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Newspaper

Mexico Ledger

Location

Mexico, Missouri, United States of America

Date

May 20, 1974

Page

7

Kissinger Near Breakthrough in Golan Talks

Damascus reports detail steps toward separating Israeli Syrian forces on the Golan Heights as Henry Kissinger arrives for talks. A buffer zone would be less than a mile to a little over a mile deep with Syrian policemen allowed into demilitarized towns along with civilians. The plan aims to thin armor behind the disengagement line and involve a UN contingent. Kissinger plans daily mediation shifts between Damascus and Jerusalem through Friday.

Damascus Syria Golan Heights Henry Kissinger Israel Jerusalem Kissinger United Nations Middle East Hafez Assad Abdel Halim Khaddam Golda Meir Robert Anderson State Department U.N Hermon

Health Insurance Need Nixon Says

President Nixon urged national health insurance to ensure financial access to high quality care as health costs rise. He welcomed rival bills, favored compromise within core principles, and criticized Democratic plans for heavy federal control. He noted 22 percent potential rise in physician fees without controls.

Key Biscayne, Fla Nixon Senate Finance Committee

Ivan Davis Dies During His Auction

Ivan A. Davis 74 of 516 N. Clark Jr. died on arrival at Audrain Medical Center after a heart attack at a household auction he and his wife held. Funeral set for Tuesday at Arnold Funeral Home with Rev. Arthur Griffin officiating. Burial at East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Ivan A. Davis N. Clark Jr Audrain Medical Center Arnold Funeral Home Arthur Griffin East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery Tracy Iowa Thurman B Deliah Atrim Davis Centralia Minnie Williams Davis Mexico Hardin Junior High School First Christian Church Modern Woodmen Kenneth Davis San Antonio Tex Charles Betty) Hayden Pine Bluff Ark Virgil Daisy) Williams Arnold Feval

Mexico High School biology class on Jacks Fork float trip

Twenty four current students and four alumni joined teacher Robert Ligon and coach James Valentik for a weekend canoe trip on Jacks Fork River at Alley Springs. The 14 boys and 14 girls camped Friday and Saturday, canoeed 17 miles Saturday morning, then returned Sunday after breakfast. The trip cost each student $13, food was prepared by the group, and it was Ligon’s fifth annual float expedition.

Mexico High School Jacks Fork Alley Springs Mexico Robert Ligon James Valentik

Tv Show To Recall 1881 Hospital First In County

A Channel 12 program reviews Audrain County history of the first organized hospital in 1881 on S Jefferson Street. Mrs. Ted Mayes researched the record, with updates from Woodrow Lee and coordinated by Miss Martha Tuepker. Todd Edward Etherton born at Audrain Medical Center weighs nine pounds five ounces at 2 23 a.m. Sunday. Grandparents Ruth Will, Orville Etherton, Mae James. Rev Larry Etherton serves as pastor of Union Baptist Church.

Channel 12 See Mexico S. Jefferson St Ted Mayes Audrain County Historical Society Monthly Woodrow Lee Audrain Medical Center Martha Tuepker Todd Edward Larry K. Etherton Annette Kenneth Robert Jimmy Ruth Will Mooresville Orville Etherton Chillicothe Mae James St. Joseph

Judge May Dismiss One Ehrlichman Case

A federal judge said the FBI plays cat and mouse with investigators and raised the possibility of dismissing one charge against former presidential aide John Ehrlichman in the White House Plumbers case. The question centers on whether Ehrlichman lied to the FBI about knowledge of the Pentagon Papers probe and the Ellsberg psychiatrist break‑in.

Washington FBI John D. Ehrlichman White House U.S Gerhard A. Gesell Ehrlichman Gesell Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg Chatinbenne Pentagon Elisberg Ehhrlichman Louis Fielding Beverly Hills Ellsberg Plumbers

Nixon calls on beach bottle found in Bahamas

President Nixon phoned Larry Metivier’s grandfather after a green bottle washed ashore on a Bahamas beach with a note from Larry, an airman apprentice in the Navy. The White House confirmed the call, praising Navy service and sending a message to Larry.

Key Biscayne Fla Bahamas Nixon U.S.S Guam White House Larry Metivier Ma ‘Anepo Norfolk Jacksonville Mene Larry William L. Staples Havertown Tadim Staples Navy

Future Of Park In Discussion Tuesday Night

Mexico Park Board chairman Don Decker says a public meeting at 7 30 p m Tuesday in City Hall will discuss steps for Fairgrounds Park improvements after the June 1973 bond failed to reach two thirds. Voter turnout produced 54 percent of 1 233 votes, defeating a $250 000 plan for phase I.

