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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1973
Page
4
A reader expresses support for a new family friendly sheet focused on black community welfare and education, praising its reach and noting pride in members of their own race. The writer closes with thanks to the editor.
Page four of the Aitken Standard dated Thursday February 22 1973 lists local notices and brief items. It includes community updates, upcoming meetings, and small town notices from Aitken and surrounding areas.
A Ways and Means committee hearing ridiculed tax relief proposals from the S C Taxpayer's Association led by Tom Turnipseed. The piece labels the reception as cruel and ignorant, noting a $98 million surplus and potential $42 million relief as temporary, risking future tax increases.
The piece argues Nixon seeks tariffs and a 10 percent dollar devaluation to push open foreign markets, warning of higher prices for imports and domestic goods, reduced real disposable income, and potential harm to the recovery. It cites Wall Street Journal analysis showing devaluations rarely alter trade balances and warns Hawley Smoot’s legacy. It ends with a metaphor about snowflakes becoming a nuisance in crowds.
The Edisto Academy at Selvern presided by Rev. W H Canada shows 53 pupils enrolled in its first year. The school spans 275 acres with a two story main building and a four year course preparing students for South Carolina colleges. It is owned by four associations Aiken Lexington Edisto and Ridge. A tablet honoring Henry Busch was unveiled at Aiken Institute.
In a broadcast reply Billy Graham cites Encyclopedia Britannica to argue there is no single Jewish race and that Jesus, while likely swarthy, belongs to all peoples. He emphasizes Christ as universal, the God-man for all needs, citing John 1.
A letter to the editor from Frances Conant thanks the police firemen nurses and five cooks at the Aiken Nursing Home for their aid during a time of need praising Mrs Harris for organizing the home and expressing gratitude for all helpers.
Paul Harvey argues grocery costs rise with farm price trends. He notes wholesale farm prices jumped in 22 years, grains up 21 percent in a month, eggs 17 percent, and predicts about 4.5 percent higher grocery prices in 1973. He cites weather, Brazil harvests, and policy steps to release land and grain from storage as factors. He contrasts rising household costs with farmer income, urging awareness of underlying pressures.
The piece argues both Brezhnev Kosygin in the USSR and Truman with US housing policy repeated a failed approach by reinvesting in a proven flop. It cites 1965 Brezhnev farm subsidies, urban renewal, and critiques of slum clearance as ineffective. It compares leadership shifts and policy outcomes in Russia and the United States.
A writer recalls Jack the handout man, a long time itinerant performer who solicits $2 per encounter. He details Jack’s varied disguises, constant persistence, and occasional personal misfortunes while arguing helping him would ruin a rare talent.
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