Weather and market report from The Daily Record
Official 7:00 a.m readings with temperatures, precipitation, and extended forecasts for Missouri. Includes Lake of the Ozark and Pomme de Terre levels, river stages in St. Louis area, hospital admissions and births, police and sheriff reports, court actions, vital statistics, and livestock market prices from Missouri Livestock Market Center and National Stockyards.
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Missouri
Lake of the Ozark
Pomme de Terre
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Boonville
Jefferson City
Hermann
Cape Girardeau
Market gains lift Dow as banks cut prime rate to 5 1 2 percent
U S investors push stock prices higher amid rate declines with the Dow up 2.74 to 891 57 at noon as NYSE tape runs late. Banks including two NYC institutions cut prime to 5 1 2 percent, fueling optimism about near term gains. Actress Rachel Roberts files for divorce from Rex Harrison in Santa Monica citing irreconcilable differences. couple separated last month.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
New York City
Associated Press
Xerox
Atlantic Richfield
CNA Financial
Goodyear
Union Carbide
Ford
American Stock
Beverly Enterprises
Texstar
Nutronics
Franklin Mint
Genge Industries
People In the News
Los Angeles
Calif
Rachel Roberts
Rex Harrison
Italy
Santa Monica Superior Court
California
Miss Roberts
Beulah Burroughs 93, Vandalia resident, dies
Mrs Beulah Burroughs 93 of Vandalia Route 1 died at Audrain Medical Center after a brief illness. Funeral 1 p.m. Thursday Waters Funeral Home with Rev Glen Vernon officiating. Burial Frankford Cemetery. Survived by grandson J W Newland of Vandalia and four great grandchildren. a son Lloyd and a daughter Ruth Newland preceded in death. Burial details and church affiliations noted.
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Beulah Burroughs
Vandalia Rte. 1
Audrain Medical Center
Waters Funeral Home
Glen Vernon
First Christian Church
Frankford Cemetery
Burroughs
Frankford
Thomas
Elizabeth Thompson Allison
Dean Walker Named To FPC Post By Nixon
President Nixon nominates Pinkney Calvin Walker 53 dean of the school of business and public administration at the University of Missouri Columbia to fill the unexpired term of Carl E Bagge on the Federal Power Commission. Bagge had resigned to lead the National Coal Association. Walker, a Graham Texas native, will hold the $30 000 yearly post and also serves as director of Kemper Military Academy and two Missouri banks.
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Walker
Graham, Tex
Treasury
Charles Walker
Kemper Military Academy
Boonville
Missouri
Big D-Day Diddle: Debits and coins stir UK shops
London reports hundreds of shopkeepers blaming decimal coins for price increases while consumers allege profiteering. The Sun dubs it the big D-Day diddle as buses, canteens, and vending machines adjust and delay causes confusion amid the swing from shillings to pence. London Transport apologizes after a boy is denied transit for decimal money.
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London
Britain
Southampton
Gordon Guest
Automatic Vending Association of
Great Britain
Sun
London Transport
Anthony Brockwitz
Spies Stage Show For Laird Protest At Pentagon
Eleven SANE members in spy attire staged 40 minutes of street theater outside Defense Secretary Melvin Laird’s Bethesda home. They protested Army intelligence surveillance of peace groups and cited a mail cover used to monitor SANE. The demonstration, with tape recorders and toy gear, ended without incident.
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Bethesda, Md
SANE
Defense
Melvin Laird
Laird
Pentagon
Army
Sanford Gottlieb
Citizens Organization For A Sane World
Robert Lee Ewens Dies At Age 70
Robert Lee Ewens 70 of Sturgeon died 11 30 p m Monday at Boone County Rest Home near Columbia where he lived with sister Mary Adkisson in Centralia He was born August 22 1900 in Boone County son of George Washington and Mary Ellen Wade Ewens A retired farmer he belonged to Locust Grove Baptist Church Survived by sister Centralia brother Sterling Luther Ewens Sturgeon and many nieces and nephews Services will be held Wednesday at 2 p m at Mount Horeb Cemetery near Sturgeon with Rev James Jones officiating.
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Robert Lee Ewens
Boone County
Columbia
Centralia
Sterling Luther Ewens
Ballew
Mount Horeb
James Jones
Sturgeon First Christian Church
Rites Held For Miss Barbara Sims at Arnold Funeral Home
Funeral services for Miss Barbara Sims were conducted by Rev. George B. Wraith at Arnold funeral home with a large attendance of out of town relatives. Attendees included Vernon Sims and Mrs. Sims with children Debra Susan and Patti of Cedar Rapids Iowa and many others from across Illinois Missouri and Kansas.
