July 21,1971

Slants

Jennifer and Jeff James having a picnic at the park…Charles Morris being teased about his “golden voice”…Delbert Smith reminding all horsemen that they should get their horses vaccinated against the South American sleeping sickness… Cecil Neely, manager of Canadian Valley Electric, being well pleased with the way the CVEC employees fish fry went off last night…Supt. Eugene Warrenburg of Varnum remarking that school will be starting again soon… Mrs. J.R. Hudson’s name being inadvertently omitted from a party gift shower for her granddaughter, Mrs. Charles Keith Grounds… Mrs. Hudson tended the guest book…

At noon today in Seminole it was 85 degrees after a low Tuesday night of 57, the National Weather Service’s local station at the fire department reported. High temperature Tuesday was 88 degrees.

Seminole county joined in this morning with other countries in the state getting the compulsory vaccination of all horses, mules, ponies, and donkeys underway with the special vaccines to protect them from the rare sleeping sickness, Venezuelan equine encephalomy-elitis which is in epidemic stage in Texas and Mexico and some other states.

Texas officials already busy vaccinating horses and killing mosquitoes trying to beat back a spreading sleeping sickness, were warned today of a new danger to livestock—an outbreak of swine fever in Latin America.

While Apollo 15’s astronauts sought medical clearance for launch Monday, two large tracking aircraft headed for Guam today to support America’s forthcoming moon landing expedition.

City police were called to the Ted Markham residence at 305 West Walnut at 4 a.m. today to investigate a house burglary.

Markham told police that someone broke into his house during the night and stole his pants, shirt, billfold containing $20, and his car keys and a key to the shop at the Dowell installation here.