China Today 16 Year Old Girl Of Shanghai
A Ledger correspondent visits Chen Yu Lan in a two room Shanghai flat shared with her family. The 18 year old attends Middle School and describes daily life under Mao era policy, dreams of rural work, and family savings of about 138 dollars. Her mother notes a two room home, little heating, and reliance on a bathhouse and radio.
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Chen Yu Lan
Shanghai
Chen Wei Chun
Old
China
Mao
Chairman Mao
Son
Yu Yue-min Tehyung
Chen
Husbad
Chens
Senate To Rewrite Reorganization Bill in Missouri
Jefferson City AP report: Senate Reorganization Committee finished public hearings on the 542 page bill and will rewrite it next week to include hearings suggestions. Gov office endorsed streamlined administration with department wide budgets, and directors appointed with Senate approval, to bolster accountability.
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Jefferson City
Senate Reorganization Committee
Albert M. Spradling
Dcape Girardeau
Charles Walier
Christopher S. Bond
Walier
Bond
Associated Press
Valier
Senate
Missouri Public Expenditure Survey
House
Richard M. Webster
Rcarthage
Webster
Harold L. Volkmer
Spradling
Chicago Teachers Settle Strike
A tentative agreement to settle the 16 day Chicago teachers strike was announced after an all night session. The Board of Education and Chicago Teachers Union must have terms approved by the full board and ratified by teachers. The board agreed to a 2 percent pay rise and smaller class sizes. other demands include more prep time and a shorter work year without pay loss. Similar strikes continued in St Louis and Philadelphia with ongoing wage disputes and contract talks.
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Chicago
Board of Education
Chicago Teachers Union
St. Louis
Philadelphia
St. Louis Teachers Union
St. Louis Teachers Association
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
Frank Rizzo
High Level Talks Arranging Truce
Washington reports a Vietnam cease-fire set for Saturday night with U S troops pulled out over 60 days. Negotiations include international control groups from Canada Indonesia Hungary Poland and a 12 nation peace guarantee conference. POW evacuations begin within two weeks of the cease-fire and ambassadorial sessions with Rogers Kis singer and Waldheim tied to the agreement.
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Washington
United States
Vietnam
Pentagon
U.S
William P. Rogers
Canada
Mitchell Sharp
Adam Malik
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Indonesia
International Control Group
Waldheim
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Henry A. Kissinger
Hungary
Poland
Rogers
Paris
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Nguyen Duy Trinh
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Nixon
Indochina
Laos
Cambodia
Thieu
South
Carter Crockett Dies At 77
Carter Crockett 77 former Mexico businessman died unexpectedly at Audrain Medical Center. Funeral services at 2 p.m. Saturday at Arnold funeral home conducted by Rev. Larry Etherton. Survived by wife Elizabeth Walker Crockett two brothers two sisters and other relatives. Burial at route 1 Mexico home region in Audrain County. Friends may visit 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
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Carter Crockett
Mexico
Audrain Medical Center
Arnold Funeral Home
Larry Etherton
Union Baptist Church
South of
J. Cad
Lillian Hopkins Crockett
Crockett
Ray Crockett
R. P. Crockett
E. J. Gibbs
Alice Crockett
Laddonia Bank Robber Is Returned
Audrain County Sheriff and a special deputy returned Wednesday from Dade County Florida with Ernest Turley to begin a 20 year prison term for the June 11 1970 armed robbery of the Laddonia State Bank. Turley escaped Warren County jail Oct 9 after sentencing pending pre sentence review.
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Audrain County
Arthur
Bud) Riley
Ray Hamlett
Laddonia
Dade County
Miami
Fla
Ernest Turley
Jefferson City
Turley
Warren County
Laddonia State Bank
Region's Jaycees To Convene Here
The Mexico Jaycees will host the winter meeting of Region I Missouri Jaycees at the National Guard Armory this Saturday with over 450 attendees from multiple chapters. Highlights include J. Neil Nielsen's community service address, a daylong program co-ordinated by William Hilton, and forums on Juvenile Concern and active Jaycee roles, plus a dance with Zak Maxwell and His Band.
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Mexico
Vandalia
Moberly
J. Neil Nielsen
Charles Peck
William
Hilton
Robert Peak
Ron Dugan
Harald Rennels
Beverly Hackworth
Jaycee Wives
Missouri
Norman Lampton
Project Juvenile Concern
John Vargis
Gary Randall
Camp Wonderland
Ron Holbrook
Juvenile Concern
Jaycees
Ed Lang
Bill Williams
Darriel Douglas
Don Cornelison
Lewis Brooks Jr
Dr. Peak
Visitations
al Shindler
Visitations Cochairman
Mary Jo Crews
Carol Hemlin
Zak Maxwell
St. Louis
Parker Takes Job As Director Of Administration Office
JEFFERSON CITY Mo AP former state Rep George Parker will head the Office of Business and Administration as Gov Christopher Bond absorbs agencies into a new Office of Administration Parker from Columbia was Boone County s first Republican elected and lost bid for state treasurer in November Bond cited Parker s legislative experience to aid the consolidation Ruby Jane Happy will be replaced in the move and no salary was listed for the director in the 1973 74 budget
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Jewyferson City
George Parker
Office of Business and Administration
Christopher
Bond
Office of Administration
Parker
Ruby Jane Happy
Department of Business and Administration
Columbia
Boone County
What Sen Merrell Says About Bill That Would Close R 3 School
Senator Merrell weighs a bill to close the R 3 school drawing attention in Callaway County. The report notes state officials are reviewing concerns tied to a poisoning death of a young girl and related county checks.
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Sen. Merrell
Bill
Callaway County
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Greensboro
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Tan Son
Nhut
Lewis S. Weiland
Jackson
Tenn
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Senate Committee
Robert Knuth
Knuth
State Reorganization Commission
Fred Hughes
The
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Hughes
Kissinger
Hang Thun Hak
Phnom Penh
Weyauwega
Wis. Chronicle
Barry Goldwater
Frank Church
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