Local Weather Report and River Stages Update
Official 7:00 a.m. readings show a 64 degree temperature, 78 high, 49 low, with month to date rainfall 4.00 inches and year to date 19.03. Forecast predicts cooler tonight in Zone 5, slight shower chance later in the day, highs near 70s for Missouri with upper 70s to mid 80s. extended outlook through Saturday shows possible thundershowers and cool days. River stages list Missouri sites including Kansas City, Jefferson City, Hermann, St. Louis, and Cape Girardeau with varied readings. Lake of the Ozarks at 658.9 and Pomme de Terre at 88.8 showing little change.
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Missouri
Lake Lyof
Ozarks
Ies Pomme de Terre
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Boonville
Jefferson City
Hermann
Hannibal
Cape Girardeau
Quincey
Hospital births and police reports across Audrain County
Audrain Medical Center admitted a long list of patients including Bistil Woolfolk and Sam Maylee with many others named from Mexico and surrounding towns. Two newborns were born to Bruce T. Norfleet of Mexico and Stanley Webb of Vandalia. Police reports cover theft of a blue bicycle, a car train collision near GM40, vandalism at A. P. Green Refractories, a broken storm door pane, a stolen red blue sting ray bike, windshield damage from a thrown object, and a Buick damaged on Kentucky Road. Highway Patrol notes four injured in a three vehicle crash on Highway 54 near Auxvasse with one driver cited for failure to stay on the right. Death notice for Sam Helm, 63, of Mexico.
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Audrain Medical Center
Bistil Woolfolk
Sam Maylee
Robert E. McDonald
Debra Kay Fierge
William D. Luckaman
Robert Benskin
Jesse E. Miller, Jr
Fred J. Jacobi
Raymond A. Niederschulte
Robert Dishman
Millie Patterson
Walter H. Isenmang
Dallas
Ronnie L. Patrick Martinsburg
Middletown
Easterday
New Florence
James L. Johnston
Paris
Marvin L. Thomas
Sally Bailey
E. Boulevard
Barbara Owen
W. Latney St
Leon Hoover
W. Buchanan &J
Calhoun St
Liberty
Promenade Sts
Kentucky Rd
Hendricks
Curtis Sts
Highway Patrol
Auxvasse
State
Grandville Galbreath
Fulton
Ford
Charles David Niederschuite
Boonville
Frank Starkey
Mexico
Larry Bruce
Raymond
Larry Niederschulte
Mary Elizabeth Stakey
Galbreath
Niederschulte
Starkey
Sam Helm
Norman Jewison to direct film of Jesus Christ Superstar
Universal Pictures announced Norman Jewison to direct and co produce the rock opera film adaptation Jesus Christ Superstar. Jewison, fresh from Fiddler on the Roof, will begin shooting the project next spring in New York and elsewhere.
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New York
Norman Jewison
Universal Pictures
Jewison
Market Reports Livestock Prices and Grain Notes
Market reports from Missouri livestock center and National Stockyards summarize hogs, cattle, sheep and grain prices. Slaughter hogs under pressure with barrows and gilts down 26 to 60 cents. cattle and feeder classes show mixed moves. US grain bids include soybeans at 3.25, hard wheat 1.35, soft wheat 1.26, corn 1.40, mill mix 2.50. futures and cash quotes across Chicago boards reference cattle, hogs and sheep with varying gains and declines.
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State
Mns
Marty Schroeder
U.S
Chicago
USDA
Chicago Board of Trade
Miss Anita Joyce Pankratz Named Miss Wilnola
Miss Anita Joyce Pankratz of Chicago has been named Miss Wilnola and will represent Illinois at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City September 7 to 11. A 21 year old senior music major at Roosevelt University, she previously competed in the Miss Illinois Pageant.
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Aurora
Anita Joyce Pankratz
Chicago
Wilnola
Atlantic City
Pankratz
Roosevelt University
Zinc Price Up Raises Prices on Zinc Metal
In New York two more zinc firms St. Joe Minerals and American Smelting Refining Co raise zinc prices by one cent per pound effective immediately. Prime Western grade now 17 cents and special high grade 18 cents per pound. Earlier, New Jersey Lead & Zinc Co and Ainax Lead & Zinc Inc announced similar increases.
