Road Plan Controversy Delays State Fund Shifts
Jefferson City Missouri. State Highway Director Thomas A. David said the dispute over diverting state road funds to mass transit airport development and street projects is in a stalemate with no quick resolution. He noted the controversy centers on competing demands for funding and oversight.
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Jefferson City, Mo
Thomas A. David
Robert E. Young
Carthage
David
House Appropriations Committee
Young
State Highway Commission
Warren E. Hearnes
Missouri
John J. Blassie
D-St. Louis
State Highway Department
Country Club Seeks Link To City Sewers
Mexico Country Club asks to connect to the city sewer system at a regular city council meeting with club representatives and engineers present. The club currently uses a septic tank as part of a broader agenda including final passage of a concrete street project in West Underpass Urban Renewal Area and four package liquor license renewals.
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Mexico Country Club
Country Club
Neil Nielsen
Mexico
S. Morris St
Breckenridge
Boulevard
S. Muldrow
Buchanan
Breckenridge St
Six College Courses Enroll Here Tonight
Enrollment will be held tonight for six Mexico Community College classes in the Mexico High School library at 7 o clock. Courses include Geography 2013 Regions and Nations of the World Business Administration 20 Business Management decision History of the United States College Algebra Developmental Psychology and English Composition. Each course is three hours credit at $60 plus books. Classes will be on different nights for up to 12 hours total, equivalent to a portion of a normal semester.
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Mexico Community College
Mexico High School
Mexico Chamber of Commerce
William Woods
Westminster Colleges
United States
New College Generation Forsakes Violence Across Campuses
A period of calm follows a wave of upheaval as students return to working within the system. From Boston to Berkeley, leaders depart for community alliances while students register and vote locally. The tone shifts from disruption to reform through established rules and campus governance.
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Terry Ryan
America
Boston
Berkeley
Wisconsin
Texas
Humphrey Declares Presidential Bid End War Now
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey formally announced his third bid for president calling for reconciliation and a quick end to the Indochina war. He pledged to pull troops out and to bolster equal rights for women and elder care while courting labor support in Pennsylvania’s April 25 primary.
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Associated Press
Hubert H. Humphrey
Indochina
Philadelphia
Richard Club
Minnesota
John F. Kennedy
White House
Richard Nixon
Pennsylvania
Sen
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Vance Hartke
Indiana
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Shirley Chisholm
New York
George McGovern
South Dakota
John V. Lindsay
Eugene J. McCarthy
Humphrey
Nixon
Hitler
Muskie
Florida
America
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Tallahassee
Fla
John Lindsay
Tampa
Miami Beach
Zionist Organization of America
Lindsay
Zionist Organization
United States
Israel
Edmund Muskie
Springfield
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson III
D-M
Stevenson
Vandalia man among five killed in Missouri crashes
Funeral services are set for Charles Ellis James 24 of Vandalia after his car left Route F in Ralls County and overturned. He worked for North American Refractories Co and was married to Barbara Ann Mitchell. James leaves a wife two daughters his mother and father and other relatives. The article notes other Missouri deaths from similar crashes including Jean Edward Schley 29 of Mosby David Eugene Dogs 20 of Springfield Kenneth D. Rains 34 of Kansas City and Jessie Mae Neal 55 of Joplin in separate incidents.
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Ralls County
Charles Ellis James
North American Refractories Co
Missouri
Mr. James
Paris
Kenneth B
Minnie A. James
Hannibal High School
Barbara Ann Mitchell
Hannibal
Vandalia
Tammy
Shawna
Minnie James
Palmyra
Kenneth James
Paul James
Tom Hunter
Monroe City
Connie Broemmer
Rte. 2
Palmyra Christian Church
Waters Funeral Home
Hays Creek
U.S. 69
Excelsior Springs
Schley
David Eugene Dogs
Springfield
Kenneth D. Rains
Kansas City
U.S. 71
Belton
Jessie Mae Neal
Joplin
Second son born to Darren and James Pine of Mexico
Darren Wayne Pine was welcomed Monday at 5 16 a.m. at Audrain Medical Center weighing 6 pounds 10 ounces. He joins 18 month old James Lee Pine. grandparents are Oleta McCown and Noah Pine and wife. Mr Pine works at A P Green Refractories Co in Benton City.
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James Pine
Route 3
Mexico
Audrain Medical Center
Darren Wayne Pine
James Lee Pine
Pine
A.P. Green Refractories Co
Oleta McCown
Noah Pine
Benton
Rey
Larry K. Etherton
Robert Mark Etherton
Annette
Kenneth
Etherton
Union Baptist Church
Ruth Eddings
Breckenridge
O. R. Etherton
Chillicathe
Boiling Oil Starts Fire at Reluctant Car Owner
In Independence Missouri Harman R. Smith heated oil to start a stubborn car. The boiling oil boiled over, dropped on the back porch, and damaged three quarters of a frame home. He suffered a second degree burn while firefighters, estimating damage, reported heavy exterior fire.
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Independence
Harman R. Smith
Audrain County records big year for hunting licenses
Audrain Countians bought 8861 hunting and fishing licenses totaling 49158 dollars, County Clerk Glenn M. Barnes announced. 1970 sales rose 271 over 1969 with higher fees. firearms deer permits reached 1146 plus 16 nonresidents, 205 archery permits, two replacements.
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Glenn M. Barnes
Barnes
Missouri Conservation Department
USNA Nomination for Tim Lankford from Eagleton
Tim Lankford son of Dr and Mrs Harold Lankford has been nominated by Senator Thomas Eagleton for the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a Mexico High School senior co captain of the Bulldogs and an academic and service leader despite a knee injury ending his football season.
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Tim Lankford
Harold Lankford
Thomas Eagleton
US Naval Academy At Annapolis
the Ledger
Mexico
William Hungate
Tim
Mexico Bulldogs
Wright City man charged with murder in $60 robbery
Irvin Francis Owens, 24, appeared for arraignment in Warren County Magistrate Court after a late Sunday killing of storekeeper Myrtle Logan 66. Police say about $60 missing from the Wright City grocery, motive robbery. Owens admitted the killing. weapon taken as evidence. Logan found in snow covered field a short distance from the store.
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Warrenton
Wright City
Myrtle Logan
Warren County
Irvin Francis Owens
Richard Nalley
Melvin Twiehaus
Owens
Twiehaus
Logan
Wilkinson recalls Missouri prison reforms and reforms
Fred T. Wilkinson, retiring head of Missouri Department of Corrections, reflects on nearly seven years in Jefferson City. He details a messy system, early skepticism, and a radical overhaul including yard reconstruction, new recreation facilities, better food service, improved architecture, staff training, and a modern prison hospital, while noting ongoing staffing and wage challenges and a high profile escape case.
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Jefferson City
Fred T. Wilkinson
Missouri
Department of Corrections
Washington
Wilkinson
Federal
Harold Swenson
Warren St. Hearnes
James Earl Ray
Ray
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