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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1972
Page
15
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Chicago article discusses a bridge hand with North and South bidding, spade support, and play. It analyzes four card majors, carding sequences, and potential outcomes depending on trumps split. The narrative follows declarer decisions to maximize trick count and avoid overruff by West.
A feature on Southern Bell explains the dial tone origin at the 231 Laurens Street central office in Aiken. The interrupter device powers calls across 22 000 local phones and 273 million worldwide, requiring 300 electrical contacts per call and a workforce of about 216 employees.
In a bridge deal, spades lead to the ace as East discards a club. A small trump follows, West plays the nine and dummy's ten is finessed. East sheds hearts and a sequence of heart and diamond plays leads to a game as South gains three diamonds.
The Clinchfield Railroad Company sponsors a weekend trip from Spartanburg to Johnson City Tennessee the weekend of September 30 to October 1. The train departs Saturday at 9 a.m. includes a catered lunch a dinner and a play at the Olde West Dinner Theater plus sleeping accommodations on the return Sunday.
The Greater Aiken Arts Council will hold its first meeting of the 1972 73 season at 7 30 p m Monday in the Aiken TEC quarters Laurens Street entrance. Delegates from 10 member organizations and advisory members plan activities including a brochure calendar of events and a newsletter.
Aiken Senior Men's Club announces the first fall meeting to be held Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Commercial Hotel. President Arthur Yaeckel said the program will feature a talk on the important bond issue, a topic of interest to townspeople.
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