Wakeman Homecoming Parade Awards Highlight VFW Float
Elyria VFW Post float depicting Washington crossing the Delaware was judged best entry in Wakeman Homecoming parade. Wakeman Snowmobile Club won float division, EHOVE Vocational School placed third, and Western Reserve High School led senior bands. Various awards followed for horse, frog jumping, bicycle races, and tug of war with Marden Todd as chairman.
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Eddie Thorn
Steven Flowers
Doug Johnson
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Shannon Wolf
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Dave Thomas
Big Cats Can Be Cuddly
Texan Carl Skaggs breeds and sells African lions mountain lions and bobcats from a Safari Farm south of San Antonio. He aims to domesticate large cats through selective breeding to around 100 pounds and teaches handling courses to train owners. Prices for adults reach up to 1500 dollars.
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Millionth Visitor Ford Greets A Tourist
Norman M. Wilson an aircraft design engineer from Kenmore New York won a special greeting from President Ford as the White House millionth Bicentennial visitor Wilson brought his wife Sara Nell daughter Norma Jones of Vienna Virginia and four grandchildren to tour the White House in a ceremony at the East Gate and on the South Lawn Ford commented were glad to have you here and shook hands with Wilson and his grandchildren.
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Mao’s Yangtze Swim Legend Reaffirms Communist Pride
Mao Tsetung swam about 15 kilometers in 65 minutes in the Yangtze at Wuhan, a feat celebrated annually across China for a decade. Officials say more than 110,000 Wuhan swimmers joined the commemoration as part of mass activities inspired by the 1966 crossing.
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Sacred Flame Profaned at Montreal Olympics
COJC officials explained the eternal flame was extinguished by rain gutter water during a thunderstorm and a workman’s lighter briefly rekindled it. Andre Combe, head pyrotechnist, relit the flame that Trudeau lit in Ottawa, reaffirming an authentic Olympian blaze.
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Pierre Trudeau
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