August 6,1971

Slants

Cindy Horn talking about her first year as a teacher in the Stroud schools…Mrs. Phil Baker bringing in Betty Crocker coupons to be used toward the purchase of a kidney machine for use in an Oklahoma area…David Herrin and Oble Harvey enjoying the sights of the Great West and California on their two week vacation trip…John Howell remarking that he had some hay cut at the airport yesterday and that brought the rain today…

At noon today it was 70 degrees in Seminole after a low Thursday night of 68, the local station of the National Weather Service reported. High temperature Thursday was 85 degrees. Rainfall up to noon was .28 inch.

The nation’s unemployment rate crept upward in July to 5.8 per cent, the Labor Department reported today. But the increase was smaller than many economists had anticipated.

Seminole City Manager Don Bown today announced that the one-way streets surrounding the Seminole Presbyterian Church have been made two-way streets again.

P The Strother Community Club will hold its regular monthly meeting for August on Monday night, August 9, at Prairie Valley school at 7:30, Alfred Curb, president, announced today.

A teen-aged Oklahoma boy, who apparently hitchhiked 100 miles to renew some friendships without notifying his vacationing parents, was found today near Durango.