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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1974
Page
1
A Home Town crowd celebrated the new youngest governor in state history on Bond Day in Mexico. In the evening Gov Bond signed his first baseball for autograph seekers while tours of a carnival and a dunking stand drew spectators. The governor and Mrs Bond visited the south square carnival as a dunking dunker photo by Richard Vance captured the moment.
Mexico City Council to review an ordinance placing a 550000 Fairgrounds Park improvement bond on the August 6 primary ballot. If approved, federal grant matches bond revenues to total 11 million for a park plan with pool courts fields and picnic areas amid paving and waste law measures.
Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, Vienna, elected as Austria's fifth postwar president. He won 2,302,151 votes or 51.7 percent, defeating Alois Lugger who had 2,238,680 votes or 48.3 percent. The presidency had been vacant since Franz Jonas's death in April.
Congress weighs tax cut and reform plans amid filibusters while Senate sides with debt ceiling urgency. Impeachment witnesses move forward as House probes Nixon. Nuclear aid hearings query safeguards against future weapon development in Egypt and Israel.
ST LOUIS AP The Missouri auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Sunday installed Mrs Calvin Vogelsang of Cape Girardeau as president Mrs Clyde Creel of St Louis was installed as senior vice president and Mrs Alma Glesius of Cedar City as junior vice president Other officers included chaplain Mrs Helen Tull treasurer Mrs Rudolph Jarboe conductor Mrs Herman Droege guard Mrs Catherine Stratton historian Mrs Don Swanson patriotic instructor Miss Judy Millick and chief of staff Mrs Lois Qualls
President Nixon received a briefing on Simas Kudirka a 45 year old Lithuanian sailor who claims American citizenship and was forced back to his Soviet vessel with Coast Guard permission. Kudirka is in a Urals prison serving a 10 year term for treason with no contact since October. Lithuanian groups argue Kudirka is an American citizen through his mother born in Brooklyn. Washington called the matter unfortunate and debated steps to prevent a repeat while lawmakers push for his release and for safe exit for Kudirka’s mother Marija Sulskiene who is a U.S. citizen awaiting exit from Lithuania. Congress pressures Kissinger to raise the issue in Moscow.
The Al Ahram newspaper warned that a future Middle East war could be nuclear if Israel does not accept a just peace, accusing Tel Aviv of responsibility. The PLO signaled disengagement as a peace step but vowed to press until the Palestinian issue is solved, with Syria agreeing missile defenses for camps in Lebanon.
The report describes Israeli forces pulling back from a one mile wide strip of the Syrian bulge on the Golan Heights as part of a Kissinger brokered disengagement. Syrian spotters reportedly withdrew from southern Lebanon, while Rabin urged stronger defenses and pursuit of peace. Yosef Tekoah warned of sanctions if the UN Security Council acts on air attacks on Palestinian strongholds in Lebanon.
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