Readers questions on school fundraisers and name changes
A reader asks why elementary schools require students to sell items for funding and how parents can push to end it. The answer suggests PTA discussion or principal input, with options to include essential programs in budgets or seek parent approval for nonessential fundraisers. Also explains steps to amend a passport name at the Middle District Federal Court clerk office in Greensboro, with form guidance and whether in-person appearance is needed.
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Anon
High Point residents offered for sculpture and reading help
The High Point Arts Council lists contacts for sculpting busts including Mrs. Ed Lyon and Mrs. Virginia Bangiola and Mrs. Barbara Platt with Greensboro and High Point numbers. Advice on Halloween curfew is given as false. A note shares progress on maritime job inquiries and potential future openings. Adult reading help via Pitcher & Cup at 882-6744 with Franks Laubach method volunteers is offered at no cost.
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High Point
R.W. A
Frank Laubach
Pitcher & Cup
Vinegar Bend Mizell’s Alabama Roots Clarified
The discussion centers on Congressman Vinegar Bend Mizell from Vinegar Bend Alabama confirming his origin. The speaker confirms Mizell hails from Vinegar Bend Alabama rather than Mississippi or Michigan.
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Vinegar Bend
Mizell
Mississippi
Michigan
Alabama
Pilot error blamed in border plane incident near Leninakan
Two American generals and an American pilot were detained in Soviet Armenia after a light two engine plane crossed the border in a freak wind gust. Diplomats said the pilot misidentified Leninakan for Kars and landed at Seninakan airport. The incident prompted protests from the Soviet Foreign Ministry and calls for release.
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Moscow
U.S
Armenia
Leninakan
Kars
Seninakan
Turkey
Edward C. D. Scherrer
Claude McQuarrie Jr
Edward C.D. Scherrer
Soviet Armenia
Tass
Kremlin
Foreign Ministry
United States
Glass Jars Go Into Paved Street in Fullerton
In Fullerton California the nation s first glasphall street uses over a million recycled bottles blended with stone dust asphalt and lime to form a 600 foot road surface. Federal research from the University of Missouri sparked the project while the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute pays a half cent per bottle at eight LA area centers.
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Fullerton
Calif
Glass Container Manufacturers Institute
Los Angeles
Nobel prizes awarded in physics and chemistry
The 1970 physics prize went to Hannes Alfven and Louis Neel for magnetohydrodynamics and magnetism discoveries. Chemistry laureate Luis F. Leloir was honored for sugar nucleotides in carbohydrate biosynthesis. Neel learned of the award in Besancon, Alfven in La Jolla, and Leloir is a Paris native residing in Buenos Aires.
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Stockholm
University of California
San Diego
Hannes Alfven
la Jolla
Besancon
France
Alfven
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Neel
United States
Royal Advanced Technical School
America
Lyon
Ecole Normale Superieure
Paris
University of Strasbourg
Weiss Laboratory
Grenoble
National Advance School of Electrotechnics
Panic as Pan Am 747 catches fire at Heathrow
An 89 passenger Pan American World Airways jet from Los Angeles halted on the ground at Heathrow when its port engine burst into flames. Passengers slid down escape chutes, some injured mildly as crews began engine teardown. Fire deemed non recurring by FAA prior.
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London
Los Angeles
Pan American World Airways
Bob Marshall
Federal Aviation Administration
United States
National Transportation Safety Board
FAA
American Airlines
Air France
Pan Am
Heathrow
Glenn James
Qantas Air
Nixon Resumes Campaign in Florida Rallies
President Nixon renews off year campaigning from Palm Beach to Miami Beach with press secretary Ziegler framing the aim as tightening the gap of tradition. He notes off year losses historically and hints at post election claims of a GOP surge or modest triumph.
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Nixon
Florida
Palm Beach
Miami Beach
Ronald L. Ziegler
White House
Ziegler
Senate
Agnew Defends Fair Southern Strategy During South Tour
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pressed his final Dixie campaign push in Raleigh and Greenville arguing the Southern strategy is only one element of a national approach. He urged more Southern Supreme Court nominations and opposed school busing while backing textile quotas, and planned appearances in New York City and the Deep South before a Midwest windup.
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Raleigh, N.C
Spiro T. Agnew
Dixie
Agnew
North Carolina
North Carolina State University
Reynolds Coliseum
Campes
Greenville
S.C
Supreme Court
New York City
Navy League
Georgia
Alabama
Midwest
America
South
Union
Raleigh
Memorial Auditorium
Nixon
Asheville
N.C
Lindsay accuses Nixon of fear tactics in campaign
New York Mayor John V. Lindsay charged President Nixon with using fear to eliminate political foes. He spoke at the Family of Man dinner, denouncing the White House strategy and urging Republicans to uphold party principles while naming several liberal Democrats and one liberal Republican unfairly attacked. Awards were also handed to Brewster, Bunche, and others.
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NEW York
John V. Lindsay
Nixon
Lindsay
New York Hilton Hotel
Spiro T. Agnew
Republican Party
Albert Gore
Tennessee
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Joseph Duffey
Connecticut
Ral Yarborough
Texas
Charles E. Goodell
Council of Churches of the City of New York
Kingman Brewster Jr
Yale University
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations
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