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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1973
Page
1
President Nixon is favored to sustain a veto on a 2.6 billion three year extension of vocational rehabilitation programs for the disabled. Senate leaders are optimistic about a two thirds override, while House Republicans say they are hopeful to support the veto.
Audrain County Porkettes announce distribution of information sheets at all county grocery stores over Thursday and Friday. The sheets urge meat in menus, explain balanced meals, nutrition needs, meat’s role, and compare costs and consumption with other nations.
The United States signaled it may refuse a visa to Viet Cong observer Nuyen Van Ting to the United Nations. Deputy U.S. Representative Christopher Phillips said Washington is not obliged to grant visas to visitors to the UN. Phillips pressed Secretary-General Waldheim to reject the Viet Cong's appointment, while State Department officials cautioned it was too soon to decide on visa issuance.
The Rev. J. C. Montgomery of Mexico United Methodist Church will be guest minister Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. Paul CME Church. Guest soloists and a meditation will end with refreshments and fellowship as part of Lenten observance led by Pastor Rev. C. A. Trotter.
Mr and Mrs William Allen welcomed a daughter named Raye Lynn born Saturday at 11 28 p m at Audrain Medical Center The couple already has children Russ Ann and Roger and this adds to the family in Mexico Missouri
Four healthy young men in San Francisco receive 100 dollars weekly to lie flat for nine months as part of a spaceflight bone health study. Dr. Stephen Hulley oversees the project funded by NASA, testing calcium and phosphate supplements with a control group. Two volunteers are jobless locals, two are inmates at Safford federal prison.
The Senate Watergate investigations committee will stop secret sessions with James W. McCord Jr. and move to open hearings within 10 to 14 days. The panel may rely on staff interviews, while signaling no private sessions with other witnesses.
The Veterans Administration said on Monday it will not recover $10,000 life insurance payments made to families of five POWs declared dead. VA director Thomas Kiernan noted most recipients likely spent the funds, and the decision involves the insurers and VA settling not to pursue reimbursement.
U S warplanes including every available B52 in Southeast Asia conducted heavy raids on Cambodia at night as part of Nixon's effort to force a cease fire. Sources estimate about 120 B52s, potentially 3600 tons of bombs, with some bombers supporting Cambodian troops on the Khmer Rouge plateau near Phnom Penh.
Missouri Governor Christopher Bond, the nation’s youngest governor at 33, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Westminster College in a ceremony April 6 at the Christopher Wren Church of St Mary Aldermanbury on the Westminster campus. He will be guest speaker at an Independent Colleges and Universities of Missouri luncheon during a day-long I.C.U.M. meeting.
Evangelist Billy Graham says his remark in South Africa that rapists should be castrated was offhand and regretted almost immediately. He explained at a Johannesburg news conference that he meant to correct it before the conference ended but was side tracked. Graham had just finished a 10 day South Africa visit where he preached at the largest racially integrated rally there.
Missouri Military Academy Fusileers win top honors at the University of Illinois drill invitational. The team takes first in standard and exhibition drills, with cadets Bob Epple and Eliseo Nieto earning notable places. Major Mortenson led the trip to Champaign, Illinois. The unit, 24 strong, also served as Missouri’s official drill group at Nixon’s inaugural parade.
Missouri Governor Bond fired five Bi-State Development Agency commissioners and named three replacements. He cited loss of public confidence and a failure to present a long term plan as the reasons. New nominees include Edwin Meissner Jr., Mayor John Brawley, and Macier Shephard. Senate confirmation is pending.
A Lithuanian court sentenced four Jehovahs Witnesses to five years in labor camps and several others to lesser terms for forming an underground group, printing anti Soviet literature, and urging disobedience. Sovetskaya Litva reported leadership linked to Brooklyn headquarters and described organized secret networks across Lithuania Latvia and regions around Leningrad and Kaliningrad.
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