Outstanding local fisherman named in Beech Island survey
On a Beech Island visit a reporter asked who is the town’s top fisherman. Frank Ward unanimously named, the Savannah River Project riveter with trophies, trip memories, and prize winnings across rockfish, Santee Cooper bass, and Gulfstream I trips. He still fishes, even selling excess catches, while enjoying roller skating with his family.
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Savannah River
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Santee- Cooper
Charleston
Mount Pleasant
Gulfstream I
DuPont
Frank
Pope Begins 10 Day Asia Pacific Tour
Pope Paul VI leaves Italy for a 10 day Asia and Pacific tour. A motorcade ferries him from Vatican City to the Rome airport where a chartered Alitalia DC8 awaits for his ninth and longest trip abroad.
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Paul VI
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Asia
Pacific
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Rape Reported At USC Columbia
Columbia police investigate a USC coed rape reported Tuesday night after she met a man in a lounge he drove her to a secluded road and assaulted her. Four other rapes or attempted rapes of USC coeds have been reported this school year with two men arrested in two incidents.
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Columbia
University of South Carolina
USC
Actor Ivan Dixon Falls On Set In Hollywood
AP reports actor Ivan Dixon fell backward during a Hollywood movie scene and hit his head on concrete. He was hospitalized in satisfactory condition. Dixon known for Hogan's Heroes played an electronics expert among POWs. scene in The Clay Pigeon involved an apparent ax blow to the stomach.
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Veterans Face Unemployment After Vietnam Return
A Senate labor subcommittee heard that returning GIs face high unemployment rates, with Lovell citing at least 7 percent joblessness among veterans. Witnesses linked guerrilla warfare stress to civilian job difficulty, noting about 80,000 servicemen discharge monthly, 60 percent of whom served in Vietnam.
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GI Joe
Vietnam
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Malcolm R. Lovell Jr
Secretary of Labor
Senators
Alan Cranston
Nixon fires Hickel Interior secretary ousted by Nixon
President Nixon abruptly dismissed Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel, surprising Hickel and aides after months of rumors. Hickel rejected resignation pressure and noted a visit from Attorney General Mitchell failed to persuade him.
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Walter J. Hickel
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John N. Mitchell
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Combat Death Toll in Indochina Rises Sharply
The U S Command reports 65 Americans killed in action in Indochina last week the highest weekly toll in 242 months. A Da Nang helicopter crash killed 15 Marines including a decorated battalion commander and over a dozen mine and booby trap deaths from two weeks earlier were added to the tally.
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Truck Driver Killed In 75 Foot Gorge Fall Near Tryon
South Carolina trucker Jay B. Patterson, 48, of Florence, died when his tractor trailer plunged 75 feet into the Pacolet River gorge on US 178 about five miles north of Tryon. Rescue teams found his body about three feet from water near the wreckage. The truck reportedly struck a bridge railing before going off the highway.
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New Chamber President Puts Youth First in Aiken
Q Donald Maxwell, 44, elected president of the Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce, has a banking career and six years of civic service. He leads youth programs, supports Salvation Army and Dixie Youth Baseball, and serves as deacon and Sunday School superintendent at First Baptist Church.
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New Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce
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Becky
Hindman
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Alston Wilkes Society
Aiken High Booster Club
Dixie Youth Baseball
Newberry College
Hemingway
First Baptist Church
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Charleston
Congressional debate over Son Tay raid and North Vietnam bombing
Washington lawmakers weighed a proposed salute to Son Tay escape volunteers and the bombing resume, while Secretary Rogers and Senator McGovern questioned impacts on Paris talks. Melvin Laird cited diversion effects from the raid amid broader Indochina funding debate.
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William P. Rogers
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Paris
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Indochina
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Melvin R. Laird
Rogers
Hanoi
Missing Santa Suit Plea From Salvation Army Leader
Captain Thomas C. Cundiff, head of the Salvation Army in Aiken, asks for the return of his brand new Santa suit borrowed last year. He urges donors to drop it in Salvation Army boxes or at headquarters as toy distribution to over 2,000 children and 250 families nears. A $25 replacement could fund more toys and meals for Christmas.
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Santa
Thanksgiving Day Boosts Stumper Prize and Free Words
The note says the Standard Stumper prize rises to 350 dollars after increasing from 340. It promises three free words on this week's puzzle and hints at Friday’s paper for the new Stumper. Thanksgiving Day is presented as the luckiest day.
Sailor tells Thanksgiving rescue tale after shipwreck
How ard Taylor and his wife Jane fled California with their daughter Rebecca detto a two year cruise ending on a Bahamian reef. They were rescued by the Song of Norway crew eight hours after life aboard their 44 foot motor sailor sank. Taylor says the scene left him grateful amid danger and debris as tourists watched from the cruise ship.
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Howard Taylor
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Jane
Rebecca
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Mayaguana
Norway
Song of Norway
Aikenite Aboard Rescue Ship After Ocean Getaway
Mrs. Jack L. Allen of Wheeler Drive Aiken rode the Song of Norway rescue ship along with Mr. and Mrs. John M. Allen of Coral Gables. She praised the captain crew and passengers for their courtesies to the Taylors and their 4 year old daughter Rebecca and plans to return in a few weeks. She is the mother of Mrs. James Scarborough of Charleston.
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Aiken
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John M. Allen
Coral Gables
James Scarborough
Charleston
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