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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1972
Page
1
The thirtieth annual running of thoroughbred races at the Aiken Training Track includes harness races the second annual program for trotters and pacers. Aiken Cancer Society benefit at Jefferson Aiken Training Center and the sixth annual Aiken Hunt Meet feature steeplechase racing plus hospital benefit events.
Pope Paul VI in St. Peters Square warns disunity within the church is a serious problem. He cites disintegrating phenomena caused by small but disruptive minorities and says reunion with separated brethren is unlikely if unity is not upheld.
Singer Pearl Bailey is chosen as American Heart Association Heart of the Year for a productive career despite heart disease. Ross Reid announced the award noting her Tony for Hello Dolly and Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman. Previous honorees include President Johnson Eisenhower Mamie Eisenhower and Carl Albert.
Bayard Austin 61, longtime A. Philip Randolph Institute director, was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon after police found a 16 inch blade concealed in a wooden cane near Times Square. He was released on recognizance pending a hearing.
King Mahendra of Nepal died at 51 in Bharatpur after a heart attack. His nearly 16 year reign aimed to end isolation and modernize Nepal. Crown Prince Birendra, 26, succeeded to the throne as Nepal sits between India and China. Mahendra kept relations with the United States and the Soviet Union.
Swiss investigators located the account where the wife of author Clif ford Irving deposited part or all of 650000 dollars drawn from Credit Suisse. The account opened at Swiss Bank Corp as Hannah Rosencrantz, a CBS NY report says a pseudonym for Mrs Irving. CBS and Time cite 450000 related deposit in a second bank.
Buenos Aires police hunted 14 guerrillas who pulled off the biggest bank robbery in Argentine history. The Trotskyist People’s Revolutionary Army claimed responsibility saying its men escaped with 450000 dollars to fund the revolutionary war.
Ten antiwar militants posing as workers entered France's top secret nuclear strike control center in Lyon. They were arrested after unfurling a banner opposing arms sales and the atomic command post.
Washington AP reports government meteorologists attribute the nation's erratic winter weather to the jet stream a fast moving air river 300 miles above Earth. The stream has shifted north of its usual position causing warm conditions in the east cold in the west and rapid temperature swings across the Midwest including a 72 degree drop at Indianapolis and a 33 degree fall near Duluth.
Voters in 45 Aiken precincts and seven Saluda precincts go to the polls to elect two members of the seven man Aiken County District School Board. The Votomatic system will be tested for the first time. Polls open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. For voting, registrants must show current certificates. Candidates include Albert J. Maddox Jr. and J P Moseley Jr. for at large. W E Twilley and Gerald Dennis for Area 3.
The Aiken Technical Education Center on the Aiken Augusta Highway is set to cost 2.2 million dollars with completion expected by December 1972. U S Senator Strom Thurmond and Congressman Dorn led a crowd of nearly 300 praising local leaders and the project as a milestone in South Carolina technical education. Ash ley J Little will serve as director and the center will sit on a 66 acre plot near the highway.
Two Aiken men were injured in a head on collision on Wrights Mill Road between Aiken and Couchton about 7 45 this morning. Ricky Stapleton 19 of Aiken driving a southbound sedan suffered head and other injuries and was admitted in serious condition to University Hospital in Augusta. Robert Anderson 46 of Aiken driving a northbound pickup suffered chest injuries and leg lacerations and was admitted to Aiken County Hospital. The crash occurred at Willis store when Stapleton appeared to lose control and struck Anderson head on.
US B52 bombers pounded a 200 mile western border stretch of South Vietnam with over 500 tons of explosives. Gen Westmoreland warned of a multiphase offensive next month as North Vietnamese forces moved toward central highlands and DMZ areas. Reports also noted Vietnamese airstrikes destroying tanks and ongoing clashes along the DMZ with casualties on both sides.
Pentagon sources say Moscow sent Cuba larger OSA patrol boats armed with four Styx missiles. The two 200-ton craft join existing Komar boats, boosting Havana's naval striking power as Russia also provided MIG21 jets. U.S. reconnaissance tracks activities at Cienfuegos and submarine support facilities.
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