South Carolina Senate weighs auto insurance reform bill
The proposal would curb arbitrary cancellations and non renewals by insurers, grant applicants the right to demand reasons, and empower the chief insurance commissioner to reverse decisions. It limits cancellations to non payment or license revocation, bans age race marital status and lawful occupation as primary factors, and includes penalties for unfair discrimination. Lawmakers weigh potential insurance market effects and require guidelines on underwriting principles.
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Senate
Garrett Committee
South Carolina
House
Stop mobile movement identifies reliable hitchhikers in Canada
A new movement in Canada named Stop mobile seeks to identify trustworthy hitchhikers. Members aim to create a record of reliable thumbers to promote safer hitchhiking.
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Canada
Family Trouble Promotes Rider Program for Mail Delivery
The Post Office and General Service Maintenance Employees Union plans a rider driven newsletter scheme inspired by Canadian Youth Hostels. Riders may include college students and motorists willing to pickup mail, with required ID cards and accident insurance. The plan cites Post Office delivery limits and junk mail concerns as motivations.
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Post Office and General Service Maintenance Employes Union
Benignly Neglect Policy Letter to Moynihan
A satirical letter to Daniel Moynihan proposes applying benign neglect to racial strife pollution and other issues. The writer muses on extending the doctrine to Vietnam poverty inflation and youth, while mocking government insouciance and urging formal notification to the IRS before April 15.
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Daniel P. Moynihan
White House
Washington, D.C
Moynihan
Vietnam
Hotchkiss
Courtesy Collecting Agency
Banksia Becomes USC Campus Landmark in Aiken History
Banksia a 1932 five acre brick home built by Rehard Howe in Aiken, later a boarding house, then campus use. Bought by Southern Methodist College in 1957 for 65 000 dollars, transferred to Aiken County Higher Education in 1961, now the temporary USC Aiken campus.
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Banksia
Rehard Howe
Long Island
Howe
Townsend Place
Harrington
Savannah River
Southern Methodist College
Aiken County
Higher Education Committee
Aiken
University of South Carolna
Maturity and public life mix in eclectic quotes
A column assembles short items from 1969 featuring Miss American Teenager Fran Gar den on maturity and responsibility, a Russian father’s joke about his unemployed son, Richard Foreman on college sports, a park dog joke, Iowa House mishap, Melanie Corbett’s London toy grab, Tim Rogers on race and advertising, pollution career talk, and a new Aiken County pollution committee with DuBose MacDowell as vice chairman.
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Fran Garden
Aiken County
Bill Thurlow
Gregg Avenue
DuBose MacDowell
DuBose
Letter to the Editor on BASF plant debate in Beaufort County
A reader objects to the Citizens Association of Beaufort County and Hilton Head Island Community Assoc for urging opposition to BASF in Beaufort County. He cites faulty sources in a booklet, requests credible information, notes factual errors about Basel and Rhine specifics, and calls for objective data on local water quality and wastewater treatment before forming an opinion. He pledges to support the Beaufort County delegation if given solid, objective information.
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South Carolina
Citizens Association of
Beaufort County
Hilton Head Island
Beaufort County Association
Timm
BASF
Business Week
USA
Basel
Switzerland
Rhine
Germany
North Sea
Aiken Standard
Ludwigshaven
Columbia
Beaufort
Aiken County
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Richard Foreman
Beech Island
Betty Parsley
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Des Moines
Iowa House of Representatives
William Harbor
William Kendrick
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Kendrick
London
Melanie Corbett
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Tim Rogers
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Citizen Smith
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Pracmo
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