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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1972
Page
9
National forecast shows showers and cooler air moving through Missouri with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s to 70s through Tuesday and into midweek. Death notices list Harper M. Rudasill and several others, with regional police reports detailing juvenile incidents, two weekend auto accidents, and a bicycle theft in Mexico.
Audrain Medical Center officials reported admissions including Laura Rahmeyer Edmond Sykes Harold Northcutt and many others from Cen tralia Middletown Wellsville Vandalia and more. Births noted for Bartlett Wright Martin Wilson and other families with times and weights. several discharges listed. Highway Patrol: Hannelore Lenzenbuber 36 Jonesburg admitted after Route E Montgomery City crash near I 70 with vehicle strike causing front end damage.
In Auxvasse Wilbur Garrett Foster faces driving while intoxicated and illegal passing in face of oncoming traffic. Luddenla Freddie Joe Fischer is charged with driving while license revoked. John Richard Fecht from Mexico Route 1 is charged with following Stock Market too closely. Ronald Eugene Wright of Rush Hill Route 1 faces failure to yield right of way. David Leroy Wenger of Columbia Route 1 charged with careless driving. In Boone County Circuit Court petitions for divorce filed by Darrrell Wayne Reeves and Mary Angeley against spouses. Opal A. Cole seeks divorce from Kenneth M. Cole. Missouri Livestock Market Center reports hog prices and cattle data. National Stockyards and Chicago markets noted with mixed price movements. US stock averages show slight declines amid active oil stocks and varied blue chips.
Funeral services were held today at Fenton Funeral Chapel for John F. Perkins of Mexico. The Rev. Marvin Jones of Friendship Baptist Church officiated and burial was in Centralia Cemetery. Pallbearers were Winfred Perkins Everett Perkins Holley Ray Perkins Johnnie Perkins Estil Chrystal and James Chrystal.
President Nixon announced the intention to nominate Darrell D. Wiles of St. Louis to be a Tax Court judge for a 16 year term. Wiles, 57, would replace Graydon G. Withey who retired June 1. He is a member of a St. Louis law firm and formerly served with the Internal Revenue Service.
Mrs. Margaret M. Kleinsorge 57 of Middletown died Sunday at Audrain Medical Center in Mexico Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Grace Lutheran Church Wellsville Rev Dale Banks to officiate burial in Fairmont Cemetery Middletown Friends may call Myers Funeral Home Middletown after 4 p.m. today She was born Sept 9 1914 daughter of Elzea and Irene Jarboe married Oct 31 1935 Surviving husband six sons two daughters five grandchildren one brother two sisters
Funeral services were held Saturday at Arnold Funeral Home for Elbert Wayne Jones 49 who died Wednesday Burial was in East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery Pallbearers were his co workers at the Army Aviation Systems Command in St Louis Joe Watson George Allan Wesley Brisben Lawrence Kennedy Beeler Jackson Joseph Williams and Dale Grandoff A World War II veteran he served in Europe and won the Silver Star Bronze Star and Purple Heart He also served during the Korean War He leaves his wife Opal McGee a daughter Mrs Ted DePont two granddaughters his mother Mrs Lola Hoffman of Holts Summit and three brothers Earl Jim and Edward of Mexico
Mr and Mrs C Donald Smith and two daughters of 1015 Hazel Place were treated for minor injuries and released at Bothwell Hospital Sedalia after their car collided head on with a car driven by Mrs Freda Strange on Highway 65 Friday night as they returned from the Late Fall event. The Smiths work for A P Green Co.
Funeral services for Harper M. Rudasill, 76, of Paris Route 3 were held this afternoon at Precht-Pickering Funeral Home. He died Saturday at Audral Medical Center. The Rev. Robert R. Collins officiated. Burial was in East Lawn Memorial. Pallbearers included George Weller and Wayne Power of Mexico and Joe Peck of Paris. Rudasill, born November 10, 1895, was a farmer and World War I veteran. He is survived by wife Winifred, daughter Elizabeth, brother Henry of Mexico, and sisters Leta Sloan of Berkeley and Lucy Sears of Bellevue. Four brothers and one sister preceded him in death. His parents homesteaded the family farm near Monroe City.
Albert Robert Oliver born August 15 1873 dies at 99 in Audrain Medical Center Mexico Missouri he was a retired school teacher railroad mail clerk and later worked in a church publications mailing room He taught in Rhineland Appling Phipps Wellsville Neosho and served twenty five years as a Sunday School teacher at Memorial Boulevard Christian Church St Louis Survivors include two cousins Kate Purvis and Hugh Gilbert plus his late daughter Dorothy Karbacka.
