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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1976
Page
1
In sworn testimony Nixon says leaks are not always disloyal and some lawmakers leak to stay in the news. He cites FBI wiretaps and 21 known leaks, including the Cambodian bombing story, defending taps as legally and security justified while noting some journalists profit from leaks.
The Air Force will close Kincheloe Michigan Craig Alabama and Webb Texas as part of staged cutbacks to streamline the base structure and save up to 150 million annually beginning 1978. Loring Maine and Richards Gebaur Missouri will be reduced. Army and Navy follow in coming weeks.
Frank Berstler, branch manager of the Social Security Administration in Columbia, will speak at the Rotary Club luncheon Friday at the Mexico Country Club. Bud Hotep serves as program chairman.
A 19 year old Osage Beach man, Larry G. Foster, died when his rebuilt 1932 Ford overturned on Highway 15 north of Paris at 12 50 p m on Wednesday. The coroner ruled death by fire with no inquest and the body was to be moved to Osage Beach. Foster was driving at high speed in a curve, the car left the road, overturned in a ditch and burned before firefighters could extinguish it. The patrol noted fiberglass body and the car’s fate.
Government and industry officials anticipate ample lid supply for the 1976 canning season, with four billion replacement lids pledged to meet demand. Kerr Glass and Ball Corp report record production and higher output, while warnings about botulism remind home canners to follow tested methods and avoid shortcuts.
A 29 year old off duty bank guard and police officer Warren G Jackman died five hours after a bank holdup shootout in Kansas City North. Four suspects were arrested after the incident and jailed in Jackson and Clay counties. Jackman, with the police since 1971, was survived by his widow and two daughters.
Dora Thompson, wounded in the 1972 Wallace assassination attempt, runs this year as a national convention delegate for Alabama governor Wallace. She was shot in Laurel Maryland on May 15 1972 while campaigning. the bullet fractured her lower right leg and she spent 29 weeks in a cast.
In Delta British Columbia retired Royal Canadian Air Force flight sergeant Robert Chad Turnour the seventh Earl Winterton hides his peerage behind a ordinary life as a BC Forest Service depot clerk He carries three titles dating to 1761 1766 but prefers anonymity and says he would forget them if possible Born in Saskatoon Turnour was identified as heir to the Winterton titles by Debretts and now lives with his wife near Vancouver while his aristocratic forebears sat in Parliament
The IRS reportedly sent Jimmy Hoffa a tax bill of 578,927 on a 1.7 million 1971 retirement lump sum. Hoffa and wife were advised to respond, five lawyers filed a denial, and a U.S. Tax Court case will proceed later. Hoffa has been missing since July 30, with FBI and grand jury probes ongoing.
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