Home Rule proposal praised by Aiken leaders and readers
John T. Bodenheimer and Rep. C. Marshall Cain outlined the Aiken County home rule plan to Rotary Club members and Aiken Standard readers. They noted benefits of local control, potential shifts from legislative delegation, and that 17 South Carolina counties have reorganized to local government. The proposal, printed in full yesterday, merits careful study ahead of the fall vote.
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Aiken
Bodenheimer
Michael Laughlin
Gilbert McMillan
Floyd Spence
Lexington
General Assembly
Cain
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Aiken Standard
Things That Go Boom By Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey reflects on humans and weapons from early sledge to gunpowder and policy, contrasting war zeal with restraint. He notes student activism at Princeton opposing Nixon era policies and muses on patriotism, youth revolt, and Christ’s youth movement aimed at renewal rather than destruction.
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Paul Harvey
Princeton
Nixon
Cambodia
The Bible Teaches Judgment For Persistent Sin And Consequences
The author argues that if the Bible and church creeds are true then there will be judgment for conduct in life and deeds done. God loves enough to warn about dangers of sin and outlines consequences for rebellion, likening life to farming where what one sows is what is reaped.
Swiss Settlers to New Windsor Reach Carolina in 1736
In August 1736 a Swiss group led by Rev. Bartholomew Zeuberbuhler and former governor Johannes Tobler left Switzerland for Carolina to found New Windsor on the Savannah River. After delays, 25 men went overland to choose sites while others traveled by piraguas. Tobler’s 1759 almanac records Charles Town distances to Boston Savannah New Windsor and Fort St George. Beech Island’s Zubly Cemetery holds early Swiss graves including an unmarked Dav id Zubly said to have died in 1790.
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Johannes Tobler
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Charlestown
New Windsor
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Charleston
Piraguas
John Tobler
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Boston
Savannah
Georgia
Fort St. George
Beech Island
Zubly
David Zubly
Aiken Standard Name and Executive Editor Mention
The line notes Eugene J. Oyler as executive editor of the Aiken Standard, a historic newspaper established in 1867, reflecting its leadership.
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Eugene J. Oyler
Pied Pipers and Campus Revolution in a 1960s Debate
A polemical piece likens student protests to the Pied Piper and denounces campus demagoguery. It criticizes McCarthy McGovern and Nixon era politics, condemns revolutionary cadres, and labels reformists as opportunists akin to Louis XVI. Red China praised Senator Mansfield for opposing Nixon.
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Hamelin
Thurmond
Goldwater
Tower
Lny
David Keene
Young Americans For Freedom
Nixon
RED China
Mike Mansfield
Prince Sihanouk
Aiken TEC plans park site on ravine woodland
Letters discuss saving a large Kalmia stand on the TEC campus site and transforming the clay pit area into a park blending with the natural woodland. The plan includes building a campus with pine landscapes and a first building set back from the highway to preserve scenery.
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Aiken Tec Commission
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