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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1972
Page
9
HAL BOYLE notes a chorus of taunts aimed at a man who does not drive an automobile. quotes range from jokes about horsepower to questions of identity and ego. the piece lampoons social pressure to own and operate cars in midcentury urban life.
A humorous dialogue from Mexico Missouri Ledger page features a narrator chastising Henry for being useless in a car. The exchange mocks Henry’s driving, navigation, and gas-railness as the speaker notes his limited help and dependence on others.
In Wankie Rhodesia Hope is abandoned for 424 coal miners trapped two days after three blasts. Seven bodies recovered eight injured. Chairman Sir Keith Acutt says rockfalls and ventilation damage created poisonous air leaving no chance of survival. Death toll would be Africa's second worst mining disaster.
In Sandy Utah AP five year old Stanford McDonald rode his bicycle in front of a car and suffered minor injuries He looked up tearfully from a stretcher taking him to a hospital and asked his parents Do you think they'll give me a ticket Police assured him they wouldn't.
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