Questioning Ethics Casts Shadow On Texas Officials Moonlighting
Ray Harris renews ethical concerns over A Wade Martin and TEC staff moonlighting for outside groups. Officials argue work occurred off state time with dividends to South Carolina. Martin led a leave of absence forming a consulting firm earning 313,669 dollars from Ozarks and Coastal Plains commissions. Gov. McNair and TEC chair deny state-time use and political motive.
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TEC
A.wade Martin
Ray Harris
Harris
Martin
State Development Board
Texas
sOzarks Regional Commission
Yown Coastal Plains
South Carolina
Smith
J. Bonner Manley
New State Development Board
Ozarks
Coastal Plains
Toasts and ribbing mark tribute to Rep Rivers at Air Force luncheon
At a South Carolina event honoring Rep L Mendel Rivers the House Armed Services chair the crowd praised him while notable figures including Vice President Agnew and other senators lobbed light taunts. The piece notes McNair staff did most work on a Coastal Plains project paid 99000 and argues for tighter state laws to curb moonlighting by state employees or unpaid policy board members.
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Air Force Association
Rep
L. Mendel Rivers
House Armed Services Committee
Agnew
Seneh
McNair
Coastal Plains
Martin
Harris
TEC
Smith and McNair
South Carolina
General Assembly
HOUSE
Senate
Washington, D.C
Capitol
If Johnson And Nixon Had Sons
A reflection on how private personal factors shape public decision making. The piece notes Congress passed a tough crime bill with wide majorities, spurred by neighborhood crime fears and public outrage. It questions how leaders’ private lives influence national policy and war decisions.
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God
Johnson
Nixon
A Cure For Violence Proposed By Holmes Alexander
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s noble savage idea is questioned as a cause of student violence and radical groups. Holmes Alexander cites Edward Bloomberg’s Student Violence and contrasts it with Heard Commission crime theories. Notable responses from Hardin Jones, Ernest Wilkinson, and Maurice Cranston challenge campus unrest cures.
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Holmes Alexander
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Students For A Democratic Society
Black Panthers
Edward Bloomberg
University of California
Washington
Bloomberg
Presidential Commission
Alexander Heard
Vietnam
Cambodia
Spiro Agnew
Hardin Jones
University of California At Berkley
Heard
Ernest Wilkinson
Brigham Young University
Maurice’ Cranston
London
Harvard
Japan
France
England
Rousseau
Napoleon
Lenin
Stalin
Commonwealth
Nixon
Demise Of A Home And Aime: A Chronicle Of Aiken History
A narrative blends social critique on campus radicals and riots with a local history of an early 1900s Aiken home. It recounts demolition near St Pauls Lutheran Church, the McCreary family ties to Laurens Street, and a Sherman Army camping-ground tale featuring a protective gander and a brave miss.
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Aiken
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Laurens Street
Robert McCreary
Louise Abercrombie
Alabama
Ernest McCreary
Lucille
Pauline Shuler
St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Wilbur Driver
Williston
White Pond
G.L. Toole
Aiken County
McCreary
Sherman
Miss Dora
Chester
Hamburg
Charleston
Letter to the Editor on Bible version controversy
A reader criticizes the Carolina Baptist Fellowship and the Christian Action Council for promoting the Today’s English Version Good News for Modern Man Bible. The letter argues the Bible challenges key Christian doctrines and condemns official state endorsement of the new edition. The author notes support from influential local figures.
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Carolina Baptist Fellowship
Sion
Our State
Christian Action Council
Southern Baptist Convention
South Carolina
Controversy Over Bible Version Draws South Carolina Pastor’s Critique
E Wayne Wall of Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle in West Columbia questions state endorsement of a new Bible version. He warns such action could pressure churches and threaten religious freedom, urging citizens to oppose what he calls an unacceptable theological bias.
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South Carolina
E. Wayne Wall
Metropolitan Baptist Tabernacle
West Columbia
S.C
Humility and Self surrender in Christian Teaching
The piece explores humility as a difficult virtue and contrasts human pride with scriptural guidance. It cites Christian calls to humble oneself before God and to yield to divine will, noting humility as a practice of submission rather than a gift.
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Christ
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