Poverty and cost of living dominate world concerns
AP report on a Gallup International survey of 10 000 people in 70 nations finds poverty and high living costs as top problems, with unemployment second. It notes many live daily struggles for food, and challenges U S arms sales policy cited by Sen Clark.
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Washington
George G Gallup
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Gallup International Research Institutes
Charles F. Kettering Foundation
Gallup
Dick E. Clark
Iowa
U.S
Clark
South America
Africa
United States
Canada
Australia
Latin America
Southeast Asia
Missouri Crops Worsen as Drought Grips State
Missouri crops suffered severely from drought with 100 percent moisture shortfall. Soybeans were 59 percent poor, 39 percent fair, and 2 percent good. Corn 18 percent harvested, 59 percent mature, grain sorghum 66 percent mature and 13 percent harvested, cotton in Bootheel 39 percent poor and 61 percent fair, alfalfa third cutting 92 percent complete with unlikely further growth. Industry officials cited water shortages and poor pasture growth statewide.
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Columbia
Missouri Livestock Reporting Service
National Weather Service
Crop Service
Bootheel
Reading Ability Gains Reported in National Survey
A national NAEP survey finds 9-year-old students Bodied by desegregation and reading fundamentals show a 4.8 percent gain for Black 9-year-olds over four years, while 13 and 17-year-olds show little improvement. Whites outpace Blacks across ages, with gaps widening with age.
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Washington
National Assessement of
Roy H. Forbes
NAEP
Yale Professor Resigns Over Nazi Ties Revealed
Yale University lecturer Vladimir Sokolov-Samarin resigned after it emerged he wrote anti Jewish editorials for a Nazi newspaper in 1943. The 63 year old taught Russian literature at Yale for 17 years and said he planned to retire in two years. He claimed a KGB effort sought to discredit him and that pressure forced his resignation.
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New Haven
Robert Jackson
Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
Yale Daily News
Sokolov-Samarin
Rials
Rec
Oriol
Helmland
Sokolov- Sarmarin
KGB
Edward Stankiewicz
Slavic Department
Sokolov- Samarin
University
Conservation Classes At Vo Tech In Mexico Area
Missouri Department of Conservation offers two evening courses at Mexico Area Vo-Tech School this semester. One may earn college credit, the other not. Registration is at 7 p.m. Sept 27 at Mexico High School. The credit course costs 20 dollars per credit hour and provides environmental education methods for teachers and youth leaders. It may be taken for two undergraduate or graduate credits through Northeast Missouri State University.
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Missouri Department of Conservation
Mexico Area
Vo-Tech
Mexico High School
al Palladino
The
Conservation Department
Northeast Missouri State University
St Joseph City Administrator Resigns to Join Private Sector
Eric Scott, St Joseph city administrator, announced his resignation to pursue private sector work. Named two years ago, he led community development efforts with the mayor’s office. His departure follows another resignation within two weeks, as Finance Director Merrill Hainey left over salary policy disputes. A separate note promotes a hunter safety and wildlife conservation course offering official certification and potential instructor certification.
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ST. Joseph, Mo
Eric Scott
St. Joseph
Scott
William Bennett
Merrill Hainey
Missouri shoppers see beef and pork price drops this week
Missouri Farm Bureau Shoppers' Guide reports widespread price declines for beef cuts including round steak at 1.34 per lb and T-Bone at 1.96, pork center cuts at 1.75 and blade roast at 1.19, with chicken prices down and eggs steady. Milk edges up while bread and potatoes show small changes.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Farm Bureau
Chip joins The Fonz On Campaign Trail
Los Angeles AP Chip Carter, 26, opened a Los Angeles campaign day by visiting the Happy Days set at Paramount studios with Henry Winkler guiding. He also toured Laverne and Shirley, saying the stop was to connect with Amy Carter whose favorite show is Happy Days.
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Los Angeles
Jimmy Carter
Chip
Fonz
Henry Winkler
Paramount Studios
Young Carter
Laverne and Shirley
Carter
Amy
Amy Carter
Warning to crime victims not to touch scenes to preserve prints
Audrain County investigators urge victims not to touch crime scenes before officers dust for fingerprints. Sgt. Michael MacPherson notes rising arrests from palm and heel prints, and mentions new capability to lift latent prints from bodies. They stress dried paper yields best prints and that prints can last up to seven years for identification.
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Audrain County
Michael MacPherson
The
Mexico
Public Safety Officers
Sheriff’s Department
MacPherson
Sgt. MacPherson
Missouri Highway ‘Patrol
FBI
Diabetes Bike-A-Thon Planned by Mexico Assn
The Mexico branch of the Central Missouri Diabetes Assn. set an annual Bike-A-Thon for Saturday Oct 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Lakeview shelter with participation open to locals. Contacts are David Terpstra or Janet Williams. New officers were named and the next meeting is Nov 10 at Garfield Community Center.
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Mexico
Central Missouri Diabetes Assn
Garfield Community Center
Lakeview Shelter
David Terpstra
Norman
Janet) Williams
Patrick Reddin
Garfield Center
Jack Carter To Visit State on Midwest Campaign Swing
Jack Carter son of presidential hopeful Jimmy Carter plans a two day Midwest campaign tour starting in Manhattan Kansas with a Kiwanis luncheon in Junction City a Cotton Carnival speech in Sikeston Missouri and an American Legion Festival address in New Madrid Missouri The trip continues with the opening of Cape Girardeau Democratic headquarters a Southeast Missouri State University visit and a foray to Kane County Democratic Headquarters in Filgin Montana.
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Filgin
Mtl
Kane County
Sniper Ambush on North Carolina School Bus
A sniper ambushed a Greensboro elementary school bus wounding the driver slightly while 49 pupils were unharmed. A man in his mid twenties was found dead nearby from a shotgun wound, with a tape recorder indicating he recorded the incident. Items including a bicycle and sleeping bag were found at the scene.
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Greensboro
N.C
Guilford County Sheriff's Deputies
H.L. Johnson
Chapel Hill
D.F. Summers
Sheriff's Department
State Candidate Statement Filing Deadline Set
Thursday marks the due date for all state candidates in the November 2 general election to file 40 day campaign finance and disclosure statements. Audrain County candidates file statements with County Clerk John Jesse.
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Audrain County
John Jesse
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