Alaskans Celebrate Holiday Traditions Across The State
Alaskans plan festive events from Sitka to Barrow for Alaska Day celebrations. In Sitka Porky Bickar targets a spar tree with a hooch bottle prize while Juneau hosts the Mendenhall Barrel Drift. Seward holds Mt Marathon race attracting about 1000 contestants. Barrow expects a DeWayne Brothers Circus visit with an elephant and other animals.
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Henry Seward
Russia
Alaska
United States
Sitka
Sragon
Seward
Porky Bickar
Porky
Vern Eliason
Juneau
Mendenhal
Arturo
United State
Barrow
Arctic
DeWayne Brothers Circus
Fairbanks
Song contest set Thursday at Ag Park
Agricultural Park hosts a Thursday 7:30 p.m. song contest featuring drill teams and clubs performing medleys of bicentennial musical numbers. The event invites the public to attend this musical showcase.
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Ag Park
New Yorker tries to display Declaration copy on Bicentennial
Laura Comn 23 tries to display her authentic copy of the Declaration of Independence in New York for the Bicentennial. She hires 170 guards and appears on TV but City Hall offers no access or display, listing security and venue limits as obstacles. The document, authenticated by the Library of Congress, is one of 21 known surviving copies. The South Street Museum agreed to take it if she supplies her own security.
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Kenneth R. Clark
New York
UPI
Laura Comn
City of New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Ira G. Corn
Sfiss Cora
City Hall
New Yorker
Library of Congress
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Turkey plant workers fall ill in Lincoln Nevada plant
A UPI report notes several workers at a Nevada turkey processing plant became ill. Dr. Paul Stoesz, director of the local control unit, said blood tests were performed and the illness rate appeared to drop from an initial high level to about ten percent.
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Columbus High
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Columbus
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Sue Selig
Sandi Bede
Ann Zastera
Nadine Harrington
Barb Seafield
Nancy Gable
Donna Brandt
Lincoln
Nev
UPI
Turkey
Paul Stoesz
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