Kites Fly High as Fifth Graders Build Paper and Thread Arts
Two Clarence Ruth Elementary classes led by Mrs. Coker and Mrs. Stearns built paper and thread kites using magazine plans. Students measured with rulers, cut diamond shapes, and tied No 8 thread to side holes with No 60 thread as a kite line. The windy Lompoc day produced many kites soaring above 900 feet, with seven winners chosen amid playful competition.
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Stan Tulledo
Clarence Ruth
North W Street
Coker
Stearn
Lompoc
Laird denies end of Vietnam War before election
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird told Oklahoma City civic clubs there is no plan to declare an end to the Vietnam War prior to the November vote. He said any settlement will come from diplomacy, not political timing, and warned against defense-spending cuts that could weaken U S strength.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Defense
Melvin Laird
Nixon
Laird
George McGovern
Cronkite says department withheld grain sale report
CBS Evening News reported that the Agriculture Department suppressed an Economic Research Service report detailing the Russian crop failure while big exporters negotiated to sell about 419 million bushels of wheat to the Soviet Union. Walter Cronkite cited Earl Butz saying the report was withheld over concerns of accuracy.
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Cronkite
New York
UPI
Soviet Union
Agriculture Department
CBS Evening News
Nixon
CBS Correspondent
Walter Cronkite
Department
Economic Research Service
Agriculture
Earl Butz
Southwestern Miller
Grain Trade Journal
California Senate considers 1974 state lottery to cut taxes
Democratic Sen. Mervyn M. Dymally announces a drive to put a state lottery on the 1974 ballot arguing revenues would lower property taxes and fund education. He notes Californians spend about seven billion dollars yearly on gambling and says the campaign starts now to allow full debate.
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Sacramento
UPI
Mervyn M. Dymally
Los Angeles
Winner wears hood for Belfast soccer pools win
London report says a Belfast group of 15 residents including 11 police detectives won 145000 dollars from soccer pools after pooling seven dollars fifty. One winner wore a black hood at the London hotel ceremony, citing safety fears from Belfast kidnappings.
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London
UPI
Belfast
Northern Ireland
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