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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1966
Page
2
New York’s Astor Hotel bids farewell after 62 years as guests check out and crews move in to demolish the Broadway landmark. The 40 story office building plan will erase a site once hosting presidents and show business leaders, with lingering fond memories from staff and patrons.
Longtime Missouri Power and Light Co. employees were honored at the annual 25-year club dinner. MP&L reported 186 active and retired staff with 25 or more years of service. President Davis Benning praised the company’s ability to attract and retain qualified personnel. Fourteen employees reached 25 years since last year’s dinner. Tributes were given to four others who died during the year.
Fragmented report notes continued air attack actions over South Viet Nam with antiaircraft fire and heavy enemy resistance. Names listed include Virginia Stewart William Foster Jarrard and J Roy among others as observers describe the lingering hotel like targets and responses from guests and officers.
A Charleston woman, Carol Fisher, 27, died after she apparently poured gasoline on herself and set herself on fire in her back yard. The incident occurred Wednesday night, with authorities noting no stated motive. Nearby, 4-H members named their favorite cartoon at a meeting and planned a tour to a health laboratory on August 10 or 17. In Vietnam, U.S. forces reported rising casualties with 131 Americans killed and 755 wounded in the past week, as airstrikes targeted Viet Cong locations near Quang Ngai and Saigon.
Springfield AP report says charges that Southwest Missouri Republicans favored Rep. Durward Hall were denied. Aurora attorney Taylor accused GOP officials of aiding Hall while presenting captured pilots and Hanoi broadcast claims. Taylor warned such statements damage the party.
New Red Cross officers step into roles in the Cole County Chapter. Gideon Houser handed the chairman’s gavel to Charles E. Smith as four new officers and board members took office. Reports include weekly enemy losses, aircraft downings, and casualties in the Vietnam theater with tallies from June 1925 to the week prior, noting dramatic aerial photographs from Hanoi and allied casualty figures.
The interview fragment shows RFK and Fulbright debating international supervision of Vietnam elections, ICC roles, and bombing policy. They discuss UN involvement, potential impacts of air strikes on oil depots, and the need for credible levers to influence Hanoi without widening the war. The dialogue touches reactions from allies and rivals, including Britain and the Soviet Union, and references to ongoing talks and possible China involvement.
Merrick Lind of 1810 W Mc Carty St is named supervisor of a new vocational rehabilitation unit at St Joseph state mental hospital. Three Missouri state mental hospitals will host units with 75 percent funding from the U S Vocational Rehabilitation Administration and aims to place former patients in gainful employment. Cecil Brown shifts from Nevada to oversee all three facilities in Jefferson City.
In the past twenty years New York lost 33 hotels while the Astor and the Shoreham East on Park Avenue shut their doors. Yet the city now has more hotel rooms than in 1945 due to new skyscraper hotels and the rise of motor hotels in Manhattan.
Re elected secretary and Miss Bess Amos treasurer. B W Robinson water safety chairman reports 2485 persons enrolled in this summer's Red Cross Water Safety Program with instructors on a volunteer basis. United Campaign Fund drive set for October 4 to November 4.
Summer activities for children enrolled at Training Center No 13 were resumed this morning. State Education Commissioner J Hubert Wheeler announced the restart after the center closed Monday following a fire marshal evaluation of the building it occupied. Thirteen classrooms are in the new Ames Elementary School.
The item outlines the Jefferson City Post-Tribune and The Tribune with details on establishment dates, key publishers and staff, the News Tribune Company address at 210 Monroe Street, and a note on publication schedule. It lists subscription rates for carrier and mail delivery in Missouri and neighboring states, plus general circulation and association memberships.
A Soviet scientist visiting the United States said the 630 foot Gateway Arch in St Louis did not impress him as much as Moscow's 1,000 foot television tower. Dr Vasily Modestov 71, part of a five member group touring under the Atomic Energy Commission banner, voiced his opinion Wednesday.
Vernon, Texas AP report says two lieutenant governors will greet a Texas Longhorn drive headed into Oklahoma. A 3 dollar Longhorn herd crosses the Red River near Altus for an overnight stop as part of a Texas Longhorn Breeder Association effort to recreate post Civil War cattle movements. The drive began Sunday at San Antonio and aims for Dodge City, Kansas, by Friday. The cattle travel mostly by truck for 146 miles from Abilene, Texas, with the herd entering Oklahoma at Dean's Crossing where banks are now higher.
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