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Newspaper

Mexico Ledger

Location

Mexico, Missouri, United States of America

Date

May 03, 1971

Page

8

Paris Teacher Hurt In 3 Car Collision

A Paris teacher was injured Friday morning in a three car crash in front of Paris grade school on Main Street. Mrs James Cupp suffered a cut chin needing five stitches and a knee injury while Mr Cupp, of Monroe City, had stopped to drop his wife. Lynn Mott, en route to work, was rear ended by Mrs Goldie Wood, pushing Mott into the Cupp car. The Wood and Mott vehicles sustained extensive damage. No other injuries were reported.

Paris Main St James Cupp Cupp Mott

Veale to Receive Ag Service Award at MU banquet

Paul Veale, a Mexico farmer, joins George Stephens and C R Johnston as recipients of the Distinguished Service to Agriculture awards from the University of Missouri Columbia Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta. Veale’s work includes drought-resilient grain sorghum, irrigation through lakes, and soil fertility programs backed by an MS in soils from Illinois. He formerly served as an agronomy soil surveyor, with field work in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

Columbia University of Missouri-Columbia Gamma Sigma Delta Honorary Agricultural Society UMC Memorial Union George Stephens Kansas City Paul Veale Mexico C. R. Johnston Springfield Missouri Farm Bureau Federation Veale Audrain County Audrain University of Ilinois Agronomy Department Cuba Dominican Republic Missouri River Valley Jefferson City UMC Agronomy Department UMC Agronomists

Optimist Club Will Help at Track Meet in Centralia

The Optimist Club will assist at the Cannon Conference track meet at Centralia High School Panther track with preliminaries at 1 30 p m and finals at 6 30 p m on Tuesday The club will not meet that day and the law week program will be moved to the next Tuesday Several Optimists are invited to bring a guest Fun Camp Day plans are underway The article also notes state music contest participants and Naylor Thrift Club activities plus a Grandmother’s birthday event in Kansas City

Charles B. Thornley Centralia Panther

Centennial Committees Plan Laddonia Celebration Events

Laddonia committees met to map pre pageant and centennial entertainment. Hospitality chair Ruby Adams and Transportation chair Charles Heim outlined duties including town transport during the celebration. Volunteers from local clubs may staff the Centennial Headquarters and assist with ticket sales and Queen announcements.

Laddonia Ruby Adams Charles Heim

County votes tax for jail renovation match with federal funds

Randolph County approves a 10 cent one year levy by a vote of 1393 to 355 to fund jail renovation. The measure will be matched by fifty thousand dollars in federal funds. The county jail has been condemned and prisoners have been housed in neighboring counties.

Moberly Randolph County

Vandalia Arts and Community Events Highlight Spring Week

A large crowd attended Vandalia’s Spring Concert at Van-Far High School in observance of National Music Week with the theme Everything Sings in the Spring directed by Mrs Rhea Cooley. The listing notes volunteers, miscellaneous sale proceeds, AAUW meeting, Scout-A-Rama attendance, Senior Citizens gathering, rummage and bake sale, Lutheran Women’s Missionary League rally, Merchants Association meeting, May Fellowship Day, and local birthday celebration.

Vandalia Van-Far High School Rhea Cooley Dick Gima Alice Marie Byram Nina Jenks Rita Maiden Ossie Rosenstengel Fern Ennis Louise Maria Karen Ramsey Erna Smith Ruth Elzea Marsdean Hill Esther Lewis Ramona Williams Lori Rathburn Brian Carr Lutheran Women's Missionary League St. John’s Lutheran Church Louisiana Schindler Ghana

Santa Fe Personal News Highlights Birthdays and Gatherings

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wayne Dodge and son hosted a April 18 birthday dinner for Mrs. Dodge’s father Ernest Osgood who shares a birthday April 20. Guests included Lonnie James and sons of Monroe City and Brenda Dodge of Columbia. Mrs. George Vanlandingham was hospitalized at Audrain Medical Center last week with transfusions. she was brought home Sunday by George Vanlandingham. Other visits included Kenneth Wilson and family from Blue Springs with Oren Wilson’s parents, and Warren Maddox of Moline, IH, visiting Floyd Bond, Enoch and Orah Smith along with Mrs. Twila Harshbarger of O’Fallon.

Santa FE Joe Wayne Dodge Sona George Vanlandingham Audrain Medical Center Vanlandingham Kenneth Wilson Susan and Timothy Blue Springs Oren Wilson Warren Maddox Moline Floyd Bond Enoch Orah Smith Fred Smith Twila Harshbarger O'Fallon Smith

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