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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1973
Page
1
Flooded conditions on the South Fork of the Salt River cut a channel across Missouri Military Field near McMillan School, isolating a residence on Pollock Road. The swift current took a short cut across fields, complicating access. Homeowners awaited authorities.
Columbia prepares a brief 10 am welcome for Air Force Capt. John Clark, returning POW, at the Municipal Building March 10. Clark, shot down March 12, 1967, will receive proclamations and a governor’s letter as officials invite former POWs to attend.
Col James H Kasler, a POW from North Vietnam, tells Pacific Stars and Stripes antiwar protesters prolonged the war by opposing U S actions He recalls torture for avoiding demonstrators and asserts treason and blood on protesters hands The report accompanies Kaslers release at Clark Air Base on his way home Also noted a birth in Centralia with Dale Clark and new daughter at Audrain Medical Center.
The Missouri Division of Mental Health opposes a bill to create 21 local boards and a statewide board, arguing it adds cost and bureaucracy. It favors boosting local input within existing programs and cites active non state operated centers in Joplin Mexico St. Louis and Kennett with more on the way in Cape Girardeau North Kansas City Lee's Summit Raytown and Kirksville. Proponents say local coordination is needed and note 35 states have similar laws while Missouri advocates say follow up care after release is essential to prevent relapse.
George T. Coker and Robert W. Wideman, both 30, Navy pilots captured over North Vietnam, differ in outlook. Coker greeted captivity with bravado and plans for a future, while Wideman questioned America’s actions and preferred solitude. Their experiences in Hanoi Hilton shaped contrasting postwar hopes and reflections.
Police dismantled an elaborate explosive device in a car trunk near the El Al cargo terminal at Kennedy Airport. Bomb squad officers opened the rented green sedan and retrieved three five-gallon gasoline drums, three twenty-pound propane bottles, and two bags of other explosives attached to blasting caps and timing devices.
AP reports a $16.2 million emergency appropriations measure moves to the Senate floor funding Bi-State bus system capital work and welfare costs, with committee edits adding and deleting items. The plan relies largely on general revenue and faces House action, veto options, and potential conference committee. A Fayette fire incident details a water bed fire that narrowly avoids a flood at Charles Paige’s residence.
Space Center Houston reports biologist Sidney Fox and two colleagues found chemical precursors to amino acids in Apollo lunar samples. When exposed to water they formed six amino acids, suggesting a primitive replicating organism called a microsphere could have evolved. The absence of all 18 amino acids may have prevented full life development.
Five cars of a 68 car Chicago North Western freight train derailed in Savannah Missouri early today. The derailment within city limits was blamed on an open switch. Andrew County sheriff’s office reported no injuries. Also at a Kiwanis Club luncheon, Everett Van Matre outlined Missouri Industrial Development Commission programs and showed a film touting the state’s balance of nature and industry. He claimed Missouri is the market place for half a nation and that the commission helps locate industry in Missouri. Guests included Roger Moore and Jim Hahn.
The sheriff's office said railroad investigators estimated damage to equipment at $400,000. An investigation of the cause was continuing. No one was injured, officials said.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission will schedule a hearing on Sarah T. Shore alias Mrs Z S Klinghoffermandell fields against Bell Telephone. She alleges discrimination for not listing her alias while Bell claims it may reject or discontinue listings it deems misleading. Bell lost a motion to quash the complaint.
Militant Indians in Wounded Knee demand the ouster of Oglala Sioux tribal president Richard Wilson as a takeover enters its second week. Talks with Justice and Interior officials resume today while AIM insists on revoking the tribe’s constitution and removing Wilson.
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