Missouri Weather and Local Court Roundup
Missouri weather notes forecast fair to partly cloudy with 70s highs and 40s lows plus chances of showers. River stages across St Louis Kansas City and surrounding areas listed. Local court actions include numerous traffic fines, a number of drunkenness charges, and various civil and criminal docket items from city and circuit courts.
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Missouri
Kansas City
Lake of the Ozarks
Pomme de Terre
Stockton Dam
Table Rock
ST. Louis
Boonville
Jefferson City
Hermann
Hannibal
Uo Li
Cape Girardeau
Quincy
Questions Gunman And Is Killed In Overland Missouri
In Overland Missouri police say St Ann resident William Vernon Voss 33 approached a man with a gun to ask why he was pointing it at his car. Voss was shot once and died. Suspect William Ernest Giles 23 was arrested shortly after. Earlier Giles fired two shots through a house window nearby.
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Overland
St. Ann
William Vernon Voss
William Ernest Giles
Voss
Clayton
Giles
Sani Giles
Vous
Market dips on higher money cost after Fed rate rise
In crowded trading sessions on the NYSE and OTC markets, several stocks moved modestly with notable declines in Polaroid Avon and MGIC. The Dow fell 3.76 to 628.61 as investors priced in a percentage point hike in the discount rate while Matsushita slid on heavy volume and broad market gauges weakened.
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A.B. Chance
Commerce Bancshares
Wetterau
New York Stock Exchange
Robbie Brooks
Dresser Industries
Interco
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
Wal-Mart
New York
Federal Reserve Board
Matsushita Electric
American Stock Exchange
Amex
Syntex
NYSE
Missourian Held In Murder Investigation
Norma Lee Goins 44 of Broseley Mo is arrested in Southeast Missouri on murder and conspiracy charges tied to the death of Larry Jarrett 28 whose decomposed body was found in a Cook County forest preserve October 4 1973 Chicago detectives informed local authorities that a grand jury issued warrants for Goins and three others. Goins is held at Butler County jail in Poplar Bluff.
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Poplar Bluff
Missouri
Kennett
Clyde Hendricks
Butler County
Norma Lee Goins
Broseley
Larry Jarrett
Cook County
Ill
Missouri Highway Patrol
Chicago
Norma
Goins
Geraldine Harmon
Roland Vance
Ralph Watts
Illinois
Butler
Missouri Senate votes to reinstate death penalty
The Missouri Senate approved a death penalty bill by 25 to 7, reinstating capital punishment for crimes including rape or kidnapping resulting in murder, murder for hire, paying for murder, murder by a felon, and police officer killings on duty. Democrats for 13 and against 6, with 1 absent. list of senators voting for, against, and absent provided.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Senate
Missouri
Dane
Murr
Cason
Mary Gant
Jack Gant
Grabke
Linehan
Manford
Merrell
Schneider
Skelton
Weeding
Tinnin
Wilson
Brancato
Howard
Lee
Payne
Schechter
Waters
Bee
Few
Esely
le Yoee
Clifford Jones
Melton
Noland
Owens
Ryan
Stone
Uthlaut
Webster
Blackwell
Joynt
Mrs Pearl Esty Dies Rites Friday
Mrs Pearl Esty died at Boone County Hospital in Columbia. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Friday at Harding Funeral Home with burial in Price's Branch Cemetery. She is survived by sisters Stella Watkins Jonesburg Mary Summers Montgomery City Grace Jennings Mexico and brother Forrest Dunham Mexico. husband Ralph Esty preceded her in death.
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A Ee We Sry
Montgomery City
Boone County Hospital
Columbia
Harding Funeral Home
Price’s Branch Cemetery
Stella Watkins
Jonesburg
Mary Summers
Grace Jennings
Mexico
Forrest Dunham
Ralph Esty
Governor Appointees Confirmed for State Boards and Councils
The Senate Gubernatorial Appointments Committee gave favorable recommendations Wednesday for twenty one of Governor Christopher S Bond’s appointments. Recipients include Donald Nordmeyer to the Advisory Council on Mental Retardation and Dr Robert Hertzog to the Missouri Veterinary Medical Board, among others across veteran affairs human rights housing and vocational education.
