Personal News from Vandalia and Wellsville
Local columns recount Cub Scouts Pack 48 hosting 28 members for bobcat pins and badges under Cubmaster Bill Boettcher while den mothers organize meetings. Readers note visitors, hospital updates, club works, 4-H events, and community gatherings with names like Dobbins Beachout Kerr and St. Clemens mentioned among August and September plans.
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Wellsville
Cub Scouts
Bill Boettcher
Webelos
Mark Poole
Mike Dodson
Randy Beachout
Jeffery Dobbins
Jimmie Uthe
Charles Shaffer
Don Poole
Don Burwell
Carl Schmidt
John Dobbins
Virgil Beachout
Harold Crim
Russell Davis
Farber Personal News Highlights Week End Gatherings
Sterling Holbrook Jr and daughters lead church mothers day with carnations as the Farber Baptist Church honor event unfolds. Leslie J Crow and family return from Michigan with visits to Dr Harold Crow and Rev Isaac Scherpennise in Hudsonville and Holland. Weekend guests include Darrel Aderton families, Nell Wilkinson and relatives, and Jack Teague and Jim Teague crews visiting from Belton and Springfield. Jack Teague to move to Rochester New York for Black and Veach engineer work.
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Leslie J. Crow
Michigan
Lansing
Jack Teague
Darrin
Belton
Jim Teague
Kenny
Connie
Springfield
William Teague
Jack
Rochester
N. Y
Black and Veach
Welfare bill would raise Social Security benefits 5 percent
Washington AP The House Ways and Means Committee approved a 5 percent boost in Social Security payments and basic elements of Nixons welfare reform. The $12 billion measure, with bipartisan aid, would start June 1 1972 after a 10 percent increase this year and 15 percent last year. The bill ties benefit growth to cost of living with automatic rises, delayed if the 5 percent hike passes.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Nixon
Wilbur D. Mills
Mills
Joe D. Waggoner Jr
D-La
National Welfare Rights Organization
Campaign
George A. Wiley
David M. Ackerman
National Council of Churches
Market Vacation On Hogs Lifted
CORNING Iowa AP The National Farmers Organization says a marketing vacation on hogs is lifted after hog prices rose in recent weeks A similar vacation on corn will continue Staley NFC president noted hog prices have climbed 5 to 6 a head Farmers will still deliver livestock under contract where required by law The action aimed to pressure packers by limiting supplies from NFC members
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Corning
Iowa
National Farmers Organization
Oren Staley
NFC
Staley
NFO
Woman elected United Presbyterians moderator in historic move
Lois H. Stair of Waukesha Wisconsin became the first woman to hold the United Presbyterian Church's top post at the 18th General Assembly in Rochester New York. She defeated three male candidates as about 2,000 delegates cheered. The 3.1 million member denomination marked a wave of female leadership in major Protestant groups, following a same milestone at the American Baptist Convention the prior week.
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Rochester
N.Y
United Presbyterians
Lois H. Stair
Waukesha
Wis
U.S
Stair
American Baptist Convention
Ruth Rohlfs
Seattle
Wash
United Presbyterian
William R. Laws
Columbus
Woman chosen as moderator after tersely contested vote
Mrs Stair, 47, emerged winner on the third ballot in a contest with two clergymen and a layman for the moderator post. She secured 392 votes in a 388-vote required victory and was acclaimed unanimous by voice. She has held numerous church offices and serves as vice president of a Waukesha foundry business. Her husband Ralph leads Apert. She gained national profile as a United Presbyterian delegate to Church Union discussions seeking denom. unity.
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Ind
Stair
Waukesha
General Casting Corp
Ralph
Apert
National Church
United Presbyterian
Miss Hannibal Pageant Chooses Becky Gosney Miss HanNibal
Miss Becky Gosney was named Miss HanNibal in the city pageant judged by Ron Holbrook of Mexico and other Miss Missouri officials. Gosney received a $250 scholarship.
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MISS
Hannibal
Ron Holbrook
Mexico
Becky Gosney
StuCo and Knights raise 225 for youth center
The Mexico High School Student Council and Knights of Columbus teamed to raise 225 dollars at a barbecued chicken sale in St Brendans parking lot on Sunday. Ten students worked from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. led by organizers Pat Westcott Glenda Small Chris Jacobi Becky Rodes Chuck Worstell Chris Hotep Mike Jerichow Pat VanHorn Curtis Brandow and Bruce Moore.
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Mexico
Knights of Columbus
St. Brendan’s
Pat Westcott
Glenda Small
Chris Jacobi
Becky Rodes
Chuck Worstell
Chris Hotep
Mike Jerichow
Pat VanHorn
Curtis Brandow
Bruce Moore
Town Cleans Up Hannibal After Busy Cleanup Weekend
Hannibal is 15 tons tidier after a volunteer effort with nearly 600 elementary students filling plastic litter bags on Thursday and Friday and about 350 volunteers turning out Saturday to spruce up thoroughfares and public areas.
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Hannibal
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Clara) Oliver
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