CCI Prisoners Strike For Higher Wages
No disciplinary action taken against 50 to 75 inmates at the Central Correctional Institute in Columbia after a short yard protest over wages. Strike lasted under two hours as inmates argued shop pay should be higher than yard duties. pay ranges cited from 3.20 to 25 dollars monthly with shop roles earning up to 12.60. Pay increase promised effective July 1 but amount pending.
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Columbia AP
Central Correctional Institute
Desegregation Challenges Persist in South Carolina Schools
AP report from Columbia highlights mixed reactions to desegregation at A.C. Flora High and other schools. Students discuss ongoing tensions, private-school enrollment rise, white flight, and the need for better college pathways while officials note overall orderly transition and remaining challenges.
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Rob Wood
Associated Press
Columbia (Ap
A.C. Flora
Columbia
South Carolina
US Supreme Court
Clarendon County
Cyril Busbee
St. Paul, Minn
Busbee
Robert S. Davis
Dangers Of Alcohol Presented By SC Commission Speaker
Robert Mc Kellar of the South Carolina Commission on Alcoholism will present a medically oriented program on the symptoms and dangers of alcoholism at Aiken TEC on Wednesday at 11 30 am. Several short films will be shown and the public is invited.
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Robert McKellar
South Carolina Commission On Alcoholism
Aiken Tec
Major Issues Still Hanging In State House
South Carolina lawmakers near adjournment in late June or early July as key bills on automobile liability insurance consumer credit milk price-fixing and tidelands protection remain alive but stalled. The 1974 session began January 8 with these major issues unresolved and at risk of being crowded out.
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Columbia
South Carolina
South Carolina General Assembly
Parents urge SLA suspects to surrender amid manhunt
Los Angeles police and federal agents press a statewide manhunt for Patricia Hearst and William and Emily Harris as worried parents appeal for surrender. The FBI lists Hearst as an SLA member after a weekend gun battle left six SLA members dead and notes Hearst’s alleged involvement in the kidnapping.
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Los Angeles
Patricia Hearst
William and
Emily Harris
FBI
Miss Hearst
SLA
Cinque
Harrises
Harris
Frederick W. Schwartz
Chicago
Turner: Rabbit Hounded By Feds
Glenn Turner faces federal mail fraud charges with seven associates over eight months of trial in Jacksonville. His lawyer Edward Garland argues Turner showed an ambitious, hard working drive to build Koscot Interplanetary into a top cosmetics company and that the government failed to prove intent to defraud. Jury deliberations may begin Thursday after rebuttal and closing arguments.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Glenn Turner
Edward Garland
Atlanta
Garland
Turner
Koscot Interplanetary Inc
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Isaac Williams
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Loren Saxton
Beltone
Bellone
Auguste
State House
Emily
Schwartz
Hillsborough
Calif
Catherine Hearst
California
Pete Hegan
Patricia
Charles Bates
Hearst
Anita Alcala
Colston Westbrook
University of California
Symbionese Liberation Army
Feds
KitchenAid
Bradley
Rutland Dr
Tommy Faile
J. Quincy Collins
Vietnam
Aiken Electric Cooperative Headquarters
Highway 215
Aiken
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