Father's Day Observance Traced From Hallmark to Presidents
American dads have a day to relax and receive cards while other nations mark fathers with varied customs. The piece recounts Forefather's Day origins for America and notes early efforts by Bruce Dodd of Spokane to promote fatherhood services, with presidential actions by Wilson and Coolidge shaping the holiday.
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Kansas City
Yugoslavia
China
Hallmark
Dad
Bruce Dodd
Spokane
Wash
Dodd
William Smart
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Calvin Coolidge
South Vietnamese to Run Key U S Spy Sensor Posts
Saigon will take over select secret American sensors along the Laos and Cambodia borders as part of Nixon’s troop swap plan. The move signals Vietnam’s growing ability to handle advanced surveillance and coordinate air strikes with U S forces.
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Washington
Laos
Cambodia
Saigon
McNamara
Pentagon
U.S
Modern Cowboys Use Scooters at Denver Stock Yards
At the Denver stock yards, most handlers move cattle with three wheel motor scooters instead of horses due to slips on steep ramps at a railroad underpass.
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Cowboys
Denver
Alfred Declares Christmas Season Includes 12 Days
In 9th century England King Alfred decreed that the Christmas season comprises Christmas Day and the twelve days that follow, marking a formal extension of the festive period in royal policy.
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England
Alfred
Records Shipped To GI In Vietnam From Greenville
A package of more than 700 phono graph records and 25 albums, plus nearly 100 letters, was mailed by WGYV radio to Spec. 6 James D. Mills of Greenville for the 335th Transportation Co. in Chu Lai, Vietnam. The station also included blank tapes and a patriotic organ medley, with letters from Greenville residents and messages of encouragement from Mayor Charles Plummer and Mrs. Miller, Mills’s mother, reflecting the unit's need for leisure music.
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Greenville
Ala
Vietnam
WGYV
335Th Transportation Co
Chu Lai
South Vietnam
James D. Mills
Post Exchange
Terry Golden
Mills
Bill Miller
Ballard
The
Bear
Paul ‘‘Bear
Bryant
Alabama
Charles Plummer
United States
A. E. Howell
Miller
Hillsboro Youth Works in New York This Summer
Jef Farrior son of Mr and Mrs E M Farrior of Hillsboro works at Metropolitan Life Insurance Co New York this summer in the Department of Manpower Recruiting and Development. After the internship he will travel across Canada and the United States before returning for his senior year at the University of the South Sewanee Tenn where he serves as SAE fraternity vice president business manager of the yearbook Sewanee swim letterman and Academic Club member.
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Jef Farrior
E. M. Farrior
Hillsboro
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
New York
Department of Manpower
Canada
United States
University of the South
Sewanee
Farrior
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America
Plymouth Rock
William P. Rogers
Cynthia
Jesica Marshall
Granpaw
Donald Marshall
Manhattan Beach
Calif
Demilitarized Zone
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Congress
Khe Sahn
I Corps
U. S
Insurance Underwriters of
Decatur
James E. Dillard
Wayne Howard
John P. Caspers
Bob
Hugh Looney
Tuscaloosa
Benny Rakestraw
Decatur Ium
State National Bank
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