Missouri Weather Summary and Forecast Readings
Official 7:00 a.m. readings show yesterday high 35 low 18. Temperature 18 at 7 a.m. Today. Month to date precipitation 12 inches. year to date 2.43 inches. Sunset 5:36 p.m. Sunrise 7:08 a.m. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy and colder with possible snow north and central Missouri. Highs upper 30s to lower 40s, teens to 20s elsewhere. Tonight very cold with lows near zero north to teens south. Sunday colder with highs teens to 20s. Extended outlook: late Monday into Tuesday precipitation possible, rain south snow north. Highs 30s north to 40s south.
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Missouri
Car bicycle collision causes no injuries in Higginsville
At 6 13 p m Friday a car driven by William D Thieman left Stephenson Motel onto Green Blvd as a bicycle ridden by James Wendal Palmer age 5 pulled in front of it. Palmer was not hurt and no summons issued. In Magistrate Court Kenneth A Valeck pleaded guilty to speeding and was fined 25 plus costs. James Turner Rogers pleaded to amended careless driving and fined 100 plus costs. Dana Gerard Hayden was found guilty of speeding and fined 15 plus costs. Boone County Circuit Court saw joint filing for dissolution of marriage by George William Wood of Columbia and Jo Ann Wood of Mexico.
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William D. Thieman
Higginsville
Stephenson
Green Blvd
James Wendal Palmer
Christy
James
Glenna M. Palmer
Kenneth Ardell Valeck
James Turner Rogers
Dana Gerard Hayden
Boone County Circuit Court
George William Wood
Columbia
Jo Ann Wood
Mexico
Market Report and Local Notices From Audrain County
Market figures list soybeans at 5.94 and corn at 2.91 among MFA and Fowles Grain quotes. The Audrain Medical Center reported admissions including J Randall Quisenberry and Clarence Harris with multiple area residents named. births occurred in Mexico and Paris, with several dismissals and a death. Public safety notes include a traffic summons for Eula P Jenkins after a parking lot accident.
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Eula P. Jenkins
Faipsite Drive
Jenkins
Retta Mae Jones
Thompson
Jackson and
Clark Streets
Trucker Convicted In Extortion Case Near Amoco Plant
A Peculiar Missouri trucker was found guilty by a federal jury of attempting to extort 25000 dollars from Amoco Oil Co. in Kansas City. Billy D. Johnson, 42, faces sentencing after a presentence investigation. the verdict followed a two hour jury deliberation.
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Kansas City
Amoco Oil Co
Donald P. Lay
U.S. District Court
Billy D. Johnson
Johnson
FBI
U.S. 71
Harrisonville
Elijah Muhammad Hospital Visit Reported Safe
Muhammad in hospital in Chicago after a routine checkup. Officials say his condition is satisfactory and not serious. The Nation of Islam founder remains under watch as doctors monitor his health.
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Muhammad In Hospital
Chicago
Elijah Muhammad
The
Nation of Islam
64 Percent Oppose Nixon Pardon in Harris Poll
A Harris poll finds 64 percent say President Ford was wrong to pardon Richard Nixon. Sixty three percent believe the justice system failed over Nixon’s Watergate involvement. Voters largely back how the Watergate case was handled, while one auto mechanic from Toledo laments Nixon escaped accountability.
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New York
Harris
Ford
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Toledo, Ohio
California
Alexander Botts Creator William Upson Dies at 83
William Hazlett Upson, 83, author of the Alexander Botts stories in the Saturday Evening Post for 46 years, died Wednesday in Middlebury Vermont. The Botts tales drew on his work as a salesman for the fictional Earthworm Tractor Co inspired by Caterpillar Tractor Co experiences.
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Middlebury, Vt
William Hazlett Upson
Alexander ‘Botts
Saturday Evening Post
Upson
Botts
Earthworm Tractor Co
Caterpillar Tractor Co
Fords Spend Weekend At Lodge At Camp David
President Ford retreats to Camp David with family for a weekend. Mrs Ford travels with Susan and the golden retriever Liberty. They arrive from the White House by helicopter in frosty, low teen temperatures. Betty Ford wears a fur coat and neck brace for osteoarthritis flare up.
