Gulf United Executives Arrive For Aitken Weekend
Gulf United Nuclear Fuels Corp executives and spouses arrived in Augusta from New York aboard a chartered DC-9. A 77-member group from Westchester, N Y traveled to Aiken by bus for weekend events amid talks to move headquarters to a 10.6 acre site opposite USC Aiken Regional campus.
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Southern Airlines
Aiken
Westchester
N.Y
University of South Carolina
South Carolina
Particu
Food Price Surge Blamed on August CPI Jump
Washington AP reports consumer prices rose 1.8 percent in August the steepest in 26 years with food costs leading the rise. Meats poultry and eggs drove about 80 percent of the CPI increase and food prices jumped a record 6 percent for the month.
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Washington
Labor Department
Aikenites Share News From Sandlapper Issue
Arkenites learn neighbors' news in Sandlapper September issue. Don Law profiles Louis Cassels and Mrs. Allen B. Thomas shares a squash recipe. Augustus Caesar would be 2036 this Sunday. Aiken County Diabetic Association production “1 Do-1 Do” set for Nov 15 16. Wimbledon and Davis Cup practice extended with extra court hours. Four lights installed around Virginia Acres with four more soon to illuminate dusk to ten p.m.
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R.L. Cate
Will Edgar
Aiken County
Wimbleton
Virginia Acres
Nixon denies Japan trip rumors
The White House rejected a published report that President Nixon plans a November or December visit to Japan. Deputy Press Secretary Gerald L. Warren said no such plans exist, though Nixon and Japanese PM Kakuei Tanaka agreed last summer to a visit before 1974 ends. A Japanese correspondent cited papers claiming the trip this year.
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White House
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Japan
Gerald L. Warren
Kakuei Tanaka
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Grass says U S should not wink at Soviet writer rights
Prize winning West German author Gunter Grass urged Americans not to ignore moral values when considering thawing tensions with the Soviet Union. Speaking at a private luncheon during his fifth visit, Grass argued the West may intervene in the USSR’s internal affairs if it suppresses the rights of Soviet intellectuals.
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New York
Gunter Grass
Soviet Union
Grass
Kissinger Confirmed as Secretary of State and Aide
The Senate approved Henry A. Kissinger as secretary of state to replace William P. Rogers. He will keep his White House post as national security adviser. The committee voted 16 to 1 to back the plan saying a two job load could work with a fair trial.
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Senate Today
Henry A. Kissinger
William P. Ro
Gers. Kissinger
White House
Nation
al Security Affairs
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sterilization Ban Extended United States News
The government extends the ban on federally financed sterilization of young girls and mentally incompetent women for 30 days. New regulations to protect rights will be opened for public comment. The ban followed a July incident where an Alabama man claimed his daughters were sterilized without his knowledge.
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Washington
Alabama
Probe results withheld by Ellis challenge
A report claimed Dr. C H Pierce violated civil rights by denying care to welfare pregnant women and demanding sterilization. Dr. R Archie Ellis of the South Carolina Department of Social Services said the investigation did not find similar practices elsewhere in the state. The Observer report was not confirmed.
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Charlotte Observer Today
R. Archie Ellis
S.C. Department of Social Services
State Department
Observer
South Carolina
Temperatures Forecast to Drift With Light Rain Chance
The Aiken area weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and little change in temperatures today tonight and tomorrow. Highs near the upper 80s, tonight's low in the mid 60s. Rain chances 20 percent today and tomorrow, 10 percent tonight. Winds NE 5 to 10 mph today and tonight, shifting to S 10 to 15 mph tomorrow.
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Aiken
Rudnick Seeks Referendum on Aiken Hospital
Mrs. Irene Rudnick introduced a bill calling for a county referendum before any public hospital in Aiken County can be abandoned. The measure, read once in the House and sent to the county delegation, reflects concern over imminent actions by Aiken County Commissioners.
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House
Irene Rudnick
Aiken County
Zack Fulmer
For Profit Hospitals in South Carolina Study
A Blue Cross Blue Shield study shows South Carolina has few private for profit hospitals, with six known in the state. The six include Darlington two facilities and one each in Greenville Marion Williamston and Spartanburg.
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South Carolina
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
American Hospital Association
Darlington
Greenville
Marion
Williamston
Spartanburg
AHA
Record August price surge follows food price freeze end
Government economists warned August's price report would be dire after a earlier wholesale price spike following price restraints. Food bought in grocery stores rose sharply with poultry eggs and pork driving the gain. beef and veal also climbed.
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