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Jefferson City
Christopher S. Bond
Senate
Donald Nordmeyer
Robert E. Hertzog
Lee's Summit
Missouri Veterinary Medical Board
Frank Nesselhaus Jr
St. Louis
Advisory Council On
Veteran Affairs
Jerry Redfern
Springfield
Jack Cornett
Neosho
Mlus W. Davis
Kansas City
Ava
State Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Charles Bailey
Eldon
Missouri Advisory Council On
George Naylor
Flourisant
Rosemary Wilcox
Trenton
Governor’s Advisory Council
Betty Sue Crow
Licking
State Board of Cosmetology
Elmer H. Behrmann
Governor’s Advisory
Donald M. Cox
Buell A. Baclesse
Advisory Council
Ford W. Hughes
St. James
Missouri Commission On Human Rights
Worthen DeYoung
Independence
Missouri Housing Developemnt Commission
Richard L. Matt
Merrill Lindt
Lisbon Mutiny Seizes Radio Stations During Center-Stage Uprising
Rebels led by young officers moved pre dawn to seize Emissora Nacional and Radio Clube Portugues studios in Lisbon and broadcast calls for calm while urging troops to avoid bloodshed. Reports tied the movement to 29 regiments and to Gen Spinola, with broader threats to Caetano’s regime and Africa policy.
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Lisbon
Emissora Nacional
Portuguese Radio and Television
Radio Clube Portugues
Tagus River
Radio Clube
Portugal
London
Antonio Spinola
Spinola
Caetano
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Americo Thomas
Francisco Costa E Gomes
Africa
Europe
Angola
Mozambique
Portuguese Guinea
Road tax vote passes in South Wilson Hazel districts
Voters in South Wilson and Hazel Special Road Districts approved a 35 cent tax per 100 valuation for four to eight years. South Wilson had three voters all for the measure. Hazel had 24 for and two against. In Hannibal Missouri a 29 year old woman, Marjorie McCormick, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to seven years for fatally shooting Chester Rickey last November 8, with testimony claiming the revolver went off when struck.
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Robert Bryan
Gary Eugene Pease
James L. Shaw Jr
Charles Walter Fox
Marvin Ray Soey
Circuit Court
Great Central Lumber Co
Carl Jeffries
Jeffries Construction Co
Charles G
Joan A. Woods
G. Andy Runge
Commerce Bank
Phyllis Schulte
Edward Eugene Schulte
N. M
Missouri
Arthur Donald Staab
Jonesburg
Missouri Livestock Market Center
Dept. of Agr
MNS
Roger Parker
National
Ill
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
South Wilson
Hazel Special Road
Hazel
Hannibal, Mo
Hannibal
Marjorie McCormick
Pike incumbents still unopposed on August primary ballot
Eight days before the April 30 filing deadline for county and state offices, incumbents have filed for nine county offices on the August primary ballot. If no other candidate files, all incumbents may be reelected without opposition unless a write-in campaign succeeds.
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Bowling Green
Grand Jury Indicts Former Crawford County Prosecutor Dent
A Crawford County grand jury indicted Larry Dent, former county prosecutor, on 14 counts charging fraud and embezzlement in Steelville Missouri. The indictment was returned Wednesday by the grand jury convened in the district court.
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Steelville, Mo
Crawford County
Larry Dent
Miss Jane Pittman Leads Emmy Nominations in TV Oscars
In Los Angeles AP says The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman tops with 12 Emmy nominations for TV Oscars to be awarded May 28. The Cato Burnett Show and M A S H tie at 10. The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Waltons each have nine. National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the nominees.
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Los Angeles
Jane Pittman
Cato Burnett
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Legislators Seek Dismissal of Higher Education Official
Three Northwest Missouri state representatives called for the removal of Jack L. Cross as executive secretary of the state Commission on Higher Education. The resolution, introduced in the House, aims to dismiss Cross due to attitudes deemed detrimental to higher education and was referred to committee. Cross did not comment.
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Jefferson City
Northwest Missouri
Jack L. Cross
State Commission On Higher Education
House
Jerold Drake
D-Grant City
Robert Johnson
R-Lee
Summit
Hardin Cox
Drock Port
Cross
Drake
Northwest Missouri State University
Planting Delays Hit Soviet Spring Crops
Moscow reports that bad weather and farm inefficiency slow sowing of vital spring crops. Pravda acknowledges a cold rainy spring but criticizes farmers for mismanaging machinery and permitting delays.
