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What Candidates Said Candidates for the city council last night answered questions from the Mexico-Audrain County League of Women Voters- and some more questions from viewers watching Channel 12 See Tv. Walter Duffen, one of the six candidates, was unable to appear due to scheduled work, and his answers to the LWV questions were read by Mrs. Sam. Vaughn of the League. Mrs.

Jim Inlow was moderator. Here is what the candidates in Tuesday's primary election said in reply to the LWV questions: 1) What experience, training and-or education do you have that you feel qualifles you for the city council? Mr. Tolson: I have served on the city council for three years; have had eight years of experience as a school administrator and counselor. I am a member of the Independent Voters Association and a member of 14 professional, civic and service organizations. I received B.S.

and M.S. degrees and have more than 20 hours of post graduate work. I have worked with youth and senior citizens on the local, state and national levels. Mr. Ziegler: I have had 10 years experience in municipal engineering, 2 years in insurance sales, and more than 2 years experience as store engineer for.

Wetterau Foods Inc. I atended the Mexico Public Schools and Kirksville State University, The experience with the city gave me an opportunity to acquaint myself with the total realm of municipal government; and know first hand the challenges, goals, needs, functions, and history of the City of Mexico. The years I was in insurance sales gave me an opportunity to meet hundreds of Mexico families on a one-to-one basis, and to communicate effectively with them. Since January, 1971, I have been in Store Development and Store Equipment sales for Wetterau, this requires coordination of many people and also permits contacts with other city. governments.

I am continually taking vocational training programs and attending job related seminars presently I am taking a Company Management Program, and the Dale Carnegie Course in Columbia. Mr. Griffin: Being born in Mexico and educated in Mexico Public Schools has given me an insight to problems that arise in this city. I have lived in larger cities and have experienced some of the problems that Mexico will have during its growth. Growth brings about changes, and I feel that I have the age and experience necessary to study the changes required and make a decision that will suit the people of the city.

Mr. Merritt: I have had over -seven years experience working for the City of Mexico as Fire Chief. During that time I had to work with all the various departments of the City, I believe with this background I could be useful in helping solve some of the problems that might come up in City Government. Mrs. Olson: I have become knowledgeable in state, county and local politics through my long association with the League of Women Voters.

My position as president and member of the board of directors has afforded me personal communication with elected officials at many levels of government. Through my work with this organization I was involved in a study of the need for a vocational technical school for this area. This committee spearheaded and actively supported our present Area Vocational Technical School. I was a member of the executive committee that organized the Association for Mental Health in Mexico and went on to support and help develop our Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center. I served as a member of the Mexico Park Board for six years.

At that time, with the help of the Jaycees, the Recreation Commission and the citizens of Mexico, we built the two swimming pools. I have been on many committees; among them a committee to study new avenues of revenue for Mexico, a committee to support the bond issue for the sewage treatment plant and a committee to support the east underpass. I feel all the above-mentioned experiences have given me an insight into the needs of the citizens of Mexico and an awareness of our financial limitations. I have a BA degree in sociology and psychology and have done graduate work that has qualified me for a life certificate as a teacher in all areas of social studies and English at the junior high and high school levels. I now teach English and sociology in the Mexico High School.

Mr. Duffen: I am a lifelong resident of Mexico and graduated from Mexico High School in 1961. I have completed 96 hours of college credit at Northwest Missouri State College in Maryville, Missouri. I have no special training or experience that qualifies me for the Council, but feel that having lived in Mexico for 29 years that I can represent the people of my community as to their needs and wants. 4) Do you or do you not support our present council-manager form of government and why? Mr.

Tolson: Yes, I support it because it is very important, in these conplex times, for the business of a city to be in the hands of a full time professional manager. Mr. -I support our present CouncilManager form of government. I believe our form of government lends itself to the greatest amount of professionalism and proficiency. Even our local government is big business and must be operated in like manner.

Mr. Griffin: Yes, I support this form of government. I feel that this form better serves the people. The election is non-partisan and the elected officials are not required to vote one way, the party way, If problems arise, the voter can bring the problem to one councilman and feel certain that it will be acted upon. If this same voter had to go out and gather enough votes to act upon his problem, such as with a mayor-alderman form of government, then the problem would be compounded.

