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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1971
Page
1
The region faces showers next week with highs in 70s and 80s, cooler by Wednesday. Audrain Medical Center lists admitted and discharged patients including Adolphus Kyles and Arthur L Snellgrove. multiple local fire calls and minor vehicle collisions reported in Mexico and surrounding areas. Magistrate court clarification issued regarding a Joann Williams reference.
AP dispatches report South Vietnamese troops repelled a North Vietnamese commando strike on besieged Fire Base 6 as enemy forces renewed assaults on government positions in the central highlands. The Nixon administration moved to open more jobs for groups hard hit by unemployment. Retired Maj. Gen. Carl C. Turner faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to soliciting firearms from the Chicago police. Jamies R. Hoff was released from federal prison to visit a seriously ill wife. Indiana passes a law banning nearly all phosphate detergents to protect lakes and streams.
Gen Turner, once provost marshal general, faces trial on evading taxes for 1965–68 totaling $16,679 while also charged with soliciting 136 firearms from Chicago police and keeping them. Sentencing on the gun case was deferred pending a probation report. eight related charges were dismissed. Turner, 57, lives in Springfield, Va., and has a June 7 tax trial date.
Marie Denise Duvalier, 29, exec secretary to Haitian President Duvalier, may run the government as his health falters. Backed by husband Col. Max Dominique, she shares influence with brother Jean Claude, the presidential heir after a prior stroke.
The Mexico city council will meet Monday at 7 30 p m to organize take oaths elect a mayor and mayor pro tem and conduct a first reading of the 1971 72 budget May 1 1971 to April 30 1972. The agenda includes a land purchase ordinance adjacent to Central St right of way in Garfield Urban Renewal area and a resolution to extend West Underpass Urban Renewal area to include Boulevard Fairground Ave and Fairsite subdivision. First readings are planned for a re subdivision of three lots in Quisenberry Park in West Underpass area and a tax assessments deletion.
At A Glance Gov Warren Be Hearnes appoints Leland W Negaard Eminence Democrat as Shawin County prosecuting attorney replacing Winston V Buford who resigned. In Chattanooga Glenn Sherley the songwriter singer Johnny Cash discovered in Folsom Prison is to debut as a free man tonight.
Richard E Bottger 77 a Paris businessman and longtime County Gas Company partner died at 1 15 a m Friday in a Fulton hospital He was born July 25 1893 in St Louis and married Lorna Conley in 1941 He was an honorary colonel named by Governor Warren E Hearnes a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers He is survived by his wife two sisters a brother and a son Funeral services set for Monday 10 a m at St Frances Cabrini Catholic Church Paris burial in Walnut Grove Cemetery
Cecil K. McCann, 76, of Vandalia, died this morning at Ellis Fischel Hospital in Columbia. Funeral services are pending at Waters funeral home. A retired brick plant worker, he is survived by his wife Lucy and one son Francis D. McCann of Vandalia.
Mrs. Cora M. Uthlaut, 87, died Friday at Hermann Area Hospital. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Toedtmann-Grosse Funeral Home in Hermann, with burial in St. James Cemetery, Big Springs. Born June 24, 1883 in Warren County, she married Ernest Uthlaut on April 3, 1907 and was a member of the United Church of Christ. She is survived by son Ralph Uthlaut Sr. of New Florence, four grandchildren including State Representative Ralph Uthlaut Jr., and 12 great grandchildren.
Nathan Lee Robertson says a Mountain Mission store delayed delivery of his $4 stove, so he dragged the secondhand range 20 miles from Charleston to Sod through West Virginia mountains. Residents near Alum Creek expect he will reach home tonight with help from locals.
The Defense Department reviews or discards Pentagon public affairs efforts shown in CBS The Selling of the Pentagon. Deputy Asst Secretary Jer ry Friedheim says speeches films combat demonstrations and displays are being reassessed. CBS will air an hour long follow up April 18.
The NAACP Los Angeles chapter objects to a white stunt man painted black for a scene in Warner Bros The Skin Man saying no Negro was used for the stunt. Warner Bros cites inability to find a black stunt man for the downhill wagon scene involving Lou Gossett.
In Los Angeles area suburb CA noga Park the Emerson Unitarian church begins a child focused sex education program for ages 3 to 11 with eight weekly Sunday classes. Rev. Robert F. Kaufmann says questions will be answered with age appropriate instruction using explicit terms to demystify sex while avoiding sensational framing.
The State Department warned five American oil companies Gulf Oil Caltex Amoco Clinton Oil Co of New York and Oceanic Exploration Co of Denver not to explore near the Senkaku Islands amid competing claims by China Taiwan and Japan. Press officer Charles Bray said the advisory sought to avoid incidents and protect American lives. Most firms were chartered by the Taiwan government for exploration.
Emotional problems from the Feb 9 quake in the San Fernando Valley worsen due to continuing aftershocks. More than 300 aftershocks have been felt. a March 31 aftershock injured six and damaged 300 buildings. Psychiatrists say aftershocks renew fear, affecting children and families seeking therapy in Van Nuys and beyond.
ABC granted the Democrats a half hour of prime time to answer President Nixon's Indochina speech after Lawrence O'Brien demanded equal time under FCC fairness rules. The move follows Dole promising an FCC appeal. networks had not yet replied.
A caller claiming to lead a vigilante group says he and about a dozen friends cut a 7 by 14 foot billboard near Interstate 75 in southern Michigan. He says 80 billboards have been sawed down this year and that the crew also relocates junked cars as part of their campaign.
In St Louis federal court Ozark Air Lines faces a dissident stockholders group seeking control. Judge William Webster set briefs due Monday on suits about company management and access to the shareholder list ahead of the May 21 annual meeting. The dissidents aim to mount a proxy fight and nominate directors while Ozark countersued to block non-nominee voting and obtain the 20 000 plus shareholder list.
James R. Hoffa, released from Lewisburg prison for a personal emergency furlough, traveled to San Francisco to be with his wife Josephine Hoffa who is seriously ill with a heart condition. Doctors say her condition improved during his visit.
Gov. George C. Wallace aide Billy Joe Camp says he bypassed Army delays to secure a Wallace visit with Lt. William L. Calley Jr. at Ft. Benning after threatening to release the story to the media. The My Lai officer faced murder convictions for the 1968 killings.
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