Weather forecast update for zone 5 and regional readings
Official 7 am readings show 67 degrees. last 24 hours high 83 low 65. Forecast zone 5: partly cloudy warm and humid with showers and thunderstorms tonight and Friday. high Friday 86 to 92, lows mid 60s. Missouri outlook extends Saturday to Monday with lingering showers, highs near 90, mild conditions Monday. River and lake stages listed for Kansas City, Jefferson City, and St. Louis with small changes.
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Missouri
Hospital Admissions and Dismissals Reported in Area
Audrain Medical Center lists admitted patients including John R. Duckworth Eva Lowe Alma Albright Mayme Brown and others from Mexico Madison Auxvasse Perry Laddonia Middletown Vandalia and Sturgeon. Deaths noted Emma Barnes 71 and George Wiggs 60. Police log covers pool vandalism at Plunkett Park and missing bikes from Terrace Circle home.
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Audrain Medical Center
John R. Duckworth
Eva L. Lowe
Alma Albright
Mayme Brown
Edward Brocksteck
Mary Beth Cooley
Herbert D. Vanlandingham
Estelle B. Houf
Ronald Deihl
Charlett K. Wilson
Mexico
Lizzie E. Williams
Madison
Darrel English
Mina M. Glasscock
Auxvasse
Alice McCord
Perry
Plunkett Park
John Owen
Robert Moon
Terrace Circle
Court Docket Records Include Guilty Pleas and Fines
A roundup from CITY POLICE and MAGISTRATE COURT shows Charles Anderson fined 10 dollars for failing to stop at a stop sign while Connie Davidson forfeits 19.60 for speeding. Dana Duchesne pays 25 for failure to yield, Mary Hagan 12.50 for running a red light, Susan Hixon 18.50 for speeding, George Parrott 32.50 for negligent driving, and Rita Woolfolk 17.50 for exceeding the speed limit. A total of 171 overtime parking tickets are listed with various fines. Circuit Court notes a divorce case where Mary MelIntire seeks new trial. related filings involve the Rolle family and Vandalia Special Road District over a disputed culvert. Other courts report motorists fined for speeding, license transfers, and careless driving including individuals from St. Louis, Mexico, Montgomery City, and Fulton.
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Charles Randolph Anderson
E. Holt St
Connie Sue Davidson
E. Monroe St
Dana Warren Duchesne
N. Wade St
Mary Leta Hagan
W. Carrico St
Magistrate Court
Montgomery County
Thomas William Crawley
St. Louis
Sylvia Lee Sheets
Mexico
Isaac Withrow Walton, Jr
Montgomery City
Elroy Edward Pugh, Jr
St. Charles
Clifford Lee Weast
Dahinda
Death Row Cell For Smith After Near-Freedom
Edgar H. Smith, after 14 years on death row, faced postponement of bail as the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia vacated a $5,000 bail order. He was ordered to return to Trenton State Prison, with potential new trial after being found to have given an incriminating admission.
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Newark
N.J
Edgar H. Smith
Smith
U.S. District Court
Bergen County
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Philadelphia
Federal House of Detention
New York City
Trenton State Prison
Victoria Zielinski
Ramsey
Missouri Livestock Market Reports Slaughter Hogs Prices Mixed
Market data from Missouri Livestock Market Center and National Stockyards summarize slaughter hogs and cattle prices with steady to mixed changes. US 1-2 and 1-3 weight ranges appear with multiple price bands, along with boars sows and calves receipts and regional auction notes. The Chicago futures section notes wheat and corn limits due to blight reports, plus cash grain prices for soybeans, hard and soft wheat, and corn.
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Missouri Livestock Market Center
Dept. OF AG
Marty Schroeder
National Stockyards
U.S
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
USDA
Cosmonauts report long stay on Salute space lab
Soviet trio on Soyuz 11 say mission aboard the Salute space laboratory is progressing well. They describe daily duties and note all systems functioning normally after five days in orbit, with the crew in good shape as they pursue the flight program.
