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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1969
Page
2
The News Tribune Company motto proclaims a commitment to pursuing truth and tolerating error, with a promise to uphold free reason in public discourse. It emphasizes independence, integrity, and dedication to journalistic principles guiding editorial work.
The Missouri Oil Council supports a state plan to expand highway capacity with dual-lane roads across Missouri and endorses a gasoline tax sharing increase to fund safe roads. It rejects bond funding and toll roads, urging other groups to align before the 1967 General Assembly. Jefferson City and surrounding areas seek improved connections to Columbia Fulton Kingdom City Lake of the Ozarks Rolla.
A letter urging Mid-Missourians to contact state and federal lawmakers warns against plush salary hikes and pension plans for officials. It argues such increases inflate costs, undermine taxpayers, and urges petitions, recalls, and sustained mail campaigns to push back on both Missouri and federal raises amid a $350 billion national deficit.
Secretary Laird and Deputy Secretary Packard warn Congress that public indifference to the Safeguard anti ballistic missile system endangers national survival. The article contrasts U S disarmament hopes with Soviet missile buildup, stressing ABM as a watershed moment and warning that failure to act could yield a first-place Soviet dominance and a future Communist world.
Art Buchwald surveys a renewed Vietnam War focus with Nixon Thieu and U S intermediaries at Midway and Paris. The piece satirizes conflicting signals about peace terms and who will decide Vietnam s future. It lampoons diplomatic theater and the public spin surrounding stalled negotiations.
Lisbon reports NATO strains as Red forces shift focus to Mozambique and Angola. Guerrilla cadres trained in the U.S. BR China and Cuba support a plan around the Cahora Bassa dam project risking vast economic and demographic upheaval. Angola, Mozambique, and Zambia host staging, with 40,000 Africans in Angola's Home Guard and a growing Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban presence facilitating intensified conflict.
Brief reads several local items including Robert J. Baxter named commercial instructor at Capital Business College in Jefferson City. Gov Blair signs a law aiding unemployment benefits for prior employment issues. Al Martin selects 16 for inter-city golf matches opening in Columbia. Other notes include Chamber of Commerce highway route recommendations, Otto Kroeger’s 39 years delivering mail, a preschool dental conference, Matilia Dallmeyer elected Missouri Republican League VP, and a new city street safety ordinance against throwing dangerous objects with fines up to 1000 dollars.
A civic exhortation urges readers to contact their congressmen and senators to share problems and opinions. It lists addresses for Sen Stuart Symington and Sen Thomas Eagleton in Washington and Rep Richard Hungate, with county districts in Missouri. The piece stresses courteous, informed letters and timely appreciation or disapproval.
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