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Newspaper

Mexico Ledger

Location

Mexico, Missouri, United States of America

Date

Apr 12, 1972

Page

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Muskie Aims Now At Pennsylvania

Sen Edmund S Muskie plans to focus on Pennsylvania in the next two weeks aiming for a primary victory over Humphrey and regain a spot among Democratic frontrunners. Notes Massachusetts plan limited time and a perceived disarray in Muskie’s Boston operation.

Associated Press Edmund S. Muskie Pennsylvania Hubert H. Humphrey Muskie Massachusetts Maine George McGovern McGovern Ohio South Dakota Humphrey Robert McAlister Columbus Michigan Boston Democratic Party Logan Anthony Podesta Alabama George C. Wallace Henry M. Jackson Northeast New Democratic Coalition NDC Lawrence F. O’brien National Platform Committee Richard Neustadt Chisholm Shirley Chisholm D-N.y Ann Arbor Mich

Saddlebred Pleasure Horse Club Elects Officers

The Missouri Saddlebred Pleasure Horse Assn organized here to promote the breed elected Jimmy Simmons as president last night. Officers include Vice president Gene Potter secretary Tom Usnick treasurer Bob Napier. Directors are Mrs. Bob Herrin Mrs. Tom Usnick Bill Winterbower and Kim Murphy. The club will meet on May 9 at a public meeting place to be announced. Membership is open to area enthusiasts.

Not Cloudy Just Smoky Weather Report Shocks City

The National Weather Service in Chattanooga Tennessee announced a shift from standard terms to a plain "smoke" condition for 5 p.m. readings. The notice reflects an unusual metro area air quality event with no other descriptors.

Chattanooga Tenn. Cap National Weather Service the Weather Service

Soldiers balk at forward position assignment in Vietnam

About 100 American soldiers hesitated to man a forward defense posi tion calling it too dangerous. After officers spoke with them the men complied and carried out the order. They had been moved Tuesday from Da Nang to bolster U S installations facing threat from the North Vietnamese offensive.

Phu Bai Vietnam da Nang U.S

Book Awards Award Eleanor And Franklin Tops List

New York AP The National Book Committee announced winners across ten categories for works published in the prior year. Flannery O Connor won fiction posthumously for The Complete Stories while Alan Nevins earned the history prize for The War for the Union volumes.

New York Flannery O'Connor Joseph P. Lash Eleanor and Franklin John C. Franz National Book Committee South Allan Nevins Columbia University Howard Moss Frank O’hara Moss Charles Rosen George L. Small America Martin E. Marty University of Chicago Jacques Monod Austryn Wainhouse Donald Barthelme

Victim's Mother On Jury Halts Armendariz Trial

In Odessa Texas the trial of Richard S Armendariz 19 for assault to murder ended in mistrial after a juror revealed she is the victim’s mother Mrs Billy M Henderson. Judge R L McKim ordered a new trial date for May 15 as prosecutors pursue the stabbing case against Jeffrey Henderson 18 from February.

Odessa Tex Richard S. Armendariz Dist Atty Jim Bobo Jeff Billy M. Henderson R. L. McKim Armendariz

Commodity Volunteers Honored at Audrain County Ceremony

Mrs. Daniel Schlafly, chairwoman of Missouri Volunteers Against Hunger, will speak at 1 00 p.m. Friday at St Matthew s parish hall 1100S Grove St at Boulevard recognizing Audrain County Commodity Volunteers. She will discuss the surplus commodity program s future as 104 county courts were relieved of local administration cost burdens.

Daniel Schlafly Missouri Volunteers Against Hunger Audrain County St. Matthew's Parish Hall Grove St Boulevard Schlafly Missouri Hearnes Appropriations Committee Globe-Democrat Missouri Association For Social Welfare The Human Rights Commission Public Social Service Committee Vissouri Association For Social Welfare Washington, D.C Ernest Lehto Audrain County Commodity Volunteers Homer Martin

Price Control Loopholes Criticized in St Louis Letter

A St Louis labor group condemned Phase 2 price controls for loopholes and called for a national congressional investigation. The St Louis Price and Rent Compliance Committee cited IRS enforcement failures and HELPS surveys showing varied price changes, including sharp increases in meat during Phase 2 and minimal impact on some stores. The signers, including Oscar A Ehrhardt, urged action to curb rising food prices hurting low income families.

ST. Louis Missouri Oscar A. Ehrhardt

Flushing Hydrants Begins in Mexico Missouri

Missouri Cities Water Co. officials said today they began flushing hydrants in the south part of Mexico starting in the west and moving eastward as time and weather permit.

Missouri Cities Water Co Mexico

Johnson To Texas Hospital

Former Johnson & Johnson chief exec, 63, transferred from Charlottesville Virginia to Brooke General Hospital in Texas after a heart attack. He arrived by plane at 1:55 a.m. EST, walking with doctors, wired to an ECG monitor, as wife Lady Bird Johnson joined him in a seventh floor suite. doctors say he showed steady improvement before departure.

San Antonio Tex Lyndon B. Johnson Texas Brooke Army Hospital Charlottesville Army Brooke General Hospital Virginia Johnson Charles Robb John Willis Hurst

Girl Has Four Kidneys in Cleveland Case

Theresa Johnson, a 3 year old in Cleveland, has four functioning kidneys. Doctors say the rare condition, found during treatment for a kidney infection at Grace Hospital, where she has been since March 29, is estimated to occur about once in 20,000 cases.

