All-Girl Gas Station Experiment Aims to Reignite Sales
Dearborn Heights Michigan hosts Baron’s All-Girl Service where Gloria Steinem era ideas meet real work as Nancy Fitsmaurice becomes manager. The station reports a 400 percent sales jump in the first month under female staff, while offering gasoline, tires, lubricants and tuneups.
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Iewe
Gloria Steinem
Nscur
Womens Liberation Movement
Dearborn Heights
Mich
Baron
Thomas Boland
Nancy Fitsmaurice
Ldies
Boland Ays
Boland
Seeds of drug abuse start at home and with parents
Parents shape children’s views on medicines and drugs by example. Casual use at home signals drugs are a quick fix for pain or anger. Key guidance urged: consult doctors, supervise medicines, and model restraint. The National Institute of Mental Health notes emphasize setting a hopeful, drug‑free example for children.
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John
Mary
National Institute of Mental Health
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HSM
National Clearing House For Drug Abuse Information
P.O. Box
Washington, D.C
Glorious Fourth Fireworks Past and Present
A nostalgic look at how Independence Day was once celebrated with homegrown firecrackers and family picnics. It recalls backyard displays starting before dawn, kids eager for fathers to light sparklers, snakes, rockets, and wheels, and the dangers of improvised cannon crackers later curbed by reformers, shifting celebrations to travel and larger displays.
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Father
The Woe Lawyer a Woe Lawyer A R Neighbors at Odds
A terse dispute erupts among neighbors as tensions rise over property lines and noises. No court action reported, but personal disagreements flare in a small community setting.
Education Notebook Money united teachers to save schools
Copley News Service reports that American Federation of Teachers president David Selden argues only a united teaching profession can raise federal funding for elementary and secondary education from about 2 billion to 12, then to 30 billion annually, to reverse 25 years of neglect and reduce class sizes. He cites merger talks at state and local levels, the NEA resistance, and a June NEA constitutional vote as pivotal, with an August reelection tests of support.
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David Selden
American Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
AFT
National Education Association
Selden
NEA
Los Angeles
Flint
Gibraltar
Mich
New York State
New York
South Bend
Ind
New Orleans
Michigan
Donald E. Morrison
Sam M. Lambert
Catherine O'C. Barrett
Syracuse, N.Y
Uncle Sam
Mom
Pop
Neighbors and Nuisance: Cabbage Odors and Spite Fences
A 1972 ABA Texas Bar feature discusses how hostile cooking odors and spite fences affect urban neighbors. It cites a court ruling on a cabbage odor nuisance and a ventilating fan case 27 feet apart, noting sunlight rights and evidence thresholds for annoyance. A separate note mentions a farmer near Tres Zapotes unearthing a fragment of Olmec stone dating to 31 B.C.
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Tres Zapotes
Mexico
Veracruz State
Boating Safety Program Seeks Federal Funds for Texas
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will request 108724 dollars in federal funds for a boating safety program. The program includes mobile presentations to 818 Texas secondary schools as part of a 3 million dollar 1972 act appropriation. Texas expects 217812 dollars in 1973. Five instructors will travel in vans to schools to conduct boat safety instruction.
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Boating ON
Austin, Tex
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Texas
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Florida Highway Patrol
Troop C
FHP
Lakeland
Cutler-Hammer
U.S. Department of Transportation
Bob Page
U.S. Naval Undersea Research and Development Center
San Diego
Calif
Page
NASA
Earth
Man and
Rome
Via Della Conciliazone
St. Peter’s Basilica
Eee
Ohio State University
Education Notebook
By Kenneth J. Rabben
Copley News Service
Benton, Ill
Ellen Burkhart
Benton Consolidated High School
The
American Bar Association
State Bar of Texas
Will Bernard
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