Trucker Dies in Turkeys Train Crash in Audrain County
An Iowa trucker, Larry Sinn, 31, was killed when his loaded tractor trailer struck a Burlington Northern train at Route Y crossing near Sturgeon. His father Wade Sinn, 63, died of a heart attack after learning of the tragedy. About 1092 turkeys on the Sinn truck were killed. three rigs loaded with birds from Jonas Borntrager farm were in the area. The train crew, including engineer A D Fields, escaped injury. The road was closed from 1:20 p.m. to just after 8 p.m. The accident involved Hales and Hunter Feed Co. birds raised by Borntrager. numerous turkeys ended up on the ground and crates broke apart. Funeral arrangements for Larry Sinn were made via Beatty Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant.
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Iowa
Burlington Northern
Route Y Crossing
Wayland
Larry Sinn
Wade Sinn
Sturgeon
Audrain County
Gm&co
Route Y
Clark
Ronald Barnes
Hales and Hunter
Louis Rich Foods
West Liberty
Sinn
Pickering
A.D. Fields
Brookfield
Highway Patrol
Linn
Fenton Funeral Home
Centralia
Beatty Funeral Home
Mt. Pleasant
Bowling Green
Robert Mechlin
Laddonia
Barnes
Jonas Borntrager
Pisgah
Joe Miller
Chris Borntrager
Wholesale Prices Jump Signals Inflation Challenge
Washington AP November wholesale prices rose six tenths of a percent, the largest gain since July, undoing recent slower increases. Increases in vegetables, eggs, dairy, cars, furniture, lumber, leather, textiles, coal, hides, natural gas, and other goods pushed the index up. The rise complicates Nixon's goal to slow inflation to about 3 percent by year end and tests the fate of wage and price controls due to expire next April.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Nixon
Library Board Renames Burgess
Trustees of the Mexico Audrain County Library extended the contract of Eldon Burgess, director, for two years at the regular monthly meeting on Wednesday. Burgess announced the age limit on phonograph record loans was reduced from 16 to 14 and noted new pamphlets and bulletins on city and county government administration issued by the MU department of governmental affairs are now available.
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Mexico- Audrain County
Eldon Burgess
Burgess
MU Department of Governmental Affairs
Red Guards and School Life at 31st Middle School of Peking
A reporter describes seventh grade English class with patriotic chants about Chairman Mao and socialist motherland. In Chinese language class a translated story recounts a Vietnamese villager dying to protect a bell gifted to China, showing militant friendship. The piece notes algebra class and questions how politics fits in math, highlighting Red Guard presence.
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Chairman Mao
31St Middle School of
Peking
Red Guard
Move To Vacate Rep Boggs Seat
Washington AP Democratic leaders plan to declare Hale Boggs seat vacant after Congress convenes January 3 to allow a special election. The move would also vacant Nick Begich’s seat. both disappeared with two others in a Alaska plane crash October 16 and were re-elected on November 7.
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Rep. Boggs
Washington
House
Hale Boggs
Congress
Boggs
Louisiana
Nick Begich
Alaska
Begich
Night launch of Apollo 17 lights Cape Kennedy sky
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP shows Apollo 17 lifting off at night after a 160 minute countdown slip. Gene Cernan Ron Evans and Jack Schmitt ride the Saturn V as a blazing arc fills the night with fire and colors. The plume glows red white and blue before shrinking to a star en route to the moon.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Gene Cernan
Ron Evans
Jack Schmitt
Apollo
Robert F. Overmeyer
Mission Control
Julian Scheer
Space Agency
Mrs Neate Home From Columbia Hospital Stay
Mrs William B Neate, long hospitalized at Boone County and University of Missouri Medical Center in Columbia, has returned home on Thursday after several weeks of treatment and recovery.
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William B. Neate
Boone County
University of Missouri Medical Center
Columbia
NFO Leaders Back Statey for Eighteenth Year
Kansas City AP report says 19 of 21 state NFO presidents support Oren Lee Staley for a 18th term as NFO president. Don Hills of Lebanon Missouri released the statement praising Staley as a top farm leader. Opponents led by the 72 Convention Committee plan to oust him at the Kansas City convention citing alleged mismanagement.
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Kansas City
Oren Lee Staley
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Don_ Hills
Lebanon
Missouri
NFC
Staley
Hill
National Board of Farmers
Chris Walker
Mayetta
Kansas Nfo
Rea
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Connie Pickering
Burlington Train
Lowan
Pisgah Church
Ron Hedrick
Audrain
Ledger
Richard Vance
Bureau
Liberty
Shad van David Lean Ryans
Library Board
Dean
Gary Wayne Dean
Independence
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Rock Hill Road
Mexico
Mexico Rt. 2
Vza. Ae
Pela
Paya
Pizza Hut
THE
East Liberty
Santa Claus
Virginia
Cora Margaret
Elizabeth
Mary Ellen Do
Louise
Ann
Zelma
Fact
Blattner
Glatiner
Toyland Open
Lawrence Drug
Walgreen
Agency
West Plaza
Vassarette
Crepelon
Antron
Naylon
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