Miss Columbia College Linda Towle in Miss Me contest
Linda Sue Towle is a 19 year old Miss Columbia College contestant. daughter of Mr and Mrs L G Towle of Lake Lotawana she attends the University of Missouri at Columbia and plans further study there. she is 5 foot 8, 125 pounds, brown hair hazel eyes, member of Phi Theta Kappa and lists water skiing sewing decoupage drawing and reading as hobbies. her talent is a floor routine of modern dance and gymnastics set to music.
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Columbia College
L.G. Towle
Lake Lotawana
University of Missouri At Columbia
Linda
Phi Theta Kappa
Jill Marie Hagan
Monroe City
Walter G. Hagan
Central Missouri State
Warrensburg
Alpha‘ Sigma Alpha
Jill
Montel Cherie Whitten
C. B. Whitten
Salem, Ill
St. Louis
Kaskaskia College
Southern Illinois University
New National Civil Defense Network Bets On Faster Warnings
Civil Defense announced a $2.7 million contract with Westinghouse to build DIDS a nationwide alert system. The plan uses 30 000 receivers at state local offices and 11 transmitters to issue warnings within 30 seconds, with NORAD as the trigger and tie-in considerations with TV radio stations.
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Civil Defense
Coneirad
EBS
CIDS
John E. Davis
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Davis
DIDS
Decision Information Distribution Sytem
North American Air Defense Command
NORAD
Cheyenne Mountain
Colo
Robert B. Martin
Federal Communications Commission
Martin
Man Arrested In Bomb Threat On Hawaii Bound Flight
A United Airlines flight carrying 63 people to Hilo returned to San Francisco after a telephoned ransom bomb threat. Warren K Cooksey, 46, was arrested after attempting to retrieve a package dropped from a helicopter following instructions from the calls. No bomb was found aboard.
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United Airlines
New Orleans
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Robert E. Gebhardt
San Francisco International Airport
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Hilo
Hawaii
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Woman Named To Patent Job
Brereton Sturtevant 49 of Washington a partner in a Wilmington Delaware law firm and longtime Republican would become the first woman nominated exam iner-in-chief of the U S Patent Office if confirmed by the Senate She would sit on a quasi judicial board that reviews appeals of rejected patent applications and aims to prove women do not think differently from men in professional settings
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U.S. Patent Office
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Senate
Wichita State enrolls Marva Varvil for fall semester
Mrs. Marva J. Varvil, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Spradlin of Mexico, enrolled at Wichita State University for the fall term. She attended a campus freshman orientation and enrollment program this week.
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Robert E. Spradlin
Mexico
Wichita State University
Varvil
WSU
Mountain Men Join Hunt For Boy
A lost 1 year old, Douglas Legg, triggers a week long search in Adirondack wilderness. Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Team from California joins the effort with 32 rescuers, nine state forest personnel, and 12 riders. The family covers about $9,000 for air fares. Legg's father William Legg works as a science supervisor near Syracuse and great uncle Crandall Melvin Sr. owns the wilderness estate where the boy is missing. The team, formed in 1952, vets members with a year long probation and has prior experience in mountain rescues, including a 1970 hunt for a Boy Scout in California.
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N.Y
California
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Adirondack
Sierra Madre
Los Angeles
William Legg
Syracuse
Crandall Melvin Sr
State Forest
Sierra Madres
Billy
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Nine Enrolled At Central College From Mexico Area
About 300 new students were accepted at Central Methodist College for 1971-72. From Mexico area nine students are named including Jeffrey J. Doolittle Susan E. Cornett James K. Campbell Karen J. Adams Jeff R. Marsh Steven R. Lierheimer Fadia Y. Fayad Roy D. Wooten Jr. Alan W. Murphy. Most are 1971 grads of Mexico Senior High School with Fayad Wooten and Murphy having different recent educations.
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S. Morris St
Alan W. Murphy
Don A. Murphy
Laddonia
Miss Fayad
Wooten
Murphy
Mexico Senior High School
University of Missouri-Columbia
Northeast Missouri State College
Mexico
Missouri Baptist College
Community R-6
Man Tells Of Kidnaping In St Louis Area
Terell Henson, 27, said he was kidnapped near a St. Louis hospital by two men and a woman, then placed in the trunk of his sister’s car and released Friday near Lake Winnebago in Northern Cass County. He-hoped to return to St. Louis after reporting to highway patrol.
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St. Louis
Highway Patrol
Lake Winnebago
Cass County
Terell Henson
Henson
Slim Chance For Trapped Miners Near Ashers Fork Ky
Rescue teams labored through the night to reach three miners trapped by a coal mine cave in at Hil mar Coal Co. near Ashers Fork Kentucky. Mine inspectors said the chance of survival was slim after the roof collapse Friday afternoon. Frankie Gibson Ernest Harris and Oscar Saylor were trapped behind rock and debris while two other workers escaped with minor injuries.
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Ashers Fork
Hilmar Coal Co
Here
Frankie Gibson
Ernest Harris
Oscar Saylor
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