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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1977
Page
2
This opinion piece ponders gratitude across life gifts from health and wealth to memory and faith. It questions what readers value most in America and ends with a prayer for cleansing from secret faults, invoking Psalm 19 12 and a benediction.
Open Forum Editor notes gratitude from Mexico Business and Professional Women for community support and Ledger publicity. Also letters urge action against handing over the Crown of St Stephen to Hungary’s communist rulers, and recognize 4-H award recipients including Lon Fisher.
Birthday wishes appear for multiple residents in Mexico Missouri in a community notices style. The greetings celebrate individuals and families with a list of names including Mrs Eunice DesCombes and Jimmy Ray Foreman among others, noting dates and local ties within the town’s paper.
A letter from a Brooklyn reader asks how to cash a $200 personal check when no bank account exists. Ann advises depositing into a personal account and waiting for clearance, noting banks tighten checks due to forged identifications and suggesting no check cashing services will accept the check. The column also offers jokes and personal anecdotes from readers about aging, family dynamics, and dating, ending with a request for Ann Landers references and address.
Dear Dr Thosteson explains that milk supplies about 75 percent of calcium in Western diets and children need roughly a gram daily. Three or four cups of milk, plus dairy, vegetables, meat, and fish, meet this. Vitamin D in milk aids calcium use. supplements may fix deficiencies. If milk is rejected or diet limited, assess overall intake and potential allergies or other issues.
A compact recap of local Mexico MO entries from 1877 to 1972. It covers corn prices in 1877, Thanksgiving travel plans and dirt roads in 1927, Hoxsey hotel menus and Kiwanis officers in 1937, Missouri driving license changes and permit sales in 1937, church and employment moves in 1947, youth welfare chairmanship in 1957, sports and fiction teaching milestones in 1967, and Elvis On Tour screening plus a Mexico High basketball win in 1972.
Thanksgiving Day TV schedule highlights NBC CBS and ABC air parades in New York Honolulu and other cities on channels 4 5 7 8 9 10 13. NFL pre game and game coverage plus college football previews. Classic films and specials featuring Burns Hope Donahue and The Beatles Forever salute also listed.
TV schedule brief with college football pregame Nebraska Oklahoma at 1:15 pm on channels 2 3 and 17 and USC UCLA at 8 pm. Reunion segment with Partridge Family and My Three Sons spans 1960 to 1974 with clips. Also features Lord Of The Ring circus acts and various cartoons and soap operas across channel 4 7 9 11 13 17 with multiple showings and noted film retrospectives.
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