Local Students Receive Presidential Leadership Grants
Fourteen Ada High seniors are among 72 statewide recipients of Presidential Leadership Grants totaling over 16500 dollars. Grants stem from Ada businessmen and residents contributions and honor leadership qualities across specific study areas.
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Ada High
Stanley P. Wagner
East Central
Ada
Paul McGaha
Mike Latimer
Tim Gentry
Kathy Gurley
Lafton Bain
Richard Craig
Russell Robbins
Joni Wellington
Ann Payne
Preston O'Neal
Carol Brooks
Gary McNutt
Janie Bonar
Stacy Blackburn
Economic Planning Needs Prominent Role in US Policy
The article notes that long term economic planning, though linked to socialism by some, is championed by conservatives and business leaders. It calls for a national planning system to reduce policy contradictions, citing Wassily Leontief on tuning economic parts like an engine and warning of housing cycles driven by savings flows.
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New York
United States
Congress
Perha
Wassily Leontief
Agriculture Dept offers world hunger leaflets to press
The Agriculture Department plans free distribution of up to 50 000 leaflets outlining Ford administration views on world hunger. The 28 true or false questions, with comments, argue for increased production and technology, oppose birth rate cuts, and call for farmer incentives and private stockpiles rather than a global reserve.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Gifford
Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
Ford Administration
Price Gaps Grow Between Independent and Branded Stations
The Associated Press reports that price differentials between non-brand independent service stations and major brand independents widen, drawing critique from Texaco lessees like Ray McDonald and Oklahoma officials. They accuse oil majors of crowding out independents, while majors cite government rules and crude price variations as causes.
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Associated Press
Ray McDonald
Texaco
Albuqueque
N.M. McDonald
Albuquerque Gasoline Retailers Association
Federal Energy Administration
FEA
Jim Cox
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Independent Gasoline Retailers Association
Metric System Now At Hand
The piece discusses the push toward metrication in U S schools and society. Illinois plans to require metric instruction from kindergarten through 12th grade by 1976 with planning in 1975. Proponents praise uniformity while opponents note adult retraining challenges.
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Illinois Board
Congress
United States
Towering life as a forest ranger on Buffalo Mountain
Aubrey Marrow, 46, tends an Oklahoma Forestry Service fire tower atop Buffalo Mountain, Latimer County, living 14 years in isolation with his wife and two children. He monitors fires, relays coordinates to Wilburton, and endures 45 mph winds, scarce water, and lightning risks while keeping a family life in Talihina.
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Talihina
Okla
Aubrey Marrow
Marrow
Oklahoma Forestry Service
Buffalo Mountain
Winding Stair Mountains
Latimer County
Hazy Blue
San Bois
Kiamichi Mountains
Wilburton
Forest Rangers
Rangers
Tulsa
Julie
Richard
Storm Ravages Duncan Crops in South Central Oklahoma
A pre dawn storm drenched Duncan Oklahoma with heavy rain and hail, leaving hail up to six inches deep and four inches of rain. About 75 percent of the area's watermelon and cantaloupe crop, the major cash crop, was destroyed per Terral banker Archie Fulton.
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Duncan
Okla
Oklahoma
Southcentral
Terral
Archie Fulton
Beetle Quarantine in 13 Southern States Ends
The Agriculture Department ends a 36 year federal quarantine on the white fringed beetle, first found in Florida in 1936. Despite decades of spread it is now established in much of the South and controls remain practical for farmers. The quarantine ends June 30 across 13 states including Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas and Virginia.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Florida
James O. Lee
Department
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
South
Lee
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Bomb Defusal in Jerusalem Amid Surging Middle East Attacks
Sappers defused a paint can bomb near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem as Israel reports its 16th attack of the week across the region. Across borders, a Lebanese Arab man was shot and killed at the border fence, and another Arab killed by his own grenade during a confrontation in northern Israel. In Acre, police found a 25 year old Arab posing as a worker on a rooftop. In Lebanon, nine Arab children died from a mortar shell blast during Israeli bombardment, with two more wounded. Prime Minister Rabin announced plans to build 500 apartments at Sharm el Sheikh, stressing it does not imply annexation. Egyptian President Sadat, in Damascus, urged Arab unity ahead of talks with Ford in Salzburg. Arafat joined Sadat in Damascus, framing joint Arab positions on territory and a Palestinian state. Iran’s Shah suggested OPEC may raise oil prices in September.
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Jerusalem
Jaffa
Israel
Acre
Yitzhak Rabin
Labor Party
Sharm el-Sheikh
Sinai Peninsula
Eilat
Rabin
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Ford
Salzburg
Austria
Damascus
Sadat
Kuwait
Iraq
Henry A. Kissinger
Indochina
Middle East
Shah Mohammed Reza’ Pahlevi
Iran
Washington
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
States wrestle with pay toilets amid rights debate
State Government News reports legislatures in about twenty states consider abolishing or limiting pay toilets as part of equal rights concerns for women. Wyoming bans charges in public restrooms effective May 30, with fines up to 100 dollars.
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State Government News
Council of State Governments
Lexington
Wyoming
California
Alaska
Florida
Nevada Assembly
Senate
Eileen Brookman
Las Vegas
Barnum Opens 1871 Circus Known as Greatest Show on Earth
P T Barnum launches a new circus in 1871 hailed as the Greatest Show on Earth attracting wide public interest and embedding Barnum as a leading showman of American entertainment.
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P.T. Barnum
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