Weather and local notices from Ledgerland area
Local weather readings show a 50 percent rain chance tonight and Thursday with a high near 90 and thunderstorms possible. Missouri forecast calls for continued heat with thundershowers, cool down Friday, and highs mostly in the 80s. River stages reported for several cities, hospital and discharge notices listed, and local court actions noted including a theft charge and driving violations.
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Ledgerland
Missouri
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Boonville
Jefferson City
DOL Hermann
Hannibal
Cape Girardeau
Quincy
Local Court Actions and Market Report Summary
The Daily Record reports charges for several individuals including a fine for driving with no license and speeding towards $18. An ongoing divorce petition between Becky L. Ronco and Herbert E. Ronco, represented by Van Matre and Van Matre, proceeds in circuit court. County court approves Arthur Hills Drive designation between Highway 22 and Route FF west of Mexico. Probate notices file inventory for Meda Beulah Conley estate valued at $84,000 real estate and $3,350 personal property. Missouri Livestock Market notes hog prices, with multiple weight ranges, plus cattle and sheep market shifts and Thursday receipts.
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Mary Musetta Clark
Everett George Boyer
Loren Ray Biggers
Georgia Baker Mitchell
New London
Circuit Court
Becky L. Ronco
Herbert E. Ronco
Mra. Ronco
van Matre
Venton Bays
Arthur Hills Drive
Highway 22
Mexico
Jewell Jones
Hazel Jerman
Carter Nomination Charges Shape Democratic Convention
Delegates across the Democratic gathering heard speakers for Carter Udall Brown and others as party figures including Rodino Cox Chavez Killilea and Wallace took the stage. The AP poll showed Carter leading with 1794 votes ahead of Udall 316.5 and Brown 281 while Muskie Humphrey and McGovern urged principled unity.
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Peter W. Rodino
New Jersey
Richard M. Nikson
Carter
Margaret Costanza
Rochester
N.Y
Andrew Young
Georgia
Archibald Cox
Udall
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers Union
Brown
James M. Killilea
Boston
McCormack
Massachusetts
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Associated Presa
New York
Muskie
Portland
Maine
George McGovern
Hubert Humphrey
Mondale
Senate
Minnesota
Glenn
Charles Kirke
Ford
Muskle
America
Hubert H. Humphrey
White House
South Dakota
McGovern
Coretta Scott King
Martin Luther King
Delegate counts for 1976 party nominating races
AP tally of bound and preferred delegates by party for the national conventions. Republicans show Ford leading with 1082 and Reagan at 999, with uncommitted and other small totals, while Democrats list Carter with 1784 and Udall 316.5 and Brown 281, plus Jackson Humphrey Wallace and others, totaling 3008 with 1505 needed to nominate.
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Washington
Ford
Reagan
Carter
Udall
Brown
Jackson
Humphrey
Connecticut
Utah
Canadians Welcome Queen And Philip
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip begin a 12 day Canadian tour in Nova Scotia aboard the royal yacht Britannia after a voyage troubled by heavy seas. The royal couple arrive in Halifax amid warm welcomes from locals and officials.
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Halifax
Canada
Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip
Atlantic
Nova Scotia
Britannia
Market Trends and Legal Case Highlight Missouri Trials
Market reports show grains and futures prices with soybeans around 7.17 for July and corn near 3.01 for September on the Chicago Board of Trade. Dow Jones and NYSE indices hover after a recent rally as traders weigh direction. In St Joseph, a defense psychiatrist testifies in the Judy Rogers murder trial, describing her as mentally aware of wrongdoing but lacking judgment.
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MFA
Mexico
Fowles Grain Co
Laddonia
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade Today
Chicago — Board of Trade
St, Joseph, Mo
Job Corps
Mario Decanini
Judy Rogers
Sandra Beam
Ute
Iowa
Miss Rogers
Cape Girardeau
Buchanan County
Decanini
Miss Beam
Gloria Sowards
St. Joseph
Karen Sharp
Manufacturer Inventories Show Increase in May
Washington AP reports May inventory levels rose by 1.9 billion dollars or seven tenths of one percent, led by a near one billion rise in manufacturing stock. Wholesale and retail inventories gained, while sales fell three tenths of one percent, marking the first drop since March 1976 and keeping inventories high relative to sales at 1.46 times.
