Pet Library Lets Kids Check Out Animals At Walnut Creek Museum
The Alexander Lindsay Junior Museum runs a Pet Library Club where children six and older can borrow rabbits hamsters turtles and other animals for a week. A $1 yearly fee and signed parent consent grant access. Fines for overdue pets apply and renewals are rare.
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Gary Bogue
Alexander Lindsay
Walnut Creek
Calif
CNS
van Dyke
Pet Library Club
Pet
Pet ‘Library Club
Judge nips school rule on divorces
U S District Judge Allen B Hannay urged Channelview Independent School District officials to revisit a rule barring divorced pupils from extracurricular activities. He retained jurisdiction in the case of Sani Romans a 16 year old divorcee noting the policy may violate constitutional rights. He said information about sex is available to youths and the district must reassess its policy which singles out divorces.
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Miss Romans
Bedside medicine boosts long term heart transplant results
Stanford's Norman Shumway and team have performed 37 heart transplants with over half alive after a year or more. Immediate care and frequent monitoring plus anti rejection therapy halted most rejection episodes. Costs run high though federal grants aid the center and insurance covers many patients. hope rests on longer term tolerance to transplanted hearts.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Stanford University Medical Center
Norman E. Shumway
Shumway
Christian N. Barnard
Cape Town
South Africa
Shumway and Associates
State Banking Board approves phantom bank charters
The State Banking Board in Austin approved nine phantom bank charters enabling holding companies to acquire banks.Officials say the practice speeds mergers while critics liken it to branch banking, urging SEC oversight and constitutional limits. Names of banks and holding companies in Texas were listed among the approvals.
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Austin, Tex
State Banking Board
Frank Sharp
Robert Stewart
Attorney General’s Office
Will Knox
Texas
Jack Lewis
Jefferson State Bank
San Antonio
Knox
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Banking Board
Lewis
State Banking Department
SEC
Tye
Harper
Secretary of the Treasury
John Connally
Connally
Sharp
Sharpstown State Bank of
Houston
California
Amadeo P. Giannini
Bank of America
Giannini
First Southwest Bancorporation, Inc
Waco
McLlennan State Bank
Bellmead State Bank
Longview State Bank
The Look of Christmas Across Cities
A festive collage shows Frankfurt, Paris, and London toy scenes. Store windows brim with toys while local shoppers glimpse the season with mixed feelings as a London shop employee contemplates the mood of Christmas.
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Universal
Frankfurt
West Germany
Paris
London
Pentagon to permit air retaliation against North Vietnamese bases
Pentagon officials say U S warplanes may strike North Vietnamese air bases if MIG fighters attack U S planes over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. Spokesman Jerry Friedheim noted MiG 19 and 21 incursions into Laos with possible intent to threaten bombing runs, while Gen Abrams has authority to act to protect American personnel.
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Robert A. Dobkin
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Pentagon
U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Jerry W. Friedheim
South Vietnam
Friedheim
Lyndon B. Johnson
Paducah High School greenhouse named state’s most modern
Paducah Texas: officials from Texas A&M label the Paducah High School greenhouse the most modern in the state. The 40 by 100 foot facility was built in the summer to train horticulture students. Six ornamental pupils are in pre employment training, twelve in cooperative part time training, and twenty six in production agriculture, with thirty junior high students taught by Willis Johnson in a smaller greenhouse. They will move into the new building as they advance.
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Paducah, Tex
Paducah High School
Texas A&m University
Bristo
Vocational Agriculture Department
Willis Johnson
Moonmen warn on space funds and future of Apollo program
Apollo 16 crew members John Young Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke say U S funding cuts threaten space research and warn against canceling Apollo 16 and 17. They urge greater emphasis on science and development noting benefits already paid for and the risks of curtailment. Apollo 16 is slated to launch March 17 with Descartes landing near a crater while Apollo 17 is planned for December 1972.
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Houston
John Young
Thomas Mattingly
Charles Duke
America
Mattingly
Young
Duke
Space Agency
Descartes
Museum collects 20th Century literature bumper stickers
The Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas Austin houses a new collection titled 20th Century literature and includes bumper stickers such as Custer Had It Coming Eat More Beef Nixon's the One and I Want You To Stop Pollution. Mrs Willen Adams notes bumper stickers rival novels in creativity and urges donations to expand the collection.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Memorial Museum
University of Texas At Austin
Nixon
Uncle Sam
Willen Adams
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Contra Costa County
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Sam Smoker
the Lindsay
Hannay
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Louis B. Russell Jr
Cleveland
Richmond
Richard Lower
Daniel Z. Henkin
Defense
Creighton Abrams
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Vinh
Paducah
Moonmen Leery of Space Funds
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