Aikenites Decide Big Investment On Bond Issue
City Manager Roland Windham makes the case for a $1.6 million city improvement program funded by a 20 mill tax increase. He breaks costs to residents showing a $30 yearly rise for a $20 000 home and $2.50 monthly for a $3 000 auto, stressing benefits like flood control and new public safety and recreation facilities. A bond election petition seeks voter approval in Aiken with details to be mailed to freeholders.
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Grisly motorcycle gang killings in Belvedere
Two young men, Thomas Bolen and William Wolfe, were beaten and stabbed to death in a Belvedere building near State Highway 33 and U.S. 25 just before 3 am. Two women, Connie Young and Fay Cato, suffered throat cuts but survive, with Young listed as fair and Cato as good at University Hospital.
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U.S. Highway 25
Thomas Bolen
Aiken County
Ginia
Connie Young
Fay ® Cato
Aiken
University Hospital
Augusta
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Miss Cato
Nixon plan to end Indochina war survives House votes
In Washington the House rejected four anti-war amendments aimed at deadlines for ending the Indochina war. Attempts to set a June 1 pullout, an April 30 deadline, or any Dec. 31 halt were voted down, leaving Nixon's phase-out program unaltered.
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Nixon
Congress
House
U.S
Violence Flares In Jacksonville
In Jacksonville Florida a second night of racial violence left one youth shot and many arrested as firebombing looting and sniping spread through the eastside black neighborhood. Authorities deployed about 500 deputies and officers to curb the unrest amid a fatal shooting by a white officer earlier in the week.
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Jacksonville, Fla
Jacksonville
Liceman
Duval County
Dale Carson
Carson
Difficult to Prosecute Pornography Say SC Official
South Carolina assistant attorney general John P. Wilson told the Columbia Citizens Committee for Decent Literature there is great difficulty in prosecuting alleged pornographers due to no clear definition or guidelines of what is pornographic. He urged guidelines to curb the sale of such material.
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Columbia
South Carolina
John P. Wilson
Columbia Citizens Committee For Decent
Enemy stockpile found near Saigon amid clashes
US forces uncovered a stockpile of arms 43 miles southeast of Saigon as cavalrymen clashed with North and South Vietnamese militiamen. Vietnamese troops reported the discovery and ongoing operations in the area.
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Saigon
Highway Commission Adopts Record 195 Million Budget
The South Carolina Highway Commission approved a record 195 million dollar budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, up 21.3 percent from the prior year.
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Columbia
South Carolina Highway Commission
Times Produces List of Pentagon Papers Sources
The New York Times supplied the Justice Department with a list of the secret Pentagon documents underlying its suspended Vietnam War history series. A court hearing was set for today on the government's bid to stop further publication of the papers.
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The
New York Times
Justice Department
Pentagon
Blacks Seek Jury Duty in Dorchester County Case
Four Black residents sue in U S District Court Columbia alleging systematic exclusion of blacks and women from juries in Dorchester County. The suit seeks remedy for jury selection bias and equal participation in trials.
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Columbia
U.S. District Court At
Dorchester County
Stumper Prize Reaches Six Forty In Local Notice
The Stumper puzzle offers a top prize of 640 dollars. Readers are urged to submit fully filled entries with name and address to Aiken Standard at 124 Rutland Drive. Multiple entries are encouraged and there is no limit on submissions.
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Aiken
Rutland Drive
Thurmond Off And Running In 1970 Senate Bid
Thurmond kicks off fundraising for a fourth Senate term with a $100 per person cocktail party raising between $10 000 and $20 000. He says ready for any opponent as McNair and Dorn emerge as top Democratic candidates in what could be Thurmonds toughest race.
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Strom Thurmond
Senate
White House
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Thurmond
Robert E. McNair
William Jennings Bryan Dorn
South Carolina
Edgar A. Brown
McNair
Dorn
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