Miners Return as Shafts Open After Long Break
Most soft coal miners return to work after 342 months, donning hard hats and lamps. Yet thousands in Illinois Indiana Kentucky Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia balk at crossing picket lines set by striking mine construction workers. In Homer City Pennsylvania pickets halt access to Helvetia Coal Lucerne No 6 as workers face pay loss and a $100 return‑to‑work bonus.
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Pennsylvania
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Homer City
Helvetia Coal Co
Lucerne No. 6
Consolidation Coal Co
Pittsburgh
Tall Award Wins Imperial Cup In Rain Soaked Races
Tall Award riding by Jerry Fishback and trained by Jonathan Sheppard captured the Imperial Cup at the Aiken Hunt Meeting amid a downpour to claim a $7,500 prize. Craig's Corner finished second with Deux Coup third as officials denied a foul claim in race five.
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Jonathan Sheppard
Augustin Stables
Miles Valentine
Tom Skiffington
W. B. Cocks
Sylva Lane
Louis B. McMillan
Mark McMillan
Grady's Boy
Florence Brawley
Michael Walsh III
W. G. Walsh
Breaking Dawn
A. Smith Bowman
John Cushman
M. G. Walsh
Minister
Dale K. Thiel
Joey Ruhsam
J. W.H Davis
Stop Valley
Frank B. Rice
Karen
Charles Law
Cain Working On Republican Platform
C. Marshall Cain of Aiken heads a six member GOP platform committee preparing the final draft of the 1978 South Carolina Republican campaign platform. The panel will begin drafting early next week after public hearings with groups including the State Employees Association.
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South Carolina
C. Marshall Cain
Aiken
State House of Representatives
Republican Party
State Employees Association
Car Dealers Fight Extended Warranty Bill in South Carolina
SC dealers warn a Busbee backed bill requiring five year or 50,000 mile warranties on new cars would raise prices and cripple sales General Motors and other makers would have to lift costs to cover extended coverage executives Bill Vernon of Bill Vernon Chevrolet and Gary Owensby of Ellington Owensby Buick Cadillac urge lawmakers to reject the measure and defend consumer choice Busbee says reform stems from customer complaints and has a 50 50 chance of passage with lobbying underway in Columbia and endorsements both for and against the bill
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Bill) Vernon
Bill Vernon Chevrolet Inc
M. Judson Busbee
D-Wagoner
Vernon
Busbee
Aiken
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Detroit
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Owensby
John Bradley
Dcharleston
Cold Pattern Persists Despite Warm Weekend Forecast
After a chilly spell with a low of 39 and frost warnings tonight, skies clear for fair weather and lows in the mid 30s. No rain expected tonight or tomorrow, with tomorrow’s high near 70 under sunny skies. The extended outlook shows Wednesday dry, with scattered showers Thursday and Friday and daytime highs in the 70s, nights in the 40s.
Easter Basket Egg Notion Sparks Campus Banter
James Hamilton narrates a tale about exams and a pun on Old MacDonald. Lew Perkins faced a joking rebuke about a USC Aiken sweatshirt as his birthday nears. A rain soaked weekend saw tennis player Pete Cheetham out early with a racket. Easter’s joke about eggs in one basket rounds out a satirical campus column.
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Pete Cheetham
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