Weather and local incidents in Missouri and surrounding areas
Clearing tonight and cold with lows in the teens to low 20s. Saturday prospects for a warmer day with mid 40s and light variable winds. Missouri extended outlook through Tuesday shows a chance of rain early in the week and highs in the 50s then 60s. Local traffic and police reports note several vehicle accidents on Wednesday and Thursday with property damage and minimal injuries. Hospital admissions list several patients from various towns and the probate estate values are noted.
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Missouri
Louis
Kansas City
Boonville
Jefferson City
Hermann
St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Lake of the Ozark
Missing dark billfold in Mexico with Friday notice
Reward offered for recovery of a dark billfold lost Friday in Mexico Missouri. Contact Leonard Zimmerman Jr at phone number 635-0979. Include details to aid identification.
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Mexico
Jefferson City
Leonard Zimmerman, Jr
Centralia couple welcome daughter Tonya Renee Schnarre
Mr and Mrs Keith Schnarre of Centralia Route 4 welcome daughter Tonya Renee born Wednesday at Boone County Hospital Columbia weighing six pounds six ounces. The baby has a brother named Darin who is almost two. Mr Schnarre is a farmer.
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Centralia
Keith Schnarre
Route 4
Boone County Hospital
Columbia
Tonya Renee
Darin
Schnarre
Stock Market Quietly Higher After Mixed Early Trading
New York stocks edged up as traders weighed 1971 earnings optimism and rail strike risk. Dow Jones 825.23, up 4.17 at noon. Major mover notes include Dresser, Interco, Kaiser, Panhandle, Ralston Purina, U S Gypsum, and Amex and NYSE price shifts.
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Ie Pitte
Merce Esterday
A. B. Chance, Co
Commerce Barkshares
Wetterau
New York Stock Exchange
Bobbie Brooks
Dresser Industries
Interco
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
U.S
Associated Press
Studebaker-Worthington
Fannie Mae
Monsanto
General Motors
Travelers
Penn Central
Amex
Nytronics
Teleprompter
Wilshire
Amrep
Bohack
Helena Rubeinstein
Store Manager Shot To Death In Jennings
Police say Roy Crews, 52, of Hazelwood, Mo., was shot to death during a robbery at a local food shop in Jennings, St Louis County. A customer found him with a chest wound. a safe was opened and empty.
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Jennings, Mo
St. Louis County
Jennings
Roy Crews
Hazelwood
Davenport Rites Friday Afternoon
Last rites for John W Jack Davenport were to be this afternoon at Arnold funeral home. Minister Don Wortman of Kentucky Road Christian Church would officiate with interment at Liberty Christian Church near Thompson. Pallbearers named Masgie provided by Mrs John W Willer and family members listed.
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John W
Jack) Davenport
Arnold Funeral Home
Don Wortman
Kentucky Road Christian Church
Liberty Christian Church
Thompson
Masgie
John W. Willer
Gary Chandler
Harold Davenport
Donald Davenport
Larry Davenport
Jack Davenport
Stephen Davenport
Funeral services for Mrs Mary R Dunn held today
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary R Dunn were conducted this morning at Arnold Funeral Home by Rev Roy W Pinson of Auxvasse. Burial followed in Masonic Cemetery Gilman City with organist Mrs John W Willer providing music.
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Mary R. Dunn
Arnold Funeral Home
Roy W. Pinson
Auxvasse
Masonic
Gilman City
John W. Willer
Embargo lifted on packages at Mexico post office
The mail embargo at Mexico post office ended at 9 30 a m today, per superintendent Dewey Sharpe. It began at 4 p m Wednesday during the national railroad strike, restricting parcel post to first class only for distant U S areas. since then only first class mail for 33 states was accepted.
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Mexico Post Office
Dewey Sharpe
National Railroad
U. S
Rotarians Hear Robert Crawford on Confederate General Jo Shelby
At the Mexico Rotary Club meeting at the Country Club Robert Crawford presented a program on Confederate General Jo Shelby titled The Un defeated Rebel. Crawford, a Civil War buff and former Missouri Secretary of State, is now executive vice president of the Missouri Retailers Association. Haroid Pohlmeyer, the program chairman, introduced the talk. Last week track coach Tom Botts from the University of Missouri provided the program. Dr Ed Wallace was the program chairman.
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Jo Shelby
Mexico
Robert Crawford
Crawford
Missouri
Missouri Retailers Association
Mexico Country Club
Haroid Pohlmeyer
Tom Botts
University of Missouri, Columbia
Ed Wallace
Pants Suits Stir Missouri Officials and Voters
A statewide debate over pantsuits continues as Missouri officials, lawmakers, and workers weigh comfort and propriety. Governors, attorneys general, and revenue staff comment on style, with support for practical wear in offices and caution about full dress adoption.