Mr. Merritt: While fire chief of Mexico I worked under the -council form of government and under the council -manager form of government. I personally believe the council-manager form is best. The city manager is a trained professional and you need someone with training to run the city efficiently. Mrs.

Olson: I definitely support our councilmanager form of government. With the many financial, ecological and physical problems that arise in running a municipality the size of Mexico, and with the many federal and state controls and (Continued on Page 5) 10 PAGES CLEARING AND COLD Mexico Ledger Mexico, Saturday, March 17, 1973 Phone 581-1111-119th Year No. 65-Ten Cents I Cambodian Bombs PHONE JU-1 6666 Miss President UP FOR ELECTION- City council candidates to be voted on Tuesday appeared on Channel 12 See Tv last night for an 80-minute question and answer session moderated by Mrs. Jim Inlow at left. Candidates are, left to right, Herman Tolson, Tom Merritt, Mrs.

Ruth Olson, H. E. (Gene) Ziegler, and James W. Griffin. Mrs.

Sam. Vaughn sat in to read answers of Walter Duffen, unable to attend. (Ledger Photo by Richard Vance). Cong Pledges All Of PWs SAIGON (AP) The Viet Cong pledged today that the last group of American war prisoners would be freed by the cease-fire agreement's March 28 deadline and challenged President Nixon's remarks about major Communist infiltration of South Vietnam as groundless. Meanwhile, North Vietnam said the infiltration charge was a "U.S..

fabrication." Hanoi's. Communist party newspaper, Nhan Dan, also denounced as "brazen and arrogant intimidation" Nixon's implied threat of possible U.S. actions if the infiltration continues. In Saigon at the Communists' first formal news conference, Lt. Gen.

Tran Van Tra, the chief Viet Cong delegate to the Joint Military Commission, was asked when the fourth and last phase of American prisoner releases would begin. "As we have said we will abide strictly by the agreement, and the releases will be carried out," Tra replied. The United States has halted troop withdrawals from Vietnam for the third time since the Mrs. George Dawson Dies Rites Monday Mrs. George N.

Dawson, 78, 615 Quisenberry St. died at 9 p.m. Friday at the Audrain Medical Center following an extended illness. Funeral services will be Monday at 3 p.m. at Arnold funeral home.

Officiating will be the Rev. J. C. Montgomery, pastor of the Mexico United Methodist Church, and the Rev. James Edward Maddox, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Whitehouse, N.J., a grandson.

Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Daughter of Andrew H. and Amanda Jane Jeffries Whanger, Mrs. Dawson, the former Adah P. Whanger, was born in Mokane on April 12, 1894.

In Columbia on Sept. 30, 1917, she was married to Mr. Dawson, who survives at the home. A member of the Mexico United Methodist Church where she had been active in the Woman's Society of Christian Service, Mrs. Dawson was also a member of the Fidelity Circle of The King's Daughters and Sons.

Surviving with her husband are four daughters, Mrs. J. W. (Joan) Maddox of Greensborough, N.C., Mrs. James (Jane) Fike Sr.

of Moberly, Mrs. Joyce Winn of Salina, Kan. and Mrs. T. A.

(Page) Piper of Mexico. Nine other grandchildren, James A. Fike of St. Louis, Mrs. Verle (Sue) Hugenot of Centralia, and Larry N.

Fike, Pam Piper, Lyn Piper, Andy Piper, Nancy Piper and Elizabeth Piper of Mexico, also survive with seven greatgrandchildren. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Sunday. cease-fire began, with about 6,300 Americans still in South Vietnam, and has said it would not resume them until it received the list of the last group of American prisoners to be released and the date. More PW Flights Sunday And Monday CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines (AP) Sixty happy American prisoners of war left Clark Air Base for.

home today, and plans were being made for the departure of more on Sunday and Monday. Three evacuation flights, carrying a total of 57 men, were scheduled to leave Sunday for Andrews Air Force Base, Air Force Base, and Travis Air Force Base, Calif. All will make refueling stops at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The POWS who left today were from a group of 108 released by North Vietnam Wednesday. They included Navy Lt.

