Weather and river readings across Missouri and Kansas City
Local forecast notes a period of light rain or drizzle this afternoon turning briefly to snow tonight with a low in the mid 20s and clearing Saturday. Missouri cools slightly with highs in the 40s, later 50s Monday and Tuesday with a chance of showers. River stages show Missouri readings around St. Louis at 31, Boonville 70, Jefferson City 73, with Lake of the Ozarks at 656.0 feet below full and Pomme de Terre at 89.2 feet.
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Missouri
Kansas City
ST. Louis
Boonville
Jefferson City
Hermann
Hannibal
Cape Girardeau
Quincy
Hospital andPolice Reports Highlight Local Court and Deaths
Audrain Medical Center disclosed admissions including Raymond Smiley and Mrs. Clarence Landers among many named residents from Mexico and surrounding towns. Death notices list Eugene Forsee and Harry Evans, with marriage license issued to William Lee Ballew and Bertha Merle Smith. Police and sheriff reports cover theft, traffic incidents, and a mobile home move, plus court actions on liquor violations, littering, careless driving, and assault. Mo Livestock Market notes hog and cattle prices. National/Chicago markets report mixed futures and cash grain prices.
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Audrain Medical Center
Raymond Smiley
Clarence Landers
Roy Hunziker
Steve Brooks
Glen W. Jones
Terry D. Carlyle
Polk Connaway
Anna L. Melahn
Harry J. Stingley
Darren Matthiesen
Mexico
W.C. Mobley
Walter A. McBride
Centralia
Emmett B. Law
Michael R. White
Louis A. Rogers
Fulton
Floyd B. Ash
W. Payne Whyte
Montgomery City
Gary Smith
Kingdom City
Dayton L. Barker
Laddonia
Christopher Strube
New Florence
Alice Sue Branson
Ausvasse
Herbert R. Cochran
Middletown
Martha M. Bennett
Alvie Horsky
Earl G. Barnes
Donna S. Thessler
James Wood
John Beckley
Leo Schwartze
Robert Stille
Robert Breid
Mary Adkisson
Elizabeth Strickland
Eva L. Yager
Dennis O. Ferbee
Edward Wainscott
John H. Christian
Thomas Kinkade
Vandalia
Maurice H. Miller
Auxvasse
Eura F. Carpenter
Sturgeon
James Bealmear
William Lee Ballew
Bertha Merle Smith
Melvin Ward
Harwood St
Dorsey L. Griffith
Route 4
Miss McCue
Lue Lozier Dies After Long Public Service
Lue Lozier, longtime Missouri public servant and former chief attorney for the State Highway Department, died Thursday at his home east of Moberly after a period of illness. He also served as a Missouri Supreme Court commissioner in Jefferson City.
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Moberly
Lue Lozier
Missouri Capitol
Mr. Lozier
State Highway Department
Missouri Supreme Court
Jefferson City
Pageant contestants share high school roots
Seven of eleven Miss Mexico Pageant contestants in 1972 are graduates or students at Mexico High School. The remaining four hail from Centralia A-6 Wellsville Middletown and Boonville districts. Diane Elaine Dempsey, a Wellsville Middletown alumna, is not in this week’s photo series. The pageant is Saturday at 8 p.m. in Presser Hall.
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Mexico High School
Centralia A-6
Wellsville- Middletown
Boonville
Diane Elaine Dempsey
Diane
Bennie Dempsey
Middletown
Presser Hall
Man Charged With Making Annoying Calls
George B. Ransdell was arraigned in Marion County magistrate court on a charge of making annoying phone calls. He was arrested Monday and remanded to custody with bond set at 500 dollars. He pleaded not guilty.
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Donald Leo Riechers
Monterey
Jimmie Ray Bisenhaur
Lloyd Nelson
Greenplate
Rex E. Adcock
James Lee Moore
William Clinton Green
James Lewis Payne
Kathleen Viehman
Russell Lee Reeder
Patrick D. O'Brennis
John Lawrence Moser
James Edward Rise
Roger Dale Sanders
Hannibal
George B. Ransdell
Marion County
Elephant Wins Whiplash Damages
In Los Angeles a Superior Court judge awarded Ted De Wayne 4500 dollars after his 16 year old elephant Bimbo Jr. lost interest in water skiing and dancing following a trailer crash. De Wayne sought 10000 from driver Michael J. Mathwig.
