MMA Development Program Nets $45,420 Cash Gifts
Missouri Military Academy reports a record 261 donors contributed 45,420 to the Development Fund for 1972-73. Funds support athletic uniforms academics vehicles and building rehabilitation. Mexico Boosters donated 2,575. six alumni and friends gave equipment valued at 4,881. Colonels Club honors were created for top contributors.
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MMA Development Fund
Missouri Military Academy
John Mullen
MMA
Parents
Mullen
Academy
Mexico
Lowell Hagan
Charles Stribling
MMA Board of Visitors
L.C. Hansen
Centralia
Senator Mullen
Colonels Club
James Patrick
Dress Wrong Girl Gets College Gift After Graduation Ban
Thirteen-year-old Eleanor Stacy was barred from Clifton Elementary eighth grade graduation because her pastel yellow flower dress violated dress code. Missouri farmer Dean Bolton offered to pay four years of college tuition and buy a new dress after seeing her story in the St Joseph News-Press. He called the decision unjust and pledged support to Eleanor for high school.
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St. Joseph
Bolton
Clifton Elementary School
Eleanor
Billy G
McDowell
Stacy
Miss Rutter Named to Dean's List at William Woods College
Miss Carol Rutter of West Mexico has been named to the Dean's List at William Woods College Fulton for the 1973 winter and short terms. She is a junior and a Mexico High School graduate. The piece also notes dress code tensions at a graduation and a community's response to another incident.
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Carol Rutter
C. C. Rutter
Highway 22
West
Mexico
William Woods College
Fulton
Miss Rutter
Mexico High School
William Woods
Parochial School Officials Decry Court Rulings on Aid
Parochial school leaders across the nation condemn Supreme Court decisions striking down New York and Pennsylvania tuition reimbursement plans and a New York tax deduction for nonpublic schools. Civil rights groups praise the rulings as enforcing church state separation, while some officials vow to push for a federal tax credit. Other states’ aid programs for school costs were also struck down.
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Kristin Liljeholm
Associated Press
Supreme Court
High Court
New York
Pennsylvania
Terence Cardinal Cooke
Ohio
John J. Gilligan
Joan Tuttle
Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union
Leo Pfeffer
New York City
Robert Eggold
Kansas
Congress
Judicial Branch
House
Ways and Means Committee
Walter Toner
Washington State Independent Schools
Candlelight Protest at San Clemente for Soviet Jews
About 1,000 demonstrators marched at dusk toward the Western White House to protest emigration limits on Soviet Jews. Police halted the crowd two blocks from the gate and a rally urged support for Jews seeking emigration to Israel while Brezhnev and Nixon met at Camp David and planned to visit the Western White House for summit talks.
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San Clemente
Calif
Western White House
Southern California Council For
Soviet Jewry
White House
Israel
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Nixon
Camp David
Lawmaker's Son Sentenced to Ten Years in Spy Ring Case
In Haifa Israeli court Rami Livneh son of Avraham Levenbrun was given a decade jail term for contact with an Al Fatah agent. The verdict concludes the final of four trials tied to a spy and sabotage ring linked to Syria. Police dismantled the network last December with six Jews and 27 Arabs convicted overall.
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Haifa
Israel
Rami Livneh
Avraham Levenbrun
al Fatah
Syria
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