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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1971
Page
1
Washington coverage notes a Democratic shift with Carl Albert named House speaker as the new Congress convenes facing Nixon era goals. Senate debates reform, seniority, and leadership contests while committees reorganize to push Social Security and welfare reforms, health care, and a sonic transport funding fight.
Missouri Supreme Court prepared to hear the ouster case of Pemiscot County Sheriff Clyde Orton. Special Commissioner Ray Weightman recommended ousting for willful violation and neglect of duty based on three counts including open gambling and rooster fighting in Hermandale. He found Orton forfeited office and noted liquor transport to dry areas without proper bills. The suit, brought by state attorney general Jolin C Danforth, accuses political motivation from a Republican AG.
Washington dispatches report the first session of the 92nd Congress opening with President Nixon outlining a broad domestic program and budget. Measures include a public works grant proposal for areas with severe unemployment and a push to loosen seniority rules in committees. In Saigon, Ambassador Bunker warns of rising Communist political activity ahead of 1971, while Marines advance toward the coast with Cambodian troops nearby. In Tel Aviv, Arab guerrillas strike Lebanon with bombs near an Israeli settlement close to the border.
LOS ANGELES AP A prospective juror, Charles A. Loring, declined to serve and told the presiding judge he would be replaced by a machine if the judge did not improve. Loring wrote that he cannot be a juror because he is the presiding judge, a fact the random voter lists used for summons failed to reflect. He sent a letter nodding to the judge’s position while criticizing the early work and wishing success in the role.
JOPLIN Mo AP Rep George W Parker Republican Columbia laid out seven modernization priorities for state government over the decade. He urged shrinking the legislature possibly to 100 members and creating a citizens advisory commission on legislative facilities and rules. Other aims include executive branch reform, local home rule, a performance audit system, tax modernization, education improvements using electronic devices and TV, and party reforms plus civics education in high schools.
Police hunted occupants of a car after shotgun blasts and rocks hit a truck carrying radioactive fuel elements. linked to a labor dispute with Tri-State Motor Transit of Joplin. No injuries or damage to the cargo. Sheriff Harald Clay said five passes by the auto, driver and partner fired back with a .22, then fled into Colorado.
AP report from Jefferson City states Gov Warren E Hearnes appointed Charles Shumate of La Grange to be judge of the county court, southern district in Lewis County. He succeeds his brother Homner Shumate, who died recently.
AP report from Los Angeles describes James and Geraldine Delgato and their brother crawling through storm drains for twelve hours after misplacing their 6 year old son Danny during a tire stop. They repeatedly cried for help, found each other at a dead end, and were eventually located by a police rescue squad using tunnel maps and lights. The family was rescued with no reported injuries.
House Democrats and Republicans moved to dilute seniority in committee chair selection. Democrats allow votes on chairs and cap subcommittee chairmanships to open about 40 chairs to juniors. Republicans require an automatic secret vote for top committee members, a stronger step as they are in the minority. Both sides see limited immediate changes, with reforms framed as victory for younger members amid ongoing power struggles.
Police said the couple, after running three miles from the Delgalos area, were exhausted but unharmed. Officers reported no injuries or further danger following the incident as they were located and assisted.
The federal government reports trouble with the new simplified tax form 1040 as many early filers skip the peel-off label showing name address and Social Security number. IRS urges pasting the label to speed processing and avoid delays, noting some returns lack crucial identifiers or contain only a signature.
Defenders of strip mining threaten to halt national coal production if a ban on surface working in West Virginia is approved. About 2,000 miners and families gathered at the state Capitol to oppose the measure supported by Secretary of State John D. Rockefeller IV.
Former Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall faces a January 28 court hearing on a shoplifting charge. Udall, now a Washington lawyer, says absent mindedness caused the 90 cent cigars to be forgotten at a drug store in McLean, Virginia. He was arrested after failing to pay and was charged with concealment of merchandise. The case carries up to a $500 fine and one year in jail.
New York AP report recalls Senator Edward M Kennedy weeping as he told his father about the Chappaquiddick drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne after the 1969 auto accident. Rita Dallas, his nurse, says Kennedy had a poor sense of direction and was tearful during the confession.
The Supreme Court unanimously rules a judge delaying contempt penalties should step aside for another judge. Justice Douglas notes limits on removing judges from trials and cites a Pennsylvania judge’s contempt ruling against a defendant who hurled insults.
Purcell, superintendent at A P Green Refractories and 197 Drive Chairman for the Mexico Community Chest, becomes acting chairman after election to a two year term on the Community Chest Board. Bob Ollis, president of the Mexico Chamber of Commerce, announced the new lineup including Art Dever, Bryan Webber, Norman Genthon, Jack Viar, and Don Manning for terms of one, two, and three years respectively.
Missouri Governor Hearnes asks FAA regional director Edward Marsh to brief him U S Senator Symington and St Louis County Supervisor Roos on how an Illinois site was chosen for a second St Louis area airport. Hearnes suggests holding the briefing in St Louis with newsmen present and staff参加.
In San Diego AP report, Robert Willard Liberty 23 was found strangled in his jail cell five days before trial for the murder of male nurse Robert Sriom 52. Liberty admitted penciling the phrase the candle light killer strikes again on Sriom s closet door but did not admit the slaying. Police hope his death prompts new light on other ritualistic killings in the West as authorities pursue several unsolved candle marked murders.
The Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys plans legislation to expand police search powers and tighten crime laws. Led by Gene McNary, the group proposes allowing searches for crime fruits without suspect permission, closer scrutiny of explosives crimes, presumed knowledge of stolen goods, court supervised electronic surveillance, and making first marijuana possession a misdemeanor.
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