Teen reading habits under scrutiny by educators
A note from editors in Our Daily Bread cites a study in Journal of Reading on teenage reading issues. They summarize Edinburg Tex experts Gentile and McMillan noting TV reduces reading time and that schools should provide newspapers and magazines. propose student created papers to boost interest.
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Edinburg, Tex
Journal of Reading
Lance M. Gentile
School of Education
Pan American University
Merna M. McMillan
Tropical Texas Center For Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Gentile
McMillan
NIE
Trains Collide Near Frankfurt on the Oder Killing 27
An express passenger train and a freight train collided near Lebus on the Polish border 5 miles north of Frankfurt on the Oder and 4 miles east of Berlin. Twenty seven people died and seven were injured as fire and wreckage were cleared over hours by rescue teams. The passenger train traveled from Zittau to Stralsund and the freight's tank cars reportedly caught fire.
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Berlin
Frankfurt-on-the Oder
ADN
Zittau
Stralsund
East Germany
Lebus
Frankfurt-on-the-Oder
Arkansas Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty in Woodard Case
The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence for Billy Woodard in a capital felony murder case from Poinsett County. Woodard shot C. M. Baker during a robbery on Sept. 3, 1975 after a planned car trip for a trailer search ended with Baker loading gas and Woodard firing a .12 gauge shotgun.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Supreme Court Today
Billy Woodard
Poinsett
Woodard
C. M. Baker
Craighead County
Baker
42 Die As Pad Cell Fire At Tennessee Jail
A 16 year old inmate, Andy Zinmer, faces arson charges as investigators probe a pad cell fire at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tennessee. The blaze killed 42 people including inmates and visitors and injured many more.
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Columbia, Tenn
Maury County
Zinmer
Tes
Bob Farmer
Farmer
Weekend wrecks leave two collisions with minor injuries
Four wrecks occurred over the weekend. Saturday at 5 p.m. at South Hervey and Division Streets Doris Weatherton of Dumas pulled from a stop sign and was struck by Gaylon W. Calhoun of Hope. no charges filed. Sunday at about 4:13 p.m. at North Hervey Pond and Avenue A Bonnie Lee Powell of Hope tried to turn onto Pond Street and was hit from behind by John David Little of Hope who was charged with following too close.
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South Hervey
Division Streets
Doris Weatherton
Dumas
Division Street
Gaylon W. Calhoun
Hope
North Hervey, Pond
Avenue A
Bonnie Lee Powell
Pond Street
John David Little
Little
Nitrite in meat cancer risk examined by panel
A U S panel led by Assistant Agriculture Secretary Carol Tucker Foreman reviews evidence on sodium nitrite used to cure bacon ham hot dogs and other meats. Nitrite prevents botulism and preserves color but may form nitrosamines linked to cancer under high heat frying or digestion.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Agriculture
Carol Tucker Foreman
Court limits desegregation busing in Dayton ruling
The Supreme Court sent Dayton desegregation remedies back for a narrower plan, keeping in effect the current busing for 18 000 students for another year while cautions apply. The decision signals restraint on federal court remedies without establishing new constitutional rules. In a separate ruling the Court allowed lawyers to advertise routine fees, 5 to 4, overturning bans in many states and signaling broader First Amendment scope.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Dayton
Ohio
High Court
6Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Daytona
Lewis F. Powell
Harry A. Blackmun
Arizona Supreme Court
American Bar Association
Robberies Hit Three Local Businesses Over Weekend
Over the weekend three local businesses were burglarized. The Town and Country Restaurant was entered at the side door with 300 dollars in cash taken. Montgomery Wards suffered a break in with one car battery and four CB radios stolen. Hope Floral reported a small amount of change missing.
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Montgomery Wards
C.B
Hope Floral
Forty four rural fire departments receive equipment grants
Arkansas Forestry Commission awarded 55 200 dollars in equipment grants to 44 rural departments under Title IV of a three year pilot. Limits were 5000 per county wide unit and 1000 per single department with 76 applications. Almost 115 communities benefited via these grants.
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Arkansas Forestry Commission
Commission
Pine Bluff
Forestry Commission
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Alex. H. Washburn
Rogers
C.M
California
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Atlanta, Ga
Times
Dist
Robert H. Gay
Andy Zinmer
Gay
Nashville
Waukesha
Wis
Superior
Lad Lake Inc
Doussman
Columbia
Ray Blanton
Tennessee
Blanton
Jerry Dickey
Dickey
Howard Blake
Third
Hazel Streets
Hope Police Department
Ricky Dale Clark
Stamps
James Wingfield
Clark
Wingfield
Effie George
South Main Street
Highway 29
Chester May
Ark
Jim Harris
Okays Limited
Mt. Olive
Arch Street Pike
Benton County
Harrisburg
Genoa
Arkansas
Gresham
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