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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1977
Page
14
Official readings show highs near 61 and lows around 8 yesterday with 23 at 7 am. Forecast calls for showers late tonight into Saturday, cooler weekend with highs in the 60s for Missouri, and below normal lake levels at Lake of the Ozarks and nearby gauges with several sites well under normal.
Admission reports at Audrain Medical Center list numerous patients including Mr. Richard W. Mechlin Mrs. Sue 5 Nienaber and Miss Deanna K Munford among many others with several locations such as Mexico Centralia Vandalia Wellsville and Montgomery City. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Lee Curtis at 6 39 a m a daughter at 1716 Fairground in Mexico. Dismissals include Mrs George Parrott Mrs Clarence Haworth and many more across multiple towns.
Mrs. John Jones reported the theft of her daughter Meg’s flute from a Mexico High School gym locker. Value listed at 200 dollars. Minor vehicle damage noted after two separate Thursday accidents on local roads. Glenn E Roethemeyer cited for careless driving after a Route B collision near Mexico.
Randall Eugene Rogers pleaded guilty to a minor liquor charge with a 50 dollar fine and to possession of less than 485 grams of marijuana with a 100 dollar fine plus court costs. Rodney Wade Garnett pleaded guilty to minor liquor and marijuana offenses, 50 dollar fine, 10 days jail, and bond. Roger Eugene Chism pleaded guilty to speeding with a 10 dollar fine plus costs. The circuit court notes the marriage of Evelyn Anne LeBrell Brown and Freder Charles Brownes, and an inventory filed by Robert F. McBurney as executor showing personal property valued at 8161.40 with no real estate. letters of no administration issued to Lucille Handthorn, Larry Moas, and Mary Elizabeth Boske.
Slaughter hogs and sows mostly steady to 2.00 lower with feeders up to 20. Prices per cut vary by weight, with sighted figures for 1-3, 82 head at 28.1.04 and futures mixed on Chicago Board of Trade. Grain prices shown: soybeans 7.16, corn 2.40, wheat 2.50 locally. Chicago futures inch higher on soybeans and mixed on wheat and corn.
Stocks fell as the Dow slipped 4.65 points to 930.00 amid a 0.8 percent CPI rise in the prior month. Volume on the Big Board reached 7.40 million in early trading with losers ahead of gainers in a 7-4 NYSE edge.
Cele Briscoe, 20, daughter of Texan Governor Dolph Briscoe and SMU student, avoids discussing rumors of a match with Prince Charles. A London Daily Mirror story suggested she could be one of several blue blood heiresses Charles might consider as a wife. She says she has never met the prince.
AMC board discussed revised expansion plans from Hammond Charles Burns and LaPere with Harold LaPere to meet trustees next Thursday. Hagan and AMC administration will brief Audrain County Court Tuesday as the court awaits the schematics before deciding on revenue bonds. The board approved buying a portable X ray machine for 18009 dollars and a Bovie surgical unit for 2321 dollars.
A Gay Lib group petitions the Eighth Circuit to overturn a Kansas City ruling that blocked campus recognition citing potential violations of Missouri sodomy laws. The case challenges the University of Missouri Columbia policy on student groups and free association. The court could rule within a month.
Carl W Preston 46 of Montgomery City was found dead near bins at Prairie Milling Co. in Montgomery City. Coroner Alexander Gardner ruled death a few hours prior. Services set for 2 pm Saturday at Schlanker Funeral Home with Rev. Gary Ummel. burial in Montgomery City Cemetery. Survived by two sons, eight daughters, nine grandchildren, three sisters and a brother.
Funeral services for Alan Dale Bodine, 21, killed in an Anchorage area auto accident two weeks after leaving the Air Force, will be held in Paris’s St Frances Cabrini Church with burial at St Mary’s Cemetery in Shelbina. Rosary tonight at Agnew Funeral Home. Bodine, son of Cecil Bodine Sr and the late Edith Power Bodine, survived by five brothers and two sisters. He was a Paris A-2 High School graduate who joined the Air Force shortly after.
A Justice Department task force released findings after reviewing over 200000 FBI documents and interviewing about 40 witnesses. It found no evidence of FBI involvement in Martin Luther King Jr. murder and said James Earl Ray acted alone. The report notes no competent evidence supports a conspiracy.
Israeli officials called President Carter's decision to halt sales of the 500-pound CBU-72 concussion bomb an irritant among several U S policy moves. Egyptian President Sadat praised the ban as statesmanship while Defense Minister Peres tied the issue to a Vietnam era psychological factor. The U S cited wariness over civilian harm as it weighed bans on arms and allied sales.
AP News Analysis details U S District Judge Jack Weinstein nullifying the Interior Department's 1.13 billion mid Atlantic offshore lease sale to 39 oil firms. The ruling fuels arena battles between environment and energy needs while Louisiana and other states accuse others of sacrifice. The decision comes amid worst winter gas shortages as Carter seeks energy policy.
Washington AP reports Rep Morris K Udall chairing the House Interior Committee now handles civil nuclear programs. Udall shows little enthusiasm for nuclear energy, urging continued hearings and hinting at phasing out fission by early next century as conservation and solar advance. The once-powerful joint Atomic Energy Committee loses influence after the panel’s reassignment.
A UCLA professor says a skull found in West Berlin in 1973 is definitively Martin Bormann. He matched the skull to Bormann’s dental records tooth by tooth, crown by crown, supporting the long-standing claim of the aide’s fate.
Essie David sues Patricia L Bell in Audrain County Circuit Court for 17500 claiming she was struck by Bell’s car while walking a strike picket line at Florsheim Shoe Co. last October. David and her husband seek damages for medical costs and loss of companionship from injuries alleged as permanent and progressive.
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