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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1975
Page
9
The Paris R-2 district will reopen its new elementary school on Monday after delays for moving equipment. Classes were shortened Thursday for moving, and Friday had no school due to a district teachers meeting.
More than 200 works by the late Thomas Hart Benton were donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri in the past year, elevating the collection to include major Benton and Bingham pieces. Dr Richard Brownlee outlined gifts of oil paintings watercolors drawings and prints, plus works by 52 contemporary Missouri artists, and noted plans for climate control and gallery upgrades. The society held its annual meeting with awards to students and scholars and discussed transferring operations from state to university administration.
Jefferson City Missouri officials say the Adoption Exchange of Missouri will help place hard to place children by linking the state Division of Family Services with six private agencies. When a child cannot find a home within 90 days after parental rights termination, the division will match five to ten approved prospective parents to the agency, focusing on children over 12 or with special needs or minority status. About 350 children are expected on the register, with two groups of half white and healthy children and half older, minority, or health challenged. Agencies include St Louis Children’s Service, Family and Children Services of Greater St Louis, Family and Children Services of Kansas City, Catholic Charities St Louis, Catholic Family and Community Services Kansas City, and Lutheran Family and Children Services St Louis.
New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson denounced President Ford for inviting Japanese Emperor Hirohito with a red carpet reception. He said the display highlights the nation’s diplomatic bankruptcy under Ford and Secretary Kissinger and warned that history cannot be perverted.
Missouri faces reduced highway funding as motor fuel tax and motor vehicle fee revenues lag behind 1973 levels. Despite a 3.1 percent rise in fuel taxes for seven months of 1975, overall 1974 declines and lower average license fees curb road construction, affecting safety and maintenance goals.
Art Linkletter, a TV personality and drug abuse activist, spoke to about 4,000 central Missouri teachers at Warrensburg about influencing people and the future. He argued that fear or simple education fails to deter drug use and urged teaching that life offers more than instant happiness from chemicals.
Eighty nine older 4-H members from Lincoln Warren Montgomery St Charles St Louis and Franklin Counties spent a weekend scraping painting oiling floors and hauling chat on pathways at Sherwood Forest Camp in Cuivre River State Park They asked to return next spring for more work and conservation efforts.
Laddonia Branch Library will host free fall and winter movies starting Oct 24 from 7 to 8 PM. Screenings include Circus At The Zoo with Abbott and Costello Awful Tooth with Little Rascals Our Country's Emblem and Undersea Wedding. All children are invited. Future showings will be on the fourth Friday of each month.
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