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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1972
Page
9
Official 7:00 am readings show last 24 hours high 74, low 60 with 1.10 inches month to date and 15.62 inches year to date. Forecast calls for clearing tonight, slightly cooler lows 60s to 60s, highs near 90s tomorrow, 10 percent precip. Missouri river and lakes levels listed for Lake of the Ozarks, Pomme de Terre, and several rivers in Missouri and Illinois with small daily changes.
Audrain Medical Center officials report admissions and dismissals among local residents and surrounding towns. Police logs record a no injuries collision in Mexico, a stabbing injury at the Liberty Theatre, a theft-related arrest warrant, and fire calls at two Mexico addresses with resulting damages. Court actions include magistrate hearings on charges ranging from confidence games to supplying liquor to minors, with several trials set for September. Missouri Livestock Market notes activity across hogs, cattle, and sheep with regional and national figures.
Wheat futures fell sharply on the Chicago Board of Trade with corn oats and soybeans also lower. Cash grain values and New York stock market activity are included with prices for wheat corn soybeans and several listed equities.
President Nixon will host a Cabinet dinner tonight at Camp David in Maryland, gathering senior aides for discussions at the mountaintop retreat.
AP report states Phil Silvers is ill in New York with apparent doom for the musical remake of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Silvers has co star Larry Blyden in the production and has been at St. Clare's Hospital for a week.
A note in Susanne Schiefer's car claimed too much love forced her death as she leapt 21 stories from a Miami high rise. Austrian chemist husband Dr Sigbert Schiefer said his wife grew homesick. authorities noted she and her husband had just wed in Venice. The case involved translated German English notes and shock among close friends Klaus Vosbeck and others who knew the couple.
Max Factor III, heir to the Factor cosmetics fortune and McGovern campaign worker, said three men broke into his Sheraton Park Hotel apartment around 10 p.m. while he and his wife slept. The intruders included two Secret Service agents and a hotel security guard. Factor, 26, of Los Angeles, alleges an effort to drive him out and notes the incident occurred July 27 but was disclosed after The Washington Post report.
Laura Lincoln six year old daughter of Mrs Debbie Lincoln Route 1 is expected to return home Friday from Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital in St Louis. She entered in June for extensive surgery and is a former Audrain March of Dimes poster child. She will walk with a walker when she comes home.
Kansas City AP reports showers across Missouri on election day. Columbia measured a quarter inch of rain as voters went to polls, with wet conditions affecting turnout and travel.
Mrs Ralph Hutchens 39 of Centralia died at Still Memorial Hospital Jefferson City after a brief illness. Born in Mexico April 19 1933 she was married April 13 1972 to Ralph Hutchens. Surviving are husband parents two sons four daughters seven brothers two sisters and several grandchildren. Services Thursday at Arnold Funeral Home with burial at Glendale Memorial Gardens Cen tralia. The family will receive friends after 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Bennie Salisbury, 67, father of Bennie V. Salisbury, Audrain County farmer and Centralia school board member, died Sunday at his Astoria NL home after a long illness. Funeral at Shango Memorial Chapel in Astoria at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Survived by wife Maude, daughter Mrs. Horace Marble of Quincy, one son, five grandchildren Timothy Kimball Rhonda of Centralia Route 1.
Nashvillians donate more than 800 to replace 225 taken from a woman asleep beside her hospitalized husband. Hospital staff add 100, national wires pick up the story, with gifts from Kansas City and Chicago inquiries. Largest donor is W. R. Queen, who sent 225 and a Bible quotation.
An 11-year-old Collinsville boy admitted setting a barn fire at the Fairmount Park race track in Collinsville. Police said the blaze destroyed 19 head of livestock and a second attempt to torch straw in another barn was stopped about two hours later. Superintendent Kenneth Seymore estimated total losses at $70,000 with horses valued at $1,500 to $2,000 each.
Washington AP Republicans warned that Democratic platform proposals and McGovern’s minimum income plan could double the federal budget. Senate leader Hugh Scott and House leader Gerald Ford met with Nixon and budget chiefs to discuss potential impacts. They cited $144 billion added by platform proposals and $192 billion by a $1,000 annual minimum income, projecting higher taxes. Ford urged a $250 billion spending cap as protection against tax increases.
Ford Motor Co recalls all 1972 full size station wagons for inspection of jack slots in bumpers. About 157,467 cars affected. roughly 30 percent have bumper support brackets blocking the jack hole. If blocked, jacking could be impossible or dangerous. Dealers will bore out the obstructed jack insertion holes.
Sirhan B. Sirhan, convicted of the 1968 slaying of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, has been moved from San Quentin Death Row to the Adjustment Center along with eight other inmates as part of a statewide reclassification following a February state Supreme Court ruling. Prison officials say protective measures in the new confinement area guard against harm from other prisoners.
Washington AP The House Education and Labor Committee approved a bill to limit court orders for busing in desegregation cases. It would require courts to try other methods first, cap busing to the nearest school for elementary students, with higher grades limited, and fund inner city improvements.
Washington AP reports a sharp productivity rise and slower hourly pay growth in Q2 1972. Output per man hour rose at a 6 percent annual rate, the largest quarterly gain since 1965, while compensation per hour rose 5.6 percent, moderating labor cost per unit. Purchases power improved due to slower price increases and longer hours boosting weekly earnings.
The Democratic National Committee will nominate a new vice presidential candidate tonight. NBC will air the entire Washington session live starting at 6:30 p.m. Central Mexico time. CBS plans live coverage from 8:30 p.m. to conclusion, while ABC will interrupt regular programming for a bulletin and then carry the acceptance speech live when given.
William Roger Holder and Catherine Kerkow, two Americans linked to a June hijacking from Los Angeles to Algiers with 500000 dollars, say they fear a U.S. directed conspiracy and that they are living on borrowed time while in Algeria. Holder, 23, a Black Panther member, said they would be killed any day and declined to reveal further details.
Tulsa authorities report a 12-year-old girl told sheriff's deputies she started nine fires at her grandmother's Buford Colony home. She said she did so because the grandmother fussed at her and made her work and hoped to force the older woman to move.
MOSCOW reports the Soviet Union and China renewed a public border dispute sparked by a Chinese atlas. Javestia calls the atlas a bid to claim 142 million square kilometers of Soviet territory, tracing tensions to 17th century exploration and 19th century treaties. Military buildup and stalled talks persist with no progress toward agreement.
A military court heard that Air Force expert witnesses disputed defense claims that Walter Perkins acted due to chronic alcoholism. Dr. John Sparks testified Perkins drank a fifth daily yet could distinguish right from wrong at arrest on attempting to board a Mexico City flight with five secret docs.
NEW YORK AP Charles Ross a 36 year old Brooklyn man who is a heroin addict with no law degree defended four narcotics court cases since January and won a fifth probation for a client. He turned himself in after being charged with impersonating a lawyer and contempt of court. Bail set at 15000. Ross claimed self taught legal training from a six month correspondence course while working as a title examiner for 16 years.
Cairo orders the Egyptian ambassador to Moscow home for consultations as President Sadat seeks talks with the Soviet Union after recalling Mercury advisers. A senior official says the Soviet withdrawal is completed with a few instructors still under contract. 10,000 to 20,000 Russians were in Egypt before July.
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