Tornado Toll in Four States Tops Seven Dead
Seven people were killed across Indiana Illinois and Alabama with more than 100 injured as tornadoes and storms damaged millions of dollars in property. One tornado narrowly missed President Ford's motorcade near Chicago while authorities mobilized disaster plans and Red Cross shelters.
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Associated Press
Indiana
Illinois
Alabama
Michigan
Ford
Chicago
Ilinois
O'Hare International Airport
Daniel Walker
Cook
DuPage
Kendall
Kankakee
Demcotte
Interstate 65
Lowell
Ind
Eclectic
Montgomery
Jackson County
Wolf Lake
Jackson
Farwell Lake
Ilinois National Guard
Raul Salascorpus
Morton Grove
Charles Gilmore
Oswego
Red Cross
Leyden Extended Care Center
Leyden Township
Callaway wins expansion approval for Crested Butte ski resort
Bo Callaway, Ford campaign chief, wins approval to expand Crested Butte in western Colorado on government land after a Department of Agriculture meeting. The Forest Service reversal followed objections, with 2,000 extra acres leased for a new multimillion-dollar ski complex near Aspen.
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Washington
Howard
Bo" Callaway
Ford
Colorado
Agriculture Department
Pentagon
U.S. Forest Service
J. Phillip Campbell
Callaway
Crested Butte
Aspen
USDA
Campbell
Forest Service
NBC News
Colorado Democrat
Haskell
School Children Help In Bingham Sketch Buying
Jefferson City Missouri AP report says a citizen group aims to raise 1.8 million dollars to buy the George Caleb Bingham art collection. Missouri school children will help fundraise with a drive targeting a 15 thousand dollar drawing titled Horace showing the artist's son at play Mumbletype. The group Bingham Sketches Inc cooperates with Gov Bond's Bingham Week to June 30 deadline to purchase 14th century Missouri artist's 112 drawings from St Louis Mercantile Library Association before auction.
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Jefferson City
George Caleb Bingham
Missouri
Horace
Citizens Group
Bingham Sketches, Inc
Christopher S. Bond
St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Missouri acquires 5147 acre Callaway wildlife land
The Missouri Department of Conservation bought 5147 acres near Williamsburg for 2.5 million dollars from conservation funds. The site, called the old Bowen Ranch, will open to the public after November 15 and features over 2,000 acres of timber, 820 acres of grain, 2,200 acres of pasture and ponds. Director Carn Noren called it a once in a lifetime chance.
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Jefferson City
Callaway County
State Department of Conservation
Asa
Department For Wildlife Land
Williamsburg
Car Noren
Conservation Department
Bowen Ranch
Joel Vance
Department
Three Firms Admit Payoffs In Foreign Markets
ITT General Tire and Rubber and Westinghouse Electric disclose internal probes into overseas bribes prompted by SEC reviews and earlier corporate disclosures. ITT reports 3.8 million paid to foreign customers or officials over five years with 4.3 thousand in the United States and 60 thousand overseas political contributions later deemed legal. Westinghouse notes four questionable overseas payments with one case involving a former agent and a government official, and another where normal procedures were breached but no proven improper payment. Universal Oil considering 290 thousand in overseas questionable payments since 1970.
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Washington
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp
ITT
General Tire and Rubber Co
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Securities and Exchange Commission
General Tire
Westinghouse
Universal Oil Products Co
United States
SEC
Special Sales
Levy Vote Set In Louisiana School Tax Increase
Louisiana R-2 school board schedules an April 6 vote on an 8 cent levy increase. If approved by a simple majority the tax rate would rise to 4 dollars for all purposes, up 53 cents from the 1975 rate of 3.47.
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Louisiana
Bond Again Requests Elected Officials on Missouri Health Board
U.S. Senator Christopher Bond urges HEW officials to ensure one third of Missouri Health Systems Agency board members are elected officials. He criticizes a federal claim that he acts only in an advisory role and calls the act ill conceived. Area Two spans 60 counties in northern and central Missouri. Will Marshall of Columbia leads Missouri implementation.
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Jefferson City
Christopher S. Bond
Health Systems Agency Board
Missouri
Bond
Mas Mills
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Congress
Area Two
Will Marshall
Columbia
Louisiana May Vote On Sales Tax
The city council here has directed the city attorney to prepare a 1 percent sales tax ordinance for consideration. It is expected to be voted on at the primary election August 3. The council also approved paying the $17.50 registration fee for any councilman attending Democratic Party Days in Hannibal this weekend by a 4 to 3 vote.
