Ports Shut as 80,000 Miners Strike Nationwide
Dock workers in every continental port walk off as 80,000 soft coal miners join the action. AFL-CIO unions from Maine to Texas halt talks after a guaranteed income dispute ends. Nixon contemplates using Taft Hartley cooling off.
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Associated Press
Continental
United States
Afl-Cio International
Maine
Texas
New York
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union
U.S
Nixon
Senate backs six month withdrawal from Indochina
The Senate approves a total US withdrawal from Indochina within six months following a plea by Democratic Leader Mansfield to end the war. The 57 to 38 vote faces a doubtful House outcome. A prior draft-extension amendment passed 61 to 38 in the Senate last June but failed in the House.
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Washington
Mike Mansfield
Senate
Indochina
Siege of Fire Base Halted Near Saigon Frontier
A 1,200 man relief column linked with defenders at Fire Base Tran Hung Dao 70 miles northwest of Saigon after five days of shelling. A second relief column faced heavy resistance two miles west with Saigon reporting 33 enemy casualties and eight paratroopers killed and nine wounded.
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Tay Ninh
Vietnam
APA
Tran Hung Dao
Highway 22
Saigon
Bunche Quits United Nations Post After Illness
Ralph J. Bunche, 67, top American official at the United Nations, resigns after six months of hospitalization. The retirement of Bunche, Under Secretary General for Special Political Affairs and 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is expected to be announced officially today.
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Ralph J. Bunche
U.N
Bunche
UPI
Dam Project Studied By SC House Committee
The South Carolina House stalled a $121 million Trotter Shoals Dam study resolution on the Savannah River. Rep. Alex Sanders urged immediate action, warning time is short, as ten members objected and funds may be allocated soon.
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Columbia
South Carolina
House of Representatives
Trotter Shoals
Savannah River
House
Alex Sanders
Sanders
Pentagon: Russian naval fire not hostile toward U S plane
The Pentagon said Russian fire aimed at a US Navy P3 recon plane over the Sea of Japan was not hostile. The 7th Fleet commander reported the firings did not endanger the aircraft as it flew in international waters near the middle of the sea.
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Washington
Pentagon
Sea of Japan
7Th Fleet
Trol Force
Unemployment Down In State
The Employment Security Commission reported unemployment among insured South Carolina workers is down. About 13 473 insured men and women were drawing unemployment compensation at mid September, a drop from the prior year, with a rate of 2.2 percent.
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Columbia
Unem- Commission
South
Carolina
Thurmond Announces $26,593 BOR Grant for Aiken Park
U S Senator Strom Thurmond announced a 26593 grant from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation to Aiken Recreation Department. funds will develop a 12.5 acre city owned tract into a baseball field with lighting fencing concession building restrooms bleachers utilities and support facilities. tas lonation of bopentadt 0n0 g ite a net of the ply limits on Pine Log Road.
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U.S
Strom Thurmond
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
BOR
Department of Interior
Aiken Recreation Deee
Tas Lonation of
Bopentadt
Pine Log Road
Almost-forgotten 840000 bond issue surfaces in county records
Aiken County public library and other county buildings show complex, poorly kept records for a 1966 840000 bond issue. Ledger cards reveal long delays as county officials and clerks struggled with late supply bills and a new bookkeeping system, hindering clear expenditure tracing.
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Mackey Scott
Lively Agenda On Tap For Aiken Delegation Meeting
The Aiken County Legislative Delegation schedules its monthly public meeting at 7 p.m. to discuss funding for a $2.2 million facility from county paving allotments, Alpine Drive paving, and terms for possible computerized voting equipment. Aiken TEC requests paving and drainage for two access roads about 500 feet long and a 400 car parking lot, with bids opening Oct 21, funded by the county.
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Aiken County
Aiken County Health Department
Aiken Tec
Alpine Drive
Ginger’s Devastation Now Estimated At $1 Million
Ginger struck the North Carolina coast as a hurricane causing nearly one million dollars in damage before inland flooding hit Belhaven and surrounding towns. Nine inches of rain deluged eastern NC while Washington area floodwaters reached homes and businesses. A WITN-TV art director Charles Price died in a wind related collision near Washington as Ginger weakened to a tropical storm.
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Morehead City
North Carolina
Pungo River
Belhaven
Washington, D.C
Pamlico River
State Highway Patrol
Washington
Charles Clifford Price
Witn-Tv
Price
Debate resumes Tuesday in South Carolina reapportionment fight
AP Rep. Marshall Cain and other House critics press for a compromise on the four member Senate reapportionment bill as debate resumes Tuesday. House adjourned amid a filibuster with a conference committee likely since the Senate will amend or reject House changes. Cain contends the plan robs Aiken and Lexington counties of additional senators despite population growth.
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Columbia
S.C
Marshall Cain
R-Aiken
House
South Carolina
Senate
Cain
Aiken
Aiken County
Lexington
Water line project bids set for Aiken Industrial Park area
Bids opened at City Hall for water lines to serve the Aiken Industrial Park with 19 800 ft of 16 inch iron ductile pipe 17 600 ft of 12 inch pipe and 15 250 ft of six and eight inch pipe The low bidder was Sschaelen thic Company Inc of High Point NC at 532 611 80 A separate bid by South Atlantic Constructors Inc Greenwood for a water treatment plant was 184 300 Most funds come from Economic Development Administration grants.
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Aiken
North Angus
City Hall
Sschaelenthic Company, Inc
High Point
N.C
Shiloh
U.S.1
Shaw Creek
Cushman Drive
Sandy Street
Balltown
Cherokee Street
South Atlantic Constructors Inc
Greenwood
The
Economic Development Administration
United Fund Campaign Reaches $28000 in Aiken County
The Aiken County United Fund shows about 1 percent of its $278,152 goal raised, through advanced gifts from industries and firms and agency meetings. Executive director J Lindsey Alley announced the progress and that the next board meeting will be in December. He also confirmed the October 7 Loretta Lynn Day for the United Way.
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United Fund
Aiken County
J.lindsey Alley
Alley
United Way
Experts Clash Over Radiation Risks in South Carolina Hearing
Dr. Ernest Sternglass of the University of Pittsburgh claimed higher infant mortality near nuclear plants due to low-level radiation. Dr. Cade Moeller of Harvard and the Health Physics Society condemned the assertions as bunk and pseudo science. The panel, formed to examine Savannah River and Barnwell facilities, heard witnesses on fetal sensitivity to radiation and economic tradeoffs for near-site communities.
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Ernest J. Sternglass
University of Pittsburgh
Cade W. Moeller
Harvard School of Public Health
Health Physics Society
Moeller
Bunk
Psuedo
Science
Sternglass
Barnwell County
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Swan Quarter
Beaufort
Atlantic Beach
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Hugh Pate Harris
Citadel
Stathy Verenes of
State Development Board
Atomic Energy Commission
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