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The Daily Record reports high and low temperatures, precipitation totals, and a fire at a DX Oil bulk plant. Circuit Court notes guilty pleas with suspended sentences. Missouri weather forecast calls for snow northwest and rain elsewhere. Audrain Medical Center lists recent admissions. Police reports cite a break in at a Walnut Street repair shop and window damage at Mexico High School.
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Walnut St
Gm&o
J. W. Givens Jr
Route 2
Mexico
Mexico High School
Givens
High Level Team Pushes Control Plan
A high level team of Nixon administration officials meets AFL-CIO building trades leaders to seek consensus on stabilizing construction costs. Secretary Hodgson says action may include a wage price freeze, with options for a national stabilization board under consideration and possible congressional action. AFL CIO statements press for higher minimum wage and a federal public works program to reduce unemployment.
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Neil Gilbride
Miami Beach
Fla
Nixon Administration
White House
Secretary of
J.D. Hodgson
Nixon
Afl-Cio Building and Construction Trades Department
Hodgson
Labor — Industry National Construction Stabilization Board
Executive Council
Afl-Cio
Labor Department
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Local Weather- Courts Livestock Market Reports
In over the counter trading yesterday A B Chance Co 23 percent bid 24 percent asked Commerce Bancshares 47 percent bid 48 percent asked Wetteral 26 percent bid 2744 asked On the New York Stock Exchange Bobble Brooks 18 percent close down shares traded 4200 Dresser Industries 34 percent down 2520 Interco 462 down 4 4000 Kaiser Aluminum 36 percent up 4500 Panhandle Eastern Pipeline 36 percent up 4400 Ralston Purina 27 down 4 9900 U S Gypsum common 6214 down 44 7800 U S Gypsum preferred 35 percent down 4 3000
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A. B. Chance Co
Commerce Bancshares
Wetteral
New York Stock Exchange
Bobble Brooks
Dresser Industries
Interco
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
U. S
Three Teens Charged With Kidnap Kill in Texas
In Ozona Texas three Houston area teenagers Patrik Leigh Teague 19 July Teague 17 and Daniel Casey 17 were charged with kidnapping and murder in the slaying of Gaynell Newsom 61 of San Antonio. Newsom disappeared from her home and her body was found in a ravine near Texas 16. Her hands were bound and she was gagged. A shotgun was fired into her neck. The car seized at Ozona belonged to Newsom and her husband R G Newsom.
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R. G. Newsom
San Antonio
Newsom
Ozowa
Patrik Leigh Teague
July Teague
Daniel Casey
Houston
Bellaire
Vietnam drive stalls as NVA mounts counteroffensive
Reports from Saigon indicate South Vietnam's 12 day push against the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos stalled with heavy North Vietnamese counterattacks on both sides of the frontier. The conflict comes as other U S and allied actions unfold across Vietnam.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Young Farmers Of County Meet at Consolidated Electric
The Farm Bureau Young Farmers met Friday evening at the Consolidated Electric Cooperative building. State director Leroy Deles Dernier from Jefferson City spoke of FB Young Farmers activities and the Tan Tara conference. Herman Graffe will be the FB Safemark dealer. A card party followed with prizes to Mrs. Dick Hammett Mrs. Ronald Flatt Fred Kohl and Richard Erisman. Next meeting planned for March 19 with attendees listed.
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Farm Bureau
Consolidated Electric Cooperative
Leroy Deles Dernier
Young Farmers
Jefferson City
Wayne Robertson
Dernier
Tan- Tara
Herman Graffe
Vandalia Firestone Tire and Battery
FB Safemark
Dick Hammett
Ronald Flatt
Fred Kohl
Six Flags Over Mid-America to unveil in St Louis
The 200 acre park in southwest St Louis County will be opened to the public for a May 16 preview from 2 to 7 p m. Proceeds benefit the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, showcasing the new amusement park to residents and visitors.
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ST. Louis
Mid-America
St. Louis County
Saint Louis
US Gives Red China Assurances
London AP report says Nixon administration sought to reassure Communist China that the U.S.-backed Laos invasion by South Vietnamese forces does not threaten China. Chinese sources indicate signals reached Beijing but had limited effect. Demonstrations spread to Kunming as China weighs possible military intervention. People's Daily warns Nixon of China’s reaction.
