Weather Summary and Regional Forecast Details
Official 7:00 a.m readings show high 96 and low 18 for the last 24 hours. Forecast zone 5 predicts clear tonight with lows 65 to 70 and Wednesday sun, high 85 to 90. Missouri shows showers ending south and highs 85 to 92, with an extended Thu to Sat pattern of possible showers and warmth, lows mid 60s to low 70s. River and lake stages listed for Kansas City, Boonville, Jefferson City, Hermann, St. Louis, and Cape Girardeau, with levels and changes noted.
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Missouri
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Boonville
Jefferson City
Hermann
Cape Girardeau
Hospital Admissions and Local Traffic in Missouri Counties
At Audrain Medical Center admissions include Dee Allen Charles Rickard and many others from Mexico Vandalia Wellsville Paris Hallsville and Perry with newborns to William Campbell and Paul Adams. Dismissals list multiple residents across counties as patrol reports note several minor crashes and a rear impact near Mexico Kingdom City and Montgomery City with no injuries.
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Audrain Medical Center
Dee Allen
Charles Rickard
Glenn R. Hatfield
Leon B. Rutherford
Charity BE. Owen
Johnese Cheney
Gordon W. Gilman
John R.bonsall
Mexico
Clarence E. Holman
Ralph Kuda
Vandalia
Margaret B. Jennings
Montgomery City
Herma ‘Schumann
John W. Fry
Wellsville
Kevin — Worley
New Florence
Nellie O'Fallon
Paris
Iwalda S. Aton
Hallsville
John R. O’brien
Perry
Anna Hatton
Laddonia
Joe B. Joyce
William F. Campbell
Fairground St
Paul L. Adams
Route 2
Wright City
Adams
Binley Co
Warrenton
Katherine Kane
Deborah H. Black
Joseph A. Eads
Carl G. Wilson
Raymond E. Campbell
Walter T. Hodgson
Ima Clubine
Jeffrey Allen
Rebecca Ransdell
Horace Wilson
Sandra K. Delozier
Kyle Scholl
Albert J. Tighe
Ronald L. Orcutt
Charles L. Spires
Earl L. May
Columbia
David Roberts
Sturgeon
Thomas W. Cobb and Son
Donald W. Becker
Kingdom City
Kathy Torrence
St. Louis
Lucille Russell
Fort Hancock
Tex
Stephen Edward Horsfall
Carp Hill
State Highway Patrol
Edward Williams
Horsfall
Callaway County Hospital
Resis Dodge
Charles Michael Weisenborn
Macon
Chevrolet
Evelyn Marie Ellis
Highway 54
Ellis
Weisenborn
Magistrate Court cases filed for muffler and DUI charges
Ronnie Joe Forrest faces charges of driving with an insufficient muffler. Clyde Vernon Smith of 1227 N Western St is charged with driving while intoxicated. Circuit Court sees Terry Shawn Gamblian, represented by William Brandecker of Columbia, filing for divorce from Donald Alvin Gamblian.
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Ronnie Joe Forrest
Clyde Vernon Smith
N. Western St
Terry Shawn Gamblian
William Brandecker
Columbia
Donald
Alvin Gamblian
Grain and cattle market roundup from Chicago and St
Prices for soybeans, hard and soft wheat, and corn shown amid light cattle arrivals at Chicago Stockyards. Slaughter steer and heifer bids largely steady with high and prime weights selling up to 43.25 and 32.40 respectively. sheep receipts none. National stockyards notes provide hog, cattle, and calf bid ranges and market directions for the day.
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Chicago
Chicago (Ap
USDA
Sesuo
National Stockyard
Ill
U.s
State
MNS
Marty Schroeder
Market Report From Mexico Missouri Ledger July 24 1971
Livestock prices and quotes across cattle calves cows and calves slaughter lambs and feeders listed with ranges for grades and weights. Yields and conditions noted for utilities canners and fat cattle with several weight classes and ages reflected in bid prices.
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Mexico
Markets Slide as Profit Taking Drags Dow Below 700
New York trading slowed with the noon Dow at 696.25, down 7.15 as declines outpaced advances two to one. Absence of favorable news spurred concerns on inflation fight while National Steel delayed merger review and J C Penney fell on delayed opening. Big blocks moved including AMF, Honeywell, Levi Strauss and Philip Morris.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
National Steel
Granite City Steel
Justice Department
J.C. Penney
AMF Inc
Honeywell
Levi Strauss
Philip Morris
Drought tests Texas farmers seeking credit and relief
The drought's bite stresses farmers in Texas and the Southwest as banks tighten credit. President Nixon ordered emergency relief, but there is debate over adequacy. Irrigation, costly at $120 to $140 per acre, underpins crop stability but requires high yields to break even. Large operators face looming failure without broader loan pools and regional aid.
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Southwest
Nixon
Farmers Home Administration
Texas
John C. White
Washington
Congress
Colorado
Kansas
Harold Hogue
Frank J Hoeltcher Dies At 83 In Jonesburg
Frank Joseph Hoeltcher 83 lifelong Jonesburg resident died Sunday in St Louis after two weeks in St John Mercy Hospital in ill health. Funeral services set for Wednesday at St Patricks Church with burial in church cemetery. He leaves Edna Quanty wife a daughter Mrs Donald Mayer Florissant a son Francis St Louis County and sister Mrs Annie Horton Jonesburg.
