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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1969
Page
4
The editorial urges a legislative investigation into grocery store and service station giveaways. It argues these contests raise prices for all consumers, may be rigged, and should be banned to curb inflation and protect the public. It urges the General Assembly to target such contests.
Hebron Nebraska police adopt full color flag insignia on uniforms joining a growing national push seen first in Macon Georgia. The move sparks support noting police symbolize freedom and protection while officials cite public reminders of law and order and civic unity across many communities.
Arthur Hoppe critiques a society that worships Security as a god amid abundance, depicting citizens who labor and sacrifice for safety, wealth, and status yet grow anxious about loss. The piece ends with a cautionary Moral that Security is fine until it becomes all consuming.
A veteran columnist recalls a career amid Washington insiders and postwar power shifts. He lists key figures from Truman to Kennedy and Nixon, notes Higgins with James Eastland, and recounts bridges built across party lines, including exchanges with Kennedy and Johnson.
CIA agents report Mao's regime completed a second H-bomb production site at Paotow in Suiyuan near Lanchow. The complex uses underground, windowless buildings and robots, plus foreign suppliers, to support a growing nuclear and missile program with potential reach to Hawaii and the U S Pacific coast within a few years.
Samuel A. Cothran, president and editor, leads the Aiken Standard of Aiken South Carolina in the Friday September 12 1969 issue. Executive editor duties are highlighted on page four.
The Small Business Administration expands investigations staff by 50 percent and tightens loan rules after disclosures of mafia linked loans. New measures include mandatory past felony disclosures for applicants and early name checks with the Justice Department.
The author links chronic worry to spiritual drift and urges reconciliation with God. The best cure is accepting Christ and adopting the mind of Christ to free the mind from anxiety, since worry chokes prayer and faith and hinders access to God.
Washington AP reports the Nixon administration reached a out of court settlement in a civil antitrust suit against General Motors Ford Chrysler and American Motors and the Automotive Manufacturers Association. The proposed consent decree bars conspiracies to delay pollution control device installation and would take effect after 30 days approval. The suit, filed January 10 by Ramsey Clark, faced opposition from 18 House Democrats and possible intervention from lawyer John Banzhaf III.
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