New Year Night Rain Ignores Revelry Across Aiken Churches
New Year 1970 began with rain and watchnight services at Aiken churches while banks and most offices closed. Two early morning accidents on Highway 19 near New Ellenton injured several residents including Kathy Wingard and Debbie Murrell.
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Aiken
Aiken County
Aiken County Hospital
Kathy Wingard
Graniteville
Lawton B. Rogers
Jerry Hall
Vaucluse
Debbie Murrell
Langley
Murrell
Miss Wingard
Augusta Hospital
Hall
Rodgers
Robert Hicks
Fort Gordon
Monroe Coffee
Jimmy Evans
Joseph Golson
Wagener
Hicks
Fort Gordon Hospital
Highway 19
New Ellenton
Holiday Traffic Deaths Mark New Year Weekend
Accidents on U.S. roads killed 26 people in the New Year holiday period from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday. Snow fell in northern states while rain dampened southern roadways.
Judge Haggerty Steps Down Amid Prostitution Charges
New Orleans judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr. resigns on indefinite leave after DA files charges accusing him of solicitation and transporting three women to a stag party at a motel. He was among 14 arrested in a Dec 17 vice raid and had presided at the Clay Shaw trial.
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New Orleans
Clay Shaw
Edward A. Haggerty Jr
Haggerty
Prict Court
Anderson Replies To Harris On Crime And Inflation
Rep. John B. Anderson accuses Fred R. Harris of misplacing blame for crime and inflation. He argues overheating began in 1966 under Democrats and cites a $25 billion deficit in Johnson’s final year and Democratic congressionally added $3 billion to programs Nixon seeks to restrain. He also says Emanuel Celler blocked the administration’s crime bill.
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Washington
John B. Anderson
Illinois
House
Fred R. Harris
Nixon
Anderson
Harris
Oklahoma
GOP
Johnson
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
Rep
Emanuel Celler
New York
White House report details hunger fight plan
Dr. Jean Mayer, Nixon advisor on nutrition, announced the White House Conference on Food Nutrition and Health final report. The 625 page document captures 4000 participants recommendations on dental care prenatal care school lunches labeling farming income maintenance obesity and diet amid poverty and labor issues.
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Washington
Jean Mayer
United States
Mayer
White House
GOO Protests Oil Installations Off Santa Barbara Beaches
Members of the GOO committee urge a White House meeting with President Nixon to halt a third offshore drilling platform as Santa Barbara beaches have been twice oil covered. Lois Sidenberg leads the effort and appeals to Sen. George Murphy and Rep. Charles M. Teague to arrange talks at the Western White House.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Nixon
Union Oil Co
George Murphy
Charles M. Teague
White House
Lois Sidenberg
Citizens Committee
Moon landings to continue after 1972 space plan
NASA announced moon landing missions will continue after the space station program planned for 1972 is implemented. The agency denied reports of cancellations, stating at least seven more Apollo flights are planned.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Budget work begins Monday on 1970 71 plan
South Carolina lawmakers move to draft the $507 million General Appropriation Bill for fiscal 1970 71 with Rep R J Aycock and the House Ways and Means Committee scheduling hearings starting Monday. USC and state colleges will be heard first as the panel aims for a quick session. The plan faces potential clashes over teacher raises and employee pay scales.
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Columbia
South Carolina
R. J. Aycock
Dsumter
House
Ways and Means Committee
University of South Carolina
Tricentennial Commission
Winthrop College
Aycock
Senate
Sen
Rembert
Dennis D-Berkeley
Upper Chamber
State Budget and Control Boards
Vice President Agnew Arrives In Vietnam
Vice President Spiro Agnew becomes the highest US official to visit Vietnam on his first trip there. He meets President Thieu and visits troops as fighting resumes after a New Year cease-fire amid rising American deaths. Edgefield to host Agnew speech on April 25 as tricentennial events begin.
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Saigon
Vietnam
U.S
Spiro T. Agnew
Nguyen van Thieu
Edgefield
Spiro Agnew
South Carolina
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
Thurmond
Edgefield County
French Suspend Generals In Israeli Gunboat Deal
Paris insists no change in Israel arms embargo after five French gunboats reach Haifa. Two generals, Louis Bonte and Bernard Cazelles, suspended and Adm. Mordechai Limon expelled as the Israeli arms official who arranged the departure. The action follows a four hour cabinet meeting as Pompidou weighs next moves.
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Paris
Haifa
Adm
Mordechai Limon
Europe
Limon
Exodus
Israel
Louis Bonte
France
Bernard Cazelles
Defense Ministry
Georges Pompidou
Hamon
Cherbourg
Pompidou
United States
World Welcomes New Year Across 3 Continents
New Year celebrations unfold in London at Trafalgar Square with fountains and dancing while Rio de Janeiro hosts offerings to the sea goddess at Copacabana Beach. In New York a large crowd gathers for a city party as the Times Square ball descends amid cold winds.
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Associated Press
London
Trafalgar Square
Rio de Janeiro
Copacabana Beach
Semanja
New York
Central Park
Allied Chemical
Guy Lombardo
Royal Canadians
Nixon
San Clemente
Calif
Lombardo
Waldorf-Astoria
Mrs. Robinson
Aquarius
Rio
Ons
Paul VI
St. Peter's Square
Bartow
Fla
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Robert Seely
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Aiken Standard
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Carrol Heath
Heath
Times Square
Tokyo
Pasadena
Colorado Boulevard
Glendale
Eite
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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