Weather and regional forecasts for Missouri and Kansas City
Official 7:00 a.m. reading notes last 24 hours high 71 low 53 with 60 at observation. May rainfall to date 4.00 in, year 0.19 in. Forecast: zone 6 sees occasional rain and thundershowers tonight and Saturday with a 60 percent chance of measurable rain. tonight low mid to upper 50s, Saturday highs lower to mid 70s. Missouri west sections expect rain today into Saturday, little temp change. lows 54–62, highs in 70s. Extended outlook Sunday-Tuesday: rain ends Sunday, possible again Tuesday, temps vary little. River stages: Kansas City 105 D, Boonville 16.7 D, Jefferson City 176 D, Hermann 17.2 D, Hannibal 17.5 U, St. Louis 24.3 D, Cape Girardeau 29.9 U, Quincy 29.9 U. Hospital admissions include multiple patients from Mexico, Jonesburg, Fulton, Rhineland, Wellsville, Laurel, St. Louis, Centralia, Vandalia, Columbia, and Sturgeon. newborn daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. James M. Reams of Centralia at 5:11 p.m. weighing 7 lbs 1 oz.
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Missouri
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Boonville
Jefferson City
Hermann
Hannibal
Cape Girardeau
Quincy
Audrain Medical Center
George F. Lierheimer
John R. Leonard
Dwight H. Schindler
Phil Dean
Aaron C. Littrell
Allen J. Carriere
Fred L. Batty
Mexico
Robert W. Skinner
Jonesburg
Sherri B. Charlton
Fulton
Sidney E. Muehl
Rhineland
Melody G. Wright
Wellsville
Ivy Estle Scholl
Laurel O. Otto
Willie Garrett
Centralia
Reams
MFA Exchange
Police Reports and Crashes Across Several Counties
A sequence of traffic crashes and police notices from multiple counties. Vehicles collided at W Monroe and N Clark Sts injuring none. Vandalia youths injured near Van-Far High School and others cited for careless driving. Public notices list marriages, deaths, and court actions while livestock and grain markets report prices and receipts.
Suit Filed Over Party Meetings in Kansas City Wards
A civil rights suit was filed in U5 District Court challenging the constitutionality of how Democratic meetings were conducted on April 18 in five Kansas City wards and one Jackson County township. The petition was filed by Irving Achtenberg for nine Kansas City Democrats.
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Kansas City
Jackson County
District Court
Irving Achtenberg
Kansas
Protests Across Ohio Wisconsin and California Quiet Amid Unrest
Reactions continue as protesters clash and barricades appear on campuses from Madison to Minneapolis. Ohio reports 40 to 45 arrests while Wisconsin and Minnesota rallies draw thousands. University of California Berkeley and UCLA see sporadic clashes and arrests. Santa Barbara hosts a peaceful candlelight vigil with no injuries.
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Ohio
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Eugene J. McCarthy
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
Washington Avenue
University of California At Berkeley
People’s Park
Los Angeles
Bsl Walton
UCLA
University
Santa Barbara
Stock Market Report and NYSE Gains on Mixed Trading
Over the counter bids show A B Chance 20 28 percent and Commerce Bathshares 48 49 while Wetterau 36 bid 30 asked. On the NYSE Bobble Brooks 11 unchanged with 0000 shares traded. Dow Jones noon index up 6.40 to 941.23 as blue chips and glamour stocks rise amid easing investor anxiety over international tensions.
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A. B. Chance
Commerce Bathshares
Wetterau
New York Stock Exchange
Bobble Brooks
Dresser Industries
Interco
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
NEW York (Ap
Shelbina Ace Tells About Bagging MIGs
SAIGON AP report on Vietnam War aces Randy Cunningham of Shelbina Missouri and radar operator William Driscoll of Framingham Massachusetts who shot down three North Vietnamese MIGs over Hanoi. They described dogfights with multiple MIGs, the formation of aces, and the dangers of aerial combat while flying an F4 Phantom from the carrier Constellation.