Cmdr. John S. McCain HII, 36, son of Adm. John S. McCain former commander-in-chief of Ernest J.

Bradley Dies At 69 Ernest J. Bradley, 69, retired business man, of 1017 Ringo St. died at 4:25 a.m. Saturday at the Audrain Medical Center. Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m.

at PrechtPickering funeral home. Officiating will be the Rev. George B. Wraith, pastor of the First Christian Church. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Born in Bible Grove, Mo. on Dec. 29, 1903, Mr. Bradley was the son of Evert L. and Mina Eve Unger Bradley.

On Oct. 12, 1946, he was married to Virginia Harold, who survives at the home. Mr. Bradley was an active member of the First Christian Church where he was a deacon. Surviving with his wife are a daughter, Mrs.

William (Jeannett) Massey of St. Peters, a step-son, Jerry M. Harold of Vero Beach, three sisters, Mrs. E. R.

Acres and Mrs. George Hogan of Mexico, and Mrs. Clinton Sharp of Knoxville, and a brother, Ellis E. Bradley of Burbank, Calif. Two grandchildren also survive.

Visitation will be Sunday afternoon at the funeral home where the family will receive friends after 7 p.m. River Crests Today At St. Louis ST. LOUIS (AP) The Mississippi River was expected to crest here today at feet as its tributaries, the Missouri and Meramec, began receding following flooding of low-lying areas. U.S.

Pacific Forces who directed the war in Vietnam. McCain, whose wife Carol lives in Orange Park, flew to Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. Bobby Joe Keesee, a civilian accused of having hijacked a small chartered plane from Thailand to North Vietnam in 1970, was aboard another flight bound for March Air Force Base, Calif. The POWs departing on Sunday will include Air Force Col. a John P.

Flynn, 50, of Shalimar, the senior-ranking POW captured by the Communists, and Air Force Maj. Philip E. Smith, 38, of Roodhouse, one of two Vietnam war pilots imprisoned by China. Flynn was headed for Keesler Air Force Base, via Scott; and Smith was manifested for Scott. Officials expect several other prominent POWs at Clark's base hospital leave Monday when they complete medical and administrative procedures.

They include Special Forces Maj. Floyd J. Thompson, 39, of Hudson, the American held longest by the Communists; Philip W. Manhard, 51, of McLean, the senior U.S. diplomat captured in the war; and Navy Cmdr.

Robert J. Flynn, 36, of Colorado Springs, the second pilot released by the Chinese. Robert Flynn and Smith were shot down over Chinese territory during the Vietnam war Flynn on Aug. 21, 1967 and Smith on Sept. 20, 1965.

Both were released Thursday. Thompson, Manhard and 30 of the 82 2 POWs still at Clark were released by the Viet Cong in Hanoi Friday. All were reported in good condition. Senator And Mrs. Uthlaut Hurt In Crash BIG SPRING-State Sen.

and Mrs. Ralph Uthlaut taking the long way home because of flood water over Highway 94, escaped serious injury last night in a three-car wreck on the dangerous Highway Route intersection last night. Mrs. Uthlaut said she and her husband were going home from Jefferson City and were wearing seat belts when the cars collided. The Republican senator, who formerly was Montgomery County representative for several terms, was wearing a shoulder harness as well and was only shaken a little.

Mrs. Uthlaut said her nose was injured, and the car was demolished. The highway patrol said Benjamin Haymard and Shirley Staats of Fulton also have minor injuries. All were taken to Callaway Memorial Hospital for treatment. The patrol then took the Uthlauts home.

Usually the Uthlauts drive on Routes 94 and 19 to the farm near here, but floods closed the Missouri River bottom road. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) A Cambodian air force plane piloted by what U.S. Embassy officials described as "a flight school washout" bombed the Presidential Palace today in an apparent attempt to assassinate President Lon Nol. One bomb crashed into a barracks on the compound, and first reports said hundreds of soldiers and their dependents were killed or injured. But Lon Nol was unharmed and broadcast an appeal for calm.

