Weather Snapshot and Local Hospital Admissions
Official 7:00 a.m. readings show last 24 hours highs of 48 and lows of 29 with today 29 at 7 a.m. Weekend rain totals reach .04 inches with month-to-date 1.28 and year-to-date 44.18. Ledger weather forecast calls for rain tonight into Tuesday, cooler highs in the 30s to 40s, with Missouri showing showers and a chance of snow or freezing rain in the northwest. Lakes level notes for Lake of the Ozarks up 3.6 feet above normal, and several residents admitted to Audrain Medical Center today including numerous individuals from Mexico and surrounding towns. multiple births and dismissals listed.
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Missouri
Bootheel
Deaths and public safety notes in Missouri region
Obituaries list Mrs. Eva Hixon and others aged 85 to 90, with services and tributes. Public safety report details a Dalton Concrete office break in. highway patrol recounts accidents on Highways 22 54 19 and 1 70 with multiple injuries, damages, and parole violation arrest. circuit court petition for dissolution filed. Missouri livestock market and stock futures noted. opening Board of Trade quotes and National Stock Yards results summarized.
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Public Safety Report
Dalton Concrete Co
Lakeview Road
Roger Slaters
Highway Patrol
Seth Hensley
New Florence
Audrain Medical Center
Mexico
Virginia Ruth Hensley
J. Louis
Highway 22
Richard H. Strange Jr
Laddonia
Anna L. Ranabarger
Boonville
Highway
Strange
Ranabarger
Highway 19
Hermann
Billy J. Timmerberg
Timmerberg
Maczuk Ford Co
Larry A. McDevitt
Omaha
Nebr
Macon Garbage War Heads to Deadline Climax
LeRoy Itschner of Kirksville writes to the Kirksville Daily Express about Macon’s compulsory garbage pickup sparking a dispute. He cites a 10 day city deadline that will expire after Monday and warns officials may cut lights water and heat for about 128 residents and businesses not complying.
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Macon
Kirksville Daily Express
LeRoy Itschner
Itschner
Market slides as yearend tax selling hits stocks
New York stocks declined moderately as investors eyed yearend tax losses. The Dow fell 2.90 to 599.26 with more losers than gainers on the NYSE while the American Exchange index slipped .58 to 58.77 and the NYSE composite slipped .24 to 35.12 amid weak gold shares.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
U.S
Fire Deaths Down But Damage Up
National figures show 11,600 fire deaths in 1974, down 100 from 1973, while property damage rose to 3.7 billion dollars, up 22 percent. A Port Chester discotheque fire killed 24 on June 30, the year’s deadliest. Cloudcroft forest fire April 9 caused 32 million in losses. Decatur yard explosion and a 20 million jumbo jet loss also counted among costly fires.
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Boston
National Fire Protection Association
Port Chester
N.Y
Cloudcroft
N.M
Decatur
Ill
Five-Year Ban On Plutonium Urged By Aspin
Rep. Les Aspin calls for a five year ban on plutonium recycling to improve safeguards after reports government cannot account for significant quantities of uranium and plutonium. He warns against theft or use in weapons and urges impossible to steal standards. The New York Times cites unaccounted nuclear materials at 15 commercial plants under Atomic Energy Commission regulation.
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Washington
Les Aspin
Aspin
Wisconsin Democrat
New York Times
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
The
Times
Gasoline taxes, rationing, and tax cuts discussed across party lines
Proxmire urged a gasoline tax increase while Reuss proposed rationing to curb unnecessary driving. McCormack backed rationing as essential. Proxmire also pressed for tax cuts, supported by Walter Wriston who urged broad personal and corporate cuts and an income tax plan. Ford may drop an income tax surcharge for a broader tax cut. Butz warned food prices will rise about 15 percent annually for six months. Bethlehem Steel rescinded planned price hikes on tin plate and steel rail after prior government pressure.
