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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1974
Page
3
Washington AP USDA reports May grocery costs rose for three family income levels. Low-cost plans averaged 43.90 weekly, moderate 55, and liberal 66.50, with gains from April and year earlier. Meat prices fell, but other items stayed high, keeping costs up for all groups.
Treasury Secretary William E. Simon heads to the Middle East next Thursday for talks in Saudi Arabia Egypt and Israel on oil price and production. Energy and finance experts will accompany him before travels to Bonn Paris and likely London to meet finance ministers.
Local church activities highlight Wellsville life with baptism at United Methodist Presbyterian Church officiated by Rev. Clarence Smith and music by Kenneth Richards. The arrival of Nathan Alan Place is marked by a red rose on the altar. Visitors include MR and MRS Ronald Yearns and daughter from Warrensburg and MRS Melvin Johnson from Columbia. Baptist Vacation Bible School begins July 29 for two weeks with a gospel concert by Mike Herndon and Randy Hackett on Saturday night.
Japan's Liberal Democrats, led by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, seemed set to retain a majority in the Diet's House of Councillors as votes counted show them with 42 of 70 seats contested. The tally has Socialists at 17, Communists 3, and minor parties 5 among the 130 seats at stake.
Personal News of Paris pleads guilty to a like charge, fined 150 dollars plus costs, 90 days in jail, one year of parole, and 60 days to make restitution. Leslie Ray Parks is fined 100 dollars plus costs for speeding. Mrs. Etta Harl of St. Louis County named State coordinator for Teachers for Eagleton with Monroe County coordinator Mrs. Myrtle Lee Carman. Mrs. Carman names assistants Mrs. Charles Roach and Mrs. J. P. Carman. Mrs. Lorna Bottger travels with Mrs. Hart in the Ninth District aiding appointments. They visited Paris Monday and attended Senator Eagleton’s press conference in Mexico Tuesday.
Personal news notes list a Laddonia resident visiting grandmother Mrs Russell Nichols over the weekend. Also recorded are Mr and Mrs Dick Nichols of Ashland Illinois as guests of Mrs Russell Nichols on Saturday. Funeral attendance noted for Mrs Ellen Pittman with services at Precht Pickering Funeral Home in Mexico.
Victoria B C AP The 15 ton glass blank for a volcano top telescope mirror in Hawaii was unpacked at Dominion Astrophysical Observatory 10 months after arrival from France. Director K C Wright says grinding the 144 inch mirror will last to end of 1976. The cervu glass ceramic resists temperature change and distortion. Wright cites political wrangling over cost sharing between Canada and France delaying the project.
Jefferson City Little Theatre opens its fifth season at Richardson Auditorium Lincoln University Campus with You're A Good Man Charlie Brown. Three performances start Thursday July 11 before a Cork Opera House invitation. Tickets by mail. adults 4 dollars, children 1.50. general 3 dollars and 1 dollar. student rate 2.50. Memberships 10 dollars per person or 19 per couple include tickets to Charlie Brown and three more plays.
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