Only 1 Survives Tunnel Blast
A giant tunnel near Los Angeles collapsed after a methane explosion trapping 18 workers. One man survived as investigators noted electronic sensors failed to indicate danger despite gas readings reaching one percent multiple times. Lockheed blamed its own safety limit and cited a pocket of gas as a possible cause.
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Los Angeles
Metropolitan Water District
Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co
California
Lockheed
Arvid Rasmussen
Charles Leeper
Leeper
BOAC cancels four 747s amid profits slump
In London, BOAC announces cancellation of options on four Boeing 747 jets as profits sag. Sir Keith Granville notes the step as part of an economy plan to address a surplus seats crisis plaguing BOAC and the airline industry. Flight magazine reports Atlantic capacity up 19.2 percent, passengers up only 3 percent in Q1, with BOAC losing 10 percent of U.S. Europe passengers in March. Air France losses reach 56.4 percent. In Washington, Adm. Elmo Zumwalt loses his Navy son to the Marines as Ensign James G. Zumwalt seeks transfer due to color blindness. he will begin Marine training July 16 at Quantico.
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London
British Overseas Airways Corp
BOAC
Keith Granville
Flight Magazine
North Atlantic
U.s.-Europe
Air France
Washington
Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr
Navy
Marine Corps
James G. Zumwalt
Zumwalt
Quantico
Soybean Nematode Quarantine Stays
The Agriculture Department will keep the soybean cyst nematode quarantine in place past June 30. It restricts interstate movement of soil, root crops, soil-moving equipment, soybeans, and related items from affected states including Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia amid the pest threat.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Arkansas
Florida
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Missouri
Mississippi
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Swimming Classes For CP Students Begin At Garfield Pool
Swimming for students at the Mexico Cerebral Palsy School will start Monday at 11 15 a m at Garfield Pool. Mrs George Craddock director says more than 14 volunteers are expected to assist this summer with the hour long sessions.
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Mexico
George Craddock
Garfield Pool
Craddock
Supreme Court weighs government claim on leak case
AP dispatches from Washington Saigon and elsewhere report the Supreme Court arguments over the Pentagon papers publication while Daniel Ellsberg faces a warrant. Other items note 16 000 July August draft quota, Medina's July 26 murder trial, US Soviet space talks, DeSapio’s prison term, Hoffa bid for freedom, and a deadly tunnel gas blast with 17 dead.
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Associated Press
Supreme Court
Pentagon
New York Times
Washington Post
Mrs. Avis Tucker Heads MU Curators
Mrs. Avis Tucker of Warrensburg was elected the University of Missouri Board of Curators president, the first woman to hold the post, as the board approved a 1971-72 operating budget of 185,323,674. Robert G. Brady was named vice president. The budget hikes general operations by 13,360,061 and restricted operations by 720,328, with $90 million state appropriation for four-campus operations. Additional actions included construction contracts for a Rolla chemistry chemical engineering building, bids for FM radio station equipment, and extending nonresident tuition exemptions to fall 1970 graduate enrollees.
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Columbia, Mo
University of Missouri Board of Curators
Avis Tucker
Warrensburg
Tucker
University
Pleasant R. Smith
St. Louis Court of Appeals
Robert G. Brady
Kirkwood
Kansas City
St. Louis
Columbia
Rolla
Pentagon plans bigger draft calls despite extension
Draft calls of 16 000 more are set for July and August as a two year extension moves through Congress. Officials note prudent planning and that deferments for college students ending may fill quotas if bills delay. A phased Vietnam withdrawal proposal lingers in Senate. reception likely cool. President Nixon aims for zero draft by 1973 amid doubt on a volunteer army.
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Washington
House
Senate
Defense Department
Pentagon
Defense
Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
Congress
Curtis W. Tarr
Secretary of
Melvin R. Laird
Stanley R. Resor
DeSapio Begins Two-Year Prison Term for Bribery
Carmine G. DeSapio once led New York's Tammany Hall has started a two‑year federal sentence for bribery and conspiracy. The 62 year old was convicted December 1969 along with Antonio Corallo. The case centered on schemes to funnel kickbacks from a Mount Kisco contractor to DeSapio via the city water commissioner. DeSapio’s influence faded after Nelson Rockefeller’s 1958 gubernatorial win.
