Girlstown celebrates anniversary with ex residents and Lions Club
Residents and ex residents gather at Girlstown campuses in Whiteface and Borger for a reunion. The event includes a barbecue hosted by the Levelland Lions Club and Beta Sigma Phi volunteers. Ex residents share memories of family problems, schooling, and their later roles as house parents. The system operates three campuses housing about 130 girls from infancy to 16 and a half, with support for education and care.
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Grange
Lions Club
Borger
Austin
Girlstown
Whiteface High School
Corpus Christi
Levelland Lions Club
Lubbock
Beta Sigma Phi Social Sorority
Chris Woods
BSP
Gerald Heinrich
36Th St
Heinrich
Robbie
Jamie
Andrews
Cooper
Marshall Cooper
Tommy Robertson
Whiteface
American Falls
Idaho
Coopers
Tommy
Chirkstown
Robertson
Thobert Leve
Brownfield
Charles King
Lamesa
Girlstown U
British envoy recalls bloodbath at Moroccan palace coup
Ambassador Thomas R. Shaw recounts a five hour attack at King Hassan II's Skhirat palace near Rabat. Troops in camouflage battled diplomats and Moroccan officials as gunfire echoed through the courtyard. the king appeared unharmed and the incident ended with the crowd dispersed.
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Rabat
Morocco
Thomas R. Shaw
King Sassan
Atlantic
Skhirat
Shaw
Ilassan
Explosion Rocks Home Of Mayor In Corning Arkansas
In Corning Arkansas an explosion at Mayor E W Cochran's home shattered windows and knocked off three hubcaps. The device appeared to be a concussion grenade and was thrown from the street two feet behind a car. The mayor and family were in St Louis. no one was home.
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Corning, Ark
Corning
E.W. Cochran
Dewitt Owens
Owens
Cochran
St. Louis
Jim Snyder
Utah women flagmen face traffic and stereotypes on highway
Four University of Utah freshmen work as flagmen on a Utah highway earning $4.32 an hour. They say Equal Opportunities Division helped their hire, note drivers slow and even chat or honk in appreciation. They face few complaints beyond not wearing hot pants.
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Wanship
Utah
Michele Hayden
University of Utah
Michele
Norm Brown
Equal Opportunities Employment Division
Highway Department
Norin
Kif
Marian Allan
Hayden
Kit Brown
Andy Unamuno
Utah Highway Department
New Miss Texas Bain Looks Ahead To Atlantic City
San Antonio born 21 year old Bain crowned Miss Texas 1971 at the Fort Worth pageant. She spoke of sleep shop and trim down for Atlantic City and said Phyllis George’s Miss America win inspires her. Bain praised their friendship and planned to skip the hermit crab charm for luck.
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Uavus Peoxas
Janice Bain
Texas
Bellinda Myvick
Fort Worth
North Texas State University
San Antonio
John Bain
Jeff
Tarrant County Convention Center
Bain
Pye
Atlantic City
Phyllis George
North Texas State
Miss George
Phyllis
Miss Bain
Idays
Democrats Offer Multi Billion Urban Development Bill
House Democrats propose a three year 7.5 billion block grant program for metropolitan development plus 1.5 billion outside metro areas. The plan includes urban development agencies, mortgage insurance, state study grants and an Urban Development Bank backed by Treasury to raise 15 billion in three years.
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Associated Press
Washington— House
Nixon
Ways and Means Committee
Urban Development Bank
Treasury
U S B52 raids continue as DMZ base rebuilt
U S forces rebuild Fire Support Base Fuller near the DMZ amid signals that a North Vietnamese summer offensive in Quang Tri Province has been blunted by B52 strikes. B52s hit infiltration routes from Laos despite Cambodian incidents and a Phantom crewman parachuted to safety after damage.
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Saigon
UPS
Demilitarized Zone
Quang Tri Province
Dmz
North
South Vietnam
Laos
Khe Sanh
Tan Son Nhut
U.S
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Moroccan king survives failed coup amid palace siege
Moroccan troops surrounded the Libyan embassy in Rabat and rebels seized a state radio station after a coup attempt. King Hassan II accused Libyan backing for the rebels as officials counted 28 dead and 38 wounded at Hassan's Shirat palace where guests were killed and wounded during the pre dawn uprising.
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Morocco
Rahat
Official
MAP
Hassan
Shirat
Rabat
Revolutionary Army
Summer ‘Palace
Empty cattle yards mark decline of Western markets
The article recalls how busy stockyards and rail yards once thrived as four major packers withdrew over a decade, leaving empty pens and silent locomotives. A veteran commission man and a salesman describe the stark emptiness after years of bustling trade, likening the scene to a decayed dream and a city built on cattle prosperity fading away.
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Everurmr Post
Western Plains
Plantatin America
Chicara Union
Chicago
Panhandle
Space loss feared as cosmonauts die and ash burials rise
Western experts warn weightlessness may threaten both Soviet and American manned programs after deadly reentry. The Soviet Union honors fallen cosmonauts with state funerals and burials in the Kremlin wall beside Gagarin and Komarov, the first man in space.
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Soviet Union
Kremlin
Yuri Gagarin
Vladimir Komarov
Gagarin
Komarov
Bomb Hoax Forces Shannon Airliner to Make Unscheduled Stop
An inbound TWA Boeing 707 carrying 135 passengers and eight crew diverted to Shannon after a note threatening bombs and hijack demands appeared in a lavatory. Police searched all aboard and the aircraft but found no weapons. The hoax origin remained unclear.
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Associated Press
Shannon
Ireland
Washington
TWA
Boeing
Roland Smith
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Hassin
Hetir
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Cairo
Hanoi
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