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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1974
Page
5
Donald Farris received a building permit to erect a fence at 822 East Monroe Street. The permit, issued by city building inspector Taylor Sewell, covers an estimated project cost of 250 dollars. Only one permit was issued in the past week.
Wal Mart Stores Inc reports unaudited record sales and earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended Jan 31 with net income of 6,158,520 or 93 cents a share for the year and 2,129,614 or 32 cents a share for the quarter. The company operates 78 stores in Arkansas Kansas Louisiana Missouri Oklahoma and Tennessee and lists on the NYSE.
El Dorado Arkansas Carl W Egerer named manager of personnel general office and marketing for Lion Oil Company announced by A Joe Warr executive vice president Egerer a Wellsville Missouri native and Chillicothe Business College graduate who joined Lion in 1948 after serving as refinery personnel supervisor and who will oversee marketing and administrative personnel activities and employees insurance program. He is active in civic affairs as first vice president of the South Arkansas Art League and member of Holy Redeemer Church. He and wife Mary Trinca have two children and live at 110 North Bradley Street El Dorado.
An auction will sell all machinery and equipment and the cow herd from farms located six miles north of Mexico Missouri on Route 15 or twenty miles south of Paris Missouri on Route 115. The owners have sold their farms and this sale is the disposal of remaining assets.
Fifty eight head of quality Angus and Angus Hereford cross cows calving now with over thirty calves at side. Also auctioning tractors, combines, forage chopper and extensive farm implements from 1963 to 1973 models, plus two trucks and hay and straw. Cattle and equipment offered after machinery.
CENTRALIA Earl Webb of Holliday earned a 150 dollar suggestion award for proposing a cheaper pallet for the plastics factory shipping department. Forrest Shockley of Mexico received 75 dollars for a mold time saving improvement, bringing his total to 150 after a January payment. Sixteen other Chance employees won awards from five to fifty dollars, including Wayne Crigler of Centralia and several winners from Sturgeon Madison and Clark. Three A B Chance Co employees received 10 year service pins and several others earned five year pins for data processing and manufacturing roles in Centralia Paris Mexico and Holliday.
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