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Washington
Flu Shots Still Planned For Next Month
Washington AP reports plans to begin swine flu immunizations by month’s end despite insurer questions. HEW Secretary David Mathews says a meeting with President Ford aimed to resolve policy and liability issues for 200 million Americans. Insurance decisions on coverage for four drug firms producing the vaccine are pending, with Justice Department approving vaccine purchase contracts and distribution liability. The risk cited is financial rather than risk of illness. The story also notes a birth in Martinsburg, naming James Christian Swaim born Sunday at 11:39 a.m. at Audrain Medical Center weighing seven pounds seven ounces.
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Washington
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
David Mathews
Mathews
Ford
Justice Department
Kenneth M. Swaim
Martinsburg
James Christian Swaim
Audrain Medical Center
Lawrence Wilburn
Walter Swaim
Paul Swaim
Amelia Davis
Zella Carr
Bertie Rickey
Hannibal
Absentee Ballot Applications for Aug. 3 Primary
County Clerk John Jesse reports early absentee ballot requests for the August 3 primary. Twenty eight residents have applied, plus fifteen military ballot requests. Deadline is 4 p.m. August 2 in the clerk’s office. mail ballots must arrive by 4 p.m. Friday July 30.
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John Jesse
Viking Site Picked For Mars Lander July 20
Viking officials selected a safe, moon like plain on Chryse Basin Western Slope for America's unmanned Mars lander due July 20. After two weeks of image review the site near 460 miles northwest of the original was chosen over two other sites. Lander separation from the mother ship is planned early Tuesday morning with touchdown just after 8 a.m. EDT carrying life detection experiments.
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Pasadena
Calif
Viking 1
Mars
America
Viking
Arizona
Mars’ Chryse Basin
Syria Expands Troop Push in Lebanon at Baalbek Clash
Beirut AP report says Syria sent 1,000 more troops in two motorized battalions to reinforce attacks on Baalbek and Sidon. Leftist command says tanks and troops shelled and entered Baalbek, conducting house to house searches as they push deeper into the town amid casualties.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Syria
Baalbek
Sidon
Beksa
Indicted Strike Rioters Named In Post Case
A federal grand jury indicted seven Local 6 pressmen from the Washington Post on rioting and property destruction charges tied to last October's strike. O'Sullivan, Rust, and four others face counts including inciting a riot theft of press equipment and assault. Maximum penalties range up to 10 years and 10,000 dollars for certain counts.
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Washington
Washington Post
Newspaper and Graphic Communications Union
Justice Department
Eugene E. O'Sullivan
Vienna
Cecil BE. Rust
Arlington
Gil W. Fowler
Lawrence H. Boyd
Hyattsville
Fred F. Tweedie
Sterling
Michael Tenorio
Alexandria
Walter J. Stahli
Burke, Va
O'Sullivan
Rust
Tweedlie
Tenorio
Stahli
Great American Race Moves On
About 50 to 60 riders left Kansas City for Marysville Kansas as part of the Great American Race finances struggling teams. More than 90 riders departed New York in May toward Sacramento with delays in several stops. funds raised in Kansas City allowed the race to continue toward a September 6 Sacramento finish for a $25 000 prize held in escrow in Chicago. An unrelated group of about 15 riders left St Joseph to follow the Pony Express route toward September 17 arrival in Sacramento. Pictons Have Son. Mr and Mrs Charles H Picton Vandalia are parents of a son weighing nine pounds 15 ounces born today at 3 10 am at Audrain Medical Center.
