Elderly Home Blaze Kills Nine in Louisville Area
A four story Westminster Terrace Presbyterian Home for Senior Citizens caught fire at 2 15 am ET killing nine residents and injuring at least 48. The chapel area started the blaze with seven dead at one hospital and two at another. The facility opened in 1966 and houses mainly single rooms with some two and three room units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisvile
Westminster Terrace Presbyterian Home
Helen Turner
Louisville
Frankfort
Turner
Chapel
Garland Miller
Buechel Fire Department
Dale H. Fisher
Board of Trustees
Fisher
Jaycees Honor Mexicoans During National Jaycee Week
The Jaycee Distinguished Service Award and Bosses Banquet will occur during National Jaycee Week January 17 to 23 at the Empire Club with the annual DSA banquet set for Wednesday January 20 at 6 pm The Outstanding Citizen honor for Audrain County farmers appears under review as nominees are invited The club also plans to fund space in Mexico High School yearbook and sponsor the Match of Dimes bowling tournament presence noted by Rex Johnson and several attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaycee
Empire Club
DSA
Mexico
Jaycees
John Cauthorn
Jaycee Outstanding
Audrain County
FFA
Rex Johnson
Richard Nye
John Worland
Clifford Banks
John Harmon
Myrick den Hartog
Eddie Sydenstricker
Jim Howerton
Steve Smiddy
First National Bank of Mexico Reelected Directors and Officers
Stockholders of First National Bank of Mexico re-elected directors J. B. Arthur Larney Barnes Bradford Brett Lowell Hagan Dr Ben Jolly Orivia Mackey and Walter G Staley. Officers elected include Bradford Brett president Maurice N Barnes vice president and cashier James C Botts vice-president Henrietta Beatty assistant vice-president John K Livingston assistant cashier and Kenneth E Wyatt assistant cashier. A nine pound nine ounce son was born to Mr and Mrs Bobby Lee Jung at Audrain Medical Center at 11 31 p m yesterday. Mr Jung is a farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank of Mexico
J. B. Arthur
Larney Barnes
Bradford Brett
Lowell Hagan
Ben Jolly
Orivia Mackey
Walter G. Staley
Maurice N. Barnes
James C. Botts
Henrietta Beatty
John K. Livingston
Kenneth E. Wyatt
Bobby Lee Jung
Mexico
Route 3
Audrain Medical Center
Jung
Art Simmons Named US Horseman of the Year
Art Simmons, 57, chosen Horseman of the Year 1970 by the American Horse Show Association. He will receive the Martini and Rossi trophy at a Washington luncheon with former Florida senator George A. Smathers presiding. A reception follows in Potomac Horse Center, Md, with daughter Jane Simmons present. Simmons has 35 years in breeding training showing and selling saddle horses, with 1970 wins at Pin Oak Tulsa and Boys Town and world titles at Missouri State Fair. His Heart of America sales in Kansas City set new records, including the Knolland farms dispersal with top horses fetching high prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Simmons
American Horse Show Association
Washington, D. C
Florida
George A. Smathers
American Horse Council
Simmons
Sheraton Park Hotel
Washington, D.C
Mexico
Pin Oak
Tulsa
Boys Town
Heart of America
Kansas City
Knolland Farms
Bethlehem Steel to raise steel prices for construction and shipbuilding
Bethlehem Steel Co. will raise prices 11 to 13 percent on four major steel types effective March 1, despite President Nixon hints of possible import quotas. Bethlehem cites a business judgment and says it will not rescind the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem, Pa
Bethlehem Steel Co
Nixon
Bethlehem
Stewart S. Cort
Paul W. McCracken
Council of Economic Advisers
Cort
McCracken
White House
Gerald L. Warren
Court Rules Out Mail Censorship
The Supreme Court unanimously barred Post Office officials from blocking or detaining mail to dealers in obscene materials. Justice Brennan said the 1890 and 1960 laws imposing prior restraint violate the First Amendment. The ruling also affects later Voting Rights cases expanding city boundaries to include more white voters in Southern states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Post Office
William J. Brennan Jr
U.S
South
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Virginia
North Carolina
High Court
California
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Brennan
