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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1972
Page
13
Official 7:00 am readings show highs to 75 and lows near 44 with 4.60 in normal May rainfall. Forecast calls for isolated showers tonight and Friday, low around 60, highs in low to mid 70s, 30 to 40 percent precip chance. Missouri outlook includes more rain Saturday, clearing Sunday, sunny Monday, temps mostly mid 40s to upper 80s.
Audrain Medical Center officials report admissions including Mrs Earl McGruder and several others, a birth to Mr and Mrs Joe P Mathews in Mexico at 10 21 am weighing 7 lbs 2 oz, and multiple discharges. Police notes record car damage and a window shooting at National Life Insurance office with other incident takes.
The Daily Record details a broken window at 116 W. Love St. Montgomery Ward warehouse with no entry found. A car stolen from Missouri Livestock Market Center in Vandiver Village was tracked to a white 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air with plate G4P314, with police and highway patrol notified. Fire calls report a smoldering refuse truck at 1707 S. Clark St. and a damaged lawnmower at 902 N. Kentucky St. Court notes list multiple fines, jail time, and bonds across city, magistrate, and Boone County Circuit Court, including drunk in public, speeding, negligent driving, and possession of stolen property charges.
Market report from Missouri Livestock Market Center and National Stockyards notes slaughter hogs rising 50 cents, US 1-2 200-245 pounds at 26.25 to 26.95, and various weight classes with gains. Cattle and calves show steady to higher bids. hog receipts estimate 4,000 at Missouri and 4,500 at National Stockyards. Grain futures mixed with soybeans around 3.36 and corn near 1.10.
Dale Anderson of Auxvasse is in satisfactory condition at Audrain Medical Center after injuries from a tractor accident yesterday.
In over the counter trading yesterday A B Chance 28 bid 28 asked Commerce Banc shares 48% bid 49% asked Wetterau 36% bid 36% asked. On the New York Stock Exchange Robbie Brooks closed at 11 unchanged 6100 shares traded Dresser Industries 35% up 4400 Interco 48% up 1900 Kaiser Aluminum 20% up 4 8200 Panhandle Eastern Pipeline 36% down Yn 6200 Ralston Purina 39 unchanged 31800 US Gypsum common 29% down 1 16800 US Gypsum preferred 35% up 900. NEW YORK AP Prices were moderately firm in today s stock market but trading pace repeated Wednesday s slow motion. The noon Dow 30 rose 4.13 to 935.20. Advancing issues held a modest lead over declining on the NYSE. The State Department declined comment as the Soviet Union demanded the U S cancel its steps to block the coast of North Vietnam. Brokers said the market waited for developments for direction. Trading on the American Stock Exchange was slow. Glamour stocks were mixed with the market. Block trades of 10 000 shares or more were scarce, signaling restraint by institutional investors.
Fred Storck 68 of River Aux Vases a retired teacher died yesterday while lunching after gardening. He was born July 4 1903 in Vandalia and taught at Swope New Michigan schools and led Waverly as principal and superintendent. He leaves wife Eleanor two sons Tom and Fred two daughters Mary and Cathy, siblings James Ora Hassien Etta Dowell and Marie Storck plus many relatives. funeral Saturday at River Aux Vases Catholic Church.
Mr and Mrs Donald Gene Talbott of Vandalia welcomed their first child a daughter born at 2 a m April 20 at Audrain Medical Center. The newborn weighed 3 pounds 7 ounces and was transferred to the University of Missouri Medical Center in Columbia for a period of observation. The infant remains in hospital with paternal grandparents Donald Talbott Route 3 Vandalia and maternal grandparents Alvin Peter Payson Ill.
Larry Gene Clark, 29, a former Fulton resident, was apprehended by the state highway patrol as the driver who knocked over an Interstate 70 sign near Kingdom City on April 23. A portion of the car remained at the scene, helping trace Clark, whose life was reportedly spared by the break-away sign.
Washington AP President Nixon may send Congress a sweeping tax reform bill this year including a value added tax says Treasury Secretary Connally He notes a basic fundamental proposal rather than loophole closures and warns a major reform bill is unlikely in a campaign year He mentions possible simplification of the tax structure and a property tax proposal The administration studies the VAT as a substitute for local property tax for schools but has no formal proposal He adds wage price controls could be ended by spring 1973 and unemployment may fall to 5 percent with inflation slowed by policy decisions.