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Audrain Medical Center
Josephine M. Brauer
Wiley L. Miller
Muriel Davidson
Ruby E. Creasy
John R. Vance
Richard H. Ash
Teresa L. Scott
Norma Salmons
James Brewer
Clarence R. Logan
Robert C. McBurney
Mexico
Malcolm L. Dowell
Robert Hayden Palmer
Brandy M. Miller
Loren Love
Dora J. Mack
Vandalla
Oral A. Dunlap
Bellflower
Georgia R. Oliver
Wendell M. Bishop
Montgomery City
Earl Smith
Wellsville
Junior M. Smith
Shelbina
James L. Carnes
Holliday
Howard F. Boyd
C. Clifton Cagle
Centralia
Madeline K. Roe
Paris
Stephanie K. Garrett
High Hill
Garret H. Hasekamp
Madison
Elizabeth A. Hoffman
Fulton
Charles H. Picton
Vandalia & Son
Forrest Sampson
Kenny Ward
Rebecca A. Forster
Paul Hoover
Riley Milstead
Ethel Mipington
Sapphle McWhirt
Vandalia
Diane Wilkerson
Colleen McNamara
Santa Fe
Commerce Bancshares
Mercantile Bank Corp
Wetterau 1754
New York Stock Exchange
Bobble Brooks
Combustion Engineering
Dresser Industries
Emerson Electric
Interco
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
Wal-Mart
Dow Jones
NEW York
Wall Street
Dow
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
Kansas City
Marysville
Kan
Sacramento
Calif
Hannibal
Chicago
St. Joseph
Pictons
Old Movie Outdraws Democrats in New York
In New York area early ratings show Casablanca drew far more viewers than the Democratic convention. Wpls aired the Bogart Bergman classic as part of a Bogart film festival Monday night and matched network convention viewing. National figures were not yet available, but early checks in LA and NY suggest over 70 million watched part or all of the convention.
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New York
Sam
New York Area
Wplx
Los Angeles
Mexico Pair Race In Air Derby Finishes Strong
Mrs Ruth Chapman and co pilot Mrs Dorothy Graf of Mexico finished 43rd in the 29th Powder Puff Derby ending in Wilmington Delaware after starting in Sacramento California. Of 199 entrants 176 completed the race with Chapman earning 17.9 mph on handicap 145 and an average 162.9 mph. 14 scratched 14 disqualified and nine withdrew. 77 of finishers had penalties. Awards to be handed at banquet with teams leaving for Mexico tomorrow.
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Ruth Chapman
Mexico
Wilmington
Del
Sacramento
Calif
Chapman
Dorothy Graft
John
Ruth
Graf
Brice Ratchford to Kansas State University tenure
Dr. C Brice Ratchford former University of Missouri president will join Kansas State University as a visiting professor in August for a year in the economics department. He will study new extension economics programs with a focus on international marketing of agricultural commodities. In fall 1977 he returns to MU in Columbia as a tenured agricultural economics faculty member after resigning the Missouri presidency in May.
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Manhattan
Kan
Brice Ratchford
University of Missouri
Department of Economics
Kansas State University
Paul L. Kelley
Kansas State Department of Economics
Ratchford
Kelley
University of Missouri- Columbia
Department of Agricultural Economics
Rescue Teams Enter Mine To Recover Scotia Coal Tragedy Victims
In OVEN FORK Kentucky three mine rescue teams are set to retrieve Johnny Hackworth and ten other Scotia Coal Co. miners buried since March 11 after methane blasts. Families endure long nights as rescuers plan a painstaking three mile entry to map the shaft, remove debris, and vent the mine.
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Oven Fork
Kathy Hackworth
Johnny
Scotia Coal Co
Big Black Mountain
Mrs. Hackworth
Cumberland
Scotia
McKnight
Hackworth
HN. Kirkpatrick
Kentucky Department of Mines and Minerals
Blue Diamond Coal Co
Scotia Employer’ Association
State Department of Mines and Minerals
Federal Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration
MESA
Robert Barrett
Platform Has Planks For Everybody
New York AP Carter’s Democratic platform drawn with wide appeal and cautious qualifiers. praised by Coretta Scott King and George Wallace for its breadth while some doubt a Carter administration can deliver. Key planks promise employment goals, health insurance, minimum incomes, tax reform, and defense spending cuts, with a Hatch Act easing change.
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New York
Jimmy Carter
Coretta Scott
King
George Wallace
Carter
Wallace
Washington
IMF Auctioning More Tons Of Gold
Washington AP reports the IMF started auctioning another 780000 ounces from its gold hoard. Bids are expected lower than the $126 per ounce level set in the first sale on June 2.
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Washington
International Monetary Fund
IMF
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Highway Patrol
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Léonard W. Rowden
Gray Summit
Ralph Delozier
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Bowden
Gary D. Kuda
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Queen
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