Pageants Galore Planned For 4th
The nation marks its 196th birthday with fireworks patriotic pageants and family picnics over a four day weekend. Thirteen teenagers born on the Fourth compete in Philadelphia for The National Yankee Doodle Dandy title after an essay contest on What My American Freedoms Mean To Me. FBI Director L Patrick Gray III will give the keynote at Independence Hall as President Nixon and wife plan a quiet July Fourth at the Western White House in San Clemente amid a renewed call that no evil is too strong to be overcome by the American people.
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Nixon
White House
San Clemente
Viet Marines Advance Toward Quang Tri City
South Vietnamese marines with U S air support pressed toward Quang Tri City as North Vietnamese troops retreated in small groups. U S B52s conducted 13 missions around Quang Tri, while fighter bombers dropped cluster bombs to hinder the retreat and shelling continued offshore.
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Saigon
U.S
Quant Tri City
Quang Tri City
Belfast violence threatens truce escalation
Seven men were killed in Belfast amid sectarian violence threatening the cease-fire. All victims were shot in the head. some were bound and hooded, a pattern linked to IRA execution squads, heightening fears of renewed sectarian bloodshed between Protestant and Catholic gunmen.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Striking Pilots Resume Bargaining With Northwest
Northwest Airlines and striking pilots resume negotiations in Minneapolis as union officials report talks could move forward. Federal mediator Harry Bickford scheduled the session for 2 p.m. EDT, the first since the Friday morning strike began.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Northwest Airlines
Harry Bickford
NAACP Director Criticizes Democrats Ahead of Convention
Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP, says Democratic National Convention delegates clashed at a late night news conference on the eve of the NAACP annual convention in Detroit.
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Mormon Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. Dies
President of the LDS Church Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. died from a heart attack Sunday night at a daughter’s home in Salt Lake City. The church had long called him prophet seer and revelator.
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Salt Lake City
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Joseph Fielding Smith Jr
Smith
Agnes the flood's memory floods two states
Agnes devastated Painted Post and flooded Aiken and surrounding areas. Mrs. Bebbington, 83, recalls being rescued from her waterfilled home and taken to a high school gym filled with evacuees. Her son Dr. W. P. Bebbington, of Aiken, aided by communications outages, found his mother after days apart. Evans family also affected by the flood.
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William Bebbington
W. P. Bebbington
Aiken
New York
Dr. Bebbington
Savannah River
Mrs. Bebbington
Painted Post
Thomas C. Evans
Laurel Drive
Theft Suspects Held After High Speed Chase
Sheriff officers nabbed David Nixon Jr. and Blanchard Allen in a connected armed robbery spree. Nixon, 27, of Augusta, faces seven counts. Allen, 3, of North Augusta, faces five counts. The chase ended on North Augusta’s Atomic Road after a Belvedere Kayo Station robbery. Police say the pair linked to seven Aiken County robberies and other incidents. A possible kidnapping note was also investigated.
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Aiken County
North Augusta
Paul Grant
David Nixon Jr
Chapman St
Augusta
Blanchard Allen
Washington Homes
Grant
Belvedere
Georgia
Richmond County
Nixon
South Carolina
Ralph Gunnells
Paul LaGrow
Columbia County
Kayo
Raco
Aiken
Interstate
Mobil
Clearwater
Blanchard
Sheriff's Department
Moonshine Operation Raided Near Burnettown
Aiken County deputies raided a swampy site on the Henry Weathers estate and destroyed a still capable of 50 gal daily. Timothy S. Drutis, 35, of Burnettown, was arrested for manufacturing illegal liquor. The operation included two 500-gallon tanks and six 55-gallon barrels, with liquor valued at about $8 per gallon.
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Judy Rich
Burnettown
Aiken County
Sheriff's Ent
Henry Weathers
Paul Grant
Timothy S. Drutis
Grant
Drutis
Augusta
E.H. Boyd
Stumper Reprinted With Correct Clues In Aiken Standard
Apology note explains that the Stumper puzzle on Page 8 was reprinted to correct an error. The puzzle offers a $510 prize or Bermuda cruise and a $5 Near Miss prize. Entries must be submitted by noon Wednesday.
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Stumper
Bermuda
Fourth of July Forecast From Weather Bureau
The U S Weather Bureau predicts a hot and possibly dry Fourth of July with partly cloudy skies. Temperatures near 90 during the day and around 70 at night, with a chance of thundershowers.
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U.S
Ship Bearing State's Name Christened in Norfolk Naval Launch
Under a sunny sky the USS South Carolina a nuclear powered guided missile frigate slid into the St James River at Newport News Va 400 South Carolinians watched Senator and Mrs Strom Thurmond attend the christening ceremony The ceremony featured Navy Band champagne breaking and remarks by Vice Admiral H G Rickover and Senator Thurmond with James A Lina also on the speakers’ stand and listed as General in the note SHIP Page.
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St. James River
Strom Thurmond
Newport News
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United States
H.G. Rickover
Sen. Thermond
James Alina
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