Community concerns raise requests for crossing adult presence
Readers urge supervision at North Main and State Street to protect schoolchildren crossing, noting adults should guide traffic. The patrols are praised. city officials say the traffic division will review. A reader also asks about moving an abandoned yard vehicle and about Alcoholics Anonymous contacts. A sports inquiry clarifies Arthur McFadden and related players from 1890s baseball history.
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Main
State Street
State
SELECT college matching program described in Time article
A Time Magazine feature describes SELECT, a Harcourt Brace and World computer based college matching service. Students fill a 200 item questionnaire on records, interests, finances, and priorities. the system tests minimum requirements then weighs answers to suggest 10 to 15 tailored colleges.
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Time Magazine
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Harcourt, Brace and World
Inc
Select
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc
Third Avenue
New York
Cattle Industry Calls for Expanded Herd to Meet Demand
Washington AP report quotes Herrell De Graff of the American Meat Institute warning that beef prices must rise as demand grows. He says producers will not invest without reasonable returns and notes a 16 percent price jump from 1968 to 1969 due to shortages from a harsh winter, with production rising overall to meet demand.
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Associated Press
Washington
Packing Industry
Herrell DeGraff
DeGraff
The
American Meat Institute
House
American National Cattlemen's Association
Haynsworth Nomination Clears Judiciary Committee
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Judge Clement F Haynsworth for the Supreme Court by a 10 to 6 vote. Maryland Republican Mathias abstained while debate focused on Haynsworth financial holdings and vending machine interests.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Clement F. Haynsworth
Supreme Court
Maryland
Charles McC. Mathias
Judiciary Committee
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Haynsworth
James C. Eastland
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Senate
Greenville
D.C
Eastland
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Hainsworth
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Strom Thurmond
Thurmond
Inner Cell Findings Spark Hope For Disease Elimination
SAN FRANCISCO AP New findings on cell inner workings offer hope scientists may end many diseases by repairing chromosomal damage with DNA polymerase enzymes Kornberg of Stanford said enzymes could repair or alter chromosomes and even change future generations via virus carriers He noted the work in test tubes but expected similar results in living cells and compared research cost to the moon project valued above 20 billion dollars.
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San Francisco
Arthur Kornberg
Stanford University School of Medicine
American College of Surgeons
Kornberg
Vietnam Deaths Hit Low of 64
SAIGON AP The weekly American battlefield toll in Vietnam fell to 64, the lowest since December 1966, as casualties for South Vietnam and the enemy also declined. US officials said continued downward trends could push Nixon to speed troop withdrawals, though intelligence pointed to a winter campaign. Wounded totaled 900, the smallest weekly figure since late December.
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Nixon
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Vietnam War casualties rise and aircraft losses reported
The weekly tally shows American KIA rising to 38,887 since January 1961 and wounded to 254,274. Enemy battlefield deaths now total 558,552. U S forces report two American aircraft downed with two crew unhurt, an F 4 Phantom near Da Nang and a helicopter near Saigon, with two crewmen wounded. South Vietnamese command notes battlefield deaths for its forces last week fell to a five month low while enemy casualties also dropped to a near year low.
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U.S
Air Force
da Nang
Saigon
Medals Awarded by Nixon Highlight Vietnam Heroes
President Nixon awarded the Medal of Honor today to four Vietnam veterans in a brief ceremony six days before nationwide antiwar protests. He praised courage in war and urged resilience for peace, saluting the young demonstrators and noting the heroes’ deeds near Chu Lai on January 6, 1968. Recipients: Maj. Patrick H. Brady Capt. Jack H. Jacobs Capt. James M. Sprayberry Sgt Robert M. Patterson. Brady is linked to Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas.
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Nixon
Vietnam
America
U.S
Maj
Patrick H. Brady
Michael H. Brady
Soak Lake
Wash
LaVona T. Thompson
LaPuenta
Calif
Jack H. Jacobs
David Jacobs
Rampage by 500 Young Radicals Flares in Chicago
About 500 demonstrators clashed with police on Chicago s Near North Side. Two gunshot victims, Marshall Berger 22 of Connecticut and Elizabeth Gardner 26 of Seattle, were in satisfactory condition. Seventeen others plus seven officers were treated for injuries. Police arrested 46 men and 19 women for disorderly conduct. Duane Hall Sun-Times photographer faced aggravated battery charges. The unrest preceded a four day action by the Weatherman faction of the SDS near Lake Shore Drive and Michigan Avenue by the Drake Hotel where Judge Julius Hoffman presides over a separate 1968 convention case.
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Near North Side
Marshall Berger
Connecticut
Elizabeth Gardner
Seattle
Duane Hall
Chicago Sun-Times
Hall
U.S. District Court
China Signals Easing of Hostility to United States
New York Times report says Communist China indicated a desire to ease its hostile stance toward the United States. Washington officials study possible responses and initial talks with Beijing. Diplomats noted reduced anti American rhetoric and interest in easing trade and travel restrictions. State Department allowed more leeway for Americans visiting abroad to bring back Chinese goods, seen as a sign of U.S. intent to bridge the gap.
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Nixon
China
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New York Times
Washington
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Peking
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