Weather and civic briefs from Jefferson City area
Official 7:00 a.m. reading shows high and low temps for 24 hours, rainfall totals, and March normals. Zone 6 and Missouri extended forecast call for fair or partly cloudy skies with teens to 40s highs through Friday and possible rain or snow this weekend in northern and eastern areas. Local police, court, and hospital notes detail licenses, fines, births, dismissals, marriages, and tributes along with livestock and grain market data and regional stock movements.
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Missouri
Quebec Area Blacked Out By Storm
A 30 hour sleet storm knocked out major Quebec Hydro lines, causing a province wide blackout from the Quebec city area to the Ontario border. Montreal and other centers lost power as the 735000 volt link failed, with heat scarce, schools closed, and hospitals on emer gency power.
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Quebec
Ontario
Quebec Hydro
Hydro
Manicouagan Dam
Montreal
Maritimes
Hydro Quebec
Montreal Island
Spainhower on TV Tonight in Marshall
James M. Spainhower of Marshall, candidate for state treasurer on the Democratic ticket, will discuss his campaign on Channel 12 See Try. The program airs at 6 p.m. tonight and repeats at noon tomorrow via video tape.
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James M. Spainhower
Marshall
Channel 12
Old Con Game Pleas Smith Takes Her $300 To Schwada's Inauguration
A Columbia woman fell victim to a long running confidence trick losing 300 in cash and jewelry after two women lured her with a telegram promising 10000 cash and 9000 in bonds. They contacted a supposed lawyer, then vanished. The report also notes three University of Missouri reps attending Dr John W Schwadas inauguration at Arizona State University on March 10 1972 including Pleasant R Smith Stirling Kyd and Fred Dreste.
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Smith
Schwada
Columbia
Sue L. Glasgow
University of Missouri
John W. Schwada
Arizona State University
Tempe
University
Shelbina
University of Texas
Pleasant R. Smith
Mexico
Stirling Kyd
Kyd
University of Wisconsin
Fred Dreste
Phoenix
Bond Completes County Accounting Plan in Missouri
State Auditor Christo pher Kit Bond announced completion of uniform accounting systems for county officials and financial management. Manuals cover probate and magistrate judges, clerks and recorders, collectors, treasurers, sheriffs, prosecutors, coroners, and public administrators. meetings set in six regions beginning March 20 to explain and train officials.
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Jefferson City
Christopher
Kit
Bond
Correction to Super-X ad in Ledger on Wednesday
A correction notes the plastic tumblers should read two packages of 20, 9 ounce for 88 cents in the Super-X ad that appeared in Wednesday's Ledger.
ITT memo figures in antitrust confirmation hearing
The hearing centered on a memorandum by Washington lobbyist Mrs. Dita D. Beard cited by Anderson as implying Mitchell’s covert help for ITT. Kleindienst and McLaren called the memo absolutely incredible. Kleindienst denied ever discussing Mitchell, as did McLaren. Kleindienst detailed his role in filing the 1969 antitrust suits against ITT and Hartford Fire, while ITT defended there was no deal to settle the case.
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McLaren
Rohatyn
ITT
Justice Department
Antitrust Division
Kleindienst
Mitchell
Philip A
Hart
Jack Anderson
Anderson
Dita D. Beard
Washington
GOP
Mrs. Beard
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Senate
New York
Hartford Fire Insurance Co
Canteen Corp
Grinnell Corp
Open Juvenile Record Proposal Advances in Missouri House
AP reports the House Civil and Criminal Procedure Committee backed an open disclosure bill to publish names and details of juvenile offenders. Sponsored by Rep. Robert Griffin, the plan would reveal detention records for felonies and misdemeanors including the offender’s name address and parental names, with a 4 to 0 vote and two abstentions.
