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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1974
Page
9
Official 7:00 a.m readings show last 24 hours high 44 low 34 with 36 at 7 a.m. Saturday forecast clears and cools with frost risk. Tuesday mostly sunny with highs 60s. Missouri river and lake stage updates list several locations with readings and flood standings. admissions include many local names and ages, plus two births and multiple deaths reported.
The Mexico area reports a broken blue stained glass pane at the Mexico United Methodist Church with repairs to be ordered. several other break ins and a car crash with minor damage are noted. A high speed chase ends with Charles Fox charged with DUI and leaving the scene. Missouri Livestock Market Center lists hog and feeder pig price shifts, and National Stockyards includes cattle and hog receipts and prices. Grain bids in Chicago show mixed movements with corn futures rising early while wheat and soybeans vary.
AP dispatches from Niamey say Lt. Col. Seyni Kountche has seized control of Niger. Niger, a landlocked West African state, has been under President Hamani Diori since 1960, with a population under five million. Radio reports described the military may have dissolved the government.
In Guin Alabama five year old Marcy Rayburn finds sleep again after a field of Easter eggs. Army Reserve funded field hosted hundreds of children scrambling about a thousand eggs easing trauma from the April 3 tornado that killed 17 in the town. Rescue and relief continue as Corning New York volunteers help with cleanup and recall aid received after Hurricane Agnes.
Page five summary for Mexico Missouri Ledger edition dated Monday April 15 1974. Notes cover local news events, community notices, and brief items from town of Mexico. Contains standard local reporting and social notes typical of community newspaper pages.
In New York the stock market showed small gains with subdued activity. The noon Dow Jones 30 industrials rose 1.72 to 846.53 as advances led declines about 7 to 4 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Kissinger outlines U S aid to boost farming tech increasing to 675 million this year and backs a World Food Conference. He calls for an International Fertilizer Institute, shared science, birth control advances, and guidelines to handle weather shifts. He urges open trade, reform of monetary systems, and continued aid to the developing world.
The article notes unresolved tax reform plans as health care reform moves up the agenda. Mills hints at a limited tax bill with hopes for a broader general revision next Congress. Albert pushes campaign finance reform while the Senate approves public financing, though the House resists, with hearings underway and calls to boost jobs and small business credit.
Mrs. Edna Tippett 61 of Vandalia died Saturday from a heart attack suffered as a Boone County Hospital patient in Columbia. Funeral services set for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Waters Funeral Home with Rev. Ollie Trout officiating. Burial in Vandalia Cemetery. Born January 25, 1893 in Montgomery County to R. L. and Sarah H. Stone. Married C. C. Tippett September 25, 1933 in New London. he died January 1, 1959. Survivor: sister Eva Stone Shuck of Vandalia.
Herbert E. Matthews 63 of Columbia died 9:45 a m Saturday at Veterans Hospital in Columbia after three weeks as patient Graveside services set for 2 p m Tuesday at Mt Gilead Cemetery near Fayette Rev John Blass of Mexico will officiate Readers may visit Arnold funeral home until service time He retired from the Navy in 1967 after 40 years of service Survivors include son Stephen A Matthews Albuquerque NM daughter Sharon M Cooper Albuquerque NM sisters Alice Hobson Columbia Helen T Prtym an Spring Lake Mich Gladys Baldwin Toledo Ohio and three grandchildren One son and two sisters preceded him in death
Services for Dennis C Miller 30 of Greenville Texas were held at 1130 a m Saturday at Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park Funeral Home Dallas. Burial followed at Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery Dallas. He died suddenly at Baylor Medical Center Dallas after four days ill from a massive rare infection. He was a computer systems analyst and had recently returned from three years with the Federal Republic of Germany. He married Karen Whitaker November 25 1962 and leaves a son Stephen Craig Miller five. a sister Marilyn Miller of Tyler. and his parents Henry E and Theda Mae Miller of Tyler. He held degrees in mathematics and engineering from Southwest Missouri State University. Hence memorials may go to Stephen C Miller educational trust at Citizens National Bank Greenville Texas.
