Game Cocks Tour Sparks USC Fan Travel
USC fans from across the state charter a large silver bird for a nine day excursion to visit Paris and London, with notable members including Rufus Gosnell Bill Lott Leonard Browder and Judge Charles Simons and Betsy Thurlow abroad in Germany. Public Safety Director J C Busbee plans to attend an international chiefs meeting in Salt Lake City. Belvedere Jaycee reports POW bracelets sold to support Voices In Volunteer Action.
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Paris
London
USC
Aiken
Rufus Gosnell
Bill Lott
Leonard Browder
Charles Simons
J.C. Busbee
International Association of Police Chiefs
Salt Lake City
Utah
Busbee
Belvedere Jaycee Pickens Redd
Jaycees
Muskie cites espionage incidents in campaign
Senator Edmund Muskie describes an astonishing series of alleged espionage and sabotage incidents during his Democratic presidential bid. He avoids naming suspects but hints Republicans may be responsible and cautions he may sue the Committee for the Re election of the President and White House officials linked in reports.
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Washington
Sen
Edmund
Muskie
Maine Democrat
Gested
Committee
White House
Nixon Receives Kissinger Briefing On Vietnam Talks
President Nixon met with Henry Kissinger at the White House for a breakfast briefing as the administration remained silent on progress from Kissinger's intensive Paris negotiations to end the Vietnam War. Also present were Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr.
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Washington
Nixon
Henry A. Kissinger
Paris
White House
Kissinger
William P. Rogers
National Security Council
Gen
Alexander M. Haig Jr
North Vietnamese capture Ben Het border camp
North Vietnamese forces overran the Ben Het border camp in the central highlands after a two day attack. South Vietnamese troops were driven from the camp for the first time in the war signaling a renewed offensive in the highlands.
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Saigon
Ben Het
Central Highlands
Highlands
Senate mulls revenue sharing vote for states
The Senate tentatively schedules a vote on a bill to send 2.65 billion dollars as the first installment of a 30 billion revenue sharing program. If passed, President Nixon is expected to sign, releasing funds to states.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
Nixon greeted by 700000 in Atlanta parade
President Nixon completed a confetti filled campaign swing in the South to a heavy crowds in Atlanta. Police estimated up to 700000 people lined Peachtree Street as Nixon rode by. McGovern criticized Nixon's Vietnam policies at a university crowd earlier. Nixon then returned to Washington on Thursday night after the six hour visit.
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Associated Press
Nixon
South
George McGovern
Atlanta
Peachtree Street
White House
Chamber seeks study on Savannah River water traffic
The Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce asks the South Carolina Ports Authority to study potential benefits of regular river traffic for Aiken and nearby counties. Augusta Port Authority plans river-improving steps and has invited shippers to a hearing in Augusta at 3 p.m. Thursday.
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Greater Aiken
Augusta
Aiken Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
CSRA
Chambers
Business and Professional Woman's Club
Carl Littlejohn
Aiken County Drug Cases Highlight Local Crisis
Aiken County General Sessions October term ended with a wave of drug cases and a powerful editorial condemning drug abuse. Judges say parents suffer as they pay fines while spectators witness the tragedy, underscoring a countywide drug problem highlighted by the Riverside Inn raid.
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Aiken County
Louis Rosen
Riverside Inn
Former Director Testimony in Turner Securities Trial
William F. Humphries testified about the Dare To Be Great program as prosecutors seek to label it a security. He described the lure of earning up to 40 000 annually by encouraging investors to borrow and “fake it till you make it.” Humphries, 23, a former Tampa Bay area director, was dropped as a co defendant after agreeing to testify. Turner faces 86 counts of selling unregistered securities and failure to register as a dealer.
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Clearwater, Fla
Orlando
Glenn W. Turner
William F. Humphries
Tampa Bay Area
Florida
Turner
Humphries
University of South Florida
Dare
Slight Chance Of Rain Forecast For Weekend Outlook
The forecast from the U.S. Weather Bureau shows a slight chance of rain with partly cloudy skies. Highs near 80 and lows in the lower 50s, with 10 percent rain tonight and 20 percent tomorrow.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Aiken County Fair Opens Monday With Family Days
The Fourth Annual Jaycee County Fair starts Monday night at the Whiskey Road Driving Range. Gates open at 6 p.m. with a ribbon cutting at 8 p.m. Rep. W. J. Bryan will officiate. The fair runs through Saturday October 21 with different hours for each day and more than 25 local exhibitors plus arts and crafts judging.
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Susan Schubert
Jaycee County
Whiskey Road
W.J. Bryan Dorn
Manning
Ily
Aiken
Blood donors rally for Gary Jerrell in Belvedere
Belvedere residents lined up at a blood drive to aid Gary Royce Jerrell who remains critically wounded after the August shootings of two North Augusta teenagers. Bloodmobile chairman Jim Lynder reports about 80 percent donor turnout.
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Judy Rich
Belvedere
Gary Royce Jerrell
North Augusta
Gary Jerrell
Belvedere Bloodmobile
Jim Lynder
Amateurs Use Unique Ham Radio Lingo and Codes
Lewis Carroll and Elmer Todd, Aiken residents, are part of about 280000 U.S. ham radio operators. They speak in a private radio language, call their stations with signals like W4SPJ, and use terms such as CQ and 88 for love and 73 for goodbye. They describe gear costs from under $100 to high towers, and have talked to people in over 100 countries.
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Susan Schubert
Lewis Carroll
Elmer Todd
Todd
Todd and
Carroll
Bright Is Charged In Defeating Passing Case
Sidney Bright of North Augusta, 19, is sentenced to nine years for incident and battery of a high and aggravated nature in a March 6 1972 crime involving Rosa Miller an 80 year old North Augusta woman found beaten in her home Aiken County sheriff investigators Woodrow Wilson and Ben Willis led the inquiry Bright is jailed in Aiken County pending further actions.
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Louis Rosen
Sidney Bright
North Augusta
Aiken County
Bright
Miller
Woodrow Wilson
Ben Willis
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