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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1976
Page
2
A compact listing of weekend and weekday events for Saturday through Tuesday from Centralia to Mexico, including bus routes, dances, fundraisers, club meetings, and public notices. Also features historical notes from November 6 across multiple years, including election results, anniversaries, and local appointments.
Benton City Busy Bees elect officers at a Wednesday meeting at Mrs. Edwin Delamatre home. New president is Mrs. Delamare, vice president Mrs. Engemann, secretary treasurer Mrs. Schutte, reporter Mrs. Hinton. Next meeting set for November 17 at 1 30 p.m. at Mrs. Clark's home.
Women of the Moose held a covered dish supper at the Moose lodge on Thursday. Chairwoman Mary Roberson with committee members Gail McGee and Shelbia Burnett organized the event. Guests included Bob Poage Harold Erdel Jack Roberson Cindy Burnett Gary Biggers and Alycia McGee. Door prizes went to Karen Schrader Shelley Warvey and Lillie Weakly. Other members present were Darlene Cleeton Nora Poage Atha Eastin Frances Erdel Della Thompson and Blanche Power. The next executive meeting is November 18 at 7 30 pm at the lodge followed by the 8 pm regular meeting.
The Benton City Helping Hands held a meeting at Mrs. Ernest Schofield’s home with Mrs. Gerald Sharp as vice president. Plans include a 1950s sockhop for teens on November 26 at 7 p.m. at the community hall, a card party on November 20 at 7 p.m. at the community hall, and a November 20 visit to the TLC School in Wellsville. Donations were made to the heart fund and baskets prepared for the Wellsville school, with prizes awarded to Mrs. Schofield and Mrs. Kenneth Mantle. Several members and visitors attended. The next meeting is scheduled for December 7 at 1 p.m.
About 135 OATS members gathered for a covered dish luncheon at the United Methodist Church to mark the organization’s fifth birthday. The event highlighted the legacy of the Office of Aging during its early organizing period.
A Kirksville speaker led an OATS dinner with Mrs. M. Lewis Stephenson Mayor Lewis Brooks and others praising the organization. The event featured the presentation of a new OATS bus to Mrs. Quinnie Benton of Mexico, with birthday acknowledgments for many local residents. An Ann Landers column addressed neighborly duties and parental obligations, urging readers to set boundaries and clarify expectations.
A garbled OCR listing various TV channels and programs for St Louis Ottumwa Hannibal Columbia Quincy and nearby areas. Mentions classic films sport events college football MU football and NBC ABC schedules with many unreadable names and times. The passage also references channel lineups and program blocks across many stations, with notes about weather erroneous listings and unreported changes.
Weekend listings include E Power Biggs on Lamp Unto My Feet at 7:00 a.m. Channel 4. State investment report on Forum at 9:00. MUColorado tape at 10:00 a.m. on Channel 2. NFL: Cardinals at Putaenotts noon on channels 4 7 13, Washington at San Francisco 3:00 p.m., Steelers vs Chiefs on NBC at 1:00. The Barber of Seville with Beverly Sills on NYC Opera at 1:00 p.m. Disney World Classic finals golf at 1:30 on Channel 2. Sixty Minutes returns at 6:00 after election absence on channels 4 7 13. Cartoon blocks, Gospel and religious programs run throughout. NBC premiere of Gone With The Wind at 7:00, Ozawa conducts Boston Symphony in Ives Fourth at 7:00 p.m. Masterpiece Theater at 8:00 with How Green Was My Valley.
Channel listings show a noon airing of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance on Channel 11 with John Wayne, a 2 45 p m House On Haunted Hill on Channel 11 with Vincent Price, and 3 30 p m The Good Guys and the Bad Guys on Channel 2 starring Robert Mitchum. Additional titles include Francis In The Haunted House with Mickey Rooney at 4 30 p m on Channel 11, Larry a drama about incarceration at 10 30 p m on Channel 5, and Guess Who's Coming To Dinxier featuring Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier at 10 35 p m on Channel 2. A dense schedule lists Animal World, P T L Club, Gunsmoke, Kojak, and various ABC CBS NBC entries with times across channels, plus news programs and weather noted toward the end.
Monday TV ledger lists Channel 8 reviews MU football at 6 30 p m. NBC movie concludes Gone With The Wind at 7. Channel 2 3 17 airs LA Rams at Bengals in Cincinnati at 8. Panov ballet at Wolf Trap 8 with 9 Dean Martin roars back in a twenties spoof variety show at 9 with Baddeley DelNuise Winters and others. Sound-
NBC stage at 9 offers the soul group the Spinners. John Davidson hosts Tonight. Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show at midnight. 1:00 PM Scared Stiff on Channel 13 with Martin and Lewis. later Gone with the Wind on channels 5 8 10. many daytime and late night programs listed with multiple classic films and news segments across stations.
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