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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1973
Page
1
Aiken enjoyed perfect weather for the 7th Annual Hunt Meet at Clark Field. About 5 000 spectators lined the rails to watch jumpers and mules race the course as crowds picnicked in sunlit grounds. Co chair Charles Bird Jr praised the day, noting it surpassed last year’s weather.
James McNair of the Farmers and Merchants Bank shows skill guiding uncooperative mules Saturday. House Rep Cecil Collins was hospitalized Friday night after chest pains during a Miss S C USA dinner event and remains in hospital.
Truong Dinh Dzu, an opposition candidate who finished second to President Nguyen Van Thieu in 1967, was released today after nearly five years in a South Vietnamese jail. His daughter said the 56 year old lawyer is tired and ill from a heart condition and declined further comment. Thieu’s move is seen as boosting his image before a U S visit and talks with Nixon and U S Congress leaders.
Consumers nationwide plan a meat boycott the first week in April to protest high meat prices. Rosalie Whiting of Salt Lake City leads Save Our Sanity urging families to pre pare meatless menus for the April 17 protest as California organizers of FIT Fight Inflation Together helped spark the effort.
James W. McCord Jr. told Samuel Cash of the Senate Watergate committee that he has begun informing investigators and has given names of others involved in the Democratic National Committee break in. Cash said more names will follow, but would not indicate whether any named are higher up than the seven who pleaded guilty or were convicted at the January trial before Judge Sirica.
Betty Friedan, amid factional tension in feminism, calls for male female alliance as the most effective route to equality at a New York fundraiser for NOW. She cites abortion rulings, the ERA, back pay at AT&T, and argues lesbianism is used to divide women, drawing criticism from Robin Morgan and Ti-Grace Atkinson.
The U S Weather Bureau calls for highs in the low 70s today with a 30 percent rain chance. Tonight lows drop to the low 40s and Tuesday remains sunny with near 70 degree highs. Winds move southwest at 10 to 20 mph through Tuesday and the outlook shows warm weather to Thursday then cooler with scattered showers Friday.
The Aiken County Board of Commissioners will vote on four ordinances at 8 p.m. at the Aiken Health Center. Actions include hiring W G Lynn Jr as county attorney and reimbursing two candidates for county administrator interviews.
House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman plans a bill to stabilize rents and freeze all prices and interest rates for 60 days. The measure would freeze at March 16 levels and set a 60 day rollbacks period with mandatory controls if inflation runs above 3 percent for three months or 24 percent annually. Rents would be held at January 10 levels barring approved cost increases.
The Pathet Lao said they are ready to free at any date the nine American prisoners captured in Laos but gave no date time or place. The US demands specifics as the deadline for releasing remaining prisoners looms. The broadcast accused the US of continued bombing and reconnaissance raids in breach of the Vientiane cease fire.
Plans for a county wide drive to raise forty to fifty thousand dollars for renovating Banksia the former Aiken campus building of the University of South Carolina are nearly complete. The drive starts April 10 with Mrs G Ashford Milner Jr as chair of the Friends of the Aiken County Public Library who announced the February vote to undertake the fund raise. The Aiken County Higher Education Commission notified the board last November it would option Banksia to the library at new cost if funds are raised.
A reporter ascends 1800 feet in a seven story Liberty balloon from the GT Datsun lot with pilot David Little at 10:05 a.m. Saturday. The ascent reaches 950 feet as the crew makes light conversation and observers wave below. The article notes the wicker basket and tension of moving aloft.
In Saigon the United States said President Nixon would maintain the freeze on troop withdrawals until arrangements are made for the release of all American prisoners. The Communists refused freedom for any detainees pending progress on a Joint Military Commission meeting that failed to break a days-old stalemate delaying the last POW group from Vietnam.
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