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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1977
Page
1
Official 7:00 a.m. readings show last day high 93 and low 72 with 74 at 7 a.m. Ledgerland expects mostly sunny hot today with mid 90s, chances of isolated storms tonight and Sunday, and a 40 percent rain chance Sunday. Missouri forecast: sunny hot today, widely scattered storms southeast, highs in 90s, increasing clouds and scattered storms Sunday.
Admission list includes Mrs Mabel A Gallagher Mrs James W Gentry Clarence W Nichols Mrs Mary Frances Hardwick Mrs Joe Talley Ralph O Rudd Mrs Grace S Huffman Mrs W Harold Branstetter Miss Hazel N Spurlock Orval H Bise Jr Mrs Helen H Harris Mexico Mrs Nettie A Williams Mokane Ronald W Pike Ferguson Mrs G A Gini Centralia Everett Gooch Wellsville Hadley F Haux Sturgeon Vernon J Peese Stoutsv ille Mrs Franie B Keithley Curryville Mrs Clarence Andrews At The Hospital Montgomery City. Dismissals list includes Henry Roe Mrs Virgil Thompson Miss Sherlyn Wyss Mrs William Bland John Wiggs Mrs James Harrison Mrs O H Lincoln Mrs Monta Guy Mrs James Sweeney Mrs Basel Pritchett James Craig Fred Donaldson Mrs Junior King Miss Cheryl Chaney Charles McGinnis Garrett Jackson James Cline Alfred Lipp Jr Mexico Mrs Robert Chiles Fulton Leslie Robinson Rocky Mountain Mrs Dorothy Tumulty Columbia David Atterberry Portland Frederick Mueller New Florence Mrs Julius Gill Mrs Anna Swein Mrs Thomas Hendricks Paris Arthur Christian Montgomery City Thomas Cox Laddonia Howard Willis Auxvasse Mrs Frank Stemmley Martinsburg Samuel Lee Mrs Mack Teague Connie Salmon Vandalia Wallace Caowherd Benton City Thomas Torreyson Hallsville Dale Blane Wellsville Mrs Mercedes Miltenberger Warrenton William Burke John Morton Jr Rusty Richardson Centrala.
Magistrate Court fined Charles Richard Lovell sixteen dollars for speeding. Circuit Court filings show Paula Gayle and Waldo Dale Walters seeking dissolution of marriage. Wilbur Eugene Payton and Anna Mae Keith apply for marriage license. Reports include burglarized doors, scratched car at Mexico City Hall, and a series of traffic summonses after a collision at Liberty Street and Green Boulevard. Damaged front window at Hoxsey Hotel liquor store and tire deflation reported near Amble Inn.
Two women were treated at Audrain Medical Center after a three car crash on Highway 54 east of Mexico. Elnora Briscoe and Helen McCully suffered minor injuries. Steven Hopke’s eastbound car stopped for turning traffic, Briscoe’s car rear ended it, then hit McCully’s westbound vehicle. Briscoe received a summons for failure to drive on the right half of the roadway.
Yesterday’s cash grain quotes show soybeans 5.18, wheat 1.65, corn 1.47, milo 1.85. MFA Mexico quotes list soybeans 5.18, wheat 1.67, corn 1.53, milo 1.75. OTC bank quotes include Commerce Banc 24 bid 25 ask, Mercantile Bank 30¾ bid 31¾ asked, Wetterau 14 bid 14½? asked. NYSE list includes Robbie Brooks 4?, Combustion Eng 58?, Dresser 40 53, Emerson 34, Interco 38, Kaiser 32, Panhandle 42, Ralston Purina 16, US Gypsum 22, 25 4% preferred, Wal-Mart 154. Dow 855.42.
Eide notes December target remains possible if funding holds. Step 1 study extended to inspect inflow sources like cracked lines and manholes, with a year may be required. Project costs of correcting inflow total 316000, per Black and Veatch and officials. Pauline Irvine emphasizes archival importance of gubernatorial papers for research.
