Aikenites Fight Life Magazine Contention on Land Deals
A Life magazine article this week cites land transactions tied to Sen Strom Thurmond and Federal Judge Charles Simons. Stathy Verenes, an Aiken beer distributor, contests Life's appraisal and questions the propriety of his condemnation testimony. He claims he offered to buy the property before Interstate 20 knowledge and notes industrial interest prior to 1 20 construction.
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Life Magazine
Strom Thurmond
Charles Simons
Stathy J. Verenes
Aiken Beer
South Carolina Development Board
Life
Verenes
Aikenites
Thurmond Thurmond Simons land deal accused as smear
GOP chairman Ray Harris charged that a Democratic Party employee and two state agency heads aided Life magazine’s story alleging overpayment for highway right of way land owned by Sen. Strom Thurmond and Judge Charles Simons. He warned the disclosure could trigger a public press conference by Thurmond and Simons Friday.
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Columbia
Ray Harris
D. C
Democratic Party
Life Magazine
Strom Thurmond
Charles Simons
Harris
Life Team
Thurmond
Washington
Simons
Clement Haynsworth
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
South Carolina
Sen, Thurmond
Judge Simons
Sen. Thurmond
GOP
Daniel FR. McLeod
S. N. Pearman
McLeod
Smith Named to Senate Seat Succeeding Dirksen in Illinois
Ralph T. Smith, Republican speaker of the Illinois House, was appointed by Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie to fill the late Everett Dirksen’s U.S. Senate seat. The 53-year-old Alton lawyer will serve until January 1971 and is expected to seek the remainder of the term in the November 1970 election. He called the appointment a dream come true and said he will be conservative yet flexible in approach.
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Springfield
Ill
Ralph T. Smith
Illinois House of Representatives
Everett M. Dirksen
U.S. Senate
Smith
Washington
Dirksen
Everett Dirksen
Ralph Smith
Richard B. Ogilvie
Alton
St. Louis
Haynsworth Suggests Senate Ousts Nomination If Impropriety Probed
Federal Judge Clement Haynsworth told the Judiciary Committee he would accept Senate action to block his Supreme Court nomination if doubts arise about his conduct in a 1963 Deering Milliken case. He cited a conflict with a vending machine firm he partly owned and a dispute with the AFL-CIO Textile Workers Union, saying the matter should not derail the court.
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Senate
Haynsworth
Deering Milliken Textile Combine
Afl-Cio Textile Workers Union
Deering Milliken
Nasser Reported Ill in AMAN Jordan
Jordan's Prime Minister Bahjat Talhouni said President Gamal Abdel Nasser is ill and under medical treatment in Cairo. Nasser, 51, has confined to bed and did not meet Talhouni who delivered a letter from King Husain. Sadat was to receive it.
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Egypt
Hussein
Nasser
Anwar Sadat
National Assembly
Talhouni
Budget Surplus Forecast For June Moderates
The Budget Bureau projects a 5.9 billion federal surplus next June, 400 million below five months ago, with no change to the 192.9 billion spending ceiling. Revenue dips 400 million due to delayed tax hikes and revised economic estimates, offset by other adjustments.
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Washington
Budget Bureau
Nixon
Congress
Alken Standard Telephone Numbers
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Nixon to Speak at U N As Talks on Arab-Israeli Conflict Resume
United States and Soviet Union agree to reopen bilateral talks on the Arab Israeli conflict possibly Thursday after noon ahead of President Nixon's General Assembly address. Nixon will push for progress on a Middle East peace plan and disarmament while avoiding major Vietnam novelty.
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Middle East
Nixon
U.N. General Assembly
U.S. State Department
Washington
U.S
Assembly
White House
Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Housing Authority Names New Director in Aiken
Herman H. Hahn announced Ervin E. Koon as director of the Housing Authority of the City of Aiken. Koon will replace Sarah H. Busch who retires Oct. 1 after 12 years in the post. Busch succeeded the late Randolph Patterson, first director. Koon is an Aiken County native and Air Force retiree. He and his wife live on Ridgecrest Road.