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London
Nixon
China
Laos
United States
Red China
Peking
Kunming
Yunnan
U.S
People's Daily
Mansfield Sees Laos Move as Stacked Deck
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield warned that opening a new Laos battlefront could lengthen the war and raise American casualties. He disagreed with White House views, saying Laos risks may outweigh potential gains and hinder any negotiated settlement. He cited possible Hanoi choices to stand and fight for the Ho Chi Minh Trail or delay actions elsewhere.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Laos
United States
White House
Montana
Democrat
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Nixon
Southeast Asia
Merrick is New Selective Service Head
Missouri announces Robert Merrick of Jefferson City as the new selective service director. Appointed by the National Selective Service Headquarters, he started Feb 15. Merrick, 44, native of Bertrand in southeast Missouri, has spent 30 years in Jefferson City as supervisor of the motor vehicle fuel section at the Department of Revenue. Lt. Col. Ralph McCain remains as assistant director.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Robert Merrick
National Selective Service Headquarters
Merrick
Bertrand
Department of Revenue
Ralph McCain
Funeral services for Clarence H. Baker in Paris
Funeral services for Clarence Harrison Baker, 58, of Paris, will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Agnew funeral home. The Rev. James Culpepper of Paris United Methodist Church will officiate. Burial follows at Walnut Grove Cemetery. The deceased died Friday morning at home from a heart condition. Friends may call prior to services.
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Paris
Clarence Harrison Baker
Agnew Funeral
Baker
James Culpepper
Paris United Methodist Church
Walnut Grove
Ekern Funeral at 2:30 Monday
Funeral services for Paul C. Ekern, Mexico native, who died of an apparent heart attack, will be Monday at 2:30 p m at Prechteen Funeral Home. Rev. Robert R. Collin of First Presbyterian Church will officiate. Burial is in East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. He is survived by eight children and one sister, Mrs Ruth Hummell of Cicero, Ill. Visitation is Sunday 7 to 8 30 p m at the funeral home. Memorials may go to the Coronary Care Unit at Audrain Medical Center or the Memorial Fund of First Presbyterian Church.
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Paul C. Ekern
Prechteen Funeral Home
Robert R. Collin
First Presbyterian Church
East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Leslie Van Houten Describe Hippie Past and Drug Use
Leslie Van Houten testified about a middle class youth and a drug influenced drift into hippie life and the Self Realization Fellowship. She recalled high school honors, a fractured family, early drug use, and a move to Haight Ashbury before meeting Robert Beausoleil, while expressing lingering affection for him as trial for the Tate murders proceeds.
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Los Angeles
Leslie van Houten
Sharon Tate
Miss van Houten
Los Angeles Area
Self-Realization Fellowship
Haight-Ashbury
San Francisco
Robert Beausolei
Malibu
Beausoleil
Charles Manson
Tate
Manson
Soldier and wife electrocuted by high line at home
In Waynesville Missouri a soldier at Fort Leonard Wood and his wife were killed Friday when a television antenna they were erecting touched a high voltage line. Victims identified as David A. Yewpauer, 25, and Brenda, 21, were residents of Waynesville.
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Waynesville
Ft. Leonard Wood
David A. Yewpauer
Brenda
Top PX Man Won’t Talk About Villa
Sen Edward Gurney alleges top Pentagon officials allowed Star Distributing to keep a Vietnam monopoly on publications. He cites a villa in Saigon offered by Joe DeMarco and a 1969 currency account<$58,000> through New York bank. IRS assessed over $2 million for unpaid taxes. Star denied criminality after military probe. Bribes and kickbacks surfaced during hearings on GI club purchases.
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Washington
Edward Gurney
R-Fla
Pentagon
Vietnam
Gurney
Fred Burgess
Post Exchange System
Senate
Saigon
Joe DeMarco
Star Distributing Co
Star
John Servatius
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
NBC granted Sunday prime time waiver for Bonanza and Disney
The FCC approved NBC to schedule 3 hours of Sunday evening prime time next season in exchange for cutting 30 minutes of prime time on other weeknights. The waiver carves out an exception to the limit in the 50 top markets, a rule CBS and ABC said they do not plan to seek. NBC cited long run with Disney and Bonanza as prompts for the request.