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Proxmire
Reuss
McCormack
Walter Wriston
First National City Bank
Wriston
Leonard Woodcock
United Automobile Workers of America
Ford
Earl L. Butz
U.S. News and World Report
Bethlehem Steel Corp
U.S. Steel
Troops Quell Irish Riots in Dublin Prison Clash
In Dublin an IRA faction feud sparked a prison riot Sunday. About 600 troops and police moved in to quell the disturbance and restore order swiftly.
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Dublin
Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Deaths Centralia Mrs David Potts Hulen 80
Mrs. David Potts Hulen 80 of Centralia died Saturday at Collins Memorial Hospital Knoxville Iowa after a brief stay. Born Ida Florence Asbury Feb 20 1894 she lived in Centralia and later Monroe Iowa where she and her husband ran a jewelry business. She leaves a son two grandsons and two great grandsons and was active in church PTA and local clubs. Funeral services are Tuesday at Meador and Son Funeral Home with burial in Centralia Cemetery.
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Centralia
David Potts Hulen
Collins Memorial Hospital
Knoxville
Iowa
Hulen
Monroe
Ida Florence Asbury
Charles S
Vinnie Cox Asbury
Charles Calvin Hulen
Avid Ross Hulen
Dover
N.H
Charles Stephen Hulen
Newton
Michael
Tommy Hulen
First Christian Church of Centralia
42 Club
Centralia Pta
Centralia Pta, and A Former Member of the Pastime Club
Meador and Son Funeral Home
Donald Mattson
First Christian Church
Centralia Cemetery
Kentuckian Dies While Visiting Here
Charles 5. Jackson a 90 year old from Louisville Ky died after becoming ill Friday while visiting his granddaughter in this area. Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at W.G. Hardy Funeral Home. Burial is in Clover Port Cemetery. He was a retired New York Central Railroad foreman and held honorary Kentucky colonel status. Memorials may go to Oakdale Methodist Church. Visitation is tonight at Arnold Funeral Home. He was born February 7 1884 in Clover Port Ky and survived by a son a daughter three grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
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Charles 5. Jackson
Louisville
A. Henry Finck
Mexico
Audrain Medical Center
W.G. Hardy
R.T. Haven
Donald Troutman
Clover Port
Jackson
Eliza Ann Tucker
Elwood Kemp Dies On Trapline In Wellsville
Elwood Rowanna Kemp 69 avid trapper and retired Wellsville Fire Brick Co. worker died of a heart attack while checking his trapline on the Loutre River. The Martinsburg native born Feb 12 1905 leaves a wife a son two daughters and multiple siblings. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at St Pauls Baptist Church with viewing at Myers Funeral Home Tuesday evening.
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Wellsville
Elwood Rowanna Kemp
Loutre River
Noel Bridge
Big Loutre Creek
Martinsburg
Audrain County
Connie Pickering
Kemp
Wellsville Fire Brick Co
St. Paul's Baptist Church
United Fund Board
John Henry
Bessie Green Kemp
Donzella Shelton
Elwood D. Kemp
Roanna Mae Johnson
Milwaukee
Elnora Briscoe
Leo
Calvin
Llewellyn
Battle Creek
Mich
Jewel Henry Kemp
Zola Johnson
Roseline Williams
Lewis Bynum
Myers Funeral Home
Walter Sankpill Dies At Hannibal
Walter Sankpill aged 45 a native of the Laddonia area and longtime Hannibal resident died at 4 am Sunday funeral Friday at Clark Funeral Home in Hannibal with burial in Grand View Cemetery. He was a retired farmer and mechanic who invented a three wheel car reaching 45 mph. He is survived by son Chester Loyal Sankpill sister Mrs Ella Holt Vandalia and brother Loyal Sankpill.
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Walter Sankpill
Laddonia
Hannibal
Clark Funeral Home
Grand View
Sankpill
Ben Wybrant
Mexico
Venice Wybrant
Chester
North of
Loyal
Ella Holt
Vandalia
Isaac Rolla Clithero Dies Rites Tuesday
Isaac Rolla Clithero 81 Middletown died at 7 28 am Sunday. Funeral services 2 pm Tuesday Vandalia Methodist Church. Burial Memorial Gardens Vandalia. Born March 27 1893 to Kensey and Ella Steele Clithero. Survived by Lena Price wife five sons Kenneth Joseph Carroll Benny Robert all of Vandalia Wellsville Middletown. one daughter Mrs Selma Paule St Louis. Visitation Waters Funeral Home Vandalia until service.
