Heat Stress Hits Northern Missouri Crops
Missouri crop reporters say dry counties in the north suffer heat and moisture shortages. Grasshoppers damages edge rows, especially on corn and soybeans. Soil moisture mostly short. corn ranges from poor to excellent, most fair to good, while about 75 percent of soybeans are in good condition or better. Cotton largely good but with some stunt from moisture stress. Silage cutting begins on drought damaged corn.
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Columbia
Missouri
Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Elbert Turner
Buchanan County
Turner
Crop Service
Ford Begins 1978 Line as Emission Rules Loom
Ford Motor Company started the 1978 model Ford Fairmonts and Mercury Zephyr wagons at the Claycomo plant while Congress debates emission standards. Some 1,700 cars slated this week will be stored due to uncertain rules, with plants nationwide delaying further starts. Detroit seeks a two-year extension on interim standards, claiming current limits are technically unworkable.
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Kansas City
Ford Motor Company
Claycomp
Congress
Ford
Detroit
D.W. Miller
Claycomo
Ferguson-Florissant School District Ordered Desegregation Plan
U S District Court Judge Meredith approved a desegregation plan for the Ferguson-Florissant School District in north St Louis County. The plan emphasizes minimal busing this fall with transfers to near neighborhood schools and only six additional bus routes, chiefly affecting Berkeley area schools with the highest black pupil percentages. Superintendent Warren M Brown said buses will run to closest possible neighborhood schools.
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Berkeley
Warren M. Brown
Airman Richardson Begins Tech Training At Sheppard AFB
Airman Thomas M. Richardson son of Mr and Mrs Marvin A Richardson of Montgomery City begins technical training in the Air Force medical service field at Sheppard AFB Texas after completing basic at Lackland. He earned CCAF credits toward an associate degree and previously graduated Winfield High School in 1974 and Centralia High School in 1976. He also completed Marine Corps Engineer School training at Camp Lejeune in 16 weeks focusing on field power generating equipment.
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Thomas M. Richardson
Marvin A. Richardson
Montgomery City
Sheppard Afb
Tex
Air Force Medical Service
Lackland Afb
Air Force
Organization and Customs
The
Community College of the Air Force
Airman
Richardson
Winfield (Mo
Marine Corps Engineer School
Camp LeJeune
N.C
Centralia High School
Marine Corps
Navy Aviation
Linda 8. White
Raymond White
Route 2
Naval Air Station
Fallon
Nev
Montgomery High School
Navy
Cadet Morton Ends ROTC Work at Fort Riley
Cadet Vaughn R. Morton of Centralia completed five weeks of Army ROTC advanced camp at Fort Riley Kansas. The program stressed practical leadership in a field training setting. Sergeant Timothy R. Briscoe of Wellsville Missouri has graduated from the Tactical Air Command Noncommissioned Officer Leadership School at Cannon Air Force Base New Mexico. He serves as a postal specialist at Cannon and is a 1972 graduate of Wellsville Middletown High School.
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Ft. Riley
Kan
Vaughn R. Morton
John D. Morton
Centralia
Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Timothy R. Briscoe
Alton J. Briscoe
Wellsville, Mo
Tactical Air Command Noncommissioned Officer Leadership School
Cannon Afb, N.M
Cannon
Sergeant Briscoe
Wellsville
Middletown Ri High School
Fong Tan
Ray L. Hall
Mission Viejo
Calif
Captain Wuertz graduates from Squadron Officer School
MONTGOMERY Ala Captain Lester P Wuertz son of Mr and Mrs Othmar M Wuertz St Cloud Minn has graduated from the Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB Ala His wife Barbara is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Doug Buckman Route 1 Paris Mo
Local youth James Aston Enlists in U S Air Force
James Aston son of Mr and Mrs Norton Aston of Route 1 Laddonia enlisted in the U S Air Force per local recruiter Sergeant George E Klaus Shortly after the enlistment ceremony Airman Aston departed for Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio
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David Lierheimer
Earnest Lierheimer
Benton City
U.S. Air Force
George E. Klaus
Air Force
Lierheimer
Lackland Air
James Aston
Norton Aston
Route 1
Laddonia
Aston
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
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Associated Press
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Big Jim” Felsom
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Delmar K. Kottwitz Jr
Delmar K. Kottwitz Sr
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William M. Rinehart
Morton
Mortons
Lincoln University
Jefferson City
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