Home Rule Comes To S C Wiken County Voters Decide
Voters in Aiken face a November 4 ballot on the Home Rule Act shifting power from the legislature to the county government The act, approved in 1972 and backed by many legislators, gives the county authority to tax assess property levy ad valorem taxes and set uniform service charges with possible district-specific rates Special tax districts may be created by freeholders and voted on regionally Officials say the measure shifts purse strings and governance to county leaders See VOTERS Page 10
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Gilbert E. McMillan
Aiken
General Assembly
Weather looks for showers and thundershowers through Tuesday
Partly cloudy skies and warm conditions continue with a 10 percent rain chance today, rising to 20 percent tonight and 30 percent tomorrow. The forecast calls for possible showers or thundershowers across the period.
Astronauts Remain in Seclusion After Apollo Flight
In Honolulu three Apollo astronauts Thomas Stafford Donald Slayton and Vance Brand are kept in seclusion for ten days due to infection risk from inhaled rocket fuel fumes. Doctors plan to discharge them from Tripler Army Hospital on Tuesday and place them in semi isolation while wives travel from Houston to join them.
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Honolulu
Thomas Staf
Ford
Donald Slayton
Vance Brand
Tripler Army Hospital
Houston
Close Votes Expected On Oil Price Controls
In Washington AP reports Congress faces tight votes this week as oil price controls near expiration on August 31. Leaders in both chambers anticipate action to manage the scheduled end of controls and a potential rapid rise in gasoline and petroleum prices.
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Washington
Congress
Black traveling salesmen attacked on Carson Beach in Boston
About 100 whites attacked six black traveling salesmen at Carson Beach in South Boston injuring one. Police quoted James Barrowright of South Carolina as saying they had worked all week and only wanted to enjoy the beach while assailants hurled racial slurs.
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Boston
Carson Beach
James Barrowright
South Carolina
Demos Telethon Falls Short of 6 Million Goal
California Democratic officials say the weekend fundraising telethon raised nearly 4.7 million dollars toward a 6 million dollar goal. Telethon director Pam Duffy attributed the shortfall to pledges yet to be counted and noted strong donor belief in small contributions.
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Los Angeles
Democratic Party
California
Pam Duffy
Duffy
HEW Conducted LSD Tests on Prisons and Patients
The Department of Health Education and Welfare oversaw LSD tests on about 2500 prisoners mental patients and paid volunteers from 1954 to 1968. The agency says no one was given the drug without knowledge and consent. HEW funded over 30 university researchers with grants for related human experiments.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Turkish Units Near U.S. Bases
Turkish units began moving into U.S. military installations across Turkey to take control of the bases. Officials offered few details and reports from the sites were not available to confirm the announcement. They denied claims that the United States had already closed key bases.
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Ankara
Turkey
U.S
Ther
United States
Ford And Communists Begin Talks In Warsaw Visit
President Ford arrives in Warsaw for a two day official visit meeting East European Communist leaders. He is greeted by Edward Gierek Henry Jablonski and Piotr Jaroszewicz and tours the city before talks on Western economic woes and East West cooperation.
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Warsaw
Poland
Ford
Edward Gierek
Henryk Jablonski
Piotr Jaroszewicz
Gierek
Wilanow Palace
Helmut Schmidt
Bonn
The
Old Town
Schmidt
Henry A. Kissinger
Germany
Barnwell and Aiken At Center Of Notable Sterilization Suit
The Barnwell Aiken area again makes national news as a landmark sterilization case unfolds. U S District Judge Solomon Blatt Jr hears the civil rights dispute against Dr Clovis H Pierce and others including Dr George A Poda and J Sam Nesbit with marshals maintaining order in a historic county courthouse setting.
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Barnwell
Savannah River Plant
SRP
Aiken
United States
U.S
Solomon Blatt Jr
Barnwell County
Clovis H. Pierce
Pierce
George A. Poda
Aiken County Hospital
J. Sam Nesbit
Aiken County judge clears Pierce in sterilization clash
A federal jury found Dr. Clovis H. Pierce violated the civil rights of Shirley Brown by dismissing her from Aiken County Hospital after she refused tubal ligation. Brown received $5 in nominal damages, while Virgil Walker’s sterilization after her fourth child drew no damages. The panel cleared Pierce of racial discrimination and noted possible Medicaid pressures without changing the outcome.
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Barnwell
Aiken County
Clovis H. Pierce
Aiken
Shirley Brown
Nal
Joe Levin
Southern Poverty Law Center
Montgomery
Ala
Dr. Pierce
Ms. Brown
Aiken County Hospital
Ager
Opinion Sought On $30 000 Aid To Chamber of Commerce
The South Carolina attorney general is being asked to rule on a $30,000 appropriation by Aiken County to the North Augusta Chamber of Commerce. Rep Irene Rudnick said she sought the opinion after a constituent request and noted the AG will express his view without bias. The question is whether a Supreme Court decision conflicts with the subsidy to buy 30 acres for a Schubert and Salzer textile plant worth $5 million, amid Hunt v McNair concerns.
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Aiken
S.C. Supreme Court
North Augusta
Cowards Named Young Farm Family of the Year in South Carolina
Tommy Coward and wife Cathy of Aiken, a 1 000 acre operation in Hopelands Farm hills, win the 1975 Young Farm Family of the Year award from the South Carolina Farmer Cooperative Council. They run crops, cattle and okra seed, while engaging in extensive community service and Clemson Extension programs.
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Tommy Coward
Aiken
S.C. Farmer Cooperative Council
Cowards
Michigan
American Institute of Cooperatives
Coward
Hopelands Farm
Cathy
Clemson
H. Evans
Tommy
First Baptist Church
Tommy Cowards
Catherine Ann
Mrs. Coward
Alice Jo
Nola Lynn
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Finland
Harold Wilson
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Barnwell Trial Iis
U.S. Marshalls
Ms Brown
Wendell Jordan
Charleston
Eric Riggs
Clemson University
New Jersey
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Aiken Farm Bureau
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