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Lewisburg, Pa
New York
Tammany Hall
Lewisburg
Carmine G. DeSapio
DeSapio
Antonio
Tony Ducks’ Corallo
James L. Marcus
New York City
Consolidated Edison Co
Mount Kisco
N.Y
Judge Rules Missouri Highway Funds Valid In Part
In Kansas City AP report Judge Becker ruled Missouri could not claim $26 million of federal highway funds as withheld. He said Missouri’s full $112 million apportioned for fiscal 1971 was available. The state may file an amended complaint. Also noted: double funeral services for Mrs. Harry Brown and Mrs. Harvey Lackland at St. Brendan Church with pallbearers listed.
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Kansas City
Missouri Highway Commission
U.S
William H. Becker
Missouri
Department of Transportation
Secretary of Transportation
Harry Brown
Harvey Lackland
St. Brendan Church
Edward Donohue
Brown
Lackland
Elmwood Cemetery
George Sullivan
C. Russell Stevens
William Sullivan
Stanley Eubanks
Joe Talley
H. Ross Vance
Larney Barnes
Lakenan Barnes
Nixon and Agnew Enlist in Navy
Nixon and Agnew, both 18, were sworn into the U.S. Navy in Des Moines Iowa after enlisting at Keokuk. Barry Douglas Nixon from Mount Sterling Iowa will be stationed in San Diego California and Alice Maria Agnew from Hamilton Illinois will be stationed in Bainbridge Maryland.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Nixon
Agnew
U.S. Navy
Barry Douglas Nixon
Mount Sterling
Alice Maria Agnew
Hamilton
Ill
Keokuk
Yount Nixon
San Diego
Calif
Migs Agnew
Bainbridge
Gilmore Implement Co Owner Undergoes Surgery
J. D. Gilmore owner of Gilmore Implement Co underwent surgery Friday at Audrain Medical Center and is progressing nicely.
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J. D. Gilmore
Gilmore Implement Co
Audrain Medical Center
Marvin Bennett of Paris Dies at 66
Marvin Bennett 66 of Paris Route 3 died Friday at 4 43 p m in Audrain Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are with Parker funeral home in Columbia. Survived by wife Gertrude Bennett and daughter Bertha Hendren of Columbia.
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Marvin Bennett
Paris
Route 3
Audrain Medical Center
Parker Funeral Home
Columbia
Gertrude Bennett
Bertha Hendren
Publisher seeks orders to bar LBJ memoir articles
NEW YORK AP The publisher Holt Rinehart Winston seeks court orders to stop Newsday and The Los Angeles Times from publishing further material based on Lyndon Johnson’s unreleased memoirs. The action follows a Newsday report claiming the memoir supports 1964 Pentagon Vietnam expansion plans.
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NEW York
Lyndon 8
Johnson
Newsday
Long Island
Los Angeles Times
Pentagon
Vietnam
U.S
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc
State Supreme Court
Los Angeles
Superior
Times
Times-Mirror Co
Columbia Brastcamiing System, Inc
Man Bites Dog And That's News
Sedalia police report Mrs Lula Scroggins filed Friday a complaint that a man bit her dog. Police arrested Newton Foster Sedalia and charged him with disorderly conduct by biting dog.
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Sedalia, Mo
Lula Scroggins
Newton Foster
Sedalia
Marion Williams 69 Dies in Missouri Farm Family
Marion Williams 69 a retired Montgomery City farmer died this morning at St Joseph Hospital in St Charles where he had been a patient for five weeks Survivors include wife Mary of Montgomery City daughter Hazel Pepitone St Louis two grandchildren brother James Williams and another brother Funeral arrangements are pending at Schlanker y er Home in Montgomery City
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Montgomery City
Marion Williams
St. Joseph Hospital
St. Charles
Mary
Frank
Hazel) Pepitone
St. Louis
James Williams
Schlanker
Hall of Benton City native dies in Phoenix at 72
French Doyle Hall 72 of Phoenix Ariz former Benton City resident died at 9 30 p m Friday in St Joseph Hospital Phoenix He had been ill for 12 years Born near Benton City July 17 1899 He married Mildred Dow of Ponca City Okla She survives Also surviving are son Col Howard Doyle Hall daughter Beverly Ramay Denver Colo a brother Glenn Hall Mexico six sisters and eleven grandchildren Funeral services pending at Precht Pickering funeral home Body to be transported to Mexico for burial
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Phoenix
Ariz
Benton City
St. Joseph Hospital
Precht-Pickering Funeral
William
Bertha Weber Hall
Hall
Mildred Dow
Ponca City
Okla
Christian Church
Mexico
Col
Howard Doyle Hall
US Air Force Base
Holland
James
Beverly) Ramay
Denver
Colo
Glenn Hall
Vernon Marietta
Hugh Stanberry
Ralph Settle
Glen Stuart
Wentzville
Mattie Spotswood
St. Louis
Millard Stanberry
Prosser
Wash
Rackley Child Dies at Hospital
Centralia mourns Melissa Ann Rackley five months and 24 days old who died Friday at University of Missouri Medical Center in Columbia. Graveside prayer services set for Centralia Cemetery Sunday at 2 p.m. The infant daughter of Ronnie and Kathy Sue Powers Rackley is survived by maternal and paternal grandparents and other relatives. The Rev. Donald Mattson will officiate. viewing at Meadow and Son Funeral Chapel after 2 p.m. today.