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Saigon
Hanoi
Randy Cunningham
Shelbina
Cunningham
J.g
William Driscoll
Framingham
Mass
Constellation
Red River Valley
I'ming
Driscoll
Orr
James M. Scholl Dies at 87 in Centralia Rites Sunday
James Milton Scholl, 87, of Centralia, died at Campbell House nursing home. Born August 11, 187? in Callaway County, he ranched in North Dakota and served as McHenry County sheriff for four years before returning to Centralia 27 years ago. Survived by son Glen Lee Scholl of Tacoma and daughter Genevieve Barnthouse of Columbia, seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at 2 p.m. in Fenton Funeral Chapel with Rev. Thomas Adams officiating. Burial Hickory Grove Cemetery. Visitation starts Saturday at 2 p.m.
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Centralia
James Milton Scholl
Centralla
Campbell House
Callaway County
Joseph and
Jennie Lee Harris Scholl
Mr. Scholl
North Dakota
McHenry County
Carrie F. Chrisman
Denbigh
N. C
Presbyterian Church
Masonic Lodge
Towner
Glen Lee Scholl
Tacoma
Wash
Lyle
Genevieve) Barnthouse
Columbia
Rex Bundy
Vietnam
Fenton
Thomas Adams
United Methodist Church of
Hickory Grove
Visitation
Funeral Home
John Kirk Dies Of Heart Attack
John Kirk, son-in-law of Mr and Mrs J E Stroble of Mexico, died suddenly Thursday of a heart attack at his Memphis Tennessee home. He is survived by his wife Betty Ann and one son John Christopher. Funeral services will be held Saturday at Collierville Tennessee. Mes Stroble is in Audrain Medical Center recovering from a recent operation.
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John Kirk
J.E. Stroble
Mexico
Memphis
Mrs. Schaedlich Rites on Sunday
Mrs. Irma Schaedlich age 75 of Bowling Green died yesterday at Pike County Hospital in Louisiana. Funeral services are set for 3 p m Sunday at Indian Creek Baptist Church led by Rev. Ron Davis. Burial follows at Indian Creek Cemetery with Kirks funeral home in charge. She was born in Illinois and married to the late William Schaedlich. She moved to Bowling Green 20 years ago. Survived by a son Wilbur of Cleveland Ohio and a daughter Mrs Ted Hazel of St Louis plus five grandchildren and two great grandchildren, including Mrs Kenneth Cobb of Vandalia.
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Vandalia
Irma Schaedlich
Bowling Green
Pike County Hospital
Louisiana
Indian Creek Baptist Church
Ron Davis
Indian Creek
Kirks
Schaedlich
Illinois
William Schaedlich
Wilbur
Cleveland
Ohio
Ted Hazel
St. Louis
Kenneth Cobb
Vandalla
Mrs. Dan Tillitt of Shelbina Dies at 94
Mrs. Dan Tillitt of Shelbina, 94, died Thursday in a Moberly rest home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hayes Funeral Home in Shelbina with burial in Shelbina Cemetery. Born in Paris on March 21, 1878, she was daughter of Charles and Mary Sparks Hanger and widow of Dan Tillitt who died about 30 years ago. She belonged to the Shelbina Methodist Church and is survived by a brother Emmett Hanger of Shelbina, two nephews Om and Charles Callis of Paris, and a niece Mrs. Russell Johnson of near Paris.
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Paris
Dan Tillitt
Shelbina
Moberly
Hayes Funeral
Tillitt
Charles
Mary Sparks Hanger
Emmett Hanger
Charles Callis
Russell Johnson
Street improvements span nearly five miles in city grid
The project covers streets from Streets St to Jefferson St and Western St north to Highway 15 dead end, Curtis St from Highway 22 to Wade St, Wade St to Robinson St, Anderson St to Grand St, Cauthorn St to Promenade St, Elmwood Dr to Florsheim plant concrete, Lakeview Dr and Lakeview Hd, Hen dricks St, Fairground St, Vine St, and Coal St from Central St to Lafayette St, totaling about five miles of paving and curb work.
