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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1970
Page
4
A Michigan man, Donald L. Boyd, filed a credit card application for his Dalmatian Tareytown listing her as 2.7 years old with watchdog as occupation. The department store mailed back the card, noting the dog had no SSN or income.
University of Pittsburgh researcher Dr. Joseph Buckley ran about 5000 lab rats in a stress chamber simulating city life with bright lights loud noise and rapid movement. After a week the rats show high blood pressure irritability and snapping, a scene mirroring urban syndrome.
W B Bill Edwards a small businessman protests the Gun Control Act of 1968 as biased toward big business and harmful to individual entrepreneurs. He argues licensing and import restrictions fail to curb crime and cites domestic gunmakers producing low quality firearms.
Louisiana fishermen file federal suits alleging potential damages exceed $100 million from an offshore oil slick. The action targets an oil company with a platform rig blamed for gulf pollution. If successful on potential damages, the case could pressure polluters to adopt stricter environmental safeguards.
Dorothy K. MacDowell recounts the Sand Bar Ferry lineage from the 1754 petition by New Windsor settlers to the 1924 Sand Bar Ferry Bridge. It traces shifts from flatboat and pole ferries to steam driven, then cable assisted designs before the bridge ended the river crossing era.
The piece depicts Mordred Kruppe of the Anti-Chinese Ballistic Missile Works in Sheboygan narrating a spoof history of a failing defense project. He touts a reinvented “all-new” Anti-Chinese Ballistic Missile later renamed to an Anti-Russian version with inflated costs and shifting targets.
Marvin J. Chalflinch commits to establishing fire protection for Aiken County Center, noting two recent fires at Southeastern Tool Co and another business. He argues protection safeguards property and lives especially for seniors and handicapped, and says funding is the main hurdle but must be overcome.
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