United Way Plans Drive for Plano Campaign in 1975
United Way of Plano sets a 1975 campaign goal of 38880 dollars announced by David B McCall Jr president of the advisory board. Nine agencies including Boy Scouts Cooperative Pre School Girl Scouts Red Cross Salvation Army and United Service Organization will be funded. Plano Day Care Center is added as a new United Way agency located at 1111 Avenue H serving up to 25 children. The drive runs Sept 19 through Oct 31 with committee heads including John Waddell and Alan Johnston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Way of Plans
David B. McCall Jr
United Way
Plano
Boy Scouts, Cooperative Pre- School
Girl Scouts
Ministerial Alliance
American Red Cross
Salvation Army
Southwestern Diabetic Foundation
United
McCall
Avenue H
United Way of
Gary Smith
Dallas
United Way Organization
John Waddell
Dennis Acklin
Charles Cox
Dorothy Davis
John Findley
Bill Roberts
Alan Johnston
Lionel Berry
David Griffin
Gladys Harrington
Friends of the Library
Beth Lundblade
Mike Newman
Editorial Observation on Cruel Prison Treatment in Nevada
Editorial recounts a Nevada case where a man, after killing a woman at 18 and receiving a life sentence, endured solitary confinement for 14 years. He later underwent brain surgery and blindness after a lobotomy and is released with no skills or home to return to, prompting calls for prison reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelda Whitehead
Nevada
Brennan Praises McKinney Job Corps Center Visit
U S Secretary of Labor Peter J Brennan toured the McKinney Job Corps Center for Women and praised its staff participants and surrounding communities. He called the program meaningful and said it places students in jobs, while stressing dignity, self respect, and training in culinary arts health nursing cosmetology retailing and office occupations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinney
Job Corps Center For Women
U.S
Secretary of Labor
Peter J. Brennan
Brennan
North Texas
Department of Labor
Job Corps
Washington
McKinney Center
George Kadera
Kadera
al Rauschapt
New York City
New York State
Building and Construction Trades Councils
Afl-Cio
New York
US May Have Gone Bankrupt
Washington reports the federal government may have quietly reached the debt ceiling and run a cash deficit threatening a temporary bankruptcy scenario. Treasury officials warn funds could last about two weeks, with debt near 475.7 billion and cash around 7.5 billion as of Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Treasury
U.S. Treasury
Treasury Department
D-Day Veterans Return to Normandy Beaches 30 Years On
Allied veterans led by Omar Bradley revisit Normandy sites including Omaha Beach and Point du Hoc to honor fallen comrades. Ceremonies mark the 30th anniversary of the June 6 1944 landings, with wreaths at memorials and tributes across Utah and Omaha beaches and Carentan.
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Omaha Beach
Normandy
France
UPI
Omar N. Bradley
Bayeux
Armed Forces
Jacques Soufflet
U.S
National Guard
Point du Hoc
90Th
Carentan
Maxwell Taylor
St. Merc d’Eglise
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adolf Hitler
Pittsburgh
Bradley, Taylor
Mark Clark
J. Lawton Collins
Ira C. Baker
John Irwin
Europe
Ouistreham
St. Vaast
Omaha
Utah
Jean le Gallois
Saint Laurent-sur-Mer
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John J. Heizerling
Vantage Corp
Prairie Creek Village
Fm544
Armstrong Parkway
Heizerling
L.B. Showalter
Chamber of Commerce
Wayne Hendrick
Labor
Congress
Strategic Air Command
Secret Service
Agriculture Department
William E. Simon
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