Good News Sunday aims to place 50000 Bibles in Aiken County
Aiken County churches plan to distribute 50,000 copies of Good News for Modern Man at 20 cents each, costing about 10,000 dollars. The project, part of South Carolina's Tricentennial observance, involves interdenominational church cooperation and door to door distribution by selected representatives.
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Aiken County
Aiken
Robert C. Bratcher
American Bible Society
Lloyd Olsen
South Carolina
Olsen
J. Edward Cunningham
Cunningham
Jesus
W. James Rivers
Lloyd T. Olsen
Good News
The
Hindman
Rain Sets Back Weekend Weather in Aiken
Rain fell on the Aiken area late Sunday and early today ending a forecast for good weather. Temperatures dropped to 53 overnight, then rose to the 60s by noon.
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Aiken
Destructive brush fires rage near San Diego and LA
Massive wildfires scorch brush-covered hills outside San Diego and Los Angeles. Three killed as 150000 acres burn in southern San Diego County and 115000 acres burn around the Los Angeles basin. Evacuations affect tens of thousands. Firefighters report erratic winds and shifting fronts.
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Los Angeles
San Diego
State Division of Forestry
Los Angeles Basin
Voter registration ends soon in Aiken County
Six days remain to register for the November 3 general election. The registration office at the Aiken County Courthouse is open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
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Aiken County
TV Host Injured In Motorcycle Accident
Hugh Downs, 49 year old Today Show host, was knocked off air after a motorcycle crash near his Phoenix area home. He suffered cuts, bruises and a foot injury and spent the weekend in St Joseph's Hospital before planned return to NBC later in the week.
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New York
Hugh Downs
Nbc-Tv
NBC
Downs
Cove Creek Road
Phoenix
Ariz
St. Joseph's Hospital
Motorist Kills Policeman in Christmas Street Shootout
Two men stopped for speeding on the East Side stepped out and opened fire on two patrolmen. Patrolman Joseph Tracy, 27, was killed with shots to the head and body. Patrolman Fred Fulton was seriously wounded with mouth chest and abdominal injuries and remained in Mount Sinai Hospital. Police took six people into custody as investigators hunted possible suspects.
Unsafe buses off the road in new inspections
Washington reports more than ten percent of buses ordered off the road after recent inspections. Many others cited for minor safety violations. Over half of buses checked, chartered and scheduled, showed at least one safety violation. Charter buses most frequently violated.
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Washington
Transportation Department
Yale Stamp Controversy Averts Christmas Design Clash
Washington AP reports postal officials plan two Christmas stamps one religious and one nonreligious to avert the annual design controversy. The move aims to satisfy differing viewpoints and avoid partisan debates over the holiday issue.
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Washington
Easy Stumper Worth $260 in Friday Puzzle
A Friday puzzle offers a $260 prize and mentions extra entry opportunities before Wednesday noon. Readers are urged to act quickly, with mentions of copies at 124 Rutland Drive and ongoing time sensitivity.
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Rutland
Park Survey on Agenda For Council
The City Council will receive a Wilbur Smith Associates report on the Aiken Industrial Park to be built at Aiken Airport near I 20. First reading is set for rezoning five acres on U S 1 from R 1 to R 2A and other petitions seek annexations banners sewer taps and leases related to airport property and Kalmia Shopping Center.
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Wilbur Smith Associates
Aiken
Aiken Airport
Interstate 20
U.S. 1
Coker Springs
Kennedy Kolony 2
The
Jaycees
Laurens Street
Aiken County
Railway Express Agency
Ricks Packing Co
Airport
Kalmia Shopping Center
President Greets Skyjack Victims in Rome Return
President Nixon met 28 freed American skyjack victims on the tarmac at Fiumicino Airport after their release by Palestinian guerrillas in Amman. The group arrived from Nicosia aboard a Trans World Airlines jet and headed home to the United States.
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Rome
Nixon
Mediterranean
Jordan
Fiumicino
Trans World Airlines
United
States
Nicosia
Amman
Viet Cong rockets hit Hue. light damage reported
Viet Cong rockets struck Hue for the first time in two months as part of five attacks in five locations. US Command reported few American casualties over the weekend but five helicopters were lost, eight Americans killed or missing, with four injured. One chopper crashed in Cambodia. Hue hospital hit with no casualties. South Vietnamese losses listed as 11 dead and 40 wounded.
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Saigon
Hue
Vietnam
U.S
Air Force
Cambodia
Crippled Children Society Adds 3 New Board Members
Three new members join the Aiken County Society for Crippled Children and Adults board after the annual meeting. New directors are Mrs. Paul Weston, Mrs. Robert M. Goodyear, and Richard Brinkley. The group reelected Conrad L. Hartzog as chairman for 1970 71 and discussed independence from state and national Easter Seal societies. The center's growth and staff expansions, including an audiologist and a new hearing evaluation unit, were highlighted.
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Aiken County Society For
Owens Corning
Paul Weston
Clearwater
Robert M. Goodyear
Aiken
Richard Brinkley
Wagener
Conrad L. Hartzog
North Augusta
Mandle Surasky
Chamber Clinic Opens Tomorrow in Aiken Heritage Room
The Great Aiken Chamber of Commerce sponsors a sales person clinic at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Heritage Room of the Farmers and Merchants Bank as part of steps toward a better Aiken.
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Greater Aiken
Shirley wins fifty dollar football contest
G N Shirley of 783 Boardman Road won fifty dollars in a football contest from a field of 351 entries. Many entrants came from outlying areas including New Ellenton Graniteville Langley Warrenville and North Augusta. Deadline is 5 p m each Friday and extra entries boost winning odds.
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Roy Atkinson
Langley - Bath - Clearwater
Albert Atkinson
Graniteville
Wiliam Burriss
Robert Ledbetter
Neil Cochran
North Augusta
Arthur Dabney
Charles Mason
Jackson
Edwin Farmer
Belvedere
Victor Johnson
Montmorenci
White Pond
Joel Lambert
South Aiken
G. N. Shirley
Boardman Road
New Ellenton
Langley
Warrenville
SCE&G Ready For Blackouts
W Clifton Summers of SCE&G told Alken Rotarians how the utility avoids outages by staying ahead of demand. He cited new plants and a projected 11 percent load rise from 260000 to about 270000 by year end 1969 and noted peak load in late August with service to a record number of customers.
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South Carolina
W. Clifton Summers
South Carolina Electric and Gas Company
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Yale
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Emilio Colombo
Quirinale Palace
UPI
Mondulkiri Province
Vanda Altman
W. A. Altman
Vaucluse
Graniteville High School
Roger Ramsey
Crippled Children Society
Easter Seal Society
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United Fund
Lydia Holley
University of North Carolina
Miss Holley
St. John’s Methodist Church
Gusta - North Augusta United Fund
Hartzog
Zandra Marshall
G.N. Shirley
Columbia
Aiken Standard
Department of the Aiken Standard
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