Ada Boy Scout To Attend World Jamboree in Japan
Ada High School senior to join 13th World Scout Jamboree in Kyoto, Japan. Rick Austin, Eagle Scout from Troop 4, son of Ted and Mrs. Austin, travels with 7,800 U S scouts. his scoutmaster is Angus McFarlane. Two other area boys join the trip, Pat Bell and Pat Bunch.
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Ada Boy Scout
Japan
Ada
Rick Austin
Ada High School
Kyoto
Ted Austin
Nancy
First Christian Church
Angus McFarlane
Rich
U. S
Adan
Austin
Pat Bell
Pat Bunch
Population decline noted on Pitcairn Island
A United Nations Secretariat paper reports Pitcairn Island has lost 70 residents in ten years and now has 80 descendants of the Bounty mutineers settlers. The study notes Norfolk Island contains about 600 Pitcairn descendants.
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United Nations
U.N. Secretariat
Pitcairn Island
South Pacific
Norfolk Island
Pitcairn
Seminar Set On Caring For Chronically Ill Patients
A Nurse’s Rehabilitation Seminar for nursing staff including aides and orderlies is planned for Thursday at 8:30 a.m. in the Oklahoma Room on East Central State College’s campus. Ada Continuing Education Center Valley View Hospital and the Oklahoma Regional Medical Program sponsor the event.
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Oklahoma
East Central State College
Ada Continuing Education Center
Valley View Hospital
Oklahoma Regional Medical Program
ROTC Officer at East Central Receives Medals
Maj. Gary E. Vanderslice, acting professor of military science at East Central State College, was cited for meritorious service in Vietnam from April 1970 to April 1971. He received the U S Bronze Star and the Cross of Gallantry at a campus ceremony presented by Dr. Stanley P. Wagner. Vanderslice joined the Army in 1960 and served as senior advisor in Binh Binh Province in the Mekong Delta. He and his wife Barbara and two sons reside in Portales, New Mexico, where Dr. Irwin is a faculty member at Eastern New Mexico University.
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Gary E. Vanderslice
East Central State College
Vietnam
East Central
Maj. Vanderslice
U. S
Stanley P. Wagner
Binh Binh
Mekong Delta
South Vietnam
Barbara
Christopher
Drew
Portales, N. M
Dr. Irwin
Eastern New Mexico University
Heinz Bondy
Windsor Mountain
Douglas Irwin Earns Doctorate From University of Oklahoma
Douglas Irwin son of Mrs Grace Danley Rt 5 Ada has completed requirements for his doctorate from the University of Oklahoma Norman He studied in Ada public schools attended East Central State College before earning bachelor and master degrees from OU
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Douglas Irwin
Grace Danley
Rt. 5
Ada
University of Oklahoma
Norman
Irwin
East Central State College
Progressive schools lose footing as private New England drift widens
A Saturday Review feature highlights Cambridge Massachusetts and Woodstock Vermont private schools exhuming Progressive Education relics. Critics decry “social anthropology” math reform and open dorms, while Windsor Mountain defends itself with blunt talk. Report cites drug use and peer culture as the main symptoms of muddled reform.
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Max Rafferty
New England
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Alumni Brag From Local School Network After Graduation
The article notes headmasters boast of alumni success in college while highlighting a large school with about 350 pupils and the challenge of keeping cool under scrutiny. It contrasts pride in later achievements with a harsh, critical tone about their ambitions.
Critique of elite private schools and soaring tuitions
The piece condemns Calton pils and similar institutions for high pupil teacher ratios and tuition between 3600 and 4200 dollars yearly. It argues the students are affluent whites and asserts these schools fail to educate, accusing them of exploiting parents and reviving a dead educational philosophy for profit.
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Croesus
Tibet
Los Angeles Times
Byng Announces Enrollment Dates for Schools
Byng School enrollment runs Monday August 2 through Friday August 20 with parents advised to accompany students. Principal Bill Keller says faculty will assist during enrollment week. Regular session starts August 23. Homer and Francis enroll August 17 to 20 with first day August 23.
