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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1975
Page
2
The piece defends referee performance in major bowls, praising fairness and instant replay. It notes officials from multiple conferences and argues boos would come if penalties punished Penn State. It emphasizes trust in skilled, human officials amid replay accuracy concerns.
The text links Hosea’s warning to modern psychology, arguing that persons with split personalities are doomed to trouble and eventual ruin as internal divisions undermine integrity and lead to broken altars and spoiled images.
In the Centralia Fireside Guard J F discusses a Gallup poll naming Henry Kissinger as the most admired man worldwide for a second year, with Billy Graham second. The piece questions the poll’s choices noting lack of scientists or artists, cites paradoxes about Nixon and Kennedy, and critiques sampling and voter disenchantment versus poll results.
A compact excerpt from Ann Landers letters covers marital intimacy issues and a school alcohol incident. It includes guidance on subtlely guiding a partner, a grandmother’s rebuke about alcohol, and a reader inquiry about abortions in England with a note about Ann Landers selling a booklet titled Teen-Age Sex.
A series of reader inquiries covers recurring urinary tract infections and soda use, histoplasmosis symptoms and diagnosis, unusual scrotal moles in a teen, and the role of optometrists versus ophthalmologists in annual eye exams with glaucoma screening guidance.
Washington Kansas daily notes new 1975 vacation calendar for Congress with swearing in January 14 and varied holiday breaks for House and Senate. Highlights Lincoln Birthday Easter Memorial Day Independence Day Columbus Day Veterans Day Thanksgiving and long summer recess. Ends with joke on retirees and potential pay raises to 58400 dollars.
A fragmented nationwide survey lists best selling songs of the week including Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by Elton John You're the First the Last My Everything by Barry White and Wings Dear Prudence by The Beatles, with several garbled titles and artist names in the remainder of the page.
Darwin Hindman announces Gay's and Professional Women's Club will lead fundraising for Audrain County March of Dimes. Mexico City Manager Chris Cherches seeks applicants for two police vacancies. Judge John P. O'Brien sworn in January 3 1955. Kiwanis president Henry Turner installed January 5 1955. Civilian Conservation Corps enrollment noted January 5 1935. Prichett Hume resignation noted January 3 1925.
A sweep of TV station listings shows multiple misprints and broken entries for stations in St. Louis Hannibal Ottumwa Columbia Columbia Jeff City and Quincy. The listing includes erroneous channel mappings and stray letters indicating unreported changes or typographical errors.
CBS airs Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at 7 00 PM on channels 4 7 and 13 with Dick Van Dyke. Other listings include Spirits vs Nets at Uniondale NY 7 00 PM on channel 11 and a 9 00 PM 2 3 17 Closeup on immigration titled Megal Aliens The Gate Crashers Barbara Walters discusses female sexuality at 9 00 PM on channel 11.
NBC CBS and ABC prime time schedule features college basketball Notre Dame vs Maryland and MU Tigers vs Texas, the Hula Bowl, Pro Bowlers Tour, and the Log Of The Black Pearl. Also includes Daytime cartoons, news, and a Tony Orlando and Dawn CBS summer project profile.
A long profile tracks Orlando's journey from a Hell's Kitchen upbringing to early singing for unknown songwriter Carole King, hits like Halfway to Paradise and Candida, and a career pivot to music publishing after the Beatle era. It notes later success with Dawn duets and subsequent hits, while listing local birthday greetings and Mexico Ledger publication details.
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