Exploring Safe Driving Road Rally for Exploring Scouts
The Exploring Safe Driving Road Rally tests navigation and driving skill for Exploring-age youths with up to 36 teams in a national final offering $7,000 in college scholarships and a year with a new car. Local rallies feed finalists, with unequipped class emphasized and navigator role key to success.
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Exploring Division
Boy Scouts of America
Lincoln-Mercury Division
Ford Motor Company
Boy Scout Councils
Toledo, Ohio
Detroit
Spark Plug Company
10 Count Guide To Car Safety
Canada Safety Council warns drivers face 10 basic safety flaws that can out a car. Problems include brake pedal sinking, continuous pulling, excessive steering play, vibrations at speed, steering shimmies, rear wheels locks, air leaks, improper tire inflation, exhaust noise, odd odors, and non functioning turn signals.
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Canada Safety Council
Senior Chosen Rep To Design Society
Earl F. Robinson a Kansas University industrial design senior from Overland Park has been chosen as one of three student representatives on the Industrial Designers Society of America education committee. He will also attend society board meetings as a student representative. This marks the first KU student to serve on the committee after KU was designated to choose the western region representative.
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Earl F. Robinson
Kansas University
Overland Park
Industrial Designers’ Society of America
Art workshop participants display at Kansas University Museum
Works by participants in a four session art workshop last September at the Kansas University Museum of Natural History go on display today. The exhibit on the fifth floor features natural history and environmental media and was taught by museum artist Tom Swearingen and sponsored by the Museum Associates.
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Kansas University Museum of Natural History
Tom Swearingen
Museum Associates
1840s Whaling Fleet Numbers Across the Seas
In the 1840s more than 700 American whaling ships roamed the world, reflecting a vast maritime industry and global hunting networks. The period marks the height of American whaling reach with vessels active in distant seas and ports.
Docking Lands His Leadership
Leavenworth Kansas AP Gov Robert Docking praised progress in government reform and better life in Kansas at a dinner in his honor. He cited efforts in drug abuse highways education welfare crime economy and tax reform while promising government restructuring to modernize and ease family living costs. He noted the new Dallas Fort Worth airport will open in 1973.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Robert Docking
Kansas
Docking
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport
One in Ten Vehicles Stolen Last Year
The piece notes that about one in ten cars and trucks were stolen nationwide, nearing one million losses as 1968 and 1969 thefts rose to 777,800 and 871,900 with expected gains to around one million annually amid newer anti theft devices.
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United States
FBI
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Pickens
Auto Parts
Dale Shell
Roger Borland
Jayhawk Volkswagen
Don Grammer
Dbtcvie
Jerry Starcher
John Scrivo
Iowa
Landirebbe
Iagu0
Johnson
Mits
Ullair
Kentucky
Etz LD
Orbitread
RCA
Westinghouse
Goodyear
Kansans
Bill Gehrke
Delco
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