Tragedy at Richardson's Lake highlights water safety
A 16 year old girl Kathy Rebecca Johnson drowns at Richardson's Lake during a family outing. The piece urges Red Cross water safety courses via Aiken County chapter and lists upcoming sessions and pre registration details. It also discusses debates over home construction regulation and self regulation in the industry.
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Richardson’s Lake
Kathy Rebecca Johnson
Aiken County
American Red Cross
General Assembly
Red Cross
Laurens St
S.W
Eustis Park Pool
Aiken Prep
South Carolina
IRS promotes 1040A form for simple taxes
About 32 million taxpayers may use the 1040A short form this year available again since 1968. It suits those with income from salary wages or tips and no itemized deductions. Following IRS directions, a taxpayer can complete it himself without help.
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Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Misleading Piety Strains Family Harmony and Faith
A reader asks how to handle a mother who seems devout yet nags and abuses her husband. The reply warns that outward religion without true commitment harms the faith, urges frank dialogue with both parents, suggests scripture to guide love and harmony, and recommends counseling while preserving loyalty to family and God.
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Satan
God
Memory, Pasts that Heal and Yesterday’s Simple Pleasures
HAL BOYLE recalls memory as a healing balm and a lens on better times. He reflects on frugal living, scarce repairs, and stricter social norms, noting how daily life and economics shaped values. Do you remember those days?
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Hal Boyle
Farmers Free To Farm As Policy Shifts In Agriculture
Paul Harvey reports a major shift freeing American farmers to plant large crops. government aims to cut food prices by expanding acreage and production, with projections of 10 percent more corn and wheat and 15 percent more soybeans next year, contingent on weather, fertilizer, and fuel.
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Paul Harvey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Glen Weir
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Earl Butz
Real Estate Transfers in Early 1924
Dorothy MacDowell notes several 1924 transactions. Clifton L Halley sold York Street home and lot for 7400 to Miss Marion Pellew. Miss Marion Pellew sold 110 by 200 foot Hayne Avenue lot to W E Clinkscales for 1800. R D Clowe sold Chesterfield Street home and lot to George Motte for 2250. P W Townsend bought a Curve and Newberry Street corner lot from Emile Lengnick for 5000 to renovate a grain and feed business. P F Henderson sold a lot to Mrs Rosalie Bishop for 100 by 150 at 1000, with plans to build a three to four bedroom summer house.
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Dorothy Macdowell
Clifton L. Halley
Marion Pellew
York St
Salley and Hall
W.E. Clinkscales
Hayne Ave
J.M. Holley
Hutson
R.D. Clowe
George Motte
Chesterfield St
P.W. Townsend
Curve
Newberry St
Emile Lengnick
Beaufort
P.F. Henderson
Rosalie Bishop
Union St
Where Are The Mini irritants
Holmes Alexander surveys Nixon era debates over HEW spending and welfare policy. He notes right wing opposition to HEW growth led by ACU and Stanton Evans, contrasts with Nixon’s budget choices, and cites studies showing many poor avoid welfare. He argues against omnipresent social control and for constrained government expansion.
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Richard Nixon
Rep
John Ashbrook
Pete McCloskey
Yesteryear
McCloskey
Ashbrook
American Conservative Union
M. Stanton Evans
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
GOP
Truman
General Eisenhower
HEW
Nixon
Department of Defense
ACU
Battleline
DOD
America
Bill Chappell
Dfla
Bob Huber
Rmich
Madison Avenue
Office of Economic Opportunity
Great Society
Brookings Institution
State of Welfare
Gilbert Steiner
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