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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1972
Page
12
Official 7:00 am readings show 24 hour high 101 and low 70. First sentence notes temperature ranges and year-ago comparison. Second line cites month to date precipitation 1.80 inches, year to date 14.24, and sun and moon rise/set times.
The Daily Record lists deaths including J. Cleary Potts and Abbie Elizabeth Hesse, a weather forecast showing showers and heat through Tuesday across Missouri, river stage notes for Kansas City and Cape Girardeau, hospital admissions and dismissals, plus police and highway patrol reports from Audrain County. Names span multiple towns including Centralia Auxvasse Mexico LaGrange Paris Wellsville and Montgomery City.
Magistrate Court fined Elmer Gene Isgriyz 27 dollars plus costs for speeding. Circuit Court records show Naomi Mae Brightwell, represented by Van Matre and Van Matre, filed for divorce from Elroy Brightwell. Missouri livestock and Chicago grain futures prices are listed, with national stockyard receipts and cattle, hog, and sheep market details.
West Berlin began direct telephone dialing today to 32 East German areas for the first time since 1952. The move marks a historic easing of communications between the two sides of the divided city.
Kansas City AP. Jury selection began in the first degree murder trial of John G. Parsons Jr. a Warrensburg construction worker accused of blowing up his estranged wife. The victim, 29, kindergarten teacher Mrs. Parsons, died November 7 when she started her car in Lee's Summit Missouri near Kansas City. Explosion caused by dynamite scattered debris over 200 feet.
Saigon AP reports President Nguyen Van Thieu and his wife announce the engagement of their 18 year old daughter Nguyen Thi Tuan Anh to the son of Air Vietnam’s director general.
New York AP reports strong stock market advance with moderate activity. Noon Dow at 991.67 up 11.22 as advances outweigh declines 3 to 1 on the NYSE. Occidental Petroleum weakens after last week surge amid a Soviet Union deal. Oxy trading around 15% with a 60,000 share block at 15. Volume and indices show broad gains on the Big Board and Amex.
A White House report shows the United States redirected hundreds of millions of dollars in local currencies from the Food for Peace program to military purposes in South Vietnam, South Korea, and Cambodia. Vietnam received 742.7 million, Korea 593.1 million, Cambodia 7.4 million, out of totals paid for U.S. foods. The kickback scheme, allowed by law, ended last year. overall, 1.7 billion of the 12.9 billion aid since 1954 backed “common defense” uses.
Philadelphia AP report states Michael Stanley Green 34 of Washington DC returned from Houston to face arraignment in Municipal Court Judge Joseph Murphy held without bail for a Monday hearing. Lusseged Tesfa 22 Ethiopian former student at Washington transferred to Springfield Missouri for medical exam. Both charged with air piracy warrants and $1 million bail in Houston.
Strike continued at Grimbly's fish market porters walked out causing a sharp pound drop and stock tumble. Dock action halts cargo at Southampton risking exports and economy while Cunard liner Queen Mirabeth 2 sails with 1,500 aboard. Five dock workers are jailed in Pentonville Prison for defying an industrial court order to stop illegal picketing.
Mrs Abbie Elizabeth Hesse 64 of rural Curryville died early Sunday at St Elizabeths Hospital Hannibal after about two weeks as a patient Burial at Vandalia city cemetery Funeral at First Presbyterian Church Vandalia led by Rev Wallace Thurman She was born July 11 1906 in Bellflower the daughter of Lucien and Margaret Murphy Lotton Married to Emmitt Hesse June 9 1928 Survived by husband one son Gerald Hesse Curryville mother Farber one brother Ivan Lotton Moorehead Minn two sisters Mrs William Barton Jefferson City and Mrs Vernie Weiser Vandalia two grandsons Kerry and Chris They moved to Vandalia area in 1949 from Lexington active in church garden and canasta clubs.
Mrs Latcille F Stephens 86 of Paris died at her home at 5 a.m. Sunday after months of illness. Born September 20 1885 in Salem Community she spent most of her life in Monroe County and belonged to Mt Zion Methodist Church. Survived by four daughters three sons in law seven grandchildren and several greats. Services at 2 p.m. Tuesday Agnew Funeral Home Paris with burial Walnut Grove Cemetery conducted by Rev Charles W Caldwell formerly Mt Zion pastor.
Roy VantCle ave 81 of 900 W. Bland St. died at 2 15 a m Saturday after years of ill health. Funeral service 2 p m today at Southside Baptist Church officiated by Rev Gary Balfour. Born Clarksville Missouri September 16 1896 to Henry C and Mary Elizabeth Worsham VanCleave. Married Carrie Bethel June 4 1921. Survived by wife and one sister Tillie Wilsey of Pittsfield IA. Moved to Vandalia in 1929. Retired brick plant worker and disabled veteran. Member of Southside Baptist Church and American Legion.
