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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1972
Page
14
A two decade old Lubbock building, the Great Plains Life Building, stands 22 stories damaged by a tornado. It sits unused amid controversy among owners city officials and insurers with salvage and demolition debates and a $1 million settlement keeping it dormant.
APEX branches in high schools turn classrooms into working offices with student employees in reception, typing and clerical roles. The program targets motivation and attitudes, promoting poise, maturity and responsibility while teaching cooperation and problem solving through role play and staff meetings.
In Saigon the last U S combat infantrymen prepare to leave Vietnam ending the 7½ year ground war. The 3rd Battalion, 1st Infantry and 240 men fly to Da Nang to turn in gear and depart. Ronald Wegerle of Wichita recalls exhausted morale as the unit exits combat. Five men are wounded by booby traps as Spec. 4 James McVicar heads home.
The World Almanac explains that meteoroids vaporize in Earth’s atmosphere to become meteors. Most are consumed, but some reach the ground as meteorites composed of fused metal or stone. Meteoroids are believed to come from comets or the asteroid belt.
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