POWs Face Reluctance to Seek Psychiatric Help
Washington AP report shows Pentagon medical chief Dr. Richard S. Wilbur confirming a tough effort to persuade returned POWs to accept psychiatric care. Following Air Force Captain Edward A. Brudno's June 3 suicide, four men were ordered back to hospitals and ten POWs total were found with serious emotional problems after 566 were examined.
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Washington
Pentagon
Richard S. Wilbur
Wilbur
Air Force
Edward A. Brudno
Brudno
Armed Services
U.S
School Warrants To Be Sold Thursday Hartselle
Morgan County Board of Education invites bids on capital outlay warrants valued at 180000 for building six Crestline School classrooms a Morgan County High School vocational wing and science rooms at Morgan County Junior High School The warrants are payable from a five and a half mill ad valorem tax and will be opened Thursday at 11 a.m. in the board offices.
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Hartselle
Morgan County
Crestline School
Morgan County High School
Morgan County Junior High School
George Nancarrow
Bookmobile routes for Wheeler Basin Library schedule week
The Wheeler Basin Regional Library bookmobile releases a weekly tour plan with stops across multiple towns. Daily times and locations include Sherbrooke Trailer Park to Piney Grove Church on Monday, Hulace to Rocky Ford Grocery on Tuesday, and several other community sites through Friday's end at Piney Chapel Sub-Division.
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Wheeler Basin Regional Library
Sherbrooke
Morgan City
Union Hill
Clark’s
Piney Grove
Falkville
Leesdale
Hulace
Ryan School
Plainview
Wigginton
Briscoe
Rocky Ford Gorcery
Antioch
Kirby’s Midway
Capshaw
Worthey’s
Fairmont
Clem
Tanner, Swanner’s
Jones Crossroads
Luttrell’s
Cotaco
Jackson’s Rocery
Talucah
Ish’s
San
Burningtree Country Club
Carroll’s
Thatch Grocery
Pinedale
Ardmore
Elkmont
Hays Mill School
Piney Chapel
Pine Grove Notes of Moves and Life Events
Pine Grove reports Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tucker return to Kalamazoo Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Billy Campbell visit Randy in Lake Worth Florida. Memorial services set for Pine Grove Church Sunday June 10. The Ladies Prayer Band met at Mrs. Margie Reeves home. The Argo family guest singers. Mr. and Mrs. David Hitt welcome baby girl Marsha Deanna born Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Shelton visit daughter Mrs. Stanley Cronkhite in Kalamazoo Michigan.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Billy Campbell
Randy
Lake Worth
Fla
Pine Grove Church
Ladies Prayer
Margie Reeves
Wayne White
Florida
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Argo
David Hitt
Marsha Deanna
Johnny Shelton
Stanley Cronkhite
Repeats on TV Dinners Futures in Home TV Link
Indianapolis report notes RCA official William H. Anderson envisions a future where TV sets connect to computer systems. Households could request recipes via TV, watch steps on screen, and print directions for kitchen use. FCC forecasts two way cable systems in top markets by 1977.
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Indianapolis
Ind
William H. Anderson
RCA Consumer Electronics
Federal Communications Commission
Anderson
FCC
Hollywood in 1973 Faces Rising Strikes and Settlements
Hollywood braces for a looming directors walkout as writers strike enters its 15th week. Negotiations fail to bridge gaps with the Directors Guild, threatening a broader industry paralysis and a possible actors strike over profit sharing from tape and cassette sales.
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Marilyn Beck
Hollywood
Directors’ Guild
Actors Guild Board
Dan Dailey
NBC
Death lesson courses teaches students to face mortality
In Orlando, Laurence Wyatt, a 36 year old English instructor at the Florida Technological University Central Florida campus, took 60 students to a funeral home and had them write their own obituaries as a semester assignment in a Death and Dying course. He framed the experience as a jolt to stop postponing life revealing what students value when told they have one year to live. The class explored themes from Evelyn Waughs The Loved One and reported strong student interest and engagement despite initial discomfort.
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Orlando, Fla
Laurence Wyatt
Wyatt
Evelyn Waugh
Benefit Singing Attracts Support For Ranch Vehicle Note
A gospel singing to aid the North Alabama Sheriff's Boy’s Ranch at Punkin Center will occur Friday at 8 p.m. in the Lawrence County Coliseum Moulton. Proceeds will pay a $3,000 note on a Ford 1973 pickup truck purchased for the ranch. Sponsored by the Lawrence County Sheriff’s department and the Jaycees, tickets cost 2 in advance and 2.50 at the door. Proceeds go to the ranch while advance tickets are sold at several local outlets in Moulton and Decatur. Performers include Hopper Brothers and Connie from Madison NC The Kings Messengers and The Corinthians.
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North Alabama
Decatur Gospel Music Center
Hartselle Florist
Annie’s Cafe
Draper’s Market
Moulton
Patterson
Hopper Brothers
Connie
Madison
N.C
The
Kings Messengers
Corinthians
Brother of Rep. James Martin shot during Scout camping trip
Thomas N. Martin, Alabama Power executive and brother of former Rep. James Martin, is in serious condition in an intensive care unit after a shooting at Turkey Creek Falls near Pinson. Jefferson County sheriff's deputies continue an investigation as youths moved him to a car and then to East End Hospital.
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Birmingham
Ala
Thomas N. Martin
James Martin
Rala
Martin
Alabama Power Co
East End Hospital
Jefferson County
Turkey Creek Falls
Pinson
Dixie Calvert
Genuine Peace Prospects Poor In Indochina After Paris Cease-fire
A Senate staff report says genuine peace in Indochina remains unlikely more than four months after the Paris cease-fire. It cites U.S. doubts about Hanoi and Thieu, ongoing Southeast Asia involvement, and irregular payrolls with fictitious Cambodian troops. The report notes CIA flight bonuses to Laotian pilots and troop counts ranging from 150,000 to 275,000 with possible inflation and missing clarity on Cambodian forces.
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Washington
Indochina
Paris
Senate
United States
Hanoi
Thieu
Senate Foreign Relations
James G.lowenstein
Richard Moose
U.S
Central Intelligence Agency
Word Oddities and Language Shifts Across Cultures
A column explores how World War II influenced language with Americanisms entering Britain and British words slipping into the US. It cites slang like dicey trendy pricey and notes irregular past tense shifts such as goed and snack. It explains defenestration from fenestra meaning window.
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United Kingdom
Atlantic
Jim Johnson
Philadelphia
David Halberstam
William F. Buckley Jr
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