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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1969
Page
2
The write up urges a born Friday individual to pursue cultural interests and artistic work, noting a restless streak and fascination with new challenges. It cautions against gossip and suggests vacation scenes for change, plus daily zodiac guidance across signs and a focus on social balance.
Civil rights leaders called Clement Haynsworth Jr. a pro segregation judge who would ration Negro rights eyedropper style and slow integration. Roy Wilkins and Joseph Rauh blasted his record on the Fourth Circuit as hindering the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling and described his strict construction as reviving separate but equal ideas.
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Aiken presents a Sunday lesson sermon on Reality. The service references Psalms 22 28 and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Services begin at 11 a.m. at Newberry Street.
semifinalists from Aiken High School include Janet Munro, Paula Dessauer, Mary Jane Dickson, and Ellen Milne among others. finalists compete for 3000 Merit Scholarships in May 1970, including 1000 National Merit awards and four year grants up to 1500 per year from corporations and foundations.
Sophomore Bob Ufer led Yale's hockey team with 17 goals and 10 assists totaling 27 points across 21 games this season.
The Aiken Standard established 1867 publishes daily except Saturdays and Sundays from 213 Richland Avenue W in Aiken South Carolina. It carries Associated Press dispatches and is a member of United Press International with correction policy noted. Carrier rates listed at .25 cents per week.
Mrs Veter Boatwright Hall of Wagener died at her residence Tuesday. Service at 5 p.m. today at Rocky Springs Baptist Church with Revs Grady Vance C C Duncan Leon Edwards and Bishop B W Wilkerson officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Native of Lexington County daughter of James and Carrie Quattlebaum Boatwright. Member of Rocky Springs Baptist Church lived in Aiken County 41 years. Grandsons active pallbearers deacons honorary pallbearers. George Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Julian B. Salley, an Aften attorney and 56 year old scuba diver, presented color slides of the Virgin Islands water worlds to the Senior Men's Club at Motel Commercial. He described underwater and surface scenes from several trips, explained SCUBA as self contained underwater breathing apparatus, and answered questions about diving.
Fowler returns to discuss last year’s ties in South Carolina as Democratic council candidates Raymond Kaplan and Glas Gox spoke briefly. Robert Platt missed the meeting due to illness, while Mrs. Robert Schwartz presided as temporary chair. Attendees included Dr. F A Kennedy party chair Bob Garvin treasurer and Ron Royal secretary who introduced Fowler.
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Stanley Jackson die Thursday after a long illness are set for 3 p.m. Saturday at the Warrenville Church of Christ with Rev. Tommie Boone officiating. Burial is in Sunset Memory Gardens Langley. Survived by four daughters, one son, two sisters, a brother, 18 grandchildren and numerous greats, with Posey’s Funeral Home handling arrangements.
Saigon police struggled to control celebrants as Lam Son Square saw unruly teens dispersed by military police and civilian officers. Da Nang divisions celebrated with fireworks while Ca Lu refugee village moved 1,200 Montagnard refugees to a new resettlement village 15 miles away near the Wander crift base.
Alphonso Duckson, 29, drew a life prison term for the June 1 1968 murder of storekeeper A. Cal ie Geiger after a jury recommended mercy. The verdict removes any death penalty option and mandates a life sentence.
Services for Hubert P. Flea Courtney who died Monday in Naples Florida will be held at 4 30 p m Saturday in Posey s Chapel Graniteville with the Rev Co Alsbrook officiating Interment will be in Warrenville Cemetery He was a native of Aiken County son of the late Alvin P and Nellie Morning Courtney Survived by a daughter Connie Courtney Warrenville a son Louis A Courtney Warrenville two sisters Mrs Aubrey Reese and Mrs Margaret Holman Warrenville and three brothers Glenn Courtney A P Courtney both of Warrenville and John Courtney of Fayetteville NC A number of nieces and nephews survive also
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