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Byng
Bill Keller
Homer and
Francis
Homer and Francis
Nixon Hosts Moon Launch Watch At Camp David
President Nixon rose early at Camp David to view Apollo 15 liftoff from Cape Kennedy. He spoke briefly with the astronauts Col. David R. Scott Lt. Col. James B Irwin and Maj. Alfred M Worden and phoned Arnold Palmer to offer congratulations before resuming budget work.
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Thurmont
Nixon
Camp David High
Catoctin Mountains
Cape Kennedy
Pat
Julie
David L Eisenhower
C.C
Arnie
Arnold Palmer
Harrison
N.Y
Treasury Department
Congress
Washington
Camp David
Ziegler
H.R. Haldeman
Brockway Glass Reports Record Second Quarter Sales
Brockway Glass Company in Brockway Pennsylvania posted record second quarter sales of 55.315 million dollars, up 16 percent from last year. Quarterly earnings were 3.662 million dollars or 0.75 per share versus 3.804 million dollars or 0.79 per share a year earlier. First half sales reached 102.644 million dollars, up from 92.298 million dollars in 1970, with six month earnings of 6.738 million dollars or 1.38 per share, slightly below the prior year 7.062 million dollars or 1.46 per share pace.
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Brockway
Brockway Glass Company
Kerr Lab Tests Reassure Park Lakearity Normalcy
Kerr Water Research Center tests at Arbuckle Lake show no dangerous acid buildup. Supt. Higgins cancels a crash program as lab biologist Dr. William Duffer notes normal stratification and neutral pH levels amid seasonal turnover.
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W. L. Knickmeyer
John C. Higgins
Higgins
Kerr Water Research Center
Ada
William Duffer
Duffer
Arbuckle
Darling
Arbuckle Lake
Emergency Center Expands VEE Vaccination To Six More States
The Federal Emergency Center in Houston extends its VEE vaccination program from five to eleven states, adding California Arizona Mississippi Alabama Georgia and Florida. Vaccinations begin in 7 to 10 days while Texas reports 1310 horse deaths and 1847 ill since June. Human cases reach 22 with 90 suspected, and spraying covers coastal Texas Louisiana to curb mosquitoes carrying the virus.
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Houston
Clifford M. Hardin
Center
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Oklahoma
California
Arizona
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Washington
Texas Health Department
South Texas
Lake Charles
Corpus Christi
Victoria
Brownsville
Tex
John Arnold
Federal Center
Arnold
Texas-Louisiana
Hardin
Mexican
Gulf Coast
Department of Defense
Army
Medina Trial Jury Selected For My Lai Case
Medina, a 34 year old Montrose Colorado native and former Charlie Company commander in the Americal Division faces assault and related charges for the My Lai sweep of May 16 1968. Jury selection from ten officers begins with a five member minimum for court martial. Lt William L Calley Jr later convicted of causing civilian deaths receives life as the maximum.
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FT. Mcpherson, Ga
Ernest Medina
My Lai
F. Lee Bailey
Boston
Mark Kadish
Army
William Eckhardt
Medina
Montrose
Colo
Charlie
Americal Division
William L. Calley Jr
Ft. Benning
Calley
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Euclid
John Dewey
Saturday Review
Richard
Susan de Lone
Woodstock Country School
Vermont
Woodstock
Abbie Hoffman
Windsor Mountain School
Dr. Dewey
Progressive Education
Calton
National IS
First National Bank and Trust Company
FDAL
Kerr Lab
Lake
South
M. J. Tillery
Emergency Center
Federal Labora
Tory
Atlanta
Matagorda County
Guadalupe County
San Antonio
Matagorda
Guadalupe
Vee
Tillery
Mexico
Hamilton
Bulova
Elgin
Gem Jewelers
W. Main
B. M
Mack” Welch
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