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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1973
Page
4
Aiken County Board member Jo Ann Price spoke to the Aiken Rotary Club on private versus county hospital operation. The piece argues against a referendum delaying hospital decisions and urges better health care, more physicians, and modern facilities for Aiken Countians.
A survey of government workers finds they feel overworked and underpaid, challenging the idea that bureaucrats are different. The public’s memory of Watergate is fading, suggesting politicians may not gain lasting honesty from the scandal.
Samuel A. Cothran serves as president and editor while Robert D. Cathcart is named executive editor in a 1973 leadership update for the Aiken newspaper.
The New York Sun reports a mob stormed the Aiken jail at dawn October 8 1925 seizing Demon and Bertha Lowman and their cousin Clarence killing them with a pine knot. They had been on trial for Sheriff H H Howard’s murder and one had just been acquitted.
Billy Graham notes the conflict when a church shifts from a long serving elder to a younger pastor. He urges supporters to welcome the new leader, pray, and show loyalty, while acknowledging the risk of division and the value of the elderly minister's decades of service. He asks what Jesus would do in such a situation.
The text extols positive thanking as a source of radiant happiness. Gratitude acts as the clutch connecting people to life’s moving power, aligning us with reality and others. It contrasts grateful, service-minded living with self-centered anxiety, urging helpful, meaningful actions.
The Aiken Standard invites letters for publication. Letters must be signed with the writer's address. Anonymous communications will not be considered. Pen names are not permitted. Letters should be legible and may be edited for space clarity taste and libel.
In Jacksonville a former vice president for Glenn W. Turner founded firms testifies that about 1.5 million dollars in Canadian sales yielded only half that amount delivered. William C. Sant reports chaos in Dare to the Great and Koscot records seized by Quebec police as the mail fraud trial unfolds.
Senate Judiciary Chair Marion Gressette doubts the House reapportionment bill can survive federal court and Justice Department review. He plans a committee bill within days and may adjust in light of possible changes by the full Senate. Testimony was set for today with Reps Julius Baggett and George Dean Johnson attending.
The Associated Press reports a continued rise in grocery costs with the October market basket up nearly 9 percent from March. Milk sugar butter cookies pushed totals higher while pork chops and eggs declined. beef prices steadied after the freeze ended, and prices varied across 13 cities.
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