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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1976
Page
1
Jefferson City AP reports health officials say the south central Missouri measles outbreak is easing with four cases this week and 360 total in six counties led by Lebanon. Officials cite immunization gaps and emphasize vaccination, noting no deaths or major complications.
A 2:30 a.m. power failure blacked out most of Columbia and Boone County on the coldest day of the year. Service was largely restored by 5:30 a.m. after a faulty insulator caused a line to fall and overload generators. About 60,000 people lost power. a mobile home fire occurred in the area.
California must scrap its current property tax based school financing and replace it by 1980 with a system providing equal educational opportunities for students in rich and poor districts. The state Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 that the present system violates equal protection guarantees for 4.5 million public elementary and high school pupils.
President Ford defends the $135 million swine flu inoculation program while conceding halting it was probably wise. About 50 million Americans were inoculated before the pause to investigate a possible link to Guillain Barré syndrome. The administration reports 31 injury compensation claims totaling $1.1 million.
Sheriff William Kenneth Carnes of Jackson County may be appointed head of Missouri Public Safety, with reports he has been offered the job and plans to accept. Gov elect Teasdale was expected to unveil top appointments next week as the department includes highway patrol liquor control fire marshal and National Guard.
Audrain County Prosecuting Attorney Thomas I. Osborne and secretary Rose Marie Heim were honored at a surprise reception in the county courthouse law library. Osborne completes his term today and plans fulltime law practice in the Landmark Building. Heim will become his secretary. Frieda James of Mexico will succeed Heim.
Arthur Fletcher, deputy assistant to President Ford on urban affairs, predicts he will win the national Republican chairmanship when the GOP National Committee votes January 14. At 52, Fletcher is the highest ranking black in the Nixon era administration and now seeks the party leadership.
Missouri Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision, ruled the Recapitulation of Understanding between St. Louis Board of Education and the St. Louis Teachers Association void because it arose from an illegal teachers strike. The decision upholds that public employees may not strike and calls into question the validity of a 1973 wage dispute settlement.
State Auditor George Lehr questions constitutional limits on fuel tax use as nearly 750000 dollars funded three patrol planes and their maintenance over two years. He says the Office of Administration failed to reimburse the fuel tax fund, forcing the patrol to bear costs and limiting aircraft enforcement. Recommendations include recovering patrol expenses and transferring funding control to the Office of Administration.
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