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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1976
Page
8
WELLSVILLE The Middletown Picnic flower show on Aug 14, sponsored by Harmony Club MFWC, features home grown amateur entries with rules on timing, removal, and prize money for arrangements and specimens. Local residents attend reunions and church events ahead of the show amid community notices and farm tour reports.
Bob Staley Moore, a veteran journalist with 23 years in the field, is named director of news at Mutual Broadcasting System. A Curryville native, Moore has held White House and bureau roles at Metromedia and United Press International, with extensive national and foreign reporting.
Squirrels were seen eating tomatoes from a garden at the home of Mr and Mrs Willie White. The mire took four tomatoes. The South Fork Club met at Twain Haven Nursing Home Perry to honor three charter members from 1937. Harold Edwards of Moberly to lead services at Santa Fe United Methodist on Aug 15. Mrs Otis Reynolds and baby Martha Ann home from Audrain Medical Center. A cradle shower for the baby at Santa Fe Community Center Thursday at 2 p.m. Everyone invited.
Missouri State Fair runs Aug 20 to 29 in Sedalia with free demonstrations grandstand shows nightly featuring the Osmond Family Natalie Cole Paul Revere and the Raiders Tex Beneke Ray Eberle Paula Kelly and the Modernaires Bobby Goldsboro and more. Races pulls and a demolition derby headline a busy schedule alongside a Bicentennial Village crafts and competitions. Ticket information via Missouri State Fair Box 111 Sedalia MO 65201.
GLADSTONE Mo AP a couple who worked for the nomination of Rep Jerry Litton say real Litton people will be shut out as a replacement Democratic candidate is chosen in a smoke filled room The Democratic State Committee meets Aug 21 to select a successor The Roses say they coordinated Litton s campaign and oppose professional politicians deciding Litton s wishes Also Donald Carter of Rte 2 Mexico to have heart surgery Aug 11 at Veterans Hospital in Columbia
Mr and Mrs William Ralph Pickerell of Auxvasse are the parents of a daughter born Sunday at 1104 p m weighing eight pounds nine ounces No name chosen yet Mr Pickerell works for Kingdom Telephone Co in Auxvasse Mayor Brooks Mexico and Lewis Brook Jr named to Missouri Municipal League Committee on Taxation and Revenue The committee meets Aug 13 to review policy changes Brooks recently completed his term on Local Area Manpower Planning Board Talk of Callaway Fair Fulton Fulton Jaycees seek a site for revived Callaway County Fair. no fair for over 20 years
The Boonslick Advisory Council held its regular executive committee meeting in Warrenton at 7:30 p.m. on July 22 1976 with members including Joseph Baugh Jake Byers Harold Creech and others. Budget totals were set with 1976 77 working finances at 59643 61 and an estimated actual budget of 34896 63 covering HUD 701 health planning and manpower programs. Judge Warren Wommack was named official NECAC liaison while Gina Harris received a pay raise to 336 per hour.
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