Kansas City based official notes official papers moved to the archives while detailing thousands of folders from prior administrations. He highlights the pre archives era papers stored at Columbia, and remarks on possible duplication. Walier and Smith deny any wholesale destruction or shredding of documents.
Danish historian Tage Kaarsted reveals in a 600 page study that the United States, via Secretary of State James Byrnes, proposed buying Greenland during a UN meeting in New York in 1946. The Danish government did not take the offer seriously, deeming Greenland a burden, though Byrnes viewed it as strategically vital.
Mrs. Inez Parks 92 of Paris died Friday at Audrain Medical Center in Mexico after weeks as a patient. Funeral services 2 p.m. Sunday at Agnew Funeral Home Paris with burial in Mt Prairie Cemetery west of Perry. She was born July 31, 1885 in Missouri to David and Susan Hanna. She married Riley Parks in 1910 who died in 1966. Survived by daughter Betty Heitmeyer of Paris and two granddaughters.
Services for J W Bigelow 92 of Laddonia were set for 2 pm at Bienhoff Funeral Home. Pallbearers include grandsons Mike Remley Eddie Bieglow Charles Bigelow and Charles Eddie Wright with Gayle Riley and Glenn Riley. burial in Laddonia Cemetery.
Services for Carl McKenney are set for 2 p.m. Monday at Sunnydale Seventh-Day Adventists Church in Centralia with Rev. Wayne Nazarenus and Rev. Larry Cansler officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Horeb Cemetery in Sturgeon. Fenton Funeral Chapel in Centralia will be open after 3 p.m. Sunday.
Mrs. Opal May Ray, 75, of Higbee, died Friday evening in a Fulton hospital. Born February 13, 1902 near Moberly, she married George Tandy Ray in 1918. Survived by daughter Helen Baker, son Tandy Ray, four grandchildren, sister Ruth Huitt, and many nieces. Services Monday at 4 p.m. at Fenton Funeral Chapel Sturgeon. burial Perche Cemetery Harrisburg. Visitation Sunday after 11 a.m.
Nixon and his wife never claimed or hoped to keep gifts totaling about 2 million from foreign leaders. Aide Ken Khachigian said any gifts inadvertently sent to San Clemente will be returned, and asserted the couple did not keep items. Officials note a 1966 law requires turning over gifts over 50 dollars to the State Department.
A rifle rampage left seven dead in northwest New Jersey as Emil Benoist 20 roamed a railroad path firing at hikers joggers and bikers. Police say he killed two groups near Hackettstown and Mansfield Township before fatally shooting himself as officers approached. Witnesses blamed a Marine stint for Benoist’s change in temperament. victims include David Galvin 14 Stephen Werner 20 Robert Visconti 35 William Nagle 37 Jeffrey Gianquitti 19 and Clifford Sowers 38.
Rumor that Caracas will be destroyed by a tidal wave spreads since May. Officials urge calm as authorities prepare for possible mass departures while transportation firms warn profits to be gained from fears. Police mobilize under Operation Alpha to guard vacant homes and deter looting.
Sen Hubert Humphrey shows improving health after Aug 18 operation for inoperable pelvic cancer. Surgeon Dr John Najarian reports steady recovery and expects the senator to be released from University of Minnesota Hospitals next week.
Greek authorities seek an allegedly illegally chartered luxury yacht carrying Mick Jagger and Bianca Jagger. The Merchant Marine Ministry confirms the inquiry near Athens and cites possible regulatory breaches aboard the vessel.
FBI director designate Frank M. Johnson Jr. was reported in excellent condition after abdominal surgery. Doctors predicted a quick recovery, but the White House said President Carter might request a delay in Johnsons confirmation hearings.
In Cleveland a foster child died after an extreme salt intake. Deputy Coroner Hirsch classified the death as homicide, noting the child weighed 36 pounds and consumed salt in water, milk, and food. The case, with bruises reported on the boy, will go to the county grand jury on September 6.
Mr and Mrs Allen E Kraft of Vandalia welcomed a daughter born Friday at 9 24 p m in Audrain Medical Center She weighed seven pounds 13 ounces and remains unnamed Mr Kraft works for Harbison Walker Refractories Co Vandalia
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