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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1971
Page
2
Eastman Kodak touts micropublishing as a major tool for homes and schools. Mothers, children, and fathers could use microfilm formats for recipes, homework, and home maintenance. Schools would microfilm curricula and libraries might replace books with microfiche cards and roll microfilm.
Dayton Fly Ash Company part of American Metal Climax new Fuels and Chemicals Group turns waste fly ash into a profitable product. It is collected before exhaust into the upper air and used as a cement extender in ready mix concrete and blocks at six to seven dollars per ton. It also aids fire control and mine fire extinguishment and helps prevent land sinking in mined areas. Extraction of alumina iron oxides and carbon from fly ash may soon be possible.
A long feature traces The Sign from wartime victory to a global peace emblem. Churchill Nixon and Eisenhower popularized it, but antiwar and commercial use blurred its meaning. Analysts debate origins from Beethoven to semaphore, while civilians reframe it as greeting or taunt.
Gov. Lester Maddox rode a bicycle from the governor's mansion to the state Capitol in one hour amid headwinds and traffic. He criticized the timing of the trip and joked about buying two cars after leaving office.
Florida hosts over seventeen million visitors last year with a forecast of higher totals in 1971. Disney World near Orlando opens late 1971, preview models drawn for early look. Daytona Beach unveils a 176 foot Space Needle tower with a revolving top accessible by a gondola. Miami Beach remodels Bay Shore golf course with lakes and hills. Cape Florida lighthouse in Key Biscayne offers narrated climbs with a keeper’s quarters replica. Sunward cruises to Key West weekly. San Diego Natural History Museum offers winter whale watching expeditions to Mexican coasts. Arizona adds ranch resorts and Roadrunner Lake Resort near Scottsdale. advance reservations advised.
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