Service Clubs Do Work Out Of Proportion to Numbers
County civic clubs pride themselves on fellowship and vast community service. Kiwanis supports Wellington scouting and needy children, Rotary aids the hospital, Lions clubs back High Plains Eye Bank and Crippled Children’s Camp, and volunteers built the Volunteer Ambulance Service garage.
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Kiwanis
Wellington
Rotary Long
Lions Clubs
Sumnerwood
Quail
High Plains Eye Bank
Lions Crippled Children’s Camp
Timber company to plant 100 million seedlings in 1973
One of the nation's largest timber companies announces a record planting program for 1973 with more than 100 million seedlings across Washington to Mississippi. The firm will invest about 28 million dollars to boost forest management, aiming to ensure future wood supplies as U.S. wood consumption far exceeds steel output.
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United States
Washington
Oregon
Arkansas
Mississippi
U.S
Wichita Falls
Texas law aims to strengthen open meetings and shield sources
Senate and House committees advance bills on open meetings and media shield laws. HB 3 would strengthen open meetings rules, HB 10 shields newsmen from disclosing sources, with definitions aligned to federal standards. Tax bill projections warn of higher education welfare costs and potential special sessions if targets miss. 18 year olds gain full rights of maturity, police and firefighter collective bargaining debated, crime rates drop, and DPS reports a broad set of appointments and budget items.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
Bill Hobby
Jurisprudence
US Senate
Supreme Court
Sen
Chet Brooks
Pasadena
Don Cayness
Joe Wyatt
Bloomington
Cayness
Coordinating Board
Texas College and University System
Quotations on Life Hope and Mortality Mixed Verse Fragment
A collage of poems and quotes from Emerson Norton Bulwer Lytton Garrison Longfellow Lincoln Darwin Whittier Thomas Milnes Houghton Tennyson. The excerpt juxtaposes reflections on endurance love and mortality with classical moral and philosophical lines.
Christmas Eve Program at Brant Rock Station 1906
A note describes an event from Brant Rock Massachusetts on Christmas Eve 1906. The program included two musical selections a poem reading and a brief talk conducted at an experimental station setting.
Montana House debate on taxpayers and wildlife policy
A reader letter from Crossroads, U.S.A. praises Montana lawmakers for a resolution debating taxpayers and small business relief. The writer argues that society will shift toward subsisting forms of public upkeep and that the taxpayer caste may become extinct.
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Montana House of Representations
Montana
Congress
Short Takes Muckrakers Time Zones and Plastics
The piece defines muckrakers as early 1900s U S writers exposing corruption in politics and business Four Alaska time zones are listed with major cities named Juneau Fairbanks Anchorage Nome and others The plastic start credits John Hyatt s 1868 thermoplastic discovery marking the birth of the plastics industry The article notes the first known U S radio broadcast by R A Fessenden
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Alaska
Juneau
Yukutat
Yukon
Fairbanks
Anchorage
John Hyatt
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Texas
Deskins Wells
ENA
Panhadte Press _Association
Texas Press Asst
Legislative Budget Board
House
Hild
Department of Public Safety
Wilson E. Speir
DPS
Speir
Bill Bass
Canton
State
Constitutional Revision Commission
Arlington
Tom Vandergriff
Dallas
Harry Shuford
Texas Offshore Terminal Commission
Robert L. Nelson
Larry Teaver
Preston Smith
Dolph Briscoe
House Appropriations Committee
Senate Jurisprudence Committee
Court of Criminal Appeals
Lubbock
Eastland
Temple
Rockdale
el Paso
Houston
State Board of Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Portland Chase
Caelling Elizabeth Sheridan Norton
Lady Maxwell
Edward Bulwer Lytton
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Abraham Lincoln
Park Benjamin
Charles Robert Darwin
John Greekleaf Whittier
Frederick William Thomas
Mohammed
Christ
Richard Monckton Milnes
Lord Houghton
Alfred Tennyson
Ditat
DE. Scott
U.S.A
R. A. Fes
Westlows Utilities Company
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