Inflation Strains USC Build Plan Amid Rising Costs
At the University of South Carolina inflation raises the cost of new facilities and bonds, prompting a conservative request of just over 30 million dollars for classrooms and libraries while stadium expansion looms as a separate self funded package. Officials warn without funding, accreditation could be at risk.
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Columbia
University of South Carolina
General Assembly
Tom Jones
Jones
Carolina
Assembly Gets Second Look At Regional Councils Plan
South Carolina lawmakers review a flawed 1968 ballot title on regional councils of government enabling cross county and state cooperation. Gov McNair urges ratification or a new amendment to allow local action and federal funds use. Rep Comer moves to re submit the measure.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Robert MacNair
Senate Judiciary Committee
Soaring Prices Drive GNP Jump in 1969
The Commerce Department reports 1969 GNP at 932.3 billion dollars, up 66.6 billion from 1968 due to 4.75 percent price-driven inflation and 3 percent real output gain. The Oct-Dec quarter showed little real growth, helped by a General Electric strike that trimmed about 2 billion in output.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Department
General Electric Co
Daily Crossword Tease From Puzzle Page
A cryptogram style crossword list shows clues across and down with theme hints. It includes sample entries like Track event and City in Wisconsin, with a note on substitution code where A stands for L and X for O.
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Songbird
City
Wisconsin
Rough Lava
Brown Warns Drivers About Pedestrian Right of Way
Police Chief James B. Brown reminds motorists that pedestrians in crosswalks have the right of way. He notes drivers often fail to stop at barrier lines, including during right turns, and says stop lines will be repainted. Patrols will enforce the law to protect pedestrians.
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James B. Brown
Brown
Sermon-Lesson at First Church of Christ Scientist Aiken
The Sunday service at 11 a.m. in the First Church of Christ Scientist on Newberry Street Aiken features a lesson titled Life drawn from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
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Church of Christ-Scientist
Newberry Street
Aiken
Mary Baker Eddy
Hope Show Delivers Moving Christmas Broadcast Worldwide
The Bob Hope Christmas Show airs as television entertainment and morale-boosting aid for troops abroad. The NBC 90 minute program features same routines with a focus on audiences overseas, including hospital patients in blue pajamas. CBS adds a Sunday news show with Roger Mudd anchoring starting Jan 25.
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New York
Bob Hope
Hope
77 In
White House
NBC
CBS
Roger Mudd
Office of Civil Rights eyes broader role in school desegregation
The Office for Civil Rights seeks to monitor court orders in desegregation cases and combat subtler discrimination such as firing black teachers and closures of Negro schools. It plans expanded action in the North and West against de facto segregation, unequal treatment of Mexican Americans, and private all white academies as HEW shifts strategy after mid-1969 policy changes and a Supreme Court push for swift integration.
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Washington
South
Office For Civil Rights
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Civil Rights Office
HEW
North
West
Liberty Life To Honor 126 Representatives
Liberty Life Insurance Co will honor 126 representatives for long term service at six regional meetings in January and February. About 944 company reps in the Carolinas and Georgia will attend events in Charleston Florence Columbia Charlotte Spartanburg and Greenville with Herman N. Hipp delivering the principal banquet speech. An afternoon business meeting will precede each conference. Martha K. Carey and R. E. Duffie will be honored in Columbia for five years of service.
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Liberty Life Insurance Co
Carolinas
Georgia
Carleston
Florence
Columbia
Charlotte
N. C
Spartanburg
Greenville
Herman N. Hipp
Liberty Life Insurance Company
Martha K. Carey
R. E. Duffie
Aiken
Martha Carey
Duffie
Liberty Life
Union dispute at Charleston Navy Yard over representation
The Metal Trades Council AFL CIO faces a challenge from the National Association of Government Employees regarding the representation of about 5 000 workers at the Charleston Navy Yard in a union dispute.
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Charleston
The
Metal Trades Council
Aflcio
National Association of Government Employes
Charleston Navy Yard
Conservationists Halt Jetport Plan for Everglades Site
Conservationists strike a deal halting a planned Miami jetport in the Everglades. Dade County approves, safeguarding the park and converting a $14 million two mile runway into a training facility until a new jetport is chosen. Joe Browder of the Audubon Society hails the pact but warns of local resistance.
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Miami
Nixon
Everglades
Transportation
John A. Volpe
Interior
Walter J. Hickel
Guy Claude Kirk
Dade County
Everglades National Park
Joe Browder
Browder
National Audubon Society
Dade County Commission
Food Stamps Issued to 2 791 in Aiken County Amid Boost
The USDA Food Stamp program issued benefits to 2 791 people in Aiken County for November. Across 46 South Carolina counties 139 046 residents received 1.1 million in food buying power, with eligible families receiving coupons totaling 1 922 747. The program is run by the Food and Nutrition Service via state agencies, supervised in South Carolina by the State Department of Public Welfare.
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Aiken County
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Food and Nutrition Service
South Carolina
The
State Department of Public Welfare
Crosland Park Civic Club to Meet Monday
The Crosland Park Civic Association holds its regular meeting at 8 p.m. Monday in the Senior Citizens Clubhouse on Crosland Drive. Eugene J. Oyler executive editor of the Aiken Standard will speak. All Crosland Park residents are invited.
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Crosland Park
The
Aiken Standard
Eugene J. Oyler
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