Price Panel Halts Can Cost Increases To Curb Food Prices
The Price Commission suspended 4.3 percent and 4.2 percent increases on American Can Co and Continental Can Co after approving them last March. The action could be reversed later as the panel investigates how can prices affect supermarket costs. National Can Co awaits action on a 4.27 percent rise, while penalties for late quarterly reports loom.
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State Press Awards Honor Ledger Staff
The Ledger and its staff won five Missouri Press Association Better Newspaper Contest awards. Advertising salesman Steve Pendleton earned his first state-wide prize for an eight-page Audrain Medical Center feature ad. Ledger staff includes William Haas, Chuck Herrera, Ivan Lewellen, and others with honors for typography and local pictures. sports editor Rob Tanenbaum and editor Robert M. White led newsroom efforts toward general excellence.
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Fusileers Banquet Set At Pilot Lounge
Missouri Military Academy Fusileers will attend their annual banquet Monday at 6 p m at the Pilot Lounge Air Park Restaurant. Col Charles Stribling I academy president and Major Kenneth Mortenson Fusileer supervisor will speak. Mortenson will review this years accomplishments including winning the Governors Trophy at the University of Illinois meet and Best Over All trophy at the state meet. The Fusileers comprise about 30 cadets forming a 24 man platoon with a leader.
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Nixon May Back Busing Amendment
President Nixon may back a constitutional ban on busing after a 620 mile lobbying trip by Irene McCabe. She met with John Ehrlichman and urged action while he favors legislation over a constitutional route, a Texas law professor warned the amendment would roll back civil rights progress.
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Ninth Graders Meet Monday Night at Mexico High
Principal William E. Lowry invites ninth graders and parents to a Mexico High School meeting Monday at 7 30 p.m. The MHS counseling staff will explain the curriculum and enrollment procedures for the coming year.
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VFW Auxiliary Seeks Loyalty Day May First
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars urges Loyalty Day on May 1 in a 1958 Congressional designation. President Mildred Greenburg of the 9th District notes patriotism, flying the flag, and pledged loyalty to a free society. The Ledger notes readers may recognize friends in today’s issue.
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Pamela Rene Jochum Born at St. Clement Hospital
Pamela Rene Jochum is the first child of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Jochum of Marion Illinois born April 10 at St. Clement Hospital Red Bud weighing 7 pounds 15 ounces. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Ketter of Thompson. Mrs. Ketter spent last week in the Jochum home.
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