New District 8 Senators Challenge Old South Carolina Senate
District 8 freshmen Knotts Turnipseed and Setzier announced their aim to be heard and reform minded. They pressed for attendance records electronic roll calls and limits on senatorial courtesy and filibusters. The trio sought admission to a breakfast caucus and received a unanimous vote to join the reform effort.
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District 8
William E. Knotts
Tom Turnipseed
Nikki K. Setzier
Senate
L. Marion Grossette
Knotts
Sen. Gressette
South Carolina
Aiken Standard 1976 Page Four Heading
Local page from November 29 1976 features editorial leadership with Samuel A Cothran as President and Editor and Robert D Cathcart as Executive Editor. Page four carries community notices and period content.
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Samuel A. Cothran
Robert D. Cathcart
Ford backs pay raises for top officials amid tax inflation
Editorial urges Ford to resist boosting federal pay citing symbolic gesture while Congress and administration debate salaries for executives and lawmakers. It notes President Carter may attract Democrats at current pay and laments tax inflation since 1967 raising family liabilities 150 to 200 percent.
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Gerald Ford
Congress
Charles E. Grassley
Iowa
Rep
Grassley
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Party of the People
Dear Dr Graham guidance on finding happiness through faith
A reader asks how to find lasting happiness after camp. The answer stresses fellowship with Christians, active church involvement, and daily submission to God. It urges resisting Satan with Christ’s strength and starting each day by seeking God’s help.
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Billy Graham
DR. Graham
God
Jem
Satan
Christ
James
Lord
Doonesbury cartoon stance prompts reader letter
A reader thanks the editor for refusing to publish a recent Doonesbury episode. The letter defends Christian standards and condemns the depicted act as sinful, signing with Jesus’ name and the writer’s full name and address.
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Jesus
Roger D. Rollins
Donelson
Aiken residents protest Weeks Center and park issues
Letters criticize Weeks Center access on Tuesday and Thursday evenings due to USC-Aiken events, and cite park tennis court lights failing to turn on. Citizens urge Recreation Department to focus more on service and less on office smoking as Redcliffe plantation gains attention and state finances limit park funding.
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Aiken City
Recreation Department
Weeks Center
Virginia Acres Park
Usc-Aiken
Aiken
Redcliffe Plantation
Beech Island
Aiken County
Redcliffe
South Carolina
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism
John Shaw Billings
James H. Hammond
PRT Department
Parks Division
James D. McNair
Third Congressional District
Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism
Lame Ducks Head For Moscow On Final Administration Junket
Treasury Secretary William Simon leads a Washington delegation to Moscow for a US USSR Trade and Economic Council conference. The trip includes Simon’s wife and two sons with arrangements for wives and sons at hotel luncheons and an optional visit to a bicentennial exhibition. The trip, scheduled before the elections, was pushed forward as Simon is a trusted Kremlin favorite. An additional note covers a Canadian sale of a banned spinal drug by Baxter-Travenol with safety concerns from 1975.
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Washington
Treasury
William Simon
Moscow
Treasury and Commerce
Soviet Union
Simon
Billy
Peter
U.S
Sovietskaya
Sokolniki Park
Kremlin
United States
Canada
Baxter-Travenol
Widow McDowell Defies Ferguson’s Rangers At Quaker Meadows
In 1780 at Quaker Meadows near Morganton North Carolina a widow known for wit and grit defied Ferguson's Rangers. Her sons Col Charles and Major Joseph McDowell had fled into the mountains. British officers ransacked the home and threatened the family but she refused to surrender. Later the same raiders returned hungry and weary seeking shelter, food and nursing.
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Dorothy Macdowell
Quaker Meadows
Morganton
N.C
Emerald Isle
Col
Charles
Joseph McDowell
Ferguson
McDowell
Joe
We Hold These Truths A Chronicle of America
A syndicated panel recounts Robert Morris of Pennsylvania as a key financier. quotes highlight wartime resolve, contrasting postwar cowardice with bold patriotism and calls to stand firm rather than beg pardon.
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Chronicle of
America
Robert Morris
Pennsylvania
Britain
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Richard A. Trushour
James E. Omland
Marvin K. Jones
Aiken Standard
OSHA
EPA
PSRO
Sional Standards ‘Review Organization
Federal Trade Commission
Washington, D.C
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Massachusetts
Kennedy
Carter
Ralph E. Painter Jr
Sparkleberry Lane
Lame Ducks
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Ross Mackenzie
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