Tony Awards Winners Shine Across Musical and Drama
Julie Harris and Alan Bates win acting honors as A Little Night Music takes best musical and That Championship Season best play. Glynis Johns and Ben Vereen shine in performances. Harold Prince earns his 11th Tony. Seesaw and late arrivals miss consideration due to early voting.
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New York
Glynis Johns
Ben Vereen
Pippin
Julie Harris
Mrs. Lincoln
Alan Bates
Bates
Miss Johns
London
League of New York Theaters
Harold Prince
Ing
Patricia Elliott
Florence Klotz
Vereen
John Lithgow
Odessa Guards Drill Simulates Tornado Disaster Response
Texas State Guard units in Odessa led in Operation Safeguard a disaster drill simulating a tornado strike. Midland Andrews and Pecos units joined rehearsals for traffic casualty looting and crowd control with observers R F Schnatterly Odessa civil defense coordinator and Col Charles O Barker from Austin. Captain Tommy Simpson of Andrews commanded the exercise and led the 403rd Military Police Battalion.
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Odessa
Texas State Guard
Midland
Andrews
Pecos
National Guard
R. F. Schnatterly
Col
Charles O. Barker
Austin
Tommy Simpson
403Rd Military Police Battalion
State Guard
Telephone and subscription rates for Odessa paper
Advertising text lists telephone numbers and subscription prices. Home delivery in Odessa and Ector County costs 2.50 per month, retail trading zone 2.00 per month, all other zones 0.35 per week. Mail rates yearly 25.00, six months 13.00, three months 7.00, monthly 2.50. Single copy 0.10 daily and Saturday, 0.25 Sunday.
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Odessa
Ector County
Crewman Rescued From Sea After Norse Variant Sinks
The Norwegian freighter Norse Variant sank five minutes after abandoning ship. Stein Gabrielsen, 23, drifted three days on an orange raft and was rescued by an oil tanker and Air Force rescue efforts 250 miles southeast of Cape May. He was transferred to the aircraft carrier Independence in good condition though tired and dehydrated.
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New York
Atlantic Ocean
Coast Guard
Stein Gabrielsen
Gabrielsen
Mobil Lube
U.S. Air Force
Cape May
Independence
United States
Ronald Balleu
Air Force
Norfolk
Hamburg
Germany
Nine Odessa College Students Attend State and National PTK Meet
Nine Odessa College students and two sponsors travel to Houston for the Phi Theta Kappa conventions. OC PTK chapter president Julie Miller leads the group with Anita Smith, Tommy Adkins, Sharon Hill, Ann Stubbs, Kathy Crist, Susan Slusher, Larry May, and Don Sheppard. Sponsors are Roger Corzine and Gail Pool. The state convention starts Wednesday and the national meeting runs Thursday to Saturday.
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Odessa College
Houston
Phi Theta Kappa
OC Ptk
Julie Miller
Anita Smith
PTK
Tommy Adkins
Sharon Hill
Ann Stubbs
Kathy Crist
Susan Slusher
Larry May
Don Sheppard
Roger Corzine
Gail Pool
Four Killed In Wreck Near Mount Pleasant Texas
Four motorists died when a high speed car missed a narrow bridge and crashed into a ditch. The dead, all from Mount Pleasant, were Melissa Phelps 30 Franklin Lee Phelps 13 Mark Johnson undetermined age and David Phelps 10. Several others injured included David Sargent 19 and Hazel Phelps 13. Rescuers took over an hour to reach the wreck reported about 5 30 p m.
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Mgunt Pleasant
Tex
Mount Pleasant
Melissa Phelps
Franklin Lee Phelps
Mark Johnson
David Phelps
David Sargent
Elia
Hazel Phelps
Danny Jones
Banks Cut Rates After Pressure From Burns
NEW YORK AP Manufacturers Hanover Trust said it would reduce its prime lending rate back to 6 percent "for the time being" after last week raising it to 6 1/4 percent. The move followed Nixon administration criticism and pressure from Federal Reserve chairman Arthur Burns.
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New York
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co
Manufacturers Hanover
Arthur F. Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Phage 3 Committee On
Rail plan calls for merger of Northeast railroads
Transportation Secretary Claude Brinegar urged consolidating six bankrupt Northeast railroads into one or more private for profit firms to run a streamlined, profitable system. He proposed new companies or surviving railways operate essential services across 17 states with limited government involvement. The six reorgs are Penn Central Erie-Lackawanna Boston & Maine Central of New Jersey Lehigh Valley and Reading.
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Claude S. Brinegar
Northeast
Brinegar
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Penn Central
Erie-Lackawanna
Boston & Maine
Central of
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