Extraordinary candidates urged for Aiken County offices
Aimed at both parties the plea calls for extraordinary men and women to run in November. It argues the county’s five million dollar government needs qualified candidates, citing past turnover and mediocrity while urging busy professionals and business people to step forward for nine county commissioner seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken County
Rotary Club of
Ai- Wo
Ken
Kiwanis Club
Exchange Club
Sertoma Club
Iken County
Government over-regulation seen as threat to freedom
A Georgia editorial argues that rising government overreach threatens individual rights. It cites West German laws on store hours and a grocer fined for late sales, urging resistance to pervasive regulation and defending free enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haan
West Germany
Bonn
Atlanta
Journal and Constitution
Aiken Standard Obituary Notation March 19 1976
The Aiken Standard lists Samuel A. Cothran as President and Editor and Robert D. Cathcart as Executive Editor on Day March 19, 1976.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel A. Cothran
Robert D. Cathcart
Washington County considers extending drinking hours to 2 a.m
Washington County tavern owners question extending the current midnight closing to 2 a.m citing economic need. The Hagertown Md Daily Mail notes similar regional patterns as neighboring areas allow later drinking hours.
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Washington County
Aete
Washington Nous County
Hagertown
Daily Mail
Coming Back: Scoop Jackson as System’s SOP Singularity
In a view of American politics, Henry Jackson’s comeback is framed as the system working. The piece argues Jackson, a military-leaning Democrat from Washington, embodies public resilience and may lead national policy, with analysts weighing his electability and the coalition needed for support.
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Holmes Alexander
America
Sen
Henry
Scoop) Jackson
Scoop Jackson
White House
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Congress
Washington
Joint Atomic Energy
Armed Services
Interior
U.S
Jackson
Defense and State
Jimmy Carter
Morris Udall
Birch Bayh
Fred Harris
Hubert Humphrey
BANKPAC Rewards Congressmen On Capitol Hill
BANKPAC has quietly donated thousands to key House Banking Committee members and other lawmakers amid a lobbying drive against reforms allowing mutual savings banks and credit unions to expand services. Recipients include Richard Kelly, Albert Johnson, Jerry Patterson, Les AuCoin, Willis Gradison, William Moorhead, Stephen Neal, Carroll Hubbard, Butler Derrick, John Conlan, Philip Hayes, Gladys Spellman, David Evans, Jim Blanchard, John LaFalce, Mark Hannaford, Harold Ford, and Joseph Minish, with amounts from 100 to 1500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol Hill
Commercial Bankers
Bankpac
House Banking Committee
Mutual Savings
Bank Pac
Richard Kelly
R-Fla
Albert Johnson
R-Pa
Jerry Patterson
D-Calif
Les AuCoin
D-Ore
Willis Gradison
Jim Blanchard
Dmich
John LaFalce
The Hazards Of Going To Work
Samuel Kirkland, a backhoe operator on Marco Island, describes a violent attempt by Local 675 and the IUOE to force unionization. After an assault and intimidation, he sued with help from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, leading to a $165,000 settlement and drawing attention to union pressure tactics and disclosure battles involving the NRTWLDF and ten international unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Kirkland
Reuben Brown
Deal Erection Company
Marco Island
Fort Myers
Florida
Brown
Dick Nell
Local 675
International Union of Operating Engineers
Afl-Cio
IUOE
Chuck Moore
Marco Island Bridge
Nell
Reuben (Brown
Kirkland
IUCE
National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation
Nrtwldf
Big Labor
National Right To Work
Legal Defense Foundation
Joseph Rauh
Democratic Party
Americans For Democratic Action
IUC
Naacp Legal Defense Foundation
U.S. Supreme Court
Jealousy and Wit Echo in 1781 Charleston Tale
In Charles Town during 1781 Col. Wm. Washington’s feats are praised as Tarleton and his British troops hear of them. Mrs. Mary Weyman Brewton Foster’s sharp rebuke to Tarleton led to her banishment to Philadelphia after recalling John Brewton’s 1771 marriage and his death in 1777.
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Wm. Washington
George
Charles Town
Tarleton
Washington
Mary (Weyman) Brewton Foster
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