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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1972
Page
12
Official 7:00 am readings show 24 hour high 66 low 66 with 7 am temperature. June precipitation totals and normals listed. Forecast Zone 5 fair to partly cloudy and warm, tonight lows 65 to 72, Friday highs in 90s, 10 percent precip. Missouri outlook remains fair and warm into the weekend with 90s and around 70 lows. river and lake stage reports included for Kansas City area and Missouri rivers.
Audrain Medical Center listed admissions including Mrs Howard Harper and several others, with discharges noted. Marriage licenses granted for Donald Ray Bryson and Judith Higgins. Mexico and Audrain police reported a two-vehicle collision on Liberty Street with minor damage, plus a vandalism report on a Buick top and a car wreck with minor injuries. Sheriff and highway patrol logs covered a tax case, a bond issue, a no funds check warrant, a divorce suit, a gravel road crash, and numerous local court fines and bonds in Mexico, Vandalia, Hallsville, Wellsville, and surrounding towns.
Market reports from Missouri Livestock Market Center and National Stockyards detail hog slaughter prices with 25 cent gains across weight ranges, sow and boar prices, and cattle receipts and prices for feeders and slaughter stock. Grain prices and Chicago Wheat futures, plus select stock quotes in New York, sum up daily market activity.
Vital statistics for April list births with names and parents in Salt River area plus deaths for April including Chris Miller Lucy Gifford Minnie Huffman Ivalee Baker Evelyn Lewellen and many others. The long roster shows numerous individuals and dates in a historic county record.
Missouri billboard owners must obtain permits and ID tags by June 28 under a 1972 law. Fees are five dollars per sign under 300 square feet and ten dollars for larger signs. Biennial inspections will be financed by these charges. Permits issued at ten district highway offices across the state.
Funeral services for Mrs. Viola Buck 68 of Route 1 Centralia are set for Saturday at 10 30 a m at Arnold Funeral Home Rev Thomas Adams of Centralia will officiate and burial will follow at Hast Lawn Memorial Park Friends may call after 2 pm today at the funeral home
The NHL awarded expansion franchises to Kansas City, Kansas and Washington, D.C. The two new teams join 18 clubs and will begin play in the 1974 75 season at a price of 6 million dollars each. The Kansas City bid was led by Edwin G. Thompson with Jeff Jennings among the group. Abe Pollin heads the Washington bid, owner of the Baltimore Bullets NBA team.
Democratic officials and Wallace strategist Charles Snider say Gov. Wallace may participate in the July convention to bargain for a presidential ticket and platform. Snider notes differences on war amnesty draft dodgers and marijuana. Wallace was injured in a July shopping center shooting and is recovering in a Maryland hospital.
The Ledger provides a reliable printed record of events in Mexico and Ledgerland. It helps readers verify rumors by offering a daily recap to read, reread, or revisit anytime.
A Missouri Highway Patrolman testified he found amphetamines and drug paraphernalia in the sports car driven by Ray James Rennert when arrested in connection with the slaying of Jeannie Mattia LoScalzo. Rennert faces first degree murder charges for the November 11 death. her body was found in her Kansas City apartment. Trooper J T Ruffel testified items were found in the car Rennert was driving near Boonville on November 12.
Senate Finance Committee voted to cover many drugs for chronically ill elderly under Medicare as part of welfare reform. They rejected President Nixon’s proposal to drop the Part B premium of 5.60 dollars monthly due to high cost. The panel advanced major provisions as it nears final action on the far reaching bill.
West Germany and Egypt announced they have resumed full diplomatic relations for the first time since 1965. An ambassador exchange will occur as soon as possible, with Bonn and Cairo noting expanded two way commerce and anticipated ties with Syria Iraq Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Tony B Lumpkin will be speaker at the Mexico Rotary Club luncheon at noon Friday at the Country Club. Bradford Brett is the program chairman.
The 8th Circuit upheld wiretaps as constitutional though irrelevant overheard conversations occurred, signaling a potential Supreme Court review. Four Kansas City men received 12 to 25 year terms after a 20 day wiretap that indicted 17 people for a narcotics ring. Chief Judge Matthes noted Supreme Court precedent allows eavesdropping with safeguards.
President Nixon's daughter Tricia and son-in-law Edward Cox will live in the White House for five months, moving from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Coxes plan to stay through the election campaign to November as Tricia marks their first anniversary. Cox graduates June 15 from Harvard Law School and will study for next fall's New York state bar exam.
In Independence and Philadelphia, Harold Stassen says he is not running for president this year, noting he would only consider a bid if Nixon were out. The 65 year old, who ran for the GOP nomination four times, remains unsure about 1976 and says his political strength is at a low ebb. Stassen cites doubts about competing with incumbents and notes he might try again if he has the strength. He adds some foreign policy ideas like arms control and U.S.-Soviet talks have influenced Republican policy.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10 to 3 to authorize 38.52 million dollars for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty for the new fiscal year. The committee overrode opposition from chairman J W Fulbright and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. The total matches the administration’s request for the two stations broadcasting into Eastern Europe from Western Europe transmitters.
Vera List, long separated from her son Manfred since 1945 after Russian imprisonment in Germany, learns he survived and is now married with a child. He tracked her for eight years through agencies, cementing a reunion that makes Vera a mother and grandmother. The couple plans to meet in Orlando, with efforts to raise $1,000 for their travel.
In Philadelphia G W Bullard of Philadelphia was elected second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention defeating the first Black nominee for a major post. Delegates chose Bullard over Rev. Charles N. King from Corinthian Baptist Frankford Ky. Owen Cooper of Yazoo City Miss was elected president and Dr. James Coggin of Fort Worth Texas as vice president as the convention met with the group in Philadelphia.
A third man, Ronald R. Bell 23 of Peerless Park, was charged in the shooting of Missouri Highway Patrolman Louie G. Garris 30. The incident occurred June 2 at a Peerless Park clubhouse when Garris tried to quiet a disturbance. two other suspects, Gary R. Sansocie 24 and Jake Davidson 28, face charges, and a fourth man surrendered earlier. Charles W. Hildebrand 24 was released without charges.
Missouri State Auditor Christopher Bond called for broad reform of election finance laws. He proposed a nonpartisan state elections commission, open disclosures of all contributions and expenditures, and strict limits on candidate donations. Bond urged filing preprimary contribution lists, economic-interest statements, and penalties including ballot removal for noncompliance. He criticized loopholes allowing unreported corporate and labor spending and preelection contributions.
A bird bath in a suburban Joplin yard fell over and crushed a year old girl named Phyllis Cummings while she played. The child was with a babysitter at the home in Asbury neighborhood. Police and emergency services were notified, and the incident is under local investigation.
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