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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1970
Page
4
A Missouri Mental Health Center staff led series for The Ledger by Sheldon Silk examines how adults mis-handle discipline. It outlines opposing views on punishment, stresses avoiding extremes, and urges understanding the child’s perspective to promote growth and responsibility.
The Mediodia Club of Business and Professional Women of Centralia will attend a Drugs and Drug Abuse workshop on Saturday December 5 at the Mexico High School Auditorium. Main speaker is Donald Y. Cline Cole County Circuit Juvenile officer with years in law enforcement and offender treatment. A film A Movable Scene will be shown and pamphlets offered with drug information.
Laird told 1,400 people at the Economic Club of New York that the Nixon defense request will top the current year’s 73.6 billion. He pressed modernization, pay hikes toward an all‑volunteer force, boosted foreign aid, and better reserve forces, while noting Pentagon hints of about 3 billion more.
Sol Landie a 49 year old scrap metal dealer was shot to death in his bed by four men who forced entry to his southwest side home. His wife Ann Landie 48 was treated for shock after a pistol barrel was placed in her mouth during the robbery. The four men ransacked the house and escaped with an amount not disclosed. Police said a pillow was placed beside Landie’s head and two shots from a .38 cal pistol were fired into his ear. The wife reported they were told to stay in bed under the covers. Landie had testified before a grand jury investigating organized gambling shortly before the indictments of 12 persons.
A 12 year old girl won $10 in an essay contest on dangers of drug abuse. The entry asserted that kids need L S D love security and discipline. Kim Holland a seventh grade student at Fairfield Junior High School entered the contest sponsored by the Fairfield Police Department and the Lions Club.
Voters in Grandview Missouri, a Kansas City suburb of over 10,000, will cast ballots on December 1 for a one per cent city sales tax. If approved, the council would lower the property tax from 1.40 to 1.15 per 100 assessed value and cut utilities tax from 7 to 4 per cent, with an estimated $185,000 annual revenue. A simple majority will decide.
SAN DIEGO AP reports anthropologist R D McCracken of UCLA says modern starch heavy diets contribute to degenerative diseases overlooked by ancient hunting and gathering diets. He explains carbohydrates convert faster to sugars, disturbing delicate body processes and triggering illness in many people.
Vietname service members will have easier home calls this Christmas with six new overseas circuits between the United States and Vietnam, bringing total circuits to 16. Calls from the U S can reach Saigon only. service members in Saigon, however, can be contacted when the unit and APO are known. Rates remain 9 dollars for three minutes station to station and 12 dollars for person to person, with 3 dollars for each additional minute.
A multi county gathering of senior citizens in Bowling Green recorded three main worries from a poll: low income, high and possibly unfair taxes, and transportation.
Paris area notes outline a 7:00 p.m. assembly room meeting about organizing proposals with attorney Carrol Blackwell explaining legal aspects. The Paris Order of Eastern Star hosted a Thanksgiving supper at Masonic Hall. Various community groups report studies, school schedule changes for Thanksgiving, business closures for winter, magistrate court actions, and Optimist Club activities including upcoming Christmas party plans and new members.
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