Yacht quote and color jokes thread through county manners
The passage notes a yacht owner joking about building a 50 foot longer vessel and remarks on Aiken County’s new green and white color scheme. It also mentions a county building inspector John Nixon introduced by William Coleman, with a Watergate reference.
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William Levitt
Levittown
South Carolina
Aiken County
Ron LaCouture
John Nixon
William Coleman
Coleman
Watergate
Senators to speed up Watergate hearings
The Senate Watergate committee will compress the remaining hearings into six weeks from Sept 24 to Nov 1. It will call only key witnesses to finish investigations into wiretapping, cover-up, campaign financing, and political sabotage, rejecting separate subcommittees for TV coverage.
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Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
Blacks killed, nine wounded in South Africa mine clash
In Carltonville, police fired on striking black mine workers after wage demands were refused. Eleven were killed and nine wounded, another was hacked to death by the crowd. Officials cited tribal enmities and compared the incident to the Sharpeville massacre of 1960.
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Carltonville
South Africa
Johannesburg
T. J. Crous
Sharpeville
Skylab astronauts test space welding and metal melting
Space manufacturing tests aboard Skylab show astronauts can assemble large structures in space. Jack H. Waite, chief of Skylab experiments, reports metals melting experiments are proceeding well and pleased mission control scientists.
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Space Center
Houston
Skylab
Mission Control Sci
Entist
Jack H. Waite
Newsmen
Charges Dropped in AIM Case
U.S. magistrate said assault charges against American Indian Movement leader Carter Camp were dropped in the shooting of fellow AIM official Clyde Bellecourt on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
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Sioux Falls
Carter Camp
AIM
U.S
Camp
Clyde Bellecourt
Rosebud
South Dakota
Laos Reds Reach Accord for Coalition Government
Laotian government and Pathet Lao representatives initialled a political peace agreement to form a coalition government. The pact, reached after seven months of talks, calls for all foreign forces to leave within 60 days of signing and follows a February cease-fire and a prior political accord.
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Vientiane, Laos
Pathet Lao
Laos
Souvanna Phouma
Vientiane
Fighting intensifies in Cambodia near Kompong Cham
Civil conflict rages as house to house fighting continues in Kompong Cham while Cambodian army says it has gained ground on the town's northern and southern edges about 47 miles northeast of Phnom Penh.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Kompong Cham
Cam
U.S. Forces Begin Phase One of SEA Withdrawal
In Bangkok AP reports twelve U S bombers and ten KC135 tankers left Thailand today as the first phase of removing American aircraft from Southeast Asia. About 110 planes and over 3,500 troops are to depart in two weeks leaving more than 300 planes and just under 40,000 men.
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Bangkok
Thailand
U. S
United States
Southeast Asia
UAW and Chrysler Make Progress Ahead of Strike Deadline
With the strike deadline under three days away, Chrysler and the UAW reported progress after 12 hours of talks. For the first time since July 18 negotiations began, the union announced agreement on some issues amid intensive bargaining.
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UAW
Nixon claims gains in drug fight
President Nixon told a Washington conference on treatment for drug abusers that the administration has "turned the corner on drug addiction in the United States" and that the numbers and statistics are beginning to be better.
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Nixon
Washington
United States
Gulf United Executives Planned Visit to Aiken for HQ Move
Gulf United Nuclear Fuels Corp leaders and spouses will fly charter from Westchester to Aiken for a three day visit the last two weekends of the month. Officials say a move of Gulf United headquarters from New York to Aiken seems likely within about three months. The group will tour briefings and sights while staying Friday and Saturday nights and returning Sunday afternoon. A 10.6 acre site by the Aiken bypass near USC Aiken is under option with a 40,000 square foot building planned.
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Gulf United Nuclear Fuels Corp
Aiken
New York
Gulf United
Gulf Oil Corp
Southern Airlines
Westchester
N.Y
University of South Carolina At
County Stockade Closes as Inmates Transfer to Columbia
Aiken County closes its stockade after decades of operation. Ten of twelve inmates moved by bus to Columbia to the Reception and Evaluation Center, one short term prisoner remains in county jail, and another awaiting parole. Guards will be retained until Oct. 1 when state oversight begins.
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Aiken County Stockade
Columbia
Aiken County
Ronald la Couture
County to hire Tribrook Group for hospital study
Aiken County commissioners preliminarily approve hiring Tribrook Group of Oakwood Ill for an $1800 study on hospital options. The firm should take three to four days and deliver by Sept 28 to determine private or public hospital viability and location.
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Aiken County
Hospital Board of Trustees
Ralph Cullinan
Tribrook Group
Oakwood
Ill
Cullinan
Chile's new rulers face street opposition and snipers
The Associated Press reports Chile’s new military rulers meet street resistance after the coup that toppled President Salvador Allende. Radio broadcasts controlled by the junta claim Santiago is paralyzed and troops patrol streets calling on residents to stay indoors unless authorized.
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Associated Press
Chile
Salvador Allende
Allende
Econo
Santiago
Argentina
Aiken Area Weather Forecast Amid Showers Likely
The Aiken forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and upper 80s today with a 20 percent rain chance. Tonight remains mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thundershowers and lows in the mid 60s. Tomorrow brings clouds and rain or showers at 70 percent with mid 80s highs. Winds vary 5 to 16 mph, dipping to 5 mph tonight, and the outlook shows widely scattered showers into Sunday with low 80s Friday and near 90s Sunday.
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Aiken
North Augusta residents fill ARTS hearing at Jaycee Center
More than 150 people from Belvedere and North Augusta attend a public ARTS hearing led by George Nelson. Attorney D Landrum Harrison contends the ARTS map has no legal status and warns that adoption by any body would be meaningless.
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North Augusta
North Augustans
Jaycee
Augusta
George Nelson
Belvedere
D. Landrum Harrison
Hospital consultants hired amid briefing on ordinance timing
The article notes voting on hiring consultants for a survey project tied to an ordinance requiring two readings and newspaper advertisement. Costs could exceed 256 dollars per day if seven days are used. Hewitt and Rover were hired by the Aiken County Hospital Board in 1972 to complete a 90 to 120 day study.
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Warner
Wade Brodie
Larry Murphy
Cullinan
Jo Ann Price
Harold Graybeal
Edwin Farmer
Hewitt and Rover
Aiken County Hospital Board of Trustees
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