Goodwill Bins See Increased Pickups to Reduce Mess
Readers ask why overflowing Goodwill donation boxes persist. Executive Dirk Langdon explains bins are a key raw material source for handicapped workers and High Point will boost pickups from two to three times weekly to curb outdoor debris and theft.
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A. Goodwill Industries
Edward Langdon
Goodwill
High Point
Langdon
Goodwill Industries
Greensboro
Henry Wiseman Kendal Center
Stamp machines shortchange customers at stores
A reader questions why private stamp machines dispense two 8-cent stamps for a quarter, claiming 16 cents value. The post office says it does not control private machines. Within post offices, machines dispense three 8-cent stamps plus a penny, though no anthem plays.
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K.S
Air Pollution Contacts in Guilford County and State
Respondents include Jack Perdue Environmentalist Supervisor Guilford County Health Department High Point in the mornings and Owen Braughter head in Greensboro phone 272 4581. W Everett Knight heads the Air Pollution Control Division Department of Water and Air Resources P O Box 9392 Raleigh NC.
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Guilford County
Jack Perdue
Sports Life Inc offers Washington Redskins toboggans in Evanston
The reply identifies Sports Life Inc of Evanston Illinois as the source for Redskins toboggans. Address: Dept SN-7 1031 Davis Street 60201. The firm stocks a variety of sports souvenirs including knit hats.
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Washington Redskins
A. Try Sports Life, Inc
Evanston, Ill
Davis St
Staubach Heisman Win At Naval Academy In 1963
The sportswriter Jim Pettit notes Roger Staubach, then a Dallas Cowboys quarterback, won the Heisman Trophy in 1963 during his junior year at the Naval Academy. An injury kept him from repeating the honor in his senior season.
Timeline of Super Bowls Up to No 6 Match
The text notes Super Bowl No 6 is the Dallas vs Miami game on Sunday. It lists the first Super Bowl in 1967 with Green Bay Packers beating Kansas City Chiefs 35 10. It then cites 1968 Packers 33 Oakland 14 1969 Jets 16 Baltimore 7 1970 Kansas City 23 Minnesota 7 1971 Baltimore 16 Dallas 13. It concludes that former NFL teams lead 3 2 over old AFL teams before the upcoming game.
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Dallas
Miami
Green Bay Packers
Kansas City Chiefs
Green Bay
Oakland
New York
Jets
Baltimore
Kansas City
Minnesota
NFL
AFL
Breeder Atomic Power Plant Announced By AEC
The Atomic Energy Commission announced plans to build a $500 million breeder atomic power plant in Tennessee. Commonwealth Edison Co. and the Tennessee Valley Authority would operate the plant, which would demonstrate production of atomic power and breed new atomic fuel for long term supply. The project marks a pivotal step toward a breeder reactor industry.
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Breeder Atomic Power
AEC
Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Tennessee
Commonwealth Edison Co. of
Chicago
Tennessee Valley Authority
Dent Nixon
Rogersville
Tenn
Knoxville
TVA
James R. Schlesinger
Schlesinger
White House
Soviet Union
Associated Press
Scott hints politics driven IRS probe in campaign financing
Gov. Bob Scott suggested an Internal Revenue Service inquiry into campaign contributions may be politically motivated. IRS and district director J. E. Wall confirmed investigations into improper handling of contributions, but stressed Scott himself is not under inquiry. Political rivals accused Scott of deflecting charges as an election tactic.
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Raleigh
Bob Scott
Internal Revenue Service
Scott
IRS
J. E. Wall
Wall
Jim Holshouser
Holshouser
U.S. Justice Department
Kennedy Declines Delegates at National Convention
Senator Edward M. Kennedy says he will not head Massachusetts delegates to the Democratic National Convention but will be active during the session. He filed an affidavit to remove his name from the Massachusetts primary ballot yet plans to participate later, as other candidates jockey for Florida and New Hampshire contests.
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Edward M. Kennedy
White House
Kennedy
Boston
Miami
Massachusetts
George Wallace
Hubert H. Humphrey
Alabama
Florida
Wallace
Humphrey
Minnesota
Jacksonville
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Hartke
New York
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Nixon
Jackson
Iowa State University
Ames
George McGovern
South
Soviet expels U.S. congressman over emigration talks
Soviet Union orders the immediate expulsion of Rep. James H. Scheuer of New York after a dinner at a Jewish professor's home in Moscow. Scheuer, held for two hours, leaves for Leningrad. Embassy says he was expelled for improper activities as part of a U.S. delegation led by Rep. John Brademas and sponsored by the government.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
U.S
Israel
James H. Scheuer
New York
Leningrad
Scheuer
Georgy Kornyenko
Soviet Foreign Ministry
Kornyenko
Hong Kong Flu Returns Across the United States
The Hong Kong flu has reappeared with two major virus types A2 Hong Kong and B. The center reports cases in 22 states plus DC and New York City, with Rhode Island Connecticut and New Jersey showing wide spread activity and regional outbreaks in Michigan and Wisconsin.
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Atlanta
National Center For Disease Control
Hong Kong
United States
District of Columbia
New York City
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Michigan
Wisconsin
Maine
Vermont
New York State
Illinois
Ohio
Kansas
Iowa
South Dakota
Florida
Tennessee
Texas
Louisiana
Colorado
Utah
Montana
California
Oregon
Wage Board approves retroactive raises under freeze policy
The Pay Board votes 14 to 0 to authorize automatic retroactive pay for raises lost during the wage freeze. They will review higher raises and all pay units over 5 000 persons. The Cost of Living Council considers exempting workers earning under 1.90 dollars per hour from controls.
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Washington
Cost of Living Council
Congress
Nixon
Council
Pay Board
George H. Boldt
Smoking study questions fetal harm and birth weight links
UC Berkeley researcher Dr. Jacob Yerushalmy analyzed 5 077 pregnant women at Kaiser Oakland 1960 to 1967 and reported that smoking may not affect fetal development as strongly as past studies. The study shows similar low birthweight rates among continuous smokers and never smokers who began smoking after birth, and fewer low weight babies among those who quit.
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LOS Angeles
University of California
Jacob Yerushalmy
School of Public Health
Berkeley
Yerushalmy
National Institutes of Health
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Kaiser Hospital
Oakland
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Gov. Scott
Brooks Jackson
Bill Stockton
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