Garbage to energy gains traction in southern utilities
The article discusses converting solid waste into electricity as a fuel source. Greensboro High Point Winston-Salem Duke Power and Charlotte consider using garbage to supplement coal at new plants. Costs include a $60 000 pulverizing plant and $30 000 to remove glass and metal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
North Carolina
Duke Power Co
Greensboro
High Point
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
West Germany
South Carolina
Private Foundation for the Arts to Launch Fund
A new private Foundation for the Humanities and Arts is being created using funds from private patrons. It will be led by W. McNeil Lowry, former Ford Foundation arts head, while federal support to the arts continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. McNeil Lowry
Ford Foundation
Center Stage
Space men pay the price of fame in quiet ruin
Space veterans struggle with postflight psyches and shattered lives after the moon landing. Buzz Aldrin and others face ongoing mood disorders, marital strain, and career disruption, while hang glider Richard Kilbourne ended in suicide after a record flight. NASA psychologists urge view of astronauts as scientists, not heroes.
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Cian
Astronaut Corps
Buzz Aldrin
Aldrin
Richard Kilbourne
Cone Peak
Big Sur
NASA
Edward McLaughlin
Letters From Readers Praise Christmas Number And Local Efforts
Several readers commend the paper for the Christmas issue and its role in community programs. They thank the Standard staff, Aiken Mental Health Association, Ashley Little, and volunteers who supported the Clinic For Parents and babysitting services. They also note county commissioners’ achievements and community pride in Aiken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard
Paul H. Linaberry
Fauburg St., S.W
Aiken County Mental Health Association
Ashley Little
Aiken
Local leaders hailed for progress in county services and hospital move
Austin Riley credits County Commissioners and Administrator for strong year of achievements in Aiken. They enabled paid ambulance expansion, landfill compliance, green box trash collection starting January, and negotiations for a new Hospital Corporation of America hospital with a potential county buy option. Appreciates Mrs Clovis H Pierce for community service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Health Department
Hospital Corporation of America
Robert D Cathcart Executive Editor
Robert D. Cathcart serves as executive editor, as noted in the newspaper masthead dated Wednesday January 9, 1974.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert D.cathcart
Letters to the Editor Policy at The Aiken Standard
The Aiken Standard invites signed letters with the writer’s mailing address and rejects anonymous submissions. Pen names are not allowed. Letters should be legible and may be edited for space clarity taste and libel with no subject matter limit.
1973 Year in America Viewers and Commentators
A fragment discussing television anchors and in house commentators in 1973. It notes they do not think or get paid to think and contrasts them with thinking writers who nibble doughnuts. Mentions Chancellor and Severeid as figures noted for misanthropy amid scandals.
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Solzhenitsyn
Attica
Richard Nixon
Edward Heath
England
America
David Broder
Vermont Royster
Amer
Agronsky & Company
Lisagor
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Lincoln
Tuchman
Lois Collier visits Salley in 1954 Aiken column
Dorothy MacDowell notes Hollywood actress Lois Collier visiting her parents in Salley. The piece blends local social notes with reflections on 1973 crises and year-end commentary by writers, economists, and historians on American resilience and global events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Macdowell
Lois Collier
Madelyn Earle Jones
Hollywood
E. Ernest Jones
Salley
T.v
Beverly Hills
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National Endowment For the Arts
Rockefeller Foundation
Andrew Mellon Foundation
Paul Harvey
Gates of Heaven
Hell On Earth
Evan
Charles Berry
Physi
Christopher Morley
Rich
Ard Kilbourne
Clovis H. Pierce
Wallace A. Eubanks
Mrs. Pierce
the County Commission
Austin Riley
Westmount Dr
Samuel A. Cothran
Yesteryear
Kraft
Alsop
Anderson
Chalmers Roberts
Barbara Tuchman
Doom- Sayers
Citizen Smith
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