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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1969
Page
2
The News Tribune outlines leadership with William H. Weldon as Publisher and Robert Bolssser as President. The paper asserts a guiding motto about pursuing truth and tolerating error while keeping reason free to challenge it.
A Missouri senator's speech attacking military waste and exaggerated threats is challenged as naive about the Soviet threat. The piece argues defense procurement shifted to civilians, notes Democratic administrations' role, and urges strong preparedness despite costs to avert nuclear oblivion.
A letter from the Jefferson City-Cole County League of Women Voters president denounces a possible U.S. Constitutional Convention as liberal hysteria. The writer defends the Constitution, blames the Warren Court for alleged overreach, and urges Missourians to oppose a recall petition and support Senator Omer Avery.
The memo notes 80 pounds of lunar rocks slated for July study. It cites the Agriculture Department and Customs Bureau claims to inspect rocks as they screen plants and foreign matter. Public Health Service and 100 scientists demanded to handle remaining samples for examination.
In a May 28 broadcast the left attacked Mayor Yorty’s re election as racist. The piece argues the liberal Bradley faction and Kennedys backed by Americans for Democratic Action failed, while Yorty allied with public order and officials. It labels liberalism in decline and criticizes CBS commentators.
The piece argues student majorities drove campus order as politicians and administrators faltered. It cites Nixon and Finch praising student calm, notes SDS waning, Harvard and New Mexico State University scenes, and a Cowboys on Campus satirical demand manifesto demanding western attire and rodeo courses.
The Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee drafts a 66 page report alleging a small group of militants instigated the 1967 Houston and Nashville riots. It accuses SNCC members of organizing campuses, linking to Black Nationalists and Deacons for Defense as Office of Economic Opportunity payroll abuses are alleged.
A letter from a reader accuses Capital City Telephone Co of changing billing rules to charge the full one party rate for all calls, doubling costs and trapping customers. The writer asks where the Missouri Public Service Commission stands and urges protest. A separate letter advocates a Free Breakfast program for lower income students, then another criticizes abortion stance and defends birth right to life.
Central Missouri residents may send signed letters to the Editor at News Trib publications Jefferson City. Letters must be under 250 words and edited only for minor errors. Writers may request name suppression. signatures may be verified for highly controversial submissions.
E. E. Strobel will represent the Jefferson City Kiwanis Club at the 44th Kiwanis International convention in Dallas Texas from June 14 to 18. Swimming lessons under Red Cross Water Safety begin June 22 for six weeks, chairman William Tweedie Jr. announced.
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