Aiken Horse Show Weekend Schedule for March
Friday March 14 Hitch cock Woods Show Ring 9 30 a m five dollars car ringside parking. Hunter show cars may drive into Hitchcock Woods. Saturday March 11 Aiken Trials 33rd annual flat races at Aiken Training Track 2 p m benefits Aiken Jaycees one dollar fifty in advance two dollars at gate. Sunday March 16 The Clearing Tala tha Church Road 10 a m adults one dollar. Saturday March 22 Aiken Hunt 2 p m Steeplechase Field benefits Helping Hands Inc Project Sponsor Aiven Sertoma Club three dollars general admission thirty dollars subscriber one hundred dollars guarantor admits party of four to trackside tent luncheon. Exciting steeplechase mule race and Washington Park Mounted Police between races. Every Sunday Polo Whitney Field 3 30 p m one dollar fifty general admission. Tickets for Lancing Tournament and Triple Crown Ball from Aiken Chamber of Commerce 400 Laurens Street NW 648 0485. Visitors urged call or visit Chamber for info Advance racing tickets sponsored by benefited organizations. Tickets also sold at Chamber.
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Aiken Jaycees
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Helping Hands, Inc
Aiven Sertoma Club
Washington Park Mounted Police
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Aiken Chamber of Commerce
Laurens Street
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce
Aiken Standard Judgment Wordplay Clarified
Aiken Standard discusses the close link between the words judgment and judge and notes the writer often adds an e after the word. The brief remark centers on spelling and linguistic usage.
Portugal Military Seizes Power After Lisbon Attack
Portugal's leftist Armed Forces Movement declares permanent political control after an air force attack on an artillery unit near Lisbon. Elections for a constitutional assembly remain set for April 12, as a Revolutionary Council is formed to institutionalize military involvement. The Communist party could gain more cabinet influence.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Armed Forces Movement
American airlift continues amid heavy Phnom Penh shelling
Heavy shelling of the Phnom Penh airport persisted as the American airlift resumed after a brief curtailment. Reports cite combat seven miles northwest of the city and mortar attacks on the Neak Luong naval base and nearby towns as Cambodian forces struggle to push back Khmer Rouge forces.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Neak Luong
Baban
Girteeeton
Sorlbwrtet
Panes Penh
Khmer Rouge
North Vietnamese Take Town North of Saigon
North Vietnamese forces overran Tri Tam district town 40 miles north of Saigon after an infantry and tank assault that began Monday. South Vietnamese command reports seven North Vietnamese tanks were destroyed and the fate of several hundred government troops remains unknown as helicopters rushed reinforcements toward a threatened provincial capital in the Central Highlands.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Central Highlands
Dau Tieng
Kissinger Says No Progress Yet in Mideast Talks
Henry Kissinger wrapped up talks in Israel with no progress report and said nothing had changed in his view of the situation after a 2 1 2 hour session with Prime Minister Rabin and ministers. He planned to fly to Aswan for talks with Anwar Sadat and declined to estimate how long the mission would last.
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Ters
Kissinger
Aswan
Anwar Sadat
Philadelphia Paine Boosts Magazine Circulation
Thomas Paine earns a modest stipend while penning vigorous articles that grow the Pennsylvania Magazine subscription from 600 to 1500 in three months. British ships are turned away at major ports. Providence hosts a March 2 tea party. Massachusetts militia commander Colonel Timothy Pickering publishes An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia, the first American drill manual, widely circulated during the war.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Paine
Pennsylvania Magazine
Providence
Massachusetts
Timothy Pickering
Salem
Unknowns To Get Ist Test Saturday
The Aiken Trials 33rd annual running features nine flat races at 2 p.m. at the Aiken Training Track with two year olds and maidens in a highly unpredictable field. Trainer John M. Gaver, Sr. notes wet weather could affect training while rain Friday could threaten track conditions though last year’s rain briefly did not stop the event. Lie Low set a half mile track record of 46 and three-fifths seconds in the wet last year.
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Aiken
John M. Gaver
Greentree Stables
Gaver
Lie Low
Mackenzie Miller
Gav
Stans Pleads Guilty to Campaign Law Violations
Former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts of violating campaign finance laws as chairman of the Nixon 1972 re election committee. He said violations were unintentional and defended his actions as good faith. The judge ordered a presentencing report but did not set a sentencing date.
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Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Richard M. Nixon
Stans
Tnance Committee
U.S
John Lewis Smith
Marshall Cain Resigns From State Office
Marshall Cain will leave the governor's staff in June to return to his Aiken law practice. He served in state government after 1969, rising to House Minority Leader, then was appointed legislative liaison and later executive assistant. He says six months on the governor's staff fulfilled obligations and will resume law practice and family duties.
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Marshall Cain
House of Representatives
Aiken
Cain
Irene Rudnick
James B. Edwards
Edwards
South Carolina
Columbia
Highway Department
Aiken County Board Studies State Education Report
The Aiken County Board of Education acted on parts of a 110 page State Department of Education report. Board rules administration finance and maintenance were considered with seven of twelve organization recommendations adopted and TB Willis instructed to implement. The board approved dissemination of the report and a county wide policy manual while seeking legislative power to undergird changes.
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State Department of Education
Aiken County
Rusche
TB. Willis
Rate Request Defended Nuclear Plant Praised
Frank Davis, communications chief for S C Electric and Gas, defended a rate hike and praised the Summer Nuclear Plant in a Fifty Plus Club talk at the Ramada Inn. He argued fuel savings offset construction costs and outlined five objectives of the rate change while noting PSC delays and higher environmental safeguard costs.
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Eric Higgs
S.C. Electric and Gas Corporation
Frank Davis
Ramada Inn
Davis
Public Service Commission
Weather Turns Warmer With Rain Likely Tomorrow
Dense fog and gray skies gave way to a mild day with a high near 70. Showers and a 40 percent rain chance are forecast for tomorrow with variable clouds and wind. Forecasters expect clearer skies and a warming trend by Friday.
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Weather Bureau
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