86 Year Old Woman Tours Antarctica For First Time
An 86 year old recounts joining an Antarctic tourist expedition from aboard the SS La Patriata. She describes crossings through Drake Passage and Le Maire Strait, visits to Deception Island and Hope Bay, meeting US and Argentine crews, seeing Palmer Station, and petting a penguin. She credits warmer gear for avoiding frostbite and notes plans to next visit the North Pole.
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Bessie C
Sween
Associated Pre
LA Patriat
Antarestica
South Pole
Antarctica
le Maire Strait
Argentina
Britain
United States
Drake Passage
Antarctic
Melchoir
Almirante, Brown
Gourssac
Deception Island
Hope Bay
Weddell Sea
Potter Cove
Half Moon
U.S
United States Navy
Coast Guard
Wyandot
Palmer
Burglars Strike City Firms. Loss Totaled $821
Three city businesses suffered break ins Friday night into Saturday morning with cash losses and damaged safes. Western Truck Parts Co reported $821.21 missing, Navajo Supply had no cash but a smashed door, and Gibson Plumbing valued losses at mixed currency pieces. Additional petty thefts and property damage followed, including eggs smashed on a residence and a purse theft worth $59.2. A separate note mentions Lima Pep exploring a welfare program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
One Western Truck Parts Co
Erskine Road
Robbie J. Mullins
Cecil Brown
J. D. Jones
Navajo Supply Co
4Th St
Gibson Plumbing & Heating Co
Gibson
Billy Lambert
Duke St
Ramond Lucero
Amarillo
Jerry Wayne Allen
Levelland
Ave. D
A. J. Moffitt
9Th St
R. M. Lowry
37Th St
Patricia Noble
22Nd St
R. L. Bowman
Municipal Drive
J. D. McPherson Mortgage Co
1801 Ave. Q
Bertell Jackson
57Th St
55Th St
Raymond Taylor
Snyder High to Stage Crosstalk of Champion Bands Today
Snyder High School hosts an all star program at 3 p.m. featuring the AAA state champion Black and Gold concert band joining the 10 year state champion stage band in a unified piece Crosstalk written for the group by Dallas musician Tim Dennis.
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Snyder
Snyder High School
Dallas
Texas Music Educators Association
TMEA
Tim Dennis
Dennis
Lamar
Tommy Fry
Odessa
Melvin Montgomery
Montgomery
Robert Clinton
U.I
Corpus Christi
Enid
Okla
Brownwood
Charles Shaw
Don Ehring
Jerry Pickens
Shaw
Vets Return Papers Protest at White House
A group of veterans and Reservists to End the War in Viet Nam sought to return their discharge papers at the White House in freezing weather but officials refused to accept them. About 65 people, mainly from New York City, protested for an hour then regrouped across the street before attempting again.
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Washington
White House
Viet Nam
New York City
Keith Lampe
Ow York
Johnson
Dancing Girls and Royal Visit in Georgetown South America
In Georgetown British Guiana Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip attended a calypso dance by about two hundred barefoot girls during a train tour. Security detentions followed a rumored bomb threat as crowds of African descent gathered to cheer, amid calls for boycott led by Cheddi Jagan and the People's Progressive Party. The colony aims for independence on May 26.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Queen Elizabeth I
Prince Philip
Cheddi J
People's Progressive Party
Jagan
Britain
Jagan Heot
Forbes Burnham
City Students Win at West Texas DE Conference
Coronado High School senior Dwain Coffey led Area 1 Youth Leadership entrants by taking first in sales demonstration at the Odessa event. Lubbock Mish School, Monterey High, and 52 West Texas high schools competed for top awards in sales demonstration public speaking and job interview with several alternates named.
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Dwain Coffey
Coronado
Odessa
Lubbock
Maren
Fort Worth
Texas
Distribustive Education Clubs of America
Kisiteen
Lubierk
Permian Hash School
Odess T
Linda Wilhite
Mike Smith
Patsy Shadden
Lubbock Mish School
Raymond McDaniel
Carol Morris
Ronnie Archer
Monterey High School
Job Corps Seen As School Aid
Gov. John Sonnally told delegates at a regional conference that Job Corps trainees act as educational aids for developing vocational systems in public schools. He said the program offers an opportunity to experiment in an atmosphere free from established concepts and that instructors will bring back fresh knowledge to better vocational education.
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Dallas
UPS
John Sonnally
Yale Professor Denounces U S Viet Policy In London Rally
Staughton Lyndh of Yale told about 2,000 at Trafalgar Square that US bombing of North Vietnam is ruthless to truth and people. He accused Washington of deceiving the world while resuming bombing after a 37 day moratorium. Demonstrators marched to the US Embassy, then Hyde Park, seeking an end to the bombing. Lyndh planned to return to New York after appearing on a British television program.
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London
Staughton Lyndh
Yale
U.S. State Department
North Viet Nam
America
Viet Nam
Trafalgar Square
Lynch
United States
North
Harold Wilson
Britain
Grosvestor Square
Hyde Park
Lynd
New York
New Haven
Conn Lynd
Hrdcasting Corp
Phin van Dons
Perubes
Tnonth
All State picks Gary Shackleford from Tula High School
Gary Shackleford, a senior at Tula High School, is chosen as an All State Band drummer. The select group will perform at the Texas Music Educators Association convention in Dallas, Wednesday through Saturday. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Dick Shiteketone.
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Gary Shackleford
Tula
ENMU Names Dean of Students and Board Appointments
The Eastern New Mexico University board named Poreme SeSpace Vilger Lo Mette acting Dean of Students at Baston with a 1961 University of Omaha doctorate in counseling. The board approved three other appointments including Paul Dearenburger and Dick Walsh for spring roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vilger Lo Mette
Fastin Ne Movie University
Nes Verne
Baston
Dro Patty
University of Oma
Universitt of Kansas
Meboumstatar
Bo Paul Dearenburger
Anthrae
Dick Walsh
Eastern
Plane wreckage sighted after Tokyo Bay crash
A Japanese warship crew sighted the wreckage of a Boeing 77 jet in Tokyo Bay after the disaster that killed 133 people. All Nippon Airways announced the finding amid apologies in local newspapers for the era’s worst plane disaster.
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Tokyo
UPS
Tokyo Bay
All Nippon Airways
Mechanical heart ready for clinical use says Houston scientist
Dr William C Hall of Baylor University College of Medicine predicts the artificial heart is ready for clinical application. The pump, developed with Rice University help, could rest the left ventricle in ordinary heart cases and aid about 90 percent of the million heart attack patients annually.
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Paul Freeman Houston
UPI
Houston
William C. Hall
Baylor University College of Medicine
Fron
Basler
Hase
Rice
Serentis
Rice University
Baylor Officars
National Institutes of Heth
Michael DeBa Hall
Domingo Laat
Baytor Hall
Hall
Murder Suspect Randall Greer Freed After Interrogation
Randall Greer and Floyd Yates were cleared today in the fatal shooting of David Mec. Police did not file charges and released both men pending further investigation.
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Thans
Randall Greer
Rankin
Floyd Yates
David Mec
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