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South City
Fairground
Park South
Vine St
Western St
Johnson St
Coal St
Central St
Lafayette St
Minesweeper at St Louis Liberated by Antiwar Protestors
Ten antiwar demonstrators boarded four former Navy minesweepers moored along the Mississippi riverfront near the Gateway Arch and renamed one vessel the Peoples Ship Binh Hoa to aid North Vietnam’s harbor clearance efforts. Police remained distant as owner refused to close the boat. a bystander looked to cut the flag but access blocked.
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Louis
Misassaippi
United States
St. Louis
Peoples
Binh Hoa
Navy
National Office of the
Vietnam Veterans
Gateway Arch
Robert O’brien
O'Brien
Pacific
James Walsh
Kansas City
Walsh
Juvenile Court Services
Planes Cut Hanoi Rail Line To China
American fighter bombers cut Hanoi’s main northeast rail line to China during raids deep in North Vietnam northeast of Hanoi. Lt. Col. John P. O’Gorman said the bridge hit was solid with multiple concrete buttresses and remained undamaged by intercepting MiGs. The mission, reported successful, followed Nixon orders to choke North Vietnam’s supply routes. a second rail link to China remained targetable but intact.
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DA Nang
Vietnam
Hanoi
China
John P. O'Gorman
St. Louis
North Vietnam
O'Gorman
Northwest
Nixon
Lynch Sees Vote as Mandate for Ireland's EU Move
In Dublin Prime Minister Jack Lynch frames the landslide referendum result as a mandate after 1,036,090 yes to 211,908 no on joining the European Economic Community. He says the vote strengthens his position against the Irish Republican Army as guerrillas vow to continue fighting in Northern Ireland.
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Dublin
Jack Lynch
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Lynch
Ireland
Britain
Dean Rusk elected to at large Davidson College board
Former secretary of state Dean Rusk was chosen as an at large trustee at Davidson College. A correction notes an error in Thursday Ledger advertising for The Fabric Place where the price for Men's Polyester Wash N Wear should read yard 1.00 instead of the previously printed figure.
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Davidson
N.C
Dean Rusk
Davidson College
Senate Keeps Space Shuttle Plan Despite amendment defeat
The Senate rejected Mondale's bid to cut 227.9 million from NASA funding and approved a 3.42 billion authorization for the space agency. The measure funds final lunar landing and other projects while preserving the reusable shuttle program.
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Washington
Senate
Walter Mondale
D-Minn
Eagleton
Symington, Mo
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mondale
NASA
Earth
Missouri winter wheat forecast drops 1972 output
The Missouri Agriculture Department forecast a 1972 winter wheat crop of 1,149,064,000 bushels, down 1 percent from 1971 and 11 percent from last December's initial estimate. Factors include new farm program curbs drought and freeze damage. Based on May 1 field conditions, harvest is set for 62.4 percent of planted acreage, the lowest since 1963, with 37,050,000 bushels produced versus 34,344,000 in 1971.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Crop Reporting Board
Missouri
Muny Special Week Opens With Star-Studded Lineup
Dinah Shore Pearl Bailey Sonny and Cher Jim Nabors and The Carpenters will headline a special week starting July 10 as the Municipal Opera begins its 54th season in Forest Park. The July 3 opener features Folies Bergere, with Virsky Ukrainian Dancers and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Also on tap are Anything Goes The Student Prince and The Sound of Music.
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ST. Louis
Dinah Shore
Pearl Bailey
Sonny and Cher
Jim Nabors
The
Carpenters
Municipal Opera
Opera
Forest Park
Municipal Theater Association
Virsky
Walt Disney
Cole Porter
Sigmund Romberg
Prince
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Welfare Payments Rise in April in Missouri
Missouri Department reports April totals for welfare programs show ADC grants reaching 62,765 families, up 603 from March with $6.704 million paid, average per family $106.82. Permanently and totally disabled totals rose to 22,618 recipients with $1.752 million in payments, average $78.22, up $3.19. Old age assistance saw 96,786 recipients with $7.093 million paid, average $75.91, down 251 and $15,977 respectively.
