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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1977
Page
1
Washington AP report notes the Senate rejects President Carter's proposal to withdraw U.S. ground troops from South Korea asserting its own stance on foreign policy and leaving the plan unsettled as the administration seeks alignment with allies.
Washington AP reports Dr Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket pioneer who aided the U S space program, died at 65 after cancer. He underwent liver tumor surgery in 1975, spent months hospitalized, and retired from Fairchild Industries on Jan 1. He had continued limited work amid health issues. The obituary notes his key role in U S space efforts and his later career.
AMC plans a mid July public pledge campaign with a kick off dinner around July 18 or 19. Haney and Associates will coordinate fundraising as AMC aims to raise about 1 million dollars toward a 5.2 million expansion including a new west wing and six operating rooms. The hospital seeks 750,000 from campaign and 750,000 from AMC revenue plus revenue bonds to cover the rest. A building fund via Audrain County Court will store expansion funds.
Missouri lawmakers showed their intemperate side in the late session. anecdotes include Sen Richard Webster threatening not to seek re election over beekeepers bill and a female witness being hassled as chairs were removed during a debate as the prison funding fight neared.
On the rear stairwell of the Watergate sixth floor an office plaque marks the pip squeak burglary of June 17, 1972. The site now houses the Institute of Medicine. Five years on, many locals still know the spot as a landmark of a scandal that toppled a president and led to prison terms for Haldeman Mitchell Ehrlichman and others.
Ruby W. McCord 58 of 107 Bourne Street died at Audrain Medical Center where she had been since May 22. Services Monday at 1 p.m. at Arnold Funeral Home with Rev. Frank Park officiating. Burial East Lawn Memorial Park. Survived by son David McCord. daughters Mary Turner and Virginia Jeffries. siblings and grandchildren. Family visitation Sunday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs Della Fay Sexton 69 of 110 N Alabama died Thursday at 7 15 p m at Ellis Fischer State Cancer Hospital in Columbia where she had been a patient She was born March 29 1908 in Lawton OK daughter of James and Ella May Johnson Henry She married Harold Sexton June 8 1929 in Mexico Survivors include husband two brothers Rex Maddox of Gettysburg Pa Clayton Maddox of Mexico three sisters Mrs K H Ladman Flat River Mrs Verna Landry Gettysburg and Mrs Thomas H Thompson Mexico and several nieces and nephews Funeral services will be Monday at 3 00 p m at Home with Rev Thomas Adams Mexico United Methodist Church Burial Elmwood Cemetery Memorials may be given to the Cancer Research Fund and friends may call after 2 p m Sunday at the funeral home
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