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Herman H. Hahn
Housing Authority
City of
Aiken
Ervin E. Koon
Koon
Sarah H. Busch
Busch
Randolph Patterson
Aiken County
Ridgecrest Road
U.S. Air Force
Democrats Lash Back At Critics
In Washington Democrats lash back at Republican criticism of Congress saying the Nixon administration has failed to cooperate. Speaker McCormack says the issue is noncooperation, while Pepper and others push a Democratic program blueprint based on the 1968 platform. The party caucus also accuses the administration of rhetoric without action as Nixon plans to press lawmakers on priorities.
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Washington
House
Congress
Nixon
John W. MaCormack
McCormack
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
GOP Primary Not Planned for Aiken City Council
There will be no Republican primary to nominate three candidates for Aiken City Council. Three qualified: Dr. James H. Suhrer Jr, Q Jutson Fulmer, and Hastings Wyman. General election in November will fill three seats against Democratic challengers Dr. Raymond Kaplan, Dr. Robert Platt, and M Douglas Cox. Democrats had already said they would not hold a primary as three Democratic candidates filed for the three seats.
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Aiken
James H. Suhrer Jr
Q. Jutson Fulmer
Hastings Wyman
Raymond Kaplan
Robert Platt
M. Douglas Cox
North Vietnamese Attacks Hit 3rd Marines Near DMZ
U S Marines of the 3rd Division suffered 23 killed and 58 wounded in two assaults just south of the demilitarized zone as Washington announced plans to pull 18 547 personnel from Vietnam. Two US Army helicopters collided southwest of Saigon killing 12 and wounding 2.
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Saigon
U.S
3Rd Marine Division
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Washington
Nixon
U.S. 9Th Infantry Division
Vietnam
Rockpile
Agnew Endorses Mars Mission Aimed for 1986
President Nixon disclosed a Space Task Group report urging a 1986 manned Mars goal. Vice President Agnew champions a shuttle based program with orbiting stations and low cost launch options to enable 50 to 100 residents beyond Earth. The panel outlined three choices including earlier or later Mars timing and a deferred decision past 1990.
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Washington
Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
United States
Mars
Agnew
Earth
National Aeronautics and Space Council
Orbiting Space Laboratory
Lee A Dubpridge
Thomas O. Paine
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Air Force
Robert Seamans
Paine
Congress
Laird Signals Sharp Cut in Draft Calls Amid Vietnam Drawdown
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird indicated that draft calls will be markedly reduced as South Vietnam troop withdrawals continue. He hinted October’s 29,000 figure could be scaled down and urged Congress to act on reform ideas like a lottery system and changing induction ages to 19. He planned to testify this week on the urgent need for draft changes.
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Washington
Melvin BR. Laird
South Vietnam
Nixon Administration
Congress
Laird
Ree
Sugar Spill After Idaho Collision Causes Slippery Chaos
In Rexburg Idaho a wheat truck and a Utah Idaho Sugar Co tanker collided, spilling 2100 gallons of sugar syrup. No injuries were reported but relief driver Ike Deal fled the scene wearing no pants, prompting officer Merckley to slide on the slick floor. Total losses were around 15000 for the wheat truck and less for the tanker.
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Rexburg
Idaho
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co
Ike Deal
Salt Lak City
John Merckley
Merckley
Deal
Allendale Man Bond Set After Gun Shop Raid
Donald K. Cone operator of an Allendale gun shop was released under a $1,000 recognizance bond pending a hearing on charges of violating the 1968 Gun Control Act. Treasury agents seized 57 shotguns and rifles 25 pistols 25 000 rounds of ammunition a military rifle and a sawed off shotgun. He facing charges of failure to maintain proper records and possession of illegal weapons before U S Commissioner Albert F E Dufore.
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Donald K. Cone
Allendale
Treasury
Cone
U. S
Albert EF. Dufore
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