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Newspaper

Mexico Ledger

Location

Mexico, Missouri, United States of America

Date

Mar 05, 1973

Page

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Fire District Plan Committee Named

A committee to study forming a rural fire district was named at the Mexico Rural Fire Association meeting Saturday at the Show-Me Room of First National Bank. Edwin Lierheimer named John Talbot Dean Reinerd and Robert Schutte to the panel. all board members will serve.

Mexico Rural Fire Association First National Bank Edwin Lierheimer John Talbot Dean Reinerd Robert Schutte The Fire Association W. Bush Walden Columbia Firemenship Education Department University of Missouri Paul Lutz Salt River Township Mexico Lierheimer David Moore Clyde Berry

HDC Board Invites Public To Session

Audrain County Human Development Corp invites the public to a 7 30 p m session at Garfield Community Center on Tuesday. The meeting reviews HDC activities aiding low income residents and seeks local support as federal funding ends in June 1973. Board lists officers and county and Vandalia members and urges participation.

Audrain County Human Development Corp Garfield Community Center Office of Economic Opportunity HDC Audrain County Board Ernest S. Gantt Arrion Campbell Robert Ligon William Johnson Mary Williams Buford Thomas W. B. Arvin J. A. Barton

Typhoid Cases Rise at Florida Migrant Camp

In Homestead Florida Dr Milton Saslaw reports 30 typhoid cases confirmed at a migrant labor camp with potential to exceed 100. By late yesterday 40 cases were confirmed and about 70 suspected. 107 of 2000 workers hospitalized. A loose quarantine limits movement to protect residents and prevent spread. Residents may leave only to buy food or work.

Homestead Fla Dade County Milton Saslaw Saslaw

Two Men Of Longest Seniority Retire At A.P. Green Company

Howard George and Frank Lees, the top two employees in seniority at the A.P. Green Refractories Co. Mexico plant, retired after more than 47 years each. George, the senior worker, started in 1925 earning $2 a day and helped produce millions of bricks. Lees, second in seniority, began in 1925 and spent 33 years as a kiln fireman in IFB. Both men were long-time residents of Mexico with families and church ties. their departures end a combined 85 years of service.

Howard George Frank Lees A.P. Green Refractories Co Mexico W. Ferris Mundy Howard Frank West George A.P. Green Green Company St. Louis Assembly of God Church Lees IFB North Dakota Hannibal St. Brendan's Church Cleveland

Belfast Mob of Women Kill Soldier

A teenage British soldier, Gary Barlow aged 19, died in Belfast after being beaten and shot by about 40 Catholic women in the Lower Falls district. He was separated from his patrol during a search of an apartment house after a sniper attack. The pistol discharged during the melee, the cause unknown, and the mob fled as troops arrived. This marked the 10th army death of the year and raised Northern Ireland's toll to 742 in over three years of fighting.

Belfast Gary Barlow Lower Falls Army Barlow Northern Ireland

Art Glass Reclaims Spotlight In St Louis Revival

In an 1880s born reputation as the art glass capital, St Louis sees a renewed boom as art glass appears in restaurants, hotels, and homes. Dealers note custom, hand crafted panels and leaded glass designs, with theft of old windows rising as demand grows for unique pieces.

ST. Louis Ray Other Unique Art Glass Co

Miles Davis fined for illegal weapon possession in New York

Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, 47, pled guilty to illegal possession of a weapon and was fined 1000 dollars. Police responding to a disturbance found him outside a building with a key, a small handgun, and three foil envelopes with cocaine. A woman with him was arrested but later discharged.

New York Miles Davis Davis

Denenberg targets vested interests in insurance scrutiny

Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Herbert Denenberg pursues aggressive reform, criticizing medicine, dentistry, housing, and auto sectors as intertwined with insurance. He cites widespread inefficiencies, urges transparency on agents commissions, and unveils shopper guides to curb substandard care.

John Cunniff New York Pennsylvania Herbert Denenberg Pennsylvania Medical Society Association of Trial Lawyers United States Denenberg American Medical Association Life Health and Casualty University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance

Forty-two Register For Two Day Co op Tour

Mexico area residents join a two day bus tour to Kansas City hosted by Audrain Co op Association. Twenty two families participate with overnight at Hotel Continental. Highlights include visits to Co op HQ, Muncie Feed Mill luncheon in Lawrence, CFCA tour, dinner at Gold Buffet, optional Farmland Industries movie, and Friday tours of North Kansas City Industrial Complex and Co op schools division HQ. Participants listed with hosts Purvis Hemphill Sweitzer O Fallon Bright Baldwin Veale Botts Anderson Coil Dingman Hunt May Wilson Martin Silsby Wilson Pehle Kimbel Buie Isgrig and Dennison.

