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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1971
Page
2
Kathryn Johnson recalls interviewing wives of Navy men missing in action in North Vietnam for the Associated Press. The piece details their reluctance, the powerful outpouring of grief, and the women’s plea to world opinion to press Hanoi.
A reflection on inner peace and joy found in a deep friendship. The speaker urges sharing this happiness with others without shame, emphasizing righteousness and salvation as guiding themes.
A collage of reader letters features safety tips from a California deputy, a troubled confession of irrational jealousy leading to therapy, and guidance on teen boundaries. The items reflect early 20th century advice columns addressing crime awareness, mental health, and sexual limits.
Dear Dr Thosteson explains a salt free diet minimizes sodium without eliminating it entirely, suggests salt free bread, low sodium baking powder, and potassium substitutes, plus checking labels for salt or sodium in foods and medicines. It also answers a note about wine causing diarrhea, recommending sterilizing or replacing aging equipment to prevent contamination and noting the columnist cannot respond to individual letters.
A reader thanks The Ledger for a savings bond prize and presses the paper to publish a new Good Evening News column. The letter critiques liquor by the drink, cites studies on alcohol harms, and advocates truth and mercy. Helen Burchfield praises community support from Pilchers Jewelry for inductees and local youths.
Page from the Mexico Missouri Ledger dated Saturday February 20 1971. Includes local notices and community items typical of a small town paper.
The page notes Tom Johnson of 402 Yale St filing today as a candidate for the Mexico City Council with two seats up in April. It mentions Kennedy school aid plans proposing 19.75 dollars per pupil and potential $52,000 first-year for the Mexico School district. Also listed are historical items on a 1951 coach resigning, a mid April saddle horse sale, and a brief post office holiday for Washington's Birthday with altered delivery hours.
Monday and Tuesday birthday wishes are shared for numerous local residents including Mrs A Fennewald, Mary Bussen, Mrs Carl Crews, Charles Wilson Hinson, Deloris Henderson, Mrs Harry Tompkins, Bill Stubblefield, Richard Moore, Cindy Browning, Auxvasse. Hubert Tolston, Wallace Spurling, F A Wyatt, Beulah Elliott, Wiley Salley, Herbert Plunkett, Beverly Smith, Dorothy Talbert, Martha Swaim, Carol Wright, Eugene Collier, Ronnie Thomas, Geraldine Byers, Georgetta Perkins, Joe T Morris, Gayle Hayes, Less Crews, Roy Tyner, Annita Barnett, Anita Louise White, Carl Joe Burchfield, Dickie Isaacs, James Stevinson, Matilda Sims, Virginia McCord, Alice McCord, Virginia Mae Williams, Centralia. Mrs Hugo Wieberg, Jeffery Allen Johnson.
Erroneous and garbled listings appear from stations in St. Louis Ottumwa Hattnibal Jeff City Columbia and Quincy as teletypes show stray codes and unrapported changes for Teletype Nawa and Kpi signals with weather notes. The page warns that errors are due to unrapported changes by the stations.
The listing details a morning rerun of the Pogo Special Birthday Special at 11 30 on channels 8 and 10, followed by a dozen sports events across channels including Drake Bulldogs versus Tulsa Golden Hurricanes at noon, Purdue versus Town at 1 PM, Colorado versus Kansas State at 2 PM, Indiana versus Minors at 4 PM, and the Westminster Kennel Club dog show at 2 30 PM on channel 4. It also notes Wide World of Sports at 4 PM with Daytona 600 and world weightlifting, CBS Golf Clash at 4 PM on channels 4 7 13, and various celebrity guest and news segments through the evening.
Tonight offers programs with Worley Lennon sisters and the Friends Distinction NBC at 7 30. The President's Analyst satire stars James Coburn and Godfrey Cambridge. Hockey St Louis Blues meet Maple Leafs in Toronto at 7. Pearl Bailey guests with Kate Smith Phil Harris George Kirby at 7 30. Movies include Public Enemy 1931 at noon on Channel 11 and Hard Boiled Mahoney 1947 at 2. The Rock and Run A Crooked Mile air later, with Yankee comedy Forty Guns and The Big Caper among others.
The schedule runs from dawn to midnight with Camera Three at 7:30 a.m. detailing Marshall Izen, and primetime features including They Became What They Beheld, Hot Dog with Jonathan Winters and Woody Allen, and extensive sports lineup of Baltimore Bullets vs Hawks and Detroit Red Wings vs Rangers. Also includes The Pearl Bailey show and Moon Pilot screenings, with extensive news, talk, and children’s programming across channels 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 13.
TV listings and program notes show Red Skelton and George Gobel in a 6:30 p.m. slot, Peter Lawford with Laugh-In regulars at 7:00, David Frost with guests at 7:30, and ABC and NBC movies and pilots across channels. The schedule spans morning to midnight with multiple game shows, talk segments, and classic films featuring Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, and Tony Curtis among others.
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