Back-to-School Plans Set for Altoona and Midway
Altoona and Midway announce enrollment growth with Ray Hames and Paul Troop stating first day is Thursday at 8 42 a m. Buses run at regular times, noon return, Friday half day, Sept 5 full day. Lunch prices 25 30 and teachers 35 cents. Bus routes similar to last year. First football practices set for Sept 15 with around 30 players. Milo Peterson announces district meeting and bus driver clinic.
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Altoona
Midway
Ray Hames
Paul Troop
Red Cross
Don Krouse
Harold Graham
Names Leap in Directory and Veterans Honor
The Pacific Telephone directory final entry spot goes to Zzyzzwump Zel la, replacing Zzyzy Zachary Z. Vernon, while Harold Foulk, 48, received a Bronze Star Medal earned 23 years ago in Guadalcanal. Hennie Krause marks 80 years attending the Erie County Fair as it nears its 128th edition. Pham Thi Thu, 1952 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Sweet Briar College, runs for South Vietnamese Senate. Barefoot in the Park drew 5300 barefoot attendees at a 6 am screening in Baltimore.
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Vernon, Calif
Harold Foulk
Guadalcanal
Sweet Briar, Va
Pham Thi Thu
Sweet Briar College
Today in History highlights from Aug 28, 1967
On this date in 1883 Britain's Parliament banned slavery and called for freeing 700000 slaves within the British Empire in one year. Dwight D. Eisenhower warned a Soviet rejection of Western disarmament proposals would be tragic. Twenty five years ago clergy protested racial discrimination in Albany Georgia. One year ago the Army announced an anti-tank guided missile light enough for shoulder firing.
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Associated Press
Britain
British Empire
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Albany
Army
Letter beats wire in New Delhi mail service compare
A writer complained to a New Delhi paper that a telegram to a relative arrived after a letter. He blamed the Post and Telegraph Agency for the delay and wondered whether to praise or complain about their mail and telegraph services.
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New Delhi
Government Post and Telegraph Agency
Walnut Vacationers and Local Visits Highlight Weekend
Sunday dinners and afternoon calls bring together Walnut residents and guests from Broken Arrow Wichita Girard and other towns. Several families return home from travels including a West Coast trip and a Wisconsin visit while local health and school updates surface through medical stays and knee checkups.
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Walnut
N. B. Puckett
Fred Kennedy
Terry
Ernie
Steve
Broken Arrow Okla
Verli Tredway
Wichita
Ernest Puckett
Girard
Debbie Kennedy
Broken Arrow
Erie Vicinity Visitors and Travel News
Erie area residents and relatives are noted with travels and visits. Patsy Harris plans to return to Emporia after Labor Day to continue college. The Swan family vacationed at Grand Lake while Daniel family arrived home from California. The Stipp family visited Galesburg with Gough relatives. Stephen Richey from Kansas City spent time with his grandmother in Erie. Pankratz family returned from Colorado vacation. Dr William Neal and relatives from Miami Oklahoma joined Mrs Pearl Thomas. Beard family from Parsons visited local residents Friday.
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Lawrence Hepler
Gerard
Z. J. Kearns
Leroy Puckett
Chanute
Jerry van Leeuwen
Childen
Bagwell Damn
Fort Leonard Wood
van Leeuwen
David Zandler
Fred Kogisek
Lee Summit
Tom Lucas
Darrell Lucas
Henry Boots
Wichita
Charles Nickelson
Garnett
Walter Crapson
Nevada
Robert Wintjen
Christine Wintjen
Anna Wintjen
Erie
Patsy Harris
John Harris
Emporia
Fred Swan
Tom and
Jill
Grand Lake
Wendell
Debra Daniel
Don Daniel
California
Dean Stipp
Lonnie
Gary
Galesburg
Lloyd Gough
Stephen Richey
Kansas City
Claude Sample
Ted Pankratz
Linda
Darrell
Colorado
Colorado Springs
William Neal
Sally
Christie
Miami
Okla
Pearl Thomas
Neal
Art Beard
Parsons
Zoe McMullen
Albert White
Honolulu Teens Stage Hula On Soviet TV
Fifteen year old Charlene Chang of Honolulu nearly lost her grass skirt during a Hula taping in Moscow. She adjusted the skirt with a pin from a Soviet stagehand and resumed the act. The group from Roosevelt High School has been traveling since August 2, totaling 98 people including parents and teachers.
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Associated Press Moscow
Charlene Chang
Honolulu
Charlene
Roosevelt High School
First church and tavern in New York's early town
The 1967 official Little Green Book records religion predated drinking in colonial New York. It notes the first wooden church built in 1633, the initial tavern in 1642, and the Wall Street wall erected in 1653, the year New Amsterdam was incorporated with about 800 residents.
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New York
New York City
Jamec Wall Street
New Amsterdam
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New Pacific Telephone Co
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Erie County Fair
Baltimore, Md
E. Main HE
Tribune
Walnut Vacationers Home
Jim Lowe
Cindy
Paul Disken
Tacoma Wash
Joseph Bernard Diskin
Mary Leann Webb
Gregory Fugate
Redfield
Lizzie Fugate
Wilmerth Houdashell
Jack
Don Houdashell
Don
W. A. Smith
V. A. Smith
Rita Smith
Jimmy
St. Paul High School
Erie Vicinity
Whyte Woodworks
W. Cherry
New York State Theater
Juanita Hall
Bloody Mary
Miss Hall
Medical Arts Center
Kabul
Afghanistan
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Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal
Tehran
Iran
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Peter
Triple Dipper
W. Main
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Feile
White Budget
China
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