Hunt Meet in Aiken Offers $15000 Prize and Special Races
Tickets for Saturday's hunt meet are 2.50 in advance and 3 at the gate for general admission. Subscribers pay 50 and receive parking and four tickets while guarantors pay 100 for four admission to tent and post party at Palmetto Club. The Imperial Cup carries 7500 prize with Tall Award favored to win. If Tall Award from Augustan Stables prevails it would set a three win record.
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Palmetto Club
Aiken
Tall Award
Augustan Stables
Triple Crown Schedule for Aiken Horse Show Events
The schedule lists events at Hitchcock and Whitney Field during Triple Crown weekends. Friday begins at 10 a.m. with a $5 car admission and free pedestrian entry, followed by the Aiken Hunt Meet at 1 30 p.m. with $2 50 in advance or $3 at the gate. Saturday features harness racing at 2 p.m. with $2 advance or $2 50 at the gate and Polo games Sundays at 3 p.m. at Whitney Field. The Aiken Thoroughbred Hall of Fame opens Saturday 10 a.m. to 12 30 p.m. The Sertoma Club sponsors events benefiting Helping Hands and the American Cancer Society.
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Aiken
Heart of Hitchcock
Aiken Hunt
Sertoma Club
Helping Hands
Whitney Field
Aiken Thoroughbred Hall of Fame
Picketing Bill Struck Down Defeats Labor Hope in Congress
Washington AP reports a surprise 217 to 205 defeat ends the common situs picketing bill. The measure would have strengthened union picketing power affecting building trades. Affected groups decry the loss as a major setback for organized labor in the new Congress.
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Washington
Organized Labor
House
Congress
U S and Vietnam to resume talks on economic ties in Paris
President Carter announced that a U S delegation would resume talks with Vietnamese officials in Paris to seek normal relations and discuss Americans still listed as missing in action. He noted Hanoi requested the discussions and cited commission findings as success.
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Paris
Carter
Vietnam
Hanoi
Carter Congress May Battle Over Federal Water Projects
President Carter opposes 30 water projects but Congress is set to decide the final fate of the dam reservoir irrigation and flood control proposals. Sources say most projects will reappear in the federal budget in some form as the dispute continues.
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Washington
Carter
Congress
No Parking Sign Confusion at SC Highway Dept
Patrolman Ted E Day explains No Parking signs at the department reserve spaces for employees. Aiken Standard photo yesterday shows the area full as the Easter egg contest continues. Mrs Calvin Francis of Aiken reports her husband keeps South American chickens laying green blue pink and speckled eggs.
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S.C. Highway Department
Ted E. Day
Aiken Standard
Calvin Francis of
Aiken
Frost Damage Report Details Mild Crop Losses
County extension agent Jim Evans reports crop damage from the recent frost has been slight with flowering shrubs more affected in parts of the county. Peaches and cold crops like cabbage and carrots show little to no harm while azaleas face frost burn in some areas.
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Jim Evans
Edisto River
Carrol H. Warner
Aiken County
Evans
Edgefield County
J. Raymond Cook
Aiken
South Carolina
Desai Sworn In as India Prime Minister Signals End to Special USSR Ties
Morarji Desai, 81, took office as India's fourth prime minister and said the 1971 India Soviet friendship treaty must not impede ties with other states, signaling an end to special links with the USSR. He promised a foreign policy of proper nonalignment and was welcomed by leaders including Y B Chavan and Jaiprakash Narayan who backed the Janata victory.
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India
Morarji Desai
Indira Gandhi
Soviet Union
Desai
Mrs. Gandhi
Congress Party
Janata Party
Gandhi
Congress
Y.B. Chavan
Janata
Congress For Democracy
Sikh Party
Jagjivan Ram
Gandhi Desai
Ram
H.N. Bahuguna
14 Seek Seats In N. Augusta
North Augusta voters face a six to six council split in the May 31 election with six Democrats and six Republicans running for council seats and one mayoral seat up for grabs. Filing closed at noon yesterday. Democratic candidates include William H Dodgen Jean Duckworth Donald P. Wilson Elaine van der Linden Jane Asher and incumbent James Kellett. Republican candidates are Ellen Smith Thomas W Greene Daniel Layman James L Harris William L Gray and Paul Roggenkamp. The top three vote getters will win four year terms, the others will serve two years.
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North Augusta
William H Dodgen
Troy
Jean) Duckworth
Donald P. Wilson
Elaine van der Linden
Harold C
Jane) Asher
James Kellett
ACLU Lawyer Reprimanded By South Carolina Supreme Court
Public reprimand issued against Edna Smith Columbia attorney for soliciting a client for the ACLU in connection with the 1975 sterilization case involving Dr Clovis Pierce The opinion filed March 17 notes the misconduct included arranging interviews with sterilization victims in July 1973 and confirms unethical conduct meriting discipline page 13
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ACLU
South Carolina Supreme Court
Clovis H. Pierce
Edna Smith
Columbia
Supreme Court
Attorney General's Office
Board of Commissioners On
Daniel R. McLeod
A. Camden Lewis
Richard B. Kale
Petitioner
South Carolina Council On Human
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Robert Blake
Baretta
Dunbar
Murry Sill
Ussr
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John Sharkey
Nomi
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