Sedalia Housing Project Is Open
After eleven years of effort Sedalia opens a 50 unit elderly housing complex on the south side. Alta Walters, 84, becomes the first applicant to occupy a Sedalia public housing unit as city officials and HUD navigate leases and funding amid delays and local opposition.
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ED Vaughn
Sedalia
Democrat-Capital
Associated Press
Alta Walters
Ralph Walker
E. Glen Lewis
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing Authority
HUD
Mid-Continent Development Co
Memphis
Sedalia Building and Trades Council
Marvin Albright
Kansas City
Hardin resigns as Hardin quits amid crop report rise
Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Hardin announces his resignation as the USDA releases a new October estimate showing corn production at more than 5.55 billion bushels, up 152 million from prior, with corn yields at a record 86.6 bushels per acre. Earl L. Butz named as successor pledges to bolster prices as the department notes sharp 1972 cutbacks under government programs.
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Washington
Clifford M. Hardin
USDA
Earl L. Butz
Purdue University
Hardin
Crop Reporting Board
Iuyiet Union
Agriculture Department
Nixon price and pay reform move to ease freeze rules
Washington reports show the Price Commission will loosen price controls after the freeze to allow 2.5 percent average increases. The Pay Board finished pay policy rules. Senate votes loom on a 15.5 billion tax cut bill tied to Nixon's economic plan. In Saigon, U S helicopters killed eight civilians by misfire. Earl L Butz nominated to lead Agriculture, cabinet plan revised. IRA rescues a girl in Londonderry from a hooded group. China’s Chiao Kuan hua visits UN headquarters fronting delegation.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
House
Senate Finance Committee
Earl L. Butz
Purdue University
Clifford M. Hardin
Butz
Eisenhower
Agriculture Department
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Women’s Revenge
Bogside
IRA
United Nations, N.Y
Chiao Kuan-hua
Incidents Charged on Col Herbert
The Arizona Republic reports a former pilot’s claim that Lt Col Anthony B Herbert participated in beating Vietnamese woodcutters. Herbert says he is retiring amid harassment after war atrocity charges against senior officers. A Catholic chaplain notes his claimed quote on integrity.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona Republic Today
Anthony B. Herbert
Herbert
John Barnes
Vietnam
Barnes
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Army
Foreign Service Institute
Arlington
Col
J. Ross Franklin
Franklin
Republican
178Rd Airborne Brigade
The
Republic
Mike Plantz
Lenexa
Kan
Plantz
National Christmas trees chosen from North Carolina
A 63 foot Fraser fir from Pisgah National Forest near Asheville will be cut on November 19 and shipped to Washington for display on the White House lawn. A 20 foot indoor tree will be provided by Kermit Johnson of Crossnore Avery County, winner of last year's national tree growing contest.
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Asheville
N.C
White House
Nixon
North Carolina
Pisgah National Forest
Washington
Kermit Johnson
Crossnore
Avery County
Syphilis Cases On Increase In 1971
New York AP report quotes Dr Bruce Webster president of the American Social Health Association stating a 15.6 percent rise in reported syphilis cases in fiscal 1971 and an 8.9 percent rise in gonorrhea. He calls it a VD crisis with 23336 syphilis and 624371 gonorrhea cases that year.
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New York
American Social Health Association
United States
Bruce Webster
ASHA
Webster
Castro Makes Impromptu News Conference In Chile
Fidel Castro, on a visit to Chile, held spontaneous chats with reporters as he left the Allende palace, scolding some and joking with others. He refused to rejoin the OAS and criticized U.S. influence in Latin America while noting the absence of U.S. Ambassador Nathaniel Davis from Cuban events.
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Santiago
Chile
Fidel Castro
Salvador Allende
Castro
Cuba
Organization of American States
OAS
U.S
Latin America
Nathaniel Davis
Davis
United States
Pay Freeze Threatens Pay Board In Phase 2 Delay
Washington AP reports a possible pay freeze endangers Nixon Pay Board and Price Commission as Phase 2 legislation faces congressional delays. House Banking Committee delays the bill to Nov 30, likely delaying enactment into December. Phase 2 starts Sunday. Salaries proposed include full chairs at 40000 annually and other members paid for days worked from 38000. A Cost of Living Council spokesman says contingency funds still cover current salaries and expenses but funds may run out.
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Washington
Nixon
Pay Board and Price Commission
Congress
House Banking Committee
Cost of Living Council
Treasury
Pope Won't Sell Vatican Treasures
Vatican and world church leaders debated aiding the poor. L Osservatore Romano quotes that Pope Paul VI has no plans to sell Vatican art treasures. Reports of a sales plan are denied as false. Cardinal Heenan had suggested the idea during the World Synod of Bishops.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
Vatican
L'Osservatore Romano
John Cardinal Heenan
London
World Synod of Bishops
L’osservatore
Hi Way R-3 Elementary Lunch Menu Week Nov 1919
The Hi Way R-3 Elementary School serves a weekly lunch menu for November 1919 with meals each day. Monday offers a juicy burger with potato sticks pickles buttered corn cinnamon rolls and fruit.
