Aiken Standard Leadership and Editorial Team
Samuel A. Cothran serves as President and Editor with Robert D. Cathcart as Executive Editor guiding the Aiken Standard through editorial decisions and management.
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1972
Page
11
Samuel A. Cothran serves as President and Editor with Robert D. Cathcart as Executive Editor guiding the Aiken Standard through editorial decisions and management.
Businessmen funding colleges are alarmed as radical economists gain influence in academia. The Wall Street Journal notes decades of organized efforts with unions, federal grants, and the Socialist Scholars Conference founded in 1964 by Marxist historians and others at Columbia and Rutgers.
The speech features Nobody urging a nationwide bus policy to move students far from home to reduce problems at the local level. He attacks Nixon staged funding and cites family stress, property damage, and divorce rates to argue for expanded busing as a national program.
The proposal boosts the state gasoline tax by one cent and gives the Highway Department $80 million in borrowing authority while raising motor vehicle license and title fees. Critics worry license hikes could derail the bill in an election year, though removal might persuade wavering lawmakers. Rural counties oppose funneling funds to the department, risking a veto from metropolitan advocates.
C W Haasis longtime engineer with DuPont Savannah River Plant and gardening columnist dies in Aiken after a long illness. He authored The Book of Weights and valued precise standards as well as nature’s wonders. Sympathies go to his sisters and friends.
Billy Graham argues belief matters for salvation and personal character. He cautions that denying the importance of belief is a deception, and asserts that what one believes forms identity, temperament, and moral conduct. He stresses belief’s central role in salvation.
A collection of light anecdotes and family notes includes a mother sending extra money for Pep pants to a college son and a humorous first day story from a first grader. The column also features a misadventure at sea and a joke about Milton the poet’s blindness.
A collection of social curiosities notes shifts in marriage ages from 18 to 19 for girls over five years and steady 21 for groom ages. It cites noise affecting sexual life, happiest life years mainly 25 to 40, and a boss trend banning hotpants. It warns tight boots may cause clots and lists presidents with nicknames Washington Jackson Garfield Arthur.
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