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Vandalia
Isaac Rolla Clithero
Middletown
Audrain Medical Center
Vandalia Methodist Church
Memorial Gardens
Kensey
Ella Steele Clithero
Lena Price
Joseph P. Clithero
Carroll Clithero
Wellsville
Benny Clithero
Robert Clithero
Selma Paule
St. Louis
the Waters Funeral Home
30 Year Hide-out To Return Home
Teruo Nakamura a Taiwanese who fought for the Japanese army in World War II and hid 30 years on Morotai Island in the Moluccas said he would like to return to Taiwan after a stay in Tokyo. He surrendered to Indonesian forces on Dec 19 and is resting in a Jakarta hospital. He said his wife and son in Taiwan have changed and he could not recognize them from photos. He survived by fishing trapping wild pigs and turkeys and growing bananas taro and tapioca while in hiding.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Teruo Nakamura
Taiwan
Tokyo
Nakamura
Morotai Island
Moluccas
Morotai
CIA clipping links Douglas to foundation tied to CIA
A CIA source says only a newspaper clipping mentions Douglas as a director of a foundation connected to the CIA in the Dominican Republic and a foundation prospectus again names Douglas as a director. The source also dismisses interest in Edward Long Claude Pepper and Cornelius Gallagher as Time named CIA spying targets.
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Douglas
CIA
Dominican Republic
Sen
Edward Long
Missouri
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
Cornelius E. Gallagher
New Jersey
Paroled in Five-Year Drug Sentences in Audrain
Kenneth Wayne Bailey and Gary F. Miller were each sentenced to five years in the state prison for drug offenses and placed on parole. Both pleaded guilty on Sept. 26 with pre-sentence investigation completed, after a Feb. 11 pre-dawn raid that led to eight arrests for selling marijuana or other drugs. Judge Ronald Belt presided as special judge after Judge George P. Adams was disqualified.
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Kenneth Wayne Bailey
Gary F. Miller
Audrain County
Miller
Bailey
State Penitentiary
Ronald Belt of
Macon
Miller and Bailey
George P. Adams
Americans Escape Laos After Rebel Takeover
Nineteen American civilians and three other Westerners left Ban Houei Sai after rebel Laotian troops seized the town. They crossed the Mekong to Thailand and flew to Vientiane, citing a total breakdown of law and order. The group includes U S AID staff, a nurse at the U S Embassy, missionary families, and international relief workers.
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Vientiane
Laos
Ban Houel Sai
Mekong River
Jack Huxtable
U.S. Agency For International Development
Ban Houei Sai
Huxtable
Richfield Springs
N.Y
Mekong
Chieng Khong
Karen Smith
U.S
James Linn
International Voluntary Services
William W. Sage
Wayne Johnson
Ralls County To Elect Ambulance Directors
A special election to elect six directors for the Ralls County Ambulance District is set for February 11. Voters in La Verdon Clay Spencer Jasper Center and Salt River townships will cast ballots at designated polling places. Candidate filings with the county clerk close January 22.
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Perry
Ralls County
Laverton
Clay
Spencer
Jasper
Center
Salt River
Watch Party Tuesday at Church of God in Christ
An old time watch party will be hosted at 624 East Holt Street by Church of God in Christ starting at 9 30 p m Tuesday. Mother Henderson will oversee the event and all are invited to attend.
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Church of God In Christ
East Holt. St
Henderson
Striblings Gift Piano to Audrain Medical Center
Audrain Medical Center announced a piano gift from Col. and Mrs. C R Stribling Jr. placed in the patient solarium on the second floor. Patients have enjoyed the instrument, with nursing director Jean Thompson calling it a joy to visit and hear them play. Colonel Stribling served as hospital trustee 1939 1943 and 1947 1970 and chaired the board 1949 1970.
