MexTech Opens 26 Skilled And Technical Courses
Mex Tech lists twenty six courses spanning electronics hydraulics machine shop nursing aides and public administration. Gary Vines leads electronics while Larry Jones supervises residential wiring and surveying with James Carter guiding foremanship training and Hans Neuman teaching surveying. Courses run 12 to 16 weeks with fees from 10 to 70 dollars plus books or materials.
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Gary Vines
William Power
L.L. Cupp
Audrain
L.p.n.’S
Nona Young
L.p.n’s
Larry Jones
Bureaus of Standards
James Carter
Hans Neuman
Oklahoma plan offers 300 families fruit farms for income
Oklahoma City AP report outlines a state program by the Office of Economic Opportunity to place 300 families on 10 acre fruit farms in southeastern Oklahoma. The plan promises at least 7000 dollars a year per family once orchards mature, with initial subsidies, land clearing aid, temporary housing, and possible low-cost home financing. Eligibility targets families under federal poverty guidelines with subsistence income from welfare, Social Security, or private pensions. The project includes 310 orchards on 310 acres near Stringtown, and brings in county-wide assistance from OEO officials.
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Oklahoma City
State of Oklahoma
State Office of Economic Opportunity
Oklahoma
David Hall
OEO
OEG
Rex Sparger
Stringtown
May Need Draft To Fill Guard Units
Washington officials study potential draft into the Army National Guard to shore up manpower as guard strength falls to 384,000, 16,000 below authorized levels. Officials note legal and political hurdles, but see a draft as possible if Congress approves, while pay incentives and re-enlistment bonuses are used to stem losses.
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Washington
Pentagon
Army National Guard
Guard
Army Guard
Melvin R. Laird
Nixon
Congress
Defense
Laird
National Guard
Murder charge filed in stepdaughter death at Great Falls
Staff Sgt. Andrew Taylor of Bowling Green Missouri is charged with first degree murder in the death of his two year old stepdaughter Victoria Mullen who died December 22. An affidavit cites a severe blow to the head as the cause and notes a prior second degree death charge. Taylor is stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base near Great Falls with the 341st Tactical Missile Squadron and is held without bond in Cascade County jail.
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Great Falls
Mont
Andrew Taylor
Bowling Green
Victoria Mullen
Taylor
Malmstrom Air Force Base
341St Tactical Missile Squadron
Cascade County
One Word Bangladesh Becomes Official Name
AP reports the country formerly East Pakistan is officially Bangladesh, though confusion remains in spelling. Dacca presses and most official documents use Bangladesh, while the first postage stamp once engraved Bangla Desh.
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Dacca
East Pakistan
Bangladesh
Viet Nam
Vietnam
Saigon
M. R. Akhtar
Associated Press
Akhtar
Hartke May Enter Primary
Indiana Senator Vance Hartke hinted at entering New Hampshire Democrats’ presidential primary. He spoke in Manchester after a news conference and said a final decision would come before the January 6 filing deadline, accompanied by his wife Martha and two sons.
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Manchester
N.H
Vance Hartke
Indiana
New Hampshire
Hartke
Martha
Keith
Paul
Moberly Prison Official Promoted
A H Baldwin elevated from assistant superintendent in charge of custody to acting superintendent at the Missouri Training Center for Men in Moberly Mo He has served with the Missouri Department of Corrections since 1955 and at the Moberly institution since it opened in 1963 He will assume new duties January 1 succeeding Edward Haynes who becomes acting deputy director of the department of corrections
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moberly, Mo
A.H. Baldwin
Missouri Training Center For
Baldwin
Missouri Department of Corrections
Moberly
Edward Haynes
Department of Corrections
Wilfley Recalls Tour Through Europe and Moscow
Frank Wilfley told Kiwanis at the Monterey Restaurant about his People to People trip lasting three weeks through Madrid, Switzerland, and Moscow. He noted Moscow displays its economy with farm machinery and animals, the subway costs under six cents, and listed prices for car, Ty, meat, eggs, bread, and rent along with a 50,000 acre collective farm and two year old child education in communism. He said 45 percent of income goes to clothing and residents are poor.
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Frank Wilfley
Europe
Moscow
Kiwanis Club
Monterey
Wilfley
New York
Madrid
Switzerland
Kiwanians
Soviet Union
Russia To Test US Hybrids In Russian Field Trials
Des Moines based Pioneer Hi-Bred International vice president Dr. William Brown says American developed hybrid corn will undergo extensive testing in Russia after a mid-December visit by Russia's agriculture minister. The agreement signals expanded collaboration and supplier access for Russian farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines
United States
Russia
William Brown
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc
Agricul
Blind Las Vegas wedding unites 76 year old bride and 82 year old groom
Marjory Stewart who has been blind since infancy married Gene Stahl who was blinded by glaucoma. He will soon be 82 and she is 76. Their 16 year friendship began at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles. They met while both former radio and screen stars and now work with Active u Blind Inc aiding the newly blinded.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Marjory Stewart
Gene Stahl
Stewart
Los Angeles
Braille Institute
Irs
Stahl
Active U Blind, Inc
Mexico Ledger Dated December 29 1971
Local page from the Mexico Missouri Ledger dated Wednesday December 29 1971. Contains brief notices and market or community items typical of a midweek issue. Readable items include small notices, local ads, and short community briefs from area entries.
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Mexico
Muskie urges halt to bombing in Vietnam at Sugarloaf
Sen Edmund Muskie urged President Nixon to stop bombing North Vietnam and set a withdrawal date. He called for an expedited political settlement, end to all U.S. military involvement in Indochina, and release of prisoners of war during a Sugarloaf Ski Area news conference in Maine.
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Kingfield
Maine
Edmund S. Muskie
Nixon
U.S
North Vietnam
Muskie
Sugarloaf
Vietnam
Indochina
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Charles Spires
John Moore
General Journal
General Jedger
Carl Biggs
Ferris Mundy
Gregg
Mary Ann Finley
Stephenson
Noa
Mexico Area
Saddle Horse Cafe
Moberly Prison
Ture
Brown
Marjory
Mrs. Stahl
White Horse
Ballentine
Mr Maate
Glenmore
Conrad
Old Crow
Conrad Vodka
Seagram’s V
Stagram
Evan Williams
OLD Taylor
Jack Daniels
Paul Masson
Champagne
Burwell
Wellsville, MO
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