Pioneer spirit drives Trinity Center firehouse project
Trinity Center California will build a $40,000 firehouse with donated land and volunteer labor. Community Service District directors rejected taxes and bonds, opting for cash or labor contributions to avoid public funding and costly reports.
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California
Pg&e Progress
Pacific Gas & Electric Co
Community Service District
Federal Treasury
America
Are Customers Dumb The FTC and grocery ads debate
An opinion arguing the Federal Trade Commission overregulates grocery advertising arguing consumers are capable of judging deals and that most promos are first come first served with rain checks common. The piece criticizes FTC logic, cites a 1967-68 study, and questions needs for penalties and enforcement in retail advertising.
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Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Washington
San Francisco
Nia
Commission
Rethinking Education: Move Toward Nonresident Colleges
Anthony Harrigan argues for a major overhaul of higher education. He cites rising costs, the burden of dormitories, and financial strain on colleges, proposing nonresident models, distance learning, and work study to connect students with real work and reduce campus privilege.
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8. S. Hayakawa
San Francisco State College
LU. S. Armed Services
DAILY CROSSWORD AND CRYPTOQUOTE PUZZLE PAGE
Puzzle items across and down clues listed with a separate cryptogram for the daily cryptoquote. Includes themed crossword hints, wordplay, and a quoted proverb, reflecting a newspaper puzzle page format.
On This Day June 8 1971 Almanac Highlights
June 8 1971 marks the 159th day with celestial notes and notable anniversaries. Frank Lloyd Wright born 1869. 1869 patent for a sweeping machine first vacuum cleaner. 1928 WGY Schenectady TV schedule begins. 1965 Gemini White McDivitt mission completed. 1969 Nixon announces a policy or action.
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Mercury
Venus
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
Gemini
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ives McGaffney
Chicago
Schenectady, N.Y
WGY
Ed White
Jim McDivitt
Nixon
No Appeasers and Mammoth Hooks in 1971 Quickies
A satirical roundup recaps cheeky quips and odd anecdotes from 1971. It notes Churchill’s anti-appeasement stance and a college coach’s offbeat recruitment tale. Also highlights a Kamikaze-pilot sign seller, a newlywed couple at City Hall, and a skeptical take on credit in tight money.
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Lonnie Shorr
City Hall
Francis Welsh
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
Service withdraws in Vietnam planned by August 51
A brief item states servicemen would be withdrawn from Vietnam by August 51 and notes the death of actor Robert Taylor at age 57 from cancer. The piece also conveys a Thoreau quotation about goodness tainted.
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Vietnam
Robert Taylor
Unsinkable Cash Oban finds lost pay packet at sea
In Oban Scotland sailor Ian McIntyre tossed old papers into the Atlantic when he realized his pay packet of 19 pounds 45.60 dollars was gone. Captain Robert MacEachern turned the ship around and a crewman spotted a green envelope bobbing. A small boat recovered the packet after a mile and a half search.
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Ian McIntyre
Atlantic
Robert MacEachern
MacEacharn
New York Senate Approves 18 to 21 Marriage Rule
The Senate voted 51 to 1 to allow males aged 18 to 21 in Albany New York to marry without parental consent. Girls 18 and older already had the right for years in New York State.
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Albany
N.Y
UPI
Men's Liberation Movement
Senate
New York State
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