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Audrain Medical Center
Stribling House
C.R. Stribling Jr
Jean Thompson
Colonel Stribling
Ashland Oil Fined For Illegal Political Gifts
Ashland Oil Corp was fined 25000 dollars for unlawful political donations in 1970 and 1972. Five misdemeanor counts were settled after the Watergate prosecutor’s office filed the surprise information. The fines were issued by Chief U S District Judge George L Hart, with 5000 dollars per count. The case linked 50000 dollars in cash to Robert L Strauss then Democratic national chairman and various sums to Democratic and Republican campaigns. Orin E Atkins, former chairman, had prior related penalties.
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Washington
Ashland Oil Corp
Robert L. Strauss
Watergate Special Prosecutor’s
U.S
George L. Hart
Ashland
Strauss
Democratic National Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
Senate
House
John Tower
Texas
Kentucky
Louie B. Munn
Orin E. Atkins
Richard M. Nixon
Monroe City Votes For 1 Cent City Tax
A special election approved a 1 cent city sales tax by 416 to 108 with 313 to 96 in Monroe County and 96 to 12 in Marion County. Absentee ballots all approved. In a separate item, Kaley Marie Palmer was born Sunday in Chicago to Robert and Pam Palmer. weight 7 pounds 15 ounces.
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Monroe City
Monroe County
Marion County
Kaley Marie
Robert Palmer
Chicago
Pam Boswell
Mexico
Charles Boswell
Loyd Palmer
Springfield
Researchers Work On Turning Coal Into Oil In New Mexico
In Socorro New Mexico Institute researchers at New Mexico Tech study underground coal liquefaction to oil. President Dr Stirling A Colgate says the process could exploit underground pressure to extract petroleum, reducing mining hazards. An 80160 grant funds initial computer analyses and above ground dissolution tests with hopes for federal support and underground testing in the future.
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Socorro
N.M
New Mexico Tech
Stirling A. Colgate
Tech
Colgate
New Mexico
Freidrich Bergius
Americans Safe in Darwin After Cyclone Disaster
CANBERRA AP A U S embassy official says no Americans are confirmed dead after the Christmas Day cyclone that wrecked Darwin with about 90 percent of buildings damaged. Evacuation of around 22 000 people continues as a U S Air Force transport arrives to aid. Prime Minister Whitlam pledges a five year reconstruction plan to rebuild a cyclone proof city.
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Canberra
Australia
Darwin
U S
United States
U.S. Air Force
Gough Whitlam
Sydney
Suit Filed On Bond Appointment Challenge in Missouri
Roger R. Linsin of St. Louis sues to block Gov. Christopher S. Bond from replacing him on the Highway Commission under the state reorganization law. Filed in Cole County Circuit Court, the action claims any early replacement violates commission provisions and seeks restoration of Linsin to the post. Linsin, a Republican, was appointed in 1969 by Gov. Warren Hearnes.
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Vernon Landgraf
Landgraf
Linsin
Bond
Highway Commission
Warren E. Hearnes
Hermann Youths Injured In Crash
The highway patrol reported three people injured in a one car crash in Gasconade County. Ricky N Sloan 16 Hermann drove off Highway 19 at Route NN and overturned. Bruce C Lewis 13 St Peters suffered minor injuries while Thomas E Horing 17 Hermann had serious injuries. All were taken to Hermann Area Hospital.
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Hermann
Highway Patrol
Gasconade County
Ricky N. Sloan
Highway 19
Route NN
Sloan
Bruce C. Lewis
St. Peters
Thomas E. Horing
Hermann Area
Drug Defendant Digs Out Of Jail
A 21 year old drug defendant escaped Benton County jail by removing a wall register and digging through the brick behind it. Jimmy L. Hentz of Lamonte surrendered after missing sentencing on a drug charge and had pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance tied to LSD arrest.
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Warsaw
Benton County
Robert Breshears
Jimmy L. Hentz
Lamonte
Hentz
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