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Moscow
Orbital Space Laboratory
Space Laboratory
Vladislav Volkov
Democrats Conventions Eye Miami Beach or Louisville
Democratic sources say the 1972 national convention may be held in Miami Beach Florida or Louisville Kentucky. A party spokesman says no decision has been made yet. A St Paul Pioneer Press report claims Miami Beach as the site.
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Washington
Miami Beach
Fla
Louisville
St. Paul
Stock market rises as noon Dow gains on mild volume
AP reports a firmer trend with the Dow up 3.35 to 915.81 at noon. NYSE breadth improves as advancers outpace decliners by over 150 issues. notable gains seen in IBM, Control Data, Natomas, U.S. Gypsum and Polaroid while several issues show mixed moves and some declines.
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A.B. Chance Co
Commerce Bancshares
Wetterau
New York Stock Exchange
Bobbie Brooks
Dresser Industries
Interco
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
U.S
Associated Press
IBM
Control Data
National Cash Register
Natomas
U.S. Financial
Sperry Rand
American Telephone
Alcoa
DuPont
Polaroid
Liggett & Myers
Loew's Corp
AMREP
Microwave
Syntex
Rollins International
Recrion
Blue Cross Seeks Way To Trim Cost
ST. LOUIS AP The Blue Cross plans to expand out-of-hospital coverage to reduce customer costs by substituting outpatient treatment for hospitalization. Board chair H Sam Priest said a voluntary persuading approach will push riders for outpatient diagnostic coverage. The plan aims at cost controls, more consumer representation, and previous deficits and benefit payments.
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ST. Louis
Blue Cross
St. Louis Blue Cross
Oscar Rexford
Missouri
Kansas City
H. Sam Priest
Priest
Harold Lloyd Jr Dies at 40 in Hollywood Sanitarium
Harold Lloyd Jr aged 40, son of the silent film comedian, died Wednesday in a North Hollywood sanitarium. The cause of death was not disclosed.
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Los Angeles
Harold Lloyd Jr
North Hollywood
History milestones from 1776 to 1898
In 1776 the Continental Congress in Philadelphia named a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. In 1898 U S Marines invaded Cuba during the Spanish American War.
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Continental Congress
Philadelphia
U.S
Cba
Mrs. Emma Barnes Dies At 71 In Sturgeon
Emma Barnes 71 of Sturgeon died Wednesday night in Community Memorial Hospital Moberly after a short illness. Born October 7 1899 in St. Louis she was married to Lee Barnes who died in 1971. Survived by 16 sons two daughters nine grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at Sturgeon Christian Church with burial in Mount Horeb Cemetery. Visitation Thursday 6 p.m. at Meador and Son funeral home.
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Sturgeon
Emma Barnes
Community Memorial Hospital
Moberly
Barnes
Benjamin Kasher
Rose Reardon
St. Louis
Lee Barnes
Roy Bares
Clark
Ray Barnes
Bernice Daugherty
Joe
Margaret) Robinson
Jesse Rutchmann
Lillian Mayer
Santa Monica
Calif
Volney Kasher
Chicago
The
Christian Church In
Former Mexicoan Mrs George Wiggs Dies in Iowa
Mrs. George S. Wiggs 80 of Marshalltown Iowa died at 6 30 am in Marshall County Hospital She was born Nellie Llewellyn Garrett in Mexico on August 21 1890 and moved to Marshalltown in 1920 She married Wiggs December 3 1911 Survivors include three nephews and a niece Richard L Garrett Kenneth Garrett of Mexico and Richard L Kent of Yakima WA and Mrs J Drake of Tipton Funeral services were held Friday and graveside service Sunday at Elmwood Cemetery with local clergy officiating
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George S. Wiggs
Marshalltown
Mexico
Marshall County
Estel Perrin
Richard Walters
Central Christian Church
Precht-Pickering Funeral
Elmwood Cemetery
George B. Wraith
First Christian Church
Wiggs
Nellie Llewellyn Garrett
Richard Ernest
Roberta Jane Pool Garrett
Mr. Wiggs
Funeral for Guy Albert Young at St. Brendan Church
Funeral services for Guy Albert Young will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Brendan Church with Rev. Gilbert Hayden officiating. Burial is in the Catholic Cemetery. Friends may call at Precht-akerling Funeral Home after 7 p.m. tonight. Rosary at 7:30 p.m.
