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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1973
Page
4
The Aiken Standard announces Samuel A. Cothran as President and Editor with Robert D Cathcart serving as Executive Editor in the newspaper dated Wednesday October 10 1973.
The Aiken Standard explains its role in reporting on visits to private hospitals by the Aiken County Board of Commissioners. It clarifies editors aim for objective news, reserve opinion for editorials, and seek to inform readers so they can decide based on facts rather than emotion or politics.
The Save Charleston Foundation appeals to readers nationwide to raise 1.2 million dollars by October 15 to buy a block of old buildings near St. Philip's Church slated for demolition. It urges one million Americans to contribute one dollar each, highlighting editorial support from The Charlotte Observer and The Washington Post.
The South Carolina Highway Department will conduct two special cleanup days across 46 counties to show the high cost of roadside litter. Chief Highway Commissioner Silas N. Pearman notes thousands of dollars and man-hours are spent each year. Officials suggest policy options like Oregon’s bottle and can ban to curb litter and boost reusable containers.
The piece compares Kissinger urging Congress to overlook Russia policy to a fable of two families on a drought island sharing a spring. It questions whether a peaceful nation should intervene in another’s domestic abuse, noting public revulsion without compromising core principles. It argues the United States must avoid hypocrisy while addressing wider threats.
The piece questions when panic measures override rights and good judgment in flood insurance. It reviews the 1968 federal program, the 1972 flood disasters, and the House push for H.R. 8449 while S-1495 stalled, noting Sen Johnston’s efforts for realism and local input.
A reflective meditation on unfinished goals across a lifetime. The speaker lists quirky past ambitions and dreams not yet realized, contrasting them with October’s sense that any effort feels meaningful and worthwhile even small acts like kissing a fallen leaf.
A collage of quips on hard work luck money and daily routines. A jail sentence for drunkenness and a dictionary joke sit alongside Woody Allen on machines and a leap year note about five Sundays in February.
In March 1934 two prominent men died in Aiken. Col Elbert Allen Gibbs, 52, vice president of McClintic Marshall Co Bethlehem Pa, died at the Grace winter home where he was a guest. Oliver Perin, a New York clubman and Aiken winter resident, died after a brief illness. Augustus F Goodwin, longtime First National Store director and Vanderbilt place owner, was killed by a horse at his Hamilton Mass summer home.
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