Hightower backs county council in Rock Hill talks
Willar Hightower, candidate for Seat Six, argues a proposed county council advances progress and fiscal accountability citing grand jury and audit concerns. He urges strengthened planning for sewer, medical service, recreation and long range goals as part of Home Rule reforms amid campaign events in Belvedere and Wagener. Ralph Cullinan opposes him. Don Maxwell speaks as unopposed council chairman candidate.
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Willar Hightower
Rock Hill Association
Hightower
Iteville Community Group
Sharon Baptist Church
Wagener
Seat Six
Ralph Cullinan
Aiken
Don Maxwell
Guy C. Heyl Jr
TWA and union reach agreement in principle
The Trans World Airlines and the Transport Workers Union reached an agreement in principle early today as the National Mediation Board announced. Pickets at major airports were to be withdrawn at 7:00 a.m. EDT two hours after the settlement. Mediator Francis A. O’Neill said the pact awaits ratification by striking stewardesses and pursers and final language will be drafted later.
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Washington
Trans World Airlines
Transport Workers Union
National Mediation Board
Francis A. O'Neill
Saigon Considers Unilateral Cease-Fire Before Month's End
Speculation rose in Saigon that the United States and the Saigon government might declare a one sided cease fire in South Vietnam by month end. Indications suggested South Vietnam was preparing for a unilateral truce.
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Saigon
United States
South Vietnam
Calico Cat Wins Auction Attention on Market Street
A female calico named Wino lived in a shuttered Market Street building in San Francisco drawing sympathy from local businesspeople who fed it through the door. SPCA workers tried to rescue it as the cat appeared to be well cared for and unwilling to leave. An auction was held to place it as a pet, but no bidders appeared at the scheduled time.
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SAN Francisco
Market Street
SPCA
Ray Minton
Leary Arrives in Algeria Seeks Asylum with Panthers
AP reports fugitive Timothy Leary reached Algiers with wife Rosemary and was granted political asylum. Leary, who escaped a California prison in 1965 for marijuana possession, plans to reside and work for the Black Panther party in Algiers as the Yippies confirm he is alive and well there.
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Algiers
Timothy Leary
Algeria
Black Panther Party
Rosemary
Yippies
Youth International Party
New York
Harvard
Army rests case in My Lai soldier trial at Fort Hood
S Sgt David Mitchell, the first American soldier tried over My Lai, had his case rested after only three witnesses. The court martial paused until today to decide if defense testimony will begin, with Mitchell facing charges of assault with intent to murder for allegedly firing on 30 South Vietnamese civilians during a March 16 1968 sweep in My Lai 4.
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FT. Hood, Tex
David Mitchell
My Lai
Mitchell
Ossie
St. Francisville
Drug Samples Destroyed in Salt Lake City
A physician supervised the destruction of thousands of drug samples to prevent misuse. Three large cartons of pills including amphetamines and barbiturates were burned under Salt Lake County sheriff's deputies Tuesday.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
Picketing Eileen Gibbons Shows Support for Police in Boston
Eileen Gibbons led about 20 neighborhood women in a brief demonstration before Boston Police Station 10 to honor police and firefighters. Officers interrupted to shake her hand as the small protest lasted only a few minutes.
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Boston
Eileen Gibbons
Morton backs Agnew renomination for 1972 and presidency
Republican National Chairman Rogers C. B. Morton told a Baltimore fundraising crowd that Spiro T. Agnew should be renominated for vice president in 1972 and nominated for the presidency four years later. He praised Agnew as a key contributor to the United States while appearing with Agnew beside Maryland’s underdog GOP candidates for governor and U.S. senator.
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Rogers C. B. Morton
Spiro T. Agnew
Morton
Republi
GOP
Maryland
Agnew
U.S
Allied forces claim Viet Cong losses in Da Nang push
In two days of a new campaign south of Da Nang Allied forces report 163 Viet Cong killed, 20 captured, and 28 defectors, while Mekong Delta mortar barrages hit a U S Navy base. One American died, over 10 wounded, and seven Vietnamese sailors plus eight civilians wounded.
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da Nang
U. S
South Vietnam
Mekong
U.S
Quang Tin Province
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Tak Khieang
Nixon presses peace plan to win Senate support
President Nixon campaigned in Indiana and Tennessee urging voters to elect Republicans to back his Southeast Asia plan. He said the policy aims to end the war and bring troops home, urging stronger GOP Senate and House backing as rain-soaked crowds cheered at Fort Wayne and East Tennessee State University.
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Nixon
Southeast Asia
Senate
Fort Wayne
Ind
White House
Souvanna Phouma
Laos
United States
United Nations
South
Midwest
Indiana
Richard L. Roudebush
Vance Hartke
Fort Wayne Coliseum
House
Two Aiken Men Face Housebreaking and Grand Larceny Charges
Police say two men, Benjamin Daniels and Billy Burkhalter, are charged with housebreaking and grand larceny for April 6 1970 break ins at Hampton Avenue and Barnwell Avenue sites including a TV set and two typewriters. A fifth man is sought and a fugitive warrant exists for Billy Burkhalter.
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Aiken
Max Meek
Benjamin Daniels
Florence Street
Daniels
Eliza Lee Burkhalter
Chesterfield Street
Hampton Avenue
Meek
Billy Burkhalter
Aiken Industrial Education Center
Barnwell Avenue
Lewis Ashley
Clarence Whetstone Dies In Columbia
Clarence T. Whetstone 95 of Salley died Tuesday night at a Columbia hospital after illness. He served as District 3 road commissioner since 1941, representing eastern Aiken County. Surviving: son Hugh, daughters Eula Cato, Onie Boles, Ednaton. 14 grandchildren. six great grandchildren. Funeral 5 p.m. Thursday at Clinton United Methodist Church. grandsons pallbearers. honorary pallbearers include church groups, county officials, and district employees.
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Eula Cato
Monetta
Onie Boles
Salley
Ednaton
Charleston
Clinton United Methodist Church
Perry
Methodist Mews Club
Aiken County
Boles
Baughman
Wagener
Californium Loans Announced By AEC
The Atomic Energy Commission announced three new contracts for loan of Californium-252 to private firms and public institutions. Recipients include the U S Department of Agriculture Sedimentation Laboratory at Oxford Mississippi Kansas State University at Manhattan and the University of Cincinnati Ohio. The loans support soil moisture and density measurements protein analysis in grains electronic materials dosimetry and radiobiology studies and medical research.
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Atomic Energy Commission
United States
US. Department of Agriculture Sedimentation Laboratory
Oxford
Miss
Kansas State University
Manhattan
University of Cincinnati
Ohio
U.S. Department of Agriculture Sedimentation Laboratory
Commission
Savannah River Operations Office
Savannah River Laboratory
du Pont Company
Iraqi Troops Start Leaving Jordan After 1967 War
About 12 000 Iraqi soldiers stationed in Jordan since the 1967 war are withdrawing and will be out by Thursday night. Jordanian troops border the withdrawal and report attempts by Iraqis to pack equipment for home were blocked. King Hussein and Prime Minister Toukat had pressed for departure amid a Baath leadership rift and strained Iraqi-Syrian relations.
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Jordan
Middle East
Hussein
Ahmed Toukat
Iraq
Baath Party
Israel
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State Development Board
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