Yard man leaves $100,000 trust for Negro youths
W. C. Fuller, a Dallas Highland Park yard man, left a trust fund likely exceeding $100,000 for Negro children from broken homes or orphans who want to study landscape architecture. The fund, to be administered by Southern Methodist University and predominantly Negro Bishop College in Dallas, reflects his belief in hard work and education.
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Dallas
W. C. Fuller
Fuller
Highland Park
East
Texas
Brewer
Texas Stadium
Dallas Cowboys
Southern Methodist University
Negro Bishop College
Honeybear and Brett Carmel Pose With Toy in Pond Game
Honeybear retrieves a plastic bowling pin tossed into a pond by Brett Carmel of Huron Ohio while a companion watches. Brett tosses the pin again as Honeybear returns to the launch point with the prize in a staged pet photo sequence.
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Brett Carmel
Huron
Ohio
Brett
Honeybear
Pete Groh
Sandusky Register
Land owners oppose LBJ park expansion plan
In Stonewall Texas some neighbors of the LBJ State Park contest a proposed land purchase for park expansion. Officials say talks target a narrow riverfront 3 mile strip, with some owners declining offers of up to 1,500 per acre and signaling possible condemnation if needed. The December Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting will consider an alternate proposal while others accept limited acquisitions.
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Associated Press
Stonewall
Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
LBJ State Park
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission
LBJ
Commission
Austin
Werner Schumann
Eugene Lindig
Pedernales River
Harold Woods
George Adams
Adams
Partment
Woods
Schumann
Lindig
Bermuda
Simon Burg
Johnson and the Park
Hiram Hodges
Schumanns
Hodges
Johnson
U.S. 290
Ranch Roads
Department
Pedernales
Arthur Godfrey
Pearce Johnson
Hearings set on development aid across Texas
Four public hearings will be held in November across Texas to determine areas eligible for Rural Development Act financing. The Texas Industrial Commission will accept applications from communities seeking up to 40 percent of project costs for new or expanding industry in rural areas. Eligibility hinges on population decline or lagging manufacturing employment compared to metro areas, with about 230 nonprofit industrial foundations expected to benefit.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Industrial Commission
Big Spring
Kingsville
Henderson
Bomb strikes cut again as Nixon curbs air war
Saigon reports U S fighter bomber strikes reduced again to below 20th parallel, with B52s resuming on supply caches in the panhandle. Total strikes drop from 250 300 to around 140 then 120 as monsoon season aids air limits and White House curbs. Meanwhile naval accidents claim lives aboard the Midway and Newport News while Da Nang faces rocket barrages. church revival extended in Pecos with Evangelist Banhart urging full devotion to God.
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Saigon
United States
North Vietnam
Panhandle
South Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
Nixon
Haiphong
Vietnam
da Nang
Nnal
Midway
Newport News
Court to Decide If Air Force Can Drop A Baby Mother
The Supreme Court agreed to rule whether the Air Force can discharge Capt. Susan Struck a 28 year old officer who gave birth in Vietnam in 1970 and claimed her Catholic faith prevented abortion. The case tests birth rights and military policy alongside housing and medical aids for husbands.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Air Force
Susan Struck
Miss Struck
Vietnam
William O. Douglas
Capt. Struck
Ohio
National Guard
Kent State University
Texas
Robert T. Carson
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
Kansas
John Nichols
John F. Kennedy
Warren Commission
Douglas
William T. Brennan Jr
Thurgood Marshall
Search for World War II holdout Onoda continues in Philippines
Filipino and Japanese officials join relatives of 2nd Lt Hirso Onoda in a search on Lubang island for the famed guerrilla who reportedly did not surrender after the war. The pursuit follows a clash six days earlier on a hillside near Tilok village that left Kozuka dead and Onoda wounded.
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Lubang
Philippines
Onoda
Hirso Onoda
Toshio
Shiego
Manila
Toshio Urabe
Constabulary
Pedro Junchon Jr
Mitsuo Ijima
Veterans bill signed today elevates education benefits
President Nixon signed the measure raising college and high school benefits for veterans by about a quarter. Unmarried veterans gain 25.7 percent, married veterans with one child 29 percent, with monthly college rates ranging from 220 to 298 dollars plus increments per dependent. A separate 525 million authorization expands Veterans Administration medical services.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Veterans Administration Medical Services
Humor in politics and the bacon joke era
A survey of political humor in campaigns highlights gaffes and quips from figures like Sar gent Shriver Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon. It notes memorable lines about bacon, introductions, and football analogies as campaigns use wit to engage voters amid policy debates.
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Washington
Sargent Shriver
Spiro T. Agnew
George McGovern
George Washington
Bob Hope
Morey Amsterdam
Shriver
Dr Angew
McGovern
Oklahoma City
Richard Nixon
Agnew
Frank Sinatra
Jack Benny
Benny
Nixon
Dicky
GOP
Spiro Agnew
Bob Dole
Maurice Stans
John Mitchell
Martha
John Connally
Mel Laird
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