Last 32 Prisoners Start Home Today
The last 32 American POWs freed from Viet Cong captivity arrived in Hanoi. Army Col. Benjamin Purcell led the group amid a flood of gratitude as 27 military personnel and five civilians left the aircraft. Civilian releases from Hue followed. overall, all POWs expected to be released by Thursday as troop withdrawals resumed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Air Base
Philippines
North Vietnam
Pathet Lao
Laos
U.S
Hanoi
United States
South Vietnam
Army
Benjamin Harrison Purcell
Sion
Jose J. Anzaidua Jr
Refugio
Tex
Air Force
William J. Henderson
Milwaukee
Wis
Anne Ritzman
Clark
Henderson
Hue
Hawaii
Aloha
Charles Edward.Willis
Tom
Y. Kabashigawa
Thomas
T. Horio
Nixon
Bowling Standings and High Scores From Local League Night
Bow Lungs Stangels beat Spareparts as Len Stangel rolled 623 and a 255 game. Vi Stangel led women with 489 while Judy Clay top woman at 378. Newlyweds fell to Clarkfork Riverrats led by Joyce Webb 458. Art Webb 391. Riverrats Bob Hays 462 and Fay Hays 397 led. Strikeouts defeated Odd Squad as Vern Coulter 484. Sharon Coulter 432 and Ray Sacamano 459. Joyce Gonzales 356. Question Marks topped Guttersnipes with Phil Croy 506. Katie Croy 483. Bill Bakers 485. Helen Smith 345. Jets swept Hopeless Four led by Ed Nettleton 510. Thelma Nettleton 420. Vince Finks 417. Norene Coleman 394. Misfits lost 2 1/2 to Rams as Ernie Ahner 519. Janice Meredith 371. Lauraine Montgomery read as top woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stangels Inc
Len Stangel
Stangels
Vi Stangel
Billy Beyer
Judy Clay
Newlyweds
Clarkfork Riverrats
Joyce Webb
Art Webb
Riverrats
Bob Hays
Fay Hays
Vern Coulter
Sharon Coulter
Ray Sacamano
Joyce Gonzales
Guttersnipes
Phil Croy
Katie Croy
Bill Bakers
Helen Smith
Jets
Ed Nettleton
Thelma Nettleton
Vince Finks
Norene Coleman
Misfits
Rams
Ernie Ahner
Unclear Award List with Team and Individual Prizes
Fragmented OCR lists weekly prizes by team and gender lines with names such as Stangels Inc Jets Len Stangel Dean Delcomte Helen Delcomte Sharon Coulter and prizes amounts 456 831 692 247 620 261 with entries for Gay prizes Kelsey Anderson and Rusty Hays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ery
Gross
Stangels Inc
Line Gross
Jets
Len Stangel
Dean Delcomte
Helen Delcomte
Sharon Coulter
Kelsey Anderson
Rusty Hays
Deanery Meet Held Monday In Priest River
The Northern Deanery Idaho Council of Catholic Women met Monday in Priest River for its annual spring meeting at the VFW Hall. President Mrs. Robert Naccarate presided. St Catherine's hosted and Rev James Doak spoke on a Holy Lands tour. Off icers were installed and St Joseph's Altar Society won Memory book first place. Attendees from Sandpoint included Elsie Temple and others. Rev John O'Donovan could not attend due to illness.
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Idaho
Council of Catholic Women
Priest River
VFW
Robert Naccarate
St. Catherine’s Catholic Church
Louis Wimner
Cottonwood
St. Catherine’s
James Doak
United Methodist Church
Sandpoint
Doak
Holy Lands
St. Joseph’s Altar Society
Elsie Temple
Lucille Huden
Anna Woodland
Mary Perry
Irene Sundquist
Lucille Parker
Beulah Bowlden
Donna Williams
Pauline Cochran
Arlaine Abbott
Gil Scribner
Maxine Queathral
Mary Boothe
Leona Judge
Alice List
Eleanor Wilson
Mary Sin
Federal funding cuts threaten Idaho libraries services
The Idaho State Library Board in Boise reported drastic federal budget reductions for public library funding. Funds dropped from 480 920 in 1972 to 309 028 in 1973, with termination planned July 1 under Nixon’s 1974 budget. State aid only rose 32 300, prompting staff cuts and April 1 service terminations for 407 isolated borrowers. Books by Mail and a key data phone network face reductions. State aid construction grants were approved for Boundary County Valley of the Tetons and Filer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
UPI
State
Idaho
al M. Smith
Pocatello
Nixon
General Fund
Helen Miller
Boundary County
Valley of the Tetons
SHS Grapplers To Be Honored At Banquet
SHS announces a public awards banquet for Bulldog wrestlers on Saturday March 31 at 6 30 p m in the Pastime Banquet Room. Letters will be awarded and the most valuable and inspirational wrestlers recognized. Emceed by Ray Holt SHS typing instructor. Admission is 3 75 per person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Lyons
Ray Holt
SHS
Lion Recaptured in Berlin Center Ohio
600-pound African lion recaptured near Berlin Center Ohio after escape from a circus zoo enclosure. Authorities and handlers tracked the big cat to a rural area and secured it without further incident.
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Berlin Center
Ohio
UPI
Pub Boss's Son Strikes for More Allowance Amid Lion Crisis
In Walsall England a pub manager's 9 year old son Colin strikes for a higher allowance after watching strike reports on TV. Meanwhile a lion named Stanley escaped from a barn cage, killed three dogs, roamed streets, and was recaptured by owner Richard Hartman with a Jeep rope, as deputies watched. Stanley plans to appear at Wonderland Park and Zoo opening this summer in Streetsboro.
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Walsall
England
UPI
Peter Butler
Colin
Richard Hartman
Hartman
Wonderland Park and Zoo
Streetsboro
Stanley
U. S. 224
Mahoning County
Sheriff's Deputies
Baez Files For Divorce From David Harris In California
Folk singer Joan Baez filed for divorce in San Mateo Superior Court on the fifth anniversary of her marriage to antiwar activist David Harris. The action seeks joint custody of their son Gabriel, 3, with no alimony and property division already settled. The couple has been separated three years. Harris served two years of a federal prison term for draft evasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redwood City
Calif
UPI
Joan Baez
David Harris
San Mateo Superior Court
Gabriel
Miss Baez
Harris
Closed Boise School Board Meeting Stirs Public Debate
Boise Idaho UPI reports a tense clash as a closed school board meeting to discuss surplus Veterans Administration property prompted press invites and citizen protests outside the administration building. The meeting was postponed after a trustee threatened to leave if it remained closed.
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Boise
UPI
Boise School Board
Veterans Administration
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BOW Lung News
Stangers
Odd Squad
Hopeless
Lion
Tat Tatagasz
BLISS
By Charles M. Schulz
New York
Mihaly Mezaros
Kennedy Airport
Mezaros
Ringling Bros.Barnim and Bailey Circus
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