Cleveland, Ohio Theresa Johnson George B. Vassilakis Theresa Grace Hospital

Holifield and ITT deny $500 payoff allegations

Rep. Chet Holifield and ITT denied columnist Jack Anderson’s charge that Holifield accepted a $500 payoff to help ITT win a 1968 airfield equipment contract. ITT also disputed the claim, saying it did not receive the sought contract and had merely briefed California lawmakers on the proposal.

Washington (Ap Chet. Holifield D-Calif Jack Anderson ITT Anderson International Telephone & Telegraph Corp Robert L. Schmidt Holifield Defense Department Schmidt California

Won Oscar but Loses A Role

Gene Hackman, after winning best actor for 1971, gave laconic replies at Twentieth Century Fox. Asked what the Oscar meant, he said no. He also said winning the Oscar did not let him pick roles, noting he was turned down for a part that day.

Hollywood Gene Hackman Twentieth Century-Fox Studios Hackman

Skyjacker Gets Life In Prison

CALGARY Alta AP Paul Joseph Cini regarded as the first skyjacker to attempt to use a parachute has been sentenced to life in prison. Cini 28 was convicted on seven charges from hijacking last November of an Air Canada jet with 118 passengers across the U S border to Great Falls Montana and back to Canada. After being paid 50000 at Great Falls the masked man opened a package he said contained a parachute and the crew overpowered him.

Calgary Alta Paul Joseph Cini Cini Air Canada U.S Great Falls Mont Canada

Puppet Show Benefits Happy House in Presser Hall

A Sunday April 30 puppet show at Presser Hall will benefit Mexico's Happy House. Rod Young of New York presents Creative Puppet Theatre in a two hour 2 p.m. show titled The Pied Piper of Hamlin. Tickets cost 75 cents for children and one dollar for adults, available from Mrs. Long 581 0354 or Happy House 581 3284.

Mexico Happy House Presser Hall Rod Young New York Hudson Long Mexico Community Child Care, Inc Young MCCC Hamlin

President Nixon Receives Muscle Relaxant Treatments

President Nixon’s physician says the chief executive gets a muscle relaxant treatment from an osteopath about twice a month. Dr. Walter R. Tkach stressed the therapy is for muscle relaxation, with no backache or skeletal trouble, and that the President dislikes massage, so osteopathic manipulation is used. The osteopath is Dr. W Kenneth Riland of New York.

Washington Nixon Walter R. Tkach Tkach W. Kenneth Riland New York

Bookmobile schedule for Daniel Boone Regional Library

The Daniel Boone Regional Library releases the bookmobile timetable for April. On Tuesday April 18 it visits Sturgeon Elementary School from 9:30 to 12:00 and the Fair Lane and Rice Road area in Columbia from 3:15 to 3:45 and Boone County from 3:00 to 4:00. On Wednesday April 19 Auxvasse Community in Callaway County serves 2:45 to 3:45. On Thursday April 20 Sturgeon Community in Boone County runs 2:15 to 3:45.

Daniel Boone Regional Library Boone County Sturgeon Fair Lane Rice Road Columbia Callaway County Auxvasse

Bell paid professor $45000 for Bell work, Iowa case notes

Robert Stich, Missouri at St Louis finance professor, testified for Northwestern Bell in Iowa rate case and earned 45000 from Bell companies in 1971. He said he could not recall total fees. commission orders more disclosure as hearings adjourned to June 19 for staff rebuttal.

Des Moines, Iowa Robert Stich University of Missouri At St. Louis Northwestern Bell Telehone Co Bell Stich Iowa Commerce Commission Iowa Bell System Commission Philip Malter Northwestern Bell

St. Louis man stabbed to death at motel in Bridgeton

Jerry Murphy, 38, of St Louis County, was killed by a stab wound during an argument in a motel room around 2 15 a m. Detective William Carrol said Murphy died from the wound in the left rib cage. Police booked 52 year old Charles Richard Starlin of Powell Tennessee, a field inspector for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as a suspect in the murder.

Bridgeton Jerry Murphy St. Louis County St. Louis William Carrol Murphy Carrol Charles Richard Starlin Powell, Tenn Starlin Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tenn

Workshop Committee Plans Action

The Sheltered Workshop steering committee will meet at Garfield Community Center Sa Mexico at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday April 18 to review incorporation papers form a workshop board and discuss building needs funding manager and supervisory staff. Members include Paul Boundas Mrs M Lewis Stephenson Randall Cole Mrs Alfred Durham Lester Meine Mrs Margaret Davis Lyle Waechter and others from Mexico Montgomery City Farber Vandalia.

Garfield Community Center Sa Mexico Fred Lierheimer Paul Boundas M. Lewis Stephenson Randall Cole Alfred Durham Lester Meine Margaret Davis Lyle Waechter Mexico Bernard Black Montgomery City The Larry Crowell Farber Leona Davis Vandalia

Interior Design Course To Start In Mexico

Session one of a four part interior design short course will be held Thursday at the Mexico Methodist Church Friendship Classroom from 1 to 3 pm. Subsequent sessions on April 20 27 and May 4 follow the same time and place. Topics include house site relation selecting a plan lighting color and accessories carpet and floor coverings. Sponsored by University of Missouri Extension Division in cooperation with the local Extension Council. Instructors include state and area extension personnel. No enrollment fee. Pre enroll by calling Audrain County Extension Center at 581 3231.

Mexico Methodist Church Friendship Classroom University of Missouri Extension Division University Extension Council Audrain County Extension Center

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