City anticipates eight thousand students back to school
Superintendent H. R. Leeman reports nearly 8 000 students expected to enroll as classes begin September 4 at Decatur area schools. Decatur High about 1 350 pupils. Austin High adds 118 teachers over seven year growth. two new six room additions at Austinville and West Decatur cost about 150 000 each. auditorium at Austin High to be completed.
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H. R. Leeman
Leeman
Decatur High School
Austin High
Austinville
West Decatur
Grant’s Department
Decatur
Prisoners to drill holes in doughnuts to cut costs
Franklin County jail inmates may drill holes in doughnuts to save money. Commissioners propose buying a doughnut machine at about 200 dollars instead of paying around 450 dollars monthly for prison breakfasts.
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Columbus, Ohio
Franklin County
Johnson Favored. Connally and Brown Highlight Ticket Tale
The article recalls Lyndon Johnson’s renomination prospects amid Dallas assassination memories. It spotlights John Bowden Connally Jr. as a trusted ally who survived a near-fatal gunshot incident while in the Kennedy car, and Edmund Gerald Brown’s California lineage. It notes Johnson’s birthday and hints at the unsettled vice presidential choice with senators Humphrey and McCarthy, Gov. Brown, Mayor Wagner, and Muskie among contenders.
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Dallas
Johnson
John Connally
Texas
Edmund Brown
California
Connally
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Edmund Gerald
Pat) Brown
Nickelodeon
California Assembly
Washington
Minnesota
Hubert H. Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
Gov. Brown
Robert Wagner
New York City
Sen
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Ribicoff
Connec
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