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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1973
Page
2
The Jefferson City Missouri News Tribune page from December 10 1973 presents the standard masthead with publisher William H Weldon and president Robert Blosser. The front text includes a Thomas Jefferson quote about pursuing truth and tolerating error with reason.
The piece cites the Small Business Administration estimating Jefferson City losses of about 1 million yearly and noting 2.3 percent average loss with up to 25 to 50 percent of sales at times. It warns parents that youths may shoplift and urges shoppers to lock car doors and keep items hidden. It notes local crime is not severe but warns seasonally.
A Tulsa Daily World summary notes U.S. News & World Report and critics worldwide clash over TV violence. It cites Congress, the FCC, and citizens sending letters about prime time beatings and stabbings. Historical reports from 1960 and 1972 show conflicting views on violence exposure and its effects on children.
Washington opinion argues Nixon paid $155,464 in 1969 to May 1973 with IRS withholdings in 1973. The writer rejects impeachment cries as partisan, defends tax rules, criticizes Cox, Dean, and media bias, and urges focus on law rather than scorn, fearing damage to the presidency and national unity.
A mailed letter to Governor Christopher Bond and Missouri legislators proposes a drastic plan to reform state government. It urges abolishing half of the present boards bureaus and commissions and then cutting half of the remaining jobs and firing 25 percent of the surviving political staff.
James Kilpatrick argues against book burning by a North Dakota school board for Slaughterhouse Five. He compares editorial choices by The Times and CBS to school decisions, contending all editors, librarians, and teachers must make value judgments daily. He critiques both sides and urges measured scrutiny.
Skylab astronauts plan a Christmas day spacewalk to observe comet Kohoutek with ultraviolet and X ray telescopes. The mission aims to produce a three dimensional view and photograph the comet as it nears Earth, with data from multiple spacecraft and Earth based observatories.
Ten years ago in December 1963, Miss Audrey Ponder was chosen president of the newly formed Jefferson City Legal Secretary's Association. The period notes other local items: guard Dick Borgmeyer led Hellos with 11.0 ppg, bowling scores by Shirley Leopold and Beverly Darroch, two $6,000 five room houses at Union Ave. and Jackson St. were under construction, Madeline Vanderfeltz named "Fun Fest Favorite" at LeClerc College, Miller County bootleggers killed after wounding the sheriff, Henry Burbach secured a $7,000 bank remodeling contract, G.A. Fischer Drug Co. bought West End Drug Store, and Irvine Nichols was named freshman basketball captain.
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