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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1974
Page
2
The piece urges giving to the Community Chest, framing it as a shared duty and a way to support 13 local charities and programs. It argues funds are pooled to fairly distribute support, preventing overfunding of fundraisers and ensuring no worthwhile cause is left out.
A young pastor reflects on forgiveness after a church member’s death, noting that repeated trespass calls for repeated repentance and mercy. The anecdote underscores the Bible’s call to forgive.
Open Forum editor Ledger reports Mexico High School Language and Mass Media classes appreciate the donation of an Associated Press Newspaper Reading Skills Development Program. The program, praised for its fresh approach, was provided with eager cooperation from Mr. Vernon Duffy. John Tsikalas and the students extend thanks for the community effort.
Readers seek guidance on taboo family norms and a beer drinking husband. The letters discuss an 18-year-old inviting her father to bathe, concerns about indecency, alcoholism recognizing as beer drunk, and adoption gratitude to a birth mother with a promotional booklet offer.
A reader asks why steroid ointment requires a prescription and a doctor’s supervision for itching. The doctor explains cortisone risks, proper diagnosis, and why laws protect patients. Other letters cover birth control pill effects on breast swelling, baking soda habit stomach impact, and hiatal hernia vomiting with simple at home relief tips.
W S Lowe and Nathan A Toulson presidents of A P Green Refractories and A B Chance Co announce plans for Governor John M Dalton to visit Mexico Missouri. The event honors two large home grown Mid-Missouri industries and highlights local business leadership. Sheila Jean Cannaday, daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Cannaday, has been selected as a Miss Mizzou candidate at the University of Missouri Columbia. Audrain County farms with wheat allotments total 1806, with 1015 signing up for par- notes.
Puzzle contents list multiple crosswords with clues and answers scattered across dates in 1954 and 1924. Includes names William Vanlandingham and Mareena Johnson, Audrain County honors, and the 1954 soybean festival recognition with an all-expense trip to the Gulf Coast.
A trove of channel numbers and station identifiers appears with stations in St. Louis Ottumwa Hannibal Columbia Quincy and Jeff City. The text also mentions weather as a topic or feature alongside erroneous listings and changes by stations.
Channel 10 features Candid Camera at 6 30 with a 40 gallon tank car scene. Bullitt stars Steve McQueen on Channel 4 7 13 at 8 00. Tornado plot on Texas Wheelers at 8 30. List includes daily programs: Pyramid Tattletales Gomer Mike Douglas Bonanza Gambit etc. Late night movies on 4 7 13 include Cleopatra 1934 drama and The Skull 1965 thriller.
Journal notes Channel 5 at 11 30 a.m. offers Lehr on Ashore and a Children’s Film Festival at noon. Baseball and football playoff games, Archies and Mary Tyler Moore cast items, CBS TV hires Jane Chastain as a five year network sportscaster with Chicago and New York assignments.
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