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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1975
Page
11
Boston teachers strike for higher pay but the city’s 183 schools opened for the third week of court ordered integration. Dorchester and South Boston highs canceled classes as few teachers appeared while many schools operated with aides and substitutes despite the illegal walkout ban.
About 150 people lined a downtown street to glimpse Betty Ford as she shopped a metal sculpture gallery in Carmel. The First Lady wore a brown and white dress and cape, waved to onlookers, while Secret Service kept a distance and blocked closeup shots.
Colorado College president Dr. Lloyd E. Warner, a native of Mexico, received the Colorado Award for Distinguished Contribution to Education in Colorado Springs on Sept. 17. The Phi Delta Kappa chapter cited his leadership, the Block Plan, and the college’s honors system and programs. Warner’s career includes roles as dean and president, study at Harvard, and Ford Foundation post doctoral work. An eight pound eight ounce daughter was born to Mr and Mrs John W Dudley of Farber at Audrain Medical Center Sunday evening.
New York AP reports Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis will work as consulting editor at Viking Press for $200 a week. She says she will learn the ropes first and sit in editorial conferences while likely handling assigned projects as directed by her employer.
In Chad the rebel chief Hissen Habre and his men demand supplies instead of cash for freeing Francoise Claustre and two other Western captives. Marc Combes says Habre will shoot Claustre if France does not meet terms of about 1.33 million in nonmilitary supplies and 888,900 in cash, with Chad objecting to equipment deliveries.
Washington AP reports the House Ways and Means Committee plans tax revision measures to curb sheltering losses used by high earners. In four days the panel tentatively approved changes expected to raise about 5.7 billion over six years, targeting film, real estate, farming, equipment leasing, oil, and sports franchise shelters while preserving some exploratory wells. The effort seeks to limit artificial losses used to wipe out regular income, with examples of dentists and lawyers paying no federal tax and a high earner paying little.
Enrollment for the first semester classes of Mexico Evening School opens with a 7 00 p m meeting on Monday night September 29 at Mexico High School. A new Land Development Course taught by Harold R Crane and Associates of Hannibal will cover land survey boundary surveys introduction to land development subdivision layout utilities in subdivisions architecture in land development and design and construction of people places. The course meets one night a week for six weeks with a 10 dollar fee plus materials.
In Cincinnati AP report the Delta Queen ran out of steam shortly after the start of a six mile Ohio River race with the Louisville Belle and finished nearly four tenths of a mile behind. Engine trouble forced shutdowns as Belle led from the start and kept clear of tricks used in past races.
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