Prize Winning High School Photo Contest Draws Students
Muriel Reed a 17 year old shot Kathy in late sun and earned prize status. Steve Struck age 15 photographed his Mojave Desert bunny while being fed. William Jarmolych 15 created Like riding on a cloud. Michael Riggs 15 captured a candid shot of a woman in a store window. All entries by youths were prize-winners urging readers to enter Kodak High School Photo Contest.
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Muriel Reed
Kathy
Muriel
Steve Struck
Mojave
Steve
William Jarmolych
Michael Riggs
Kodak
Tery
Apricot Pit Buttons From Canned Fruit Idea
A DIY guide suggests saving pits from canned whole apricots to air dry. Insert a small screw eye in each pit and shell them to create unique buttons. For party records or lending discs, mark with a name slip taped to the center for easy identification.
Thumbs By Frances Gorman Risser
A personal verse about a painful thumb turning purple after an accident. The speaker laments the difficulty of daily tasks like holding a spoon or writing and notes how the incident dominates thoughts as thumbs prove essential.
There Is Lots of Room to Be Lonesome Up in Space
Puzzle Pete columns present a word puzzle page with across clues and down clues built from OCTOBER letters. It includes place-name challenges, geography pairs, and a triangle wordplay “CAREFUL A R E” prompting solutions to six clue words and a mapping task for cities and countries.
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Pete
Isolating Space Trips Raise Human Stress Questions
Rockets can blast off and return but scientists study how astronauts cope with isolation in space. Shortest trip to the moon and back may involve two men who could grow bored or annoyed in confined space. Make believe space cabins simulate voyages, and keeping busy with gauges and notes helps. radio contact to Earth aids a sole occupant.
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Earth
Captain Hal's List of Pen Pals Offers You a Chance to Build Good Friendship
A placard advertises pen pal letters inviting readers to mail names ages and addresses to Captain Hal at several U.S. and international locations. The page lists numerous children seeking correspondence, with ages from 4 to 17, and places including Pensacola Florida New Lagos Nigeria Nashua New Hampshire and more. It also includes a separate space discussing Project Mercury capsule isolation tests noting space travel insights and the endurance of astronauts in simulated conditions.
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Hal
Toy boats built from scraps inspire patient craft
A creator makes small wooden boats with paper sails, held by glue and nails. Though wind up parts fail, the joy comes from assembling each ship slowly. A personal fleet grows from bits of wood, each crafted one by one.
Brain Teaser from Song to Poem in Twelve Word Steps
Start with SONG then change one letter per line to form a sequence: a sound made by a caess, Finished, Person from Denmark, A little road, Walking stick, Container, Throwing in 5 our fishing-line, Price, Pole, Writer of rhymes, then POEM. The clues map to sounds and words as steps toward the final POEM, with each step differing by one letter.
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Denmark
Nonsensical Verse By Dorothy L Switzer
Lester and Chester sit on a log and chew bones belonging to the dog. The dog appears and sniffs Lester then bites and chews Chester.
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Dorothy L. Switzer
Lester
Chester
Plastic egg tray used as paint mixing palette
A simple plastic egg tray serves as an economical palette for mixing small quantities of water color paints. The tray’s compartmental design keeps colors separated and convenient for crafting projects.
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Pioneer Blvd
Whittier, Calif
Murett St
Schenectady, N.Y
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Costa Mesa
Frances Gorman Risser
Lina Nisou
Jool
Alvia
Ily
Sea Inlet
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Meadow
Puzzle Pete
Pike's Peak, Mexico
Black Forest
France
Bataan Peninsula
Germany
Gardens of Versailles
Philippines
Yucatan Peninsula
United States
Space
Janie Blackmon
Jackson St
Pensacola
Fla
Eman Asap
Olemoh
New Lagos
Lagos
Nigeria
Africa
Mawaii
Mary LaFleur
Winter St
Auburn
Martha Hill
Tufts Dr
Nashua
N.H
John Weber
Central Highway
Stony Point
N.Y
PU Pete
Zoo
George Scarbd
Madagascar
Paula Williams
Bismarck
Dona Lee Patrick
Chichester Rd
Karen Foley
Mt. Auburn St
Lawrence
Mass
Marguerite Cote
Elm St
Biddeford
England
Trudy Howe
Loxley
Ala
Antoinette Rowse
Prospect Place
Riverhead
Margaret Blanchard
Maple Rd
Saugus
James Ford
W. Washington St
Stockton
Linda Stassen
R.R
Westville
Ind
Jane Harold
Terrace Dr. DeKalb
Mark Griffin
Broad St
Glens Falls
Judy Mason
Graylynn
High Point
Doris Jill Stewart
Mt. Rt
Chesterton
Sue Ann Harfst
Somonauk St
Sycamore, Ill
Helen Woodruff
Southern
Fairbanks
Alaska
Jean Woodruff
Janet Woodruff
Diana Costantine
Cumberland Circle
Lynn
Rosalie Bennet
S. Grandview
Daytona Beach
Nancy Bishop
Norman Rd
Gaugus
Joy Baker
River St
Warrensburg
Ann Peele
Rt. 1
Kernersville
N.C
Outer Space
Walter B. Hendrickson Jr
Aseo
Jouegq
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