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Jonesburg
Frank Joseph Hoeltcher
St. Patricks Church
Hoeltcher
St. John's Mercy Hospital
St. Louis
Mr. Hoeltcher
Frank
Filizabeth Land Hoeltcher
Edna Quanty
Donald Mayer
Florissant
Francis
St. Louis County
Annie Horton
Harding Funeral Home
Church Cemetery
Dixie Robb Dies Restoring Missouri Deer Herd
Jefferson City AP Dixie Robb 55 former chief of the conservation commission game division dies. Credited with restoring Missouri's white tail deer herd, he joined the commission in 1941. Under his leadership deer killed rose from 583 in 1944 to 164,000 last year. Burial in Charleston, South Carolina, his birthplace.
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Jefferson City
Dunbar
Dixie) Robb
Robb
The
Conservation Commission
Ozark
Charleston
S. C
Returns From Brother's Funeral in Greeneville Tenn
Mrs Grace Pack of 408 North Calhoun Street Greeneville Tennessee has returned home after attending funeral services for her brother Glenn Patton who died Friday in a Lexington Kentucky hospital after a lingering illness She was visiting with sisters Mrs L L Wampler and Mrs Nackie Hurst in Greeneville when she received word of the death.
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Grace Pack
N. Calhoun St
Greeneville
Tenn
Monterrey
Glenn Patton
Lexington
Pack
L.L. Wampler
Nackie Hurst
Russian freighter sinks off Vancouver coast rescue in progress
A Russian freighter carrying 14 crew members sank about 100 miles northwest of Vancouver. Eight hours after being reported rescued, one crewman was injured and a search continued for others.
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Vancouver, B.C
Vancouver
Woody Guthrie Birthday Observed With Gifts to Okemah Library
The event honors Woody Guthrie with a books and records presentation in Okemah, led by his widow Marjorie Guthrie and son Arlo Guthrie. A Wednesday concert in Oklahoma City raises funds for the Huntington's Disease Committee of Oklahoma. Guthrie, famed for Dust Bowl Refugees and This Land Is Your Land, died in 1967 after long illness.
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Okemah
Okla
Woody Guthrie
Lriary
Guthrie
Marjorie
Arlo Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Huntington's Disease Committee of
Oklahoma
Consumers Cut Buying Plans in May-June Survey
National Family Opinion, Inc. reports a drop in consumer buying plans in May and June. A survey of 10,000 families nationwide shows up to a 4 percentage point decrease in the share planning major purchases compared with March-April results.
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New York
National Family Opinion, Inc
Twelve Athletes Report On Estes Park Trip
A group of Mexico High School boys who attended the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Conference in Estes Park Colorado June 6 to 11 will report on their trip Wednesday evening. The Mexico FCA chapter meets at Plunkett Park at 7 p.m. Prospective members are invited. Attendees included Vic Arnold Bruce Moore Lawrence Epple Jeff Fine Chester Trotter Joe Long Ed Boyd Steve Young John Edwards Randy Higbee Bob Bastian and Tim Hotop.
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Mexico
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Estes Park
Colo
FCA
Plunkett Park
Lawrence Shelter
MHS
CIA Army Seizes Control of Laos Plain of Jars
Meo tribal forces trained and armed by the CIA reportedly took control of the Plain of Jars in eastern Laos with little resistance from North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces. American observers said Meo units probed the area for enemy supplies, uncovering large underground stores of food but few munitions.
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George Esper
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Veta Compleve
Plain of’ ‘Jars
Laos
Vientiane
Plain of Jars
Meo
Symington Undergoes Hand Surgery in Washington
Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri is hospitalized at Sibley Memorial Hospital to have a broken tendon in his right hand reconnected. His office says he checked in Monday and is expected to be released by the weekend.
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Alice Marie Montague
Route 1
Yamaha
Kenneth Harrison
Reinhardt Construction Co
Centralia
International
Lafayette St
Robin Hood Road
Mary. Jones
Montgomery City
Mary E. Thompson
Garfield St
Pacar
Barom
Dok
Washington
Sen
Stuart
Symington
D-Mo
Sibley Memorial Hospital
Centralia approves park closing hours and traffic rules
The Centralia city council passed a park ordinance setting closing hours from midnight to 6 am for all parks except downtown square. Prosecution for misdemeanor use, 10 mph speed limit on park roads, cycles and bicycles on roadways only, and no parking at pool lot except for pool users. Council vacated part of an alley west of Prenger's IGA for a storm drain and proposed concrete paving on Singleton Street from First Baptist Church to Jefferson Street. City Administrator Howard Burton noted estimated 6 inch by 24 foot wide pavement, 800 feet long.
