Retirement Home Drive Aiken area supports Croft House project
The Aiken area Council on Aging seeks private contributions to build Croft House on the former Aiken Old Folks Home site at Abbeville Avenue and York Street. The project, backed by the Aiken City Council and the private nonprofit council on aging, aims for federal loan financing and features private rooms, baths, central dining, crafts and activity rooms, laundry, courtyard garden, and a large meeting hall.
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Aiken Area
South Vietnamese Admit Losses in Cambodian Snuol Fight
South Vietnamese field commanders acknowledge heavy losses at Snuol near the Cambodian border. They report switching to mobile cross-border tactics after losing backup U.S. ground forces and relying on U.S. air support for now. Task Force 8 suffered 300 killed, wounded, or missing with 74 still unaccounted.
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Saigon
Snuoland
U.S
Snuol
Rogers presses France to join NATO cut talks push
Secretary of State William P. Rogers urged France to back NATO troop reduction talks with the Soviet Union at the Lisbon meeting. Maurice Schumann stood as the sole holdout among ministers as the alliance seeks a probing path to Brezhnev's position and negotiation structure.
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Lisbon
William P. Rogers
France
NATO
Soviet Union
Maurice Schumann
Schumann
Mamie Eisenhower Receives Turtle Shaped Paper Weight
In New York the American Korean Foundation presents Mamie Eisenhower with a turtle shaped paper weight of topaz and gold. The gift commemorates an agricultural training program named for Dwight D. Eisenhower that will educate 600,000 South Koreans.
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New York
American-Korean Foundation
Mamie Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bunche Hospitalized After Fall At Home
U N Undersecretary General Ralph Bunche, 66, is in New York Hospital after a fall in his Forest Hills home caused a broken arm. Hospital says only precautionary admission. U N sources report complications.
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Ralph Bunche
New York
New York Hospital
U.N
Eral Karph J. Bunche
Bunche
Forest Hills
Suspects charged in Ft. Bragg bank robbery case
The FBI charged two escaped convicts Ernest Jones Jr. 36 Hopkinsville Ky and Harry Green 25 Graysville Ala with armed robbery in the 115000 Ft. Bragg First Citizens Bank heist. Bowles 19 Hopkinsville was arrested elsewhere after the robbery. Jones and Green fled from a Sampson County road gang April 19. A military policeman was shot but not seriously hurt.
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Fayetteville, N.C
FBI
Ft. Bragg
First Citizens Bank & Trust Co
Ernest Jones Jr
Hopkinsville
Harry Green
Graysville
James
Evans Bowles
Jones and
Green
Sampson County
Paris selects Julian Green first foreign citizen to join academy
Paris born American novelist Julian Green was elected to the French Academy. He is 71 and fills Francois Mauriac's chair after his death. Green received 27 votes with one abstention. President Pompidou helped his admission, noting Green remains American but is French by birth and residence.
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Paris
Julian Green
French Academy
Green
Francois Mauriac
Academy
Georges Pompidou
Pompidou
$620.00 Stumper A Big Challenge
The Aiken Standard promotes a new puzzle offering $620.00 prize on page 12. Readiness to meet the challenge is urged with a noon Wednesday deadline and extra copies at 124 Rutland Drive office.
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Aiken
Rutland Drive
Bond Study Halted Over Constitutional Challenge
Marshall Cain told the Aiken County Commission a legal challenge to the county bond plan has stalled both courthouse and USCA facility work. A filing by Williams and Johnson on behalf of Stathy Verenes challenges bond legality, prompting bond attorneys to pause pending court clarity and a potential election, with costs to taxpayers mounting as drainage and site issues are cited.
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Marshall Cain
R-Aiken
Aiken County Commission
USCA
Cain
Theodore B. Guerard
Sinkler
Gilbert McMillan
Stathy J. Verenes
East Aiken
Park and Richland Avenues
Aiken County
McMillan
Aiken County Board of Education
John Henry Williams
Aiken County Board of Commissioners
Thurmond Urges Draft Extension and Scholarships
Sen. Strom Thurmond pledged to vote tomorrow in Washington to extend the draft for two more years. He urged keeping a draft to ensure national security and noted support for an all volunteer army is insufficient. He announced $10,000 in scholarships at Strom Thurmond High School for need and merit, open to college and trade students.
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Aiken
Strom Thurmond
Nancy
Washington
Thurmond
Strom Thur
Mond High School
Grant Approved for TEC Center in Aiken County
The Coastal Plains Regional Commission approved a $300,000 grant for the Aiken Technical Education Center to fund programs aiding residents across three counties toward full-time industrial employment and higher incomes. An additional $325,000 federal request awaits approval in Washington. Groundbreaking is planned for September or October on a 50 acre site near Langley, with completion about a year later.
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Coastal Plains Regional Commission
Aiken
G. Fred Steele Jr
Federal
Aiken County
John C. West
South Carolina
Aiken Tech Center
Craig Musick
TEC
U.S
Langley
Musick
Mary Sunshine musical at Aiken Junior High opens
Aiken Community Playhouse presents the spoof Little Mary Sunshine at the auditorium for a three night run. Director George Cole and wife Cathy lead a cast of 50 plus talent including actors singers and stage crew. Showtimes 8 p m with continuation tonight and Saturday.
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Walter Cronkite
Nelson Eddy
Jeanette MacDonald
Aiken Junior High
Aiken
Mary Sunshine
Aiken Playhouse
George Cole
University of South Carolina
Hilton Head
Cathy
Assembly Considers Nixon Revenue Sharing Plan
In Columbia SC lawmakers weigh a Republican proposal urged by Vice President Agnew. He argues federal revenue sharing would bring SC over 89 million but shifts power from states to the federal government. The visit was billed as non partisan.
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Spiro T. Agnew
State Capitol
Columbia
South Carolina General Assembly
UPI
South Carolina
Spiro Agnew
Agnew
Nixon
Congress
Washington
Senate Approves Liquor Sales At Air Terminals
The South Carolina Senate tentatively approved a bill allowing liquor by the drink only at airline terminals. The move came during an almost empty session after Vice President Agnew’s House speech, with members noting grogginess from the figures presented.
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Senate
Columbia
South Carolina
Aiken Campus to confer forty one associate degrees
Forty one students at the Aiken Regional Campus of the University of South Carolina will receive associate degrees. The ceremony is set for tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the old Presbyterian Church on Park Avenue with Judge Donald S. Russell as speaker. Degrees will be awarded by Dr. John Duffy with Major James M. Giovanazi's 861st Radar Squadron providing the color guard.
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Aiken
University of South Carolina
William C. Casper
Old Presbyterian Church
Park Avenue
Donald S. Russell
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Russell
John Duffy
Bruce Gregory Dew
Guynema Ann Fant
Sherry Ann Granade
Bonita Sue Smith
Gail Yvonne Smoak
Aiken Air Force Station
James M. Giovanazi
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