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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1975
Page
1
The AP reports January consumer prices rose six tenths of a percent with food costs leading the gain. Cereals bakery products and fruits and vegetables drove the uptick while overall food prices increased eight tenths from December.
South Carolina food prices edged up two tenths of a percent in February from January, the state Labor Department reported. The department’s check of 95 items shows food costs 7.4 percent higher than a year earlier.
The Ford administration defends a proposed $3 tariff on foreign oil imports in federal court as eight Northeastern states challenge the levy. U.S. District Judge John Pratt begins hearings on a preliminary injunction while an environmental impact statement is prepared. Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti warned the tariff would cause "amazing economic damage" in the Northeast.
The Ford administration reduced family welfare grants by 97.2 million dollars for the first quarter amid a drive against ineligible and overpaid recipients. A further large reduction is planned for April, announced by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. This follows 61.7 million dollars withheld in late 1974.
In South Vietnam 6 school children were killed and 13 wounded while 19 government soldiers died and 18 were wounded across multiple incidents, according to the Saigon command. In Battambang City Cambodia about 3,000 students and civilians attacked and looted a Chinese food supply amid rising prices and insecurity. Casualty details were not immediately available.
A Harris poll finds 76 percent say President Ford is a "nice guy" while 41 percent doubt his grasp of issues and only 39 percent expect him to be strong and decisive. Seventy percent believe he is running an open administration and listening to the people.
Census Bureau reports the average household falls under three persons as more people live alone. Factors include smaller families birth control access later marriages and changing views on women’s roles beyond wife and mother.
Singer Pearl Bailey guest at White House governors dinner. She led an East Room dance with President Ford, performing a country two step in a floating chiffon caftan. Bailey drew governors and wives into a circle as Mrs. Ford stepped into the center for a solo.
A Sumter County sheriff lamented five armed robberies since January and joked a vacation might follow. An 11 year old reads the Aiken Standard, noting the legal ads at dinner and asking why people read them, with a response about Howard Williamsons.
Two bills introduced in the General Assembly by Representatives Irene K. Rudnick and Marion D. McGowan grant certain elected county officers sole discretion to decide how appropriated funds are spent. The measures follow a dispute over patrol car bidding and contrast fiscal control with commissioners’ authority. Another Rudnick bill would require public hearings for county employee dismissals, citing a recent dispute over a bookkeeper’s firing.
Mitchell Haldeman and Ehrlichman receive 2428 year sentences for conspiring to obstruct justice and perjury. Mardian tagged 10 months to three years. All four plan appeals and remain free on bond as the case enters appellate review.
Tom Crouch, 57, manager of Aiken Bowl, was robbed of 1500 dollars and shot in the left groin during a scuffle with two black suspects outside the bowling alley on Whiskey Road. He was listed in good condition at the Medical University of Georgia Hospital in Augusta. Authorities say the robbers fled on foot after a struggle over a cigar box. The sheriff's department continues to investigate the shooting and robbery.
The Public Service Commission will hold a public hearing in Aiken on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Aiken County Courthouse. Sponsored by the Aiken County Legislative Delegation, the session marks the first PSC visit to Aiken as Rep. Irene K. Rudnick notes. Public input is invited on the SCE&G rate increase request.
Peach blossoms appear early as an expected last frost threatens the crop. Local experts note good chilling hours this winter but warn that a severe freeze could jeopardize the harvest, with 45 hours at 26 degrees cited as potentially damaging. James Evans and Gibson Fallon offer cautious optimism.
The weather bureau forecasts cloudy skies today with a high near 60 and a low around 45. Saturday brings a 30 percent chance of rain while Sunday may see a light shower with similar temperatures.
Tickets for the Triple Crown events sponsored by the Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce are available at the Chamber of Commerce downtown banks Woodruff and Aiken Drug stores and Leminick Pharmacy. Advance tickets are 1.50 for adults and 1 for children with gate price 2.0 for adults.
Five Aiken County Democratic commissioners urge Rep. Irene Rudnick to introduce legislation to elect the County Board chair from among commissioners rather than by separate office. Two similar home rule bills and a third from Columbia are under study, with opposition in counties still under fiscal control.
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