25 Nov 1971
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1971
Page
1
The Stumper Prize climbs to 200 dollars as many try last week's puzzle but no winner was found. This week is expected easier and multiple entries boost chances. Extra copies available at Aiken Standard office on Rutland Drive and at county racks. answer appears on page 15 A.
AP reports India backed by tanks and artillery pressing five border areas in East Pakistan with new north Bengal front and air support. Radio Pakistan claims heavy Pakistani casualties while India denies crossing border beyond self defense.
Washington AP reports negotiators in meetings to implement the memorandum of understanding on Japan's non cotton textile exports to the United States face three snags. Differences in statistics reconcile American import figures with Japanese export figures. Interpretation and classification issues, especially items labeled others. Disagreement over chief value versus chief weight systems for classifying imports as cotton or man-made textiles amid fluctuating dollar values.
Communist China and the Soviet Union traded charges in the United Nations General Assembly. Chiao Kuan-hua accused the United States and the USSR of fabricating the nuclear test ban and nonproliferation treaties to mask arms expansion, while the Soviet deputy argued against a conference proposal.
Senator Ernest Hollings accuses President Nixon's nominee Earl Butz of insulting South Carolina farmers and threatening small family farms. He advocates abolishing the Agriculture Department rather than placing a department head linked to large agricultural monopolies.
Henry Ford II unveiled a $500 million riverfront project to be built on 28% acres east of the Detroit Civic Center with a late 1972 start. The complex would include offices, apartments, shops, restaurants and a cylindrical hotel as part of a living, revitalizing downtown Detroit.
Mayor Jack Able expects more than 10 000 visitors for the Sixth Annual Chitlin Strut in Salley Saturday and Sunday. The event began in 1966 and attendance by last year reached 2000 pounds of chitlins and a 25 000 total attendance milestone.
An analysis by Edward B. Burgess shows $45.2 million of South Carolina buying power flowed into Georgia in 1970 with a 48 percent year rise. Aiken County loses retail trade as Augusta per capita sales and incomes outpace local figures, with automotive and general merchandise cited as undeveloped areas.
Strom Thurmond and his wife Nancy and their eight month old daughter Nancy Moore will share Thanksgiving dinner with soldiers of Company P 2nd Battalion at Ft. Jackson in Columbia.
Inmates at Rahway State Prison held Warden Hugh Vukcevich early today and injured eleven guards, three stabbed, as they demanded a meeting with Gov. William Cahill. Eddie Mullins, 38, described the inmates as wanting talks and warned against a storming of the facility. No word on ongoing hostilities or a governor meeting.
A January accident on Highway 421 near Clearwater, South Carolina killed 14 month old Michelle Kreps and injured three other family members including her parents. The infant’s funeral will be arranged by Posey’s Funeral Home. Survivors include the maternal grandmother Frances Hillman of Augusta and maternal grandfather William Hillman of Illinois.
A hijacker extorted 200000 from Northwest Airlines and parachuted from a Seattle Reno flight after locking four crew members in the cockpit. FBI said two of four parachutes supplied by airline officials were missing upon landing in Reno. Officials doubted any witness saw the escape and noted the rear stairs were open for a bailout at ten thousand feet.
U S B52 bombers hit targets north of the Chhlong River about 20 miles from the border as South Vietnamese forces push along Highway 13 and in the Parrot Beak, aiming to destroy supply bases. North Vietnamese units, estimated at 12 000, counter along rubber plantations and Me Kong Bassac rivers. Phnom Penh reports fresh shelling of the international airport with three rockets, no damage.
The US Command reported last week American casualties at nine total, five killed and four wounded, the lowest weekly toll since early 1965. Also 13 Americans died from accidents and illnesses. South Vietnamese and allied forces reported lower or similar totals amid ongoing disengagement from combat roles.
Atlanta report shows September food stamp rolls up with 299 047 participants nationwide 14.5 million people received food assistance that month.
The United States moves to an international traffic sign system using pictorial signs and symbols with companion messages. States must meet 1973 pavement marking, 1975 signs, and 1977 signals deadlines as the FHA outlines adoption across highways and streets.
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