Movement Toward Year-Round Schools Expands Across States
The article notes a growing shift to year-round schooling as air conditioning and urban living reduce the case for long summer breaks. About 130,000 students in 10 states will study year-round this fall, with a planned expansion to more than 15 states next year. It describes 45-15 rotation and quarter-system models, their benefits for facility use, and current implementations in California Illinois Missouri Vermont Virginia Georgia Maryland and Pennsylvania.
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U.S
United States
Cyril B. Busbee
South Carolina
California
Illinois
Missouri
Vermont
Virginia
Georgia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Valley View
Chicago
St. Louis
Ut Valley View
DuPont to Build Formaldehyde Plant in Healing Springs
Davidson County reads of a new DuPont formaldehyde plant in Healing Springs set to open late December. Plant will be highly automated, using a fume abater and catalytic oxidizer to minimize pollution while employing about 15 workers with four months on the job training.
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Dupont
Healing Springs
FE. I. DuPont de Nemours and Co
Wilmington
Del
Highway 8
Harold Roscoe
Roscoe
Denton
Yadkin
Tom van Zant
Hubert Flowe
Fayetteville
Moncure
Hanover
Acme
Toledo
Reading Peril and Cheap Reading Schemes
A humorous piece on a reader who borrows friends' paperbacks to save money and the trouble it causes. The narrator jokes about war books, Dillinger, Russian revolution texts, and spy trials, noting how indiscriminate reading can distort values and lead to messy, peanut butter smeared pages.
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Pacific
Europe
John Dillinger
Bicycles Spur Chapel Hill Traffic Reform and Club
Chapel Hill officials passed a bicycle ordinance to create bike routes as about 2,000 townspeople and UNC students pedal regularly. Dr. Ernest Craige and Dr. William Peacock tout cycling for health and parking relief while warning riders to follow traffic rules.
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Bill Stewart
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hilliars
America
UNC
Board of Aldermen of
William Peacock
Peacock
Ile
Dr. Peacock
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Thomas F. Driscoll
Peoria Journal Star For the Associattd Press
Valley View School
High Point Enterprise
Art Richardson
Davidson County
Harriet Peters
Lila Ryder
Old John
Cos
Congression
John Benson
Paul Dudley White
Kenneth Cooper
Phill
Beverly Gray
Aviv
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