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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1972
Page
11
Van-Far High School seniors are pictured with family members and share their future plans after graduation. The photo features the class of 1972 with students and their parents, highlighting post high school goals and aspirations.
Police in Osaka accuse a 36 year old workman Keji Kawashima of dropping a lit cigarette near a synthetic textiles display and touching off the seventh floor cabaret fire that killed 117 and injured many. He faced charges of extreme professional negligence as 170 more were trapped by smoke and a power outage.
In Philadelphia the University of Pennsylvania Museum will host a seven-doctor autopsy on an ancient Egyptian mummy to determine if cancer, hepatitis, syphilis, or air pollution were common 3,000 years ago. Dr. Martin Mandell notes the team aims to learn whether ancient humans died from the same diseases as today.
The Mexico ledger notes three ancient Egyptian mummies undergo X rays to identify the most informative for disease research. Pathologist Dr Michael Zimmerman explains a post mortem like a human autopsy will be performed, eight hours total, then wrapped and returned to its case. Dean Rusk will speak at Missouri Valley College's 83rd commencement May 20 at 7 30 p.m.
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