Mexico Area Kansas City Audrain Co-op Association Continental Co-op Lawrence Kan Mexico Muncie CFCA Gold Buffet Farmland Industries Frontier Paul Purvis Gene Hemphill Joe Sweitzer Oliver O'Fallon George Bright Richard Baldwin Paul Veale Joe Botts John Anderson Bernard Coil Cloyd Dingman Dale Hunt James May Charles Wilson Elmer Martin John Silsby Nolan Wilson Howard Pehle Morris Kimbel Dave Buie John Isgrig Orville Dennison

Arlington Burial For Cleo A. Noel

The bodies of U.S. Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr and Charge d'Affaires G. Curtis Moore were flown from Khartoum to Arlington National Cemetery after eight Palestinian guerrillas of Black September killed them at the Saudi Embassy. The embassy attackers surrendered after 60 hours as Sudan pledged firm action. The incident drew diplomatic censure and involved Jordanian and Saudi officials, with President Numairi sending condolences to Nixon.

Khartoum Sudan U.S Cleo A. Noel Jr G. Curtis Moore Guy Eid Adley el Nasser Abdullah Malhouk Jaafar al Numairi Abdul Rahman Abdul Mah Noel Moore Su‘dan Nixon Washington State Department Andrews Air Force Base Arlington National Cemetery Palestine Liberation Movement Numairi

Communists Boycott Sessions over POW Release Dispute

North Vietnam and the Viet Cong announced a boycott of Joint Military Commission sessions until Saigon increases the second phase prisoner releases. Saigon says it will free 3,000, Hanoi and the Viet Cong demand 7,000, risking delay past the March 28 deadline and potential chaos in the commission.

Saigon Joint Military Commission North Vietnam Vietnam Hanoi Khe Sanh Freer Movement U.S

Noel Relatives To Washington

Relatives of slain U S ambassador to Sudan Cleo Noel Jr. from Missouri and Kansas planned to fly to Washington for funeral services. His mother Mrs Cleo Noel Sr of Moberly and sister Mrs Josephine Barry of Leawood were to depart mid morning with other Barry family members.

Kansas City Sudan Cleo Noel Jr Washington Noel Cleo Noel Sr Moberly Josephine Barry Leawood Kan Barry

Companies Seek Permits To Use River

Three firms seek state permits to discharge waste into Missouri rivers. Armco Steel Corp would dump into Blue River from Kansas City plant after wastewater recirculation and central treatment systems. American Oil and Corn Products International request Missouri River discharges. hearing Wednesday in Independence at 1:30 p.m.

Jefferson City Missouri State Clean Water Commission Howard Johnson Motor Lodge Independence Armco Steel Corp American Oil and Corn Products Co. International Kansas City Armco Steel Middletown Ohio Blue River Roberts Road Clean Water Commission American Oil Sugar Creek Corn Products International Missouri River

Coppola Wins DGA Award for Best Movie Direction 1972

Hollywood AP reports Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather, wins the Directors Guild of America award for best movie direction of 1972. Lamont Johnson earns best television direction for That Certain Summer, while William Wellman receives the D. W. Griffith Award for outstanding direction for Wings A Star Is Born and The Ox Bow Incident.

Hollywood (Ap Francis Ford Coppola Directors Guild of America Lamont Johnson D. W. Griffith William Wellman

Pope names Baum new Washington archbishop

Vatican named Most Rev William Wakefield Baum archbishop of Washington replacing Cardinal Patrick O Boyle who resigned at 77. Baum 46, previously bishop of Springfield Cape Girardeau Missouri since 1970, born Dallas 1928, ordained 1951, educated in Kansas City and St Louis, after Rome study earned doctorate. Cardinal O Boyle remains cardinal and can vote in conclave until 80.

Vatican City Paul VI William Wakefield Baum Washington, D. C Patrick O’boyle O‘boyle Archbishop Baum Springfield Cape Girardeau Dallas Tex O'Boyle Vatican Pope Pauls Cardinal O‘boyle Baum St. Peter’s Catholic School Kansas City St. John's Seminary St. Louis Preparatory Seminary Kenrick Seminary St. Louis Rome Collegium Angelicum St. Aloysius St. Therese’s St. Peter's St. Cyril’s Sugar Creek Springfield-Cape Girardeau

Supreme Court reaffirms Hughes ruling on TWA damages

The Supreme Court, in a brief order, denied rehearing for Trans World Airlines in the Hughes Tool antitrust case. The court held the damages judgment voided previously could not be tested in an antitrust suit because the Civil Aeronautics Board had authorized control of TWA. Justice Marshall did not participate in denying the petition.

Hughes Washington Supreme Court Howard R. Hughes High Court Trans World Airlines Hughes Tool Co TWA Hughes Tool Civil Aeronautics Board Thurgood Marshall

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