Vandalia Community Activities and Club Meetings
Various Vandalia groups announce December events and meetings. Christmas plates will be prepared for shut-ins. Round Grove Center hosts a Dec 12 carry-in supper with a gift exchange. Baptist Women plan missions week and book studies. 4-H Club installs officers and schedules Dec 18 party. Community Betterment Club to elect new officers. Aletheas meet for service projects and fundraisers. a high school trip to see Music Man is noted.
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Round Grove Community Center
Elm Grove Baptist Church
Tom Gaddie
Jerry Northcutt
Baptist Women's
Don Shaw
Taiwan
Mission Action
Brice
Gene Wallace
Bob Gooch
Karen Shaw
Marilyn Wallace
Woodrow Wells
Irs
Allace
Nce
Hannivui
Robert Woodrow
Woodrow
Bobby Dean
Tony
Savannah
Gaz
Junior Freels
Robert W. Woodrow
Perry
U.S. Army
Vandalia — Community Betterment Organization
Vandalia State Bank
Don Hoover
Aletheas Jr. Women’s Club
MWFX
Jim Mulherin
Tri-County
Peggy Powell
Mexico
Dee. 5
Gene Moore
Edwin Brown
Robert Erhart
Jim Cafer
Ronald Morris
Larry Youngblood
Karen Learish
Linda Logan
Barbara McPherson
Clinton
Van-Far High School
Columbia
Hickman High
Wellsville Union Thanksgiving Service Schedule Published
Mrs FR Zimmann notes Union Thanksgiving services at Wellsville Christian Church Wednesday at 7 30 led by Rev Stephen Lamping from Resurrection. Participating churches include Christian Catholic Grace Lutheran St Pauls Baptist First Baptist and United Methodist Presbyterian. Grace Lutheran to observe Thanksgiving Tuesday at 7 30 at Grace Church.
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Zimmann
Wellsville — Union
Wellsville Christian Church
Stephen Lamping
Wellsville
Grace Lutheran
Paul's Baptist
First Baptist
United Methodist- Presbyterian
Grace Church
Kirksville Cold Snap Eases Across Missouri
AP report notes Missouri coldest spell gave way to sun and clear skies. Overnight lows ranged from six above in Kirksville to 12 at Cape Girardeau, with nine above in Vichy and West Plains, 10 at St. Joseph, 11 at Columbia, St Louis, Joplin, and 14 at Kansas City. Highs shifted from 19 in Kirksville to 31 at Cape Girardeau, with statewide highs in the 30s and lows in the 20s. a northeast snow chance was noted late tonight.
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Kansas City
Missoull
Kirksville
Springfield
Cape Girardeau
Vichy c
West Plains
St. Joseph
Columbia
St. Louis
Joplin
Kansas Kansas City
Paris Youth Deliver Thanksgiving Aid to Needy Families
Paris church groups collected boxes and fruit baskets for 50 shut ins and 90 packages for area rest homes. The 5th and 6th grade youth group met at Paris United Methodist Church at 6:00 p.m. for a Thanksgiving supper and devotion, then delivered to a family. Newly elected Presbyterian church elders are Leon Buie John Stone Mrs Jim Vaughn and Mrs Albert Linkclear for three year terms.
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Rage
Paris United Methodist Church
The
Presbyterian Church
Leon Buie
John Stone
Jim Vaughn
Albert Linkclear
Greene County Near First Class Status On Valuation Milestone
Greene County has topped $300 million in assessed valuation, Presidenting Judge Fred Schaeffer announced as voters prepare for a December 22 ballot. The measure would keep or raise the current 50 cent per $100 valuation levy, avoiding a return to 35 cents if the county attains first class status.
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Springfield
Greene County
Fred Schaeffer
Schaeffer
Air Crash Kills 17 in Vietnam
In the Mekong Delta a U.S. light plane and a South Vietnamese helicopter collided in midair. Authorities reported 4 Americans and 13 Vietnamese killed with no survivors. All U.S. crewmen aboard the light plane died, and another American died aboard the helicopter.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong Delta
No Free Stamps For Petitions Denied By Federal Judge
A federal judge rejected a claim that citizens have a right to mail stampedless petitions to the President, Congress, and state leaders. Louis B. Wies of Fremont had sent letters without stamps to Nixon, Sen. George Murphy, and Gov. Ronald Reagan on June 9, but all were returned the next day marked as postage required.
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San Francisco
Louis B. Wies
Fremont
Calif
Nixon
George Muphy
R-Calif
Ronald Reagan
Farm Belt Fights Quota Bill In Senate Strategy Session
Farm Belt senators, aided by manufacturing allies, held a strategy session to block a House passed trade bill seen as risking 700,000 jobs and 6.6 billion dollars in farm exports annually. They warn measures on textiles, shoes, and oil quotas could invite retaliation and raise U.S. consumer prices.
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Washington
U.S
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
United States
Japan
House
Senate
Walter Mondale
D-Minn
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Finance Committee
Nixon
Wellsville Community Nativity Scene Planned for December
Lemasters officiated at the crowd’s peak yearly sing and a free will offering of 170. The Nativity event is set for December 19 and 20 in Reed Park with Grace Lutheran and St. Pauls Baptist likely to participate. Ministers led by Rev. Stephen Lamping and Rev. Quenten Boyd will organize, with a 7 to 8 pm schedule and 30 minute shifts. A prep meeting is planned for December 13 at the Christian Church basement.
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Lemasters
Jack Lemaster
Charles Conover
Andy
St. Louis
Wellsville
Edith Conover
Reed) Park
Christian Church
Ministerial Alliance
Frank McMurtry
Stephen Lamping
Quenten Boyd
Clarence Smith
Ex Mayor Tucker Dies After Long Illness
Raym ond R. Tucker 73 a St Louis engineer educator and the citys first three term mayor died Monday night after hospital treatment for congestive heart failure. Born December 4 1896 in St Louis he served 1953 to 1965 as mayor and held posts including president of the US Conference of Mayors in 1965 and head of the American Municipal Association in 1960.
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ST. Louis
Raymond R. Tucker
Tucker
U.S. Conference of Mayors
American Municipal Association
Washington
Bernard F. Dickmann
Tucker shaped St Louis with bold urban programs
The late St Louis mayor Tucker advanced downtown redevelopment including a planetarium art museum auditorium expressways flood protection and the Gateway Arch project He chaired a 1956 fair employment act 1961 public accommodations 1964 human development Corp and fought poverty He taught urban affairs at Washington University Funeral arrangements are pending.
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St. Louis Human Development Corp
St. Louis
Tucker
Washington University
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