Kiva Cocopah students learn shipping through ship letter program
Betty Reedy reports Cocopah sixth graders exchanged letters with Paul Griffith chief engineer of the SS President Fillmore through the Propeller Club Adopt a Ship program. Griffith spoke May 3 in Phoenix, enhancing student knowledge of life aboard ships and foreign ports. The article also notes local band concerts, a Mother's Day tea, Cub Scout and Campfire Girls activities, awards, and upcoming Pinewood Derby and campouts.
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Betty Reedy
Hollis Deane McConnell
San Francisco
Yokohama
Propeller Club
Fillmore
Paul Griffith
Phoenix
Cocopah
Griffith
Nixon seeks $100 million cancer attack program
President Nixon announced a presidential program for cancer cure funded at $100 million, with Congress to determine appropriation. He pledged more funds if needed and sent legislation to create a Cancer Cure Program within the NIH, reporting directly to the president. He cited personal loss as motivation.
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Nixon
Euegene V. Risher Washington
UPI
Congress
Nixonts
National Institutes of Health
United States
Cancer Institute
Elizabeth
Six Korean NCO students drown in river crossing exercise
Six students at South Korea's Army Non commissioned Officers School drowned Monday during a river crossing drill. Officials said the tragedy occurred as trainees attempted to cross a river under training conditions. Local authorities launched probes into safety protocols and supervision.
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SEQUL
UPI
South “Korea
Army
Makesaid
Mammoth Fossil Found Preserved in Siberia by Indigirka River
Tass reports worker K Struchkov found parts of a giant mammoth with skin and hair protruding from permafrost near a Siberian tributary. The animal’s hair and skin are well preserved and the find is one of about thirty such discoveries in Siberia and Alaska. The mammoth will be studied in a deep Siberian cave.
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Moscow
UPI
Tass
K. Struchkov
Siberia
Indigirka
Isvature
Alaska
Tucson blaze Juvenile bid fails to overturn adult trial
The Arizona State Court of Appeals denied a motion to reconsider affirming that Louis Taylor, 17, should be tried as an adult in the Pioneer Hotel fire case. Public defender Howard Kashman had petitioned for reconsideration after the court upheld Judge Lawrence Galligan’s order.
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Tucson
UPI
State Court of Appeals
Louis Taylor
Pioneer Hotel
Howard Kashman
Appellate Court
Superior Court
Lawrence Galligan
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