Fairgrounds Park City Hall Don Decker Mexico Federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation

Truck Traffic In Missouri Near Normal Amid Trucker Strike

Jefferson City AP reports state truck traffic returning to near normal as nationwide truckers shutdown enters its second week. Violence incidents have declined from midweek peak with three shootings in southern Missouri over the weekend. one man charged for threatening violence to a Missouri Petroleum Asphalt Co. employee.

Jefferson City Ernest van Winkle Missouri Highway Patrol Missouri Claudie G. Hill Poplar Bluff Missouri Petroleum Asphalt Co

Hearst hunted as SLA ally in California manhunt

Hundreds of lawmen hunted Patricia Hearst in Los Angeles amid a shattered Symbionese Liberation Army after six SLA members were killed in a weekend standoff and a deadly store gun attack. FBI officials said Hearst may have joined the group and warned of return fire if she opened fire on officers. Local landlady assault described. two black men sought as armed suspects. Formal charges to be filed against Hearst and the Harrises in Southern California.

Los Angeles Patricia Hearst Miss Hearst FBI William A. Sullivan SLA William Emily Harris Harrises Cinque Sullivan California Miss

Alleged Theft in Moose District Charged Eagle member

Phillip Lee Young of Centralia was arrested Friday afternoon on a charge of stealing more than 50 by deceit from District 3 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, with lodges in Mexico Canton Moberly and Hannibal. He is a member of Mexico Post 2880 and had served as district secretary treasurer from 1973 to 1974, during which time authorities say he embezzled and withdrew funds from the Eagles bank account for his own use, totaling about 850.

Phillip Lee Young Centralia Order of Eagles Mexico Canton Moberly Hannibal Young Mexico Post Eagles

Faces of the SLA Six: unlikely radicals and a prison escapee

Six individuals linked to the Symbionese Liberation Army are profiled as unlikely revolutionaries. A black escapee and five white radicals lived briefly together in a bungalow with guns and revolutionary talk before their bodies were found after a blaze. The group included Nancy Ling Perry, Angela Atwood, Willie Wolfe, Patricia Soltysik, and Camilla Hall, all with varied pasts from cheerleading to student teaching and honors. Their paths intersected while tutoring at Vacaville prison and with DeFreeze, the SLA’s founder, who remained jailed.

San Francisco Donald David DeFreeze Los Angeles Nancy Ling Perry Barry Goldwater Angela Atwood Indianapolis William ‘Willie’ Wolfe Patricia Monique Soltysik Camilla “Candy” Hall California Vacaville Black Cultural Association DeFreeze SLA Cinque

From Reforms to Radical: The Life of Donald DeFreeze

The eldest son of a Cleveland middle class family, Donald DeFreeze left school at 14 and spent two years in reform school before parole. He married in Newark and worked two jobs while admitting to stealing between jobs. After a pattern of arrests for weapons and a 1969 gun battle, he was sentenced to five to life, planned an escape, and later led SLA recruitment at Vacaville before his 1973 breakout.

Cleveland DeFreeze Newark N.J California New Jersey Vacaville Soledad SLA

Nancy Ling Perry a SLA chief theoretician Fahizah

Nancy Ling Perry once a Berkeley fruit juice vendor and Goldwater endorser transformed into a leftist activist. Born Santa Rosa California she was a high school cheerleader and class secretary who studied at Whittier and UC Berkeley. Married 1967 to Gilbert Scott Perry they separated after six years. She adopted the name Fahizah as SLA chief theoretician.

Nancy Perry Vacaville Berkeley Street Goldwater Santa Rosa Calif Whittier College University of California At Berkeley Gilbert Scott Perry SLA

Angela Atwood tied to SLA tape and LA shootout

Indiana University graduate Angela Atwood moved to Berkeley with husband Gary in 1972 and later lived with Indiana natives Emily and Bill Harris. The Harrises faced gun charges after a Thursday shootout at an Inglewood sporting goods store near Los Angeles. Atwood, linked to Joseph Remiro in a romance, vanished after Remiro’s Jan. 10 arrest in the Marcus Foster case.

Angela Atwood Genina Indiana University Berkeley Gary Inglewood Los Angeles Atwood Joseph Remiro Remiro Oakland Marcus Foster

Willie Wolfe Remains Apathy Figure At Mt Hermon

A Mt Hermon Academy student Willie Wolfe is described by a classmate as an apolitical underachiever who avoided rule breaking yet did not engage with political books. The narrative continues with his later attendance at UC Berkeley as the piece notes a continuation on page 2.

Willie” Wolfe Mt. Hermon Academy Northhampton Mass Willie Nicholas Monro Hermon Wolfe UC Berkeley

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