Kennedy Favored as McGovern VP Choice
In Miami Beach sources say Edward Kennedy would likely be offered the vice presidential slot to bolster a McGovern ticket, despite Kennedy's repeated statements that he is not available. The convention city prepares as delegates arrive, with McGovern amid tight race dynamics and several high profile credential cases in limbo.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Edward M. Kennedy
George McCovern
South Dakota
Kennedy
McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Henry M. Jackson
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wilbur D. Mills
California
Chicago
Richard
Humphrey
Wallace
Muskle
Flying Farmers of Missouri Hold 25th Annual Meet
Area residents attend the 25th annual Flying Farmers of Missouri convention at the Ramada Inn in Moberly through Sunday. About 200 members exist in the state, with Cordel Tindall as Saturday banquet speaker. Local attendees include Jim Gough and wife Kathryn of Perry, Louis and Kathryn Boyes of Mexico, Jerry and Mrs Wright of Martinsburg, Buzz Beshears and others from Wellsville, Vandalia, and Montgomery City.
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Moberly
Cordel Tindall
Missouri Ruralist
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Perry
Kathryn
Louis Boyes
Mexico
Jerry Wright
Saigon paratroopers seize part of Quang Tri City amid clash
Reports from Saigon claim a paratrooper task force led by tanks breached Quang Tri City taking two thirds of the northern provincial capital. Field sources and U.S. officials dispute the claim as troops close in from two sides under heavy resistance and an American air and naval armada covers the operation.
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Saigon
Saigon ‘Command
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U.S
Patriarch Athenagoras Dies at 86 in Istanbul
Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople died at 86 in Istanbul after kidney failure and blood pressure loss following a hip fall. Metropolitan Meliton, 59, is named likely successor and will preside over a meeting with 11 archbishops to arrange funeral and plan the election of a new Ecumenical Patriarch.
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Meliton
Chalcedon
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Ecumenical Patriarchate
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Balikli
Vienna
Paul VI
Jerusalem
Rome
McGovern Muskie Endorsement Deal Reported by Sun
Baltimore AP report says four weeks earlier Senator Muskie tentatively agreed to back Senator McGovern for the Democratic nomination in a short lived deal. McGovern would take on part of Muskie's $200,000 debt if he endorsed, but Muskie later said he would stay in the race.
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Edmund S. Muskie
George McGovern
Baltimore Sun
McGovern
Muskie
Maine
Bert I. Bernhard
Frank Mankiewicz
the Sun
National Press Club
South
Mexico Ledger Classified Rates and Office Hours
Mexico Ledger lists publication details, pricing by mail and region, and office hours. Subscription rates include domestic, rail, out-of-state, and armed forces options with monthly and yearly terms.
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Washington St
Mexico
Audrain
Warn of Eye Damage From Eclipse Watch
TOPEKA Kansas AP A warning from the Kansas Optometric Association says serious eye damage can occur from looking at the sun during the total eclipse Monday Dr Thomas Brungardt notes 134 cases of permanent eye damage from the March 1970 eclipse and warns sunglasses smoked glass offer no protection He suggests safe methods including a shoebox pinhole projection and viewing via newspaper or TV while urging supervision of children
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Optometric Association
Thomas Brungardt
Salina
Brungardt
Mormons Elect Harold B. Lee President of LDS Church
In Salt Lake City AP reports Elder Harold B. Lee former city commissioner principal and businessman was expected to be named president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints succeeding 95-year-old Joseph Fielding Smith Jr who died of a heart attack. At 73 Lee would be the youngest church head in 40 years and the senior member of the Council of the Twelve. Historically the council post has led to the church presidency for three million members.
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Salt Lake City
Harold B. Lee
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Joseph Fielding Smith Jr
Smith
Lee
Council of the Twelve
Illinois Guard convoy stops in Mexico for lunch at Fairgrounds
A 180 unit Illinois National Guard convoy from the 66th Brigade of the 47th Infantry Division halted in Mexico en route to Camp Ripley Minnesota for training. They will return July 22 for an overnight bivouac at the Fairgrounds. A Mexico resident notices Kit Bond campaign material and a Winnebago with a basketball goal.
