Bonds Forfeitures Hit Aiken County Court Rooms
General Sessions Court ordered area bondsmen to pay nearly 7000 in forfeitures for failing to produce defendants to trial. E B Waites faced 2350 for eight no shows and faces a six month stay to produce two more defendants or risk full entreatment. Most bondsmen lost parts of bonds ranging from 500 to 2000 as entreatment hearings filled the morning. Judge Peeples urged accountability for missed appearances and speedy trials.
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Aiken County
General Sessions Court
E.B. Waites
Waites
Rodney A. Peeples
Peeples
George Anderson
C. LaVaun Fox
Anderson
Kneece Found Guilty In Theft
The second defendant in a burglary and grand larceny case was found guilty on one count in General Sessions Court yesterday. Howard Kneece, with a lengthy prison record, was sentenced to ten more years.
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General Sessions
Howard Kneece
Kneece
James Arnold Dyches
Pressure Grows to Name Juan Carlos Spain’s Chief of State
Madrid reports rising calls for Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon to become chief of state as Generalissimo Franco lingers. A midday bulletin notes the 82 year old’s fever subsided and blood pressure and rhythm stabilized, though intestinal hemorrhaging continues amid gravity.
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Madrid
Spain
Juan Carlos de Borbon
Francisco Franco
Franco
Mrs Moore Paid Informant in Hearst Plot to Find Daughter
Mrs. Moore 45 faced arraignment on a federal grand jury indictment charging her with attempting to assassinate President Ford on Sept 22. She was on Randolph Hearst payroll in 1974 hoping to aid his search for his daughter Patricia Hearst while FBI paid her to report on radicals.
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San Francisco
Sara Jane Moore
Randolph Hearst
Rolling Stone
Patricia Hearst
Mrs. Moore
Ford
Hearst
Quinlan case appeal planned in New Jersey
In Morristown New Jersey the Karen Ann Quinlan guardianship case nears a decision after two weeks. Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr will weigh complex medical testimony before ruling. Attorneys expect an appeal regardless of the outcome and Coburn predicts a Supreme Court step.
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Morristown
Karen Anne Quinlan
Robert Muir Jr
Muir
Quinlans
U.S. Supreme Court
Daniel R. Coburn
Miss Quinlan
NOW Conference Ends With Mandate For Lesbian Rights
The National Organization for Women wrapped its eighth national conference in Philadelphia with leaders urged to push for lesbians' rights, the Equal Rights Amendment and full employment. Liberal Majority Caucus won 24 of 34 vacant board posts, including reelecting Karen DeCrow as president amid internal disputes.
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Philadelphia
National Organization For Women
Karen
Local residents share garden produce and art class anecdotes
Richard Przybysz earns modest praise for a painting kept in a closet as a friend notes it hangs over his bed. A Bicentennial celebration at John Town Memorial Park is misreported as a Playhouse opening. Aiken County grows produce with several large sweet potatoes and an orange tree with 300 oranges. Local couples in Edgefield and New Ellenton report plants and decorations from home gardens.
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Richard Przybysz
Bessie Lee Garvin
John Town Memorial Park
Aiken County
Playhouse
Aiken Standard
Aiken
Dan Henderson
Shady Lane
Edgefield County
A. M. Hudson
Trolley Line Rd
Rain Likely This Week With Scattered Showers
Rain chance rises from near zero tonight to ten percent tomorrow and increases later in the week. The three day outlook calls for variable clouds with showers Thursday and Friday, then partly cloudy and cooler Saturday. Highs near 80 today and tomorrow, cooling into the mid 60s by Saturday with lows from the 50s to 40s.
Stables Approved Despite Neighborhood Objections
City council approved plans for the McCormicks to build 1.8 acres of stables near Banks Mill Road under R-1 zoning. The decision followed debates over odor and residential impact, with neighbors led by David G. Karraker opposing the project. The McCormicks argued the area already features a horse training track and that the plan suits family needs.
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Lin Smithwick
Sherwood Place
Mac’’ McCormick
McCormick's
Banks Mill Road
McCormicks
David G. Karraker
McCormick
Lebanon violence erupts as Parliament evacuated by armored cars
In Beirut Moslem and Christian gunmen battled around the Parliament and major hotels as Christians fought to dislodge snipers. The 500 room Holiday Inn burned. U S officials and families fled to a seaside hotel and then to the airport. A nine man cease fire group was formed while a larger reconciliation committee failed to stop the fighting.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Pierre Gemayel
Christian Phalange Party
Rashid Karami
Holiday Inn
Associated Press
Aly Mahmoud
U.S
Christian Phalangist
Mour
Qantari
Prelude To Be Held Saturday in Aiken Bi centennial Flag Ceremony
Aiken hosts a Prelude to 1776 on Laurens Street at 7 30 p.m. with Robert Clyburn as Edward Rutledge and Bruce Hancock as Joseph Hewes. C. Marshall Cain will MC as the ceremony culminates with presenting the flag to Mayor H Odell Weeks. The event precedes the November run of the Broadway musical at the Aiken Community Playhouse.
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Aiken
Laurens Street
H. Odell
Robert Clyburn
Edward Rutledge
South Carolina
Continental Congress
Clyburn
Rutledge
Aiken Community Playhouse
C. Marshall Cain
Bruce Hancock
Joseph Hewes
North Carolina
Joseph Harris
Holley Hardware
Helicopter Repair Bidding Rules Questioned in 1974 Act
Officials dispute bidding on $75,000 repair work for three donated helicopters. The project began before the 1974 Appropriations Act and its applicability to repair bids is unclear. Eagle Aviation was awarded the contract without three bids amid questions from Comptroller General Mills and Aeronautics Commission head Hamilton. The Georgia Air Guard delivered the first surplus helicopters in May 1974.
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Eric Higgs
S.C. Aeronautics Commission
State Comptroller General's Office
Eagle Aviation, Inc
Aiken
Eagle Aviation
Michael L. Laughlin
D.aiken
John H. Mills
Mills
Budget and Control Board
The
Aeronautics Commission
John W. Hamilton
John C. West
Georgia Air Guard
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