Johnson Named To Commerce Board In Mexico
Rex Johnson senior vice president of Commerce Bank of Mexico was elected to the bank board at a July meeting. He has led agribusiness work, chairs Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce, and serves in community roles including Audrain Cancer Society and church leadership.
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Commerce Bank of Mexico
John R. Cline
Johnson
University of Missouri
Commerce Bank
Mexico
Citizens Committee For
Mexico City
Audrain
Rex
Crops in Missouri Need Rain Amid Drier Areas
Missouri crop reporters say corn and soybean crops suffer in drier regions despite last week’s rains. Statewide soil moisture is 68 percent short. Soybeans show 2 percent poor, 53 percent fair, 43 percent good, rest excellent. corn 2 percent poor, 36 percent fair, 59 percent good, 3 percent excellent. Wheat and most oats harvested. grain sorghum heads. alfalfa second cut 77 percent complete. timothy clover hay 86 percent harvested. cotton in Bootheel 4 percent squaring. pastures largely poor to fair.
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Columbia
Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Bootheel
Body In Sullivan Is Identified
In Sullivan Missouri the body of 19 year old Debo rah Francis of St. Louis was identified as the victim found five miles north in a Franklin County pasture. Autopsy showed multiple skull and facial fractures with the cause undetermined. Investigators seek her boyfriend as a person of interest.
Disclosure deadline set for July in Aug primary
County Clerk John Jesse announced candidates may file campaign finance and disclosure reports starting Friday. The deadline is 5 p.m. July 27. Reports must be filed seven days before the election, with each candidate including committee positions required to file.
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John Jesse
Jesse
Delta Queen May Skip Great Steamboat Race
At Louisville riverfront the Delta Queen faces a clash with a planned Bicentennial Barge a floating restaurant and theater set for Aug 2 The rival barge would occupy the usual Delta Queen anchorage in a dispute over the race and Derby pomp.
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Louisville, Ky
Louisville
Cincinnati
Ohio
House of Labor backs Carter as AFL-CIO endorses him
Washington AP. AFL-CIO President Meany announced Monday the labor federation endorses Jimmy Carter, uniting unions after earlier 1972 neutrality. Major unions including auto and mine workers and NEA near or already backing Carter, while Teamsters shift from Nixon to Carter amid attacks on Ford economic policy. Meany says labor aims to change the economic picture and that Ford Reagan choices split the GOP.
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Frank Fitzsimmons
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Carter
American Labor Movement
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Meany
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Reagan
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Tweedledee
Labor Movement
Argentina's Most Wanted Guerrilla Leaders Killed
In Buenos Aires army troops killed top guerrilla figure Roberto Santucho and his second in command Enrique Gorriaran Merlo. Intelligence officials say the ERP death blow may cripple the Marxist group at war with the government.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Roberto Santucho
Santucho
Enrique Gorriaran Merlo
People’s Revolutionary Army
ERP
Look-alike Escape From Cole Jail
A 22-year-old St Louis man Charles Boclair was held in Cole County Jail on charges of aiding and abetting an escape after his look-alike brother Herbert D Boclair Jr escaped from Church Prison Farm. The switch occurred during a Sunday visiting period and was discovered at 6 30 a m Monday during a prisoner count.
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Jefferson City
St. Louis
Cole County
Wyman Basinger
Charles Boclair
Herbert
Church
Here
Missouri Division of Corrections
Mark Steward
Herbert D. Boclair Jr
Steward
Tax Committee Reviews Special Interest Benefits
The Senate Finance Committee, led by Sen. Russell Long, convened to reevaluate dozens of amendments added to a large tax bill that favor only a few firms. Critics say the amendments amount to welfare for the well to do, while supporters defend merit in some proposals as the vote on renewing last year’s individual tax cuts nears.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Russell Long
D-La
Senate
Long
William Proxmire
Wis
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Proxmire
Committee
Congressmen Deny Leaking Secret Panel Report
Congressmen on the House intelligence committee told investigators they did not leak the panel secret report to CBS journalist Daniel Schorr and do not know who did. Ethics investigators said after over 400 interviews and 150000 dollars spent they could not determine who provided Schorr with a copy.
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Washington
House Intelligence Committee
CBS
Daniel Schorr
House Ethics Committee
Schorr
Intelligence Committee
South Africa braces for riot in Soweto amid school reopening
Reinforced police patrols were on alert for a new outbreak of rioting in Soweto eight miles south of Johannesburg. The government postponed the reopening of black schools set for today after widespread rumors of antigovernment demonstrations to coincide with class resumption.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Soweto
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