June 18, 1971

Slants

Lorene Chandler northeast of city proud of her certificate as proof she finished the Powder Puff auto mechanics course at Gordon Cooper Vo-Tech school…Ellen Wall bringing in a large envelope filled with Betty Crocker coupons to be used in the purchase of a kidney machine for a state area…

American troops will be tested chemically before they leave Vietnam for home to determine if they are narcotics addicts, the U.S. command announced today.

The program was ordered by President Nixon as part of his plan for rehabilitation of addicted GIs and will begin on Sunday, the command said.

At noon today in Seminole it was a warm 90 degrees after a low Thursday night of 74, the local station of the National Weather Service at the fire department reported. High temperature Thursday was 95 degrees.

Pepsi Cola pushed their record to 7-1 Wednesday night by defeating First National Bank 15-11 in a Senior Peewee League makeup game from Monday night.

Winning pitcher of the contest was Jim Terney while the loser was Dennis Brewer.