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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1972
Page
9
Wellsville Junior-Senior High will offer twenty mini courses this fall. Courses include boys homemaking cake decorating camping and hiking candlemaking cheer leading ceramics crochet fashion modeling first aid fishing skills guitar lessons gun safety horsemanship jazz band leatherwork model autos and planes ping pong.
Personal notes from Santa Fe recount visits among families including Sextons Criglers Utterbacks and Scobees, a birthday supper for Darren Scobee, and local social visits in July. Other items cover school openings, volunteer classes, library staff changes, rug project progress, and welcomes to new residents in Wellsville.
Centralia residents are urged to volunteer as leaders or helpers as Girl Scout Neighborhood 30 begins its 1972-73 troop organization. Registration is Aug 28 from noon to 3 p.m. at Centralia City Hall with a $2 fee and a required parent attendance for permission slips. A used uniform sale will be held, and girls from second grade through high school may join.
The Monroe County Welfare payroll totaled 44884 with 366 recipients of old age assistance receiving 27521 and 198 recipients of aid to dependent children getting 8016. Other allocations included disability 6407 to 65 people, general relief 1338 to 21 people, aid to the blind 1100, a blind pension 100, foster care 66, and day care 136 for three children. The article also notes community activities and court actions involving local residents.
The Boy Scouts from Vandalia led by Don Trower and Ray Callanan returned July 23 after a 15 day trip starting July 7 with 29 scouts and leaders. They endured 12 days of rain, covered 175 to 180 miles by canoe, logged about 50 portages per person, and reported no accidents or homesickness. They met the two Vandalia crews on night three to perform the Tap Out ceremony and noted good fishing. The homeward stopovers included Duluth Air Force Base and Wisconsin Dells before a four hour Beloit plant tour.
Missouri State Park Board selected Mark Twain State Park near Paris and Bennett Spring State Park near Lebanon as focal points for its Golden Anniversary in 1974. portions of both parks were acquired on December 27, 1924, as the first acquisitions in the state park system. The board’s next meeting is September 14–15 in the Hannibal area with tours of Mark Twain and Wakonda State Parks.
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