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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1973
Page
10
A compact weather bulletin notes temperatures at 7:00 and past hours with highs in the 30s to 50s regionally, recent precipitation totals and a Missouri travel advisory. It also lists Lake of the Ozarks and Pomme de Terre water levels, hospital admissions and discharges, newborns, and multiple local residents named with their towns and statuses.
Died notes list several deaths including Mrs. Frances Hardesty and Mrs. Minnie Dudley with ages and hometowns such as Vandalia Mexico and Martinsburg. Public safety reports cover a theft at Jay's IGA and a Mexico Route 1 rollover with no injuries. The sheriff and highway patrol investigate multiple local incidents as court and probate actions list divorces and estate valuations.
London AP report notes Hayley Mills 28 years old welcomed an 8 pound 12 ounce son at Queen Charlotte Hospital. Roy Boulting, aged 59, says the baby resembles Mills. Mills and Boulting wed in May 1971.
Wall Street nudged up as Vietnam peace prospects and Phase 3 anti inflation efforts buoyed sentiment. Dow Jones average rose 1.13 to 1027.32, oil stocks led gains with Gulf unchanged, Texaco up, Cities Service up. General Motors fell on a large recall while Ford and Chrysler slipped modestly.
The plan lists 3555.55 for two sheriff radios and 60 percent of the coroner radio, 6200 for jail garage and drainage, and 1500 for a jail security fence under capital expenditures. Revenue sharing income is 279601 with expenditures of 237931.58, leaving a 41669.92 balance. Road and gravel work covers 22.1 miles across nine sections, including Molino road.
In the Watergate trial the Time magazine report alleges E Howard Hunt Jr offered four co defendants monthly payments of 1000 for each month in jail to plead guilty Baldwin the key witness faced cross examination Hunt and four others have pleaded guilty two original seven remain on trial Colson Mitchell deny the allegations Liddy identified as present in a motel room and on trial the government has only shown about a third of its witnesses in two weeks signaling a long trial
Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie E. Dudley 84 of the King's Daughters Home will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Arnold funeral home with Rev. Robert R. Collins officiating. Interment is in Elmwood Cemetery. She died at 2 15 a.m. Sunday at Audrain Medical Center after two weeks as a patient. She was born February 10 1888 in Vandalia Michigan and married Samuel R. Dudley in 1915. Survived by a niece Ruby Keys of Mt. Pulaski IL. Visitation 7 to 9 p.m. tonight.
Mrs Randall Wright 653 of 413 East Washington Vandalia died 8 20 p m Saturday at Audrain Medical Center Mexico after a long illness She underwent May surgery in Columbia and was admitted Jan 1 Funeral services will be 2 p m Tuesday at Waters Funeral Home Vandalia Rev Marvin Jones officiating Burial in Vandalia Cemetery Born Grace Elizabeth Honiff July 23 1919 in Worcester community east of Mexico to Leslie and Maude Honiff Family moved to Mexico as a child Attended Mexico Schools Lived in Vandalia for 20 25 years Married Randall Wright July 26 1965 Auxvasse Survived by husband a Mexico daughter Bonnie Rivers three grandchildren and two sisters Mrs Omar Bearer and Mrs Gladys Byars Pallbearers Alfred Hager Herbert Martin Russell Doerge Walter Doerge Dale Martin James Martin
Vandalia mourns Mrs Ianthe Hobbs 42 who died Sunday night at Campbell House Centralia after living there since 1971 The body was taken to Waters Funeral Home She was born April 23 1890 widow of Edward Hobbs Surviving are stepson Floyd Hobbs of Flemington Missouri stepdaughter Mrs Stemple Wagner of Middletown and granddaughter Mrs Joyce Staley of Centralia
A Jordanian jetliner carrying 202 pilgrims home from Mecca crashed and burned at Mecca Airport in fog. Airport officials reported 31 survivors were pulled from the wreckage and treated.
President Nixon accepted with regret the resignation of Jacob Beam as U S ambassador to the Soviet Union. Beam, in post since March 1969, will retire after 42 years in the foreign service. Jane Fonda has married Tom Hayden, one of the Chicago 7 defendants.
In Washington the Senate will take up Nixon cabinet nominations this week as Congress previews two presidential messages detailing his second term. The inaugural sparked muted praise, but lawmakers demand concrete policies. Budget cuts, criticisms of welfare scale, and nominations including Richardson for defense and Weinberger pending delay are on tap.
Hog prices climbed to a new top of 34.75 at Central Missouri Livestock. feeders set a record, up 25 cents from Friday. Slaughter hogs rose 25 to 50 cents, some sows up 75 cents. Receipts about 1400. feeder pigs about 1500, quality lower than last Monday. Top for 28 pound pigs hit 62.00 per cwt, just below last week's 62.50.
A strike vote passed by 60 percent resumes talks as teachers push from 7200 to 8200 salary, a board funded hospitalization policy and a union contract. Board President Smiley cites no funds to grant by January 29, hoping to fund by September. Teachers cite a 3.9 million cash reserve as the source. Separate Philadelphia Federation of Teachers officials face court action in ongoing walkout. Chicago teachers report unresolved issues after January 10 strike, warning salary increases alone won’t settle the dispute.
Richard W. Ausley, 32, a Portsmouth carpenter and parolee, is sought on abduction and sexual assault charges after a 13 year old boy held eight days in a wooden box was found by four rabbit hunters. The boy, beaten and sexually assaulted, was treated for injuries and released to parents. Ausley, described as armed and dangerous, is believed to have fled toward the Dismal Swamp across Virginia and North Carolina.
South Vietnamese forces suffered a major defeat near Saigon with two battalions overrun and numerous casualties. Government reports cited 56 killed and 132 wounded since Friday as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces claimed larger losses for themselves. A cease-fire offer and prisoner exchange stirred further action as helicopters faced heavy fire and many wounded were abandoned.
A factory chief outlines plans to switch to a new model next year and describes the Revolutionary Committee structure. He notes no union exists, workers run quotas, and safety gear is provided. Assembly lines run intermittently, with potential output around 5,000 cars yearly if continuous. The piece touches on political strains from ultra leftists during the Cultural Revolution.
A winter blast spread snow and freezing rain from Nebraska to the Great Lakes. In Oklahoma, motorists faced stranding as drifts reached three feet in spots.
The Daily Mirror claimed billionaire Howard Hughes, 68, had a heart attack and was confined to bed in his ninth floor suite at the Inn at the Park, with aides unsure of the truth. A Los Angeles spokesman dismissed the report as wild guesswork, while the hotel said Hughes was not in the hotel.
Carol Butler of Shrewsbury was chosen Missouri's Junior Miss earning a 7600 scholarship to Columbia College. From 15 finalists she will represent the state at the America Junior Miss Pageant in Mobile Alabama in May. Jill Berg Sarcoxie won the academic award. Roxanne Eakins Kansas City and Deborah Hubbs Jefferson City were first and second runners up with the talent award. The Florissant Valley Jaycees sponsored the contest.
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