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Los Angeles
Ted de Wayne
de Wayne
Bimbo Jr
Michael J. Mathwig
Bimbo
Humphrey III Runs for Minnesota State Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey III, son of U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, announced Thursday he will seek the Minnesota state senate this fall, joining his father’s political family in a new bid for public office.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Hubert H Humphreys
Hubert H. Humphrey III
Minnesota
Market close boosts stocks on favorable economic news
New York shares rose broadly as traders priced in softer wholesale inflation and a lower base lending rate. Dow up 9.33 to 922.03 as Du Pont led gains on news of a new contact lens material. steel shares fell while most groups posted mixed advances and declines.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
First National City Bank
du Pont
Mrs. Harry Evans Dies at 82 Rites Pending
Mrs. Harry Evans, 82, of the Farmer community southeast of Vandalia, died this morning at Sunset Retirement Home in Bowling Green. Services are pending at a Bowling Green funeral home. She is survived by her husband and six sons Harvey Evans and Tom Lybarger of Vandalia, Henry Lybarger of Middletown, and Bill, Homer, and Marion Lybarger of Curryville.
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Vandalia
Harry Evans
Sunset
Bowling Green
Harvey Evans
Tom Lybarger
Henry Lybarger
Middletown
Bill, Homer and
Marion Lybarger
Curryville
Farm Income Up 8 Percent In Missouri
Missouri farm marketings cash receipts rose to 1.68 billion in 1971, an 8 percent increase from 1970. October topped at 269.7 million in sales. Livestock receipts fell 3 percent to 1.096 billion while crop receipts climbed 36 percent to 588 million. average gross income per farm reached 14,051 and net income per farm 4,257, both records.
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Columbia, Mo
Missouri
Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Nixon in Peking Eyes Slow Path to Diplomatic Ties
President Nixon and Mrs Nixon toured the Forbidden City and met leaders in Peking amid snow. They planned a final business session with Chou Enlai, with talks touching on cultural exchanges, limited tourism, and potential full diplomatic relations while facing the Taiwan issue.
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Nixon
Chou
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Peking Palace
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Peking
White House
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Taiwan
United States
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Chiang
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Imperial Compound
Tien An Men Square
Murder Victim Alive After Initial Charge Shake Up
Caruthersville Missouri charged in a murder case after Audi Johnson 29 of Hayti was arraigned on a second degree murder count with a $5000 bond. The so called victim turned up alive in a Memphis Tennessee hospital triggering a refiled assault with intent to kill charge and ongoing investigation into Pearson’s status.
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Caruthersville
Audi Johnson
Hayti
Memphis, Tenn
Johnson
Sylvester Pearson
Pearson
St. Joseph's Hospital
Memphis
Young Kennedy Glad To Be Home
Joseph P. Kennedy returns to Boston after a hijacking incident on his overseas flight. At Logan Airport his mother Ethel Kennedy says she wants him home for a bit. The 19 year old says he feels great to be home and would not hesitate to fly overseas again.
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Boston
Joseph P. Kennedy
Ethel Kennedy
Logan International Airport
Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Ward's offers up to 1000 for 1882 catalog copy
Montgomery Ward and Co offers 1000 dollars for a copy of its 1882 83 fall-winter catalog. A spokesman said 500 would go to the best copy and 500 to others submitting copies. If only one copy arrives, the owner gets 1000. All 1882 catalog copies are said to be missing from Ward's files.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward & Co
Ward
Ward’s
Ward's
Farm City Tours Planned by Mexico Chamber Board
The Mexico Chamber of Commerce board approved 1972 action plans including farm to city and city to farm tours led by the agriculture committee under Nelson Willingham to foster rural and urban understanding. Other efforts target downtown improvements, tourism, four lane Highway 54, Cannon Dam development, and a civic center feasibility study.}
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Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Nelson Willingham
Consolidated Electric Cooperative
Mexico
G. Andy Runge
William Hilton
Kingdom City
Harold Edwards
Community Chest Board
L. Jacob
Max Jamison
Chamber of Commerce
Smiley Stabbed In Store Accident
Raymond Smiley remains hospitalized at Audrain Medical Center after a knife slipped while he boned beef at the Smiley IGA Foodliner. He endured a deep stab wound in the upper leg near the groin. his wife said he is getting along fine today.
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Raymond Smiley
Audrain Medical Center
Smiley Iga
UMKC Confiscates Paper Over Ginsberg Poem Troost Street Blues
UMKC seized thousands of copies of a university funded paper after an editor said the Allen Ginsberg poem Troost Street Blues contained language deemed highly unacceptable. The work, produced as a review of last week's Robert F Kennedy Memorial Symposium, was edited under contract with novelist Ken Kesey who attended the event.
