Tricentennial Calendar Highlights Aiken Events
Calendar of events for Aiken County features a ribbon cutting at the Old Jail and Drums Along the Savannah at Aiken Junior High auditorium today and tomorrow. Saturday includes home tours and a reception for Gov. McNair. Sunday hosts a Pony Club benefit show and polo. Proceeds fund county student prizes.
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Herman Hahn
Savannah
Aiken Junior High
Robert McNair
Aiken Pony Club
Sleepy Hollow Farm
Robert E. McNair
A. Calhoun Witham
Colleton SE
Whitney Field
First Baptist Church
Chrysler Emission System Could Raise Car Prices
Detroit AP report says meeting 1975 federal antipollution goals may add 200 to 300 dollars to retail price. Chrysler engineer Charles Heinen notes development is experimental and the shown system uses a manifold reactor afterburner with exhaust recirculation and a 10 to 15 percent fuel penalty. Federal targets aim to cut hydrocarbons 95 percent, carbon monoxide 85 percent, and limit nitrogen oxides.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corp
Charles Heinen
Chrysler
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Heinen
Cane Cutters Head For Cuba
Hundreds of young Americans massed at Saint John New Brunswick to sail on the Cuban freighter Luis Marcos Bergnes bound for Cuba to harvest sugar cane in solidarity with the revolution. The ship expected in the afternoon after riding out a Bay of Fundy storm. The first busload crossed the Maine border at St Stephen. About 600 youths from Seattle San Francisco and other cities joined the convoy.
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Saint John, N. B
New Brunswick
Fidel Castro
Bruce Jacobs
New York
Luis Marcos Bergnes
Bay of Fundy
Maine-New Brunswick
St. Stephen
Saint John
Seattle
San Francisco
Boston
Maine
Israelis Hit Arab Targets North and South of Cairo
Israeli jets attacked Egyptian military sites around Cairo and a radar site west of the Suez Canal in two raids. The first strike hit equipment and ammo stores at El Khanga and the Jebel Awobed radar site, then two hours later a camp near Dahshur and central canal targets. All planes returned safely.
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Tel Aviv
Cairo
Suez Canal
el Khanga
Jebel Awebed
Cairo-Suez
Dahshur
Nile
Canal
Antiwar Activities Planned at Case Western Reserve
Students from around the country gather at Case Western Reserve University for a weekend planning session on antiwar activities. Don Gurwitz of the Student Mobilization Committee estimates 2,200 to 3,000 attendees. He says spring protests and a nationwide student strike planned for April 15 will be peaceful to avoid alienating adults.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Case Western Reserve University
Don Gurwitz
Vietnam
Gurwitz
POWs torured by isolation and denial of care say Laird aide
Richard Capen Jr., aide to Defense Secretary Laird, told the Los Angeles Breakfast Club that U S prisoners in North Vietnam are being tortured. He cited isolation, refusal of medical treatment, and denial of letters as ongoing abuses.
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Los Angeles
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
U.S
Richard Capen Jr
Laird
Tricentennial Celebration Opens with Museum Ribbon Cutting
Aiken County launches a four day Tricentennial with a 4 30 pm ribbon cutting at the former jail museum led by Rep. George H Grant and state senators. An 8 pm premiere of Drums Along the Savannah at Aiken Junior High stars Jane Duckett with DeSoto and Galphin in historical pageantry.
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Aiken County
Savannah
South Carolina
Aiken
George H. Grant
Michael Laughlin
Gilbert McMillan
J Gordon Farmer
North Augusta
County Historical Commission
Aiken Junior High School
South Carolina Government Operate Budget Proposed at 507.6 Million
A proposed operating budget of 507.6 million dollars outlines funding for South Carolina state government departments. The plan details allocations for agencies and services, aiming to support operations and public programs in the upcoming fiscal period.
Budget Recommends Assembly Pay Raise in South Carolina
The House Ways and Means Committee recommends a 507.6 million dollar next year budget for South Carolina government and a pay raise for 124 legislators from 4000 to 6000 dollars. Senators decline pay hike while governors and top officials see increases. Education receives the largest allocation with 290.2 million.
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Columbia
House
Ways and Means Committee
South Carolina
Robert McNair
General Assembly
Cain Renews Attack On House Bill
Aiken County legislator Rep Marshall Cain Republican vows to resume argument against a plan to alter delegation voting rules in counties with two senators. The measure would let a majority of the House plus one senator govern the delegation in two senator counties, or half or a majority plus one senator in counties with one or no senator. Counties named include Edgefield Saluda Marion Williamsburg Lexington and Florence.
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Columbia
Aiken
South Carolina
Marshall Cain
House
Cain
Edgefield
Saluda
Marion
Williamsburg
Lexington
Florence
Thurmond to Help Plant Tricentennial Oaks in Aiken County
U S Senator Strom Thurmond and his wife Nancy will officiate two tree plantings as part of the tricentennial observances in Aiken County. Oaks from W J Dunbar farm will be planted at Aiken High and St Angela Academy with ceremonies including a choir program and a dedicatory prayer.
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Michael Laughlin
Aiken County
Harold A. Fletcher
McManaway
U. S
Strom Thurmond
Nancy
Aiken High School
St. Angela Academy
W. J. Dunbar
Kitchings Mill
Aiken Prep
Aiken High
South Carolina
Thurmond
St. Angela's
Kathleen Flanagan
Thomas Dion
Tim Hass
Lloyd Johnson
St. Angela
Marie Daniel
Alcohol Drugs and Tobacco Evils Outlined To Students
A Saint Angela Academy program on drugs alcohol and tobacco drew about 200 students and a dozen parents. Speakers included Dr Corbett Thigpen Augusta psychiatrist and author Rev John B McCullough pastor and B Henderson Johnson Aiken attorney. Student leader Tom Dion urged vigilance against substance dangers and moral responsibility.
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Augusta
St. Angela Academy
Corbett Thigpen
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Aiken
Tom Dion
Dion
U S Jets Hit Reds In Cambodia
U S warplanes bombed North Vietnamese guns in Cambodia in self defense after they shot down a U S observation helicopter. The helicopter exploded with two crewmen feared killed as fighting raged along the border near Saigon and in the Plain of Reeds where North Vietnamese units were intercepted en route to the Mekong Delta.
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Saigon
Cambodia
U.S
South Vietnam
Plain of Reeds
Mekong
Two High School Students Arrested on Narcotic Charge
Aiken police arrested two juvenile high school students on illegal possession of narcotics. Detectives seized pink flats LSD in connection with the case. Both were arraigned before Magistrate Glenn Holley and released to their parents. A Family Court hearing is set for February 19 with Judge Howard Williamson. The arrests are not linked to a prior incident at Aiken High School involving sodium pentobarbitol.
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Aiken
V. J. Ray
Glenn Holley
Family Court
Howard Williamson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Aiken County Museum
Old Jail
Chesterfield Street
First Baptist
Cuba
The
Breakfast Club
DeSoto
Silver Bluff
Dorothy K. MacDowell
William T. Slaughter
Jane Duckett
Cofitachiqui
Fred Horton
Bob Beyers
George Galphin
Parker Deans
Yesteryear
R. L. Morton
Laurens Street
Ellenton
Perrin Toole
Farmer and Toole
MacDowell
Leslie Owens
Katherine Mealing
George McEimurray
Beech Island
Roy Lyons
John May
S.C
Aiken Prep School
Assembly
McNair
REP
Thigpen
Johnson
Reds
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