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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1975
Page
6
Missouri doctors may gain a stop gap for malpractice insurance as the House sent a bill to the governor allowing nonprofit insurance associations to form. The measure aims to curb soaring rates while a special committee and a citizens task force study longer term changes next session.
Missouri lawmakers face a third annual setback as no-fault car insurance proposals stall in the Senate and House. Sponsor Rep. Walter Meyer cites industry and bar influence while Sen. Albert Spradling blasts the plan as a drunken drivers bill. Debate focuses on a $500 court threshold, rate regulation, and potential effects on premiums and motorist benefits.
Debbie Stevens demonstrated cooking and Leslie Beamer spoke on Keeping Fit and Liking It at the Strother 4-H Club meeting on June 2 at the Strother Community Center. Pledges were led by Paul Stevens and Jason Henry. A May 17 clean-up day was reported by Mrs. Tom Beamer, with eight members and seven parents at the Wiener roast afterward.
Hatton area residents appear in multiple local items. Mike Lewis wed Nancy Lincoln at Liberty Christian Church in Liberty Missouri. North Callaway R-1 High School named Brenda Sprock valedictorian and Steve Borgelt salutatorian. Paul R Schlup of Hatton commissioned as 2nd Lt in ROTC at Warrensburg and earned degree with Warrensburg State University graduation. Attendees included Dorina Stipec, Peter Schlup, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Schlup and family.
Stephen Doak of Vandalia was elected vice president of the Missouri State 4 H Council during the Closing activities of the 30th annual state 4 H Week at the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. Cheryl McBride of Centralia was chosen as an area representative to the state council. About six hundred 4 H'ers and leaders from across Missouri attended the four day event.
Washington AP reports farm commodity prices reached a 1975 high as of May 15 with the index rising 5 percent from mid April and meat animal prices up 14 percent since April 15. Beef cattle averaged 36.50 per 100 pounds, hogs 45.10, lambs 45.40 per hundredweight, while grain prices fell with wheat at 3.47 a bushel and corn at 2.66.
Montgomery City hosts the annual University of Missouri Agronomy Research Station field day on June 12 with 12 stops. Buses depart Montgomery City Troy and Warrenton at 8 00 a m for group rides and directions. Tours run 7 00 a m to 11 30 a m at 15 minute intervals. Attendees observe research on pastures crops weed control spraying and double cropping. A complimentary lunch is served on the grounds in late morning. In other news a Bell Telephone line crewman from Bonnets Mill Missouri was electrocuted in Pineville News reports note May 15 farm price indexes and parity ratios reflecting cost price relations. The victim William Eynard aged 26 died at Sales Memorial Hospital Neosho after being struck by a 72 000 volt wire.
Seven airlines led by Allegheny American Braniff Delta Eastern Southern and Trans World urged federal planners to locate a long term airport in Illinois serving the St Louis metropolitan area. They doubted Lambert St Louis International could meet needs indefinitely and backed land banking at a Columbia Waterloo Illinois site while declining financial support for acquisition. Frontier abstained along with two other airlines serving Lambert Ozark.
In Jefferson City, a Senate floor clash over where to place a southeast Missouri tourism information center led Sen. Albert Spradling to amend a capital improvements bill to fund the center within an 80,000 plan along I-55 between Cape Girardeau and the Arkansas line instead of Pemiscot County as originally proposed. The Tourism Commission would decide the site, not a single county, and the amendment passed on a voice vote before the bill was set aside for later care.
In Wellsville a large refund plan is underway after years of fundraising for a teen town project known as Butch’s. About 111 checks totaling roughly 67500 are being mailed back to donors who contributed 25 or more in the 1960s. The venture faced dissolution in 1973 and the sale of a damaged West Hudson building. remaining funds, minus costs, will go to the Aquatic Swimming Pool, with possible sign over to the pool by donors.
Three young men from Gideon were killed and a fourth was critically injured in a one car crash on Missouri 162 about three miles east of Gideon. The vehicle left the road at a curve and struck a dirt embankment at about 1 30 a m. The deceased were Timothy David Ellsworth 20 Curtis Wayne Coleman 19 and Larry Joe Murphy 18. Brent Campbell 19 was in critical condition at Dunklin County Hospital in Kennett.
House and Senate clash over funding formulas for nine state universities as a Sunday deadline looms. House backs per student hour costs. Senate calls it Mickey Mouse. Disputes block $52 million in building projects and a $250,000 mastodon park request in Jefferson County.
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