United States
Maryland
Nixon
Cherches Named To ISACS Board
Major Paul Cherches, Missouri Military Academy director of music, is named to the board of directors of the Independent Schools Association of the Central States. ISACS includes 108 private schools in 17 states. Cherches has long served the organization and taught at MMA for 20 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Cherches
Missouri Military Academy
Independent Schools Association of
Central States
ISACS
Major Cherches
MMA
University of Missouri At Columbia
DDD Service Expands to Eight-Party Mexico Users
Southwestern Bell manager Philip Adams announces that eight-party customers in Mexico gain direct distance dialing on Sunday Jan 24. Dialing 1 plus area code and number connects station-to-station calls while an operator briefly answers. same-area calls require only dialing 1 and number. Operator-assisted calls remain for non station-to-station options. One and two-party Mexico users keep current DDD service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Philip Adams
Southwestern Bell
Adams
St. Louis
Annexation Fees Appeal Decision
Defendants in the City of Mexico suit for annexation have filed a notice of appeal to the St. Louis Court of Appeals. Named appellants include Doris E. Hamilton Elizabeth Hamilton Robert R. Ingram Helen M. Ingram Ralph E. Sydenstricker Eddie L. Sydenstricker John Salmons Norma Lee Salmons Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co and Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp. The appeal challenges a circuit court order overruling motions for a new trial and to amend judgment following Special Judge William Turpin's Oct 29 approval of the annexation action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
St. Louis
William Turpin
Secret Rules Of War Told Court In My Lai Trial
In a wartime court session at Fort Benning six Army men heard secret rules and documents about Vietnam combat and the My Lai raid. Testimony suggested senior officers may have known something went seriously wrong the day of the assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FT. Benning
My Lai
Americal
Calley
Ernest Medina
Charley Company
J. Frank A. Barker
Oren K. Henderson
Samuel Koster
West Point
Lind
Christopher Garbow
Tampa
Fla
Barker
Twins Born to Howard Lowry Family at Audrain Medical Center
Twins Betsy Lynn and Scot David Lowry born within six minutes at 10:33 and 10:39 a.m. at Audrain Medical Center. Betsy weighs 6 lb 14 oz, Scot 6 lb 2 oz. Grandparents Sundermeyer and Lowry. mother Barbara Sundermeyer. Pvt. Lowry stationed at Fort Hood. Also, Mark Alan Shaw born at 2:04 p.m., 5 lb 2 oz, first of two other children Ricky and Kevin. Father Robert Wayne Shaw employed at Wetterau Foods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Wayne Shaw
Perry St
Audrain Medical Center
Mark Alan
Ricky
Kevin
Mr. Shaw
Wetterau Foods, Inc
Economic Imbalances Tougher To Control
President Nixon faces a tougher path to curbing inflation as Bethlehem Steel sparks debate over an incomes policy. Analysts say high obligations and expectations, plus persistent wage and price demands, complicate using traditional fiscal and monetary tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Caniff
NEW York
Nixon
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Government i
B52s Back In Cambodia Campaign Renewed
U S B52 bombers join effort to reopen Phnom Penh highway to the sea. They hit Pich Nil and Stung Chhay passes as 13 000 South Vietnamese and Cambodian troops push forward. North Vietnamese fortifications loom above the passes amid expected hard fighting. Casualties: 27 Americans killed last week and 83 wounded, total US 44 268 KIA since 1961, 9 091 nonhostile deaths, 293 612 wounded, 1 434 missing or captured. South Vietnamese losses 277 killed and 688 wounded last week, total 118 460 dead and 253 186 wounded.
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Saigon
U.S
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Bos
Pich Nil
Stung Chhay
Highway 4
Kompong Som
Indochina
U.S. Command
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First National Board
Jungs
Cracken
Ronald Ziegler
Lukens Steel Co
Coatesville
Lukens
U.S. Steel
Aly
Postal Service
Cherches
Isacs Board
Howard Lowry
Mark Alan Shaw
Plymouth
Wis
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