Pair Bound and Gagged After Highway Wreck
Eugene Stuart and Larry Sheets, both of Wellsville, are jailed in Audrain County awaiting magistrate arraignment on charges from a wreck on Highway 54 eighteen miles east of Audrain Road J1. The car skidded, damaged property, and the pair fled to Pat's Truck Stop where they were bound and gagged before detention.
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Highway Patrol
Everett Ray Reeves
Mexico
Temple Stephens
Highway 54
Reeves
Country Club
Vandalia
Audrain County
Freddie Menefee
James Francis Shanks
Pearl
Jil
Larry Aaron Smoot
Thompson
Menefee
GMC
Shanks
Smoot
Leslie Pierce
Route 22
Pierce
John Paul Newbrough
Newbrough
Audrain Medical Center
Pierze
Eugene Stuart
Larry Junior Sheets
Wellsville
Audrain
Stuart
Sheets
Pat
Harold Sulgrove
Assembly Pastor Resigns to Pursue Evangelistic Work
The Rev. Jimmie C. Weems, pastor of the Assembly of God Church for two years, resigns to begin fulltime evangelistic work in northern Missouri. He and his wife and two children leave after his final sermon at 902 N. Kentucky Rd. The family came to Mexico from Wennsboro, Texas.
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Jimmie C. Weems
Assembly of God Church
Missouri
Rail Strike Erupts As Congress Intervenes With Pay Hikes
Congress imposed an 13.5 percent immediate wage rise to calm a looming rail strike. Dennis of the AFL CIO Brotherhood of Railway Clerks said members would return to work under penalties but hoped for peaceful settlement. The package included 37 percent over three years, with retroactive parts and a dispute over work rules, while other rail unions halted strikes under a court-ordered 80-day ban.
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Congress
Dennis
Aflcio Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Nixon
Brotherhood of Railroad
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union
U.S. Dist
John H. Pratt
Nixon states stance on Vietnam reconnaissance and retaliation
In remarks on Vietnam Nixon cites doubt over any understanding with North Vietnam that US reconnaissance flights would continue. He says Johnson, Clark Clifford, and Cyrus Vance claimed such an understanding existed for a halt to bombing. He vows continued air surveillance and warns he will retaliate if planes are fired upon, including destroying missile sites and nearby military compounds.
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Vietnam
My Lai Death Trap Described By Army Officers
FT BENNING Ga AP an Army officer testified the My Lai area was a death trap for American troops. He described heavy Viet Cong fire in February 1968 and said his company lost many men near the village on operations before the March 16 1968 My Lai massacre. He recounted mines tunnels and snipers and noted a sand box mockup of the area used in court.
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FT. Benning
My Lai
William Calley
George C. White
Calley
White
Ft. Rucker
Als
Pinkville
Carl Edward Creswell
Creswell
George Latimer
Latimer
St. Andrew’s Church
Emporia
Kan
Frank Barker
Barker
Charles C. Calhoun
Fulbright Probes Cambodia Aid and North Vietnam Flights
Senator Fulbright questions quick approval of Cambodia aid and the administration policy on North Vietnam. Laird and Fulbright spar over whether North Vietnam agreed to U S reconnaissance flights as part of the 1968 bomb halt. Symington plans to quiz Laird on Nixon's bombing policy as Rogers avoids answering.
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Fulbright
Cambodia
Laird
U.S
North Vietnam
n.Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Air Force
Nixon
Symington
Southeast Asia
William P. Rogers
Laird Defends Son Tay Raid Against Fulbright Charge
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird angrily rebuffed Senator Fulbright’s suggestion that the Son Tay raid aimed at purposes beyond freeing U.S. prisoners. He said intelligence showed the camp housed American captives and defended the operation as worth the risk to aid the prisoners and demonstrate care. Fulbright pressed, noting Laird’s previous remarks about intelligence and the raid’s emptiness.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
U.S
Son Tay
Laird
Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cambodia
Congress Nearing End as SST Funding Battles Grow
Washington AP Senate Majority Leader Mansfield warned that adjournment bets are off amid a projected filibuster against a 210 million SST funding measure in a Transportation Department appropriation. Proxmire and Nelson threaten to filibuster. Kennedy signals possible parliamentary moves to block SST funds without disrupting other highway and airport appropriations.
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Washington
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Congress
Senate House
Transportation Department
Mansfield
Conference Committee
Ager
Senate
B . Mansfield
Isit
Edward M. Kennedy
Masz
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Jerry) Fischer
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