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Louisiana
Democratic Party
Hannibal
Friends In R-6 Fill Cameron Rites At School Gym
A capacity crowd at Community R-6 High School filled the gym Friday to honor George Cameron, longtime superintendent who died Wednesday from a massive heart attack. pallbearers included school officials and local leaders. services led by Rev. Jim Cook followed by a graveside burial at Laddonia Cemetery.
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Laddonia
R-6
George Cameron
Brade
R64
R-4
Leslie Whalen
Burton Hooke
Robert Phillips
Charles Stone
Abner Clarkston
Bill Robison
Jim Cook
Vandalia
Former Centralian Dies In Columbia
Virginia Gertrude Fountain E. Daugherty, 79, of 700 N Garth Columbia, died Friday at Boone County Hospital. Former Centralia resident, moved to Columbia three years ago. Services 2 pm Sunday Parker's Chapel Columbia. Burial Glendale Memorial Gardens Centralia. Born Boone County Aug 14 1896 to William and Nettie Warren. Married 1910 to Mr Daugherty. he died 1976-01-21. Survived by four sons Dave Daugherty St Louis F E Daugherty Jr Ridgecrest Calif Warren Dee Daugherty Centralia Fritz Daugherty Columbia, 12 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren. Red Top Christian Church member.
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Columbia
Fountain E
Virginia Gertrude) Daugherty
N. Garth
Boone County Hospital
Centralia
Parker's Chapel
Sam Nichols
First Christian Church
Glendale Memorial Gardens
Daugherty
Boone County
Aubrey Louis Young Rites Today
Funeral services were held this morning for Aubrey Louis Young age 73 of Wellsville at Precht Pickering Funeral Home. The Rev Elywin Wickell of West Carvie Baptist Church conducted the service with burial in East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Pallbearers were Eugene Spitznagel David Spitznagel Lee Watson Tom Rankin Joe Young and Richard Loos.
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Precht- Pickering
Aubrey Louis Young
Wellsville
Elywin Wickell
West Carvie Baptist Church
Laddonia
East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Eugene and
David Spitznagel
Lee Watson
Tom Rankin
Joe Young
Richard Loos
Mrs. Charles Wright Dies in Centralia at 78
Mrs. Pauline I. Wright, 78, of Centralia, died Friday night at Audrain Medical Center in Mexico after a hospital stay since March 8. Funeral at 11 a.m. Monday at Fenton Funeral Chapel, with Rev. Kenneth Tipton officiating. Burial in Tuscumbia Cemetery. Survived by husband Charles, son Merle Wright, three grandchildren Timothy Vincent and Emily Wright, and three sisters, Hauenstein, Lumpkin, and Blackburn. Born November 12, 1897, in Tuscumbia, she moved with her husband from Jefferson City to Centralia in 1928 and belonged to the Presbyterian Church of Tuscumbia. She was active in Christian Women's Fellowship and the Centralia American Legion Auxiliary.
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Centralia
Charles I
Pauline) Wright
Audrain Medical Center
Mexico
Fenton Funeral Chapel
Kenneth Tipton
First Christian Church
Tuscumbia
Wright
D.H
Lena Churchill Kouns
Mr. Wright
Merle Wright
Timothy
Vincent
Emily Wright
Columbia
Mary Hauenstein
Kingsburg
Calif
Clara Lumpkin
Sun Valley
Ariz
Hazel Blackburn
Plainview
Tex
Jefferson City
Mrs. Lillie Shoup Dies at 81 in Laddonia
Mrs. Lillie E. Shoup 81 of Route 2 Laddonia died Friday at 1:40 pm in Audrain Medical Center where she had been a patient since March 11. Funeral services Sunday 1:30 pm at Arnold Funeral Home with Rev. Tom Petree and Rev. John Blass officiating. Visitation 7:00-8:30 pm. Born Feb 14 1895 in Kingfisher County Oklahoma, she taught in Audrain County and married Clyde H. Shoup Jan 22 1916. Surviving husband Clyde, son Donald Shop of Rush Hill, daughter Ruth Pasley, seven grandchildren, nine great grandchildren. Burial in Laddonia Cemetery.
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Lillie E. Shoup
Route 2
Laddonia
Audrain Medical Center
Arnold Funeral Home
Tom Petree
Rush Hill Community Church
John Blass
Funeral
James C
Talitha Jane Potter Lower
Kingfisher County
Oklahoma
McMillan High School
Culver-Stockton College
Canton
Audrain County
Kansas
Clyde H. Shoup
Rush Hill
Area Council
Donald Shop
Rush Hil
James
Ruth) Pasley
Betty Jo
Ladlonia
Mrs Utterback Services Today at Arnold Funeral Home
The Rev Marvin Jones pastor of Friendship Baptist Church officiated this afternoon for Mrs Maurice Utterback 54 with Mrs John Willer organist. Pallbearers named include John L Day Murl Utterback Mattie Hawkinson and eight others. Burial followed at East Lawn.
