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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1972
Page
1
Price rises for basic commodities portend higher 1973 costs for food and clothing. Cattle hogs grains cotton wool surge amid weather, policy, and supply imbalances. AP index hits new highs as wheat and wool prices climb, boosting inflation concerns and possible policy extension.
Jefferson City AP report notes Theodore D. McNeal 67 former Missouri state senator and UM Board of Curators member will head the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners. McNeal the state's first Black senator chaired Ways and Means and guided an income tax bill amid tight finances. Bond praises his record character and public service.
The Supreme Court declined to halt construction of the Truman Dam project in Missouri. The decision, issued Monday, drew a dissent from Justice Douglas. An ecology group had sought an injunction to stop the dam, which would flood about 248 miles of river and tributaries and roughly 264000 acres of land to prevent floods in Osage and Missouri river towns.
In a radio interview, Premier Chou Enlai explains Lin Piao's failed plot to flee China. He recounts the single Trident flight, the Mongolian crash, and the discovery of documents proving the conspiracy. He notes the air force secrecy and the crackdown that grounded planes nationwide. The dialogue covers the aftermath and global coverage.
Mr and Mrs J B Arthur donated 925 for a piano to the LPN School in Arthur House at Audrain Medical Center. The Arthurs have long supported AMC and its programs, including land for the LPN School and East Central Missouri Mental Health Center, with gifts in 1954 1964 1969 and 1971. Woodrow Lee AMC Administrator praised the Arthurs generosity.
More than 400 inmates at Walpole State Prison vow to skip Christmas dinner so meals can be distributed to the needy elderly and sick. Ann Brandon of the Massachusetts Lawyers Guild reports the pledge as the program is organized during the holiday season.
Noah Myles Han is the first child of Noah Myles Han and Nancy Kallenbach Han of Chicago. The baby boy, born Sunday at University Medical Center in Columbia, weighed 6 pounds 10 ounces. He is named Noah Myles, son of Rev. and Mrs. Sun Soo Han of Chung Nam, Korea, a former assistant minister of the First Christian Church of Mexico.
Chicago AP The National Safety Council projects 56 700 traffic deaths in 1972, the deadliest year on record, based on 46 970 deaths in the first ten months. NSC president Howard Pyle cites more drinking drivers, lower 18 year old drinking age, rising motorcycles and mini bikes, and a bicycle boom as key factors. Two million people expected to be seriously injured and economic costs seen near 16 billion dollars.
Missouri presidential electors formally cast 12 votes for Nixon and Agnew. A 22 year old stand in from Central Methodist College replaced an absent member and became an elector. The slate confirmed the Nixon Agnew ticket carried Missouri by 456705 votes in the official canvass. Other electors listed include Kratovile Rimmel Briggs Barrows Kelley Rhodes Stirling Hedges McNiff Rayfield McElhiney Armstrong and a noted absence.
Washington AP reports the National Transportation Safety Board warns holiday pedestrian risk may kill about 1000 people this December. Chairman John H. Reed urges pedestrians to be highly visible at night, wear light clothing, look both ways, carry a flashlight in dark areas, and stay especially alert from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The United Nations General Assembly closes its 27th session in New York noting limited progress in environment, sea law, and education. It rejects a global terrorism action bid, cuts its share of the regular budget to 25 percent, and creates an environmental council and Nairobi secretariat to pursue Stockholm conference recommendations. An international university is planned, and talks on the law of the sea begin late 1973. East German observer status appears, while tensions between rich and poor prominence mark the session.
The 1973 Mascot yearbook from Mexico High School won the Medalist top national award from the Columbia Press Association with a superb and unique full color needlepoint cover by Mrs. Byrnes Hawthorne. It also earned All Missouri honors. Plans for 1974 yearbooks noted no student orders after January 10. Concert Choir performs for State Hospital patients in Fulton. The Traditional Christmas Assembly, a 30 minute Dickens adaptation by Drama students, is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. loses wife Nelia and 18 month old Amy in a tractor trailer crash near Kennett. Biden’s two sons aged 4 and 3 injured while truck driver Curtis Dunn of Avondale, Pa. is hospitalized. Police say the station wagon pulled from a stop sign and was struck on the left side. Biden was in Washington, preparing staff appointments after defeating J Caleb Boggs.
William A. Geary Jr. of St. Louis was appointed by Gov. Warren E. Hearnes to the 22nd Judicial Circuit in St. Louis. Geary was chosen by the Circuit Judicial Commission to replace Theodore McMillian, recently named to the St. Louis Court of Appeals. Geary faces retention in 1974 under the nonpartisan plan. McMillian became Missouri’s first black circuit judge and later the first black appeals court judge.
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