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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1977
Page
1
Forecast notes fair conditions with cooler tonight and sunny Sunday highs mainly in the 40s to 50s. Overnight lows near 20s to 40s in the Bootheel, with extended warming through Monday to Wednesday and little to no precipitation expected across the state.
Audrain Medical Center reports admissions including William L. McCallum Henry G. Sonwalt Albert J. Long Jesse L. Wilson Norman G. Rose and others from Mexico Monro e City Paris Santa Fe Martinsburg Wellsville and Center a newborn daughter to Mr and Mrs Billy B Durbin of Paris born Friday at 1 p m Dismissals include Paul Reinerd Mary Goldsberry and numerous others from Mexico Paris and Auxvasse Virgil Pete Spalding 81 Christine Miller 82 Fannie McCollum 82
Reports from Friday through early Saturday detailed several minor traffic crashes on East Liberty, Rawlings, Promenade, and Highway 54 with no major injuries. A carburetor theft from a car at First Baptist Church valued at $150 was logged, while a soda machine breakin at Fabric Care Center failed to gain entry. Magistrate Court actions included driving without registration, careless driving, parole violation, and forged prescription charges with sentences issued or pending.
The Markets report shows Commerce Banc at 24 25 percent bids asks Mercantile Bank bid 30 percent Wetterau 17 bid 18 asked on OTC. NYSE close lists Robbie Brooks 5 percent Combustion Eng 49 Dresser 38 Emerson 34 Interco 39 Kaiser Aluminum 35 Panhandle 45 Ralston 15 US Gypsum 25 both common and 2642 preferred Wal Mart 13. Dow Jones Friday at 953.46. Cash grain quotes from MFA Mexico Soybeans 7.00 Wheat 2.42 Corn 2.40 Milo 3.55. Fowles Grain Co Laddonia quotes Soybeans 7.90 Wheat 2.43 Corn 2.32 Milo 3.50.
Birth notices report a son to Mr and Mrs Richard Loehnig Jr in St Joseph at Methodist Medical Center weighing 8 pounds 13 ounces named Richard Carl Loehnig a grandson of Richard Loehnig Sr. A girl named Deanna is listed as born to Mr and Mrs Billy B Durbin of Paris at Audubon Center weighing six pounds 30 ounces. A son named David Fray Brewer is noted for Mr and Mrs William F Brewer Jr of Fulton born at Medical Center weighing 12 pounds with government service noted.
Vice President Walter F. Mondale spent the weekend with friends at a lake cabin north of Hibbing Minnesota. It was his first weekend off since the fall election. Mondale arrived Friday night aboard Air Force II and was greeted by well wishers. He plans to leave Sunday. The trip, once billed as a fishing outing, appears mainly for relaxation since Minnesota game fish season is closed. He is staying as a guest of Frank Befera a Duluth television executive and chairman of the Metropolitan Airports Commission.
Pasadena AP Bob Hope called Bing Crosby the luckiest man alive after Crosby fell twenty feet from a stage during a 50th anniversary show. Crosby, aged 72, grabbed a proscenium arch to break his fall and save his life and was taken to Huntington Memorial Hospital for observation. The CBS taped three hour show will air on Sunday March 20 with Hope among those praising Crosby.
Union Electric Co. asked the Missouri Public Service Commission for a 14 per cent rate increase, boosting annual revenues by about $65 million. The utility projected a $3.74 monthly rise for the average residential customer, citing higher costs for materials, supplies, equipment, ore and taxes, and a $1.8 billion construction program over the next five years.
The Old Auxvasse Nine Mile Church will resume normal Sunday schedule with services at 9:30 a.m. at the Old Auxvasse building followed by church school. At the Williamsburg facility church school is at 10 a.m. and worship services will follow. The Rev. Jim Williams is the pastor.
The Missouri Compensation Commission will urge the legislature and governor to raise salaries for elected and appointed officials including a governor raise to 17500 and an overall higher scale for all state offices from the governor to circuit court judges. The plan seeks a fulltime lieutenant governor role, higher legislative pay, and updated salaries for Supreme and Appellate Court judges.
Moscow published a lengthy attack accusing Russian dissidents of spying for the CIA to undermine the Soviet state. The article named two Americans Melvyn Levitsky and Joseph Presel, plus Alynn Nathanson, and described alleged messages and a delivery diagram. The U.S. State Department declined comment as the embassy said it was reviewing the report.
Virgil P. Spalding 81 father of Mrs John W Waggett of Mexico died Friday at Barnes Hospital St Louis after an extended illness. Retired printer known as Pete. Survived by wife Dorothy G Spalding of 60 Berry Rd Park Glendale. brother Charles. sisters Georgia Lucille of St Louis. grandchildren John Waggett of West Hartford and Virginia Pearl of Kirkwood. four great grandchildren. Services 11 a.m. Monday at Lupton Funeral Home St Louis. Burial Bellefontaine Cemetery. Memorials to St Matthew's Episcopal Church Mexico.
Chicago reports rising soybeans and products as prices push toward new highs in 1977. Futures edge above eight dollars a bushel, cash around seven seventy five, meal at two hundred twenty five a ton, oil at twenty four cents a pound.
ST LOUIS AP Richard J Rabbitt former Missouri House speaker is charged with 15 counts of fraud and extortion in his official duties. He appeared before U S Magistrate Noce and was released on his own recognizance. Arraignment set for Monday before Judge Nangle. Indictment, kept under seal, was unsealed after Rabbitt’s arrest detailing $32300 extorted from a St Louis architectural firm and $20000 from three individuals linked to car dealers in St Louis and Kansas City.
A Mennonite delegation led by Harold D. Jantz visited Vietnam, observing a unique socialist model and signs of openness to the West. Don Sensenig and Max Edlger, with Jantz, noted limited anti American sentiment, thriving private enterprise, religious rebuilding aid, and Vietnamese use of English in public notices, signaling possible diplomatic ties but without abandoning Moscow influence.
Mrs Fannie McCollum 82 of Vandalia died at Audrain Medical Center after a brief hospitalization starting Feb 27 Family survivors include husband Glenn B McCollum two sons Sam Bob Charles all of Vandalia a daughter Marguerite Langford Vandalia eleven grandchildren one great grandchild a brother Dyas Jones Vandalia and a sister Joyce Wanders Vandalia Funeral services at Waters Funeral Home Vandalia are pending.
Vandalia Missouri obituary notes Dorothy Miller 82 died at home Friday born February 17 1895 daughter of Henry and Caroline Schultz Miller longtime employee at Bobbie Brooks Fashions Garment Factory in Utall survived by two nieces and a brother William Miller of Vandalia services Sunday at 2 pm St John Lutheran Church Vandalia burial Vandalia Cemetery visitation tonight Waters Funeral Home Vandalia
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