Soviet High Command Shuffles Elevate Podgorny to Presidency
Alexander Shelepin is moved to a top party post and Nikolai Podgorny advances to the presidency as Anastas Mikoyan steps down for health reasons. Brezhnev remains first secretary and Kosygin stays premier. Mikoyan, 70, is reassigned within the Supreme Soviet.
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Moscow
Alexander N. Shelepin
Communist Party
Nikolai V. Podgorney
Podgorny
Presidum
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Mikoyan
Shelepin
Committee For
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Supreme Soviet
Caucasus
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Minuteman Modernization Planned for Whiteman AFB
The 351st Strategic Missile Wing at Whiteman AFB will begin a modernization of Minuteman II capability in early summer 1966 without additional facility easements. The 509th Squadron in the southwest Whiteman complex will receive the upgraded missiles first, with Boeing staffing peaking around 500 and 30 percent hired locally.
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Whiteman Afb
351St Strategic Missile Wing
Stategic Air Command
509Th Strategic Missile
Whiteman Complex
Boeing
Sedalia
Butler
United States
Boumedienne to Meet Soviet Leaders in Moscow
Col Houri Boumedienne will travel to Moscow on Monday for talks with Soviet leaders, the Algerian government announced Thursday night.
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Algiers
Col
Houri Boumedienne
Moscow
Meany seeks wage rise aid for working poor at AFL-CIO meeting
AFL-CIO president George Meany opened the 10th anniversary convention pledging federation help to raise wages for millions of low paid workers. He suggested Congress raise the federal minimum wage from 1.25 to 2.00 per hour and expand coverage. Meany, earning 70,000 annually if approved, said he would accept the salary boost if endorsed by the convention.
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San Francisco
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Giant
Labor Federation
Meany
Congress
Johnson
Executive Council
Federation
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Sedalia Plans New Animal Shelter To Replace Dog Pound
The city invites bids by December 20 for a new haydite block shelter 50 by 26 feet to be built east of the West Sewage Plant. It will include outside-accessible pens and cages. The old pound near East Hogan and North Osage has drawn Humane Society criticism.
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Sedalia
East Hogan
Osage Avenue
Humane Society
St. Louis
Missouri Faces Eight Percent Rise In Property Tax Over A Decade
Jefferson City AP Missouri Public Expenditure Survey reports average property tax per capita last year 89.96 dollars up from 46.61 a decade earlier an 88 percent rise. total state revenue 5.9 million, local units receive most. Schools got 62 percent of the 387.8 million. Boone County shows revaluation cut rates. Columbia drops from 6.17 to 5.17. Suggestions include tighter budgeting more district mergers and abolishing township government in 24 counties.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Missouri Public Expenditure Survey
a_ taxpayers’ ‘watchdog
Hickman Mills
Jackson County
RNL Gorin
Scotland County
Liberty
Clay County
St. Joseph
Lexington
Callao
Macon County
Boone County
Columbia
Vigi
Revised Plan On Recreation Area Project
Melvin Jones announces a revised Sedalia area plan for a 900 acre reservoir on Springfork Creek. The new approach seeks a multiple purpose site combining recreation with water supply, shifting sponsorship to the city and away from the County Court.
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Sedalia
Springfork Creek
Melvin Jones
Jones
Democrat-Capital
What a Man He Is An Eighteen Year Old Soldier
By TOM TIEDE CHINH TAMS Viet Nam the average age of the combat IGI in many units here is 18 2. And what a man he is a pink cheeked tousled haired tight muscled fellow who becomes the beardless hope of free man. He is unmarried with few possessions and learns to like beer and rock and roll. He is a Private First Class a one year veteran with one to go who can break down a rifle in 30 seconds and put it back together in 29. He has suffered, learned, adapted, and now fights and survives with humor and resilience.
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Tom Tiede Chinh
Soso
Rusk Rebuffs Soviet Charges on Southeast Asia Policy
Secretary of State Dean Rusk rejected Soviet claims of American aggression in Southeast Asia and blamed China and North Vietnam for seeking victory on their terms. He noted Chinese involvement and warned Moscow that Geneva talks could bring U.S. attendance for a peaceful settlement. Britain urged a 12 nation appeal to North Vietnam to quit fighting.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Southeast Asia
Peking
Hanoi
South Viet Nan
Rusk
Alexei N. Kosygin
New York Times
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
Laos
North
Viet Nam
China
Rusky
Great Britain
London
Indochina
Moscow
U.S
Amendments Ballot Data Arrives for Missouri Vote Jan 14
County Clerk J H Green received official forms from Secretary of State James C Kirkpatrick to print ballots for a special constitutional amendments election set for January 14. The packet included the ballot form certification and recommendations for printing war ballots and envelopes. Three amendments will be on the ballot with key focus on the reapportionment of the state legislature.
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J. H. Green
Secretary of State
James C. Kirkpatrick
Indian Troops Kill Forty on Kashmir Cease Fire Line
A Pakistani government spokesman said Thursday that forty Indian troops were killed along the Kashmir cease-fire line in reported hostilities.
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Rawalpindi
Pakistan
Kashmir
Weather outlook with mild temps and scattered showers
Partly cloudy to cloudy with a few scattered showers Friday and Saturday. Continued mild with highs in the upper 50s to upper 60s and Friday night lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s. Lake of the Ozarks level at 56.2 feet, 3.8 feet below full reservoir, no change.
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Lake of Ozark
Sedalia Man Robbed In His Home
George Grinstead of 400 South Quincy was robbed of 700 dollars in cash by two masked men who tied his niece Marie Willis during a late evening intrusion. They waited six hours for his return, then forced him and his niece into a closet before fleeing. Police report ongoing investigation.
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Sedalia
George Grinstead
South Quincey
Grinstead
Marie Willis
Sedalia Film Draws 600 For Public Showing
A 25 minute color film Sedalia The American City was shown at the Fox Theater to about 600 attendees. Produced by the Chamber of Commerce it aims to attract new industry and will be offered to local groups and industrial prospects. Five prints will be produced with two kept by the chamber and three sent to Missouri Pacific Railroad industry development unit, Missouri Division of Commerce and Industrial Development, and Sedalia's Industrial Development Department.
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Sedalia
Fox Theater
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Missouri-Pacific Railroad
Industrial Development Department
Missouri Division of Commerce and Industrial
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