Aiken Plans Push to Free City From Rail Bottleneck
Aiken chronicles decades of railroad troubles stemming from the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company line to Warrenville. City officials describe the track as a bottleneck harming storm drainage and downtown flooding. The article notes boxcar problems, disputed right of way, and stalled paving efforts amid a long tussle with railroad management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken
Warrenville
Odell Weeks
South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company
South Carolina Public Service Commissions
Railroad
Williamsburg Street
Park Avenue
Orangeburg
Charleston Street
Charles Jones
Japan Will Co sponsor UN China Seat Resolutions
Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda said Japan would co sponsor UN resolutions on the Nationalist China seat but may refrain from co sponsorship. He spoke at a news conference in Tokyo before leading a six man delegation to trade and economic talks with US cabinet members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Takeo Fukuda
Japan
U.N
China
Fukuda
Tokyo
Busing Under Court Order Expands in Mobile and Beyond
The Associated Press reports school integration plans by busing have started in Southern and Midwestern districts under a federal order. Mobile city-county schools, Alabama's largest with about 64 000 pupils, begin half day sessions as roughly 6 300 students are bused across district lines to address racial imbalance.
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Associated Press
Mobile City-County
Alabama
Mobile
Selective Busing Is Appealed In New Orleans Courts
The Justice Department has appealed the Austin Texas school desegregation plan cited by President Nixon in his busing critique. The brief was filed Tuesday with the Fifth U S Circuit Court of Appeals arguing against district wide application.
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New Orleans
Austin, Tex
Nixon
Justice Department
Sanchez named head of OEO to empower poor
Phillip V. Sanchez, chosen by President Nixon to replace Frank Carlucci as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, pledges to give the poor a stronger voice in shaping anti poverty programs. At 41, the Fresno County administrator becomes the third antipoverty director in one year.
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Phillip V. Sanchez
Nixon
Frank Carlucci
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Sanchez
Fresno County
Calif
UPI
U.S. Eyes End to Harassments in Moscow Talks
The United States plans an October mission by Undersecretary of the Navy John W. Warner to Moscow to begin negotiating an end to high seas harassments and related Cold War naval incidents. This would mark the first high-ranking U.S. defense official to meet Soviet authorities there.
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Washington
United States
Pentagon
Moscow
Navy
John
W. Warner
U.S
Medina Trial Resumes Today in My Lai Case
The My Lai murder court martial of Capt. Ernest L. Medina resumes after an 11 day recess as the government nears the end of its case. Only one of 29 prosecution witnesses has tied Medina's command group to multiple shootings during the March 16 1968 assault on the village.
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FT. Mcpherson, Ga
My Lai
Ernest L. Medina
Medina
Peace Feelers Rejected as Northern Ireland Tensions Rise
In Belfast, IRA gunmen threaten a new offensive as British troops face unrest. Bombs injure five at a veterans club factory and a shop while a Newry soldier is shot in the foot. Heath and Lynch fail to agree on ending the bloodshed after summit talks. About 100 lives lost in two years.
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Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Britain
Belfast
Army Veterans Club
Newry
London
Edward Heath
Jack Lynch
Ireland
Maudling Seeks Roundtable on Northern Ireland Catholic Role
British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling invited all sections of Northern Ireland's feuding communities to a roundtable conference to give Catholics an active permanent and guaranteed role in the province. Heath had refused Lynch a direct say in safeguards for Northern Catholics while Lynch refused to join a three way meeting with Brian Faulkner.
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Reginald Maudling
Northern Ireland
Heath
Lynch
Brian Faulkner
Maudling Conference Proposal on Renouncing Violence Rejected
Maudling urged attendees to renounce violence and civil disobedience at the conference. The proposal was rejected by the Social group during the session.
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Maudling
Social
Fire Damages Pickens Street Residence
A fire at the home of Mrs. Christine Harris 1133 Pick ens St was extinguished yesterday at 11 38 a.m by the Aiken Fire Department after neighbors reported smoke from the roof. The house suffered heavy smoke and fire damage, starting in the kitchen. No one was home. cause is undetermined.
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Christine Harris
Pickens St
Aiken
J. Carrell Busbee
Nixon Launches Drive To Support Tax Cuts
President Nixon travels to press his economic package in a joint session address before Congress to back tax cuts amid an inflation fight. House and Senate hearings open with Treasury chief Connally as Mills signals revisions to broaden relief for lower income Americans.
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Nixon
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
92Nd
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
Ways and Means
Wilbur D. Mills
Arkansas
Ways and Means Committee
Trucks Collide Here Injuring Two Drivers on US 1
Early morning crash on US 1 near Kalmia Hill left Odell Locklear of Aiken and Charles Deloach of Sylvania seriously hurt. Locklear, in an Infinger Transportation empty tanker, and Deloach, in a Feedright Milling loaded chicken feed truck, were taken for treatment with Locklear undergoing surgery and Deloach moved to an Augusta hospital. The collision occurred about 3 am as both vehicles traveled east, with fuel oil spilled and the scene washed by the Aiken Fire Department.
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Kalmia Hill
Aiken
Aiken County
Odell D. Locklear
RFD
Charles Deloach
Sylvania Ga
Locklear
Deloach
Augusta
Infinger Transportation Co
Charleston
Loach
Feedright Milling Co
U.S. 1
Aiken Fire Department
Enrollment At USCA Leaps To 677
Enrollment at the University of South Carolina in Aiken rises to 677 students, up nearly 40 percent from last year, with a projection to finish around 682 by the admissions deadline. Resident Director William Casper notes an excellent, well-qualified faculty recruited to meet the higher enrollment.
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USCA
University of South Carolina In
Aiken
William Casper
US forces attack Laotian border area in Saigon drive
SAIGON AP US forces assault from land sea and air to aid a South Vietnamese push toward the Laotian border south of the DMZ. About 10 000 South Vietnamese troops Americans and helicopters hit the area with bombing and naval gunfire as bases and landing zones are prepared near Khe Sanh.
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Saigon
Khe Sanh
Laos
le Trung Hien
Tonkin Gulf
Vietnam
Vandegrift
Highway 9
Dmz
Edith Deepens Into Major Caribbean Hurricane Edith
Hurricane Edith grows rapidly in the Caribbean and is forecast to intensify into a dangerous major storm before landfall. Dr. Robert H. Simpson of the National Hurricane Center warns Edith could be the storm of the year as a powerful system expands across the western Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
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Miami
Fla
Edith
Caribbean
National Hurricane Center
Robert H. Simpson
Center
Fern
Simpson
Gulf of Mexico
Bahamas
Atlantic
Lam San 810 marks reopening of Vandegrift base
U S troops returned to Vandegrift base for Lam San 810 operations, the base reopened for the mission but is largely manned by South Vietnamese troops.
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U.S
Vandegrift
Laos
Lam San
Red China To Fill Void, Lee Asserts
Wilton Lee of the University of South Carolina told the Aiken Jaycees that if the United States withdraws from the Far East Red China will fill the vacuum by political means or indirect war. He argued for a strong military posture and solid trade relations to support U.S. leadership.
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United States
Far East
Red China
University of South Carolina
Riker
Aiken Jaycees
Wilton Lee
USCS
Nixon
People’s Republic of China
Lee
Harry S. Truman
China
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North Ireland
W.J. Bryan Dorn
D-S.c
Johnson
Dorn
Greenwood
Sens
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Muskie
Maine
George McGovern
South Dakota
Hubert H Humphrey
Minnesota
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