Local Weather and Market Reports Summary
Zone 5 forecast calls for mostly cloudy cool conditions with a chance of showers this afternoon and tonight, then cooler Tuesday with highs near 80. Missouri outlook shows continued cool weather, showers and thunderstorms likely today, then ending. temperatures mid 70s to mid 80s with weekend variation. Lake of the Ozarks at 856.1 feet, 3.9 feet below full. Pomme de Terre at 88.5 feet, no change. Numerous hospital admissions and births noted in central Missouri communities with several named individuals and towns listed.
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Missouri
Kansas City
Lake of the Ozarks
Deaths and police notes from Missouri towns
Debates and notices from The Daily Record list obituaries for Thomas L. Howdeshell and Mrs. Martha Jesse Cooper, plus police and highway patrol reports from Mexico and Auxvasse including a car collision at Jefferson and Jackson Streets, a broken bank window, purse theft, and a traffic incident with details on drivers and outcomes. Also includes national and Missouri livestock market data and commodity futures in Chicago and Missouri markets.
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Arthur L. Jackson
Trinity St
Dennis Keith Green
Route 1
Mexico
Jefferson and
Jackson Sts
Jackson
Jefferson St
Commerce Bank
John Beckley
Teresa Day
Route 3
South Trails
Seven Killed In Belfast IRA Vengeance
Seven men were killed in Belfast during a violence filled weekend as tensions rose over alleged IRA punishment actions. Victims included Protestants and Catholics with one English Jehovah’s Witness killed in Northern Ireland work camp. Police suspected Protestant extremists, while UDA threats and barricade disturbances highlighted the fragile cease fire.
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Belfast
Osage Beach
Northern Ireland
Lake of the Ozarks
Ronald McPherson
Irish Republican Army
Sacculuh Dyquaus
England
Ulster Defense Association
IRA
Augustus
Spence
UDA
Stock Market Slow Amid Four Day Holiday Outlook
In quiet trading traders noted a light interest ahead of a four day holiday weekend. The noon Dow Jones average of 30 industrials slipped 0.20 to 928.73 as volume waned. The Big Board index rose to 59.40 and the American Exchange index edged up to 27.26. Curtiss-Wright led activity on the Big Board, rising 1% to 53 as its rotary engine rights drew attention.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange
Curtiss-Wright
Air at Wolcott is 190 Proof
The Penn Central tracks near Wolcott Indiana saw a tank car spill of 190 proof grain alcohol on Sunday night. White County deputies kept bystanders away as fumes spread, a spark could have caused a major fire. The alcohol soaked into ground near a cornfield and evaporated without further incident. Railroad workers began cleanup after 20 derailed cars were moved.
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Wolcott
Ind
Penn Central
Here
White County
Needlework Kits Backed by Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Julie Nixon Eisenhower lends her name to a Family Circle promotion of needlework kits and White House heirloom designs. Proceeds go toward upkeep of White House furnishings as she appears in a seven page color layout in the August issue and the promotion runs in major supermarkets nationwide alongside the Republican National Convention.
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Washington
Julie Nixon
Eisenhower
White House
Family Circle Magazine
Nation Celebrates Holiday With Red White and Blue
The Fourth of July marks the nation's 196th birthday with fireworks pageants and family picnics over a four day weekend. Bob Hope Anita Bryant Nancy Wilson and Mickey Mantle performed at a free Oklahoma City gala. 13 teens will vie to be The National Yankee Doodle Dandy at Independence Hall. President Nixon plans a quiet San Clemente holiday as FBI chief Gray prepares the keynote address. A Miami Beach Youth International Party picnic urged sharing food with all attendees.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Bob Hope
Anita Bryant
Nancy Wilson
Mickey Mantle
NBC
Philadelphia
FBI
L. Patrick Gray III
Independence Hall
Nixon
White House
San Clemente
Miami Beach
Youth International Party
Double Pensions For Court Widows
The Senate passed a bill doubling the annual pension from 5000 to 10000 dollars for widows of six Supreme Court justices. The measure, approved Friday, targets the widows of Felix Frankfurter Hugo Black Robert Jackson Sherman Minton Wiley Rutledge and Fred Vinson. Mrs Frankfurter’s hardship was cited as impetus due to arthritis and limited income from her husband’s estate.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Senate
Felix Frankfurter
Hugo Black
Robert H. Jackson
Sherman Minton
Wiley B. Rutledge
Fred Vinson
Frankfurter
Bookmobile schedule for Mexico Audrain County Library
The Mexico Audrain County Library bookmobile announces next week's routes with times at Freindship Excelsior West Audrain Sunnydale Benton City Martinsburg R 3 Moline Station Garfield Strother Maple Grove Fox and other stops. No schedule Tuesday July 4.