Ruth Richart formerly of Paris died in a Kansas City area hospital Saturday. Graveside services will be held in Hannibal at 2 p.m. Tuesday with Rev. James Culpepper of Paris United Methodist Church officiating. Friends may call at Schwartz Funeral Home in Hannibal 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday. She was a Monroe Countian born in Florida, lived in Paris for years, moved to Kansas City area last fall, and belonged to Paris United Methodist Church. Survived by two nephews Dan Richart and Robert Richart, both of Overland Park, Kansas.
Ten members of two related families drowned when their small aluminum boat, packed with twelve people and camping gear, sank on Georgian Bay near Midland Ontario. The tragedy occurred Sunday night as passengers frantically bailed water. Police and coast guard launched rescue attempts as survivors were accounted for.
John Cleary Potts of Bellevue Washington former chief engineer for A P Green Refractories and Boeing executive died July 21 at midnight. He leaves wife Rosemary Marlow Potts of 14313 NE 7th Pl Bellevue son John Cleary Kirkland Washington and five grandchildren. Services at St Louis Catholic Church Bellevue with memorial service July 25 noon. Memorials to American Cancer Society or charity of choice suggested.
Centralia 78 year old Mary Edith Miller will have services at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Meadow and Son Funeral Chapel. Reverends Jerry Ostrom and Orville Beasley will officiate. Burial follows at New Hope Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until the hour of services.
City council continues on page one with an ordinance approving the city engineer report and assessing special taxes for Bourne Summit and Vine Streets improvements. It also covers revising Mexico plumbing codes and a first reading to revise the minimum housing code. A traffic code amendment would delete parking meter enforcement after 6 p.m. on Fridays.
Twenty planes with 60 people depart Kirksville for a Washington protest over the FAA plan to shut Kirksville Municipal Airport flight service station. The group meets at Dulles Airport for discussions with Senators Symington Eagleton and Representatives Hungate Hull and Shaffer.
In Hamburg New York AP a man tired of name jokes founded the Jim Smith Society. At its third annual Fun Festival about 50 men named Jim Smith attended with shirts reading Jim Smith Power. Nearly 300 others named Smith joined the picnic and a softball game featured 22 players two umpires and a scorekeeper all named Jim Smith. The founder from Camp Hill Pennsylvania observed the event. he previously worked as a police reporter and says the society has 340 members across the United States and the British Commonwealth.
AP reports 41 people were arrested over the weekend in Detroit for looting window smashing and sporadic violence downtown. Seven adults and four youths were taken into custody early today marking a third straight night of disturbances. Police say a dozen stores were damaged and Mayor Gribbs blamed heat boredom and drink while denying links to the riverfront Afro-American festival tied to the 1967 riot anniversary.
Oklahoma City man Hayden Hewes heads a private group and camped at a Louisiana hillside where a girl reported a monster. He found nothing, but retains doubt about a creature in the hills and kept plaster casts from residents. Police report no evidence of a monster.
President Nixon, in the Oval Office, heard officials report narcotics arrests have doubled over four years and urged doubling again next year. Myles Ambrose cited a 16,144 arrests this year vs 8,465 four years ago, while noting heroin seizures had doubled to disrupt supply. Ambrose said the top need was public support for drug control, not more money or manpower.
Franklin County authorities planned further questioning of a city youth in a stabbing death case involving 18 year old Marine Oliver G. Wurtz. The coroner attributed death to a chest stab wound after the body was found in an automobile in a field following a late Saturday night altercation on Pacific outskirts.
Antiwar senators plan new assaults on U S troop role in Indochina and on Pentagon research. Proposals may be attached to a foreign aid package or the $20.5 billion procurement bill, with amendments calling for troop withdrawal dates and prisoner returns. Critics seek limits on Trident missile submarine research amid arms talks.
A Missouri Sunshine petition hearing was moved after judge James T Riley admitted an error delaying the process. Citizens Lobby seeks acceptance of open meetings petitions aimed at a November vote on a constitutional amendment requiring open meetings records. The effort stalled by signature shortfall and deadline confusion.
Missouri Senator Len Stuart Symington estimated that under the Nixon administration revenue sharing Missouri would receive 107.5 million while residents pay 140.5 million in personal income taxes. He noted Missourians pay 2.67 percent of federal personal income taxes but would get 2.03 percent of revenue sharing and urged Senate Finance Committee reexamination of the concept and House formula differences.
Saigon reports four more newsmen killed raising the toll to six in the four month North Vietnamese offensive. Canadian photographer Gerard Hebert was struck by an artillery shell near Quang Tri City. Singaporean cameramen Terence Khog and Sam Kai-Faye, plus South Vietnamese photographer Tran Van Nghia, were killed by rifle fire near Highway 1. No recoveries yet for all bodies remained missing. Thirty others wounded since the offensive began March 30.
AP report states Gus Warmann 65 father of Floyd Warmann an administrative aide to Gov. Hearnes died Sunday after extended illness. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 10 30 a m in St Louis with survivors including Floyd Warmann another son Gene and a brother and two sisters.
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