab guerrilla bands after Jerusalem grenade attacks
Israeli authorities report the capture of two guerrilla bands including a Jerusalem attack unit. One suspect confessed to a grenade assault that killed an Arab girl and injured seven Americans and five others last September. Another admitted throwing a grenade that wounded 17 people, including three American tourists, in October. Thirteen guerrillas were seized in Shuyukh village north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Jerusalem
Shuyukh
Hebron
West Bank
U S Troop Strength in Vietnam Dips Below Hundred Thousand
The U S Army strength in Vietnam dropped under 100,000 last week for the first time in over six years, with total American military strength at 133,700. The weekly report lists 99,700 Army, 26,600 Air Force, 6,800 Navy, 500 Marines and 100 Coast Guard, a 2,800 decline from the prior week and a 64,700 cut needed by May to meet Nixon’s ceiling of 69,000.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
Nixon
Inmate William Heirens Earns Illinois College Degree
William Heirens 43, serving three life sentences for murder, became the first Illinois prisoner to earn a college degree behind bars. He received a bachelor of arts from Lewis College during a graduation ceremony in Lockport with classmates from Stateville Prison.
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William Heirens
Lewis College
Lockport
Ill
Heirens
Stateville
Joliet
Illinois
UPI
AKATS Aiken Area Transportation Study To Shape Roads
AKATS stands for Aiken Area Transportation Study a $45 000 cooperative project by the City of Aiken Aiken County the S C Highway Department and the federal government begun last June with final recommendations due July 1973. The study maps transportation through 1995 and notes traffic increases across the area with 17 500 cars daily near Richland Hospital and substantial rises on Gregg Avenue Pine Log Road Whiskey Road and other corridors.
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Aiken
Aiken County
S.C. Highway Department
Gregg Avenue
Pine Log Road
Airport Drive
Richland Avenue
Richland
Mitchell Shopping Center
Hicles
Hayne
Vaucluse
Two Notch Road
Camellia
Central Business District
West Aiken
South Aiken
Highway 19
Talatha Church Road
Couchton and
Montmorenci
Two More Earth Tremors Hit Orangeburg County
In Orangeburg County, residents from Bowman and Cordova felt two minor tremors Sunday at 9 40 p m and 9 49 p m following a Thursday night quake centered near Bowman. The Thursday shock registered 4 5 on the Richter scale.
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Orangeburg County
Orangeburg
Bowman
Cordova
Jackson Woman Dies From Beating
Annie Lou Scriven aged 55 of Rt 1 Box 124 Jackson died from head injuries after an argument over money ended in a beating with a plank. Johnson Sego, 50, charged with murder, was said to have beaten her while drinking. Eugene Powell witnessed the incident. Investigators include E H Boyd Sgt E B Weathersbee Deputy Steve Green and Chief Hugh Hemphill.
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Jackson
Annie Lou Scriven
Rt. 1
Johnson Sego
Aiken County
Boyd
Sego
Scriven
Eugene Powell
E.H. Boyd
E.B. Weathersbee
Steve Green
Hugh Hemphill
Sheriff's Department
Paul D. Grant
Miami
Belvedere
Danny Ward Robertson
Robertson
Grant
Aiken
Variety
York St
N.E
Sertoma Plans First Annual Service To Mankind Banquet
The Aiken Sertoma Club will host its inaugural Service To Mankind Banquet at 7 p.m. today in the Commercial Hotel. Club president Frank Locke will present the Service to Mankind Award to an Aiken resident for outstanding service to others.
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Aiken Sertoma Club
Commercial Hotel
Frank Locke
USCA Possible Site Named For New Library Center
Aiken's Richard Howe estate Banksia is studied as a possible home for the joint Aiken Bamberg Barnwell Edgefield Regional Library Aiken County Public Library and Area Resource Center The site must meet at least seven of nine requirements including location traffic and parking with an adjacent retail area and good soil conditions
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University of South Carolina - Aiken
Emily Bull
USCA
Emily L. Bull
Aiken
Richard Howe
Banksia
Aiken - Bamberg - Barnwell Edgefield
Aiken County Public Library
Area Resource Center
University of South Carolina
Newberry Street
Aiken County
Lau
Rens Street
Park Avenue
Public Lirary Association
Nancy Blair
State Library Board
Heavy fighting across South Vietnam with few American casualties
South Vietnamese forces clashed with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong from coast to perimeter, claiming 77 enemy troops killed and 20 South Vietnamese deaths with 55 wounded. US reported one GI killed and five wounded in a shell mishap near Da Nang. Ensuing fights left numerous enemy and allied casualties across the Mekong Delta, DMZ, Kontum, and Pleiku regions.
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Saigon
da Nang
U Minh Forest
Mekong Delta
da Mau Peninsula
Demilitarized Zone
Quang Nga
Central Highlands
Kontum
Pleiku
Williams enters race for New Ellenton City Council
Lynwood C Williams announces Republican candidacy for City Council in New Ellenton with a February primary to nominate three council members and one Water Commission member. He has lived in New Ellenton since 1961, attends Foreman Memorial Baptist Church, works at Owens Corning Fiberglass, and is a Louisiana native and U S Air Force veteran.
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New Ellenton
Lynwood C Williams
Water Commission Council
Water Commission
Willaims
Foreman Memorial Baptist Church
RA Boys Club
Owens Corning Fiberglass
Louisiana
U.S. Air Force
AEC Proposes Five Major Projects At Savannah River Plant
The Atomic Energy Commission requests a 1973 budget including five construction and renovation efforts at the Savannah River Plant with total potential outlays of 19.3 million over the coming years. Highlights include a plutonium 238 fuel form facility, radioactive waste upgrades, reactor area improvements, air pollution controls at the heavy water plant, and sanitary waste treatment upgrades.
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Savannah River Plant
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
Savannah River
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Emily Hindman
Sertoma
Estallene P. Walker
John Weems
Douglas S. Garvin
L.C. Williams
GOP
AEC
State of South Carolina
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