Record Crowd Sees 34th Aiken Trials
A record crowd of 7 500 to 8 000 witnessed the 34th Aiken Trials after clearing skies at 2 p m. Mackenzie Miller trained five winners including Forward Glance and Marvelous Mona while female jockeys rode to two victories. Mary Ann Dotter rode Riding Up in the 10th race as Dianne Heiss also found success.
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Moses
Aiken
George Lewis Smith
Allan Coward
Mackenzie Miller
Miller
Marvelous Mona
Fun Forever
Secret Call
W.W. Rains
Graniteville
John M. Gaver
North Augusta
Gaver
Trim
Hitchcock Woods
W.C. Freeman
Whiskey Road
Robert L. Dotter
Dotter
Mary Ann
Dianne Heiss
Triple Crown Schedule and Events List
A sequence of horse events and social gatherings across March weekends. Includes Horse Show in the Woods at Hitchcock Woods on Friday with $5 car entry, Steeplechase at Steeplechase Field Saturday at 2 pm with $2.50 advance tickets, Lan cers Tournament at Powderhouse Field Saturday 10 am with $1.50 advance, Harness Races at Aken Mile Track 2 pm with $2 advance, and Triple Crown Ball at Hounds Lake Country Club for $15 per couple. Polo plays Saturdays and Sundays.
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Hitchcock Woods
MH Riviere
Aiken
Sertoma Club
Powderhouse Field
American Cancer Society
Aiken Mile
Houndslake Country Club
Chamber of Commerce
Sadat Moves to End 1971 Egyptian Soviet Pact
Cairo reports Sadat proposes nullifying the 1971 Soviet-Egyptian treaty as the Egyptian Assembly plans to discuss the measure this afternoon. Approval looks likely and it could end Soviet naval use of Egyptian ports and curb arms supplies Egypt receives from the USSR. Moscow has not yet reacted. The Soviet press has criticized Sadat’s Kissinger mediated Arab-Israeli peace efforts.
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Cairo
Soviet Union
Middle East
Anwar Sadat
Egyptian People’s Assembly
Sadat
United States
Britain
France
Egypt
Moscow
Henry A. Kissinger
Israel
Beirut violence as Christian Moslem gunmen clash in Lebanon
Be irut and northern Lebanon saw mortar and rocket duels as President Suleiman Franjieh faced a coup bid led by Brig. Aziz Ahdab. Civil warfare widened with 39 killed and 48 wounded in the past 24 hours amid calls for resignation and under mounting political turmoil.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Suleiman Franjieh
Damascus
Hafez Assad
Franjieh
Aziz Ahdab
Radioactive Shipment Draws Protests To Savannah River
The Savannah River Plant expects a flatbed truck shipment of radioactive waste from Brookhaven National Laboratory New York in a 13 ton shielded cast for reprocessing into fuel. ERDA spokesman David Peek notes two facilities handle Brookhaven waste since 1967 amid protests in New York and Connecticut. The schedule begins today at 2 p.m. with a winding route around city limits under debate.
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Savannah River
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton
N.Y
David M. Peek
The
Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
Peek
Brookhaven
New York
Connecticut
New York City
Long Island
Ford urges renewal as revenue sharing at issue
President Ford warns Congress endangers cities by blocking renewal of the revenue sharing program. Speaking to about 2,000 municipal officials, he condemns slow funding for public jobs and defends his veto of a $6 billion public works bill, saying expiration would harm fiscal stability and raise unemployment or taxes.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
White House
Hearing Set On PSA Loan
Aiken County Commission schedules a public hearing tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Room 107 at USC Aiken to authorize a 50 000 loan for the Public Service Authority. The loan covers PSA admin costs until project financing. an additional 25 000 loan from Farmers and Merchants Bank may be repaid. The PSA oversees the 31 million Horse Creek wastewater project with funding potentially by four major customers.
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Aiken County Commission
Aiken County Public Service Authority
Usc - Aiken
Public Service Authority
PSA
Horse Creek
Aiken
North Augusta
Graniteville Co
United Merchants
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Rain likely with scattered showers this week
Forecast calls for scattered showers today tomorrow and possibly Thursday. The chance of precipitation runs around 60 percent tonight and tomorrow as mild temperatures persist with highs in the mid 60s through Thursday.
Local officials file reelection bids and coroner run
Mrs. Scott seeks reelection to Registrar of Mesne Conveyance after 26 years in county service. J L Gregory enters race for coroner. Scott previously served as clerk of court before July when the Registrar post split from the clerk. County watchdogs report clerk records were seized and photographed by the Attorney General prior to transfer.
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Cleo J. Scott
J.L. Gregory
Scott
SC. Attorney General's Office
Sheriff's Office
Columbia
Attorney General's Office
Sheriff's Department
Col May Dies Funeral Today In South Carolina
Col John Amasa May a prominent South Carolina figure died in his Columbia apartment Tuesday. Born in Graniteville in 1908 he attended Wofford Harvard Law and USC Law School. He practiced law in Aiken served 15 years in the SC House and earned a Bronze Star in World War II. Funeral services scheduled today.
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South Carolina
John Amasa May
Columbia
Col. May
Graniteville
Wofford College
Harvard Law School
University of South Carolina
Aiken
SC House of Representatives
Mayors Alarm Over Revenue Sharing Stalemate
New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu at a news conference warned the stalemate endangers city funding. He praised Ford for revenue-sharing extension but said inflation and presidential actions jeopardize reenactment. Landrieu criticized vetoes that he says block progress amid Democratic Congress and Republican administration.
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U.S. Conference of Mayors
National League of Cities
Moon Landrieu
New Orleans
Landrieu
Ford
The
Mayors’ Conference
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Anthony Bazile
Murry Sill
Scott Hunter
Mid East
Michael Wayne Douglas
Hemmingway
Highway Patrol
Highway 215
Scott's Lake
Ulysses Conner Jr
Rt. 2
Springfield
Delmas Anne James
Salley
James
Conner
Commission
Aiken County
John May
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