Harness Racing Track Near Ready For Event
The Jefferson Aiken Mile Track Training Center in Aiken prepares for a March 6 harness racing event owned by Abraham Schultz. Repairs include the judges stand repainting, other buildings getting white coats, and a structure being razed. A tentative 18 trotters are listed, training stalls priced at 475 dollars, and advance tickets cost 1 dollar at multiple local outlets with gate admission of 1.25 dollars.
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Jefferson-Aiken Mile
Abraham Schultz
Commercial Hotel
Julia’s
Aiken
Leminick
Woodruff
Cloud 7
Aiken Standard
Park Pharmacy
Augusta
FBI Declines Comment On Mc Govern Letter Alleging FBI Agenda
Senator Mc Govern cites an unsigned letter from ten FBI agents urging an investigation of the agency. The charge claims J Edgar Hoover ignores serious crime while pursuing convictions. An FBI spokesman would not comment on the anonymous letter whose authenticity is unverified.
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Washington
FBI
George McGovern
South Dakota Democrat
J. Edgar Hoover
Concen
Hoover
Abernathy to Fast Again to Spotlight SCLC Plans
Rev Ralph David Abernathy leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference says he will renew fasting to publicize spring and summer SCLC activities. He recently ended a 10 day fast with toma to soup and may fast at Hunter Street Baptist Church or another major church. The group plans demonstrations in several states including marches on Washington and New York's financial district.
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Atlanta, Ga
Ralph David Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Hun
Ter Street
The
Coun
Civil Rights Organization
Washington, D.C
New York
Wall Street Financial District
North Carolina Governor Backing Muskie Predicts Nixon Defeat
Gov. Bob Scott, already backing Edmund Muskie, says Muskie would beat Richard Nixon in North Carolina in 1972. He cites Nixon's failure to shield the textile industry from Japanese imports and ongoing school desegregation busing as reasons. Scott adds Nixon would win if Hubert Humphrey were the Democratic opponent.
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Washington
North Carolina
Bob Scott
Edmund Muskie
U.S
Maine
Nixon
Scott
Hubert Humphrey
Senators honored with Lehman Ethics Award in Miami Beach
Sens. Adlai E. Stevenson III and Margaret Chase Smith received the Herbert H. Lehman Ethics Award from the Jewish Theological Seminary at a Miami Beach dinner. Stevenson urged that Middle East peace terms require Arab recognition of Israel sovereignty and boundary sanctity.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Adlai E. Stevenson III
Margaret Chase Smith
R-Maine
Herbert H. Lehman
Jewish Theological Seminary
Ner
Stevenson
Middle East
Israel
Violence Surges as India Opens Ten Day Election
At the start of India's 10 day national election for a new Parliament two people were killed and scores injured. Most violence occurred in Bihar where voting was halted at six polling stations. A clash outside a rural booth left two dead and three injured.
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New Delhi
India
Bihar
China Revisited For Rotary Club
Ai ken Rotary members heard Col David R. Longacre recount daring 1940s missions in war torn China. He described evacuating Gen. Wainwright in World War II and encounters with Mao Tse tung and Zhou Enlai in Yenan. His account includes a 5 000 mile cross Asia journey from Peking to Sinkiang in 1946.
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China
Rotary
David R. Longacre
Ft. Jackson
Longacre
Manchuria
Wainwright
Mao-Tse-Tung
Chou En Lai
Yenan
Central Asia
Mongolia
Tibet
Peking
Sinkiang
Magistrates oppose slash in Numbers v Ata County Library
In Aiken County a bill to reduce magistrates from 13 to four full time posts faces resistance from incumbents. The measure would limit full time magistrates to four locations with raised salaries for attorneys serving as magistrates. Critics warn workload and public access would suffer.
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Slash
Ata County Public Library
Aiken
Aiken Standard
H. N. Johnson
Beech Island
Ciation
North Augusta
Wagoner
Graniteville
Langley
Aiken County
Bomb explodes in Capitol wing causes heavy damage
A powerful blast at 1:32 a.m. damaged the Senate wing of the Capitol near the rotunda and disbursing office area. Police report no injuries as FBI, Army demolition teams search for fragments while investigators pursue a threatening warning call.
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Washington
Senate
Capitol
Capitol Police
George Donahue
FBI
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate Chamber
Washington, D.C
Ft. McNair
South Vietnamese reinforce on Laos front as trail drive continues
Reinforcements from South Vietnam and U S transports push hundreds of troops toward the northern front while helicopter support increases for the air and ground push in Laos. Casualties run high, with 390 Saigon dead, 981 wounded, and 99 missing. North Vietnamese losses cited at 3,227 killed and 1,400 killed by air strikes.
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Saigon
U.S
Laos
Tran van An
Richard Gardner
U.S. Command
North Augusta Group To Show Hospital Needs To Delegation
Frank Harrington spokesman for a group seeking a North Augusta area hospital will present the county’s hospital needs to the Aiken County Legislative Delegation at 7 p.m. at the Aiken County Health Department. The agenda includes solid waste plans by County Engineer Arthur Courtney and a shift to Huber landfill two miles south of Lynwood to replace Clearwater landfill after state order. Also up for consideration are continued support for Happy Days Camp for the Mentally Retarded and $400 deficiency requests for the probate judge’s office and family court.
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Frank Harrington
North Augusta
Aiken County
Aiken
Courtney
Huber
Highway 200
Lynwood
Ground Is Broken For New A Facility
Ground was broken here Friday for an $80 million Allied Gulf Nuclear Services Plant. Gov John C. West said the facility will make South Carolina “the nuclear capital” of the nation and will be the largest of its kind in the state.
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Barnwell
John C. West
South Carolina
Allied Gulf Nuclear Services Plant
Groundbreaking for privately owned nuclear fuel recovery plant
Gov West and state leaders attended the 1973 groundbreaking for Allied-Gulf's privately owned facility near Savannah River Plant. On 1700 acres, the plant will reclaim uranium and plutonium from spent fuel at a rate of five metric tons daily for 60 to 70 U.S. nuclear plants.
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Gov. West
Atomic Energy Commission
Savannah River
Allied - Gulf
Allied Chemical Nuclear Products, Inc
Allied Chemical Corporation
Gulf General Atomic Division
Gulf Oil Corp
United States
Odyssey Of Mace Nears End in South Carolina
The silver mace used in the South Carolina House was recovered by FBI agents and returned by SLED to Columbia. It had vanished Feb 3 from a locked case, with former chief security guard Charles Norton charged in the theft. The mace, made in London in 1756, will be placed back in its glass case when the House reconvenes.
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South Carolina
Columbia
J P Strom
State Law Enforcement Division
SLED
Gainesville
Fla
FBI
State House of Representatives
Capitol
Charles Clayton Norton
Strom
London
General Assembly
House
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Aiken Sons
Michael Laughlin
Gilbert E. McMillan
W. Edwin Derrick
Salley
Aiken County Magistrate Asso
Derrick
H. B. Fulmer
Monetta
Fulmer
Capitol Building
U.S. Capitol
UPI
Army
South Vietnamese
North Vietnam
Route 9
Whitney Field
Charles Fleischmann
Willow Creek
Paul Rizzo
Dave Rizzo
Heath Manning Jr
Oxford
Meadowbrook
Philadelphia
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Long Island
Busch
Family Court
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