Nixon's Black Capitalism Plan Targets Inner Cities
President-elect Nixon promotes a federal program of black capitalism to rehabilitate inner city communities. Howard J. Samuels of the SBA leads Project Own, aiming for 10,000 minority businesses by mid-1969 and 20,000 by mid-1970. Loans exceed 100 million with 90 percent guarantees, bank-led, tax gains expected from successful ventures.
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Richard M. Nixon
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Howard J. Samuels
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Commerce
Rochester, N.Y
Samuels
SBA
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Ag Students Increase At A&M College Station
Total fall enrollment in Texas A&M University College of Agriculture reaches 2,431 students, up from 2,215 a year earlier. Dean H. Kunkel notes agriculture ranks second in enrollment, just behind engineering, accounting for over 18 percent of the university total.
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H. ©. Kunkel
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Deaths Rites Wednesday For Della Brode
Della Brode 71 died Tuesday morning in a Paris nursing home after an 18 month illness. Funeral services set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Cooper Sorrels Funeral Chapel with Rev. Arthur Osborn officiating. Burial in Oakwood Cemetery Honey Grove. Born July 22 1897 in Michigan Prairie north of Honey Grove, she never married. Survivors include sister Flora McKee of Honey Grove brother Hollis T. Brode Sr of Sherman and several nieces nephews and cousins. Family to receive friends Tuesday night 7 to 9 at the funeral home.
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Sherman
Presbyterian Church
London Bonny and Clyde Gang Captivates Britain
Police pursue a four man and one woman gang resembling the Barrow clan. They flee in stolen luxury cars across England, arming themselves as Scotland Yard dispatches 100 Regional Crime Squad officers. Public pleas and sensational coverage heighten Britain’s fear of a 1930s style showdown.
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Nixon vows coordinated voluntary agency effort with independence intact
President-elect Richard M. Nixon told the Boys Clubs of America he will help coordinate the nation’s voluntary agencies through his Health and Welfare secretary while preserving their independence. He resigned as chairman of the youth group, was named honorary chair, and cited Santa Marta as a model of local charity. He planned further meetings before a cabinet debut.
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Santa Marta
Los Angeles
Christmas Party Brings Cheer to Fannin County Council
Members of the Fannin Electric Cooperative Council held a holiday gathering in the assembly room sharing singing, a Christmas story, and a white elephant gift exchange. Ravenna leaders Mrs. Hubert Eaton and Mrs. Aubrey McAlister contributed, with Raymond Perry guiding the script and Johnny Hall presiding as Mulberry club president.
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Enrollment gains mark Texas A&M agriculture college
Dean Kunkel notes agriculture remains a declining yet promising field. The College of Agriculture lists 2,431 total students, with 1,661 undergraduates and 488 pre veterinary students, a figure sometimes included by other land grant colleges to reach 2,919. Pre veterinary students are not counted in the A&M tally.
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Kunkel
A&m College of Agriculture
Texas A&m
Penn State to Open Orange Bowl Drills in West Palm Beach
Penn State Nittany Lions, Lambert Trophy winner for the East, will begin Orange Bowl preparations in West Palm Beach Florida for the December 21 game against Kansas.
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University Park
Poison Beans Source Sought
An Osaka exporter linked to jewelry containing toxic security beans says the beans originated in the Philippines or Brazil perhaps imported illegally. Chatani Jewelry Co. tries to trace origin after US botanist Charles Gunn found the beans in a Sears store in Silver Spring Maryland.
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Japan
UPI
United States
Philippines
Brazil
Chatani Jewelry Co
Charles R. Gunn
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Silver Spring
Gunn
Tropics
Chatani
Classes Resumed At Cheney State College Rampage Ends
West Chester Pa UPI reports Cheyney State College reopened as about 180 helmeted state troopers patrolled the campus after clashes that damaged the library cafeteria snack bar and administration building. Fifteen students were arrested. President Wade Wilson met with militants in Yarnall Hall but did not bow to demands for a judicial review board over the expulsion of nine black students accused of roughing a dean bombing the dean’s home lawn and threatening staff.
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UPI
Cheyney State College
Wade Wilson
Yarnall Halmen's
Judicial Review Board
Wilson
Reviews of Current Books TSY Saunders Christmas
A 1968 Christmas annual edited by Randolph E. Hawgan features material on Christmas literature music and art. It celebrates the 150th anniversary of Silent Night and covers how Christmas is observed in other countries along with a Rembrandt feature.
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Randolph E. Hawgan
Rembrandt
Optima
Caledonia
Lormbardie
Two Thefts Reported to City Police
The city police department logged two thefts: gas stolen from a camper’s tank at Lee McBroom’s business lot and clothing stolen from Dwayne McElfresh’s car on the south side of the square.
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Lee McBroom
Dwayne McElfresh
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