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New York
St. Joe Minerals
American Smelting & Refining Co
New Jersey Lead & Zine Co
Ainax Lead & Zinc,Inc
American Metal Climax, Inc
Dies At Age 111 In Port Arthur Price
Pierre Lartigue died Saturday at 111 leaving 178 survivors. A former sharecropper, fisherman and railroad worker, he was born May 31, 1880 in Landry's Parish, Louisiana, and will be buried today in Mermentau, Louisiana.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Piarre Lartigue
Mermentau
Lartigue
Landry's Parish
Stock Market Dip on Moderate New York Trading
In over the counter and New York Stock Exchange trading yesterday stocks fell overall with the noon Dow dipping 3.06 to 685.81 as declines outpaced advances about 3 to 2. Analysts cited tepid buying interest and economic recovery uncertainty as contributors while oils and metals rose and several sectors including rubbers aircrafts electronics utilities chemicals and rails fell or mixed.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Mob ties and shady pasts emerge in Boston area figure
Dominick Teresa recounts connections to mob figures in the Boston region, including monthly Pine Tree Farm meetings near Framingham with leaders from across the country. He claims lifelong ties to the underworld, involvement in gambling junkets abroad, stolen cars, loan sharking, and forged credit cards, and notes a shift to the stolen security racket for profitability and less risk.
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Dominick
Sandy Mac
Teresa
Boston
Joseph Lombardi
Pine Tree Farm
Framingham
Mass
Raymond Patriarca
George Raft
Colony Sportsmen’s Club
London
Alfie Sulkin
Raft
Dino Cellini
Meyer Lansky
Tomow
U.K
Road maps cost more when folded as accordions
Wayne McCroskey of Gateway Press in Louisville said 1871 official road maps printed for Kentucky cost about 6.8 cents each when folded in accordion fashion, due to extra folding time. The next batch will be folded in halves and cost about 3.5 cents per map.
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Frankfort
Wayne McCroskey
Gateway Press
Loulaville
McCroskey
Edwards Burial in Hollywood for Ukulele Ike Edwards
Funeral services are set for Wednesday for Cliff Edwards known as Ukulele Ike a top recording star of the 1920s and early 1930s He died Saturday at age 76 after a long illness Edwards appeared in 107 movies during his career.
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Hollywood
Cliff
Ike” Edwards
Edwards
Selecting More Jurors For Medina
Two more Vietnam veterans were tentatively chosen as jurors for the court martial of Army Capt. Ernest Medina. Col. Robert E. Nelson Jr. and Lt. Col. Clarence Cooke joined Medina’s panel, with Cooke noted as the first Black potential juror and remarks on Calley’s conviction sparking thoughts on Medina’s testimony.
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Kenneth Howard
William Calley
Nelson
Calley
Medina
My Lai
Cooke
Chicago
Europe
Signal Corps
Vietnam
Horse Vaccine Into Production
Washington AP The Agriculture Department cleared limited commercial production for an experimental vaccine to immunize horses against Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. Developed by the Army, the vaccine will be produced by Richardson-Merrell Inc via Jensen-Salsberg Laboratories and National Drug Co. If tests pass, first commercial supply could be in four weeks under a one year license requiring further safety and effectiveness data.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Army
Texas
Latin America
Richardson-Merrell, Inc
Kansas City
Com
Jensen-Salsberg Laboratories
National Drug Co
Philadelphia
Apollo 15 Mission Nears Moon With Eighty Mile Orbit
Apollo 15 launched from Cape Kennedy with a near flawless start. The crew circled Earth for three hours then sped toward the moon at 24 218 mph. A faulty instrument switch had caused a burn light but was bypassable in normal flight. Sandwiched with the Apollo 15 gear are an eight million dollar rover, a lunar science package, a small satellite, and an atomic power station to study and explore the lunar surface. Scott and Irwin will descend in Falcon to the Hadley Rille region for a 67 hour moon stay. They will drive Rover I to Hadley Rille then to Apennine Front and a volcanic crater cluster before lifting off with Worden aboard Endeavour.
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Mission Control
Endeavour
Falcon
Scott
Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
Earth
Moon
Earth Orbit
Irwin
Hed
Lunar
Apennine Mountains
Hadley Rille
Worden
Blackburns Name Son Jeffrey Scott Blackburn
Mr and Mrs David A Blackburn of Laddonia announce the birth of their son Jeffrey Scott Blackburn born Saturday at Audrain Medical Center at 12 41 p m He is the grandson of Mr and Mrs Elbert Blackburn of Laddonia and Mr and Mrs Willard Chalfant of Wellsville.
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Laddonia
David A. Blackburn
Audrain Medical Center
Jeffrey Scott Blackburn
Elbert Blackburn
Willard Chalfant
Wellsville
Alcoholism to Rate as Sickness by Civil Service
Washington AP The Civil Service Commission issued guidelines treating alcoholism like any other illness for federal employees. Sick leave is allowed for treatment or rehabilitation and personnel folders will not note alcoholic problems unless there is disciplinary action for poor performance. The rules take effect December 1 and follow a law directing programs for civilian employees. The report cites a comptroller general finding that payroll losses from alcoholism may reach 550 million dollars annually.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Rail Strike widens as crews walk off across four railroads
Mediators planned separate talks with management and unions over a 100 mile work rule. Usery urged no forecast for joint talks resumption while calls for legislation to end the strike grow. The walkout disrupts about 20 percent of U S rail cargo across 17 states and affects grain coal and food shipments. Additional unions plan strikes against nine more lines on August 6 and Friday for seven more держ.