The Soviet government pledges steadfast support to Vietnam and calls for peaceloving states to share the view, while noting continued aid and disarmament of North Vietnam. China condemns U S measures as impermissible but says the Vietnam question is not for the United Nations. Ambassador Huang Hua relays the stance to Waldheim and Bush.
Lt Randy Cunningham of Shelbina Missouri and Lt William Driscoll of Framingham Massachusetts became America’s first Vietnam War aces after downing three MIGs over North Vietnam. Their F 4 Phantom was hit by a surface to air missile and ditched in the Gulf of Tonkin. they were rescued by a helicopter and returned to the carrier Constellation in good condition.
Moonwalker Conrad, NASA astronaut Charles C. Conrad Jr., bailed from a Navy T38 jet near Bergstrom Air Force Base. He landed in a field two miles from the base, was taken for routine tests, and was reported okay. He was diverted en route to Ellington and is slated to command the 28 day Skylab mission next April.
Willie Mays joined the New York Mets in a trade that sent minor league pitcher Charlie Williams and undisclosed cash to the San Francisco Giants. The move brings Mays back to the city where he began as a New York Giant in 1951, with Matt Berra stating he would join the club on Sunday.
Bonn AP Willy Brandt and opposition leader Rainer Barzel scheduled new talks to patch an anti pact to ensure ratification of Brandt treaties with the Soviet Union and Poland The chancellor backed from a showdown vote to gain opposition support in a deadlocked parliament The treaties recognizing German territorial losses in World War II were near approval until Barzel withdrew CD backing and parliament postponed the vote to next Wednesday
Paris AP report confirms Queen Elizabeth III hopes to meet Mrs Charles de Gaulle during the upcoming visit to France, but Mrs de Gaulle declines. Informants say she thanked the queen and chose to remain in total retirement since her husband's death.
Mrs. Randall Cunningham, mother of Vietnam War ace Randy Cunningham, recalled how she fussed with her son over the war. He replied in a letter that he would keep doing his duty until it finishes. She learned his unit and radar officer were shot down but later confirmed their rescue after being contacted by a reporter.
Belfast AP report says IRA abducted a 15 year old Roman Catholic girl from her home for five days, tarred and feathered her for spying for Scotland Yard, then left her beside a lamppost after treating her. Police and troops reported clashes in Londonderry with four raiders injured, while a Belfast department store blast injured 25 and a transformer was blown in Dungiven amid ongoing clashes and public safety incidents.
Governor Hearnes signed eight bills this week, raising total signed to one hundred ten, including a line item veto. Measures require parent consent for patient transfers to licensed homes, empower health officials to hire admins for retarded schools, adjust blind pension eligibility, equalize working hours, regulate mail order insurance, raise prosecuting attorney pay in smaller counties, shorten teacher retirement salary base, and overhaul credit union supervision.
Personal News notes Tim Henry elected vice president and Phyllis Brown named song leader. Upcoming events include a grooming workshop June 19, Share-the-Fun June 15, and County Council May 20 at 1 30 at the 44H Center. Church services, baptisms, and club meetings are listed with dates and speakers.
President Nixon signed a proclamation raising oil import quotas by 230000 barrels daily for remaining 1972. The increase covers petroleum products from the Middle East, Latin America and Canada, reflecting shortfalls in domestic production to meet expected levels. Latin America and Middle East quotas rise from 965000 to 1165000 barrels per day.
Gov. Warren E. Hearnes praised late Gov. James T. Blair Jr. as the architect of Missouri bold new mental health approach during dedication events for the James T. Blair Medical Surgical Building at Farmington State Hospital. He cited Blair’s 16 year timeline since the Mental Health Commission’s creation in 1957 and noted the facility will house intensive programs for short term patients and reflect cost effective, improved care.
In Labadie Missouri an Union Electric Co lineman died after slipping from an 80 foot high tension line tower at the power plant in Jefferson County. He was working at the time on Wednesday.
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