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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1972
Page
3
New York AP reports a favorable view across buyers, sellers, and lenders in the current housing market. A UMich survey finds 49 percent deem it a good time to buy, builders anticipate record starts, and lenders offer generous terms including 95 percent mortgages up to $30,000.
A new home on Providence Rd in northwest Mexico is among building permits issued by city inspector Taylor Sewell. The project for Bill Rittman Construction Co covers 1802 Providence Rd at an estimated cost of 20000, with numerous other permits for razing roofing remodeling and land transfers listed in the week’s notices.
City clerk announces new license to B and B Heating Co at 1020 Wilmar for heating and air conditioning and kitchen cabinet installation. In Audrain County, February sales of U S Savings Bonds reach 56,420 this year totaling 910,709 or 17 percent of the 1974 goal.
J Carson Dowell of Vandalia, president of Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. Cumberland MD, attended a White House NAB reception hosted by President Nixon. Dowell chairs the Cumberland Metro NAB area spanning multiple MD and WV counties. The area reported 842 pledged jobs for disadvantaged persons and veterans, exceeding its goal by 211 percent.
CENTRALIA A pair of Monroe County residents won promotions at A B Chance Co last week. Pat Kelly Route 1 Paris promoted to wrench assembly operator and Richard Legrand Route 3 Madison promoted to Epoxiglas machine operator. Both are graduates of Paris high school. Kelly joined Chance in October 1966 and works in the Allen Street factory. Legrand a plastics factory employee has worked for the company since February 1970.
John Cole is appointed American Family Insurance agent in Mexico with wife Mrs. Cole. The couple relocated from Chamois and rent at 634 W Robinson St. He served 23 years at Fuller Brush Co. and she works at Jefferson City State Employment Security office. They attend Baptist Church and are active in White Shrine and Eastern Star. He belongs to Masonic and Moose Lodges and has bought land on Highway 15 with plans to build a new home.
Mexico now has more than 9,964 phones, up from 9,796 on Jan 1 1971, surpassing Nepal and Rwanda. The United States leads with 120.2 million phones, about five times Japan’s 26.2 million. Average daily conversations per person in the U.S. total about 2.1, or 779 annually.
Audrain and county figures show February sales at 13.2 million and year to date 28.8 million, about 9 percent of the Missouri quota as Donald W. Douglas Jr states sales rise while redemptions fall. Century State Bank in Columbia gains state approval to open as the area’s fifth bank with 1 million capital and directors named.
Kermit F. Head, manager of the Missouri Farmers Association soybean processing plant, has been named to a vegetable oil marketing team by Secretary Earl L. Butz. He will visit government and industry leaders in Latin America to discuss marketing problems for U.S. vegetable oils. Other members include George Wanamaker of U.S.&S.
Foreign Agricultural Service official Clarence Goldsborough and U S Export Marketing Service head Theodore W W Bean with Quincy Soybean Co president address export marketing strides in Quincy. The remarks highlight cooperative efforts to expand soybean sales abroad.
Forest T. Noel of Missouri Livestock Market Center, Inc., joins 19 other leaders of the nation’s livestock marketing industry for a Kansas City meeting of the Competitive Livestock Marketing Association executive committee.
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