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Maurice Utterback
Marvin Jones
Friendship Baptist Church
John Willer
John L. Day
Murl Utterback
Mattie Hawkinson
Howard Christopher
Tom Mills
Jim Dunham
Jim Jeffray
Vernon Jones
Randall Hawkinson
Ray Wilders
Gene Engel
Donald Fick
J Q. Delap
Maurice Day
William Gardner
East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Weather and court notes from Audrain region brief
Local weather for the region shows clear, cold tonight with sunshine and a warmer Sunday. Missouri forecast calls for freeze warnings, clear skies, and highs in the upper 40s to low 50s with a chance of rain Monday and Tuesday. precipitation totals and normals are provided. Public safety reports include a tarp theft, a minor two-vehicle collision, and a late Friday head-on crash on Highway 15 near Mexico involving Sherry Kitchen and John Forsyth. Death notices list several local residents and hospital admissions include multiple individuals from area towns.
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Missouri
Highway Crash Sends Two To Hospital In Mexico Area
Paris suffered fractures yet remained stable after a head on collision on a curve on Highway 54 north of Mexico. Kitchen cited for no operator license and failure to drive on the right half of the roadway. Campbell cited for careless driving after rear ending Magruder, with both cars damaged. Magistrate Court cases include thefts at Gibson stores and a DWI charge. Also speeding conviction. Market reports list grain prices and select stock quotes.
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Paris
Highway Patrol
Auxvasse
Highway 54
Mexico
Magruder
Campbell
IRS Claims McDonnell Douglas Owes 13.49 Million
The Internal Revenue Service filed a 13.49 million claim against McDonnell Douglas for 1967 to 1971 income taxes. The Globe-Democrat cites disputes over losses, inventory writedowns, investment credits, depreciation and foreign taxes as major issues. The case will be tried in U.S. Tax Court in St. Louis on a date to be set.
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Internal Revenue Service
McDonnell Douglas Corp
Globe-Democrat
IRS
McDonnell Douglas
Washington
U.S
TRS
Globe Democrat
Six Slain Five in One Family in Bucks County
In suburban Bucks County a Friday night basement shooting left six dead including five members of the Abt family. A boyfriend of one daughter also died. authorities say victims were forced into the basement and shot around 8 am with a small caliber weapon. The gun is missing. Michael Abt was questioned and released. Clifford Abt is in Bucks County Prison. The Trevose home lies in Bensalem Township near Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Bucks County
Michael
Clifford
Trevose
Bensalem Township
Yard Long counterfeit bills appeal over Nixon satire
Kansas City artist Gale E. Wagner challenged a lower court ruling that his 36 by 15 inch Inflationary Note prints substituting Nixon for Jackson violated federal counterfeit laws. Wagner argued his satirical artwork was protected by the First Amendment, but a district court previously ruled the engraving counterfeit and seized it.
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Kansas City
Nixon
Gale E. Wagner
Bth
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Wagner
Andrew Jackson
Federal Reserve
Secret Service
U.S
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Charles Wright
Lillie Shoup
Mrs. Utterback
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Charles A. Black
Milton Berry Ardell Jr
George Calloway
Mabel G. Staples
Besse J. Dobyns
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Joe Kitchen
William C. Neal
Byron F. Smith
Alta M. Bagley
Archie W. Miller
Thompson
Herbert H. DeVault
New Florence
Robert E. Kauffman
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Montgomery City
Anna A. Hudnall
John W. Forsyth
Charles Moore
Samuel M. Floyd
Paul D. Graves
Middletown
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Michael EB. Lees
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Morris Bryson
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Candace Piedmont
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Clifford DeLong
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Florence Stevens
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Albert Johnson
Ruth Jennings
Joyce Scherder
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Charles I. Wright
Fountain E. Daugherty
Mur) Morgan
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EB. Liberty
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N. Western
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E. Liberty
Calhoun
the Daily Record
Martha Ann Teague
Gibson's Products, Co
Robert Lee McBain
Gibson Discount
Larry Wayne Thomas
James Warren Simpson
Carl Gene Ortner
Corpus Christi
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Thomas Edgar Chapman
MFA
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