SCEA cites county level tax inequities in teacher pay crisis
The SCEA links teacher pay inequities to uneven county funding and property tax assessments. It cites South Carolina eighth in state support and uneven local contributions, with Aiken County paying 20 to 25 percent supplements. It urges uniform statewide property assessment and expects court action to enforce equal tax ratios.
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South Carolina
S. C. Education Association
SCEA
Aiken County
Standard Stumper Deadline Tomorrow
Last call for Stand ard Stumper entries. Deadline is noon tomorrow. Entry is simple by filling the spaces. Extra copies are available at the Aiken Standard office. A stamper prize of 520 dollars awaits the winner.
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Aiken
NAACP Seeks White Support For Broader Racial Alliance
NAACP treasurer Alfred Baker Lewis told a Charlotte church group that future success hinges on recruiting poorer whites to counter political reaction. He urged a unity of blacks and poor whites against economic exploitation and noted whites may comprise five to ten percent of the membership, though race data is not tracked. The group continues to grow financially despite militant rivals.
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Charlotte
NAACP
Alfred Baker Lewis
Lewis
Three Children Die In Fire At Athens Apartment
A blaze at a two story Athens Georgia apartment left three children dead and their mother Sara Frances Huff 18 severely burned as she tried to save them. Firemen took two hours to fight the fire and the cause remained undetermined. The three children were Clifford Preston Huff four Rodney Huff three and Tamara Huff fourteen months. The father was not at home.
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Athens, Ga
Clifford Preston Huff
Rodney Huff
Tamara Huff
Sara Frances Huff
Athens
Brezhnev Outlines Soviet Aims and Peace Pledge
Moscow AP reports Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev outlined foreign policy aims to preserve communist states, support liberation movements, aid the Third World, and offer peaceful coexistence while pledging to rebuff imperialism and safeguard mankind from another world war.
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Moscow
Russia
Soviet Communist Party
Clared
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Dowdy Returns to Congress After Absence
Rep. John Dowdy returns to his seat in Congress after a seven month absence. He is sixty pounds lighter and has a weak right leg following a period away while facing perjury and bribery charges related to a home repair firm. Dowdy had chaired a subcommittee investigating urban renewal in DC in the early 1960s.
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Washington
John Dowdy
Congress
District of Columbia
Attack in Cambodia Repelled With Heavy Losses
South Vietnamese HQ reports Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked a field headquarters near the Chup plantation in eastern Cambodia but were driven off. Communique tallies 225 enemy soldiers killed in a five hour battle while more than 50 government troops died and 130 were wounded.
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Saigon
Big Chup
Cambodia
Route 7
Defense Pleads To Jury In Calley Sentencing
Lt. William L. Calley Jr faces a life or death sentence after being convicted of murdering 22 civilians at My Lai. His 70-year-old lawyer asks jurors to spare him, while judges explain that the penalty options are life in prison or death, with six jurors needed for death.
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FT. Benning, Ga
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
Calley
Associated Press
George Latimer
Salt Lake City
Reid Kennedy
Calley Verdict on My Lai Brings Mixed Feelings of Pride and Fear
Lt. William L. Calley Jr. faced a historic court martial as a jury convicted him of killing 20 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. He awaited sentencing after a 13 day deliberation marked by nerves, joking moments, and a planned victory party.
Hearing Date Not Yet Set In SCE&G Substation Case
Aiken County Master in Equity has not set a hearing date for the complaint against South Carolina Electric & Gas. Circuit Judge Julius B. Ness referred the case to Master Howard K. Williamson to hear testimony from SCE&G and the protesting homeowners and to make a recommendation. Ness will rule on the petition.
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Aiken County
Master In Equity
S.C. Electric & Gas Co
Julius B. Ness
Westmont
Howard K Williamson
Ness
Williamson
Sce&g
Jurors Impose Death for Manson and Accomplices
In Los Angeles AP reports one juror who urged the death penalty for Charles Manson and his female codefendants Patricia Krenwinkel Leslie Van Houten and Susan Atkins says I wanted to protect society The seven man five woman jury however also heard reactions from a prosecutor who said the verdict reflects community feelings and from a defense attorney who called the ruling unhelpful after a nine month trial in which Manson 36 and the four were found guilty of first degree murder and conspiracy and sentenced to the gas chamber
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Los Angeles
Charles Manson
Tate-LaBianca
Manson
Patricia Krenwinkel
Leslie van Houten
Susan Atkins
Escaped Prisoners Still At Large In South Carolina
State and federal authorities pursue three of four convicts from the Central Correction Institute in Columbia after an underground sewer escape. David Anthony Johnson, 24, captured in Columbia. the others Forrest Ward Phillips, 43, Charles Allen Roper, 42, and Richard Flynn, 32, remain at large as officials warn they are dangerous and possibly headed to Georgia or Florida.
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Columbia
South Carolina
FBI
Georgia
Florida
Central Correction Institute
David Anthony Johnson
Forrest Ward Phillips
Charles Allen Roper
Richard Flynn
Phillips
Roper
Flynn
Augusta
Atlanta
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Vietnam
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