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Newspaper

Mexico Ledger

Location

Mexico, Missouri, United States of America

Date

Jul 09, 1974

Page

3

Meat Problems Aired At Meeting in Missouri

At a Missouri gathering called by Gov. Bond, producers, retailers and consumers debated meat prices. Troelstrup urged awareness that high cattle and pork prices were not matched by consumer spending, while calls for promotion, grade liberalization, reduced beef imports, and more beef in state meals outlined possible fixes. Several participants noted shrinking profits and rising costs, with officials citing long term price increases and disposable income gains.

Jefferson City Arch Troelstrup Missouri Association of Consumers Troelstrup Christopher S. Bond Federal Trade Commission James Boillot Mildred Bradsher University of Missouri John Faust Missouri Meat Packers and Processors Association Tom Diggs Diggs Packing Co Columbia Faust William H. Austin The Consumers Association of Missouri Marshall McGregor Missouri Cattlemen’s Association Lake of the Ozarks Michael Bauman Missouri Cattlemen's Association St. Louis Missouri Department of Agriculture

Ex-Minister Denies Bigamy Charge in Colorado Suit

Harlow P. Donovan Jr., a former St. Louis minister, denied a bigamy suit filed by Maurice R. Franks of Westcliffe, Colorado. Franks seeks 750000 dollars for mental anguish, alleging Donovan used a devious scheme to win Franks' wife Rebecca who had pending divorce in Colorado.

ST. Louis Harlow P. Donovan Jr Colorado Maurice R. Franks Westcliffe Colo Donovan Franks Rebecca Donovans St. Paul's Episcopal Church Arnold

Isabela Peron presidency sparks Spanish gender debate

BUENOS AIRES Argentina AP Isabel Per ons presidency creates linguists questions. In Spanish nouns are masculine or feminine often ending in a. The word presidente ends in e. The government uses la presidente but scholars argue for la presidenta as she is Argentina s first woman president and a precedent setting moment.

Buenos Aires Argentina Isabel Peron

Summer Music Camp At University Of Missouri

Stacy Webber and Barb Farris joined more than 200 area high school students at the University of Missouri summer music camp in Columbia from June 16 to 22. The program, sponsored by UMC music department, offered instrumental and vocal work.

Stacy Webber Washington St Barb Farris Rush Hill Rte. 1 University of Missouri Columbia Music Department UMC

Young Klan Dragon Owes It to Carnegie Course

Dimmie Johnson, elected Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan at 19, credits a Dale Carnegie course with improving his Klan work and public relations. In Dallas he won the No. 2 post in the Texas Fiery Knights, behind Imperial Wizard Scott Nelson. Johnson plans to run for political office and says the Klan’s violence image is being softened.

Houston Tex Dimmie Johnson Ku Klux Klan Dale Carnegie Johnson Texas Fiery Knights Dallas Fiery Knights Imperial Scott Nelson KKK Klan Tare

Corn Is Rated Fair To Good

In Missouri the Crop and Livestock Reporting Service shows soybean and grain sorghum planting at 94 percent with five days suitable for field work. The corn crop is fair to good with 13 percent in silking, cotton fair to good with 27 percent squaring, wheat harvest at 82 percent, and alfalfa second cutting over 50 percent. Northeast and north central areas report adequate to surplus soil moisture after midweek rains.

Columbia, Mo Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service

Nixon aims for voluntary restraints to curb inflation

President Nixon and top advisers pursue voluntary restraints by the federal government and the private sector to fight inflation without tax increases or price controls. Aides say he will educate the nation on restraint, review the economy, and press for reduced federal spending while jawboning industry, labor, and consumers. The administration hopes to cut inflation from 10.2 percent to 7 percent by year’s end as meetings with Simon and others proceed.

Washington Nixon Ronald L. Ziegler White House Treasury William F. Simon Kenneth Bush Council of Economic Advisers Herbert Stein Federal Reserve Board Arthur Burns Office of Management and Budget Roy L. Ash Gerald L. Warren Rush Warren Middle East Casper Weinberger Simon Ziegler California San Clemente

CIA Charged With Interfering With Writer Ex-Agent

Washington AP reports an ACLU lawyer claims the CIA meddled in the personal affairs of ex agent Philip B F Agee who wrote an exposé on CIA Latin American operations The lawyer said the agency tried to influence his separation from his wife to block disclosure of secret information Agee seeks to publish The CIA declined to comment and described the Agee affair as a threat to Western Hemisphere operations

Washington American Civil Liberties Union CIA Melvin L. Wulf ACLU Philip B.F. Agee Wulf Agee Cuba

Ex-CIA Deep Cover Agent Details Latin America Work

Agee, a 39 year old ex CIA operative, says he completed a 200000 word manuscript about activities in Latin America from 1960 to 1969. He says Richard Helms sent a man to Paris in 1971 to learn what was going on. Penguin London plans to publish the book this fall.

Latin America Havana CIA Agee Associated Press Great Britain Wulf Penguin London Ecuador Uruguay Mexico Richard Helms Paris United States

Agee links U S counterinsurgency to deeper injustice

Agee says U S actions in counterinsurgency mirror Vietnam and Peru style moves, kept below troop thresholds, strengthening minority governments and wealth for a few while widening poverty. He aimed to reveal these policies so Americans can decide their continuation.

United States Vietnam Agee Dominican Republic

Poelker Says He’s Fed Up With Watergate Scandal

ST LOUIS AP Mayor John H Poelker a Democrat says he is fed up with the Watergate scandal and has discontinued reading stories about the affair He told reporters at his regular news conference that he personally has found a great number of people are tired of reading about Watergate

ST. Louis John H. Poelker

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