Scouts Sweep Lot During Rent-a-Scout Event in Aiken
In Aiken on Saturday the Boy Scouts of Troop 121 cleaned a Triangle Pontiac parking lot as part of their rent-a-scout day. Jwann Cooper, Miss Aiken, placed second runner up in the Iris Festival Pageant and was among the top five for Neptune’s Daughter in Sumter. John Clark and Elmer Wilson won golf trophies in the Aiken segment of the Heart Golf Tournament at Highland Park.
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Boy Scouts
Troop 121
Triangle Pontiac
Jwann Cooper
Aiken
Sumter
Charles LaMasters
Jwann
John Clark
Elmer Wilson
Highland Park
Clark
Wilson
Palmetto State Life Insurance
Quail Creek
Myrtle Beach
Skylab Crews Resume Primary Tasks Amid Cooling Lab
Skylab astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz begin activating experiments as space station temperatures fall. They hold a 10 minute televised news conference answering reporters questions about salvaging the large laboratory and report warmer readings at 94 degrees.
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Conrad
Heath government third minister tied to call girl scandal
London AP reports Scotland Yard investigates a third minister alleged to have used call girls. The People names a potential suspect from Norma Levy claims and notes a possible fourth minister as customer. Levy, hiding in Morocco, may be interviewed by Yard detectives.
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London
Scotland Yard
Edward Heath
The
Press Association
Britain
Heath
People
Norma Levy
Air
Fire destroys industrial park in Chicago spill
An explosion and fire in a southwest Chicago industrial area damaged four buildings across eight blocks. Four people were injured, none seriously, as flames spread from Levey ink plant, a Cities Service division, to four other structures. Firefighters contained the blaze after about six hours. officials expect multimillion dollar losses.
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Chicago
Levey Ink Manufacturing
Cities Service Oil Co
L. Fish Furniture Co
Milani Foods Co
A&p Food Stores
Robert J. Quinn
Cod War Tensions Rise as Iceland Shells British Vessel
In Reykjavik ICELAND Iceland vows to enforce law after a gunboat shelling crippled a British trawler in disputed waters. Prime Minister Olafur Johannesson praises the crew and warns Britain while NATO observers fear a diplomatic crisis on the eve of Nixon Pompidou talks.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Britain
North Atlantic Alliance
Nixon
Georges Pompidou
Olafur Johannesson
NATO
Johanesson
Nixon and Pompidou
Star Kist Under Investigation For Sanitation Lapses
FDA inspectors cited 13 sanitation problems at Star Kist in American Samoa months before a tuna canning run sickened 232 with scrombotoxin. Issues included thawing in bay water, uncleaned cans, roof leaks onto cooked fish, and roaches in raw materials storage.
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Washington
Star Kist
American Samoa
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
National
Communicable Disease Center
City to double county water rates and review budget
The Aiken City Council will introduce an ordinance tonight to raise county water rates to double city residents payments. A 8 p.m. meeting in council chambers will also cover a $2,383,570 budget with first reading and June 11 hearings. Additional items include funding for public safety land, fire equipment, a new truck, and debt service.
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Aiken
Ing
Roland Windham
Tornadoes Lash 10 States Four Dead In 2 Carolinas
Memorial Day weekend storms swept across the Midwest and South killing at least 31 people in eight states. Alabama reported multiple twister deaths and Brent saw four fatalities. Keefeton Oklahoma endured extensive damage with several family deaths and a fifth resident among the dead.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Florida
Midwest
South
Alabama
Missouri
Keefeton
Okla
Jonesboro
Ark
Kansas
Tennessee
Laurel
Miss
Brent
Tornadoes, floods devastate western North Carolina
Severe storms swept across North and South Carolina with tornadoes and flash flooding. In Ashe County two bodies were recovered from a flooded house by the South Fork New River. another near Crumpler, with a third believed in the Beaver Creek house. Buncombe County reported one body found from a cracked mobile home, four missing residents named Wayne Woody and family. About 200 evacuated. 30 bridges damaged. widespread funnel cloud sightings and no injuries reported in Greenville-Spartanburg area.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
South Carolina
Ashe County
New River
Beaver Creek
Crumpler
Highway Patrol
Asheville
Buncombe County
Wayne Woody
Christopher
Shannon
Jason Roberts
Greenville
Spartanburg
Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Greenville S.C
Greenville-Spartanburg
Columbia
Violent storms forecast for Aiken area today
Weather forecaster warns of heavy thunderstorms with some severe storms and damaging winds and large hail in the Aiken vicinity. Highs mid 80s, tonight near 70, with varying rain chances and an extended outlook of showers into midweek and improving conditions by Thursday.
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Aiken
Nuclear Industry Spotlight Expands in Palmetto State
Aiken area and South Carolina see rapid growth in nuclear energy with millions invested. G O Gus Robinson, retired public relations director from the Savannah River Plant, contributes articles in Wednesday’s Aiken Standard outlining industry developments.
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South Carolina
Aiken
Palmetto
Aiken Standard
G.O
Gus
Robinson
Atomic Energy Commission
Savannah River
Banksia Fund Nears Goal in Aiken Library Move Drive
Banksia Renovation fund totals 44978 of 50000 with four days left to raise funds for relocating the library from Laurens Street to the former USC Aiken building. Owens pledges 1000, Corning Fiberglas backs with 1000 stock, an anonymous donor adds 1000, and Realtors board contributes during Realtor Week.
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Banksia
Friends of the Library
Laurens Street
University of South Carolina Aiken
Owens
Corning Fiberglas Corp
F. Karston Shealy
Aiken
Aiken Board of Realtors
Gorman L. Williams
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