Southern Railway Co hearing aid in the shop near Hitchcock Woods
The Friends of the Woods denounce Southern Railway for neglecting an unused Aiken cut through the city. Bridges and drainage suffer as garbage accumulates. Residents recall a 12 year idle roadbed and a collapsed Laurens Street bridge last January 6.
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Friends of the Woods, Inc
Hitchcock Woods
Southern Railway Company
Southern
Aiken
Laurens Street
Augusta
Arkenites
Friends of the Woods
Mescalero Apaches Thrive on Homeland Rebirth
I spent a weekend on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico where tribal leaders hosted a meal and a wedding ceremony. I witnessed a rotating cattle operation, preserved Ponderosa forests, and a new resort complex rising nearby while hunters use tribal lands seasonally and protect resources. The piece credits local effort over federal red tape for this Eden-to-eden renewal.
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
Uncle Sam
North American
New Mexico
Wendell
Chino
Washington
Let Us Swear Off Doctrinal Defeatism At Sea
Admiral Zumwalt leaving CNO post is cited as evidence of doctrinal defeatism harming the Navy and U S national strength. The piece condemns inaction and Watergate era politics as fueling the trend and urges leaders to reject the addiction to defeatism and avoid no win judgments.
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Holmes Alexander
Elmo Zumwalt
Admiral Zumwalt
America
U.S
Yorktown
Zumwalt
Hyman Rickover
Congress
Soviet Union
Nixon
A Million Dollars For This Invention
Ocean City Md vacationers aboard the Mariner endure a brutal six hour fishing trip marked by seasickness and comedy of errors. A 15 minute sick passenger and a well dressed man who risks every railing chart the voyage while others withstand the ride and still reel in 51 bluefish. The narrator and his son receive a parting gift from a seasick pill giver as the tale ends with a tongue in cheek prediction of a market for a device letting people fish lying down.
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Ocean City
Mariner
Anonymity in a Newspaper Column Readers Question
A reader asks about anonymity in our column and why names and addresses aren’t revealed. The note defends keeping correspondents confidential while stressing that the problems and solutions discussed belong to all readers.
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Christ
Aiken golfers set world marathon record with 101 holes
A four member group led by I T Luke Ralph Rossetti Billy Faulkner and Louie Wanninger played 101 holes in one day at the Aiken Municipal Golf Club starting at 4 45 a m and finishing around 6 pm The foursome averaged 81 for five rounds with 15 birdies and one eagle the eagle by Wanninger on hole 13 and Rossetti posting a 78 2 average per round The group age average was 25 and their feat was described as a world marathon record for a foursome.
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Aiken Golf
Aiken Municipal Golf Club
I. T. Luke
Liberty Life Insurance Co
Ralph Rossetti
AEC
Savannah River Project
Billy Faulkner
duPont
Louie Wanninger
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Southern Railway Co
John D. Lofton JR
Billy Graham
Yesteryear
Dorothy Macdowell
Samuel A. Cothran
Robert D. Cathcart
Citizen Smith
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