Heavy Early Votes Around County Primary In Missouri
Voter turnout runs high as County Clerk Barnes predicts surpassing the 6000 vote mark in five Mexico precincts with 627 counted by 11 15 am. Absentees total nearly 300 as observers note strong GOP demand and precincts fear running out of ballots. In Missouri statewide, showers and a fast moving storm edged voters as 17 gubernatorial and 13 lieutenant governor candidates loom toward a historic primary vote.
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Glenn M. Barnes
Mexico
Christopher
Kit) Bond
Congress
Barnes
Bond
William Stubblefield
Susan Cornett
Robert Napier
Sam Carter
ST. Louis
Missouri
Columbia
Cape Girardeau
Kansas City
James C. Kirkpatrick
Election Night Results and Primary Overview Across Missouri
Channel 12 will carry results starting at 7:00 p.m. Audrain County reports and statewide races including governor and lieutenant governor. Democratic and Republican nominees are identified with Dowd leading and Bond favored for governor. party margins and unopposed candidates noted amid a broad map of counties and legislative seats.
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Channel 12
See Tv Tonight
Audrain
Kit Bond
St. Louis
Kansas City
Cole, Grundy
Newton
Buchanan
Butler
Cape Chardeau
Dunklin
Lawrence
Nodaway
Pemiscot
William 5. Morris
Jackson County
Joseph Teasdale
Edward L. Dowd
Earl Blackwell
Dowd
Blackwell
Christopher ‘Kit’ Bond
St. Louis County
Gene McNary
Bond
Supreme Court
Paul J. Leonard
Jackson
Charles Samuel Miller
William C. Phelps
Joseph Badaracco
Senate
Missouri
Viet Militia Pushed Back Near Saigon Amid Wider Offensive
Communist led forces attacked 17 miles east of Saigon injuring and killing dozens of South Vietnamese troops. U.S. air power supported Cambodian forces near Svay Rieng and Kompong Trabek as North Vietnamese tanks and infantry pressed eastern Cambodia fronts. B52s pounded North Vietnam targets around Dong Hoi and Hue while air forces claimed tank destroyies and artillery exchanges across the frontier.
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Saigon
Vung Tau
Cambodia
Mekong Delta
Kompong Trabek
Saigon-Phnom Penh
Prek Trabek
Phnom Penh
Svay Rieng
Prey Ven
U.S
North Vietnam
Quang Tri
Hue
Dong Hoi
Demilitarized Zone
Bastogne
Checkmate
Que Son Valley
da Nang
North
South Vietnam
U.S. Command
Vinh
7Th Air Force
Quang Tri City
Farber Centennial crowns queens at school show
A Farber Centennial fashion pageant drew a packed auditorium crowd as three queens were chosen from three age groups. Bea Zimmerman of Vandalia won for women over 50, with Mary Galloway of Laddonia and Violet Watts of Vandalia in second and third. Winners for other age groups included Lisa Heaston, Lynn Jones, and Teresa Coose, with finalists Deanna Branstetter, Dorothy Heaston, Regina Tipton, and more.
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Bea Zimmerman
Vandalia
Mary Galloway
Laddonia
Violet Watts
Lisa Heaston
Winfred Heaston
Deanna Branstetter
Bob Branstetter
Dorothy Heaston
Billy Heaston
Lynn Jones
F.C. James
Teresa Coose
Malcolm Couse
Regina ‘Tipton
Cindy Tipton
Farber
Richard Vance
Two Men Charged in Walnut Tree Grandmawing Case
Two men, Robert Basham and Leslie Echols, were arraigned in Audrain Magistrate Court on charges of cutting and removing walnut trees from farms owned by Harold Barnes and Carl Douglas on Centralia Route 3. They admitted to cutting 128 trees and hauling three loads, totaling over 41 trees valued above $2100, and remain jailed after bond denial.
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Audrain
Robert Lee Basham
Cuba
Leslie Hubert Echols
Harold R. Barnes
Centralia
Rte. 3
Grove Farm
Harold Sulgrove
Basham
Mexico
Harold Barnes
John Barnes
Sulgrave
Carl Douglas
Ozarks
Navy Opens Warships to Women After Equal Rights Move
Washington AP reports the Navy issued sweeping orders to treat women equally and open sea duty aboard warships once the equal rights amendment is ratified. Adm Zumwalt says women could serve at sea and attend Annapolis, while a pilot program assigns some women to the hospital ship Sanctuary. The WAC vows to modernize uniforms and challenging roles to attract recruits.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Adm
Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr
Naval Operations
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Zumwalt
Pentagon
Women's Army Corps
WAC
Chaplain
Civil Engineer Corps
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Brenda Eick
Route 1
South Fork
Consolidated Electric Co-op
Highway 54
Pam
Little Hoover’ Commission
Elkhorn
Wise
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