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Barbara Sims
Arnold Funeral Home
George B. Wraith
First Christian Church
Vernon Sims
Calvin P. Lewis
el Paso
Tex
Rancis McGee
Collinsville, Il
Melvin Meyer
Quincy
Ronald Powell
Quincy, NL
den McGee
Auxvasse
Banks Trim Interest Rate For 4th Time
New York banks and others cut the prime lending rate to 6.0 percent, the fourth quarter-point cut this year, led by Bankers Trust Co. and followed by Manhattan, First National City, Chemical, Irving Trust and Manufacturers Hanover. The move aligned with a Federal Reserve discount rate cut, while the Dow Jones rose as traders priced in easier money.
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New York
Bankers Trust Co
Chose
District Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve System
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Bankers Trust
Federal Reserve Board
Treasury
Alaska Governor Urges Pipeline Action Now
Alaska Governor William A. Egan urged a trans Alaska pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez to secure oil revenue and avert state bankruptcy. He testified at hearings opened by Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, who stressed environmental review and native land rights before any Alyeska right of way decision.
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Washington
William A. Egan
Alaska
Egan
Valdez
Interior
Rogers C. B. Morton
Morton
Alyeska Pipeline Company
Alane At
U.S
Senate
Interior Committee
Alyeska
Henry M. Jackson
D Wash
Ted Stevens
Mike Gravel
House
Wayne N. Aspinall
Dcolo
James Haley
D-Fla
Kennedy
Harris
Alaska Federation of Natives
Haley
Aspinall
Cavanagh to Speak on The Crisis in the Cities
Jerome P. Cavanagh, former Detroit mayor and urban problems expert, will discuss The Crisis in the Cities at 8 15 p m Tuesday February 16 in Stephens College Assembly Hall as the final speaker in the 1970 71 Foreign Relations Lecture Series.
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Cavanagh
Columbia
Jerome P. Cavanagh
Detroit
Stephens College
Marine Patrol Fires On Wanted Marines In Vietnam
Boston reports a U S Marine patrol fired on five wanted American servicemen near Da Nang on April 29, 1969. Pvt Michael D Maynard, then 21, pleaded guilty to mutiny and escape from confinement and is serving a three year term in Portsmouth naval brig. One man died and four fugitives reportedly fled toward a wooden house with two Vietnamese girls before gunfire.
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Boston
Boston Globe
U.S
Vietnam
Michael D. Maynard
Jordan
Utah
da Nang
Maynard
Portsmouth
N.H
the Globe
Marine Aircraft Group 11
Mrs Ash Ill Admitted To Kaiser Hospital Through Walnut Creek
Mrs Carrie Ash visiting her son in Lafayette California became ill and was admitted to the Phillips Foundation Hospital at Walnut Creek. John Leonard of Mexico is in intensive care at Kaiser.
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Ash
Carrie Ash
Bill
Phillips Goodson
Lafayette
Calif
John Leonard
Mexico
Kaiser
Phillips Foundation
Walnut Home Creek
Gunmen kidnap Dallas deputies in river bottom attack
A. D. McCurley, the only deputy to escape injury, recounts how he and colleagues Infante Robertson Dover were seized by two gunmen after visiting a West Dallas home. The group was forced into a squad car and driven to Trinity River bottoms where shots rang out. McCurley fled, was later driven to a service station, and police recovered at the scene.
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A. D. McCurley
Infante, Robertson
Dover
Dallas
Dallas County Sheriff's Office
Reese
McCurley
Infante
Trinity River Bottoms
River Bottoms
Pat Van Horn Heads Mexico High Student Council
The 1971-72 MHS Student Council officers are Pat Van Horn president Chuck Worstell vice president Iris Holtcamp secretary and Marcia Lees treasurer. Seniors were not voting as eight finalists were chosen after a primary last week. Mexico's Community Teachers Association will sponsor a spaghetti supper on Friday Feb 26 from 4 to 7 30 p.m. to fund a second scholarship for a Mexico High senior before the Bulldogs game against Jefferson City Jays.
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Pat van Horn
Chuck Worstell
Iris Holtcamp
Marcia Lees
MHS
Mexico
Community Teachers Association
Bulldogs
Jefferson City Jays
3/4 of US population now lives in metro areas
The Census Bureau reports 149.3 million people or 73.5 percent resided in urban areas in 1970, up from 69.9 percent in 1960. Suburb growth outpaced central-city growth, with the South urbanizing fastest at 64.4 percent in 1970 from 58.5 percent a decade earlier.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Censya Bureau
South
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