The miniature household electronic calculator era begins
Editorial notes the drop in price and size of pocket calculators from costly devices to under 200 dollars, enabling widespread use. It cites examples like calculating room carpet area and budgeting, highlighting quotes from North American Rockwell Microelectronics president Sam Carlson about the tool's broad impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaise Pascal
Sam Carlson
North American Rockwell Microelectronics Company
Trial lawyers clash over consumer fight at convention
J D Lee, Tennessee attorney, denounces corporations and insurance firms as he pledges the 27 000 member Trial Lawyers Association to champion consumer rights. Virginia Knauer cites a $1 billion annual auto liability insurance surplus for lawyers and warns against no fault insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trial Lawyers Association
St. Louis
J. D. Lee
Tennessee
Virginia Knauer
Con
Sumer Affairs
Rotarians hear child care center to open Sept. 9
Mrs. Gail Bailey outlined Pontiac’s new day care center to open Sept. 5 with 65 capacity, serving ages 3 to 12 and a half day nursery school. The facility, named Mr. Fun, operates 6 30 a m to 5 30 p m weekdays, with future expansion to younger children and infants. Costs vary by care type, about 41 cents per hour for full day care, and weekend events such as birthday catering. Wayne Taylor and Robert Evans were welcomed as new members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gail Bailey
Pontiac
Mr. Fun
Bailey
Soy City Development Company
Decatur
Paul Blakeman
Wayne Taylor
Robert Evans
S. W. Trotter
Local Fairbury Couple Wed In Double Ring Ceremony
Marilyn Kay Hoffman and Roderick G. Stevens wed in a 4 p.m. ceremony at First United Presbyterian Church Fairbury officiated by Rev. James Cook. Organist John Rockenbach and soloist Betty Wurmle performed as a reception followed. The couple plan to reside in Calumet City after a Wisconsin wedding trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbury
Marilyn Kay Hoffman
Jean Hoffman
Clyde Hoffman
Gibson City
Roderick G. Stevens
Gerald Stevens
Dwight
James £. Cook
First United Presbyterian Church
John Rockenbach
Betty Wurmle
Cropsey
Robert Walter Jr
Kathy Hoffman
Donna Cook
William Wivell
Rockford
Robert Walter, Jr
Randall
Robert Stevens
Chris Elliott
Judy Steidinger
Robert Nussbaum
Dick Walters
Glen Ellyn
Larry Elliott
Kristi Hoffman
Kim Hoffman
Suzanne Stevens
Wisconsin
Stevens
Fairbury-Cropsey High School
Honeggers and Co., Inc
Dwight High School
Winston Churchill College
CIT Financial Services
Hammond
Ind
Calumet City
Reston: Nixon plan to dominate news succeeds
James Reston reports that the Nixon campaign uses bold foreign policy moves to keep George McGovern on the defensive. Kissinger tours Paris and Saigon, Peterson to Moscow, and vast Soviet wheat sales plus UN speeches shape the race while delaying issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Reston
New York Times
Washington
Nixon
George McGovern
McGovern
Henry Kissinger
Paris
Saigon
Peter Peterson
Moscow
Soviet Union
Sr Leona Celebrates 70 Years as Nun in Notre Dame Sisters
Sister Leona of the Sacred Heart aged 89, formerly Emma Louis from St. Mary's Loretto, marked seven decades in the Notre Dame Sisters. The Utica superior taught at Notre Dame High School in Chicago Dayton and Cincinnati and recently received a papal blessing plaque from Pope Paul VI and Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leona
the Sacred Heart
Notre Dame Sisters
Cincinnati
Ohio
Emma Louis
St. Mary’s Loretto
Sisterhood
Michael Louis
Lud Louis
St. Patrick’s Parish
Dwight
Loretto
Motherhouse
Utica
Notre Dame High School
Chicago
Dayton
Bratts to Observe 62nd Wedding Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bratt of 114 Ray Street will quietly celebrate their 62nd anniversary with family on Thursday August 24. They are parents of four. Donald of Cicero, Nellie Marker, Clyde Bratt and Helen Gray of Pontiac, with 16 grandchildren, 47 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Bratt
Ray St
Donald of
Cicero
Nellie Marker
Clyde Bratt
Helen Gray
Pontiac
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Ill
Don Gakley
Marilyn Hoffman
Roderick Stevens
Mr. and
Mrs
Club Smilo
Pontiac Leader Publishing
Main St
Illinois
Livingston County
Jerome Pearce
John Plesko
Elizabeth Harris
Jim Caviezel
John Renne
Weldon Greeneberg
Ken Bond
Wayne Jensen
Donald Jobst
Merlyn Shanebrook
Carter
Chatsworth
Chenoa
Carnell
Cullom Fairbury
Flanagan
Forrest
Odell Saunemin
Ilinois
Pontiac 'Minois
Goldie Munson
Dr. McGee
St. James Hospital
Reston Says
United Nations
Egypt
Cairo
Suez Canal
L. Stone
Middle East
Sadat
Peking
North Vietnam
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Sen
Henry Jackson
Brezhnev
Southeast Asia
Roosevelt
Truman
Lyndon Johnson
White House
Kissinger
Hanoi
le Duc Tho
Peterson
Vietnam
Ramsey Clark
Pierre Salinger
William Rogers
U.S
Berry's
NEA
Kennedy Sisters
Sr. Leona
Paul VI
Reverend Mother of the Order
Rome
Bratts
Sherwin- Williams
Eis
Sherwin Williams
N. Mill Street
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