Aiken Triple Crown wraps up with races show and mule dash
The final weekend of Aiken's Third Annual Triple Crown features the Seventh Annual Hunt Meet at Steeplechase Field with 50 steeplechase horses racing for $16,500 in purses. Augustin Stable's Wustenchef and Mrs. G.H. Bostwick's June Hollow headline the Imperial Cup, while 15 riders enter the Mule Race on the three-eighths mile track. The weekend also includes horse shows at Horse Show Park and a charity party at Joye Cottage with music by Lester Lanin. Weather forecasts call for sunny, warm days with minimal rain risk.
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Aiken
U.S
Columbia
Lester Lanin
Aiken Hunt
Augustin Stable
Wustenchef
G.H. Bostwick
June Hollow
Atlanta
Wastenchef
Horse Show Park
Aikenites Share Snippets From News Clips and Jokes
A Oklahoma relative touts a New Mexico quarter horse race with a 1 035 900 purse while quips about money over glory stir talk. Firefighter Charlie Miller jokes about training leg locks. A Clemson polo film project heads to Aiken for statewide use. Family scenes mix with a child’s quip about Granddaddy’s end.
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Aiken
New Mexico
Clemson University Extension Service
Jim Evans
Ken French
Savannah River
Ken
POW Release Still Uncertain In Vietnam Standoff
SAIGON AP The deadlock between the United States and North Vietnam delays the release of 138 American POWs. A Joint Military Commission meeting heard the U S delegation claim evidence of a North Vietnamese antiaircraft missile site near Khe Sanh and threatened retaliation. Meanwhile refugees in the Mekong Delta camp were attacked killing 24 and wounding 40.
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Saigon
United States
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Joint Military Commission
Khe Sanh
Mekong Delta
Freighter Crew Still Lost At Sea
Coast Guard and commercial ships battled a fierce Atlantic storm off New Jersey as they hunted 30 crewmen who radioed they were abandoning a sinking Norwegian freighter. The ship was about 135 miles offshore and a hatch had broken. No trace of the men or vessel was found.
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New York
Coast Guard
New Jersey
Irish Reject Britain's Plan in Northern Ireland
The Provisional IRA rejects the British White Paper blueprint, saying reforms would perpetuate division and leave the Roman Catholic guerrillas with no choice but to continue fighting. Security forces anticipate a new IRA offensive despite limited violence since the plan's release.
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Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Dublin
Ireland
Nixon seeks expanded tariff and import authority
President Nixon asks Congress for broad tariff and import powers to bolster U S negotiating position in trade talks. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills indicated general agreement and his panel will review the legislation.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mills
Banks Back Off Prime Rate Hike Amid Pressures
The Nixon administration presses meat packers and banks to ease loan costs for households. Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co cuts its best-customer rate to 6% while Franklin National Bank stays at 6% as seven banks had raised rates to 6%. Burns urges a dual rate for big firms and small business. The Cost of Living Council orders meat packers to pass savings to shoppers, extending rules to nearly all packers.
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Washington
Nixon
Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co
Chicago
Continental
Franklin National Bank of New York
Franklin
Arthur F. Burns
Burns
Cost of Living Council
John T. Dunlop
Nixon to Review Energy Policy Studies in Florida Weekend
President Nixon plans a Florida weekend at Key Biscayne to review staff energy policy studies in preparation for an upcoming message to Congress. Deputy press secretary Gerald L. Warren said Nixon expects a relaxing weekend amid the review work.
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Key Biscayne, Fla
Nixon
Congress
Gerald L. Warren
Indigent Care Plan Approved by Aiken Officials
Chairman Harold Graybeal said the county indigent care policy at University Hospital in Augusta is a workable plan and no further talks with Georgia officials are planned. Richmond County Hospital Authority will stop accepting non emergency indigent Aiken residents May 1 unless prior financial arrangements exist, following county commissioners’ rejection of the proposed agreement.
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Harold Graybeal
Board of Commissioners
Aiken County
Sity Hospital
Augusta
Georgia
Richmond
County Hospital Authority
University Hospital
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Belvedere Fire Destroys Vacant House Sparks Power Outage
A vacant Belvedere house on the 300 block of Clearwater Road burst into flame at 12 45 a m. a transformer exploded and the area lost power until about 4 a m. More than a dozen volunteers under Chief Bart Johnson fought the blaze and brought it under control.
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Belvedere
Clearwater Road
Bart Johnson
Con
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Whitney Estate
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Aiken Fire Department
Heart Fund
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Susan Schubert
Florida
Aiken Com
Judy Rich
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