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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1972
Page
8
Vandalia residents learn that a 13 member team from UMA will travel to Canada this summer to study the total eclipse. The group includes Denna Pease, student at University of Missouri at Rolla, and is funded by a National level front or grant initiated by UMR students.
Centralia area events include the Harrison Women's Progressive Farmers Association meeting at Mrs. Franklin's home with nine members and guest Violet Stone. A July 8 picnic at Centralia Park is planned. Kiwanis speaker Martin Barnabas from Indonesia visits, and AFS student in Centralia departs July 5. Local political visit by R. J. Bus King. Father daughter breakfast reservations open, and updates on nursing home admissions, hospital stays, and upcoming worship services.
Ricky Dale Sires of Winchester Illinois earned salutatorian honors for Winchester High School’s class of 1972. He received a four year full tuition Child of Veteran Scholarship at the University of Illinois and was named a James Scholar for the fall term.
Mrs. Paul W. Dunbar president of Chapter EC PEO and delegate attended the state chapter convention of the PEO Sisterhood at St Charles this week. Other EO members joined sessions and a breakfast, including Hallie Penn Evelyn Penn and several others. A Methodist Presbyterian group met in Montgomery City for evangelistic planning centered on the Key 73 project. A memorial for Emma Vaughn was conducted with 14 present and Father’s Day program. A silent auction for missions will be at the July WSCS meeting and $300 was voted to the church building fund.
Wayne Butcher, 26, ex Hell's Angel now Baptist minister, will address Hopewell Baptist Church Youth Group on Wednesday June 21 at 7:30 p.m. He spent six years with Hell's Angels, battled drugs, and once spent about 75 dollars daily on heroin and an estimated 500000 on drugs. Admission is free.
Buffalo AP report: novelist Taylor Caldwell and William E. Stancell a 72 year old real estate developer from Jacksonville Florida have applied for a marriage license at a town clerk near Caldwell's Eggertsville home.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit the Montgomery City community building from 2 to 7 p.m. Monday. The target is 440 pints of blood. Anyone over 18 in good health may donate a pint to help meet county needs. Previous drives in the county totaled 356 pints across Wellsville and Montgomery City during 1971 1972.
The American Legion Post 221 in Paris elected Roy Jones as commander and Jack Marshall as first vice commander and Melvin Beaty as second vice commander for the new year. Officers for the auxiliary were also chosen led by Mrs. Roy Jones as president. The group approved funds for a livestock building project and ordered flags for veterans graves. Also announced were a new Veterans Hospital at Columbia, a Tobie and Susie Show in Paris, and the Kansas City convention date.
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