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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1974
Page
4
A reflection on rising citizen helplessness and crime shows the gun threat to officers and public safety. Incidents span Lexington County highway patrolman shot, Perry police fatal shooting, and a Laurens youth killed in a gun fight. SLED chief Pete Strom calls Perry tragedy an utter disregard for authority.
A column laments rising crime and flawed justice in America. It cites a 174 percent violent crime rise from 1963 to 1973, notes fear in streets, police morale drop, and delays in court proceedings including 60 cases wiped from files in Aiken. It calls for scrutiny of law and order.
Sen. Scoop Jackson says the Nixon era is an interregnum and urges an interim Czar of the economy and a Kissinger run foreign policy. He opposes the 25th Amendment step and calls for impeachment speed, eyeing a January scenario with Congress anew.
An old article notes that diseases have grown with progress from rheumatism to many labeled afflictions. A Massachusetts doctor ties sciatic relief to removing a fat wallet from the hip pocket. A separate case blames excess credit cards on a condition dubbed credit card itis.
Rufus W Go snell presents a comic fable of a missionary in a jungle who prays as a lion joins in prayer, highlighting humor in danger and grace. The piece closes with a quip about television and home conversation.
A reader praises a San Diego Union column and asks about churches owning hotels and other properties. The writer argues biblical stewardship requires missions and benevolence, notes estates can be held in transit, cautions against for profit church ventures, and predicts increasing tax scrutiny and voluntary community obligation by churches.
Mr and Mrs G L Toole attend USC alumni weekend in Columbia with Toole an 1886 graduate. Mrs Richard K Chesser and Mrs Martin Efron visit a former Aiken resident. Elliott C Steadman Jr receives Emory BBA degree. Julia Wolf hosts a grand birthday party for Rosalee Berger, 16, with about 90 guests at the Richmond Hotel Augusta.
Celebrity watcher Earl Wilson asserts in a new book that John F. Kennedy had multiple extramarital affairs including Marilyn Monroe while in the White House. He places the affair in 1961 to 1962 with details from Monroe and other sources.
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