Filipino Progress Runs Hot And Cold in the Philippines Visit
Ben Park and his wife Jean returned from a three month IESC volunteer mission in the Philippines where Park advised a cement firm on lightweight aggregate. He described extreme contrasts between modern commerce and squatters, noted armed guards and private armies, and explained IESC operates as a voluntary aid program linking New York offices with client nations to place retired executives.
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United States
Philippines
Ben Park
Rockwood Drive
Park
Jean
International Executive Service Corps
IESC
Islands
Manila
New York
Latin America
Middle East
Africa
South and East Asia
Manila Cement Company
Plan for Unified School District 290 six year capital outlay
Marvin Forker, district superintendent, proposed a six year capital improvements plan funded by the four mill capital outlay fund. He estimates about 500000 in revenue over six years, with bonds possible after two years to finish the projects within three more years. Key items include 20000 for junior high science modernization, 60000 for four elementary school libraries, 10000 for playground surface, 40000 for furniture upgrades, 18000 for windows at the junior high, 160000 for high school bleachers and lights, and 150000 to expand six senior high rooms. A vocational shop under a concrete stadium was discussed as feasible but would need more than the 160000 cap.
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Marvin FP. Forker
Unified School District
Forker
Don Waymire
Robert B. Anderson
President Nixon slams apathy amid campus unrest
MADISON SD AP President Nixon assailed attempts at insurrection in cities and colleges and urged the nation to embrace honest straight talk and respect for peaceful change. He spoke at General Beadle College on a troubled era marked by campus revolt racial discord draft resistance drugs and crime. He warned against coercion and highlighted long standing national values while criticizing deceit in political life business and personal affairs.
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Nixon
Navy ships search seas after Evans collision. 73 missing
Pearl Harbor AP report details the April 1969 collision off Saigon when the USS Frank E. Evans was rammed by the HMAS Melbourne. One American sailor is dead, 73 are missing, 200 survive. The Evans bow sank. the Melbourne and Kearsarge led rescue efforts.
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Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
South China Sea
Vietnam
U.S
Frank E. Evans
Melbourne
Saigon
Evans
A. S. McLemore
Long Beach
Calif
Kearsarge
Burger Eases Through SJC
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved President Nixon's nomination of Warren E Burger to become chief justice. The one hour and 45 minute hearing featured wide praise for Burger, and the committee endorsed him in about five minutes with no dissent. Confirmation in the full Senate is expected to be swift.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Nixon
Warren E. Burger
The
United States
Earl Warren
Burger
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Senate
Weather County Forecast Mixed Clouds and Warm Uptrend
Variable cloudiness and warmer through Wednesday with a 20 percent precip chance tonight and Wednesday. Monday high 73, today low 46, a year ago today high 90 and low 61. Record high 96 in 1911, record low 41 in 1946. Hourly temps extend to 8 a.m. today with barometric readings noted.
Two Sought In KC Fire Fatal To 12
In Kansas City AP report twelve people died in an early morning apartment fire. Police seek two former residents evicted for rent issues linked to the blaze. Eight victims were children including five month old Harry Smith. father Lawrence Smith injured leaping from the third floor with the child.
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Kansas City
Dan Breece
Harry Smith
Lawrence Smith
General Hospital
Cornelius
Charles Twenter
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Radio Australia
Cam Ranh Bay
Bobby Rose
Pam
Bobby
Forest Park
Frank Rose
Twenter
Pottawatomie River
Lane
Carrell D. Taylor
Osawatomie State Hospital
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