City projects move toward bids on new centers and drainage
Aiken County public works center, public safety building and a multi purpose recreational building proceed toward bidding, with bids for the Public Works Center planned by July 15 and the Public Safety site slated for Sept. 15. The $1.6 million bond backed projects include a 55 acre Virginia Acres site off Whiskey Road and a $1.5 million storm drainage project awaiting HUD approval.
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Public Works Center
Public Safety
Roland Windham
Vanwood
Highway 19
Federal Housing Authority
FHA
Windham
Laurens Street
Post Office
Recreation Department
Mike Facciolo
Virginia Acres
Whiskey Road
Aiken
Housing and Urban Affairs Department
Washington
Rick Hawkins
Summer Begins as Rain Lingers Over Aiken
Bonnie Goshorn questions responsibility of the Aiken Standard while seven year old Christopher Dunham wonders about Watergate. Rain stays, and the forecast hints at longer wet weather. There are 187 more days until Christmas. Today marks the first day of summer.
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Bonnie Goshorn
Aiken Standard
Christopher Dunham
Aiken
Watergate Hurts GOP Funds Urgent Appeal Sent
The Republican National Committee appeals for contributions amid the Watergate scandal. RNC officials insist the party was not involved in 1972 wrongdoing but acknowledge financial trouble and a need for support. David K. Wilson notes the scandal casts suspicion over the party’s activities.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
GOP
Republican National Finance Committee
David K. Wilson
Republican Party
Peron Returns to Argentina in Big Homecoming
Juan D. Peron lands in Buenos Aires after exile to Madrid as more than a million Peronists are expected to gather near the airport meadow to greet the 77 year old leader. He travels with wife Isabel Campora and 80 Peronist colleagues.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Madrid
Isabel
Hector J. Campora
Brandt Strengthens East West Ties with Berlin and Prague
In Bonn, Chancellor Willy Brandt's government moved to normalize ties with East Germany by exchanging notes to implement a peace treaty. Simultaneously Bonn began a friendship pact with Prague to establish diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia.
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Bonn
Germany
Willy Brandt
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Brandt
East Berlin
Prague
Skylab 1 crew reported in excellent condition
Dr Joseph P Kerwin announced that Skylab 1 crews Kerwin Conrad and Weitz are in excellent condition. The astronauts spoke from space to reporters via mission control about their 28 day mission and planned Pacific splashdown at 9 50 a m EDT.
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Charles Conrad Jr
Paul J. Weitz
Mission Control
Pacific Ocean
Marines Die In Tracked Vehicle Accident At Pendleton
Two Marines died and 13 were injured when a 15,000 pound tracked amphibious vehicle overturned and caught fire during a Camp Pendleton training exercise near the southwest corner. Investigators ordered, identities withheld pending relatives. One crewman and twelve passengers treated for minor injuries.
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Camp Pendleton
Calif
West Corner
Kansas City Police Chief Kelley Faces Confirmation Hearings
Clarence Kelley who would be FBI director nominee tells Senate panel he feels compassion for blacks and cites recruitment of Black officers as a major effort during his 12 years as police chief. He testified on the first day of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
Clarence M. Kelley
Kansas City
FBI
Kelley
Senate Judiciary Committee
Weather forecast for Aiken area highs near 90
The Aiken vicinity expects highs in the upper 80s with mostly cloudy skies and warm temperatures today tonight and tomorrow. Rain chances run about 50 today and tonight and 40 tomorrow with light variable winds and stronger gusts in thundershowers. An extended outlook shows widely scattered showers through Friday to Sunday with similar upper 80s and lows around 70 to 60s.
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Aiken
Trade expansion talks shift to Camp David retreat
President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev moved summit talks to Camp David after Brezhnev sought an extraordinary session with top senators to ease congressional barriers to expanded U.S. Soviet trade. They flew in by helicopter after a dinner cruise aboard the Sequoia and planned days of talks in the secluded retreat guarded by Marines.
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Camp David
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Potomac
Catoctic
No Occupants Yet For City's Industrial Park
City manager Roland Windham says the Industrial Park at the airport north of Aiken lacks tenants as Suitt Construction Co. and the State Development Board search for a suitable occupant. The park spans 1100 acres with 450 planned for industrial use and shells built for prospects.
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Aiken
Roland Windham
Windham
Suitt Suitt Construction Co
Greenville
State Development Board
Suitt Construction Co
Expansion Planned At Thermodises
Thermodises a subsidiary of Emerson Electric Co. plans a two to three year expansion to a 240000 square foot plant on a 70 acre tract north of Aiken on highway 1. First phase of 75000 square feet to be completed by January 1974 with site grading to start soon. About 150 jobs expected in year one, mainly women, producing heating control devices for home and industry.
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Thermodises
Emerson Electric Co
St. Louis
Stathy Verenee
State Development Board
Aiken
Highway 1
Verenes
Thermodiscs
Gas price swings mark long White House trip
A 1 960 mile weekend trip from Washington to central Florida finds gas prices volatile along a popular route with several stations listing high price signs. Santee South Carolina sees the worst spot with pumps out or prices near 44.9 per gallon while others show 36.9 to 49.9 amid Nixon price freeze discussions and mixed compliance.
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Washington
Florida
Santee
S.C
Exxon
Wilson
N.C
Nixon
Aiken Rescue Squad Moves Building From Augusta
The Aiken County Rescue Squad plans to move a 165 by 25 foot former Ft. Gordon building to Hampton Avenue in three sections. Cost is 5000 dollars with a 15 ton air conditioner, secured via TH Thurmond and the Governor’s office for an oversized permit. Moving will tie roads for a short time at bridges, possible helicopter idea rejected, and the building should sit at the sheriff’s compound in three to four weeks.
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Aiken County Rescue Squad
Augusta
Thomas Reames
Ft. Gordon
Reames
Hampton Avenue
U.S
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Aiken
Sheriff's Department
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Hope Iselin
Whiskey Rd
Streets and Parks Department
Watergate
Peron
Kelly
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Leonid Brezhnev
White House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Blair House
Soviet Union
Congress
Virginia
Rescue Squad
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