Mexico Board Affirms Principal Eldridge Demotion
The Mexico School Board voted unanimously to uphold the demotion of Mexico Junior High Principal Robert Eldridge after a 15 minute executive session following a tenure hearing. The hearing, the district’s first of its kind, drew about 65 attendees as Supt. Donald Palmer defended the decision amid testimony from Eldridge, his attorney, staff, and parents.
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Mexico School Board
Mexico
Robert Eldridge
Eldridge
CTA
Community Teachers Assn
Missouri
Board of Education
W. W. van Matre
Donald Palmer
Picayune
Supt. Palmer
L. Buford Thomas
van Matre
Mr. van Matre
Palmer
Joseph Hodgin
Hodgin
Edward Morris
Mr. Palmer
Connie Pickering
Runge
Second blast in same mineshaft shocks Kentucky town
In Southdown Kentucky two miners survived a second blast at a southeast coal mine just days after 15 men were killed nearby. Eleven more miners perished, as rescuers raced to reach trapped workers while families mourned in Neon and Little Cowan. Survivors Erick Collins and Rick Parker recalled narrowly escaping, aided by a rock pile that shielded them and a telephone line they used to reach fresh air.
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Southdown
Rick Parker
Kentucky
Ernest Collins
Collins
Parker
Louisville Courier-Journal
Neon
Robert Griffith
Madonna
Robert
Little Cowan
Tommy Ray Scott
Bernard Banks
Mr. Banks
Mrs Murl Morgan Dies Rites Pending
Mrs Hazel Morgan 09 of 419 W Orange Mexico died Friday at 8 50 pm at Audrain Medical Center. Born April 26 1907 in South Dakota she married Ralph Morgan July 15 1936. Survived by six sisters one brother daughter three sons five grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements pending at Arnold Funeral Home. Mr and Mrs Michael E Lees of 1416 Mockingbird Dr welcome son seven pounds eight ounces born Friday 10 18 am at Audrain Medical Center. Mr Lees teaches at Community R-4 School.
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Murl
Hazel) Morgan
W. Orange
Mexico
Audrain Medical Center
South Dakota
Ralph Morgan
Sylvia Copp
Mabel Burke
San Jacinto
Calif
Goldie Dwyer
Carle Fitzgerald
Washington Springs
Lees
Michael E. Lees
Mockingbird Drive
Community R-4
Six Running City Primary To Trim Two
The filing deadline for the Mexico city council race closed at 5 pm Friday with six candidates vying for two three year terms. Two will be eliminated at the March 23 primary. the April 6 council and school board election follows. Names include Robert Knipfel David Lankford C T Loyd Ruth Olson Richard Savage Herman Tolson. Incumbents are Ruth Olson and Herman Tolson.
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Robert Knipfel
S. Promenade
David Lankford
Monroe Place
C.C.E
Yo-Tech
C.T. Loyd
S. Western
Ruth Olson
Woodlawn
Mexico High School
Richard Savage
N. Jefferson
Apt
Audrain Human Development Corp
Herman O. Tolson
E. Vine
Olson
Mr. Tolson
Ford Ousts Bo Callaway Campaign Chief
President Ford dismissed Howard Bo Callaway as campaign manager while probes into his role with a Colorado ski resort continue. Ford defended foreign policy and Nixon pardon amid attacks by Ronald Reagan and shifts in Democratic races across Illinois Pennsylvania and California with Benson Brown Shapp and others exiting or entering the race. blood donation drive details conclude the item.
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Greensboro
N.C
Ford
Howard
Bo) Callaway
Colorado
Arthur H. Rotstein
Associated Press
Richard M. Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Illinois
George Wallace
Sargent Shriver
Tllinois
Pennsylvania
Milton Shapp
California
Edmund Brown Jr
Brown
Sacramento
Oregon
Shapp
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Texas
Lloyd Bentsen
Indiana
Birch Bayh
Reagan
Chicago
United States
Soviet Union
Henry Kissinger
Buffalo Grove
Nixon
Kissinger
Wallace
Marion
Florida
Pri
Lebanon's President Defies Coup Leaders Amid Siege
Beiruts standoff deepens as President Suleiman Franjieh resists resignation under army coup pressure. Tanks guard his hilltop palace while Parliament seeks a vote to oust him. Phalangists join the move, but no clear resolution emerges. Clashes claim lives across the country as militias seize bases and control key routes to Beirut.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Mostem
Suleiman Franjieh
Franjieh
Kamal Assad
Assad
Christian Phalange Party
Mt. Lebanon
Aziz Ahdab
Hanna
Ahdab
Ahmed Khatib
Khatib
Beirut International
Middle East
Syria
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Robette Balser
Mike Shupert
Emmons Hall
Miss Balser
Doug Balser
Tenor Shupert
First Mexico Girl Scout Troop
C. R. Stribling Jr
Ralph Toulson
Marsena Johnson
Pauline Craddock
Anne Lacy Wallace
Virginia Keating
Richard Vance
Murl Morgan
K&m
Ford Boots
Bo Callaway
Mary
Minnesota
Hubert Humphrey
Red Cross
National Guard Armory
Neil Nielsen
Audrain County
Laddonia Christian Church
Nielsen
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