Harness Races Open Three Spring Weekends in Aiken
Gray skies threatened but Abraham Schultz's two year old Jefferson Premium won the Shadydale Cup in 2 25 as the Third Annual Aiken Harness Races took place. Rain cooled crowds with about 500 spectators for the tournament and 1 300 for the harness events. Officials blamed weather for low profits though Cancer Society benefitted from the purse. Jack Kinsella came out of retirement to drive Queen Boadicea in a reader note.
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Lancers
Aiken
Abraham Schultz
Jefferson
Odell Weeks
Julian Salley
Murray McCrea
Bertie McCrea
Lancing
The
Cancer Society
Wade Brodie
Jack Kinsella
Common Market nations to float jointly against dollar
Six of the six members agree to a joint partial float while maintaining internal exchange rates and ending obligatory dollar purchases. Britain Ireland and Italy already float with all currencies and will join the joint float when conditions allow pegging to other market monies.
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Brussels
Britain
Ireland
Italy
Little Hope For Indian Peace At Wounded Knee
The shooting of an FBI agent and an Indian vow that no federal officials will enter Wounded Knee dampen prospects for peace. A mud smeared truck, nicknamed Ag 1 tank, was spotted about five miles west of the village as FBI agents pursued a suspected stolen vehicle. Agent Curtis Fitzgerald of Chicago was wounded in the right arm and evacuated by helicopter.
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Wounded Knee
S&.d
FBI
Curtis Fitzgerald
Chicago
Census Bureau Plans Mid-Decade Survey for 1975
The Census Bureau seeks a mid-decade sample of about one million households or 1.5 percent of the population to measure social and economic changes since 1970, contingent on congressional funding.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Congress
Birmingham Police Chief Connor Dies at 75
Eugene Bull Connor, longtime Birmingham police chief famed for using dogs and fire hoses during civil rights protests, died after a prolonged unconscious period from a second stroke suffered Feb. 26. He led police actions during the 1960s demonstrations.
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Birmingham
Ala
Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor
Connor
Police Commission-Ee
Peron Candidate In Runoff
In Buenos Aires Hector J Campora led in Sunday's balloting to end seven years of military rule but is set for a runoff with Ricardo Balbin of the Radical Civic Union within a month.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan Peron
Hector J. Campora
Ricardo Balbin
The
Radical Civic Union
Triple Crown Dance Tickets On Sale For Friday Night
Arkenites are reminded that tickets for the Triple Crown Dance at the Fermata Club Friday night are on sale at the Medical Arts Pharmacy. The Triple Crown Committee chairman reports a mug delay due to a manufacturer mix up with mugs arriving in about six weeks. Regular mugs are on sale at the Chamber of Commerce Farmers and Merchants Bank South Carolina National Bank and the Medical Arts Pharmacy. Mrs. James Watts will host Rotarians and wives at the annual Ladies Night Dinner this Thursday.
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Lancers
Arkenites
Fermata Club
Medical Arts Pharmacy
Triple Crown Committee
Robert S. Perry Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber, Farmers and Merchants Bank
South Carolina National Bank
James Watts
Sun Breaks Over Aiken With 80 Degree High Expected
After 11 days of rain the sun returns to Aiken. Temperatures should reach 80 this afternoon with a low around the low 50s tonight and a mid 70s high tomorrow. Showers are unlikely with 20 percent today and 10 percent tonight. Winds shift from mostly west to light easterly to southeast by tomorrow.
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Aiken
POW List Delivered 108 To Be Released
North Vietnam handed over a list of 108 American prisoners to be released in Hanoi on Wednesday while U S troops withdrawal was suspended until all 287 prisoners remain in Communist hands. The Viet Cong promised a roughly 30 prisoner list for release in Hanoi on Thursday and the U S delegation relayed the names to Washington for families.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Hanoi
United States
South Vietnam
U.S
Washington
Defense Department
Bui Tin
Cmdr
John S. McCain III
Pacific
Maj
Floyd Thompson
Philip Manhard
Southwest Bypass Nears Completion Months Ahead Of Schedule
The 4.8 mile Southwest Aiken bypass is expected to open by mid July, well ahead of winter completion. Fox Construction leads the $806 774 project linking Pine Log and Old Augusta Highway with 75 percent road graded. Safety measures include fence barricades and future railway crossing signals funded by federal aid. officials urge motorists to stay off during construction.
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Aiken
Gerald W. Long
S.C. Highway Department
Pine Log Road
Silver Bluff Road
Augusta Highway
Fox Construction Company
Orangeburg
Southern Railway
Rutland Drive
SC. Highway Department
Aiken High School
North Aiken Elementary
Department
Long
Highway Patrol
New Ellenton Council To Air Horse Dispute
The New Ellenton town council plans to discuss a horse keeping dispute at tonight’s 7 p.m. meeting. Former mayor Gene Rollins and another man face charges under an ordinance banning residential horses, with at least a dozen other residents believed to violate it. Rollins hints support for repealing the rule as debate draws in supporters and local press interest.
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New Ellenton
As Exmayor
Gene Rollins
Town Hall
Rollins
C.H. Shaw
Shaw
Aiken youths arrested on LSD possession for sale
Three Aiken residents Sandra E. McCoy 19 Steve J. Bennett 24 and Tommy were arrested weekend on drug charges for possession of LSD for sale cited by Aiken Police Department and SLED Narcotics Division.
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Aiken
Sandra E. McCoy
Steve J. Bennett
Tommy
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Aiken County
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