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New York
Federal Communications Commission
NBC Television Network
FCC
NBC
CBS
ABC
Shriners Install Tonight At Empire Club Ceremony
Little Dixie Shrine Club members will be installed at the Empire Club of A. P. Green Refractories Co after a 6:30 social hour and 7:30 dinner. Fred Giesler becomes president with multiple officers and a large slate approved by Moolah Temple Divan. Glenn Dickerson's Band will provide dancing music to 1 a.m. Local governors from multiple towns and the ceremony master are listed along with last year’s officers and the retiring president Hal Randolph.
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Little Dixie Shrine Club
Moolah Temple
Empire Club
A. P. Green Refractories Co
Glenn Dickerson
Fred Giesler
Jay Gourley
Mexico
Tom Bledsoe
al Broeker
Fulton
Art Drumright
Bob Robinson
Rufus Burns
Rush Hill
Dave Hubbard
Centralia
Wayne Robertson
Connie Pickering
Robert Berry
William Sayers
Charles Cockelreas
Raymond Groves
Jack Roberson
Duane Cruzan
Elmer Aussicker
R. W. Coil
Howard Willis
Auxvasse
Boyd Dawson
C. E. Ellis
Paris
John Dyke Jr
Homer Nelson
Montgomery City
William Boettcher
Wellsville
Stuart Keckeley
Tom Maupin
William Ehrlich
Laddonia
Don Dick
Robert Johnson
Martinsburg
Andy Runge
Burns
Hal Randolph
Moolah Temple Divan
Randolph
Bill Bastian
Wendel Bishop
Johnson
Giesler
Hubbard
Democratic Convention Plan Voted By DNC
The Democratic National Committee adopted a compromise formula for allocating votes at the 1972 convention, with a court challenge anticipated. It favors larger states by tripling their electoral votes and allocating the rest by Democratic presidential vote in prior elections, bringing total votes to 3 016 including territories.
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Washington
Democratic National Committee
John F. Singlish
New York
English
DNC
Executive Committee
O’hara
Chicago
National Committee
Jacob Arvey
Dlinois Party
Grant Sawyer
Nevada
Puerto Rico
Canal Zone
Guam
U.S. Virgin Islands
John Powers
Massachusetts
Unclear 1972 National Committee voting changes approved
The executive committee recommended that new national committee members receive only voting spots. Powers protested that the group should not preside over its own liquidation or demise. Mitchell proposed adding two delegates to Puerto Rico, and the proposal passed unanimously.
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National Committee
Mitchell
Puerto Rico
State workers evacuate Jefferson City office building fire
Several hundred state employees evacuated the Jefferson State Office Building after a basement fire. Fire officials said the blaze started in a storage area with Department of Revenue records. elevators were out, forcing a stairway evacuation across 13 floors with no loss estimate.
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Jefferson City
Jefferson State Office
Department of Revenue
HDC Moves Office to New Facility in Audrain County
The Audrain County Human Development Corporation announced it moved to 207 N Washington St seeking greater visibility and space for small meetings tutoring sessions and private interviews. Formerly at 104 E Promenade the new office invites community visits to inspect the facilities.
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Audrain County Human Development Corporation
Washington St
Speed Davis
HDC
E. Promenade
Mexico Ledger Publication Rate Card and Hours
The notice details mailing and pricing for the Mexico Ledger including daily except Sundays and holidays, office address at 300 N Washington St Mexico MO 65265, and print rates for mail subscriptions across Audrain and nearby counties, other Missouri counties, and out-of-state, with monthly and yearly options. It also lists armed forces membership rates and office hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturdays.
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Washington St
Mexico
Audrain
Absentee Ballots Available For City March Vote
City clerk Fae Lowry announces absentee ballots for the March 2 balloting on the one cent sales tax. Voters must request in person or by mail. in person voting runs until 4 p.m. March 1 on site. Mail requests must be sent by Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. and returned by March 1, with mailed ballots notarized.
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Fae Lowry
Lowry
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Palestine Liberation Army
Yasir Arafat
Palestinian Resistance Movement
Federal Reserve Board
Little Rock, Ark
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Winthrop Rockefeller
Rogers C. B. Morton
Alaska
Young Farmers of County Meet
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Liberty
Ekern
Leslie
Villa
NBC Saves
Walt Disney
Shriners
Fred Glesler
Mexico Ledger
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Fayette, Mo
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Ford
J.D
H.C
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