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Centralia
Melissa Ann Rackley
Ronnie
Kathy Sue Powers Rackley
University of Missouri Medical Center
Columbia
Henry C. Powers
Daniel Rackley
Route 2
Donald Mattson
Daily Record News Briefs From Audrain County
Audrain Medical Center officials report admissions including Glen Sweitzer and Leslie Stallings with others from Mexico Paris Centralia and Auxvasse. Dismissals listed. police report cites Martha Graves summons for failure to keep lookout and a collision on Western and Love. Magistrate Court items include speeding fines operators license and DWI with several cases continued and a corrected divorce notice in Circuit Court.
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Audrain Medical Center
Glen L. Sweitzer
Leslie A. Stallings
Henry G. Sonwalt
Henry Kombrink
Mexico
Stella C. Hall
Paris
Marvin Thomas
Thomas R. Torreyson
Centralia
Woodrow W. Gipson Auxvasse
William Frank Kesler
Laddonia
Walker Carter
Santa Fe
Dwain Shaw
Vandalia
Shaw
Harbison Walker
Henry Staiehle
Thelma Barnett
Len Bock
James Pugh
Mary Welschmeyer
Raymond Oliver
Eva Lowe
Henry Rudasill
Homer Baker
Elaina Fleming
Glenn D. Singleton
James Brixey
Leroy Schmidt
Bowling Green
Fran Scott
Des Moines
Gordon
Coal St
Brown
Guthrie St
Martha Ann Graves
Kentucky Rd
Western and
Love Sts
Western St
Robert Lee Gordon
Sturgeon
H. H
E. Promenade St
Decree in partition suit names heirs over two Mississippi Street lots
A decree in the partition suit of Elsie S. McFarling and Elva L. Mundy against Ethel M. Davidson and others involves property at 130 N. Mississippi St. and 122 S. Alabama St. The sheriff will sell the property to the highest bidder. proceeds after costs will be divided among the named heirs. Prices and trading activity from yesterday's over the counter and the New York Stock Exchange are recorded for several entities and stocks.
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Elsie S. McFarling
Elva L. Mundy
Ethel M. Davidson
Ola Blanche Allen
Mabel L. Pruett
Ida F. Hale
Ralph D. Lowrey
Mississippi St
S. Alabama St
Ola Allen
A. B. Chance Co
Commerce Bancshares
Wetteran
New York Stock Exchange
Bobbie Brooks
Dresser Industries
Interco
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
U.S
Local Marriage Licenses List from Medford Martinsburg Wellsville and Mexico
Marriage licenses issued for Dennis Thorson Matthias and Carol Anne Fennewald in Medford and Martinsburg, Lipscomb and Lipscomb in Wellsville, Van Vacter and Bailey in Mexico, Hoard and Pritchett in Mexico, Jeffries and O Neal in Mexico, and Self and Minor in Sturgeon. Police report notes a two-vehicle collision at South Coal and Guthrie streets involving Larry Gordon and Clarence Brown. details pending.
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Dennis Thorson
Matthias
Medford
Wis
Carol Anne Fennewald
Martinsburg
George Thomas Lipscomb
Sharon Ruth Lipscomb
Wellsville
Glen Edward van Vacter
Shirley Marie Bailey
Mexico
Walter Lee Hoard
Bonnie Jean Pritchett
John Willis Jeffries
Mary Ellen O'Neal
Boone County
Jay Franklin Self
Deborah Suzanne Minor
Sturgeon
Larry J. Gordon
S. Coal St
Clarence H. Brown
S. Calhoun St
S. Coal and Guthrie Sts
Rohlinggs Return From Rochester Stay
Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Rohlfing and daughter Miss Matilda Mae Rohlfing have returned home from a visit in Rochester Minnesota. Mrs. Rohlfing stayed about a week at Methodist Hospital while Mr. Rohlfing went to Mayo Clinic for treatment.
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Rochester
O. F. Rohlfing
Matildamae Rohlfing
Minn
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