Weather and market snapshot from a regional paper
The 7:00 a.m. weather summary notes 68 high and 70 low in the last 24 hours with a forecast of partly cloudy skies and scattered storms for Ledgerland and Missouri areas. Kansas City river stages and lake levels show above or below normal readings. Public safety reports log tampering incidents and a highway overturn injury, plus admissions and deaths at local centers and upcoming marriage license filings. National market notes cover hogs, cattle, and grain futures, with Ozarks lake levels and Australian PM Fraser's visit to Washington in focus.
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Sealinis
Ledgerland
Missouri
Kansas City
Lake of the Ozarks
Pomme de Terre
MFA
Mexico
Fowles Grain Co
Laddonia
National Stockyards
Ill
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago—Board of Trade
Missouri Livestock Market Center
Market Report Highlights Prime Rate Cut By Chicago Bank
New York stocks edged higher as Gulf States Utilities and other NYSE issues showed modest moves after First National Bank of Chicago cut its prime rate from 7 percent to 7 percent effective Tuesday. The noon Dow rose 1.03 to 991.94 while the NYSE composite index held at 55.63 and the American Exchange value index slipped 0.13 to 104.52.
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New York
Chicago
First National Bank of Chicago
Gulf States
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
Ava Youth Charged In Second Murder
Gary Lynn Dobbs 19 already indicted for murder is charged again after a Sunday morning indiscriminate shooting in Ava that wounded a carnival manager. Donald Thurman held on assault with deadly weapon. both men from Ava.
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Ava, Mo
Gary Lynn Dobbs
Douglas County
Donald Thurman
Ava
Leonard Sanders
Delmar Giles
Bluff City
Sanders
Jerry Huffman
Dobbs
Jerry Naugle
Naugle
Independence
Field Fire Brings Two Fire Departments
Wellsville and Montgomery City fire crews battled a grass fire that burned 40 to 60 acres of meadow and woods, destroying about 25 hay bales on the Kenneth Dungan farm. The blaze began around midday near Wellsville as the Dungans attended a funeral.
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Montgomery City
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Dungans
Raymond Norris
Prison Inmate Wounded In Stabbing In Missouri Penitentiary
Jefferson City Missouri AP reports an inmate in an honor dormitory at the Missouri State Penitentiary was seriously wounded in a stabbing. Another prisoner was placed in administrative isolation for questioning. The victim was Michael Alvin Thompson 28 who arrived in February 1975 to serve seven years for bad check charges.
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Jefferson City
Missouri State Penitentiary
Michael Alvin Thompson
Lee French Middletown Barber Dies at 74
Lee French 74 a Middletown barber for 49 years died Saturday at Audrain Medical Center Funeral services will be at 2 p m Tuesday at the Christian Church with Rev Melvin Kirk and burial in Fairmount Cemetery Visitation after 6 today at Myers Funeral Home He was born Oct 10 1901 in Audrain County to Charles W and Sadie Louis Shannon French He married Pearl Angel Oct 2 1926 surviving are two sons Robert Lee French of South Bend Ind and Richard Wayne French of Weldon Spring two brothers Floyd of Marietta Ga and Charles of Middletown two sisters Zelma Floyd and Elizabeth Kleinsorge six grandchildren and one great grandchild
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Myers Funeral Home
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Audrain County
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Charles
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Zelma) Floyd
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Elizabeth) Kleinsorge
Mrs. Edmee Kirn Rites Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Edmee Kirn 88, a former Montgomery City resident, will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at Schlanker Funeral Home in Montgomery City. She died Sunday in Tallahassee Florida where she had lived since 1958. Born August 14 1687 in Montgomery City to August and Anna Standhardt she was a member of the United Methodist Presbyterian Church in Montgomery City. She is survived by daughter Ann Kirn of Tallahassee and a sister in law Mrs Walter D McQuie Sr of Montgomery City. Burial will follow in Montgomery City Cemetery. Visitation is Tuesday evening at Schlanker Funeral Home. The Rev Ernest Slovensky will officiate.
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Schlanker Funeral Home
Edmee Kirn
Tallahassee
Fla
Kirn
August
Anna Hagel Standhardt
United Methodist-Presbyterian Church
Ann Kirn
Walter D. McQuie Sr
Schlanker Funeral
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Crews to Repair Seven City Streets in Mexico
City street crews will repair seven streets this week under City Manager Gary Eide. On Tuesday Frances Street from Morris to Singleton and Fairsite from Morris to Fairsite Drive will be worked on. Wednesday Lincoln Westminster to the cul-de-sac and Clark from Robinson to Maple. Thursday Wonneman Circle Calhoun to Pleasant and Churchill Mary to dead end. Friday Robin Hood Kentucky to Curtis resurfaced using slurry seal.
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Mexico Streets
Gary Eide
Frances St
Morris
Singleton
Fairsite
Westminster
Mary
Youth In Hospital with Temporary Paralysis
Gary Lee Francis aged 16 of 1625 South Missouri is a patient in Boone County Hospital Columbia. He arrived Saturday night and is in the intensive care unit receiving treatment for temporary paralysis. He is the son of Mr and Mrs John A Jones.
