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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1968
Page
2
The TriBune obituary page outlines publisher William H. Weldon and president Robert Blosser, noting the publication’s guiding motto about pursuing truth and permitting free reason to challenge error. It emphasizes journalistic integrity and the firm’s commitment to principled reporting.
An opinion argues against making driver education mandatory in Missouri high schools with state aid of 50 per pupil, estimated at 3 to 3.9 million dollars, starting 1972. It prefers parent or private driving schools and stresses proper driver attitude over classroom programs. It warns against expanding state funded frills when taxes already rise.
The Post Office Department may downgrade Alexandria Virginia by canceling letters with a Northern Virginia postmark. Once home to George Washington and a key mid Atlantic port, the city laments the change as eroding local pride and historic identity.
Washington column argues police courage is underappreciated. It recounts the Aug 1968 post office robbery with Officers Michael W. Hartman and Ronald T. Wilkins defusing the siege, crediting Chief John E. B. Layton and senior leaders for morale and urging political support for police.
Art Buchwald sketches a campus scene where a dean faces student protesters demanding amnesty, faculty state punishments, due process, and reforms while threats escalate to library fires and expulsions in a satirical press column.
Central Missouri letters to the News Tribune are welcome with signatures. writers may request anonymity. Submissions must be respectful, verified if contested, edited only for minor errors, and not exceed 256 typed words. address letters to Editor, News-Tribune Publications, 210 Monroe St., Jefferson City, Missouri.
Washington Sen John McClellan leads final hearings set for January on the F-111 program. The swing-wing jet faces cancellation after multiyear probes into cost overruns crashes and structural flaws. McClellan and Defense Secretary Clifford weigh whether any version should survive amid calls for deep cuts or total scrapping.
Jefferson City notes honor for Thomas Griffin at a Columbia Christmas dinner for Metropolitan Life Insurance sales. Helias High School defeated Missouri School for the Deaf 73 to 34 as Carl Pratt scored 45. State trooper Robert N. King named U.S. deputy marshal. Whitley to be installed Masonic Lodge master on Dec 29.
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