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03 Jun 1970
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1970
Page
1
Vacation days are ahead as the Standard Stumper moves forward this week with a $90 prize. Encourage children to fill out the puzzle for five minutes of daily activity and a chance to win.
President Nixon reportedly plans a Monday White House meeting with top U.S. textile leaders including Donald McCullough of Collins & Aikman Roger Milliken of Deering Milliken Fred Dent of Mayfair Mills and Robert Stephens of J P Stevens along with lawmakers Strom Thurmond Charles R Jonas Albert Watson and James Broyhill. The session would be Nixon’s first with textile industrialists and cover the Mills import bill and textile imports from Japan.
President Nixon plans a national television address at 9 p.m. EDT to offer a progress report on the Cambodia war. The speech follows a Senate vote on an administration backed Dole proposal aiming to negate the Cooper Church amendment restricting funds after June 30. The outcome did not deter Nixon from delivering remarks after meetings with defense leaders amid optimistic accounts of the month-old campaign.
Madison AP scientists announce creation of the first man made gene led by Nobel laureate H Gobind Khorana at the University of Wisconsin The team says genes can be built from simple organic chemicals and could enable manipulation of life processes Possibly years away from clinical application but marks a major genetic milestone.
Guerrillas in Jordan fired two rocket waves at Beit Shean wounding seven others and killing two schoolchildren. A prior Beit Shean rocket killed a schoolgirl, amid multiple recent child casualties in the region.
The 43rd National Spell Bee opens with 44 girls and 30 boys under 16 from 33 states and Okinawa. Forty are 13 years old, 25 are 14, six are 12, and three are 11. Seventy four finalists earned spots from seven million contestants in local bees across 14 cities plus 58 papers.
Nijinsky owned by Charles W. Engelhard and ridden by Lester Piggott led in the final 100 yards to win England's premier classic the Epsom Derby over 1% miles. The Canadian bred horse, favored at 11-8, beat French entrants Gyr and Stintino in a field of 11.
About 50 people attended a North Augusta meeting where seven Republican House candidates attacked incumbent Democrats over taxes, pollution and county government plans. Democratic officials plan to review primary procedures, while candidates promoted local schools and facilities and urged more county representation from the 1970 census.
In the Huaylas Canyon region high in the Peruvian Andes, bad weather and blocked roads hinder rescue teams after a devastating earthquake. Officials fear up to 30,000 dead with towns like Yungay and Huaraz largely destroyed and Lake Llanganuco floods adding to the devastation.
Gov. Robert E. McNair will join three governors and other officials on a Southeast Asia tour invited by President Nixon. He left Columbia for Washington to prepare and said the trip aims to foster understanding of events there and support the president and the country. McNair will join governors John Love of Colorado and Raymond Shafer of Pennsylvania, along with other lawmakers and White House staff. He did not comment on Nixon's Cambodia troop decision.
Aiken County voters face an advisory June primary on magistrates. Election official Eugene England urges a write in vote June 9 to record support for unopposed magistrate candidates. The governor would still appoint, making party nominees moot without a record of voter backing.
In northwest South Vietnam a U S and South Vietnamese force of 500 linked with defenders at Tun Tavern after a morning B 52 strike and air raids. Casualties mounted with 50 killed 119 wounded on the government side and 81 North Vietnamese killed. one American adviser killed, several wounded.
Two masked robbers took $65 cash $250 in checks and about $2 from a wallet at the Congress Inn on Highway 1 about 4 am. The register later surfaced empty in a Graniteville pond. A 1960 white Chevrolet car carried the getaway with a 22 or 23 year old dark man and a slim man described by deputy Gunnels.
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