Dropout Season in New York City Focuses on Staying in School
A city wide drive during a period of rising concern targets high school dropouts. Initiatives include intensive radio TV campaigns, personal counseling, last chance sessions in 76 high schools, and expanded STEP and work study programs aimed at keeping youths in school or guiding them to suitable employment.
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Board of Education
Paul Driscoll
Brooklyn
Sylvia Porter
Driscoll
New York
Reforming High School Curricula to Save Teenagers
The text argues for immediate redesign of high school curricula to prepare problem students for mechanical and technical jobs. It emphasizes that this work is just beginning and stresses an urgency to act during dropout season to prevent hundreds of thousands of teens from a life on the economic and social junk pile.
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Swimmers Affected by Green Dye Pollution in Beardsley Pond
In Bridgeport Connecticut on Monday thousands of bathers saw their relatives emerge from Beardsley Park Pond colored green by a dumped chemical dye. A bag containing the dye was found near a feeding stream. Swimmers were ordered out and many turned red when washing off the dye.
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Beardsley Park
Retired Watchman Dies At Age Of 102
TRUMBULL Conn AP Isiah Roy died Monday at St Joseph s Manor at age 102 A retired maintenance man and weaver Roy in 1960 said he smoked six cigars and drank a beer daily His wife died in 1947 at age 79 Survivors include a son three daughters 20 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren
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British Gurkhas Kill Six Terrorists Near Border
KUCHING Sarawak AP British Gurkhas killed six terrorists Monday in southern Sarawak s Third Division near the Indonesian Borneo border. One Gurkha was wounded in the operation as the army announced details of the clash.
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