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Camp David, Md
Ford
Susan
Liberty
Fords
White House
Presidential Lodge
Betty
Senior Citizens Trade Homes For Vacations
Portland joins a federal Vacation Residential Exchange program allowing 20 senior public housing residents to swap with 20 Sacramento tenants for 10 days starting April 21. Travel is by air and rail. apartments and bedding are exchanged. a government grant covers travel and incidentals.
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Portland
Ore
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Fred Rosenbaum
Housing Authority of
Sacramento
Calif
HEW
Ruth Drurey
Rites for Clarence F. Harris Set at 2 Sunday
Funeral services for Clarence F. Harris 87 of 1010 Fieldcrest will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Arnold Funeral Home with Rev. George B. Wraith officiating. Burial will follow at East Lawn Memorial Park. Harris died at 10:40 a.m. Friday after a long illness. Visitation is 7 to 9 tonight at the funeral home. He was born March 28, 1888 in Basco Illinois and married Matilda McHone on March 11, 1912. He lived in Audrain County 40 years, was a retired farmer, and worked at Simmons Stables. Survivors include two sons Clarence of Benton City and Orville at home, two daughters Pauline Drebenstedt of Palmyra and Dorothy Carson of Laddonia, nine grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, and a brother Grover of Palmyra. A son Lloyd, four brothers, and three sisters preceded him in death.
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Clarence F. Harris
Fieldcrest
Arnold Funeral Home
George B. Wraith
East Lawn Memorial Park
Harris
Audrain Medical Center
Basco
Rice Harris
Matilda McHone
Audrain County
Simmons Stables
Clarence
Benton City
Orville
Karl
Pauline) Drebenstedt
Palmyra
Vernon
Dorothy) Carson
Laddonia
Grover
Til
Lloyd
Miss Leona Scobee Dies After Illness
Miss Leona J. Scobee of Paris died at Audrain Medical Center in Mexico after about two weeks of illness. She was 74, born June 1, 1900, daughter of Owen and Lola Carter Scobee, longtime Batsell Hardware employee, member of Paris Christian Church. Survived by sister Beulah Benson, a niece and four nephews. brothers Raymond Russell Elmer and sister Phil Havens preceded her in death. Services pending at Agnew Funeral Home.
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Paris
Leona J. Scobee
Audrain Medical Center
Mexico
Agnew Funeral Home
Miss Scobee
Owen
Lola Carter Scobee
Paris Christian Church
Scobee
Batsell Hardware Co
Cliff
Beulah) Benson
Raymond
Russell
Elmer
Phil Havens
Raymond Snook Burial Today
Raymond Snook burial services were held today at 3 p.m. at Arnold Funeral Home with Rev. Ivan Donaldson and Rev. Paul Metcalf officiating. Burial followed at Elmwood Cemetery with Mrs. John Willer as organist and Mrs. Henry Finck as soloist. Active pallbearers included M.K. Snook, Eddie Snook, Alan Snook, Steven R. Lierheimer, Bill J. Ray, and Jim Johnston. honorary pallbearers included Charles Ray, Charles L. Lierheimer, Fred Lierheimer, George Reichers, Louis D. Luckner, Herbert Petty, J. William Ray, John Gage, David Moore, William Lotta, Archie Playter, Forest Noel, and Wallace Stanford.
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Raymond Snook
Arnold Funeral Home
Ivan Donaldson
Paul Metcalf
Elmwood Cemetery
John Willer
Henry Finck
M.K. Snook
Eddie Snook
Alan Snook
Steven R. Lierheimer
Bill J. Ray
Jim Johnston
Charles Ray
Charles L. Lierheimer
Fred Lierheimer
George Reichers
Louis D. Luckner
Herbert Petty
J. William Ray
John Gage
David Moore
William Lotta
Archie Playter
Forest Noel
Wallace Stanford
Roy Stowers Rites Today
Funeral services for Roy Stowers were to be held today at 1 p.m. at the Arnold Funeral Home with the Rev. Weldon Foreman officiating. Burial was to be in Elmwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were Wayne Stowers, Mike Stowers, Gale Stowers, Randall Monson, Jimmie Dowell, Dean Duncan, Kenneth Mullins and John Winningear.