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Centralia
Park Board
Prenger
IGA
Singleton
First Baptist Church
Middle
Jefferson St. City
Howard Burton
Missouri Sales Tax Receipts Down In 1970-71
AP reports Missouri's total receipts from taxes fell by more than 25 million in the year ending June 30. State Comptroller John C. Vaughn says general revenues were 21.3 million below his budget estimates. Income tax rose to about 196.1 million due to a rate increase, while beer and liquor taxes climbed to 3.7 million and 13.5 million respectively.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
John C. Vaughn
Toay
Vaughn
Appointment Made Reappoints Hearnes Trustee Herman Julien
Gov. Warren E. Hearnes reappointed Herman Julien of Jefferson City to the board of trustees of the Missouri State Employees Retirement System. The action confirms Julien's continued role in overseeing state employee retirement plans and benefits.
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Jefferson City
Warren E. Hearnes
Herman Julien
Missouri State Employes Retirement System
City Council Approves Code Changes and Centenary Caravan
City officials discuss the BOCA abridged building code with a simpler administration that defers to existing city codes where overlapping. Third reading passes an ordinance allowing Mayor Snyder to sign a quitclaim deed for part of the old Central School property. A Luaddonia Area Centennial caravan seeks city permission for a Friday evening arrival to Mexico’s courthouse square, with a noise-ordinance approval. Neighbors seek action on weed, trash, and debris on an adjacent property. the council directs health sanitarian Johnson to investigate while property owners bear sidewalk mowing responsibilities.
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Building Officials Conference of America
Boca
Howard Dillard
Leonard Snyder
Ray Hamlett
Luaddonia
Mexico
Courthouse Square
Nielsen
Hamlett
Laddonia
Jack Folta
Snyder
Lillian Voss
N. Craig St
Kenny Smith
Kent Rd
Smith
Voss
William E. Johnson
Vogs
Bank
Gould Is Now Free To Wed
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic actor Elliot Gould is free to marry his pregnant girlfriend Jennifer Bogart after his divorce from Barbra Streisand was finalized. The seven year marriage ended with a court edict published in Listin Diario following a Dominican quickie divorce law enacted last month.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Eliot Gould
Jennifer Bogart
Barbra Straisand
Listin Diario
Dominican Congress
Air Force officer convicted for antiwar petition at London base
Air Force court martial found Captain Thomas Culver guilty of demonstrating against the Vietnam War while stationed abroad and soliciting others to join. The 32 year old from Westfield New Jersey faces up to four years in prison and a dishonorable discharge as sentencing was expected later. Culver argued he was off duty in civilian clothes acting only for himself when he submitted the petition to the U S Embassy in London.
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Lakenheath
England
Air Force
Thomas Culver
Culver
Westfield
N.J
U.S
London
Death Train Behind Schedule Near Salem Derailment
Louis IC official testified at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing that the City of New Orleans was about 30 minutes behind schedule before the June 10 derailment near Salem Illinois. The 14 car train carrying about 211 passengers derailed after a wheel lock on the lead engine, killing 11 and injuring many.
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Ay Pde Hi Basa Lata
St. “Louis
Illinois Central Railroad
New Orleans
Salem
James M. Law
Champaign
Inl
National Transportation Safety Board
Ntsb Board of
Law
Tonti
Ill
Edgewood
Chicago
NTSB
Thomas Styles
Washington, D.C
Eagleton and Mondale urge Senate to press peace talks in Vietnam
Two Democrats, Eagleton and Mondale, propose a Senate resolution urging Nixon to pursue current Communist peace proposals promptly with good faith. They call for negotiations focused on a prisoner release and U.S. withdrawal, while Republicans say the plan demands a coalition government and bases dismantling. Senator Scott criticizes the coalition idea as misread.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
South Vietnam
Hugh Scott
Pennay
Vanla
Thas
Hanoi
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Thomas F. Eagleton
Dmo
Walter F. Mondale
Dminn
U.S
Scott
United States
Saigon
Patton Of Pacific dies at 77 in New York harbor
Admiral Joseph James Clark known as Patton of the Pacific died in a New York hospital at age 77. The World War II naval aviation pioneer directed a risky night attack after lights were turned on to aid inexperienced pilots, despite submarine warnings. Born in Pryor Oklahoma, he entered the Naval Academy in 1914.
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New York
Joseph James
Jocko”’ Clark
Patton
The
Pacific
Clark
U.S
Philippine Sea
Pryor
Okla
U.S. Naval Academy
Burglars Loot Oak Park Chevrolet Dealer
Thieves struck Erigance Chevrolet Sales Inc. in Oak Park loading a 1600 pound safe with over 190000 dollars in cash and checks onto a service truck. Police reported a hoist was used and items taken included key codes for Chevrolet cars and four key making machines.
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Oak Park, Til
Erigance Chevrolet Sales, Inc
Oak Park
Chicago
Chevrolet
Sikeston Man Found Shot Near Miner
Sikeston, Mo. police found the body of 25 year old James Allan Roose along a road on the south edge of Miner. The Scott sheriff's office reported a teen was shot in the area and Roose was later found dead.
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Sikeston
James Allan Roose
Miner
Scott
Sheriff's Office
Rooas
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Olive St
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Hawkins
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Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
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Dixie Robb
Tacoma, Wash
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Mountainside
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