Talking Books and Open Reel Tapes as Christmas Gifts
The piece promotes gifts for blind and physically handicapped people, focusing on Library of Congress talking books and related regional libraries. It highlights free loan services, Braille options, and available magazines, plus the AMPEX open reel tape program for music lovers with purchase and mail duplication options. It also directs readers to contact the Library of Congress Blind and Physically Handicapped division and to Margaret Dana for reader inquiries.
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Library of Congress
Congress
Library
Reader's Digest
Newsweek
American Heritage
Changing Times
Harper's Magazine
the Atlantic Monthly
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
American Printing House For the Blind
P. O. Box
Louisville
Clovernook Home
School For the Blind
Cincinnati
Ohio
Hamilton Avenue
Free Library of Philadelphia
Consumer's Union
Sidney Margolius
Taylor Street
N. W
Washington, D. C
AMPEX
NLU Singers Schedule Three Holiday Appearances
Northeast Louisiana University introduces its new musical group the NLU Singers with three holiday appearances. They perform Christmas selections for Sertoma Club at the Holiday Inn, Lions Club Ladies Day at noon on December 14 at the Embers, and a television Christmas special taping scheduled for next week.
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Northeast Louisiana University
NLU Singers
Pickup
Sertoma Club
Holiday Inn
Bethuel Gross
William J. Herring
NLU
Lions Club
Church presents holiday musical “Rock of Ages in the Age of Rock”
The First Presbyterian Church of Monroe hosts a 7 30 p m performance of a religious musical by Tallulah native Jessie Kirkwood formerly Jessie Yeager. Proceeds aid Cottey College Missouri. education fund for girls. International Peace Scholarship.
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First Presbyterian Church of
Monroe
Tallulah
Jessie Kirkwood
Jessie Yeager
Chapter AE
PEO
Kirkwood
Louisiana State University
Monroe East Easter
Passman presses large foreign aid cut and UNDP rethink
Louisiana Democrat Passman pushes a substantial foreign aid cut and argues for a wartime pause on aid to India and Pakistan. He plans to bring his measure to the House floor and cites trimming UNDP funding due to a surplus. The plan preserves aid to refugees and health programs. Also notes KNOE at 6 p.m. December 19 with the Singers and NLU ensembles.
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Rules
Otto E. Passman
House
Passman
Congress
Louisiana Democrat
Richard M. Nixon
United Nations Development Program
UNDP
United States
India
Pakistan
Tech Band to Perform at Pioneer Bowl Halftime
The Pride of the New South marching band from Louisiana Tech will play at the Pioneer Bowl halftime in Wichita Falls Texas on Saturday December 1. The group of 144 members under director Jimmie Howard Reynolds will honor the Pioneer Spirit with pieces including Amazing Grace The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Proud Mary featuring Ronnie Watson. The band has appeared on network TV for five consecutive years and will also take part in the Pioneer Bowl Parade.
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News - Star News Service
Ruston
Louisiana Tech
Pride of the
New South
Wichita Falls
Tex
Bulldogs
Tech
Eastern Michigan
New Orleans Saints
James Young
Wichita
University of Michigan
Reynolds
Michigan Symphony
England
Germany
France
Italy
Courthouse to join Christmas lights display in 72
Ouachita Parish Courthouse to get holiday lights after building upgrades. Parish President Huey Lenard says work worth 247 000 will precede installation and bid timing pushes lights to next Christmas. Monroe Mayor W L Howard notes broad attention to local lights program. Kentucky funds 41000 sickle cell prevention effort.
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Monroe
Huey Lenard
Ouachita Parish
Lenard
Philadelphia
W. L. “Jack” Howard
Kentucky
CAP Answers Critics Over Richwood Poverty Efforts
The Ouachita Multi-Purpose Community Action Program board backed Rev. P. Rayfield Brown Ill on Monday noting broad aid to Richwood residents. A vocal minority accuses CAP of overreach while Brown cites 645 contacts in 1971 and ongoing help, including foods, transportation, and medical aid.
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Richwood
Hampton
CAP
Brown
NLU Professor To Study USSR Education System
Paul L. Rawson associate professor of geography at Northeast Louisiana University will travel to the Soviet Union to study high schools and universities as part of an inter cultural exchange. He will depart New York December 17 with his brother Dr Harve E Rawson and attend lectures at Moscow Kiev and Leningrad University. The Russian government sponsors the trip. On return he will visit Prague for lectures on Czechoslovakian education. He has taught geography at Northeast Louisiana for 10 years.
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Paul L. Rawson
Northeast Louisiana University
Ussr
Soviet Union
United States
New York
Harve E. Rawson
Hanover College
Hanover
Ind
Rawson
University of Moscow
University of Kiev
University of Leningrad
Prague
Northeast
CAP Board Grants Confidence to Executive Director
CAP officials discussed applying for federal funds to create a Richwood center but reported no money yet. Board member James Milam urged a vote of confidence, and the board approved it, despite CAP's budget not increasing in four years.
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Northeast Louisiana University
CAP E
CAP
Dallas
Tex
Office of Economic Opportunity
Richwoodites
Richwood Center
Brown
B. D. Robinson
Richwood
News - Star
Robinson
Ster
Rlington
James Milam
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Margaret Dana
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Usrey Lumber Supply Co., Inc
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Harvester
Bennett Johnston
Louisiana
Bill LeBlanc
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