Hawaiʻi aids Botswana students with holiday funds
In Honolulu two Botswana students Emang Mathanyane and Ts raee Mosele received emergency support after arriving 12 500 miles from home for a Hawaii scholarship program that lacked living-expense coverage. The university and two private foundations pledged funds totaling 4500, ensuring Christmas meals and a chance to reconnect with locals.
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Honolulu
Emang Mathanyane
Tsraee Mosele
Hawaii
African Republic
Botswana
Mathanvane
Mosele
The
University
The Miracle at Derrick Texas Christmas Carols
In Derrick Texas a Christmas carol contest centers on an orphanage choir facing eviction after Christmas. The town cheers as the orphans sing with hopeful courage, while rival groups perform in a bid for Gus Derek’s $10,000 prize to fund a new gym.
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Derrick
Gus Derek
Driller’s Dell Grammar School
Santa Claus
Miss Sonata
Texas
Gusher Heights Grammar School
Gusher Heights
Grandpa Wise
Prise
Tom
Joe
Ann
Dotty
Little Peggy
Christopher
Kansas Counties See October Sales Tax Declines
Tax figures in October 1970 show Douglas and Wyandotte counties collecting less sales tax than October 1969. Douglas County totals were 249 143, down 12 895 from 262 038. However July through October rose 963 526, up 109 934 from 853 592. Wyandotte fell to 734 215, down 58 215, yet for the July–October period the county rose to 3 069 464 from 2 713 168. Shawnee Leavenworth Johnson and Jefferson counties posted increases in both monthly and seasonal comparisons.
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Topeka
Kansas
Douglas County
Wyandotte County
Shawnee
Leavenworth
Johnson and Jefferson
Kansas to Propose County Tax Counselor Post
Topeka AP reports the joint tax study committee plans to ask the 1971 Kansas Legislature to create a county property tax counselor position. The role offers local tax advice to low income residents, appointed by the county district judge, with emphasis on small money issues. Each county would decide whether to establish the post.
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Topeka
Kansas
SS'er Stangl Found Guilty In War Crimes Trial
Franz Stangl, SS commander of Treblinka, convicted of murdering hundreds of thousands of Jews and sentenced to life in prison. He led Treblinka in 1942-43 and was later tracked by Simon Wiesenthal before his 1967 Brazil arrest. Treblinka near Warsaw ranked among Nazi camps with Poland deaths totaling about 781,000 between 1942 and 1943.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Franz Stangl
Treblinka
Poland
Stangl
Brazil
Simon Wiesenthal
Vienna Jewish Documentation Center
Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann
Israel
Hitler
Martin Bormann
Gestapo
Heinrich Mueller
Warsaw
Auschwitz
Stang
Sobibor
Soviet Union
France
Belgium
Greece
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Austria
Italy
Syria
South America
Volkswagen
Sao Paulo
Jews Observe Feast of Lights Begins Hanukkah
Jews worldwide start an eight day Hanukkah at sundown honoring the 2 000 year old Maccabees victory over a Syrian tyrant. Tradition says a found lamp burned eight days after being lit during cleansing and rededication of the Jerusalem temple.
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The
Maccabees
Jerusalem
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