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Guy Albert Young
St. Brendan Church
Gilbert Hayden
Precht- 4Ekering
Legislature votes narrow on retirement and road bond plan
The Kansas House defeated a bill boosting retirement benefits for state employees and legislators by 25 percent, while Senate actions included a stalled plan for 600 million in road bonds. Rep Ray James of Kansas City, who turned 30 recently, had proposed removing the legislative boost but keeping state employee benefits. The 71-16 vote against the retirement bill could see sponsors seeking 11 additional votes to reconsider.
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Senate
House
Ray James
Kansas City
James
New Head For Cannon Project
Col Guy H E Jester will become district engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers in St Louis in July. He will oversee the Cannon Dam project as part of the St Louis district, the northernmost of four districts in the Lower Mississippi Valley Division. The district covers 26 000 square miles, 300 miles of the Mississippi River main stem from Cairo to Hannibal, and tributary basins, with $500 million in continuing civil projects.
Higdon Convicted in Army Club Graft Case
Redstone Arsenal Alabama AP A master sergeant William Higdon 41 was found guilty of taking kickbacks and stealing funds tied to Army club operations in Vietnam. Jury of five officers convicted him on theft and one graft specification involving 723 dollars. He faces sentencing after government and defense arguments.
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Redstone Arsenal
Ala
M. Set
William Higdon
Vietnam
Higdon
East Point
Maj
Millard
Terry
Wichita
Kan
Army
Long Binh
Saigon
Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co
Glenn Faulks
Bangkok
Georg Schell
Faulks
Maredem Ltd
Los Angeles
William Wooldridge
Miss Soc Gets Muskie Letter
In St Louis AP reports a letter from Sen Edmund Muskie to "Miss Soc" urged civic ties and invited a political contribution with a form, though the form was not enclosed. The Missouri Historical Society received a misaddressed version, rewriting the intended recipient as "Missouri Histor Soc."
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ST. Louis
Edmund
Muskie
Maine
Miss Soc
Missouri Historical Society
Missouri Histor Soc
St Clair Says He Got Ellis Statement From Vandalia Chief
Robert E. Ellis 26 of Kansas City provided a signed statement to Vandalia Police Chief Don St Clair admitting robberies at Jerman Farm Supply Ennis firm and BF Goodrich store in Mexico and Vandalia. Items stolen include a flashlight and a gold watch. Ellis was picked up in Louisiana and the statement given Tuesday afternoon.
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Robert E. Ellis
Kansas City
BF. Goodrich
Mexico
Ennis Implement Co
Vandalia
Don St. Clair
Ellis
Louisiana
St. Clair
Harold Sulgrove
Hungate Pushes Farm Truck Rule Change
Congressman William Hungate announced a Department of Transportation proposal to revise driver qualification rules for farm vehicles. It would exempt under 10 000 pound farm drivers, lower the 14 age for large farmer operated trucks within 150 miles, remove several tests and background checks, require medical exams for larger trucks, and exempt farm harvesting machinery transport. The rules take effect January 1 1972 after consultations with farm groups.
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Department of Transportation
William Hungate
Hungate
Church Supports Right of Conscience
The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America voted to support Glenn Pontier’s right of Christian conscience as he is under indictment for refusing induction into the armed services and opting for alternative service. The vote stressed no approval of his civil disobedience, and expressed Christian love and support for Pontier, son of Rev. Raymond Pontier of Clifton, N.J.
