Apollo 15 Moon Drive Begins With Falcon Landing
Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin start the first moon buggy drive to Hadley Base and nearby Hadley Rille as Alfred Worden orbits in Endeavour. A small oxygen leak from a urine dump valve was fixed, and the crew prepared for three six to seven hour driving excursions during a 67 hour lunar stay.
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Apenine Mountains
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Irwin
Mission Control
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Apennines
Earth
Hadley
Irwin Immediatley
Hadley Base
Alfred M. Worden
Endeavour
Worden
Board weighs renewing capital fund levy for 413 district
Buford Fisher, superintendent, urged resuming the capital outlay fund levy for Unified School District 413. The fund, last used in 1969 at .64 mills, supports major building repairs and site purchases with a current balance of $98,379.73. Expenditures ranged from $16,199 in 1969 to $29,784 in 1970.
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Unified School District 413
413 Board of Education
Buford Fisher
Fisher
Chanute Parks and Recreation Department
Parks and Recreation Department
Intercepted Letter on a Weekend Moon Safe Driving
A fragment reads Weekend safety note claiming the moon is safest place to drive. The oddly phrased message is signed Yours Nute, suggesting a ciphered or playful communication rather than a formal warning.
Weather Report With Record Low Reaches New Date Low
The area forecast calls for sunny skies and southwest winds ten to twenty mph with highs in the upper 70s and partly cloudy tonight. A new record low for the date is reported for the third straight day, with 50 degrees, two degrees below the previous record from 1025.
Plane crashes at Paul France kill 37 aboard
A French air force Nord 2501 transport plane caught fire in flight and crashed at Paul parachute training center in southwest France. Twenty-seven parachute officers and other crew were among the 37 killed. The twin engine Nord 2501, used for cargo and troop transport, was about to begin a jump exercise.
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France
Air Force
District 413 approves 1971 budget with 30.91 mill levy
The Unified School District 413 board approved the 1971-72 budget totaling 1,806,791.72 with a proposed 30.91 mill levy up 2.44 mills from 1970. Publication Aug. 2 in The Tribune triggers a public hearing after the budget is published.
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Unified School District 413
413 Board of Education
The
Tribune
Labor negotiators race to avert steel industry strike
Nationwide labor talks press toward a midnight deadline as nine steel firms pause operations with United Steelworkers of America. Rail strikes spread with 10 lines stopped and 120000 workers off the job while governors report increasingly dire economic effects. California farmers face daily losses, coal mining idles 22000 workers as West Coast dock talks with Pacific Maritime Association stay stalemated.
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Washington
Pittsburg
United Steelworkers of America
United Transportation Union
Labor Department
James Hodgson
California
San Francisco
West Coast
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Pacific Maritime Association
In This Week's 4 County Notes by Dwight Wallingford
A brief weekly roundup by district editor Dwight Wallingford covers four counties with local notes on community events updates and developments. The column highlights civic activity school news and notable upcoming dates for residents.
Swiss Sundae Echoes Through Baker Drug Store Tale
A Yates Center visit recalls Glen and Zola Baker opening their 1930s drug store after a Cherryvale stint. The writer, once a delivery boy in Cherryvale, helped make Swiss chocolate syrup for sundaes. The fountain remains a local draw despite changes since the 1920s and 1930s.
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Yates Center
Glen
Zola
Baker
Cherryvale
Oswego Real Estate Memoir Sparks Grim Humor
Jim Davis notes J. B. Draper of Oswego had a great sense of humor before death. Oswego Rotary members think he would have found the Reader's Digest gag funny and not offensive. After selling his business to John Schmoker, some mail still came to the agency. Schmoker returned a renewal card marking Draper deceased and at Oswego Cemetery. Later a Reader's Digest letter arrived addressed to J. B. Draper, Oswego Cemetery.
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Jim Davis
Parsons Sun
J. B. Draper
Oswego
Draper
John Schmoker
Schmoker
Reader’s Digest
Oswego Cemetery
Chanute woman becomes Homemaker of the Week in Waynesville
Helen Cronemeyer interviews Mrs. Marion Pember wife of Major Pember chaplain at Ft. Leonard Wood for her Homemaker of the Week column. Cronemeyer, daughter of Ted and Mrs Cronemeyer of Chanute, notes Pember is former Carol Kern of Chanute, daughter of Omer Kern now of Neodesha. They have a daughter and a son. Cronemeyer is a musician who entered journalism after teaching music in Thayer and Stark schools in the mid 1960s and remains active in music.
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Waynesville
Helen Cronemeyer
Waynesville Daily Guide
Marion Pember
Major Pember
Ft. Leonard Wood
Miss Cronemeyer
Ted Cronemeyer
S. Katy
Pember
Carol Kern
Omer Kern
Neodesha
Pembers
Thayer and
Stark
July Cold Snap Brings Odd Produce Tales Across Town
Record low July temperatures bring strange reports of cover-pulling and heaters. Growers along Down Thayer sell cold watermelons fresh from the vine. Parsons notes a wag says tomatoes turned blue from cold, while a friend insists cucumbers got goose-pimples. the friend denies the tomatoes tale.
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Parsons
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