Americans Hopeful as China Opens Door to Travel and Trade
In San Francisco Chinatown residents welcome Nixon’s China policy change as a path to peace. Sam Yuen, 62, who left Canton in 1937, longs to visit his homeland again and praises cultural exchange over politics. Local business leaders see renewed trade easing global deficits and tensions.
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Yuen
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Meeting Law Not Violated, Official Says
Creek County District Attorney David Young says an investigation found no breach of the open meeting law by the Bristow City Council over a February session. Editor Kenneth R. Woodcock claimed the council met in secret and acted March 15, but the probe led by Assistant District Attorney Steve Foster found no substantiation.
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Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Backs Plan Update on Cimarron Route
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority authorized a $76,400 update of Cimarron Turnpike plans and aims to finance the toll road by mid summer if bond buyers respond. The panel resisted Ponca City pleas to study a Tulsa to Interstate 35 spur via Ponca City, and approved a Tulsa area to I-35 near Sperry route to be prepared in about three months. Bonds could be offered this summer.
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Oklahoma Turnpike Authority
Ponca City
Tulsa
Interstate 35
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Early cancer treatment lowers British death toll
A 1961 British survey of 100000 people shows early cancer treatment saved lives with about half surviving at least five more years. In late treatment cases only 8 percent of men and 17 to 18 percent survived five years.
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London
On Again Off Again Draft Board Merger Explained
Col Herbert Hope explains the volatile plan to consolidate Oklahoma draft boards after budget cuts forced reductions. He notes moves to 28 boards from 77 counties and a reversal after congressional blocking and interagency debates.
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Oklahoma
Herbert Hope
Oklahoma Selective Service System
Hope
Slang terms for Bantu beer in Johannesburg shop
A Johannesburg liquor store manager notes Africans use over 50 slang terms when ordering Bantu beer a milky white brew with a half fermented odor. Common names include black whisky today shake shake African Scotch yesterday hops one short passing plastic black heather scooter and cartoon.
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Africa
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