The T28 trainer plane dropped three bombs and one fell into the palace compound, blasting apart the wooden racks where palace guards and many of their families lived, The bomb landed only 20 yards from Lon Nol's residence, also the seat of government, but palace sources said no one in the compound was injured. Lon Nol went on national dio after the attack and appealed to the people to remain calm. No related disturbance was reported elsewhere in Phnom Penh or in the countryside, where government soldiers are fighting sporadically against rebels. The second bomb fell a block from the compound. The third fell on the northern outskirts of the city in a sparsely populated area, U.S.

Embassy said. They reported that according to their reports the pilot was Capt. So Photra, who was expelled from T28 pilot training. for lack of progress and "disciplinary reasons." He apparently is still in the army and had the identification papers necessary to get into Pochentong Airport to take the plane. Photra may have been married to a woman from the family of the deposed chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk.

Lon Nol overthrew Sihanouk in 1970 and the prince directs an insurgent group from his exile in Peking. Photra's motives were unclear. "He flew away," said one U.S. official. "But it is not known where he went." A CHIEF COOK AND BROTH associate pastor, and Mrs.

Sullivan. WATCHERS- Corned beef and Serving today is from 11 to 2 and cabbage serving began at 11 this from 5 to 8. Despite high prices for morning at St. Brendan's school in meat, prices for the corned beef and the annual St. Patrick's Day Event.

William Sullivan manned the kettles for the boiling of the beef yesterday afternoon (cabbage went in this morning). Watching his talents as chef were Mrs. Raymond Groves, left, the Rev. Patrick Dolan, cabbage will hold at $1.75, Mrs. Groves said, and there will be a children's plate available to anyone for 75 cents featuring hot dogs, brown beans, potato chips and a brownie.

(Ledger Photo by Richard Vance.) Bonds Escape Injury In Accident AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond escaped injury Friday night when a runaway pickup truck hit his car while he was en route to a Republican party rally where he was to be the featured speaker. The governor's wife wife of his legal assistant also escaped injury. In the speech Bond endorsed the concept of special revenuesharing and also urged better coordination of state and local community development programs, which he said are not brought together at the federal level.

Bond, his wife Carolyn, and Mrs. Sally Sprague, wife of legal assistant Hugh Sprague, were en route to the dinner from the airport when a pickup truck and cattle trailer rolled from a hillside parking lot, downed a small tree, jumped two curbs, and hit the Bond car on an expressway. Texas Rangers who investigated said a dog inside the pickup may have released the emergency brake. Bond told the dinner crowd of more than 650 persons that the special revenue-sharing approach means those making decisions will be close to those being served, resulting in programs being responsive to needs. He said the present federal grant process is not flexible.

Bond said community development programs are scattered through the federal government haphazardly, with programs operated independently through layers of bureaucracy. He said mechanisms for effective coordination do not exist. ICG Goes On Computers The Illinois Central Gulf Railroad will put into operation its new computer method of communications on Monday. The first station to be cut in will be Artesia, Miss. Through this new computer method, the railroad will have a direct hookup with 14 states in which the trains travel, providing for instructions and information concerning their movement.

Through a unit of five IBM key punch machines, hooked through a leased line to a computer in Chicago, messages may be transmitted exchanging information through some 400 terminals. The ICG first began use of this computer method of communications in 1967 but it is new to this area. E. 0. Mossberger of Champaign, and R.

V. Mote, headquartered at Bloomington, data control managers, have been in Mexico this week to conduct key punch training classes at the ICG depot here. There were 23 railroad employees from Mexico and surrounding communities who attended the sessions Monday through Friday. Two sessions were held each day from 9 a.m. to p.m.

and from 7 to 11 p. mn. Today's Smile-An insurance agent said to a new client: "I want to sell you this policy. But I'm not like other insurance agents. I'm not going to scare you into buying it.

Take the policy home. Sleep on it tonight. If you wake up in the morning, give me a Almanac) KEY PUNCH TRAINING-- Twenty- Trainees (seated from left) R. L. three employees of the Illinois Cordes and Billy Brooks of Central Gulf Railroad received Louisiana and R.

G. Graham of training in the key punch operation Auxvasse, received instruction from here this week, preparatory to the E. O. Mossberger (standing left) railroad's use of this new computer and R. V.

Mote, ICG data control method of communications. managers. (Ledger Photo by Richard Vance).