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Gary Lee Francis
S, Missouri
Boone County Hospital
Columbia
John A. Jones
Local candidates plan second income talks with Litton office
The Office of Congressman Jerry Litton said he would be in Mexico at 5 20 p m to meet with anyone at the corner of Monroe and Washington Streets. The Harold Volkmer caravan is due in town tomorrow from 12 15 to 1 00 at Hardee's.
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Cong
Jerry Litton
Mexico
Monroe
Washington Streets
Harold Volkmer
Hardee's
Returning Inmates Down Across Missouri Prisons
State prison recidivism fell below one third of the population as of 1975 with corrections officials crediting personalized plans team classification and community programs. Haynes cites furlough centers and ex offender services while a study by Dr. Lewis Urner links vocational training to lower recidivism rates.
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Corrections
Corrections Division
Edward Haynes
Haynes
Lewis Urner
Moberly Area Junior College
Missouri
Urner
Carter Nephew In Prison
William Spann 29, nephew of presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, is serving 10 years to life in a San Francisco armed robbery case. Reported by the Chronicle, Spann said his mother Gloria Spann urged not to help Carter’s campaign. He is held as a material witness in another robbery case at San Francisco Jail.
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William Spann
Jimmy Carter
Carter
San Francisco Chronicle
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Gloria Spann
Vacaville
The
Chronicle
California
Rex Granum
Georgia
Reagan touts foreign policy critique at rally
Reagan highlights flaws in current foreign policy and inflationary deficit spending before delegates. He says he has met with the other candidate and discussed guiding principles for the nation. The piece notes 2120 of 2259 delegates have publicly backed a candidate, with 900 bound and about 1350 free to choose.
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California
Tower predicts Ford ticket. McCarthy on Carter and Ford
Sen John Tower says Carter has a messianic smile and predicts Ford will win the Republican nomination and the general election. Tower endorses John Connally as suitable for No 2. Independent Eugene McCarthy sees no difference between Carter and Ford and has not chosen a running mate.
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R-Tex
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Ford
Tower
Texas
John Connally
Eugene McCarthy
Viking on Mars advances soil sampling amid seismometer doubt
Viking 1 engineers unjammed the robotic arm and prepared to collect soil in a smooth region of Mars, hoping to find evidence of life. Seismometer repair remains unlikely, but nitrogen detected in the atmosphere last week strengthens life-possible conditions.
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Viking
Earth
Martin
Christian Leader Rejects Cease-fire in Beirut Siege
Beir ut Former President Camille Chamoun said his Christian Tigers militia will not observe any cease-fire until all Palestinian and leftist Muslim fighters in Nabaa and Tal Zaatar surrender. He demanded unconditional surrender as fighting continues in Nabaa and Tal Zaatar, threatening regional communications.
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Camille Chamoun
East Beirut
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National Liberal Party
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Tal Zaatar
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Tripoli
Arab League
Hassan Sabri Khali
No Man’s Land
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U.S
Damascus
Syria
U.S. Navy
Dublin police seek help identifying objects from bomb scene
Dublin police circulated photos of items found at the bomb site that killed British ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs and a secretary. Items include a green hard hat with fingerprints, a carving knife, a bicycle lamp, masking tape, and fuse wire. Police urged public tips while noting 13 suspects tied to Provisional wings of the IRA or other republican groups.
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Dublin
Irish Republic
Christopher Ewart-Biggs
Britain
Irish Republican Army
Provisionals
Northern Ireland
Mercenary Daniel Gearhart's Body Returns to U S for Burial
The 34 year old American mercenary Daniel Gearhart, who served with the Special Forces in Vietnam, was killed in Angola. His body arrived at Kennedy Airport in a plain wooden casket and was to be flown to Washington. Gearhart was from Kensington Maryland and survived by his wife Sheila and four children. He was captured by Cuban troops soon after arriving in Angola. Funeral services were tentatively set for Wednesday.
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New York
Daniel Gearhart
Angola
United States
Gearhart
Kennedy Airport
Washington
Kensington
Sheila
Vietnam
Soldier of Fortune Magazine
ThreeYearOld Slays Friend With .357 in Baltimore
In Baltimore on a Sunday afternoon a 3-year-old, playing with a .357 pistol, shot and killed 17-year-old Jeffrey Krauseh after threatening him and his father. Marie Barcroft witnessed the scene on a South Baltimore porch and described a fatal chest wound and blood. The gun’s owner’s father is identified as a security guard. no charges will be filed.
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Baltimore
Marie Barcroft
Jeffrey
Jeffrey Krauseh
South
Baltimor G Eneral
Marie
George Barcroft
30 More Whales Found Beached
LOGGERHEAD KEY Florida AP report says at least 30 pilot whales beached Sunday on Dry Tortugas island in the Gulf of Mexico. Most died by morning. some were still alive earlier. Coast Guard spokesman John Ralph cited illness and communications difficulties. This followed two earlier Gulf Coast beachings, including five false killer whales near Fort Myers and 25 spinner dolphins near Sarasota. Experts note a possible parasitic infection affecting sonar but no conclusive cause yet.
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Loggerhead Key
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Coast
Coast Guard
John Ralph
Ralph
Key West
Fort Myers
Sarasota
Victoria Jones Transitions to Pin Oaks Nursing Home
Mrs. Victoria Jones of Mexico, formerly a patient at Audrain Medical Center, has moved to Pin Oaks Nursing Home and is assigned room 104.
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Mexico
Audrain Medical Center
Pin Oaks Nursing Home
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