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Roy Stowers
Pam
Arnold Funeral Home
Weldon Foreman
Elmwood Cemetery
John Willer
Wayne Stowers
Mike Stowers
Gale Stowers
Randall Monson
Jimmie Dowell
Dean Duncan
Kenneth Mullins
John Winningear
Ringo Starr Leaves Family for American Girlfriend
London AP report says former Beatle Ringo Starr, 34, flew to the United States with his American girlfriend Nancy Andrews after announcing the breakup of his marriage. Starr said he has left his wife and three children and won’t be going back. Andrews, 24, a model, accompanied him to Los Angeles.
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London
Ringo Starr
United States
Starr
Heathrow
Nancy Andrews
Los Angeles
Centralia Personal News highlights school events and Sodality plans
Personal News from Centralia covers Sinikka Paloposki’s Finland slide show at Centralia High, Sodality discussions on Lent refreshments, a bake sale for World Famines, IGA promotion days, and a church directory with free family portraits. Also noted are Honor Society activities, host schedules for Senior Citizens luncheons, and Hoyt Lunch menu for Feb 10 week.
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St. Ann’s Sodality
Eugene Niekamp
The
Sodality
Centralia
St. Ann's Sodality
Church Women United
Prenger
IGA
Albert Machheo
Leon Swiney
Kirksville
Hoyt
Chance School
Missouri Band Heads to Mardi Gras Parade
Carthage high school band with over 100 members travels to New Orleans to march in a Mardi Gras parade. Boosters and students raised more than 4000 dollars by selling vacuum cleaners cosmetics and soliciting local businesses and organizations for the trip.
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Carthage
New Orleans
Brezhnev Mystery Keeps He Name Before Public Eye
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev has not appeared publicly for 46 days yet his name appears daily in media. Rumors of illness persist amid official silence, with Western diplomats unsure of health or politics. Russell William Doerge retires from Kaiser Refractories after 40 years. plans hunting and fishing in Missouri.
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Moscow
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Kremlin
Armand Hammer
U.S
Hammer
Middle East
Supreme Soviet
Harold Wilson
Wilson
Helmut Schmidt
Paris
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Russell William Doerge
Kaiser Refractories
Doerge
Missouri
Arrest Fails Drug Pickup at Lambert Airport
Two Festus men, John Walster aged 35 and Gary Winfield aged 33, were arrested at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport after attempting to pick up a package containing amphetamine tablets worth about 20000 dollars. Police, aided by two St. Louis County officers posing as baggage handlers, acted on a tip from Chicago customs officials that a box marked Fragile Antique Glass would arrive on a San Diego flight.
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Berkeley
Festus
Lambert-St. Louis International
John Walster
Gary Winfield
St. Louis County
Chicago
San Diego
Cold Kills Man After Car Breaks Down Near McBaine
The frozen body of 59 year old Raymond L. Boone was found near McBaine southwest of Columbia after his car stalled. Investigators say exposure caused his death, about 1 a.m., with Boone wearing light clothing and only slippers. No foul play suspected.
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Columbia
Missouri
McBaine
Raymond L. Boone
Ava
Jack Meyer
Boone
Columbia Water and Light Department
John Townsend
Gospel Music Meeting Tuesday Plans Mexico Festival
Local members of the Missouri Gospel Music Assn will meet Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in the courthouse community room to plan the third annual Mexico Festival of Gospel Music. The festival, set for March 15, will feature the Senators from Columbus, Mississippi.
