Elephants Are Tough He Trains Circus Animals
Suzanne Barnes profiles Henry Schroer a 29 year old member of the European Althoff circus family now in America. He trains elephants horses and tigers for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey while noting differences between European and American circuses and the challenges of working inside the cage with a mini cam. Schroer emphasizes education for his children and says elephants are the hardest to train though he would choose to be a tiger if given the choice.
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Henry Schroer
Schroer
Althoff Circus
Gunther
Gebel Williams
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
West Germany
Gebel-Williams
NBC
Gunther Gebel-Williams
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Nurserymen complain of too many horticulture programs
A Kirkwood Community College board letter from John Vermeer of the Iowa Nurserymen’s Assn complains about too many area schools offering horticulture programs and graduates lacking work readiness. Eight area schools now offer courses, up from three years ago. Vermeer says graduates may be surplus to industry needs.
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Kirkwood Community College Board of Directors
John Vermeer
Iowa Nurserymen’s Assn
Vermeer
State Department of Public Instruction
Mel Essex
Kirkwood
Books Lose to Periodicals in Library Spending
Philadelphia report notes libraries face a squeeze as scholarly journals rise in price. Ri chard De Gennaro of the University of Pennsylvania libraries cites a 1970 to 1975 shift: materials spending up from $77.9 million to $106.3 million while books purchased drop from 7.9 million to 6.9 million. Periodicals costs also surge, with foreign titles climbing up to 800 percent.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Journal of American Libraries
Richard de Gennaro
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
de Gennaro
U.S
Boston Hits Music Scene With Record-Breaking Debut
Boston band launches U S tour with Rock and Roll Band as its first album sells rapidly. Epic Records reports 2.5 million copies sold since August release and gold and platinum milestones in under three months. Tom Scholz, MIT graduate and former Polaroid engineer, led the group’s sound.
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Passaic
N.J
Boston
Brad Delp
United States
Epic Records
Tom Scholz
Scholz
Epic Promotion
MIT
Polaroid
Thought for Today by John Marquand
The author urges readers to value a lineage of honest, hard-working ancestry as a worthwhile virtue to uphold.
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Iter
John Marquand
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