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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1975
Page
3
Washington AP reports Special Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth, after the Watergate cover-up trial, aims to close the prosecutor's office created by the scandal. He says unfinished business remains but has no plan to resume prosecutions.
New Delhi India AP Railway Minister N Mishra died from a bomb blast during a rail line inauguration in Bihar. Mishra 51 first cabinet member killed since independence. Casualties included Mishra family and railway officials amid political violence allegations. Authorities questioned 20, Congress leaders linked to violence. Mrs Gandhi blamed disruptive forces and urged calmer politics.
An unidentified Chicago man, believed 25 to 30, died defending three teens from a knife attack. Police charged Richard Wilson with murder. A clothier funded a burial in Oak Woods Cemetery after a ministerial effort to locate relatives. Tattoos may help identify him.
Thomson and Rudman urge a February 18 runoff election if the U S Senate voids the November result in New Hampshire. Wyman and Durkin dispute the outcome with Durkin claiming victory by 10 votes after a recount. The plan notes an interim senator could be appointed by Thomson, limited to nonrunoff candidates, with Chimento as a runoff candidate. The Senate starts review January 9 with a public hearing. Ehrlichman says legal bills exceed 400000 while seeking a new trial. Bookmobile schedule outlines stops across Missouri counties next week.
In Salt Lake City a two year old boy named Mike McFarland who weighed 2 pounds 2 ounces at birth survived after doctors predicted death. He now weighs 31 pounds and stands 33 percent inches tall while receiving weekly physical therapy. His father Roy McFarland a vice president at a Salt Lake City advertising agency and his mother Susan faced a harrowing birth when the baby was initially thought dead before an orderly found movement under a sheet in the delivery room. The child has since developed a vocabulary of about 30 words and enjoys the color red and television while being unusually talkative and hungry. The family includes two older children from Susan's previous marriage and another son from Roy’s prior marriage.
The CIA kept a dossier on entertainer Eartha Kitt from 1956 at the Secret Service request in 1968. It gathered gossip about her social life but found no evidence of foreign intelligence links. The Times notes sources in Paris and New York and cites Kitt’s 1968 antiwar remarks at a White House luncheon.
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, will continue helicopter training as a Royal Navy lieutenant before assignment to a commando support squadron. He completed basic helicopter training last month and will pursue advanced instruction in the craft.
Elizabeth Taylor, 42, was discharged from Mt Sinai Hospital after procedures including an epidural block to relieve chronic back pain. She entered New Year’s Day in good spirits and planned to return home to Gstaad, Switzerland, with Henry Wynberg, ahead of a possible Soviet Union shoot for The Bluebird.
An independent study for the Ford Foundation urges the United States to reduce oil imports to about 20 to 25 percent of total needs to withstand future Arab embargoes. The Brookings-Institution authored report, "Energy and U S Foreign Policy," says a lower import level would let the U S cope with new disruptions. Separately, domestic drilling rose 20.4 percent in 1974 with a predicted 1975 oil output around 10.3 million barrels per day, while Sen. Jackson accused Mobil and Gulf of pressuring exemptions to avoid price rules.
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