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Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Sports Arena Crowd Applauds Spiro Agnew
Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew drew applause at a Capital Centre concert by Frank Sinatra in Largo Maryland as 15 000 fans silenced by clapping. Secretary Kissinger arrived with Nancy to hearty reception. It marked Agnew’s first public appearance since resigning in October after a tax evasion charge.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Frank Sinatra
Agnew
Capital Centre
Largo
Maryland
Baltimore County
Henry A. Kissinger
Nancy
Vesco Nixon Tax Inquiry Moves Ahead Amid Delays
The Judiciary Committee staff urged a written Nixon reply to a set of questions while pursuing possible criminal tax fraud in Nixon returns 1969 to 1972. IRS officials and staff found no fraud. The panel probes unlawful campaign contributions from Howard Hughes and Robert Vesco, and awaits Nixon’s taped conversations response delayed by five days.
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Robert L. Vesco
Nixon
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Congressional Joint Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
Judiciary Committee
Howard Hughes
Robert Vesco
Executive Branch
Peter W. Rodino Jr
D-N.j
Rodino
White House
Hutchinson
President Nixon Returns To Mississippi Amid Watergate Fallout
President Nixon flew to Mississippi accompanied by senators and a bipartisan delegation to address the Mississippi Economic Council at a Jackson venue. He defended his stance to “tough it out” as supporters recalled his 1968 and 1972 voting shifts, noting Mississippi’s 1968 Wallace presence and 1972 gains despite the national scandal.
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Jackson, Miss
Nixon
Mississippi
William Waller
Mississippi Economic Council
Allen C. Thompson
James C. Eastland
White House
Stennis
Hastland
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Senate Bill Would Affect Credit Rulings
An amendment to a Senate passed bill would prohibit denial of credit based on sex or marital status. It targets leasing businesses and charges to non issued credit cards. The measure returns to the Senate for consideration of House changes amid broader budget debates on mental health funding and police salary bills.
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Jefferson City
Missouri House
Sue Shear
D-Brentwood
House
Senate
Harold P. Robb
Robb
Marshall State School and Hospital
Malcolm Bliss Mental Health Center
St. Louis
Western Missouri Mental Health Center
Kansas City
Mid-Missouri Center
Columbia
Appropriations Committee
Norman Merrell
D-Monticello
Insurance
Truman Wilson
D-St. Joseph
Walter Meyer
St. Louis County
Christopher S. Bond
John Blassie
Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners
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Lillian Cromwell
Oliver E. Blakely
W. Gentle
Charles R. Cossey
Charles W. Hunt
Freddie J. Hahn
Auxvasse
Leo Grace
al R. Goodman
Loyd Armentrout
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Laddonia
Vincent Fennewald
Mar
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Bellflower
Robert E. Hopkins
Charles W. Johnston
Robert W. Allen
Clyde Allen
Bessie Stotler
Vandalia
J.D. Poage
Hallsville
Ezra Windham
Hurley P. Henderson
Wellsville
George M. Clark
Benton City
Lester Judd
Middletown
Kenneth Wayne Smithee
Mike E. Cameron
Curryville
A.E. Bastian
Norman Sanders
Peter Gonzalez
Patricia Davenport
Henry Ector
Joan Oberle
Elliott Cunningham
Gary McCann
Margaret Story
Madeline K. Roe
George A. Pierce
Christopher Seiler
Monte Stubblefield
Lula M. Cox
Robert Newbrough
Laura R. Galloway
Rolland A. Wortman
Michael Oberhouse
John P. Fisher
Rolland Warner
Montgomery Yi
Viola M. Christeson
Bill Denton
Harold Ward
Paris
Mary Alice ‘Parrish
Rater A. Noland
Pearl Eary
Highway Patrol
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Ling
the Daily Record
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Edward Mudd
B. Love
Thomas Barnett
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Olive St
Lawrence R. Stephens
Wayne A. Bevell
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Robert W. Talley
George Whitetaker
Arietta Anne Elliot
Mansfield St
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Rock Springs St
Harold Jennings
Portage
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John F. Goslin
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Christy St
George Parrott
Route 1
Jack L. Cline
Kentucky St
Edward L. Harrison
Mississippi St
James Edward Fisher
Robert Vernon Agee
Elbern Wayne Wright
Eee
Donald Zei
Brissant
Randall Lane Shepard
James Ross Pace
MFA
Slater and Fowles
Pearl Esty
Pike
Soviet Union
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