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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1975
Page
2
The editorial argues professional sports have boomed with more teams and games from 1935 to 1975 and rising pay. It notes diminishing special appeal as volume grows, cites the World Football League collapse, and faults players for greed while predicting a market correction as audiences demand more.
A brief religious meditation cites Psalm 42 1 about the soul's restlessness until it finds God. The verse emphasizes longing for divine sustenance and the human need for spiritual fulfillment.
Miss Lena Lou Lawrence writes from San Angelo Texas praising Ledger coverage of Missouri notes and copies of Journey To News. The editor responds that copies are still available. Mrs H Heyen comments on a prior Open Forum letter on religious law and moral guidance ending with a call for peace under a higher power.
Ann Landers shares simple rules for holiday hospitality plus readers’ notes on quitting drugs and aging looks. Guidelines urge invited guests to limit visits, help with chores, share meals, allow hosts downtime, and bring a thank you gift. Readers praise the column for practical life tips.
Letters discuss iron overload treatment and persistent taste after blood removal. Advice urges continuing phlebotomy, high calorie snacks, and doctor-led balance plans. Other readers ask about eosinophilic granuloma a benign bone condition with fracture risk and post mastectomy lymphedema remedies. Canned fruits are considered cooked due to processing heat.
St John Township near Hammond Indiana requires able bodied welfare recipients to work for the township in exchange for aid. In three weeks eight of 32 contacted recipients reported for work, while the rest previously on relief stopped seeking aid. Officials say the plan could trim about 30 percent of the welfare budget and defend legality after reviewing Indiana law. Some residents oppose the move as punitive.
Warren Allen Petersen from southwest of Mexico earned a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago as one of eight Missouri 4-H members honored by state extension leader Frank Graham.
In Mexico on Tuesday October 31 1945 Mr and Mrs H C Hildebrand opened the Hildebrand Electric Appliance Store on the north side of the square. On Thursday October 31 1985 projects employing 117 men were approved for Audrain County under federal WPA funds. On Friday October 31 1925 the Mexico Rotary Club was shown through the International Shoe Factory.
Greetings forthcoming on Thursday for Kathryn Holt and on Sunday for Thomas Lee French Ricky Lee Clithero of Middletown Dr F W Cone Mrs Stanley Pulis James Owens III Mrs V E Rehma Mrs Paul C Smith ara Deardorff Elsie Thompson Raymae Shock of Auxvasse Don Foreman Robert Berry and Rebecca Ann Powell. Today's birthdays Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia is 53 Actress Barbara Bel Geddes also is 53.
Mexico Ledger lists publication details including daily except Sundays and holidays, address at 300 N. Washington St. Mexico MO 65265, single copy price 15 cents, various subscription rates by region, and office hours 8 to 5:30 weekdays and 8 to 3 on Saturday. Includes rates for military APO and different states.
Channel listings show Merv Griffin guest lists with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at 3 30 p m on Channel 5 and Norman Mailer interview about the All Foreman fight on Channel 9 at 6 30 p m. ABA basketball Nets at 7 00 p m in New York plus MASH reruns and Wall Street Week discussion. Local stations KTVI KMOX KETC and others appear with various 3 30 and 4 30 p m time slots and showings from Channel 5 to Channel 13.
Tonight's schedule features The Night That Panicked America at 8:00, a dramatic reimagining of the Orson Welles broadcast. Also on the lineup are Yankee Clipper at 9:00, Men Who Made The Movies at 9:30 profiling Frank Capra, and a Midnight Special with musical guests.
TV guide style listing shows football games MU and Nebraska at 11 45 a m on Channels 2 3 17 with pre game at 11 30 am followed by USC California at 3 00 pm The schedule also features Life at 11 30 am on channels 5 8 10 and Children’s Film Festival at noon on 4 7 13 with a fanciful English film about an invisible dog plus Sports Spectacular at 3 30 pm on 4 7 13 including the National Thoroughbred Championship at Santa Anita and the International Superbike Race Also notes Buckley firing line with Rumsfeld and multiple movies and shows across channels with extensive afternoon and evening blocks
ABC ends AM America after a 10 month run to make way for Good Morning America anchored by David Hartman. Pat Weaver Jr. says ABC copied Today and needed a stronger focus on people and comedy with service elements like news weather and time.
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