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Kansas City
University of Missouri-Kansas City
UMKC
Allen Ginsberg
Ken Kesey
Appoints Baker as director of community relations
Jefferson City Missouri AP Thomas Eugene Baker named director of community relations and education for the Missouri Commission on Human Rights Clyde L Scott executive director announced with Frederick Douglass Thomas as deputy director and Nancy N Spurrier as secretary in the new program
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Jefferson City, Mo
Thomas Eugene Baker
Missouri Commission On Human Rights
Clyde L. Scott
Frederick Douglass Thomas
Nancy N. Spurrier
Crash Victim In Fair Condition After Train Strikes Truck
Gilbert Kaiser of Route 3 Centralia and his 3 year old son were injured when Kaiser's truck was hit by an eastbound Norfolk and Western freight train at the Walnut Street crossing in Paris. Kaiser is unconscious with head injuries and remains in fair condition at Boone County Hospital in Columbia. Stacey Kaiser was treated and released from Audrain Medical Center.
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Gilbert Kaiser
Route 3
Centralia
Paris
Boone County Hospital
Columbia
Stacey Kaiser
Audrain Medical Center
Mr. Kaiser
Precht-Pickering Funeral Home
MFA Exchange
Walnut St
Norfolk & Western
Roos Attacks Court Plan On Districts
Clayton Missouri AP Law rence K Roos Republican denounces federal redistricting as brazen gerrymandering stating it favors incumbents. Legislature stalemate may force use of federal lines for elections. County weighs resolution urging a state plan and sends appeal to Attorney General Danforth.
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Clayton, Mo
Missouri
St. Louis
Lawrence K. Roos
Roos
Brainerd W. LaTourette Jr
South
Arkansas
North
Towa
General Assembly
St. Louis County
John C. Danforth
Birth of Richard Dean Giboney at Audrain Medical Center
Mr and Mrs Walter Giboney of 411 South Missouri Avenue welcomed a son named Richard Dean Giboney born Sunday at Audrain Medical Center weighing 7 pounds 7 ounces. The baby joins the Giboney family in a happy arrival.
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Walter Gibboney
S. Missouri Ave
Audrain Medical Center
Richard Dean Gibboney
Mars Hotline Yields Little Data Exchange So Far
Pasadena based US scientists report the Moscow Pasadena Mars hotline has been largely silent since Mariner 9 entered orbit. Soviet landers and craft have provided data, but little cooperative exchange despite one notable find of a 10 to 15 degree temperature rise at Cereberus later shared with Moscow.
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Calif
Moscow
U.S
Mars
Soviet Union
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Mariner 9
Dan Schneiderman
Cereberus
Schneiderman
Prime Rate Cut to 4% Across Major Banks
New York’s Citibank cuts its floating prime rate to 4 percent, the lowest in nearly 12 years, effective Monday for top credit customers. The move places Citibank among a select few with a 4 percent minimum, while many rivals still hover at or near 4 percent. the last widespread sub-4% rate was in May 1959.
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NEW York
First National City Bank
Citibank
New York Bank
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co
Irving Trust Co
Bankers Trust Co
What It’s Like To Shop In China
Henry Hartzenbusch reports from Peking on market life, noting Chinese signs and yuan currency, live fish and carp priced by kilo, fresh meat and poultry abundant, cabbage costs about ten cents per kilo, beef around 1.50 yuan per kilo, and workers earning 65 to 400 yuan monthly. Canned goods appear in a separate section with Mount Elephant pineapple chunks and ginseng wine among items observed.
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Henry Hartzenbusch
Associated Press
Peking
United States
U.S
Mount Elephant
Missouri House Hears Over Welfare Bill Cuts Debate
The Missouri House debated emergency money bill cuts in welfare programs on Thursday. Speaker Cantrell urged adopting the Senate recommendations or awaiting another two week delay, citing four letters from Welfare Director Carter about needed funds for surplus food, food stamps in Jackson County, day care, and home health care services. The substitute lacked 12 votes for passage. if approved, the measure would take effect after gubernatorial signature.
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Jefferson City
Missouri House
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
House Appropriations
J. ‘'Lucky" Cantrell
Doverland
House
Cantrell
Senate House
Senate Appropriations
Donald L. Manford
Kansas City
Proctor N. Carter
Jackson County
St. Louis
Missouri
Carter
Manford
House Committee
Deadline For New Bills Passes In Missouri Senate
Jefferson City AP reports the 1972 session saw 297 new Senate bills and 16 constitutional amendments introduced since December 1, bringing the year’s total to 960 for House and Senate. The House also carried over 709 bills from 1971, lifting the session’s workload to 1,669 items plus internal resolutions and rule changes.
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Jefferson City
Senate
House
Chou En lai As Weather Man Predicts Wall Trip
Premier Chou En lai earned a reputation as a weather man among visiting Americans after telling President Nixon that Thursday would be fine. He cautioned that weather would worsen by Friday and snow did fall all morning, ending at midday during Nixon's Peking visit.
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Peking
Chou En-lai
Nixon
Great Wall
Chou
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