Denton Engineer William E Oker Leads Water Plant Project
William E. Oker, veteran engineer and retired New York City Transit Authority worker, heads the Denton water plant project for William F. Freeman Associates. The $1 million facility near Healing Springs will supply Denton as seven miles of pipeline are installed and the plant nears full operation. Oker recalls a worldwide career in tunnels and bridges, a long Army engineering service, and a life before Denton marked by urban underground work.
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Burchett Enterprise
Denton
William EK
Oker
William F. Freeman
Flatswamp Road
Healing Springs
New York City
New York City Transit Authority
Sixth Avenue
New York City Board of Water Supply
City of New York
Oker Finds New Life in Denton After New York career
In Denton, the New Jersey native Oker reflects on his path from urban engineering to retirement in North Carolina. He recalls early work with a survey crew on a water project, his education at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute, and his shift to Freeman Associates after moving south. He praises sunshine, friendly neighbors, and the absence of Yankee jibes as he continues in construction work well past retirement.
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Denton
Washington
D. C
Mary Viola Frank
U. S
High Point Business College
Oker
New Jersey
Lynchburg
Philadelphia
New York
New York City
Catskill Mountain
Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute
Freeman Associates
Freeman
North Carolina
Names on the land and the American memory
A reflective flight over South Dakota and neighboring lands traces Indian legends towns rivers and the evolving map of America. The narrator recalls Lac Qui Parle Pierre and Deadwood names, battles, plaques, and the mythic naming of places, linking history to geography and American identity.
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Watertown
S. D
Convair
Minnesota Line
Lac Qui Parle
America
Yellow Bank Creek
Andover
Groton
Aberdeen
Missouri River Valley
Medicine Butte
South Dakota
Pierre
Pierre Chouteau
Chouteau
Okla
Illinois
Joliet
Bois Blanc Island
Bob - Lo
Oahe Lake
North Dakota
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation
Frozen Man Creek
Black Hills
Wild Bill Hickok
Calamity Jane
Deadwood
Deadwood Creek
Johnson eyes CPB leadership for national educational TV network
President Johnson weighs the pick for CPB president and a 15 member board to run the new educational television network. James Killian and Milton Eisenhower named among initial directors as funding moves proceed with federal and private support.
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Washington
Johnson
Corporation For Public Broadcasting
John Connally
Texas
CPB
Connally
James Killian
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Milton Eisenhower
Johns Hopkins University
Congress
CPR
CBS Network
Carnegie Corp
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Lag in Health Care Puts United States Behind Other Nations
Dr. David D. Rutstein of Harvard Medical School argues the U S faces a leveling off in medical progress due to a lack of coordinated care and planning. He cites high infant mortality and midlife death rates, calling for systematic resource allocation and evaluation of care methods.
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United States
David D. Rutstein
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Rutstein
Rutstein
Denton County Sheriff's Office dog Duke aims for livelier days
In Denton the Davidson County Sheriff's Department houses its sole police dog named YOU. Deputy Dalton Gallimore and Deputy Joann Sexton describe the eight week to three month old German shepherd as trained to eat cookies drink water and sleep. They plan further training and wonder about a permanent name while children call him Duke at home. Attorney Charles Lambeth attended Raleigh sessions on public school values noting morals evolve and history shows shifting standards. The governor study commission weighs how to teach values without indoctrination.
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Congress
U. S. Patent Office
Johnson
Denton
Davidson County Sheriff’s Department
Dalton Gallimore
Joann Sexton
High Point
Denton Court
Charles F. Lambeth
Thomasville
Raleigh
Governor’s Study Commission On Public Schools
Lambeth
General Assembly
Roaming the Piedmont Oddities and Dry Weather Report
A shopper finds a chimpanzee in a car infant seat at a post office. A theater sign glitch showed five movies dawn to dusk before correction. Attic robe humor ponders warm legs and stockings. Farmers note very dry soil, with Willard Kimrey reporting drought, corn yields up to 125 bushels per acre where rain arrived, soybeans rising to 8,000–9,000 acres, and winter grains threatened without rain.
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Kimrey
Guilford
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Amherst
West
Columbia
Barnard
Ole
Gust
Christ
Haakon
Oliver
George
Charles
Henry
Mother Lode
Rapid City
Omaha
Red Shirt Mesa
Big Foot Pass
Badlands
Wounded Knee
Snake Butte
Rosebud Reservation
Collier’s Weekly
Murdo
Medicine Bow
Cache la Poudre
Plata
Council Bluffs
the Capital
By Leslie Carpenter
By Robert Marks
Davidson
By Bob Burchette
By Braxton Younts
Willard Kimrey
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