13 Jun 1974
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1974
Page
1
The Supreme Court is set to decide next fall on pleas from five North Carolina men condemned to death. Their lawyers argue the state’s method of imposing the death penalty is cruel and unusual. They were sentenced after 1972 rulings and before the 1974 death penalty law.
A federal judge signals an early Ehrlichman trial in the Ellsberg break in after a White House access accord with President Nixon. Gesell planned a private hearing with lawyers to settle final details as the dispute over accessing White House files nears resolution.
A Palestinian student was arrested near Saarbruecken University and charged with planning to attack El Al and the World Cup stadium. Officials declined to release details and said investigators are probing possible accomplices and the nature of the planned disturbances.
The seven week Hughes Maheu defamation trial nears its end as Robert Maheu testifies again. IRS agents' depositions are read regarding a 50,000 campaign contribution alleged to have been paid to Hubert Humphrey's 1968 presidential campaign by Hughes.
White House counsel J. Fred Buzhardt, a key Nixon aide in the Watergate case, was admitted to Fairfax Hospital in Virginia with chest pains at 12:23 a.m. doctors suspect a heart attack and the president was notified while on a Middle East trip.
Wholesale prices climbed 1.3 percent in May led by a broad rise in industrial goods though farm products and processed foods fell 2.2 percent. The unadjusted May increase was 1.5 percent while recent months showed varied gains and declines.
Authorities stated 5 000 to 7 500 people fled homes as a white chemical gas cloud moved north from a train derailment near Norman Oklahoma Moore town population 24 700 sits north of Norman with 52 000 residents About 125 people mainly police fire and other responders were treated in hospitals for gas exposure from phosphorus trichloride
Aiken residents marked Father’s Day on the prior Sunday with one mother celebrating early. The husband at Allied Gulf in Barnwell received gifts and a special dinner. The summer story hour at Aiken County Library Banksia expanded to 65 children this week, while Sue Hayes and Lyn Smithwick planned a puppet show for next week. The county sheriff’s office faced a noncooperative atmosphere as switchboard repairs limited calls.
FBI arrests two Morrison brothers in rocky Butte Oregon in connection with the Fort Gordon murders. James Calvin Morrison 31 and David Doyle Morrison 29 face murder and unlawful flight charges after the bodies were found near Clark Hill Lake. Lawmen from South Carolina and Georgia held a press conference with Sheriff Paul D. Grant. J P Gable, McCormick County sheriff, traveled to assist. Detective Jack Grant attended. The sheriff called the killings the most atrocious and vicious he had seen.
Aiken County may take control of the emergency ambulance service as Paramedical Services Inc occupies the service and asks for more subsidy. The Ambulance Commission proposes to buy the operation for 60 000 and run it directly, with Hulfish stating the firm is broke and facing cash shortages.
The forecast shows today in the upper 80s with a low near 60. Sunny and warm conditions continue tomorrow with near zero rain through Friday. Weekend showers are likely with partly cloudy skies Saturday and Sunday. A five degree drop is expected Monday in Aiken County.
Unseasonal warm weather slashed the Ridge and Edgefield peach harvest, with growers predicting about 50 percent of normal output. Louise P Camp Orchards near Trenton and Sun Ridge Farms near Johnston report similar losses, affecting payrolls and finances despite no change in fruit size.
Investigators from state county and city agencies, plus Gordon units, arrested Gordon brothers at midnight in Augusta suburb after a 1967 Pontiac LeMans and a large U Haul trailer with knives and swords were found. Composite sketches of James and David Morrison released. crimes tied to a pay-day weekend murder connected to drug temptations and a night of violence near Broad Street.
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