Television Can Be So Educational
Mrs. Frank Martin delivered her first baby after watching a television talk show for basic guidance. Tracing advice from Dick Cavett while waiting for a doctor, she helped with the delivery at 7 am after false labor. The infant and mother are reported doing fine.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Frank Martin
Walsh
Linda Martin
Red Skelton Seeks Divorce After 26 Year Marriage
Indio California AP Red Skelton filed for divorce from Georgia Maureen Davis his 26 year spouse. The couple separated August 4 and California law gives her 30 days to contest. Skelton, 58, once described daily love letters and gifts as a way to keep love alive. He recalled writing over two decades of Valentine and Christmas exchanges with his wife.
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Indio
Calif
Red Skelton
Wye
Skelton
Superior Court
Georgia Maureen Davis
California
Smoking ban at American Heart Association convention
Anaheim California AP reports smoking is banned in all meetings of the American Heart Association convention opening today. Smoking allowed only in lobbies offices and restrooms under the policy.
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Anaheim
Calif
American Heart Association
Out Of Season Fines For Two St Charles Liskas
Two St. Charles brothers, Robert Liska and Vince Liska, faced 1025-dollar fines and court costs after pleading guilty to killing a deer out of season, refusing to allow carcass inspection, and trespassing near Weldon Spring. Magistrate Harry Zumstein gave until 6 p.m. today to pay, or they could serve 10 weekends in jail. Missouri’s nine day deer rifle season opens Saturday.
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St, Charles
St. Charles Brothers
Harry Zumstein
Robert L. Liska
Vince Liska
University of Missouri
Weldon Spring
Liskas
Zumstein
St. Charles County
Missouri
Pay Freeze Leaves Missouri Teachers In Limbo
Fulton superintendent L E Lewis says the Pay Board canceled allowing any wage increases in 1971 72 contracts after telegrams sent to districts caused confusion. Deputy education commissioner Delmar A Cobble told Hannibal region that no action should be taken on the first telegram amid Nixon era wage withholdings.
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Fulton
Missouri
L. E. Lewis
Jefferson City
Delmar A. Cobble
Hannibal
Lewis
Commissioner's Office
Nixon
Some More Samoa For Doctor Mead Returns to Samoa
Dr. Margaret Mead, famed anthropologist, has returned to the South Pacific to revisit American Samoa, where she last studied youth for Coming of Age in Samoa. This marks her first visit back since completing her field work in 1925.
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Pago Pago
American Samoa
Margaret Mead
South Pacific Islands
Samoa
Eastland Defends Rehnquist in 21 Page Memo
Senate Judiciary Chairman James Eastland denounces testimony by Joseph Rauh Jr. and Clarence Mitchell as misleading and unfairly prejudicial toward Supreme Court nominee William H. Rehnquist. The memo fights charges over his Bircher ties as Powell’s nomination stalls with no vote.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
James O. Eastland
Supreme Court
William H. Rehnquist
Mississippi Democrat
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
Clarence Mitchell
Leadership Conference On Civil Rights
Rauh
Leadership Conference
Americans For Democratic Action
Mitchell
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Eastland
Rehnquist
John Birch Society
Nixon
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Richmond
American Bar Association
Powell
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Walt Sees US Russia Clash By 75
Retired Marine Gen. Lewis Walt predicted a U S Russia confrontation by 1975 and said the United States would not have the power to stand up to them. Speaking in Topeka he cited Soviet advances in missiles navy and air power and warned the clash could come in the Middle East with control of the Suez Canal and Persian Gulf as key objectives impacting oil. He praised South Vietnam's leader Ngo Dinh Thieu as honest and dedicated.
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Topeka
Kan
Lewis Walt
United States
Russia
Walt
Vietnam
Alma
Soviet Union
Middle East
Suez Canal
Persian Gulf
Europe
Japan
South Vietnam
Mguyen van Thieu
Thieu
Glucose Tests For Diabetes To Be Nov 17
At the Mexico Regional Diabetes Assn meeting an informative film was shown and a panel discussed glucose tolerance tests for detecting diabetes. Tests for adults and children will occur Nov 17 at 6 am in the Presbyterian Educational Building Mexico in National Diabetes Week efforts.
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Mexico
Presbyterian Educational
Audrain City-County Health Unit
Missouri Regional Medical Program
Garfield Community Center
Goodman Ailing in New York Hospital
Benny Goodman, renowned band leader, is hospitalized at University Hospital with an acute intestinal virus according to a hospital release. The illness prompted fans and colleagues to wish him a speedy recovery as doctors monitor his condition.
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New York
Benny Goodman
University Hospital
Mexico Ledger Subscription Rates and Hours
Mexico Ledger lists daily publication except Sundays and holidays at 300 N. Washington St. Mexico Missouri 65265. Pricing covers in area and out of state mail, plus military rates. Office hours are 8:00 to 5:30 weekdays and 8:00 to 3:00 Saturdays.
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Mexico Ledger
Washington St
Mexico
Audrain
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