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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1968

Page

5

Who Shall Live or Die. Transplant ethics debate rises

Washington debates lifesaving heart transplants and the ethics of who may live or die. Mondale urges a national commission amid legal drafts to let adults donate body parts at death for science. Lawmakers weigh standards, consent, and public policy as doctors face evolving science.

James Reston New York Times News Service Washington Walter F. Mondale D-Minn Mondale Congress Sen. Mondale

Campus Drug Use Shows Growing Up Idea

A New York Times survey finds college students broadly using marijuana as part of growing up. Harvard Law School students and Amherst College surroundings illustrate permeating drug culture from elite campuses to high schools, with users described as better-than-average students in arts and humanities majors.

United States New York Times John Kifner New York Times News Service New York Amherst Mass New England Amherst College Cambridge Harvard Law School Colege Ivy League Kenneth Kenniston Yale University School of Medicine American Psychiatric Association National Student Association Berkley Yale New York University University of Wisconsin Fordham St. John’s Beatles Bob Dylan Ravi Shankder University of Massachusetts Joel Fort San Francisco Health Department Richard H. Blum Psychopharmaco Logy Project Institute For the Study of Human Problems Stanford University Haight-Ashbury San Francisco H. R. Kormos Westport Conn Kormos Vietnam James G. Emerson Jr Larchmont Avenue Presbyterian Church Larchmont N.Y Boston Mexico Helen Newlis University of Rochester National Association Federal Food and Drug Ton

Education Faces Chaos as Schools Seek Order and Funds

A mid-1960s portrait of American education shows leaders pressed by politics to shape social order. Expenditures reach 52 billion dollars, yet costs rise faster than funding, while public and private institutions face growth, polarization, and debates over power, reform, and graduate education amid campus protests and social change.

Fred M. Hechinger N. Y Harvard Columbia Yale Vietnam Uncle Tom Mr. Chips

Christmas Decoration Contest honors and thanks from Wishful Diggers

The Wishful Diggers Garden Club thanks Decatur Daily staff for support in the 1967 Christmas Decoration Contest. 173 entries competed with winners notified by letter and prizes funded by local banks and businesses including $50 top prize and various $5 to $25 gift certificates from Sears Parisian Gibson's Suburban Shop McDonalds and others.

Wishful Diggers Garden Club U. S First State Bank First National Bank State National Bank First Federal Savings & Loan Assn Sears, Roebuck & Co Gibsons Miss Potts McDonalds Hamburgers Roberts Brown's Fabric Center Austin Jewelry Blackwell Florist City Park Florist Bruno's Krogers 6Th Ave Sunshine Cleaners Noel Callahan Ralph Averitt

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