Troop Cuts In Vietnam Run Ahead Of Schedule
The U S Command reports U S troop strength in Vietnam has fallen to about 343 700, below Nixon s timetable by three weeks. Plans call for all combat troops to leave by summer 1972 with some advisory and air support forces remaining. Cu Chi base turned over to South Vietnam as 25th Infantry returns to Hawaii. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong reportedly scale back, deactivating regiments and battalions since July. One American spy plane shot down over Laos. two helicopters lost in Vietnam. One soldier killed and five wounded on helicopters. two soldiers killed by a booby trap in Quang Ngai province.
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Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Nixon
Air Force
Navy
Coast Guard
Cu Chi
26Th Infantry Division
25Th Infantry Division
Hawaii
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Quang Ngai
da Nang
Rev. Lester Admire Dies After Half Century of Ministry
The Rev. Lester Franklyn Admire, 72, Baptist minister for nearly 50 years, died Saturday at Audrain Medical Center after a two week stay. Funeral at First Baptist Church Tuesday at 2 pm with Rev. Frank L. Park officiating. Burial in East Lawn Memorial Park. Born July 19, 1897 in Winfield to James A. and Ruth Ann Admire. Trained at LaGrange College and Hannibal LaGrange College. licensed 1927 and ordained 1927. Served at Oakland Baptist and numerous pastorates across Missouri, including Silex, Sugar Creek, New Hartford, Laddonia, Wellsville, Union, Thompson, and Beaver Dam.
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Lester Franklyn Admire
Audrain
First Baptist Church
Frank L. Park
Lawrence Holzschuk
East Lawn Memorial Park
Admire
James Albert
Ruth Ann Dixon Admire
Winfield
Oakland Baptist Church
Old LaGrange College
LaGrange
Highland Prairie Baptist Church
Troy
Hannibal-LaGrange Baptist College
Missouri
Silex
Sugar Creek
New Hartford
Laddonia
Wellsville
Union
Thompson
Beaver Dam
Nixon Seeks $1600 Family Assistance Plan
President Nixon urged quick passage of his Family Assistance Plan setting a $1600 income floor for a four person family. He called welfare a consuming outrage and warned that adjournment without enactment would be a tragedy. He said government cannot solve all child welfare issues and stressed role of states communities schools churches and families. Delegates questioned action prospects and leadership at the White House conference with hundreds expressing dissatisfaction and a lack of presidential attention to recommendations.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Senate
White House
House
Stephen Hess
Richard M. Lansburgh
Day Care and Child Development Council of America, Inc
Hess
Rubella Clinics Set Across Audrain County Schools
Three day Rubella clinics begin tomorrow in Audrain County elementary schools under Health Officer Dr. G. P. Kallenbach. Students from first through sixth grade will be inoculated with schedules listing Garfield, McMillan, Sims, Hawthorne, Laddonia, St. Joseph’s, Farber, South Vandalia, North Vandalia, Hiway R-3, Carter, St. Brendan’s, and Eugene Field. A parent signed registration slip is required for immunization.
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Audrain
G. P. Kallenbach
Garfield
McMillan
Sims
Hawthorne
Laddonia Elementary
St. Joseph's
Farber
South Vandalia
North Vandalia
Hiway
Carter
St. Brendan’s
Eugene Field
Sun and Mirror Turn Toy Into Smokey Bear
A winter sun in a Mexico store window at Logan's Drug Store reflected by a magnifying hand mirror onto a stuffed bear, causing a fire. A passerby alerted the fire department and Bob Logan unlocked the store to reveal a smoky window and charred Formica floor. The bear was severely burned.
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Mexico
Logan's Drug Store
Kizer’s
Bob Logan
Date Line Birthday Coincidence Across International Line
Debbie Callen born December 13 shares a birthday with her brother Michael whose 21st birthday falls on the other side of the International Date Line while he serves in Vietnam. The brothers celebrate on the same calendar date despite being continents apart.
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Osgood
Debbie Callen
Michael
S. D
Vietnam
Mexico City Council Tracks Fire Truck and Flood Plan
The Mexico city council will discuss bids for a new fire truck and an initial step for a flood insurance program. A traffic report favors keeping one way flow and south side parking restrictions on Jackson St. A gas rate case intervention and a highway safety program action are proposed. An alley vacation in the west underpass renewal area will receive a first reading.
