Most Ski Injuries Are Not Serious
Skiing carries risk from minor bruises to broken bones but most injuries are not life threatening. About 12,000 skiers yearly are injured, with a third broken bones and a third sprains or muscle damage. Prevention hinges on conditioning, proper equipment, training, and cautious attitude.
New West Novels Arrive At County Library
The County Library adds Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner and Arrive by A B Guthrie Jr, expanding western literature. Angle of Repose surveys four generations in California the Dakotas Colorado and beyond with a focus on past affecting present. Arrive completes Guthrie’s four novel West series depicting Benton Collingsworth and Mort Ewlling as contrasting midwestern Victorian figures linked by honesty despite conflict.
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Wallace Stegner
California
Dakotas
Colorado
Idaho
Mexico
Stegner
A. B. Guthrie, Jr
Thousand Hills
Arfive
West
Benton Collingsworth
Mort Ewlling
Aiken Auxiliary Police Put In Limbo Over Powers
Aiken Public Safety Director Carroll Busbee and Sheriff Paul Grant suspend the auxiliary corps arrest powers and carry weapons. The move follows a push for full time policing and a new state training requirement effective Jan 1 1972. Sixteen of twenty two auxiliaries held commissions prior to suspension.
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Aiken
S.C
Busbee
Grant
Jessup
Vernon L. Lee
Lee
Auxiliary
Ben Bartless
Bartless
Police Department
Edwards
Bushee
Pesticides Face Political Battle Over DDT Policy
The piece notes intense pressure on EPA head William D. Ruckelshaus as a federal ban on DDT looms. It cites House Agriculture Committee chair W. R. Poage and warns that political considerations trump science in pesticide policy, with examples from Sri Lanka and Sweden and U S crops harmed by bans and substitutions.
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William Hazeltine
Nixon
Environmental Protection Agency
William D. Ruckelshaus
House — Agriculture
House Committee On Agriculture
W. R. Bob Poage
Ceylon
Sweden
World Health Organization
Aging lovers reunite for wedding after decades apart
Prue Love Donisthorpe England reports Maggie Tomlin, a widow four times and in her late seventies, will wed her first love Joe Cox whom she parted from during World War I. The couple, who reconnected recently in Staffordshire, plan a final ceremony.
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Donisthorpe
England
Maggie Tomlin
Maggie
Joe Cox
Staffordshire
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Augusta
Copley News Service
United States
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Robert W. Stevens
Rutgers University Bureau of Conservation and Environmental Science
Ruckelshaus
Don Sanders
Liberty
Corporation OF South Carolina
West Columbia
South Carolina
Kalmia Plaza
Prue Love
Phillips Shoes