Mont gomery City resident Harry Steffan, 70, died Saturday in St. Louis after six months of poor health. Rites set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Montgomery City Methodist Church with Rev. Robert Hester and Rev. Paul White officiating. Burial in Sunrise Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Schlanker Funeral Home will receive visitors after 2 p.m. Tuesday. Steffan, born January 13, 1902 in St. Louis County, was married to Flora in 1929 and leaves two daughters Laverne Ruether of Chesterfield and Marjorie Zumbehl of St. Charles, three sons Orville of Montgomery City, Dale of Chesterfield, and Jerry of St. Louis, a brother Milton of Ballwin, two sisters Mabel Steffan of Ballwin and Mrs. Clarence Sappington of Ellisville, and 12 grandchildren. He belonged to the Montgomery City Methodist Church and the Montgomery County Farm Bureau. memorials may go to the church building fund.
John Frank Bush 63 of Wellsville died Sunday at Audrain Medical Center in Mexico. A funeral service conducted by Rev. Quenton Boyd will be held Tuesday at Myers Funeral Home with burial at Wellsville funeral home after 4 p.m. He was born April 20, 1909 in East St. Louis. Survived by wife Rose Peak Bush, two children Nancy and John, eight brothers including George of Coos Bay Oregon, and a sister Mrs. Tena Cox of St. Louis.
Funeral services for Elmer M Willis 63 of Fulton were held today at Arnold Funeral Home. A former Mexico resident he drowned Friday evening while swimming in a Fulton clay pit. Rev Weldon Foreman of Hopewell Baptist Church officiated. Burial followed at East Lawn Memorial Park with pallbearers Charles Boswell Allen Walker Russell Franklin Joe Kruse Edwin Irvin and Richard Byrne. Mrs John Willer was organist.
Lawrence T. Rader 64 of Paris died at his home Saturday. He owned a Phillips 66 Service Station north of Paris. Services were at Agnew Funeral Home with burial in Marshfield Cemetery. Survived by Frances Eicher Rader widow, daughter Eva Ying Ing, two brothers, a sister, and two grandchildren. He moved to Paris from Marshfield in 1952.
Today in history notes two events: the start of the Somme River battle in France in 1918 and the 1940 death of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City after assassination wounds.
Results of the Martinsburg American Legion Tractor Pull held Saturday list winners by weight class. Garden tractors saw Deimeke first and Salfen second. 1000 to 4500 pounds Fendricks won with Hale second. 4500 to 5600 Schafer first Autbur second Sutter third Vomund fourth. 5500 to 7000 Schafer first Sutter second Hale third Becker fourth. 7000 to 9000 Becker first O Donnell second Stuckenschneider third Ahrens fourth. 9000 to 12000 Ahrens first Stuckenschneider second Whalen third. 12000 to 15000 Stuckenschneider first Whalen second Sixteen thousand pounds and over entries: Stuckenschneider first Neeley second Schulte third.
Mrs. Frank Weathers aged 62 died at Campbell House in Centralia after a period as a patient. She was born September 10, 1889 in Garden City Kansas. She leaves husband Frank Weathers of Lamont and several stepchildren including Mary Petering Lamont Margaret Kyle Los Angeles and Tom Warren Centralia plus stepsons Lawrence Chicago and William Philadelphia.
Kathleen Cleaver, wife of Eldridge Cleaver, says the Black Panther leader’s life is in extreme danger in Algeria where he has lived in exile for three years. She reports increasing death threats over six months, cannot name the plotters, and notes Cleaver would like to return to the United States with plans not disclosed.
Visitors from Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Ashton, with Mrs. Agnes Withers Blaskey, 86, arrived in Mexico to revisit places from before 1900. They recalled the Clacher family’s hardware store, railway work, and a brick residence near the depot. Ledger records note James Clacher, 52, died December 1896 after a sun stroke years earlier. burial at Elmwood Cemetery.
New York AP reports gossip that Jimmy Caan may be groomed as a new male sex symbol after praise for Brian’s Song and The Godfather. The 6 foot actor discusses acting seriousness, family pressures, and his values including respect for others and dislike of phoniness.
A jury trial began this morning in Audrain Circuit Court for Richard Glenn Pruitt charged with burglary and stealing from Spencer Chemical Co in Thompson. The panel includes Mrs. W. E. Pilcher, Mrs. Frank P. Wilfley Jr., Mrs. Bill Matthews, Mrs. Elwood Smiley, Mrs. Dorothy Esposito, Ruth Ann Schaefer, Mrs. Mary Frances Crews, Clarence Holman, Mrs. Joe Ehrhardt, Mrs. Alma Swan, Mrs. Max Berrey and Mrs. E. B. Turner.
Rome AP reports most of the Italian peninsula faced autumn like weather with a sharp temperature drop bringing snowto the central region. Snow fell in the Gomito Mountains near Platole Twiany.
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