Visiting teachers promote newspapers as classroom tools
Amarillo notes a July gathering of Golden Spread educators in Canyon to learn newspapers as teaching aids. The piece praises living textbooks, cites college involvement, and highlights potential student outcomes from engaging with headlines, stock pages, and sports columns. It also notes political context on Exim Bank, Red China, and labor leader Charles Lunn, ending with a light aside about a town band and advice to students about driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cesar Chavez
Alderete
Halt Called to Rail Talks
Washington officials said talks to resolve the rail strike against four railroads were recessed indefinitely. Asst. Secretary of Labor W J Usery Jr cited a lack of voluntary solutions and indicated possible emergency action but no bill is being drafted. The stoppage involves Southern Railway Union Pacific Southern Pacific Norfolk and Western and threatens broad economic disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Asst
Labor
W. J. Usery Jr
Usery
Afl-Cio
United Transportation Union
Nixon
Congress
Southern Railway
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Norfolk & Western
John P. Hiltz
Hiltz
Western Union Strike Ends With New Two Year Contract
Western Union workers approve a two year contract ending a nationwide strike that began June 1. The agreement includes a 10 percent wage rise now and 9 percent next year, with improved hospitalization benefits and allowances for certain technical classifications. Pickets will be removed and 17 000 employees return to work at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. New York unit of the Communications Workers of America remains in negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Western Union
E. L. Hageman
United Telegraph Workers
Hageman
New York
Communications Workers °F America
Afl-Cio
Apollo 15 launch marred by light fault near Saturn V
Apollo 15 blasted off from Space Center Houston aboard a Saturn V headed for the moon with astronauts David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden. A stray light on the instrument panel flickered during ascent prompting engineers to test potential short circuits in valve assemblies.
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Space Center, Houston
David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
Earth
Moon
Scott
Worden
Falcon
Cape Kennedy
Irwin
Lunar
Rover Boys
Teacher Uses News To Assist Minorities
West Texas teachers gather at a Living Textbook Workshop at West Texas State University for a three day program led by Jim Clark of Globe News. Betty Alderete advocates using newspapers to teach Mexican American pride and recent history through clippings and current events.
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Canyon
Kansas
South Mains
Jim Clark
Globe News Publishing Co
Betty Alderete
Caprock
Alderete
West Texas State University
Vacation Talk Costs Job for GOP Black
A young black Republican, back from a West Coast vacation including a verbal attack on Vice President Agnew and Attorney General Mitchell, is leaving a $21 000 a year job with the Nixon administration. Robert Lee Grant, 32, said he was fired or “Sort of,” and planned a news conference Thursday. He had served since 1969 as a HUD special assistant to Floyd Hyde.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
John N. Mitchell
Robert Lee Grant
Grant
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Floyd Hyde
Hyde
John Witzel
Witzel
Nixon
San Francisco
Judge eases Sharp immunity in state grand jury probe
A federal judge eased immunity for financier Frank W. Sharp allowing state grand jury appearances after August 17. The ruling aims to let a federal probe into Sharpstown Bank and related fraud continue while permitting state Bribery inquiries tied to Sharp bill passes.
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Houston
Frank W. Sharp
U. S. Dist
John Singleton
Sharp
Austin
Texas
Sharpstown
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Singleton
National Bankers Life Insurance Co
Sharpstown State Bank
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Amtrak
Wes Izzard
Southwest Virginia
Island Creek
West Virginia
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Kentucky
Checkerboard Grain Co
St. Louis
United States
A&p
Souther
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Moon Exploration
Ben Valdivieso
Zoriolk
Ithram
Jerry Griffin
Mary Ellen Leahy
Steve Trolinger
Strument
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Gop Black
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Thal
Ree Meng
Watson’s Co
Anthony Farris
Farris
Texas Atty
Crawford Martin
Dist
Robert Smith
Martin
Smith
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