Aiken Sulky Races Highlight Weekend Schedule
The final leg of Aiken's Triple Crown of Racing features seven sulky races at the Aiken Mile Track led by the Buck Minniear Memorial in race six. Lancers' Tournament and Triple Crown Ball also on the lineup with warm, potentially rainy weather and a 50 percent precipitation chance.
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Scott Hunt
Aiken
Aiken Mile
Banks Mill Rd
Lee Racine
Buck Minniear
E.H
Buck) Minniear
Ford Asks Approval For Swine Flu Vaccination Plan
President Ford urged Congress to approve a 135 million dollar vaccination program to ensure vaccine supply for full immunization by early September. Officials outlined a timetable with mid April small lots for testing, data by early June, and distribution starting later in June. Government health officials argue it is safer to spend money than risk lives if a pandemic arrives.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Callaghan Favored In Britain To Succeed Wilson
In London foreign secretary James Callaghan remains the favorite as Labor party members in the House of Commons vote on a new leader. After the first round leftist Michael Foot led with 90 votes, Callaghan 84, while center and right candidates totaled 170 against 144 for left wingers. Ballots for the second round go to 314 Laborites. results due Tuesday.
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London
James Callaghan
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
House of Commons
Michael Foot
Callaghan
Foot
Army and Air Force men accused in heroin import plot
Federal officials say a syndicate led by sergeants smuggled more than 300 million dollars in heroin into the United States using Air Force tankers and military baggage from U Tapao Thailand. Indictments were unsealed in Raleigh naming 14 defendants, with raids by military police, federal agents and local police.
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Raleigh, N.C
Thailand
Army
Air Force
U Tapao Air Force Base
Washington
Raleigh
Nixon Drank and Wept in Final Days Book Excerpt
AP reports a new book portrays Richard M. Nixon in his last days in the White House as drinking heavily weeping and uttering suicide threats. Woodward and Bernstein in The Final Days recount aides removing all medication from Nixon’s medicine chest amid the turmoil.
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New York
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Watergate
Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
The
Washington Post
Moslems threaten shelling of Christian stronghold
Moslem leaders warned of land and sea shelling of the Christian stronghold in Beirut where President Suleiman Franjieh has taken refuge. The civil war in Beirut and surrounding hills raged with heavy fighting. Death toll since last April neared 13,000. Both sides declared that Syrian political compromise plans were doomed, signaling a military showdown as the only possible settlement.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Suleiman Franjieh
Aiken golfer Dick Flynt helps Pro-Am win at Heritage Classic
Dick Flynt teamed with pro Tom Weiskopf to win the Pro-Am preceding the Heritage Classic at Hilton Head Island with a 15 under par. Garden Club president June Boswell cites public perception of members as “little old ladies in sneakers” and “do-gooders.” A church awards night recalls Wrong Way Corrigan and a mother’s bold shot.
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Aiken
Dick Flynt
Tom Weiskopf
Hilton Head Island
Garden Club Council
June Boswell
Garden Club
First Baptist Church
Corrigan
SC COGs Nominate Breazeale To NARC Board
Harold D. Breazeale was unanimously chosen by the ten South Carolina Councils on Governments to represent the state on the National Association of Regional Councils board. The nomination follows the quarterly COG meeting at Lower Savannah and will be followed by letters from all nine other COG directors to NARC. Breazeale is a Pickens native and longtime ARC official.
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South Carolina House of Representatives
National Association of Regional Council
NARC
Ten Council On Governments
Lower Savannah
Breazeale
Pickens
Appalachian Regional Council of Government
Walter Branch
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Atlanta
Frank Nicholson
Ford and Carter Enter West and Upstate States
President Ford heads to California for a Republican primary 10 weeks off while Democrats eye April 6 votes in New York and Wisconsin. Carter Udall and Jackson campaign in New York Wisconsin and Wisconsin with amnesty questions and big policy plans. Ford nears a softer campaign style as Reagan plans a nationwide TV address.
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Ford
California
New York
Wisconsin
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Upstate
Washington Sea
Henry M. Jackson
Arizona
Morris K. Udall
San Francisco
Losles
Carter
Udall
Madison
University of Wisconsin At
Stevens Point
Richard Nixon
Jackson
New York City
Washington
White House
Charleston Chosen For Spoleto Festival
Charleston will host the Spoleto Festival USA in May to June 1977. Gov. James B. Edwards announced with Gian-Carlo Menotti that Charleston was selected after a nationwide search to bring opera, dance, music, theater and visual arts to the city.
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Columbia
Charleston
James B. Edwards
Edwards
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Spoleto
Italy
Menott
United States
Controversy Over 1975 120000 C funds Allocation
ERIC HIGGS reports that 1975 C funds of 120000 were not credited to Aiken and North Augusta but remain claimable. Commission debates blame illness and oversight, with Graybeal and Windham noting allocations tied to county and highway department processes, while other officials push for reallocation.
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Aiken
North Augusta
Harold V. Gray
Beal
Fran Jolley
Graybeal
Highway Department
Lucas Ray
Commission North
The
W. T. Brooks
L. Vernon Davis
Charles W. Prosser
L. Kirby. Graybear
Cleve Edmunds
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