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Jefferson City
Missour Department of Health and Welfare
Missouri
OOA
Three Bodies Found After Ship Collision In Plate River
Montevideo AP reports three charred bodies found aboard the refrigerator ship Royston Grange after a collision with the tanker Trenchee in the Plate River estuary. Little or no hope remained for 80 missing crewmen passengers and a pilot feared trapped by the fire.
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Montevideo
Plate River
Royston Grange
Trenchee
Hanoi Bound Ships May Go To China
The Pentagon reported that several merchant ships headed for North Vietnamese ports may have diverted to Chinese ports or shifted routes after the mine blockade. Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim said only that “several other ships” may have diverted, with two or three additional vessels leaving Haiphong before mines activated. Soviet flagged ships accounted for thirteen of the group of 25.
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Washington
Pentagon
North Vietnam
Jerry W. Friedheim
U.S
Friedheim
Haiphong Harbor
Two Girls Win Prizes For Writing
Two Mexican American third graders Valerie Stevens and Susan Hodge won honorable mention in a national creative writing contest. They study under Mrs. Jean Mollet at McMillan School and will receive autographed copies of Ruth and Latrobe Carrolls Danny and the Poi Pup From the Appalachians, while the school library gets Old Mrs. Billups and the Black Cats and the Appalachian portfolio. The contest drew 6000 entries from 49 states with three top prizes and 100 honorable mentions awarded, per Henry Z Walck Inc publishers.
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Little Mexico
Valerie Stevens
Susan Hodge
Jean Mollet
McMillan School
Ruth and Latrobe Carrolls
Danny
Billups
Henry Z. Walck, Inc
Susan
Ed Hodge
Valerie
Robert Paul Stevens
Frankfurt Bomb Kills Lt Colonel in Army HQ Blast
The U S Army reports no clear suspect in the Frankfurt headquarters bombing that killed Lt Col Paul A Bloomquist, 39, of Salt Lake City and injured 13 others. Police say a Vietnam protest may be connected though no direct link is confirmed. A tour group was nearby when the three bombs struck, one collapsing the ceiling between two officer club floors.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U.S. Army
U.S
Vietnam
Ted Bloyd
Houston
Tex
Knut Mueller
Communist Party
Army
Paul A. Bloomquist
Salt Lake City
Utah
Texas flood devastates New Braunfels homes and cars
A 96 minute cloudburst sent a wall of water through New Braunfels Texas washing away homes and cars. Eight people drowned and 20 to 25 were unaccounted for as 3,000 residents fled rising waters from the Comal and Guadalupe rivers. Governor Preston Smith ordered National Guard to evacuate families in New Braunfels San Marcos and Seguin. The main business district remained largely undamaged while the floodfront tore through residential areas.
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New Braunfels
Tex
Royce Couch
Comal
Guadalupe
Texas Public Safety Department
Walter Fellers
San Antonio
Austin
Preston Smith
National Guard
San Marcos
Seguin
Tom Claxton
Evacuations Rise as Threats Mount Around Hanoi
Vietnam report notes widespread evacuation of Hanoi residents due to fear of renewed U S air strikes on the Hanoi Haiphong region. Canadian ICC delegation and Jackson describe limited activity and cautious movement. North Vietnamese charges accuse strikes on residential districts with civilian casualties.
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Jackson
ICC
Hanoi
South Vietnam
United States
Hanoi-Haiphong
U.S. Command
Nhan Dan
Demilitarized Zone
Hi Way R 3 Menus May 15 19 Week
Hi Way Red Elementary School announces weekly meals for May 15 19 county menu includes Monday items such as steamed wiener peanut butter and jelly macaroni and cheese buttered green beans yellow cake and hamburger. Wednesday features goulat hot wheat bread whipped potatoes lettuce tomato apple sauce. Thursday offers buttered corn fresh fruit graham crackers. Friday serves fish sticks slaw corn bread butter mashed potatoes fruit.
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Hl-Way
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