Two Aiken women deny discrimination by Dr. Pierce
Virgil Walker and Shirley Brown testified they have no knowledge of being treated differently due to race while under Dr. Clovis H. Pierce at Aiken County Hospital. Mrs. Edward Rich described the physicians policy requiring sterilization for state assisted pregnant women with two or more children. Judge Blatt cleared Richard Poore of conspiracy charges and found the hospital faultless as a state agent.
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Barnwell
Aiken
Clovis H. Pierce
Virgil Walker
Shirley Brown
Pierce
Aiken County Hospital
Edward Rich
Dr. Pierce
Richard T. Poore
Aiken County
Astronauts Await Splashdowns After Shared Orbit Mission
Space Center Houston reports Soyuz cosmonauts celebrate a safe return after six days in orbit two aboard with Apollo. Meanwhile Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton will stay three more days to conduct experiments and plan their homecoming events.
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Earth
Apollo
Thomas P. Stafford
Vance D. Brand
Donald K. Slayton
Frost Hits Three Quarters Of Brazil Coffee Crop
An estimated three quarters of Brazil's coffee crop suffered frost damage. All exports have been halted until the full extent is assessed. Households worldwide may face about a 50 percent rise in coffee prices by autumn.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Soviet bloc inks big grain deals in 1975 year
The Soviet Union agrees to purchase over 600 million dollars worth of corn and barley from Continental Grain Co in the third large U S Soviet grain deal of 1975. Australia announces sale of 750000 tons of wheat to the Soviet Union for 100 million Australian dollars about 130 million dollars.
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New York
Soviet Union
Continental Grain Co
Australia
Communists Offices Stormed in Northern Portugal
Anti Communist mobs attacked a Communist party HQ in Acobca, hurling files and setting the building on fire as troops fired warning shots to deter the unrest. A man was beaten in the street before paramedics took him away. Reports also described fighting in Angola and unrest in the Azores as the Revolutionary Council governed the country.
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Lisbon
Portugal
The
Revolutionary Council
Angola
Azores
Janitor Survives After Bombs Hit San Francisco Building
Janitor Mario Lopez narrowly escaped death when two bombs exploded on the 34th floor of a Market Street building housing the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. Lopez had unknowingly picked up the bombs from a restroom and carried them to a freight elevator seconds before the blast. The blasts buckled walls and knocked an elevator out of service.
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San Francisco
Mario Lopez
Financial District
Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Tishman
Market Street
Lopez
Indictment Names Foreman and Hunt Sons in Wiretap Case
Seven men including Houston lawyer Percy Foreman and two sons of the late Dallas oilman H L Hunt were indicted by a federal grand jury in Dallas on charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The indictment says Nelson Bunker Hunt W Herbert Hunt Foreman and others paid witnesses to conceal illegal wiretapping of Hunt employees.
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Dallas, Tex
Houston
Percy Foreman
Dallas
H.L. Hunt
Nelson Bunker Hunt
W. Herbert Hunt
Foreman
Hunt
Hunts
Veterans Benefit Increase Faces House Vote
A Senate House compromise bill would raise disabled veterans benefits by 10 to 12 percent and boost the 12 percent widows' indemnity for service connected deaths. Sen. Vance Hartke said House action could occur today with a Senate vote soon after. The augmented benefits would take effect August 1 and depend on the veteran's rank at death.
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Washington
Senate
House
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee
Mittee
Kalmia Hill School Aims for Campbell Soup Labels
Kalmia Hill School saves Campbell Soup labels for a redemption catalog to fund audio visual equipment. They invite donations of labels to support the project. Aiken Estates notes a shadow chasing Irish Setter owned by Anthony Tony F. Kupinski Jr. whose fear of his shadow may require canine help.
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Kalmia Hill School
Kalmia
Aiken Estates
Anthony
Tony’’ F. Kupinski Jr
PSC Waits On ERDA For Power Contract
The Energy Research and Development Administration has not signed a contract with South Carolina Electric & Gas for power at the Savannah River Plant. The PSC protests the delay and notes ERDA has until August 8 to sign or accept the higher rate charged to other large local industrial users.
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Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
South Carolina Electric & Gas Co
Savannah River Plant
Srp
State Public Service Commission
PSC
Sce&g
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc
C. H. Clark Jr
Columbia
du Pont
DuPont
Food and Gas Prices Drive Sizeable June CPI Jump
The Labor Department reports the Consumer Price Index rose eight tenths in June, double May, driven by a 1.5 percent rise in food and a 3 percent gain in gasoline. Meats up 5.8 percent and fruits and vegetables up 2.4 percent. Real earnings fell 0.4 percent in June and were down 0.4 percent for the year. The CPI stood at 160.6 percent of the 1967 average, with a 9.3 percent annual inflation for the 12 months ending June.
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Washington
Labor Department
Administration
Weather forecast hints at rain tomorrow
The forecast says a 40 percent chance of rain or thunder showers tomorrow with a high around 9 degrees. Tonight's low is 70 degrees and southwest winds will be 5 to 10 mph.
Old Church Building Put On Selling Block
The former First Presbyterian Church on Park Avenue in Aiken, owned by Farmers and Merchants Bank, is on the market after a February 1973 purchase. The bank plans to redeploy the building for data processing and bookkeeping, leasing it to the Aiken County Community Action Agency for 300 dollars monthly as its headquarters.
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First Presbyterian Church
Park Avenue
Farmers and Merchants Bank
F&m Bank
James D McNair
Aiken County Community Action Agency
Welfare funds misspent amid save plan for South Carolina
U S Welfare Commissioner Robert B Carleson says South Carolina and its 46 counties could save 9.5 million annually in welfare payments if his recommendations are followed. The federal government would save 13.9 million, totaling 23.4 million, with reforms in welfare administration.
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South Carolina
U.S
Robert B Carleson
Carleson
Columbia
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Walterboro Press and Standard
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