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Ion
Usery
Southern
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Norfolk and Western
Labor Department
Nixon
UTA
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Alton & Southern
Houston Belt & Terminal
Duluth
Mesabi & Iron Range
Joliet & Eastern
Bessemer
Lake Erie
Baltimore & Ohio
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago
Rock Island and
Tijerina Home From Prison Reunites With Family
Reies Lopez Tijerina, founder of the Alianza, returned to New Mexico after more than two years in federal prison. He was greeted by about 150 people at Albuquerque airport, including his wife Patsy and their three children. He faces an ongoing state appeal on a 1967 Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid conviction and was released from a Springfield Missouri prison hospital.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Reies Lopez Tijerina
Alianza
New Mexico
Tijerina
Federal Prison Medical Center
Springfield
Patsy
Carlos
Forest Service
Echo Amphitheater
Carson National Forest
Tierra Amarilla
Pony club executive takes big pay cut for horses
George LaLonde of Mason City Iowa left a $63,000 salary to become national executive secretary of the Pony of Americas Club earning $12,000. He sought more time for family and horses after 16 years in a partnership and a family tragedy.
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Jeanette Jackson
Hutchinson News
Associated Press
Hutchinson
Kan
George LaLonde
Mason City
Towa
LaLonde
Pony of Americas Club
Lewisville
Tex
Elgin B. Robertson, Inc
LaLondes
Pony Club
Sun Flares Could Disrupt Apollo 18 Communications
Physicist Max Bleiwass at an Apollo 18 monitoring station near Laguna Mountains northwest of San Diego warns two hot spots on the sun may spark a medium flare in coming days. Radio blackouts could occur during the flare observation, though astronauts inside the craft would be safe unless exposed outdoors.
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Earth
Bleiwelss
Severed Arm May Work Again
Doctors report a blonde 15 year old girl may regain use of fingers after her left arm was reattached following a severing by an airplane propeller. Recovery depends on nerve regeneration, with weeks or months needed for clarity. Anne Shelly lost the arm while guiding a plane into a parking space. surgeons operated six hours to reattach it.
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Los Angeles
Ordkonedie Hospital
Anne Shelly
City council approves 160 by 120 tract across from industrial property
Charles Cockeleas was named to a full four year term on the Mexico Housing Authority Board succeeding an unexpired two year term after Dr Ned Rodes resignation. J J McNamara Missouri Power and Light district manager told council last night of high service quality and cooperation with city departments and commissions.
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Charles Cockelreas
Mexico Housing Authority Board
Cockeleas
Ned Rodes
Nielsen
J. J. McNamara
Missouri Power and Light Co
Snyder
Missouri Power and Light
President Nixon to Speak at Rathbun Dam Dedication
President Nixon will attend the Rathbun Dam dedication near Centerville, arriving Ottumwa by plane at 11:30 a.m. Saturday for a noon address. The schedule shift moves the speech from 10 a.m. to 12 noon as announced by Governor Ray’s office.
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Des Moines
Bounty Hunting Allegations In Kansas City Mob
In Kansas City Kansas Mexican American leaders accuse police of pocketing federal reward money for aliens sought by authorities. Police Chief Donnelly says a directive to stop harassment was issued last spring. Regional Immigration Service official Bailey says rewards have not been paid since the directive and notes large flows of legal entries into the U S.
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Kansas City
Kan
Police Department
John J. Donnelly
Donnelly
John M. Bailey
Bailey
United States
Hope predicts Vietnam troops out by July
Comedian Bob Hope told 700 National Exchange Club members in Salt Lake City that virtually all US troops will be out of Vietnam by next July. He accepted the 1971 Outstanding American Award and praised Vietnamization as saving Southeast Asia, later calling some critics traitors.
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Salt Lake City
Bob Hope
Vietnam
Hope
National Exchange Club
Service Club
Court Orders Obscene Books Seized In Missouri Ruling
Greene County Circuit Judge Douglas Greene ordered the Springfield firm Readers Book Service to close and surrender all publications to police. Obscene titles will be burned, others returned to owners. The court ruled the company violated state family laws and declared it a public nuisance.
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Springfield
Readers Book Service, Inc
Greene County
Douglas Greene
Greene
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