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Missouri Gospel Music Assn
Mexico
Courthouse
Senators
Columbus
Miss
Agnew and Dilbeck feud over severed deal and funds
Evansville Indiana associations explode as Walter J. Dilbeck Jr accuses former Vice President Spiro T Agnew of exploiting their business tie and leaving him in the lurch after terminating a one year 100000 dollar contract Dilbeck says he advanced funds and never received a dime while Agnew claims Dilbeck publicized negotiations and misrepresented facts The dispute traces to the Global Baseball League failed in Venezuela with unpaid hotel bills and bounced checks plus planned multimillion dollar Kentucky deals and a coal mine sale to Japanese interests.
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Evansville, Ind
Walter J. Dilbeck Jr
Spiro T. Agnew
Dilbeck
Agnew
Venezuela
Kentucky
Oklahoma
The
Baptist Foundation of America
Baptist Foundation
Baptist Church
Evansville
Indiana
Ohio River
Ronald Reagan
California
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
Doctors Say Onassis Has Heavy Flu in Paris
Paris report says Aristotle Onassis, 69, is battling very heavy influenza at the American Hospital Neuilly. His myasthenia gravis is in remission but he is weakened by illness and nutritional impairment. his wife Jacqueline Kennedy and daughter Christina visited as Olympic Airways falls under full Greek state control.
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Paris
Aristotle Onassis
Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy
Athens
Olympic Airways
Neuilly
Christina
Jacques Caroli
Isadore Rosenfeld
New York
Rosenfeld
Boy In Need Of Kidney Appeals For Prayer Not Money
Naples AP six year old Donnie Todd needs a kidney transplant after kidney failure from a congenital disease. Doctors say a kidney from his father is possible with a 90 percent success rate and the operation is planned for February 18 at Shands Florida Gainesville. Donations have funded medical bills and the transplant. a fund trustee says about 30 000 in cash has been raised and no more money will be accepted.
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Naples
Fla
Donnie Todd
Donnie
Robert Todd
Shands Teaching Hospital
University of Florida
Gainesville
Todd
Vietnam
Todds
Associated Press
Jerry Deason
Florida Bureau of Crippled Children and Social Security Administration
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Market Report
MFA
Fowles Grain Co
J. Randall Quisenberry
Ruth F. Bush
Randy Higbee
Henry Bell
David L. Chapman
Donald D. Decker
Robert Welborn
James H. Elzea Sr
Vandalia
Paul R. Crump
Sturgeon
Pearl James
Keith Seiger
Rush Hill
Marvin Barnes
Montgomery City
Hollis
Ronald Duncan
Josephine Brauer
John A. Jones
Frank W. Beauchamp
Anderson B. Mitchell
Alvin E. Harp
Stockwell Smithey
Martha Phillips
Todd Ettherton
Zella House
Terry W. Brandon
Virgil L. Terry
Robert Rosson
Janet Hake
Rosa C. Heckart
Ray C. Jackson
Ray Engert
Matt Abell
Elmer J. Miler
Edward Douglas
Charles I. Wright
Ted Seeley
Clarence Carroll Jr
Farber
Melvin Wayne Todd Jr
John C. Churchill
St. Louis
Robert Lucas
Orry Gergen
New Florence
Ronald J. Hendrix
Larry Smith
Loyd G. Johnson Jr
Linda R. Askey
Terry Gruer
Fulton
Robert E. Boeger
Middletown
Charles Lierheimer
Richard L. Millhollin
Madison
Ida Davenport
Homer Owen
Auxvasse
Leona Scobee
Raymond Estil Wilson
Barbara Jean Jones
Gen. Robinett
Mountain Grove
Paul M. Robinett
Missouri Ozarks
Robinett
Mobile
Ala
Commerce Bancshares
Wetterau
New York Stock Exchange
Robbie Brooks
A. B. Chance
Downie
Combustion Engineering
Dresser Industries
Emerson Electric
Intercom
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
Alexander Botts
C. F. Harris
Ringo
John
Jenni Parker
Sinikka Paloposki
AFS
Centralia High School
Sinikka
Finland
Heaton
Hutson
Russell Doerge
Kaiser Russian
Cold Kills Man
Gospel Music Meeting
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