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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1971
Page
1
The Aiken County Legislative Delegation agreed to explore postponing the Feb 2 school board election to Feb 23 if feasible to avoid a third election. The move could save about 1200 dollars and comes as a court action tests the election method.
An old warning urges Stumper fans to submit entries before noon Wednesday. Extra Stamper copies are available at the Aiken Standard office, 124 Rutland Drive, with a $400 prize. Three free words this week are numbers 4 across 3 down and 19 across.
Susan Eisenhower the granddaughter of Mamie and Dwight D. Eisenhower will marry London barrister Alexander High Bradshaw in Gettysburg on Friday. Her father, John S. D. Eisenhower, serves as U.S. ambassador to Belgium.
Hamilton County official R A Anderegg states the county has ended the 4 dollar fox bounty after 100 years and nearly ends crowd concerns. County commissioners used a 1 dollar crow bounty only for the first four birds, as state law prevents lifting the 25 cent crow bounty.
At the Nevada Test Site 600 workers were evacuated after a December underground nuclear test released dust 8000 feet high over 1000 square miles. Most had returned by Monday as investigators pinpointed a crack up to 20 feet wide and 250 feet long through which radioactivity escaped.
Audie Murphy testifies in Los Angeles Superior Court as a Medal of Honor winner and special police officer and deputy sheriff claim authority to carry a blackjack. He says he serves with Port Hueneme Police Department and Dallas County Sheriff.
Postmaster Eugene M. Dunlap sent a notice to local media stating the Post Office would be closed New Year’s Day but that normal service would resume Saturday January 2, 1971. Letters were mailed December 29 and postmarked December 30 1970.
The Nov 3 general election in Aiken County cost 1334.73 funded by candidates filing fees for county council races. No winners took office as the county referendum failed. Expenses included 656.34 for voting booths, 300 for ballot boxes, plus stamps, stationery and rents.
Joel Gunnells outlines the Lower Savannah Regional Planning and Development Commission as an Economic Development District funded by EDA to promote multi county growth. He cites 129 approved projects totaling 26.7 million dollars and calls for water sewer planning EMS solid waste and anti drug efforts to advance regional development in 1971.
In Aiken County South Carolina light rain and a narrow window for voting shaped Republican and Democratic primaries for county supervisor and the Aiken Edgefield Saluda Lexington Senate seat. At 9 am turnout trailed historical levels with few voters in several precincts and total forecasts dipping below 5 000.
Aiken Cablevision Channel 4 will air returns from the two local primaries tonight starting around 8 p.m. Coverage includes Republican primary results for County Supervisor and District State Senator and Democratic primary results for County Supervisor. Regular programming on the channel starts in late January, per Cecil Lawrence.
A federal judge ruled that four members of the Aiken County School Board must be elected at large from the whole county, replacing the four-area system. The Feb. 2 election will fill four at large seats on the seven member board, with de facto current members serving until then. The ruling aims to satisfy the one man one vote standard while preserving remaining provisions of state law.
Thurmond told Edgefield Saluda Teenage Republicans he expects the Republican Party to grow in South Carolina. He praised youth, joked about a black eye from boxes, and urged the crowd to back the best man while noting the Democrats’ long governorship history. He contrasted Nixon and Humphrey and urged exercise and study.
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