Floating museum set to visit Jefferson City this weekend
The Sergeant Floyd, a floating history museum tied at the sand plant on Bolivar Street, will host free tours Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The U S Army Corps of Engineers outfitted the towboat for a Bicentennial display traveling Inland and Gulf Intracoastal waterways until December 1976.
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Sergeant Floyd
Jefferson City
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Bolivar Street
Corps
Missouri City
Missouri to Equip Patrol Cars With Citizens Band Radios
Gov Christopher Bond announced in Branson that all state highway patrol cars will receive citizens band radios by July end. He said Missouri leads nationwide in this program and expects improved efficiency and safety. An experimental phase showed motorists are willing to share information on dangerous conditions and unsafe driving.
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Branson
Christopher S. Bond
Missouri
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Bond
Senate payroll swells as budget cuts bite elsewhere
The Missouri Senate plans about 40 percent higher spending than last year as personnel costs rise. Increased salaries, committee payroll shifts, and one time remodeling and printing expenses push total costs beyond the original appropriation, amid debate over whether funds fund research or campaign work.
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Senate Contingency Fund
Senate
Richard Webster
Carthage
Senate Accounts Committee
Webster
Committee On Fiscal Affairs
Committee On Legislative Research
Spradling
Accounts Committee
Capitol
Graham says neutral on politics ambassador of Christ
In Stockholm Billy Graham says he is neutral on most political issues and opposes fascism Nazism and communism. He rejects defense of capitalism over communism and calls himself an ambassador of Christ not a politician or U S envoy while meeting church leaders and reporters ahead of a Baptist world congress appearance.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Evangelist
Billy Graham
U.S
Christ
Graham
Baptist World Congress
Refugee doctors sought for rural posts in Arkansas program
In CHAFFEE ARK an effort to relocate Vietnamese refugee doctors faces slow progress amid licensing hurdles and rural doctor shortages. About 170 refugees identify as doctors. many await state by state credentialing, exams, and training before practicing, with some likely entering medical technician roles meanwhile.
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FT. Chaffee, Ark
U.S. Labor Department
William D. Cheyne
Chaffee
American Medical Association
Cheyne
United States
AMA
John McIntosh
The
Arkansas Medical Association
Rains Leave Missouri Soil Moisture Plentiful
Heavy rains left adequate to surplus soil moisture across Missouri with 81 percent of the state rated as adequate, 12 percent surplus, and 7 percent short. Corn was mostly fair to good, 23 percent harvested wheat, and soybean planting 87 percent complete as alfalfa first cut reached 90 percent.
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Columbia, Mon
Missouri
State Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Wood chips oversupplied hit Pacific Northwest mills
Portland AP reports an oversupply of wood chips has led Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co to stop buying them. Estimates indicate 9 to 100 mills in the Pacific Northwest may be affected, with some predicting shutdowns as chip sales, once strong, dulled lumber demand. Prime logs were sometimes chipped when chip sales were high and lumber sales slow.
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Portland, Ore
Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co
Pacific Northwest
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William Cason
William Phelps
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Norman Merrell
D-Monticello
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Donald J. Grabke
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Norelco
Buescher Ambulance
Josh
Jefferson Plaza
Transcendental
Thomas Jefferson Library
State House Restaurant
Madison
Nixon
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Daily Capital News
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R. L. Rose
Robert Slosser
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News Tribune Company
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Labor Department
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Jefferson City Bridge
Highway 94
Maranatha Singers
Arris Pizza Palace
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Grens
Charle Bronson
Perteteuvweed
Hiway
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Hal Holbrook
Petrovia
Pgi
Sirijoes
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Rick Nelson
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Standard Oil
Kansas City
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