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Illinois National Guard
Mexico
Fairgrounds
66Th
47Th Infantry Division
Camp Ripley
Minn
Kit Bond
Gloria VanDeventer Simmons
Robert L
Washington
Open Meeting and Transportation Bond Petitions Filed
Jefferson City AP report notes petitions filed just before deadline for Sunshine Amendment open meeting measure and a $730 million transportation bond. Signatures exceed required 93,000 across seven districts. delay due to filing time confusion. Earl Blackwell suspends petition drive for tax increase vote. Kirkpatrick confirms midnight cutoff after attorney general ruling.
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Secretary of State
Citizens’ Lobby of
Missouri
Earl R. Blackwell
James C. Kirkpatrick
Eula H. Hess
Atty
John Dalton
Citizens Lobby
Columbia
Kansas City
St. Louis
State Highway Department
Blackwell
Brandon DeWilde Dies In Denver Area Car Crash
Child star of Shane and member of the Wedding, Brandon DeWilde, 30, died after a vehicle swerved off a Denver suburb road and hit a parked trailer. He suffered severe injuries and died hours later at a Denver hospital. DeWilde had recently acted in Butterflies Are Free on stage and previously starred in Hud and other 1950s Westerns. He lived in Century City, California.
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Brandon de Wilde
de Wilde
Denver
Century City
Calif
Carson McCuller
Hud
Mexico Youths Hurt in Wreck Of Motorcycle
Two Mexico youths were injured in a motorcycle crash south of Eldon on Highway 54 during a 14 rider holiday weekend outing. Linwell Mitchell, 19, of 1033 Harwood St., Jefferson City, suffered two broken legs a broken pelvis and other injuries and remained in fair condition at Still Hospital room 263. Frank Parker Jr., 19, of Route 1 Mexico, was treated for a left leg gash and returned home. Parker was driving a two month old Harley Davidson. Mitchell worked at Charlie's Auto Parts and Parker at MFA.
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Linwell Mitchell
Clyde Mitchell
Harwood St
Still Hospital
Jefferson City
Eldon
Mexico
Frank Parker Jr
Frank Parker
Rte
Parker
Mitchell
MFA
Charlie’s ' Auto Parts
Name New Dean At Westminster
Dr. William B. Huntley, long time chaplain and religion professor at Westminster College, has been named dean of students by college president Robert L. D. Davidson. Huntley joined Westminster in 1964 and holds degrees from Duke and Yale. The college had relied on two assistant deans of men for years.
Florida Governor to Speak at Major Party Conventions
Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida will address both major parties at their national gatherings in Miami Beach. A Democrat, he plans to welcome the GOP convention on August 21 and deliver the Democratic keynote the following Tuesday, citing his role as Florida’s chief executive.
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Melvin R. Laird
U.S
Laird
McGovern
United States
Miami Beach
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
George A. Wiley
National Welfare Rights Organization
Jesse Gray
National Tenants Organization
Richard J. Murphy
Terry Sanford
Citizens Committee
North Carolina
Atty
Andrew Miller
Virginia
Endicott Peabody
Massachusetts
Washington
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Peabody
Tallahassee
Fla
Reubin Askew
Maurice Harling
Askew
Harling
Jane Fonda To Visit Hanoi
Paris AP reports Jane Fonda the American film star and antiwar activist says she will carry several hundred letters from prisoners of war families to Hanoi. She left for Moscow on Thursday en route to a 10 day visit to the North Vietnamese capital.
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Paris
Jane Fonda
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Miss Fonda
Moscow
Mexico Ledger Friday Page Summary
Fragments from the Mexico Missouri Ledger page dated Friday July 7, 1972, provide brief items and local notices. Readable text centers on community notices, small ads, and period market references from that edition.
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Mexico
Admiral Says Nuts to Reds in Guantanamo Row
Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. rejected a Soviet Cuban demand that the U S withdraw from Guantanamo Bay Cuba saying My reaction would be Nuts He made the remark during the first East Coast Flag Officers Symposium in Norfolk Va The demand followed Castro's 11 day visit to the Soviet Union and a 4000 word joint communique
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Norfolk
Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr
United States
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Zumwalt
Fidel Castro
Soviet Union
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