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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1976
Page
4
Coin dealer Steve Markoff paid $7.3 million for 400000 mostly uncirculated silver dollars in a court ordered auction of the LaVere Redfield estate. About 350000 coins dated 1873 to 1935 and nearly 60000 circulated coins sold, with wholesale value estimated between $12 million and $14 million.
Washington AP reports North Vietnamese leaders claim a Nixon letter promised 3.25 billion dollars in aid to North Vietnam. Rep. Paul McCloskey said Hanoi asked reciprocal gestures and offered to release more information on missing Americans as available. Kissinger had said any sum would be discussed after accords take effect.
United Nations United States Ambassador Daniel P Moynihan began a month as president of the U N Security Council in the council s alphabetical rotation. Moynihan took over from Tanzania s Salim A Salim after being named head of the U N mission last July.
The Mexico Post Office restored the public use photocopy machine after a delay. Postmaster Arland Peck announced the machine is available two hours daily at 15 cents per copy, with about 1800 copies monthly. The Postal Service will reinstate most self service copy machines nationwide amid public pressure and 12000 protest letters.
Punxsutawney Pa AP Phil, the famous groundhog, emerged from a heated burrow in minus ten degree weather and saw his shadow signaling at least six more weeks of winter. Skeptics claim the ceremony is staged, but leader Sam Light defends the event and notes Phil’s predictions appear in the Congressional Record.
Four Trenton residents were seriously injured when their light plane struck a tree during an emergent approach to Catton Woods Memorial Airport northeast of Columbia Missouri. The pilot Robert Hagan and his wife Margaret, plus Mr and Mrs Jewell Rentfrow, were identified by Boone County sheriff's office. The Rentfrows were in critical condition, Hagans serious. The flight, from Nashville, was refueling after head winds. An Autocorrelation: Jacque R. Jones, owner of J and M Rack and Gem Shop, was hospitalized after illness.
Two award winning MMA units the Fusiliers and Drum and Bugle Corps will perform at halftime of the Missouri-Kansas State game February 4 in Columbia. They are known for drill precision and Bicentennial drum selections and have appeared at presidential inaugurals and on national TV. Cadet Kevin Hamlett of Laddonia is among the performers.
Mrs. Eugene Lamm of 1205 Pollock Road has returned home from Regional Hospital at Columbia where she underwent orthopedic therapy for 19 days.
President Ford and Congress face a tight window to craft an election finance system that withstands Supreme Court scrutiny. The Senate and House push bills to restore the Federal Election Commission powers, with the court ruling curbing enforcement and funding. If no action by March 1, campaign subsidies risk halting after the FEC approved 4.9 million dollars to 12 recipients.
A bottle dropped into the Ohio River by Patrick Sandfoss in 1971 was found five years later in Scotland. The note arrived in Erlanger Kentucky in January 1976 from Port Charlotte Isle of Islay. The sender, James L Bain, described the long voyage and urged a reply. Pope Paul VI voiced sorrow over unemployment amid Italy’s economic woes affecting about 1.4 million workers.
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