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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1970
Page
10
A collage of reader tips on cheesecake flavoring substitutions and crust ideas, glue cap reuse, baby blanket safety, stuffing retention, humorous letter jokes, and repurposing plastic bottles as salt and pepper shakers. Readers share practical hack suggestions and light humor.
American Motors Corp. posted a net loss of 56.6 million dollars for its year ending September 30, compared with a 4.9 million dollar profit the prior year. The quarter ended with a 16.4 million dollar loss, and sales reached about 1.1 billion dollars versus 737.4 million the previous year, including cars, Jeeps, and government contract deliveries.
Four armed robbers tied up four store employees at the Riley House of Television in Kansas City Monday night. They loaded eight to 10 color television sets into the delivery truck and fled with an undetermined amount of cash and four guns kept in the shop for protection.
Presidential daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower reportedly calls Spiro Agnew the greatest while saying Martha Mitchell’s views do not represent the administration. She also criticizes calls to drop Agnew from the 1972 ticket as the press pushing the party to part with him.
The Agriculture Department reports a shift from government price support loans to cash markets for the 1970 wheat crop. As of Nov. 1 farmers had 153 million bushels under loan, down from 316.3 million a year earlier, with 60 million of the initially placed 213 million redeemed. The USDA price average last month was $1.43 per bushel, up from $1.28, while the normal loan rate for farm stored wheat remains $1.25 per bushel.
Former Poplar Bluff athlete Bruce Holloway, 20, received a three year prison term from Stoddard County Circuit Judge William H. Billings after violating probation by leaving the country and traveling to Europe following prior marijuana possession convictions. He had been placed on probation last spring.
Springfield native Captain Robert G. Lee tells AP he will leave the Army in January saying the service treats soldiers as guilty until proven innocent. He returned from Vietnam in February and faced charges in a Vietnamese civilian slaying and wounding, later dropped, before being named chief at the U S Army Infantry School at Fort Benning.
A fragmented crossword puzzle list appears with clues and partial letters. Entries include Across clues such as keonomize, Rich men, S-shaped, Lobster claw molding, Handsome man, Parson bird, Rodents, Vast amount, Silver king, Warbler, Relatives, Kind of dance, Bee of, Police organization, Fish's propeller, Consumed, Simple sugar, Scholar, Important, White kite, Oriental, Ordinary dwelling, French mer, Verge, Response. The text also shows stray letters and garbled segments ending with mid AP News Lectures.
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