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Orange City
Iowa
General Synod of the Reformed Church In America
Glenn Pontier
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
New Brunswick
N.J
Raymond Pontier
Clifton, N.J
Still Places For Speech Therapy
A few openings remain for the Summer Speech Therapy program at the City County Health Unit. Sponsored by the Audrain Chapter of the faster Seals Society and client contributions, the program offers speech and hearing therapy for children and adults. For more information, call 581-1332.
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Audrain Chapter
Faster Seals Society
Audrain City-County Health Unit
Exon seeks federal food and fiber board endorsement
Gov. J J Exon, Nebraska, plans to push for a federal board to set agricultural policy. He will seek endorsement from Democratic governors at a June 19 Omaha caucus and at the Midwestern Governors Conference in Sioux City. The board would regulate prices production and trade, removing farm politics and acting like a federal policy arm, with presidential appointment. Exon opposes merging the Agriculture Department, saying upgrade is needed.
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Lincoln
Neb
J.J. Exon
Omaha
Sioux City
Iowa
Exon
Federal Reserve Board
Federal ‘Food’ and Fiber” Board
Norbert Tiemann
Nxion
Department of Agriculture
Glenn Kreuscher
Berrigan Still In Hospital After Draft-Records Action
Rev. Daniel Berrigan remains in Danbury Hospital in good spirits as doctors await test results from electrocardiograms and blood chemistry. He was moved Wednesday from the Federal Correctional Institute in Cantonsville where he serves a three year term for destroying military draft records.
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Danbury, Conn
Danbury Hospital
Daniel Berrigan
Federal Correctional Institute
Catonsville
Mexico Park Board reviews summer program figures and park plans
The Mexico Park Board met at city hall to hear a report on the summer recreation program. Plunkett Park pool averages 400 swimmers daily, Garfield Pool 50, and Lakeview Park playground program about 30 children per day.
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Mexico Park
Park Board
Mexico Youth Center Board
Mexico Recreation Commission
Don Decker
Parks and the Recreation Commission
Arthur Hills
Arthur Hills Golf Course
Lakeview Lake
Northeast Park
Grand St
Anderson St
Shivers Sentenced for First Degree Burglary in Missouri
James Robert Shivers of Mexico was found guilty of first degree burglary in Montgomery County circuit court and received a five year prison term. Prosecutor Tom Osborne noted the Jan 30 1965 break in at Marlene Herndon’s home and the felonious assault on Lavinia McKinnon, with prior convictions and a prior reversal by the Missouri Supreme Court.
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James Robert Shivers
Mexico
Montgomery County
Tom Osborne
Osborne
Shivers
Marlene Herndon
Lavinia McKinnon
George P. Adams
Larney Barnes
Supreme Court of Missouri
Donna Reed Divorce Ends 25-Year Marriage in $3 Million Split
Actress Donna Reed and husband Anthony Owen end 25 year marriage in a Superior Court approved divorce. They divide about $3 million in community property including proceeds from Reed’s TV show. Owen to pay $350 monthly support for their youngest child Mary, 14. they have three grown children.
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Los Angeles
Donna Reed
Superior Court
Miss Reed
Anthony Owen
Owen
Mary
Belgium withdraws from Brussels New York air pact
Belgium’s Ministry of Communication said Belgians will drop the agreement allowing U S airliners to land in Brussels and Belgian planes to land in New York. The step followed U S refusal to grant Sabena the right to fly Brussels Chicago in addition to its New York route.
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Brussels
Belgium
Ministry of Communication
U.S
New York
United States
Sabena
Chicago
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Jefferson City
U Ll Hermann
Cape Girardeau
John Artemus Wear
Bonnie Ruth Heaton
Donald E. Trower Jr
Mary Elizabeth MelIntire
Rolla M. McIntire
John Rolle Sr
Doris Rolle
Vernon Rolle
John Rolle Jr
Charles E. Rolle
Vandalia Special
Audrain County
David Weismuenster
Vandalia Route 1
Rolle
Combustion Engineering Inc
Walsh Refractories
Farber
Cosmonauts
George Wiggs
Young
Cannon
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