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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1968
Page
1
Nixon weighs appointing Sargent Shriver as U N ambassador with Shriver flying to Paris and meeting with Nixon. The president elect also adds James Keogh and Martin Anderson to his staff while weighing cabinet and policy roles.
Jefferson City junior and senior high students in grades seven through twelve will receive an unscheduled day off on January 13 to coincide with Governor Hearnes' inauguration. The Senior High Marching Band and ROTC unit will join the parade, and the Freshman High cafeteria will host visiting bands and marching units in the Capital City.
Gov Warren E Hearnes and La-Z-Boy Chair Co officials disclosed a new chair manufacturing plant will be built in Neosho. The facility is expected to employ about six hundred people eventually.
The trial of Alphonzo Lewis Jr. for first degree murder begins in Cole County Circuit Court. Lewis, an inmate at Missouri State Penitentiary serving 14 years, is accused of stabbing fellow inmate Robert M. Ybarra on February 21, triggering the escape incident.
Judge J O Swink presides as Byron Kinder leads Cole County prosecution in the Lewis case with two youths on the jury pool. Defense rests without opening statement. Dr Leo M Baker testifies on Feb 21 that Ybarra suffered eight stab wounds and died from a severed artery after attempting revival.
Grace M McKissick of Fulton reported her 1967 black four door Plymouth stolen from the L and 0 parking lot at 107 West Light Street. Mrs William H Weldon of Hayselton Drive reported a young man driving recklessly along Hayselton Drive.
After 18 years with the Jefferson City police department, Dickson submitted his resignation for personal reasons. Mrs. Weldon reported an incident where a stolen car nearly struck her driveway. the car and driver are being sought. Police traced a 1964 Buick reported stolen earlier. The event follows a broader context of labor and political unrest reported from Washington and Beirut, with security and policy debates ongoing as Apollo 8 countdown advances. Dickson's resignation takes effect December 16.
Ronald Lee Engelbrecht of Tan ner Bridge Road is among 16 University of Missouri Rolla students named in the 1968 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. A senior and honor student in electrical engineering, he belongs to Phi Eta Sigma Phi Kappa Phi Tau Beta Pi Eta Kappa Nu and to the Newman Club and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He serves as president of the Prospects Club and is a member of the Inter-Coop Council.
The 31st Capitol Caroling presented by Jefferson City Public Schools will be at 8 p.m. in the State Capitol rotunda. About 500 students will line the stairs for a Christmas music concert led by George Sisco with the Senior High Varsity band and director Carl E. Burker. Decorations have been designed for the event.
Don ald BD Campbell, 38, a Springfield salesman, told Corpus Christi minister Rev. Jack D. Walker he killed John F. Vaughn, 34, a Springfield grocer found shot Aug. 3, 1964. Police said Campbell, who sought Christianity, waived extradition after his Sunday disclosure and was to be taken into custody.
Jefferson City Public Schools will dismiss unusually early, with the 1969-70 calendar approved by the Board of Education showing last day on May 28. Labor Day on Sept. 1, 1968 prompts an earlier start to the school year than in many years.
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