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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1969
Page
3
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spaniard shipwrecked on the Gulf of Mexico in 1528, is recognized as the first European to set foot on New Mexico soil after eight years of overland travel through the American southwest.
Philip F. Tear, editor of the Oberlin Alumni Magazine, was named director of public relations at Oberlin College by President Robert K. Carr. Tear will continue as editor and succeeds Walter E. Reeves who left Franklin and Marshall College. He previously worked at the Youngstown Vindicator and the R. J. McCallister Co. in Youngstown.
The Nixon proposal to draft 19-year-olds raises concerns among manpower experts that voluntary enlistments may drop. Pentagon officials note about 60 percent of the 800,000 yearly volunteers are draft oriented, and a 12-month induction could deter some willing recruits. The plan seeks a 19-year old pool, selecting the oldest each month, ending at age 19 for home on 20th birthday.
The Case Western Reserve University medical school in Cleveland receives about 3 million dollars in state funds while the State Board of Regents delays Akron area plans. A study of needs in northeastern Ohio will be conducted by Dr. Kenneth Penrod, with a recommendation due next spring.
Sen Strom Thurmond of South Carolina dismissed a Life magazine report as false alleging a land sale scandal involving him and District Judge Charles Simons. He said the 66 acres were a valuable industrial site and denied impropriety, accusing Life of fabricating the story with party officials.
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