Floyd Nathan Cone father of Rev. D. Randall Cone died Sunday morning at an Independence Iowa Hospital. He recently moved from Farber to Odessa. Funeral services set for 11 am Wednesday in Independence with memorials to the First Presbyterian Church in Independence.
In a trial Hofgren, now an investment banker, testified Mitchell told him to stay away from Vesco. Mitchell recalled little about Hofgren that night, saying he arrived late to a Washington Hilton dinner where most guests milled about in a nearly empty lobby. He stated Hofgren did not work in his campaign area and he would have given no such instruction.
Word arrives that Peggy Baker Walstrom wife of Joe Davis Walstrom died after a long illness in Guadalajara Mexico where the couple have resided since his retirement from the U S State Department Mr Walstrom served in the diplomatic service since 1930 The couple married June 28 1940
Following Bond’s election to Missouri governor, markers will be installed at multiple access points into Mexico. The signs on U S Highway 54 south, State Highways 22 West and 15 North, Highway 1 North, and the new one on Highway 54 East near the Mexico Country Club will be on private or city property. The markers, visible at night due to luminous materials, are part of the Community Wide Betterment Program by the Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce.
Washington AP The Cost of Living Council is set to announce the removal of wage and price controls from the retail food sector, a final major industry under the program. Officials declined to forecast consumer price changes, noting wholesale commodity prices have fallen recently and profit margin controls had kept prices on frozen and canned fruits and vegetables lower.
Audrain County Cancer Society starts a residential drive in Mexico with 435 volunteers targeting 4,280 homes this week. County goal is 13,500 dollars, part of a campaign to raise funds and educate on annual checkups and leukemia, with free breast exams info from the Columbia center.
Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts says he supports granting immunity to President Nixon from Watergate related charges if Nixon agrees to resign. The stance frames immunity as contingent on resignation and reflects a statewide debate on accountability and executive protection.
Tree seedlings pond bundles and other wildlife plantings ordered last fall through the extension center arrived today from the Missouri Conservation Department. Bundles are delivered to the usual place on the north side of the courthouse for pickup by applicants.
Insurgent gunners fired six rockets into Phnom Penh southern suburbs, killing one and wounding five as clashes spill toward government outposts eight miles south of the capital. Rebels moved artillery into the region, with fighting around Ondong and a beacon at Tonle Sap.
Tommy Sands, 36, and Sheila Wallace, 24, married at Kawaiahao Church in Honolulu. It is Sands second marriage and Wallace has two children. The singer, making a comeback in Waikiki venues, last top recording was in 1966 and he starred in The Violent Ones in 1967. They will live in Honolulu.
Easter is celebrated by Roman Catholics Protestants and Orthodox in Jerusalem and Rome where Pope Paul VI urged duty service and sacrifice. About 250000 gathered at St Peter's and 200 million watched on TV as the pope warned against hedonism and illusion.
Lightning struck the George Shorty Melson residence on Route 1 about three miles north of Mexico city limits Saturday night. The kitchen was gutted and smoke damaged the house as flames spread through walls. Rural Fire Association arrived in about seven minutes and the barn is insured.
A fire gutted the Texas Aircraft Exchange office at Mexico Airport's south end Saturday evening likely from a cigarette dropped among papers. Ray Hagan, owner, credited Mexico Fire Department for quick containment. no structural damage, partial insurance coverage. John Donaldson was unavailable. his father Rev. Ivan Donaldson praised the responders.
Jefferson City AP More than 200 inmates in Missouri have been furloughed since 1972 averaging three days each. About 174 inmates have received furloughs with some returning more than once. Most stayed within state, rarely beyond three days. Of 1974 furloughed, only one failed to return and one was arrested for public intoxication.
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