Bridge Disaster Victims Still Missing After Ship Crash
Searchers resume on the Brunswick River for six missing after the African Neptune rammed the Sidney Lanier Bridge. Five bodies recovered. Navy divers and crews face swift currents, oil slicks, and near zero visibility as engineers plan barge and crane removal of wreckage. Governor Carter estimates over 1 million dollars and six months to repair.
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Brunswick
Ted McKenzie
Navy
Civil Defense
Ralph Kelly
Savannah
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Sidney Lanier
Jekyll Island
U. S
Aiken Standard Details Publication and Rates
The Aiken Standard est 1867 publishes each afternoon except weekends. Contact box 456, 124 Rutland Dr, Aiken SC 29801. Classified ad corrections are free in the next issue. mail rates listed.
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Aiken Standard
Rutland Drive
Aiken
S. C
S.C
Associated Press
Nationwide Rain and Snow Forecast Across Regions
A Thursday system brings rain or showers to the Pacific Northwest Gulf coast Great Lakes and New England coast. Snow is expected in the northern Rockies upper Great Lakes and northern New England with colder temperatures across the southern states.
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Pacific Northwest
Gulf Coast
Great Lakes
New England
Rockies
Upper Great Lakes
Four Blacks Win House Seats in South Carolina Elections
Four Negroes win election to the South Carolina General Assembly with two new faces joining Fielding and Wood in Charleston. Republicans gain seats in both chambers with recounts still possible in several races.
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GOP
Columbia
South Carolina
Charleston
Herbert Fielding
R. R. Wood
Williamsburg County
B. J. Gordon Jr
Sumter
Ernest Finney
Richland County
Leevy Johnson
James Felder
Fielding
General Assembly
Senate
Aiken
Irene Rudnick
John Lowery
Spartanburg
Bank Robbery At Florence Bank Masked Gunman Under Investigation
Officers hunt a gunman who robed the Lucas Street branch of South Carolina National Bank in Florence. A white man about 20, six feet tall, wearing a gorilla mask, demanded cash, ordered customers to lie down, and fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of money.
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Florence
Lucas Street
South Carolina National Bank
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Delia Crosby Johns
Arthur Lewis Johns
Kelly Johns
Kelly Jr
Jimmy Carter
Giles Cleveland
Allen Walcher
Lewis Cromer
Richland
Walter Bristow
Hance Finley
Greenville
Laurens
David Taylor
Rudnick
Sherry Shealy
Lexington
Carolyn Frederick
Norma Russell
Jewel Baskin
Man
Tough One
Stomper
Mitchell SH
Orig
Maddo
Brookford
Presto
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