Homemakers Crafts Festival Draws Hundreds in Audrain County
Audrain County extension clubs held a crafts festival in the courthouse basement with hundreds visiting to view handiwork. Mrs John Rudasill of Molino Homemakers wore a mob-cap and sat knitting a handmade afghan as displays included antique chests, ornaments, quilts, artificial fruit centerpieces, topiary trees, jewelry and candlesticks.
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Audrain County Extension Clubs
John Rudasill
The
Molino Homemakers
Richard Vance
Zero Draft Threatens National Guard After Vietnam War
National Guard officials warn the zero draft plan and reduced Vietnam veteran enlistments threaten Guard strength. A one year Try One program aims to recruit veterans, targeting 3,000 monthly signups but only 900 have joined. Attrition runs about 70 percent, leaving the 400,000 manpower level at risk as waiting lists dwindle.
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Indochina
Pentagon
Viet Push Drives On In Cambodia and Vietnam
South Vietnamese General Do Cao Tri said most U.S. combat troops could be withdrawn from the southern half of Vietnam next year. He cited a planned Cambodian push toward Kratie to pressure North Vietnamese forces and complete Vietnaminzation, as U.S. troop cuts proceed and allied commands redeploy units.
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Saigon
U.S
Do Cao Tri
Cambodia
Kratie
Mekong
South Vietnam
Phnom Penh
Tri
Association of Foreign Correspondents
Vietnam
25Th Infantry Division
Hawaii
25Th
1St Air Cavalry Division
11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Nixon
Navy
U.S. Navy
Gulf of Thailand
U Minh Forest
Mekong Delta
27Th Infantry
Tough Talk No Guns In Seen After Cease Fire Ends
Israel questions U S backed cease fire extension as Dayan asserts no US binding and Egyptian missiles near the canal spark renewed tensions. Jordan's Tell pushes for guerrilla alignment, while Nasser lies honored in Cairo and bombings rock Tel Aviv amid ongoing regional instability.
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Associated Press
Moshe Dayan
Israel
Suez Canal
United Nations
Dayan
Tel Aviv
U.N
United States
Washington
Egypt
Jordan
Wasf Tell
Beirut
Tell
Amman
Palestine
Hussein
Cairo
Gamal Abde Nasser
Mahmoud Fawei
Nasser
Baghdad
Iran
Official Audrain tally shows minor changes in votes
County canvass adjusts several counts in Audrain County. Kit Bond increases to 4432 votes in state auditor race and write in totals shift for Andy Runge, who gains 2448 as state representative and three more as a Democrat. Other officials gain or lose small margins. write in votes varied widely.
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Audrain
Glenn M. Barnes
Christopher
Kit) Bond
Andy Runge
Charles H. Dickey Jr
Congress
Richard Southern
Connie Pickering
Kit Bond
Don Decker
Lewis Brooks
Frank Gerald Rivers Jr
Curtis Smith
Herman Tolson
C. F. McCord
Forest Noel
Larney Barnes
Don Fairley
Paul West
John Doe
Ralph Lierheimer
Howard Dillard
Jim Johnston
Ed Hodge
Leonard Eckley
Pete Oliver
al Tangora
Ross Vance
Paul Churches
Leroy Werner
Two-Mile Line For Free Food
In SAN LEANDRO CALIF AP workers strike affected Lucky Stores distribution, as over 200,000 pounds of meat and produce were given away from 8 a.m. Friday. More than 200,000 pounds disappeared in 20 minutes, all perishables cleared within hours. Gerald Awes called it a propaganda move while Local 29 president Jean Maddox cited failed talks over a cost of living clause and fringe benefits amid an 80 cent wage rise dispute.
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San Leandro
Calif
Lucky Stores, Inc
Office and Professional Workers Union
Butchers, Checkers
Teamsters
Lucky Board
Gerald Awes
Ted Magness
Awes
Jean Maddox
Local 29
Louisiana Man Charged With Assaulting Trooper
Walter Dale Chandler, 24, of Louisiana Missouri, held in Audrain County Jail on 1250 bond. Charges include driving while intoxicated resisting arrest and assaulting an officer. Chandler allegedly struck Trooper Gordon Hale on Highway 54 south of Mexico and required five stitches after officers subdued him at the Mexico Police Department.
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Walter Dale Chandler
Louisiana
Audrain
Highway Patrol
Gordon Hale
Chandler
Highway 54
Mexico
Hale
Mexico congregation breaks ground for new church at Breckenridge and Missouri
Members of the Mexico Jehovah's Witnesses, helped by neighbors, began groundbreaking for a colonial style church at the corner of Breckenridge and Missouri Streets. Sammy Dysart directed the project as two Sedalia contractors supervised the digging. labor is donated by members and the estimated cost runs between 10 000 and 12 000 dollars.
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Mexico
Jehovah's Witnesses
Breckenridge and
Missouri
Sammy Dysart
Sedalia
Guard Moves In As Henderson Burns In Desegregation Strife
Gov. Bob Scott ordered North Carolina National Guard units into Henderson after a night of racial tension marked by sporadic gunfire and two fires. A curfew was extended, and 60 state troopers helped enforce order as officials declared a state of emergency. Police reported two white injuries and seven who were arrested for curfew violations amid protests over school desegregation.
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Henderson
N.C
Bob Scott
North Carolina National Guard
Linwood B. Falkner
Vance County
North Carolina
Department of
Highway worker killed by truck mirror near Platte City
Harry Lee Simmers, 50, of Weston, a flagman for the Missouri highway department, died at an Interstate 29 construction site when a truck passed too close and struck him with its outside rear view mirror. Audrain Library Board picks Robert Pollard of Sturgeon to succeed Lester England after board proposal.
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Platte City
Harry Lee Simmers
Weston
Missouri Highway Department
Highway Patrol
Simmers
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Melvin R. Laird
Francis 8. Greenlief
Independence
Flagman
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S. Senate
Waverly
Minn
Democratic Party
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