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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1969
Page
2
Red Cross begins a ten hour Standard First Aid course Monday at 7 p.m. at the Aiken Red Cross office. Edward F. Becker will teach as an authorized instructor. Registration is open by calling the office. no fee for the course, textbooks available.
Mrs Millie Halfacre a Winthrop graduate will speak at 10 30 am Sunday to the Aiken Unitarian Fellowship on Teaching the Adult Illiterate She has taught in Korea Nicaragua Peru and Venezuela A discussion and coffee hour follow the talk Liberal Religious Youth meet at 730 pm
The FBI charged three men and two women with conspiracy in a wave of New York bombings. Bail set at 500000 each as suspects were arrested after dynamite and devices were found in a National Guard truck outside a midtown armory. The defendants include Samuel Joseph Melville George Demmerle John David Hughey III Jane Lauren Alpert and Pat Swinton. The investigation may involve others as authorities pursue leads amid additional hoaxes and a mystery letter.
The South Carolina Association for Retarded Children will hold its fall membership meeting in Aiken tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dr. Charles D. Barnett, Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation, will speak at 10:30 a.m. at the Jaycee Hut, with an afternoon program on protection for your child and a review of the legislative program. Registration is $3 and includes lunch. pre-registration with Mrs. W. H. Winans is advised.
Local newspaper data lists establishment year 1867 address 124 Rutland Drive Aiken South Carolina 29801 and mailing options including subscription rates per year six months and three months with carrier delivery and post office box 456. It notes Associated Press dispatch rights and United Press International affiliation and standard correction policy.
Gyles David Murphy of 514 Laurel Street Graniteville died Wednesday at Aiken County Hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at St. Pauls Episcopal Church Graniteville with burial in Graniteville Cemetery. Survived by widow Leila Ferguson one daughter one grandson two sisters three brothers.
In a semifactual bridge analysis North opens 1NT and East-South-West cue the four spade contract. West defends by not covering spades and forces declarer into a blocked endgame, yielding the setting trick after precise play and a heart discard.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers laid out three objectives for a balance strategy in talks with the Soviet Union. He said discussions in Helsinki must involve some sharing or reworking of military secrecy as both sides prepare for Monday negotiations amid uncertain prospects for an arms race agreement.
Aiken County Marine Pvt. Thomas Lamar Ward faced a court martial for the March 6 1969 death of Lance Cpl. Jimmy Booker after the trial began November 3. Defense attorney Frank H Cormany returned from Okinawa asserting Ward acted without responsibility. Experts Dr Elinor Lombard and Dr Louise Marshall testified for the defense.
In the pre dawn attack at 58th Street and Calumet Avenue a police officer and a Black Panther youth were killed and eight others wounded. Patrols, a canine unit and a large response followed as Spur geon J Winters was killed by Patrolman Robert Tracey. Lawrence Bell, identified as a Panther, was wounded and arrested. Brady and Gilhooly, both officers, were seriously injured and hospitalized.
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