Teens Read Long Distance and Lost Art of Letter Writing
A Lexington Ohio couple faced a $26000 phone bill amid tales of teens who favor long calls over letters. The column reflects on absent friends, modern communication, and how teen friendships cross distant states, illustrated by a Girl Scout camp anecdote and a college phone bill.
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Lexington
Ohio
William
Rachel Schureck
Schurecks
Benjamin Franklin
Dorothy Parker
Martin van Buren
Fargo
N. Dakota
North Dakota
Aiken County
Susie
Richard
San Diego
Calif
Columbia
Houston Symphony commissions 25 works for Sesquicentennial
The Houston Symphony Orchestra plans twenty five fanfare like commissions from international composers and American luminaries such as William Schuman to honor Texas Sesquicentennial. Each piece one to three minutes long will premiere at subscription concerts through 1986. The project emphasizes contemporary formal works to mark the anniversary.
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Houston, Texas
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Texas
HSO
William Schuman
Ridge Farmers Mutual serves Saluda County farmers
Ridge Farmers Mutual in Ridge Spring operates as a cooperative elevator and fertilizer supplier serving farmers from Aiken, Saluda, Edgefield, Newberry, and Greenwood counties. With 159 members, it has paid over two million dollars in dividends in over two decades, stores about 286000 bushels of grain, and ships soybeans, wheat, corn, and oats by rail to the best price. The cooperative, open weekdays and Saturdays, emphasizes saving farmers money through competitive pricing and mutual support, led by president Harry S. Bell and a seven-member board including O T Price Jr and G Melwood Coleman.
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Ridge Spring
S.C
Ridge Farmers Mutual
Saluda
Mutual
Farmer's Cooperative
the Mutual
S.C. 23
Gerline
Mrs. Counts
Harold Frick
G. Melwood Coleman
Henry Crouch
Frazier Riley
Memories from a Naturalist's Notebook review of Headstrom life work
Lynne Katonak reviews Richard Headstrom's life and four season sections in Memories from a Naturalist's Notebook. The late author moved to Aiken in 1964 and died in February 1985 at 82. The book compiles essays on insects birds flowers and other nature aspects with accessible prose and Carol Decker illustrations.
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Richard Headstrom
Aiken
Headstrom
University Press
Russia
Whittier
Washington
Jerusalem
Carol Decker
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Lynne Katonak
Mutual Office
Gerline Counts
Prentice Hall Books
Deadstrom
Queen Anne's
Hayber
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