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Jefferson City
House Civil and Criminal Procedure Committee
Robert F. Griffin
Cameron
Harold L. Holliday
Kansas City
Richard J. DeCoster
Dcanton
Frank Bird
St. Louis
Griffin
Harold Volkmer
Hannibal
James G. Baker
Yablonski Killer To Be Executed
Paul E. Gilly was sentenced to the electric chair today by the same jury that convicted him in the Yablonski slayings. The seven men and five women began deliberations on the penalty Wednesday but recessed at 10 45 p.m. in Washington Pa AP report.
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A. B. Chance
Commerce Bancshares
Wetterau
New York Stock Exchange
Robbie Brooks
Dresser Industries
Interco
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
New York
Department of Commerce
Washington Pa
Paul E. Gilly
Yablonski
Nixon daughters invited to visit China by Chou En-lai
President Nixon's daughters Tricia Cox and Julie Eisenhower and their husbands were invited to China by Premier Chou En-lai. Tricia Cox said the invitation was delivered by the Nixons after returning from Beijing. No travel date has been set, announced at a White House reception for Republican leaders.
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Washington
Nixon
China
Tricia Cox
White House
Chou En-lai
Peking
Mail Rates To Increase March 12 Change
The Postal Service announced March 12 increases in third class mail rates. A five cent minimum per piece will apply to advertising circulars, with bulk rates for circulars rising to 28 cents a pound or five cents per piece, whichever is higher. Books and catalogs bulk rates rise to 21 cents per pound with a five cent minimum per piece. Single piece third class rates for small parcels above three ounces increase by one to nine cents based on weight.
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Washington
Postal Service
Stephanie Dawn Leach Born at Audrain Medical Center
Mr and Mrs George Leach of Centralia welcomed their second daughter at 7 25 am Wednesday at Audrain Medical Center weighing 6 lbs 7 oz named Stephanie Dawn Leach. She is a sister of Michelle Christine age 2. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Bryan Gruber of Montgomery City.
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Audrain Medical Center
Clarence D. Becker
John F. Perkins
Gary Sanger
Frank Plevinski
Patricia R. Davis
Keith D. King
Keenan W. Stober
Warren L. Lyons
Melody L. DeOrnellis
Mexico
George W. Dunham
Wellsville
Andrew J. Coleman
Mokane
Joe S. Bishop
Chester W. Armstrong
Paris
Roy G. Popp
Martinsburg
Eugene A. Cotner
Karen M. Engelbrecht
Ralph R. Millikan
Bellflower
Edwin M. Engelbrecht
Arthur Seiler
Montgomery City
M. J. Bieker
Perry
Jesse O. Cates
L. W. Burson
Ray G. Stout
Centralia
Wilbur Knapp
Clark
Irvin H. Brookshire
S. Abat St
George Leach
Tidball Trailer Court
Walter F. Petree
Petree
A. B. Chance Co
Michael B. Hampton
Auxvasse
Hampton
North Callaway
R-1
Charles E. James
Rte 3
Vandalia
Gary L. Harris
Claude Pipkin
L. Mitchell White
Stephanie Dawn Leach
Michelle Christine
Leach
Missouri Power and Light Co
Bryan Gruber
World's Most Powerful Tool In Operation
Scientists have begun using a new 250 million dollar particle accelerator near Batavia Illinois. The 1.25 mile diameter collider accelerated protons to 200 billion electron volts the highest energy produced by a man made machine. The National Accelerator Laboratory will help reveal the forces binding the atomic nucleus and potentially detect new particles. The facility sits 40 miles west of Chicago and required 39 months to construct.
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Batavia, Til
Sinois Prairie
Batavia
James R. Schlesinger
Atomic Energy Commission
National Accelerator Laboratory
Robert R. Wilson
Wilson
Chicago
War Toll Rises With Six American Deaths in Indochina
SAIGON AP The U S Command reported six Americans killed in combat last week the highest weekly toll in over two months. Two more combat deaths were recorded but may appear in next week s summary due to reporting delays. Wounded totaled 56 the week the most since December. Nine servicemen died of nonhostile causes tied to the week s losses. Allied totals show 45 656 Americans killed in action 302 707 wounded and 10 086 dead from nonhostile causes.
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Saigon
U.S
Indochina
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