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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1973
Page
1
Missouri weather outlook shows showers tonight through Sunday with highs in the 60s and 70s. City reports include river stage notes, hospital admissions and dismissals, marriage license application, and public safety summaries from Mexico and surrounding counties.
The Senate Appropriations Committee backed a bill totaling 872 million dollars for college student aid. The House already passed it and a floor vote could occur next week. The measure leaves Nixon admin funding unchanged for overall student aid but reworks some grain fund allocations. A separate note says Rev James Mohan of Immaculate Conception Church Montgomery City gains a health leave.
Records show the Nixon re election committee funded 55 flights totaling 149 291 on presidential aircraft. Church white house withheld passenger names and many flight details citing personal nature and executive privilege. GAO summary notes 135 trips by Andrews AFB planes with 23 paid by campaign and 32 by committee to re elect the president.
The IRS reports record federal income tax refunds with over 10.9 billion mailed to 31.8 million taxpayers by April 4. The average refund stands at 345.47, up from 251.34 a year ago, driven by changed withholding tables that reduced under withholding but caused some refunds to rise due to over withholding.
Louisiana reports apple crop spared as freezing temps mostly missed key counties. Leslie Burnett Jr. of Head Orchards cites that trees withstand 21 to 22 degrees above zero given current growth stage. Records show Stark Bros Nursery logged 25 degrees Monday night and 22 degrees Tuesday.
AP reports Chiang Kai-shek did not meet South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu during Thieu’s three day Taiwan visit. Thieu’s party expected a meeting, with officials only later discounting it. Indications emerged as Thieu arrived and faced itinerary confusion.
Morris Street between Breckenridge and Liberty Street will close late this afternoon for sewer work in the West Underpass Urban Renewal Area. Columbia Curb and Gutter crews started work this week, laying sewer pipe and removing trees as part of sanitary sewer improvements in right of way, with completion planned before grading and paving. Crews are working Saturdays to makeup for days lost to rain.
Newport Tenn AP report on the Holiness Church of God in Jesus Name where two ministers died after drinking strychnine during services. The pastor said some members will test faith with fire using a blowtorch on faces and arms of those anointed, despite deaths of Rev. Jimmy Ray Williams and Rev. Buford Pack.
Poplar Bluff Missouri population 16600 earned an All America Cities award for 1972 from the National Municipal League and Saturday Evening Post. The designation honors citizen action and civic leadership. The city was cited for a charter change senior citizen housing a recreation program and an industrial park project.
Mexico High School announces a Monday night meeting for sophomores juniors and their parents to discuss next year s curriculum and enrollment procedures. The session begins at 7 30 PM in the MHS auditorium with school officials urging broad parent attendance.
Mr and Mrs Ronald Orcutt of Vandalia welcomed a seven and a half pound son named Joseph Dale at 10 a.m. yesterday in St Elizabeths Hospital Hannibal. The baby has a 21 month old brother Ronald Lewis II. Grandparents are Floyd Orcutt of Benton City and Dale Harrison of St James. Mr Orcutt works at C and E Brick Plant Vandalia.
The Mexico Optimists Club breakfast featured William B. Lowe urging renewed personal responsibility to solve national problems. Lowe, CEO of A. P. Green Refractories and U. S. Chamber of Commerce president, said service clubs unite people for common goals and called for a re-dedication of purpose. President David Wilkinson welcomed Clark Mefford and Don Belli as new members, with guests J. C. Sisk Lawrence Epple and Bruce Moore present. An officer election will occur next Saturday along with Optimist Relays. Plans were discussed to form a new Optimist Club at Warrenton.
In a fiery crash five miles south of Carmel California a car and a gasoline truck collided head on. Two people were killed and three others injured according to the Highway Patrol. Miss Mary Koran of Ladonia has been admitted to Phillips Home.
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