Triple Crown Schedule for Hitchcock Woods Events
Friday at 10 a.m. Aiken Horse Show in Hitchcock Woods with $5 car admission and free pedestrian entry. Saturday Dixie Circuit steeplechase at 1 30 p.m. gates at 11 a.m. $2 50 in advance $3 at gate. Harness racing Saturday at 2 p.m. $2 in advance $2 50 at gate. Polo Sundays 3 p.m. at Whitney Field. Aiken Thoroughbred Hall of Fame open Saturday 10 a.m. to 12 30 p.m. (special hours). Proceeds support Sertoma Helping Hands and American Cancer Society. Polo Sundays.
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Hitchcock Woods
Aiken Hunt
Sertoma Club
Helping Hands
American Cancer Society
Whitney Field
Aiken Thoroughbred Hall of Fame
Rebels Entrenched in Southern Zaire Amid Katanga Clash
Katangan rebels, exiles from Angola, appear firmly entrenched and fighting hard in southern Zaire. Reported Tuesday that they regained Kasaji, a town about 130 miles west of Kolwezi in Shaba province, the copper mining center of the region.
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Kinshasa
Zaire
Angola
Kasaji
Kolwezi
Shaba
Katanga
Archbishop Cardinal Biayenda Assassinated in Brazzaville
Government communique from the Congolese Workers' Party says Emile Cardinal Biayenda archbishop of Brazzaville was kidnapped and killed on Tuesday night. Vatican spokesman voiced profound consternation as Cardinal Biayenda had met President Ngouabi shortly before the president was slain last Friday.
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Brazzaville
Congo Republic
Emile Cardinal Brayenda
Congolese Workers’ Party
Rome
Vatican
Biayenda
Marien Ngouabi
GOP Fights Carter Election Financing Proposal
Washington AP reports the Democratic Senate and House lean toward swift action on President Carter’s election law package while Republicans including Sen. Bob Packwood oppose public financing of campaigns. The financing provision drew the sharpest GOP criticism amid the Carter plan’s four major elements.
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Washington
Congress
Carter
Sen
Bob Packwood
R-Ore
Gressmen
GOP
Supreme Court allows limited gender based social security rules
The court says Congress may pass laws that treat women differently from men to remedy past discrimination. A slim majority ties constitutionality to purpose, approving measures that compensate women while deeming others invalid if justified only by archaic generalizations about women.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Body of 1 year old Timothy King found near road
In Livonia Michigan a body found along a dirt road is tentatively identified as 1 year old Timothy King. Police say clothing matches the description of what he wore when last seen and he may be the seventh victim in a string of child abductions.
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Livonia
Mich
Timothy King
Birmingham
Timothy
Califano's Chef Lands $12 763 Post in HEW
Washington AP reports a new HEW job paying 12 763 a year described as high level policy work but in plain terms it is Secretary Joseph A Califano Jr. s personal cook duties.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Retary
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Agriculture Dept Forecasts Shrinking Rice and Cotton Supplies
The Agriculture Department's early projections show continued growth in feed grain and wheat stocks while rice and cotton supplies are expected to decline. Officials emphasize high variability and heavy qualifications in the outlook for this year's harvests.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Cold Night Forecast With Frost Tonight
Another cold night is forecast with possible frost as temperatures drop near 32 degrees after last night. Tomorrow should see sunny skies and a high in the lower 40s with little chance of rain and fair weather through the weekend.
Family sports dual Clemson and Carolina car sticker
Have You Heard notes the Charles McCharen family boasts one of the town’s few cars displaying stickers for both Clemson and Carolina. The item highlights local pride and cross- rivalry display among residents.
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Charles McCharen
Clemson
Carolina
Aiken Horse Show Opens Weekend Polo Meet Follows
The three day gala features the Aiken Horse Show in Hitchcock Woods Friday with about 50 riders and 20 events. Saturday includes the Aiken Hunt Meet with steeplechases, flat races and the Imperial Cup in a $15,000 purse. Proceeds aid Helping Hands Inc. and admission costs noted.
Plans Presented For Old Hospital In Aiken County
Aiken County considers reuse of the closed county hospital. Wells Fleetwood Architects draft a feasibility study with four options two of which are most feasible. Options include converting to a 150 bed nursing care facility or an 88 bed facility with space for county offices.
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Aiken County
Old County Hospital
Wells & Fleetwood Architectural Firm
Aiken
Carter to Release Semi Final List of Water Projects
President Carter will unveil a semi-final list of up to 32 water projects at risk of cancellation. The White House expected to release the plan today, reusing many carryovers from a prior 19-project list scrapped from the 1978 budget, with new entries including the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway’s broader scope in Alabama and Mississippi.
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Washington
Carter
White House
Tennessee-Tormbigbee
Alabama
Mississippi
Capitol Hill
Bureau of Reclamation
Narrows
Dallas Creek
Colorado
Lyman
Wyomin
Central Arizona
Auburn-Folsom South
Calif
Bonneville
Utah
Deputies Seek Higher Salaries For Aiken County
Aiken County deputies push for a 25 percent pay raise over three years to align with other counties. FOP leader Bill Matlock cites starting salaries and step- pay plans in Greenwood Lexington York Florence and Richmond counties to argue for higher pay.
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Aiken County Sheriff's Department
Usc-Aiken
Aiken County Fraternal Order of Police
FOP
Aiken County Council
Aiken Sheriff's Department
Bill Matlock
FDP
Aiken
Aiken County
Matlock
Horry County
Cherokee County
Anderson County
Florence County
York County
Richmond County
Greenwood County
Lexington
Cain weighs governor run or Senate bid in South Carolina
C. Marshall Cain, a leading 1978 gubernatorial possibility, said he has no firm plans yet but may pursue either the governor’s race or a state Senate seat. He notes District Eight’s 200,000 population across five counties makes full-time service essential and compares it to a large congressional district.
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C. Marshall Cain
Cain
Governor's
Senate
Can
South Carolina
New Corps flood control projects listed by congressional offices
Checks late Tuesday show a flood control program list including Hillsdale dam in Pennsylvania, LaFarge Lake in Wisconsin, Fulton flood control in Illinois, Gallipolis lock and dam, Red River waterway, Texas portions, and a Mississippi Gulf outlet study among others in Louisiana and nearby states, in addition to the Tennessee Tombigbee Tyrone project.
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Corps of Engineer
Tennessee- Tombigbee -Tyrone
Hillsdale
Kan
LaFarge
Wis
Fulton, LL
Gallipolis
Red River
Tensas Basin
Bayou Bodeau
Mississippi Gulf
Louisiana
Texas
White House plans March 30 hearing on Russell Dam project
The White House will announce a March 30 hearing in Anderson to assess the Richard B. Russell Dam on the South Carolina Georgia border. The session is part of a Carter plan to weigh 19 water resource projects for potential funding delays after a broad review.
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Anderson
Richard B. Russell
Carter Administration
South Carolina
Georgia
Carter
Congress
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Jeane Hall
Aiken Sertoma Club
Helping Hands Inc
Goefs
Doug Early
Princess Ann
James Arnold
Abbeville Street
Murry Sill
Old Hospital
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