Jackson Sets Hobby Fair at Dixie Youth Ball Park
The third annual Southeastern Hobby Fair in Jackson is set for November 3 and 4 at the Dixie Youth Ball Park on Main Street. Gates open at 9 A.M. with free admission and a Saturday night street dance featuring Fiddling Banjo Buck Dance and Early American Costume contests. Prizes will be awarded for contest entries, and dinners of Bar-B-Que chicken and fried fish will be served alongside displays of bottles coins rocks minerals gem stones antiques needlecraft stamps art guns ceramics carving artifacts and more.
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Jackson
Dixie Youth Ball Park
Main Street
Aikenites Attend Maryland Sediment Control Institute
Six South Carolina conservation leaders joined D T Mathis and Tom Moe Elmurray at the Maryland Sediment Control Institute in Montgomery County. They met Bennettsville native Dr Jim Bostic, deputy assistant secretary of Agriculture, in Washington.
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Aiken Conservation District
D.T. Mathis
Tom MoeElmurray
Maryland
Miss South Carolina USA Pageant Opens Applications
North Augusta Optimist Club invites entries for the 1974 Miss South Carolina USA pageant to be held March 24 in North Augusta. Twenty contestants aged 18 to 28 will compete in personality swim suit and evening gown phases with the winner advancing to the Miss USA finals in May. Send applications to Miss South Carolina USA Box 6095 North Augusta S C 29841.
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North Augusta Optimist Club
North Augusta
Millbrook P T A Sponsors Fall Festival
Millbrook P T A hosts a Fall Festival at the school grounds starting 3 30 p m with a Bazaar Booth Bake Sale Country Store games food raffle and more The highlight at 6 45 p m features ten male contestants in Sportswear Talent and Evening Gowns for the Miss Millbrook title Public invited Door prizes will be awarded during the Beauty Pageant
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Millbrook P.T.A
Millbrook
Mrs Gantt Wins Cedar Branch Plaque For Second Year
Mrs. Lucelle Gantt, 74, a Chalk Hill Missionary Church member and wife of Leroy Gantt, earns the Cedar Branch Women's Auxiliary Plaque for two consecutive years. She accepted the plaque quote as her pledge to do justly love mercy and walk humbly with God.
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Lucelle Gantt
Leroy Gantt
Chalk Hill Missionary Church
Cedar Branch Women’s Auxiliary
District Library Association Holds Semi annual Meeting
The District Library Association convened its semi annual meeting last Thursday at LB C with attendees from Williston Eleo Ridge Spring Monetta North Augusta Aiken and other district high schools. Owen Clary Headstart director for Aiken County presented slides about his trip to Australia.
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District Library Association
LBC
Williston-Eleo
Ridge Spring - Monetta
North Augusta
Aiken
Owen Clary
Aiken County
Australia
Children's Choir Presents Drama at Belvedere Church
The Children's Choir of First Baptist Church Belvedere will stage It's Cool In The Furnace at 7 30 p m Sunday. Daniel is played by Bob Hendrix with narration while Rev Clyde Riley portrays King Nebuchadnezzar. Music by children in grades 2 through 7 directed by Clanton Mosley. Public is cordially invited.
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First Baptist Church
Belvedere
Bob Hendrix
Daniel
Clyde Riley
Nebuchadnezzar
Clanton Mosley
Nutrition Program For Aging Planned At J W Cafeteria
Applications are being taken for the Nutrition Program for the Aging to begin in November at the J W Cafeteria. Open to citizens over 60 who have difficulty obtaining or preparing a hot meal daily. Contact Mrs. Sue Jones at 648 8822 or visit the Aiken Area Council on Aging office at 127 Greenville Street in Aiken.
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J&w
Aiken Area
Sue Jones
Edgefield Society To Hold Meeting and Portrait Unveiling
The Edgefield County Historical Society will hold its annual meeting Saturday at 2 30 p m in the Edgefield County Courthouse. A portrait of the late Hon James O Sheppard will be unveiled and tributes paid by Sen Strom Thurmond, William Cothran, N E Brown, and Butler Derrick. A 430 p m reception at Magnolia Dale follows, sponsored by the Woman's League with DAR and UDC help.
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Edgefield County Historical Society
Edgefield County Court House
James O. Sheppard
Sheppard
Strom Thurmond
State Forty
William Cothran
Greenwood
N.E. Brown
Columbia
American Legion
Butler Derrick
House of Representatives
Magnolia Dale
Woman’s League
D.A.R
U.D.C
Eastland Eyes Public Hearings On Cox Firing
Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke to reporters after a closed session. The panel plans public hearings next week into the firing of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox.
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James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Senate Judiciary Committee
Washington
Senate
Archibald Cox
Meyer Says Rate Hike Needed
A New York City investment banker told the Public Service Commission that SCE&G has too small a land subsidiary to affect stockholders or rate payers. He also said the requested rate increases are among the lowest he knows of as the commission continues hearings on 13 percent electricity and 22 percent gas raises.
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Columbia
New York City
Public Service Commission
South Carolina Electric and Gas Co
Eugene Meyer
Meyers
Charles Phillips Jr
Glacier National Park Sets Attendance Record in 1972
The park spanning Alberta and Montana drew 392145 visitors in 1972, 9000 more than 1971, marking a new high for Glacier National Park's annual attendance.
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Lethbridge
Alta
Glacier National Park
Alberta
Montana
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Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Grand Rapids, Mich
Aikenites
Maryland Institute
Messrs
Mathis and McElmurray
G.W. Horton
Pageland
State Land Resources Commission
Chesterfield
Spartanburg Soil and Water Conservation District
Henderson Borders
York District
H. Wayne Beam
S.C. Land Resources Commission
Mrs. Gantt
District Library Group
Edgefield Society
Meyer
Washington and Lee University
Commission
Tappan
Fairfield Street
Moore
Aiken, S.C
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