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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1971
Page
2
President Nixon, buoyed by his regional revenue sharing conference, plans at least three more private sessions with state governors. The Des Moines meeting on March 1 involved four governors, two Republicans and two Democrats, including Missouri's Warren E Hearnes who expressed keen enthusiasm.
Washington AP report notes House Democrats prepare to vote on a resolution calling for total U.S. withdrawal from Indochina by December 31, 1971. The measure, led by Reps. Anderson, Bingham, Boland, Gibbons, Matsunaga, seeks end to involvement and release of prisoners. Senate already passed a withdrawal resolution. leadership split over backing.
North Vietnamese troops attacked a South Vietnamese base in Laos with heavy artillery and tanks and faced a wall of antiaircraft fire as U S helicopters provided support. Foreign Minister Abba Eban left Tel Aviv for Washington to discuss reopening the Suez Canal under an interim deal to ease Middle East talks.
Rep. Joe L. Evins confronts President Nixon over the right to withhold congressionally appropriated funds. Evins, chairman of the House public works appropriations subcommittee, argues withholding amounts to an item veto. He questions OBM authority and warns Congress may require explicit spending directives in future appropriations.
A Mediterranean storm lashed Israel over the weekend dumping snow on Jerusalem for the first time in three years while gale forces drove three oil tankers aground off southern ports.
Publication schedule notes daily except Sundays and holidays at 300 N Washington St Mexico Missouri. Postal and subscription rates listed for in town trade area Audrain and adjoining counties Missouri other Missouri counties and out of state plus armed forces. Office hours 8 to 5:30 Monday to Friday and 6 to 3 Saturday.
In Clayton Missouri residents argue over preserving a Civil War era outhouse at Hanley House. Some call it a tasteful relic while others demand its removal. City officials defend keeping the structure as part of Americana and future generations. A plaque proposal from the American Privy Preservation Society seeks to label it a prestigious privy.
John A. Sunderland of 512 N. Clark St. will complete a quarter century with Missouri Power & Light Co. on March 18. He joined MPL in 1946, served in Moberly and Mexico, became line foreman in 1968, and earned the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with two Bronze Stars in World War II. He is an assistant scout leader at the United Methodist Church.
Two Stephens College students were shot on the Boone County campus late Saturday. Larry Sombke, 24, a University of Missouri student from Springfield Ill, was wounded in a dorm lobby while delivering a pizza. Jean Royston, 21, of Kewanee, Ill, was hurt outside the dorm. Both remain in satisfactory condition after surgery. Police detained 18-year-old William Edward Petty of Columbia in connection with the incident. A responding officer witnessed Royston being shot and later pursued the assailant across the campus before shots were exchanged with no further injuries.
The American Medical Association presented a privately operated medicredit plan to a Senate health subcommittee. It would use a sliding income based federal contribution with private medicine in control. The plan estimates first year cost at 14.5 billion, with 122 Congress members endorsing it amid competing Nixon Kennedy Griffith proposals.
President Nixon wraps up a Bahamas Florida weekend and orders swift action to aid jobless migrant workers hit by crop failures in southern Florida. He will host Irish Prime Minister John Lynch at the White House for an Irish Evening on Tuesday and then attend Cabinet meetings before traveling to Lexington for Whitney Young Jr.'s funeral.
SWEETWATER Texas AP The 13th annual rattlesnake roundup ended with 3900 snakes snared and four men bitten. Snakes weighed 3702 pounds. Tommy Young and Bob Turner of San Angelo won the poundage contest with 678 pounds. Victory Harris and Lloyd Webb of Sweetwater caught the biggest rattler at 69 inches. Two bitten men remained hospitalized Sunday night.
In Brookfield and Milan Missouri over the weekend thieves stole about $22,000 of herbicides from Missouri Farmers Association plants. The Milan plant reported $12,000 missing, the Brookfield plant $10,000, with losses found Sunday per spokesmen.
Vernon T. Strange, 50, of Jefferson City, drowned Sunday when his boat capsized at Binder Lake just west of the city. Authorities from the Cole County sheriff's office reported the incident.
Hundreds of young people packed a downtown cafe to back Jane Fonda and costars Dick Gregory Donald Sutherland and Peter Boyle as the antiwar roadshow begins a 20 city slate. USSF weighs future plans this week while considering future stops and whether to extend the tour nationwide.
A 1971 Ledger report notes over 1,200 attendees watched an Airborne band performance at Waymarket Square Court House, with 400 seating capacity per fire rules. Many witnesses believed soldiers from nearby Ft. Bragg attended. The USSF sought Army approval to stage the show at Ft. Bragg, but Lt. Gen. John Tolson denied the request.
Ronald Brown 36, winner by lot in Macon for the third ward Republican nomination for City Council, was killed when a tractor overturned on him at 1:15 a.m. at Peabody Coal Co. mine near Macon. The ward race ended in a tie between Brown and Tom Litchfield, with the winner chosen by lot.
John Henry Tatum of Columbia was found dead Saturday night in a downtown alley. Coroner Richard Johnson said the cause was a personal safety related wound.
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