New Hospital Projects Stir Gastonia Aiken County
Gastonia plans a new hospital as two doctors are joining the project and leadership notes community interest. Aiken County weighs a 200 bed, nearly eleven million dollar facility with phased build questions and a private versus public model, while Gaston Memorial Hospital operates as a nonprofit and leases the site to the county.
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Matherlee
Gastonia
Emily L. Bull
Aiken County
Ners
Gaston Memorial Hospital
County Commission
Aiken News Briefs Include Ring Find and Craft Mystery
Miss Ola Hitt of Aiken found a class ring in a toilet after months of drifting in plumbing and has received clippings from around the country. Mr and Mrs F J Kaufman Jr report porch delivery of handmade crafts priced for sale and offer to return them upon identification. Rotary notes quote a retired husband joke. William D Workman recalls 1951 Rotary talk predicting Aiken’s growth and reads four year outlooks from locals.
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Ola Hitt
Aiken
Miss Hitt
F.J. Kaufman Jr
Kaufmans
William D. Workman
Columbia
Aiken Rotary Club
Atomic Energy Commission
Dorsey Lybrand
Earle Holley
Albert George
Watergate Hearings Resume In Executive Session
Washington AP report says the Watergate inquiry will resume in executive session after spurning a delay. The committee lined up Special Prosecutor Cox and agreed in advance to proceed with the inquiry ahead of today’s public session led by Sen. Joseph Montoya.
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Washington
Cox
Senate
Tergate
Joseph Montoya
N.M
Market Prices Lower Again In Uncertain Economy
New York stocks fell as investors stayed cautious amid economic concerns and Watergate headlines. The Dow dropped 8.05 to 885.91, with NYSE issues beating advances about 2 to 1 and volume light as traders awaited a clearer economic outlook.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
American Telephone & Telegraph
Taft Broadcast
International Telephone & Telegraph
Dow Jones Industrial
Fighting Near Saigon Sparks Delta Reinforcements
Government reinforcements moved into the Mekong Delta as heavy fighting flared near Saigon after a Viet Cong attempt to attack traffic on Highway 4. In Cambodia an American pilot died when a spotter plane crashed after takeoff at Phnom Penh, the second U.S. pilot killed in two weeks. Casualties in the delta battle were up to 200 dead or wounded.
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Saigon
Mekong
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Delta
Fishing talks open as Iceland presses 50 mile claim
In Copenhagen US and 16 nations begin 10 days of talks to set Northwest Atlantic quotas and efficiency. Iceland seeks a 50 mile territorial limit, a stake linked to a Britain dispute and depletion fears. Talks avoid the banished topic while a shift to boat counts surfaces for safety.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
United States
Atlantic
Iceland
Britain
International Commission For Northwest Atlantic Fisheries
Aiken Weather: Heat Returns With Chance Of Showers
The Aiken area forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and hot temperatures near 90 today with upper 60s tonight. Rain chances are 40 percent today, 30 percent tonight, and 50 percent tomorrow amid 5 to 20 mph winds from the southwest. Tomorrow will be cloudy with mid 80s temperatures.
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Aiken
Nixon Control Declared Failure by Senate Democrats
Senate Democrats bill a 90 day mandatory freeze on prices profits wages rents and consumer rates in response to President Nixon s Phase 3 controls. Mondale says Phase 3 is an unmitigated failure with prices rising at the fastest rate in 22 years and urging floor action.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate Democrats
Senate Democratic Caucus
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
Newberry Crash Takes Life Of Aiken Youth
Gregory Melton twenty died when his car left I 26 near Highway 773 and flipped. Funeral services are set for six pm at South Aiken Baptist Church with burial at Aiken Memorial Park. Born in Bakersville North Carolina he lived in Aiken his entire life. He was a graduate of.
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Gregory Melton
Kyle Melton
Daughtery Rd
Aiken
Newberry County
Melton
I-26
Highway 773
Newberry
South Aiken Baptist Church
Kenneth W. Nixon
Aiken Memorial Park
Bakersville
N.C
Aiken Girl Named Presidential Scholar
Caryle Schlea of Aiken was named a presidential scholar, one of 121 high school seniors nationwide honored for leadership and academics. She plans to attend the University of South Carolina and will visit Washington in June for meetings with lawmakers and a White House ceremony.
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Judy Rich
Caryle Schlea
Aiken Standard
Strom Thurmond
Washington
Miss Schlea
Nixon
Carl S. Schlea
Lyons Drive
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
Congress
White House
Carole
University of South Carolina
Carolina
Senate Democrats back mandatory freeze on economic controls
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said 33 or 34 of 57 Senate Democrats attended a closed session and supported attaching a mandatory freeze to the first suitable bill. Senator William Proxmire noted the best vehicle could be a debt ceiling bill to avoid a Nixon veto. The move signals possible clashes with the administration over Phase 3 controls.
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Mike Mansfield
Senate
Senate Democrats
William Proxmire
Dwis
Nixon
Drowning Fatality At Richardsons Lake Claims 16 Year Old
Parents of Kathy Rebecca Johnson waited four and a half hours for a possible rescue after she vanished from a raft at Richardsons Lake Sunday. The coroner ruled drowning as the cause of death. The missing teen, 16, was last seen with a male companion who left to call for help.
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Richardson's Lake
G. A. Johnson
Aiken
Kathy Rebecca
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Bellido
Delda Harper
Aiken Chamber of Commerce
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