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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1971
Page
3
Governor Warren E. Hearnes signed three bills and vetoed two others completing action on all 247 measures from last spring. The truck bill allows a three foot front overhang and a four foot rear overhang on auto transports with no change to vehicle length. He noted 20 states have similar laws and no rise in highway hazard.
Jessie Evans Smith, 69, wife of President Joseph Fielding Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Tuesday night. A longtime featured soloist with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for 60 years, she leaves a prominent role in church music.
Mexico junior and senior high students depart from Hardin Junior High at 6 a m to Southeast Missouri State College Cape Girardeau for an annual band camp. Mrs John Willer accompanies the group. John Willer directs the Dixie Gray Band at Mexico High School and will direct there next week as students attend. About 900 Missouri student musicians are expected to attend this year.
MARSHALL MO Opti mism was voiced by Dr. John R. Lawrence on the drive to fund a medical museum at Arrow Rock dedicated to Dr. John Sappington. A plot at Arrow Rock will host the building as doctors statewide are invited to contribute to the intensified campaign.
New adult records at the Mexico Audrain County Library include releases by The Beatles Sammy Davis Jr Merle Haggard Ray Price Marty Robbins and Charley Pride featuring Meet the Beatles I Gotta Be Me Hag Same Train A Different Time I Won't Mention It Again World of Ray Price It's a Sin Marty's Greatest Hits Best of Charley Pride I'm Just Me and Songs of Pride Charley That Is.
Missouri Attorney General Danforth asked the federal court to allow the legislature another chance at redrawing congressional districts based on the 1970 census. He proposed tentative lines be drawn if the legislature fails and urged interim hearings to assess population variances while noting the legislature may require a two thirds vote to enact any new plan.
In Orlando an eagle family moved into Sterling Park area prompting developer Dick Bonds to cancel 100 planned homes and declare 32 acres a sanctuary. The Audubon Society advised a 660 foot wild land radius. bonds will tax the sanctuary land about 2000 annually and adjust development elsewhere.
Gary R. Evans of 1709 Churchill Place has been selected as one of the Mexico area’s Outstanding Young Men of America. Evans works with Collier Evans Oil Co. of Mexico. Now in its eighth year the program recognizes men ages 21 to 35. Names will appear in the 1971 edition of Outstanding Young Men of America published in November.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower refuses invitation to join the Duval Teachers Association serving Jacksonville public schools. She will teach at Atlantic Beach Elementary School this fall. Her husband’s military status and uncertain future prevent a commitment. He is Ensign David Eisenhower aboard USS Albany at Mayport Naval Station.
Fort Zumwalt School District voters rejected a proposed 4 cent hike in school taxes from $4.41 per $100 of assessed valuation. The issue failed 1,112 to 968, trailing the required two thirds. Superintendent Philip Bonner said district schools operated at a deficit exceeding $300,000 last year.
Kansas City will build a 20.6 million World of Fun theme park on a 500 acre wooded site seven miles northeast of downtown. The park, opening in April 1973, will feature American European Scandinavian African and Oriental sections with 140 acres in the first phase and total development including hotels and restaurants planned on the remaining 360 acres. Randall Duell and Associates of Los Angeles design the park and it will create more than 1,200 summer jobs for area students.
Body of Carson McCray, 26, of Osage Beach, found in Lake of the Ozarks a day after he disappeared from an excursion boat on July 2. Authorities say he likely fell overboard in an accident.
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