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Renda
Mexico City
City Engineering Department
Planning and Zoning Commission
Jackson St
Howard Dillard
City of Mexico
Missouri Power and Light Co
Neil Nielsen
Singleton St
Morris St
Mansfield
Harwood St
Burglars Hit Plant At Vandalia
Vandalia police and Audrain County deputies report a break in at the L and R Garment plant in Vandalia occurred after 5 p.m. Saturday and before 6:45 a.m. today. A large amount of money was taken from a safe, but filing cabinets were opened and papers scattered. The plant, owned by Lewie E. Adams of Vandalia, offered a reward for information. In a separate burglary, Home Furnishing Mart on Highway 22 west was broken into and $10 to $15 in change taken. front door knocked down and office files ransacked.
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L and R Garment
Vandalia
Audrain County Sheriff's Office
Mary E. Andrews
Farber
Don St. Clair
Lewie E. Adams
Highway 22 West
Marvin Nichols
Mart
Cloud Ti-Moonglo
Mr. Nichols
Getting Tired Of It After Burglars Third Visit
Mrs. Virgil Minnick owner of Mexico Cleaners at 219 N Clark St reports repeated burglaries in six days. Burglars broke the west window, opened the door, and entered Saturday night as before. The safe, worth $9.90, was taken after being broken open. earlier break-ins yielded no cash. Harold McCown, manager, reported the latest break-in at 1:58 a.m. Sunday.
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Virgil Minnick
The
Mexico Cleaners
N. Clark St
Quizzical City Fellow and Old New Englander Exchange
A city resident salutes an elderly New Englander with a riddle about catches. The elder replies in a folksy way that if he catches this one and two more, he will have three. The light exchange captures a rural joke spirit.
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Sonny
Nixon Response Sets Scranton on Campus Unrest
William W. Scranton, chairman of Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest, says the President's reply aligns with the commission's report condemning violence and urging college reforms. He notes Nixon's read and response as unusual and praises call to end campus violence while criticizing Agnew's characterization as misreading.
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Associated Press
Nixon
Commission
William W. Scranton
Chicago
Scranton
Pennsylvania
White House
Spiro T. Agnew
Missouri Supreme Court upholds damages in hog pollution case
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that a commercial hog feeder may be liable for both actual and punitive damages when its operations pollute neighbors air and water. The ruling affirmed Platte County Circuit Court findings in a suit by Glenn and Frank Bower against Hog Builders, Inc. Residents reported foul air, polluted water, dead fish, and disrupted living conditions since 1965 near St. Joseph in Clinton County. The juried damages totaled over 100000 dollars.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
Platte County
Glenn Bower
Frank Bower
Hog Builders, Inc
Glenn Bowers
Frank Bowers
St. Joseph
Clinton County
Jack P. Pritchard
Division Two
Supreme Court
Connally to Be Secretary of Treasury in Nixon Shuffle
President Nixon announced David Kennedy will resign as Treasury secretary on Feb 1 and be ambassador at large. John Connally, a Texas Democrat and former governor, will succeed him, joining a reshaped cabinet while Kennedy remains a cabinet member. Kennedy will help finalize the federal budget, with Connally briefing on budget matters in the interim.
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Washington
Nixon
Secretary of the Treasury
David M. Kennedy
John Connally
Texas
Kennedy
William B. Rogers
Connally
Treasury
Lyndon B. Johnson
Patrick J. Moynihan
Harvard
Governors face 1972 path as GOP eyes positive campaign
SUN VALLEY Idaho AP Republican governors at a winter session weigh a strategy to stress positives over attacks in 1972 campaigns. With about half of the 30 governors and governors elect leaving power for Democrats, concerns grow over Nixon administration ties and Hickel firing. Some seek interior or agriculture posts, others return to law. Agee addresses group. Morton to speak.
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Sun Valley
Idaho
White House
GOP
Tom McCall
Oregon
Raymond P. Shafer
Pennsylvania
Republican Governors Association
Don Samuelson
Interior
Agriculture Departments
David F. Cargo
New Mexico
Cargo
McCall
Nixon
Walter J. Hickel
Hickel
Spiro T. Age New
Linwood Holton
Virginia
Ines Paigning
Rogers C. B. Morton
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Mirror
Smokey Bear
Kevin Owen
Kenneth Owen
Clay St
Richard Vance
James Rhodes
Rhodes
Kent State
Jackson State
Secretary of Treasury
Walter Hickel
George P. Shultz
Labor
Office of Management and Budget
Robert H. Finch
Health, Education and Welfare
John B. Connally
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