Tell Me Why winner for school and home quiz
A page features winners for a Tell Me Why contest with Gary Levin and Rosalie Scarborough among the readers. It explains slide rule basics, origins by Napier, Gunter, Oughtred, Bissaker and Mannheimer, and invites questions and riddles for future prizes.
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Gary Levin
Bronx, N. Y
John Napier
Edmund Gunter
William Oughtred
Robert Bissaker
Rosalie Scarborough
San Leandro
California
Work In Fields Keeps Farmers Busy
Alabama farmers stayed busy with cultivation and spraying of raw crops and cotton chopping. Weekend rains aided crops though soil moisture remained short. Cotton stands 85 percent statewide despite cool weather while corn planting is mostly complete and oat combining declines. Peanut stands thin with little haymaking progress. An estimate projects 100 million passenger cars in 1980 and annual travel of one trillion miles.
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United States
Graduation Candidates Listed At TVSVTS and Huntsville Center
A long list shows graduation candidates at TVSVTS covering programs from Auto Body to Watch Repair with names such as John A. Carson, Bobby R. Cooper, and Hubert Norman McKelvey. Huntsville Center candidates include Auto Mechanics and Radio and Television with Jose Bustamante and Donald Allen Link among names. A Canada note mentions a $200 deposit for national office candidates. WANT ADS GET RESULTS.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auto Body
John A. Carson
Bobby R. Cooper
Hubert Norman McKelvey
Ernest L. Philyaw
Stencil
W. Terry
Auto Mechanics
Jimmy Wayne Adams
Leon B. Borden
Marvin S. Butler
Billy E. Hasting
Robert Lee Pullen
Ralph Spencer Smith
Henry D. Walthall
Barbering
John H. Arnett
Radford H. Carter
Bryan Larry Childress
Billy Joe Crosswhite
John Allen Curtis
David E. Luna
David A. Montgomery
Hollis Nesmith
James H. Nunley
Martin V. Shelton
Terry Lee Vandiver
Thurman W. Baker
Despina D. Campaine
Phillip Stephen Fincher
Bobbie R. Garner
Owen Wilson Griggs, Jr
Austen P. Melton
Robert T. Partridge
Bobby R. Reynolds
Doris Nell Scott
James J. Simpler
Adelia Ruth Skinner
George Dwight Thompson
Thomas A. Sutton
Julius E. Williams
Bettye Benson
Dorothy Braswell
Clenda Chenault
Betty Jean Clemons
Judy K. Curtis
Barbara Guess
Sylvia Jean Head
Patricia E. Henry
Jimmie Lou Martin
Gretta A. Miller
June Murray
Patricia Ann McClure
Willie Merle Parker
Jane M. Pounders
Carolyn Jo Sanders
Virginia Royals
Mary R. Scott
Marion Lynn Simon
Patsy Fay Smith
Nancy Stidham
Roy Don Ea
Gerald Killen
Billy R.lawler
Alfred L. Long
William E. Mills
Samuel Shackelford
Joe Walker Spann
Theron Berry
Burton Howard Blenner
Gordon C. Burks
Algie D. Dugger, Jr
Bobby Neal Fuller
William Z. Gross
Garland L. Gullion
Dewey William Smith
James W. Webb
Wayne R. Burrows
Monroe D. Phillips
James B. Golden
Harlan Wallace Hicks
Lonnie Muriel Morgan
James David Crosswhite
Donald T. Hendrix
Enoch W. Holmes
Huntsville Center
Jose Bustamante
R. W. Ingram
Wesley Ingram
Vernon Moroney
Marlon Maze
Thomas Puckett
Donald Allen Link
Robert B. White
Volker Friedrich Siekiersky
Canada
Seed shipments test Vermont sugar maples for sweeter sap
Seed from Vermont sugar maples have been shipped to Germany in an experiment to develop trees of greater sap sweetness. The project explores enhancing maple syrup yield by selecting phenotypes with higher sugar content. Researchers anticipate long term gains for producers and regional industries.
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Vermont
Germany
Equal Enforcement Powers Sought a Bill
Rep Joe McCorquodale of Clarke County proposes granting Conservation Department enforcement officers powers like peace officers. The bill would empower game wardens water safety patrolmen and other departmental enforcers with deputy sheriff level authority.
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Joe McCorquodale
Clarke County
Conservation Department
U.S. Natural Gas Industry Reaches 44 Percent of States
The natural gas sector serves customers across 44 percent of U.S. states, reflecting its broad geographic reach and growing footprint in regional energy markets.
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U.S
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Blakemore
By A. Leokum
Slide Rule
England
Amedee Mannheim
Chuckle
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Davidson Coal & Feed Co
Holly St
Montgomery A
Alabama
Alabama Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Tvsvts
Tennessee Valley State Vocational Technical School
Samuel Leonard Hornsby
James O. Shannon
Jesse Shrader
Wilson 0. Coffman
Marlin L. Hamilton
Jerry W. Chandler
Everette O. Dunn
Herbert Harold Keeton
James Earl McGuire
Marvin L. Skinner
Donald R. Williams
Marvin D. Benson
Charles Raymond Cook
William Stanley Cross
J. W. Portwood
James Riley Hannah
Ralph B. Heath
David Leon Montgomery
Jessie MacMunn
Youell O. Uptain
Donald R. Winkles
Sue Atury
Deborah L. Batchelor
Stella J. Beaver
Mattie Bentley
Mildred L. Blackwood
Ruby Lee Bodine
Joyce A. Brennan
Janice M. Brewer
Mudie R. Brown
Laura Brown
Essie Buchanan
Nella Fay Churchwell
Della M. Clement
Mary Wanda Clemens
Laudine Cobb
Ruth M. Compton
Hazel Cudaboc
Imogene Cummings
Sue Ellen Davis
Wanda C. Dean
Alease M. Dodd
Gertie Lela Duren
Eva Durham
Johnnie Evans
Dorothy Jean Fitzgerald
Jayne Fulenwider
Edna Gentle
Nelma E. George
Anna M. Gist
Nell Gonce
Ruby D. Gurley
Selam L. Hall
Norma Hamm
Hattie Marie Margrave
Aiish Henry
Dorothy Hensley
Mary Herchenhahn
Belvia Jean Hicks
Annie Lee Johnson
Edna Johnson
Jimmie F. Johnson
Esther Kennedy
Letha Killough
Carole Lankford
Shelia Lankford
Gwen Lesley
Joy Little
Rachel Barbara Long
Elsie MacKentepe
Linda J. Matthews
Betty Meigs
Eanon R. Morgan
Gladys L. Mote
Farm Bureau
B. G. Hall
Braswell
B. E. Braswell
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