Handicapped youths build small frame house in five weeks
Twenty teens from the Governor Morehead School for the Blind built a one room frame house in five weeks as a summer enrichment project funded by federal money. They handled foundation flooring insulation wiring and install a doorbell with Braille aids and a three sided blind hammer. The project aims to give blind students real work experience and independence. bidding will be handled by the state.
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Raleigh
N.C
UPI
Governor Morehead School For the Blind
Cole
James T. Johnson
Johnson
Youth Build a House Inspires Four Girls and a Boy
The Accent on Youth program features Helen among four girls and Wesley Miller a 14 year old from Statesville in an enrichment project. They describe initial awkwardness, with the pile of boards, and highlight challenges like wiring around screws in outlets. Miller, visually impaired, plans MIT and construction engineering, praising the project for participation and personal growth.
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Helen
Apollo Soyuz Test Project plans progress toward 1975 flight
Astronaut Thomas Stafford says the United States and Soviet Union will proceed with the Apollo Soyuz Test Project in July 1975 despite Soviet space setbacks. The teams expect docking tests in the United States in September and a rendezvous and joint experiments after launch in July. Eight Soviet cosmonauts trained with Apollo crews in July as talks continue in Moscow.
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Houston
UPI
U.S
Thomas Stafford
Stafford
Soyuz
Air Force
Donald K
Deke” Slayton
Vance Brand
Aleksey A. Lenov
Valeriy N. Kubasov
ASTP
Moscow
Apollo
Rubber parts in every car top 600 count
Akron Ohio AP Goodyear reports the auto industry will add about one billion pounds of rubber parts to cars in 1973 not counting tires. The average car now contains over 600 rubber parts weighing more than 150 pounds including seat cushions, engine mounts, hose, bumpers and rubber stripping.
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Akron, Ohio
Goodyear Co
Coffee Taste Guides Brand Choices Says Mindel
New York AP report quotes Seymour Mindel president of Chock Full O Nuts. He says women largely decide coffee brands while men notice taste and comment while drinking. Mindel asserts housewives choose coffee within budget based on flavor and switch to better tasting brands if available.
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New York
Seymour S. Mindel
Mindel
Wanted ad seeks unusual item
A brief notice mentions a wanted advertisement to locate an unusual item with a contact phone number 398-8234 for inquiries.
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Dial
Facelift Finding More Acceptance in Brazil
In Rio de Janeiro Brazilian men seek younger looks through plastic surgery to advance in business. Surgeons Dr. Ivo Pitanguy and Dr. Pedro Valente note rising male cases from about 5 percent a decade ago to 20 percent now. About 12,000 operations occur annually, often in elite clinics with luxury features.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Ivo Pitanguy
Brazil
Pedro Valente
Henry Charles
Rio
Snelling and Snelling
U. S
Bassogigas Teaches Deep Sea Pressure Limits
The bassogigas, a 5 percent inch fish, becomes the first known catch from nearly five miles down, enduring depths with pressure about eight hundred times surface levels. This discovery highlights extreme adaptation and limits of deep sea life.
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Jewelry Department
Armstrong
Alden
Mohawk
World
Wanda Were
Karastan
Grea, Sde
Smulekoff’s
Smulekoff's
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