Patriots We Love America Week In Joplin
In Joplin Missouri and nearby communities residents wear red white and blue armbands to mark We Love America Week. A 30000 band supply ran out Monday with 20000 more ordered. Dr J B Simon proposed the armband idea to show patriotism without political ties amid Vietnam War controversy. Mayor Larry Hickey issued a week proclamation as civic and fraternal groups backed the observance.
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Joplin, Mo
America
Joplin
J. B. Simon
Larry Hickey
Medical costs blamed as unregulated public utility
State Budget Director James Bibb compared the medical profession to a monopoly and a public utility citing lack of fee regulation. He said rising medical costs drive much of the 1971 agency budget requests and affect both direct health services and contracts.
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Topeka
James Bibb
Bibb
Proxmire proposes waste-dump fee to curb pollution
Sen. William Proxmire proposes a federal user fee on industries based on waste dumped into lakes and streams. He says the plan would give industry a strong incentive to cut waste and raise billions for municipal wastewater treatment plants.
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Washington
William Proxmire
Wisconsin Democrat
Tires Flank Washington Safety Test Results
The Department of Transportation says four major American tire makers failed 30 of 120 government tests. Independent labs found issues in endurance, high speed performance, and strength. Tire Industry Safety Council chair Ross R. Ormsby dismissed the results as misleading and noted motorists’ safe tire experience.
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Washington
Department of Transportation
Department
Tire Industry
Ross R. Ormsby
The
Tire Industry Safety Council
Santa Fe reroutes Chicago California passenger service
The Santa Fe Railway announced a January 5 reroute of Chicago California passenger service. Trains 1 and 2, the San Francisco Chiefs, will run between Chicago and Los Angeles instead of Chicago to San Francisco. Local coaches 23 24 between Chicago and Los Angeles will be discontinued due to about 7 million dollars in annual losses.
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Chicago
Santa Fe Railway
California
San Francisco Chiefs
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Baid
Master Plan Endorsed for Kansas Higher Education
Kansas colleges and universities backed a statewide master plan for higher education on Monday. At Wichita State University the Kansas Association of Colleges and Universities approved a study proposed by the Kansas Legislative Council and formed an Ad Hoc committee to develop a systems oriented long range plan with state, public and private officials participating. J. Jack Mehlhorn of McPherson College was named president of the association succeeding A. H. Elland.
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Wichita
Kansas
Kansas Association of Colleges and Universities
Wichita State University
Kansas Legislative Council
Association
WSU
Clark Ahleberg
McPherson College
J. Jack Mehlhorn
A. H. Elland
Hutchinson Community Junior College
Traffic safety group projects Thanksgiving weekend injuries
The National Safety Council estimates 700 to 800 people may be in traffic accidents during the four day Thanksgiving weekend from 6 pm Wednesday to midnight Sunday. This first contact estimate follows a past stay at home view as deaths rose to 764 last year making it the highest four day holiday toll.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Conacl
Moon Men in Isolation on Hawaii Bound Recovery Ship
Apollo 12 astronauts Alan Bean Charles Conrad Jr and Richard Gordon Jr rest in quarantine aboard the USS Hornet as lunar rocks and film await shipment to Houston. Bean has a small facial cut and ear inflammation from the mission while biomedical sensors cause minor irritations.
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Associated Press
America
Houston
Clarence Jernigan
Alan Bean
Charles Conrad Jr
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Bean
Navy
Manned Spacecraft Center
Out of District Tuition Policy Discussed at Board Meeting
Buford Fisher district superintendent told the board he will recommend suspending out of district tuition charges. He noted only two students currently pay tuition, one from Wichita and one from Chicago. The group Circle of 19 discussed cooperative special education and ability grouping plans with Joplin reading instruction studies influencing decisions. Fisher will meet district and state education officials in December to review outlook. The Hutton school reading experiment will end in June.
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Catherine O'Leary
Buford Fisher
Board of Education
Circle of 19
Concordia
Fisher
Wichita
Chicago
Cusd
State Department of Education
Joplin
Hutton School
Weather Forecast Remains Fair Through Wednesday
Continued fair conditions prevail through midweek with cooler temperatures tonight. Expect a high around 60 Wednesday and a low near 25 to 30. Thursday looks partly cloudy and mild.
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha Description of War
An archivist notes that Sherman’s description of war remains unsurpassed as a historical reference. The fragment references an intercepted letter and its impact on literary and military perception.
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Cha
Sherman
Nine-Acre Annexed West of Plummer in City
The city approved a nine acre annexation west of Plummer and north of Main at a special meeting to speed zoning changes. Residents protested but the action was unanimous. Safari Jaycees requested the annexation for a potential federally funded middle income housing project. Officials discussed related city office remodeling and other measures in the meeting.
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Plummer
Main
Reuben J. Burkman
E. J. New
W. H. McMurray
Donald Manning
Jack Brennan
Bonnie Moffatt
John White
City Commission
Fred Harris
City Planning Commission
Harris
West Main
Jerry Phillip
Ninth and Ashby
Memorial Building
Planning Commission
Boy Scouts
Test
South Ashby
W. Main
Main and
Santa Fe Park
Phillips
Manning
American Legion Auxiliary
Floyd Heath
Ralph Caldwell
Caldwell
Brennan
The
Legion Auxiliary
Ardyn Heights
Twelfth
Tennessee
Larson
R. A. Cook
E. Main
Oscar Cunningham
Austin Road
Neosho River
New
Burkman
Haris
Bufore Sherbenou
Charles Bright
Jake Byers
Ray Almond
Jerry Phillips
Nixon Renounces Germ Warfare and Stockpile Destruction
President Nixon declared the United States will not use germ warfare or first use chemical weapons that kill or incapacitate. He ordered destruction of existing bacteriological stockpiles and limited future biological research to defensive measures. He urged Senate to ratify the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting first use of poisonous gases and bacteriological methods.
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Washington
Nixon
United States
U.S
Senate
Thanksgiving services planned across Chanute churches
The Chanute Ministerial Alliance sponsors a 7 30 p m Thanksgiving service at First Presbyterian Church with Rev Robert Gant of Church of the Nazarene as speaker. Additional Thursday services are set at First Church of Christ Scientist at 18 N Forest at 10 a m for an hour and Zion Lutheran at 9 a m.
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Chanute Ministerial Alliance
First Presbyterian Church
Robert Gant
Church of the Nazarene
First Church of Christ, Scientist
N. Forest
Zion Lutheran Church
My Lai massacre killer recalls killings under orders
CBS interview with Paul Meadle, a 22 year old Army veteran, describes killing 10 to 15 Vietnamese civilians on orders from Lt. William Calley during the My Lai massacre. He says Medina could have stopped it and recalls losing a foot to a land mine the day after.
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New York
CBS
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
Calley
Paul Meadle
Terre Haute
Ind
Mike Wallace
CBS Evening News
Walter Cronkite
Meadle
Bobby Wilson
Ernest Medina
Medina
George W. Latimer
Salt Lake City
Meadie
Wallace
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