Aiken Standard Executive Leadership Note
The Aiken Standard lists Samuel A. Cothran as President and Editor with Robert D. Cathcart as Executive Editor.
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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1975
Page
4
The Aiken Standard lists Samuel A. Cothran as President and Editor with Robert D. Cathcart as Executive Editor.
A visitor might see riots over school integration in Boston and Louisville as hypocrisy, but the piece argues momentum toward racial equality exists. It cautions that forced busing risks resegregation, urges legal reform and better school funding, and calls for jurists and educators to resolve issues without street action.
Extension agent Ken Wisner explains research on adding chopped old newspapers at 300 pounds per ton to alfalfa silage. Fermentation appears good and studies track consumption, weight gain, digestibility, protein balance and residue risk while newspaper costs about 3 dollars per ton.
A May decline in welfare rolls and cash payments suggests modest economic improvement. Yet the Social Security Administration reports overpayments under the welfare program totaling 461 million dollars, possibly reaching 800 million with current error screening, a figure likely to influence future welfare expansion debate.
A regional official found 12 commune members reporting $926 monthly income for nine claimed children yet totaling over $2,500 monthly actual income. They used stamps to buy drugs while non stamp income remained unregulated. The Washington Star cites a $797 million overpayment in a year and calls for reform.
Billy Graham argues that biblical leadership in the home remains, even as modern roles broaden. He cites Genesis and Ephesians to defend the husband as head while acknowledging new expressions, then shifts to critique and analyze food stamp program inefficiencies and bureaucratic failings highlighted by coverage of Agriculture and government officials.
West Europe, long protected from the Bear, fears U S intelligence may be hamstrung by Congress and open scrutiny. The piece notes Church and Pike probing CIA powers, possible transfer of espionage authority, budget openness, and European worry over KGB leverage. It cites Safeguard debates and SALT shaping future covert ops.
A critical piece argues Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana leans heavily on AFL CIO support shaping the 1976 Democratic race. It contends Big Labor finances campaigns and operation, raising fears that Bayh would trade democratic representation for union interests and threaten representative government.
Edmund Burke, a British MP sympathetic to the American cause, notes the colonies are in rebellion and have already done much, requiring further actions to address the situation. The excerpt reflects tensions between Britain and the American colonies during the era.
200 years ago a Royal Stuart, Capt John Stuart, came to Charles Town in 1748 and became a key ally to the Indians. By 1762 he was King George's Superintendent for Indian Affairs and earned lasting friendships with Attakullakulla and Col Bull. A brave, charming figure, he influenced treaty observance until the Revolution amid frontier conflicts at a Tennessee River fort.
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