Editorial condemns lavish Civil Rights Digest publication
Today’s editorial attacks the U S Commission on Civil Rights for spending tax dollars on a quarterly, Time Magazine sized Digest with high quality paper and artwork. It questions the commission’s temporary bipartisan status and overall purpose while urging prudent use of funds and continued oversight.
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U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
Time
Newsweek
Commission On Human Rights
At The End Of The Day Seek the Lord and His Strength
A devotional exhortation invites daily life lived in God’s presence. It urges seeking the Lord, calling on His strength, and regularly practicing the awareness of His constant companionship.
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God
Union choir plans seen for year round church presentations
Letters from readers praise The Ledger and Pat Nixon, while details of a Missouri Methodist charity drive at Columbia and Jonesburg highlight a Thanksgiving event. The Columbia gathering collected cash and clothing for the needy, with youth from across Missouri aiding in a large gift program.
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Ledger
Ann Landers
Union
Wellsville
Laddonia
Union Choir
Toni Schwartz
Sanders
Kemry
Richard Nixon
Pat Nixon
Missouri
Mexico
Methodist Bishops
Columbia Livestock Pavilion
Jimmy Bass
Jonesburg
Missouri Methodist Church
Columbia
Barbara Eriesmann
Doug Sinclair
John Kobusch Jonesburg
Dear Ann Landers Dreamer Seeks Privacy and Sanity Help
A reader on ESP urges guidance about revealing feelings to a dates, and another asks how to ensure charity bequests are honest. Ann Landers recommends three charities and cautions about sharing sensitive truths after two dates. A wife fears her husband's naked home behavior will invite police or school gatecrashers, and Landers likens it to a psychiatric issue while advising privacy and potential aid.
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Ann Landers
E.S.P
Buttercup
Dr Thosteson on addiction habits and health questions
In a reader column Dr Thosteson discusses whether cola drinks are addictive or habit forming noting caffeine may cause mild psychic dependence but minimal physical dependence unlike morphine or heroin. He then advises on a reader with swollen lymph glands and low white cell count, urging prompt medical evaluation and clarifying vitamins do not raise white counts. He offers a booklet on hiatal hernia and notes he cannot answer every letter due to volume.
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Thosteson
Ledger
P.O
Elgin
Thank God He Doesn’t Have To In Math Education
The Wall Street Journal notes a National Advisory Committee on Mathematical Education study funded by the NSF finding a decline in students computational skills. It recommends eighth graders use electronic calculators even during tests, a move the author questions as potentially eroding fundamental learning and the value of learning mathematics beyond getting the right answer.
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Wall Street Journal
National Advisory Committee
National Science Foundation
TV Listings Chaos and Debuts Across City Stations
A cluttered TV guide notes erroneous listings and new premieres. Grady, a Sanford and Son spin off, debuts as The Cop and the Kid follows. Chekhov's Three Sisters airs with a 7:30 preview. Classic Theater, Dramas, and soap operas fill slates on multiple channels with changes in start times and diverse programs across the evening.
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Sanford and Son
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Miller
Harry
Untouchables
Barnaby
Grady Jones
Longstreet
Pik Perspective
Rebellion
Eddie's
Dragnet
Weatherscan
Phil Donahue
Peter Gunn
San
Francisco
Friday TV Listings and Highlights at Ledgerland Station
Channel 9 Book Beat interview with Loren Hiseley, anthropologist, about his autobiography at 6:30 p.m. Classic cartoons and James Bond Dr No film later. CBS and ABC movies and a packed late schedule feature Tora Tora Tora, Dracula’s Castle, The Horsemen, Valley of Decision, and more with News, talk, and game shows throughout the night.
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Virginia
CBS
Pearl Harbor
ABC
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Sean Connery
Dick Powell
John Carradine
Omar Sharif
Gregory Peck
Vandalia Loot Targets Drug and Clothing Stores
Thieves looted a Vandalia drug store and Jack Mitchell’s Clothing on South Main, stealing items valued in the thousands including about 100 suits from Mitchell’s. The raid reflects a Christmas season theft wave in the area.
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Vandalia
Jack Mitchell
South Main Street
United States
Tryon
N.C
Sweden
Walter Staley Jr
Mexico
Kenneth Parks
The
Ledger
Lucille Miller
John Ellis
Central College
Ben C. Denton
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C.P. Logan
Two New Shows on NBC Try Grady and The Cop and the Kid
New NBC Thursday comedies Grady and The Cop and the Kid debut amid mixed reviews. Grady stars Whitman May as Grady Wilson in Watts with a Santa Monica move plot, while The Cop and the Kid features Charles Durning as a bachelor cop who becomes a guardian to a foster boy played by Tierre Turner. The casting shows promise but scripts feel weak in this initial outing.
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Sanford and Son
Whitman May
Grady Wilson
Fred Sanford
Watts
Fred
Los Angeles
Santa Monica
Chicago
Charles Durning
Tierre Turner
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Turner
Birthday greetings for a list of readers on Saturday
On Saturday we extend birthday wishes to Ruth Barton Howard L Henry Howard Potter Elsie Ward Sherry Lee Mills Marlina Ann Antrim Centralia Christina Wallace Virgil Alvin Scott Paula Patton Kevin LaMonte Graves Mrs W O Dowell Vicki Powell Clifford Thurston Mrs George Neuser Linda Magnus and Charles Edward Newbrough. Also noted are former star Deanna Durbin aged 53 and Nobel laureate Alfred Hershey aged 57. Bicentennial note recalls British capture of the Washington 200 years ago with 70 crewmen taken to Boston then England, first American warship seized in the Revolutionary War.
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Howard L. Henry
Howard Potter
Elsie Ward
Sherry Lee Mills
Marlina Ann Antrim
Centralia
Christina Wallace
Virgil Alvin Scott
Paula Patton
Kevin LaMonte Graves
W.O. Dowell
Vicki Powell
Clifford Thurston
George Neuser
Linda Magnus
Charles Edward Newbrough
Washington
Boston
England
Mexico Lectury Publication Rates and Hours
Mexico Lectury notes daily publication schedule and mailing rates. It lists office hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturdays. Rates vary by location including Mexico, Audrain county trade area, other Missouri counties, and out-of-state. Members of armed forces receive a discounted APO rate.
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Washington St
Mexico
Audrain
APO
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