Aruba and Curacao Visit On a Caribbean Cruise
The author describes Aruba and Curacao in the Dutch Antilles during a Caribbean cruise. Oil refineries fuel prosperity while tourism approaches grow, with Aruban beaches on the east and garbage dumping near Oranjestad’s west shore. Willemstad Harbor is noted as a major natural port.
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Aruba
Curacao
Dutch Antilles
Venezuela
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Rules
Shell Oil
New Amsterdam
Oranjestad
Resort Coast Line
Holiday Inn
New York
U.S
South American
Willemstad
Spring warms to 80 as weekend heat hits local area
The week opened with spring like temperatures reaching 80 here on Saturday. Daily highs and lows from the USDA Cotton Research Station show a low of 36 on Tuesday and a warm weekend before dipping later in the week.
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Usda Cotton Research Station
Rights of students outlined by county official
A sixty minute presentation by a County Superintendent of Schools representative informed Richland trustees about recent student rights rulings and due process. Dr Virgil Trandem stressed keeping children in school, informing parents, and applying due process, outlining suspension limits and alternatives, parent conferences for suspensions over three days, and appeals paths to the county board and courts if procedural errors occur. The talk also noted a School Attendance Review Board and continued on Page 5.
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County Superintendent of Schools
Richland
Virgil Trandem
Trandem
Kern County
Shafter Receives Official ARBA Bicentennial Status
Shafter is designated a National Bicentennial Community by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Mayor Dick Larson appointed Nina Leigh headed committee to plan projects through 1976 including a historical coloring book contest and a new city seal. The effort seeks broad local participation with plans for a museum, a bicentennial newspaper section, and community events.
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Washington, D. C
Shafter
Dick Larson
Larson
Shafter City
Richland
Shafter Press
Richland School
Leigh
Families sue for 3.2 million in Shafter train deaths
The parents of two Shafter High School girls and the mother of a third victim sue for 3.225 million dollars alleging willful misconduct and negligence after a Noontime Amtrak crash at Central Avenue crossing. They seek general damages and multi million claims against railroad defendants and the car owner.
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Shafter
Amtrak
Herman R
Mary L. Jones
Buttonwillow
Barbara Ann Jones
Ada Stafford
Carey Lynn Taylor
Bakersfield
Simms and Solomon
Central Avenue
Shafter Avenue
Railway Corporation
Linda Rutledge
Tragic 14 Year Old Killed In Shafter Fresno Crash
A 14 year old rural Shafter youth died in a motorcycle collision at Shafter Avenue and Fresno Street Saturday afternoon. Richard Arthur Jones Jr aged 14 rode into the path of a car driven by 57 year old Albert Verlon Monger. The youth was pronounced dead at the scene and autopsy cited multiple traumatic injuries mostly head injuries. Services were scheduled for Thursday.
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Shafter
Fresno
California Highway Patrol
Richard Arthur Jones, Jr
Madera Street
CHP
Fresno Avenue
Shafter Avenue
Albert Verlon
Monger
Tony Ferguson
Coroners Office
Richland Students Scored Low On Early School Tests
Richland School District Assistant Superintendent Al Sandrini discussed the 1973 74 test results showing first graders in the 24th percentile for reading and sixth graders below average in reading English and math. He noted varying outcomes across grades and factors affecting performance.
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Richland
al Sandrini
Sandrini
California
Sandri
Richand
Asistant
Richland Studnts
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eGee and Loong
Onr
Emil Tach Frost
Mercury
Dick Moon
Maudie Handel
Richland Pta
PTA
ARBA
Gabe Solomon
Crosss
SHS
Central
Richard Jones
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