Plato the computer teacher nears wider campus use
CHAMPAIGN Ill AP University of Illinois students praise Plato the Pro grammed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operation a computer that acts as a patient teacher and multilingual wizard now used in 20 centers with plans to expand to 4 000. Donald Bitzer created it a decade ago and officials project cost reductions per student hour by 1975.
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Champaign, Ill
University of Illinois
Plato
Donald Bitzer
Bitzer
Daniel Alpert
Alpert
Safeway changes ground beef labeling to fat content
Safeway Stores has begun labeling ground beef by relative fat content rather than cut. Fat levels approximate 25 percent for regular, 22 percent for lean, and 18 percent for extra lean, with Kroger not adopting the system and A P not commenting.
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Washington
Safeway Stores
Kroger
A&p
Safeway
Environmental Film Service Offered by NACD in Texas
NACD in League City Texas announces an environmental film loan service led by Clyde Burkhart with nearly 2000 prints across 14 titles. The program, funded by voluntary contributions, aims to educate through a national center of visual aids for conservation districts schools colleges universities TV stations and civic groups.
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National Association of Conservation Districts
NACD
League City
Tex
Clyde Burkhart
Grundy County
Nacd Environmental Film Service
Usda Soil Conservation Service
SCS
P. O. Box
States
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Three Chicago gang members charged in teen shooting death
Police charged Kim Miller 15 and Patricia Jackson 16 with fatal shotgun attack on a street corner in Chicago. Robert Hinton 21 and two other reputed gang members, Jonathon McKay 20 and a 16 year old, face murder and aggravated assault counts. Witnesses say three shotgun blasts struck the girls. Miller died at a hospital.
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Chicago
Kim Miller
Patricia Jackson
Robert Hinton
Jonathon McKay
Four Marion County Jail escapees fled in sheriff’s car
Four prisoners escaped from Marion County Jail after a guard was forced into a cell by Herschell Hull. Escapees Richard Kehoe Richard Rollenson and Charles Hendrickson were at large as police in six states searched. The squad car with a loaded shotgun was stolen and authorities reported no clues yet. A Treasure Sales and Services charter was issued in Gardner with Roy A. Fjelde listed as an official.
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Salem, Ill
Marion County
Glen Walker
Marion
Indiana
Kentucky
Wyoming
Missouri
Alabama
Illinois
Herschell Hull
Centralia
Hull
Richard Kehoe
Madisonville
Richard Rollenson
Charles B. Hendrickson
Kell
Charles Sanders
Walker
Secretary of State
Treasure Sales and Services, Inc
Main St
Gardner
Springfield
Roy A. Fjelde
Census survey to collect school enrollment data nationwide
The Census Bureau will interview households in this area to gather school enrollment figures for persons ages 3 to 34. The effort includes questions on living arrangements of college students and ties to the monthly labor force survey. Interviewers Mrs. Oneida J. Harper and Mrs. Ingrid G. Sandeno will administer the survey.
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Census Bureau
Curtis T. Hill
Collection Center
Chicago
Bureau
U.S. Department of Labor
U. S
Oneida J. Harper
Pontiac
Ingrid G. Sandeno
Dwight
City police cite two for speeding
Two rural Morris residents were cited Saturday morning by Policeman Alan Love for speeding after a VASCAR check in the 900 block of FE Washington Street. Dorothy M. Fannin, 36, of Route 5, was cited for 36.4 mph in a 25 mph zone and scheduled a court appearance at 2:30 p.m. October 20. Robert E. Waters, 38, of Route 3, was cited for 41.2 mph and set for a 2 p.m. October court appearance.
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Morris
Alan Love
Vascar
Washington St
Dorothy M. Fannin
Rte. 5
Robert E. Waters
Rte. 3
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