High School Honor Society Leads Letter Drive for POWs
Yee High School National Honor Society organizes area volunteers to write to Hanoi urging release and humane treatment of 1500 American POWs. Students target Xuan Thuy in Paris and Mrs. J A Singleton in Dallas with calls for POW access, mail exchanges, and impartial inspections amid world opinion on Vietnam.
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Yee High
Hanoi
United States
Xuan Thuy
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Paris
France
J. A. Singleton
Joymeadow Drive
Dallas
Texas
Public interest in informed electorate grows at home
The Herald notes a decade of reader response to its coverage of Texas politics. Letters from Governor Smith Lt Gov Barnes Senator-elect Bentsen and others praise the paper’s 12 year effort to publish candidate statements and provide information over party lines. Public reaction suggests voters want more information and a responsive political process.
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TEA Sets Priority Goals For Public Schools
Texas Education Agency leaders outline priority programs for the next two years with costs surpassing 362 million dollars. Major acts from 1969 include salary plans, kindergarten for five year olds, special education, expanded technical programs, and retirement refinements.
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Austin
Texas Education Agency
J. W. Edgar
Edgar
State Board of Education
Governor Presses Traffic Safety Laws To Stop Texas Deaths
Gov. Preston Smith and Col. Wilson Speir call for major traffic safety reforms during the Governor's Public Support Conference. They argue drunk driving causes about half of Texas traffic fatalities and urge changes before the 62nd Legislature convenes, to remove problem drivers from the roads.
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Austin
Preston Smith
Col
Wilson Speir
Department of Public Safety
Ross Rommel
Texas
Col. Speir
To All The World's Children TV Program Highlights UNICEF
A letter promotes ABC telecast of To All The World's Children on Friday at 7:30 p.m. EST. The film surveys children in Kenya Paraguay and Ceylon and the UNICEF role. It emphasizes educational social and family viewing value and supporters’ pride.
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Luecke
ABC
Kenya
Paraguay
Ceylon
Unicef
United Nations Children's Fund
Subsidizing Jerry Rubin Tax Exempt Fund Questioned
Rep W G Bray attacks tax funded support for Jerry Rubin and the Social Education Fund calling it a front for leftist revolutionaries. He cites Rubin's Chicago Seven ties and IRS reporting lapses as grounds for revoking tax exempt status and questions the nation's subsidy of hate and incitement.
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W.G. Bray
Ind
New Left
Jerry Rubin
Chicago Seven
Rubin
Nancy Kurshan
Social Education Fund
Auditors and Bookkeepers Urged as Enforcement Ally
A grassroots note emphasizes the value of auditors and bookkeepers as law enforcement supporters, arguing for mandatory reporting to aid oversight and tax accountability. No tax exemption is granted.
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J.C
Old Philosopher on Football and Bipartisan Victory
Dear editor muses on preserving football by imagining a game where both sides win and fans are always happy. He notes politicians claim victory in November elections, creating a country where no one loses and everyone feels victorious.
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Baghooge
Farm real estate value set at 208.9 billion in 1970
The value of United States farm real estate was set at 208.9 billion dollars for the year ending March 1, 1970. Per acre value averaged 193 dollars, with extremes from 36 dollars in Wyoming to 1,028 dollars in New Jersey.
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United States
Wyoming
New Jersey
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