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Mexico-Audrain
Moline Station
Garfield
Strother
Maple Grove
Fox
Mrs. Doran Bunch Dies At Age 81
Mrs. Doran Bunch 81 of Montgomery City died yesterday at Tri-County Nursing Home Vandalia after years of poor health. Born Carrie Adams August 23 1890 in Montgomery County she married Doran Bunch November 1 1908. Survived by husband son Buford Bunch daughter Mrs. Herbert Estes four grandsons two great grandchildren sister Miss Paulina Adams and several relatives. Funeral services set for Tuesday Myers Funeral Home Wellsville with Rev. Quentin Boyd officiating visitation 6 to 8 this Monday night.
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Wellsville
Doran
Carrie) Bunch
Montgomery City
Tri-County
Vandalla
Carrie Rachel Adams
Montgomery County
William and
Mary Brookshire Adams
Doran Bunch
Buford Bunch
Herbert Estes
Holland
Ohio
Paulina Adams
Mrs Martha Cooper Dies After Inglewood Service
Martha Katheryn Cooper formerly of Mexico died July 1 in Inglewood Florida. A memorial service was held today there. She was born in Mexico in 1910, youngest daughter of the late J Frank and Beulah Williams Jesse, and survived by husband Joseph Hulett Cooper two daughters Linda Roemer and Katie Cooper three grandchildren. Her mother-in-law Ollie Cooper and sister-in-law Hazel Kittleberger also listed. Preceded by her parents and two sisters Ruth Aull and Mildred Jesse.
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Martha Katheryn Cooper
Mexico
Inglewood
Fla
Cooper
J. Frank
Beulah Williams Jesse
Webster Groves
Joseph Hulett Cooper
Linda Roemer
Bradford
Katie Cooper
Chagrin Falls
Ohio
Ollie Cooper
Hazel Kittleberger
J.M
Ruth) Aull
Mildred Jesse
Sisters Reunited After 44 Years In Vancouver Visit
Lea Witzke 57 arrived in Vancouver from Patzik in southern Russia to join her sister Alicia after a 44 year separation. Relatives credit Premier Kosygin of the Soviet Union with helping the reunion following a 1955 correspondence and a later appeal during the Russian leader's Vancouver visit.
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Vancouver
B.C
Alexei Kosygin
Soviet Union
Lea Witzke
Patzik
Russia
Alicia
Kosygin
Tom Campbell
Naressa Laing
Lea
Astronauts Visit Klondike Festival in Seattle
Apollo 16 crew Thomas Mattingly II Charles Duke Jr and John Young attend Seattle Klondike festival commemorating the Alaska Gold Rush They say future prospectors should seek a different kind of gold on the moon and that moon landings yield golden knowledge about Earth.
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Seattle
Klondike
Alaska
Thomas K. Mattingly II
Charles M. Duke Jr
John W. Young
Earth
Hughes planes rusted in open air for 15 years at Santa Monica
Billionaire Howard Hughes kept two large propeller airplanes, a Douglas DC6A and Convair 240, outdoors for 15 years, allowing heavy rust. He rented an empty hangar nearby for 3000 dollars a month. On Friday the craft were moved into the hangar at Santa Monica Municipal Airport by workers linked to Hughes Tool Co. The hangar is now closed and under guard.
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Santa Monica
Callf
Howard Hughes
Hughes ‘Tool Co
Randy Farrah 3 Struck By Car on Clay Street
Randy Farrah the third is in satisfactory condition at Audrain Medical Center after a light concussion when struck by a car in the 200 block of Clay Street Sunday. He is the son of Everett L Farrah of 212 Alabama Street and recovering in Room 334.
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Randy Lee Farrah
Audrain Medical Center
Clay St
Everett L. Farrah
Alabama St
New Democrats Elect Mrs Craddock
The New Democratic Coalition of Audrain elected officers including Mrs George M Craddock as chairwoman and Paul Wilson as vice chair. Other officers named are Mrs Lawrence M Barnes recording secretary Mrs Robert Searfoss corresponding secretary Tim Hagan treasurer with James Worstell Jr Lewis Brooks and Carolyn Johnson as executive committee members. A July 19 meeting will endorse primary candidates and dues of 2 are payable to treasurer Hagan by July 5 to vote at the meeting. The group plans to field representatives at precinct county district and state levels and invites new members.
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New Democratic Coalition of
Audrain
George M. Craddock
Paul Wilson
Lawrence M. Barnes
Robert Searfoss
Tim Hagan
Carolyn Johnson
Lewis Brooks
James Worstell Jr
Fischer World Championship match delayed to Tuesday
REYKJAVIK Iceland AP The start of the Bobby Fischer Boris Spassky world championship series was postponed until Tuesday after Fischer failed to arrive in Iceland over the weekend The federation warned of forfeiture if he does not show by noon Tuesday Fischer remains in New York organizers cite fatigue as reason while Fischer seeks extra gate and rights money and both sides share 125000 purse plus TV film rights
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Iceland
International Chess Federation
Fischer
New York
Max Euwe
Spassy
Bis
Icelandic Chess Federation
Mitchell resignation ends marital storm
Washington AP Former Attorney General John N Mitchell and his wife Martha are back together after a week of marital turmoil that led to Mitchell resigning as campaign director for Nixon’s reelection. He cited time for family. Nixon welcomed the move. Mrs Mitchell called politics a cops and robbers game.
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Atty
John N. Mitchell
Martha
Mitchell
Nixon
Committee For
Vandalia MFA Theft Report Near Three PM
Vandalia chief of police Don St. Clair and officers investigate a theft at the MFA Exchange. MEA manager Leon Dempsey told police this morning that $361 was taken from the cash register between 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday.
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Vandalia
Don St. Clair
MFA
Leon Dempsey
MEA
Congress Faces Busy Session After July Recess
Washington AP reports Congress will reconvene July 17 after a two week break with six months elapsed in the 1972 session. Key items include Nixon revenue sharing bill, welfare reform, government reorganization, anti-busing bills, foreign aid end-the-war amendment, minimum wage hike, gun control, antipoverty and water pollution measures, and defense and foreign aid budgets. Five weeks session, one week off for the Republican convention, return August 28, with final adjournment possibly in October.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
House
Senate Finance Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Nixon Maintains Gallup Poll Lead Over Rivals
President Nixon leads potential Democratic challengers in a Gallup poll released Sunday. He would win 53 percent against George McGovern and 55 percent against Hubert Humphrey, with McGovern at 37 percent and Humphrey at 33 percent. undecided totals reach 10 and 12 percent respectively. The survey cites 1,159 registered voters interviewed June 16–19 across 300 communities.
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Princeton
Nixon
Gallup
South Dakota
George McGovern
McGovern
Minnesota
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Blackwell accuses Teasdale of malice in governor race
Democratic candidate Earl Blackwell called fellow candidate Jackson County Prosecutor Joseph Teasdale malicious. Teasdale said Blackwell would quit, a claim Blackwell dismissed as a rumor. He suggested Teasdale’s remark was unfounded and spiteful as Blackwell campaigns hard.
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Kansas City
Earl Blackwell
Jackson County
Joseph Teasdale
Teasdale
Blackwell
William S. Morris
Half Pound Diamond Goes on Display in London
The Star of Sierra Leone, a half pound egg shaped diamond, was shown under heavy security at the Sierra Leone High Commission in London before auction. It was unearthed in a government mine in Sierra Leone four months ago and bidding is expected to start near 24 million dollars next month.
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London
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone High Commission
Donors for Bond Announced in Missouri Campaign
Jefferson City MO AP announced 1544 donors gave 129172 to State Auditor Christopher Bond's gubernatorial campaign. Campaign director Alfred C Sikes said average gift about 83 dollars, with 60 percent giving 50 or less, indicating broad citizen funding. Additional contributors to be named 5 to 10 days before the August 8 primary.
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Jefferson City
Christopher “Kit
Alfred C. Sikes
Bond
Sikes
Missouri
Ex-Prosecutor Acquitted in Burglary Trial
Former St. Clair County Prosecutor R Vernon Smith was found not guilty of second degree burglary and stealing by a Case County Circuit Court jury after about an hour of deliberation. The Sept 30 1971 burglary at George E Rissling’s Deepwater farmhouse was the charged incident, with three other men also charged. The trial occurred in Harrisonville on a venue change from Osceola.
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Harrisonville
St. Clair County
R. Vernon Smith
Case County
Smith
George E. Rissling
Deepwater
Osceola
Northwest Judges Oppose Bond Plan in Missouri
Liberty Missouri AP report says 50 members of the Northwest Missouri Judges Association voted unanimously against a $730 million transportation bond issue. Daviess County Judge Jack Brown said support might have differed if funds were for highways only. Officials later corrected reports of earlier support.
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Liberty
Northwest Missouri Judges Association
Daviess County
Jack Brown
Top Mormon Leader Dies At Salt Lake City
President Joseph Fielding Smith Jr. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints died at his daughter's Salt Lake home after a heart attack. He was 26 July 10. Harold B. Lee is listed as likely successor and the Twelve will announce the next president after the funeral. The church recently reorganized to handle growing numbers, and its global membership has risen 94 percent in 12 years.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormon
Joseph Fielding Smith Jr
Smith
Bruce R. McConkle
Harold B. Lee
Church
Council of the Twelve
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Stat
The
Jesus Christ
David C. McKay
United States
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
David O. McKay
Mexico Ledger Subscription Rates and Office Hours
Publication details list daily schedule excluding Sundays and holidays, address at 300 N Washington St Mexico Mo. Rates shown for street sales, mail subscriptions by county and out of state, including military members. Office hours listed 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturday.
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Washington St
Mexico
Audrain
Lin Mo
Ichord Defends His Subversives Committee
Rep. Richard H. Ichord defends keeping the SACB as a federal internal security board with hearings and power to issue subpoenas and pursue court action. He urges Senate to fund and approve House bill empowering the board to assess loyalty and security for executive branch employment amid government wartime fears.
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D-Mo
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Internal Security Committee
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Judiciary Committee
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