Weather and Local Reports from Ledgerland Missouri and Nearby
Official 7:00 a.m. readings show a high of 68 and a low of 54 in the last 24 hours. Forecasts call for showers ending tonight with colder air, Sunday sun and highs in the 40s, plus a Missouri extension of showers midweek with cooler highs in the 40s to 60s. Local hospital notices list admissions, births, and dismissals including Mrs J Frank Powell and Charles Henry Brune, with multiple towns named Mexico Centralia Vandalia Wellsville Perry Perry. Deaths reported include Charles Brune and Mrs Jesse Curry along with Mary Ellen Haiducek.
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Missouri
Charles Henry Brune
Jesse Curry
Mary Ellen Haiducek
Fire calls and minor accidents reported in Audrain county
Firemen responded to trash fire at Carroll Motor Co and grass blaze along Highway 54. both caused no damage. Public safety notes include two minor vehicle accidents with few injuries, several traffic summonses, and a magistrate court docket with guilty pleas and fines. Market updates show mixed stock activity, including Robbie Brooks and major securities list.
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Carroll Motor Co
Audrain County Rural Fire Association
Highway 54
Mexico
Audrain-Callaway County
Audrain County
Fire Association
Randy J. Stegeman
S. Fairground
Mary
Groves
Jefferson
Wade
Robinson
Cruzan
Gerald Ritzi
Columbia
Aaron Light
Howell Manor
Highway Patrol
Leslie Runde
Gerald Alexander
Runde
Alexander
Vivian Schwendker
Wellsville
Highway
Homemakers Flunk Safety In Stuffing For Turkey
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department warns that stuffing a turkey risks salmonella poisoning. A home survey shows many homemakers fail safety tests. stuffing should be cooked separately or thoroughly to 165 degrees.
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Turkey
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Three Held For Carthage Killing
Three Carthage men were held early today on charges of first degree murder kidnapping and aggravated robbery in the killing of James Stemmons liquor store owner whose body was found after a Friday morning discovery. About 20 officers under Sheriff Joe Hart investigated nonstop with the Tri-State Major Case Squad aiding the case.
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Carthage
James Stemmons
Don Richardson
Highway Patrol
Tri-State
Joe Hart
Stemmons
Auto layoffs push total to 178000 workers out
The auto industry cut more than 50,000 jobs and the Pentagon announced a 11600 civilian layoff at military sites. Two largest steel producers also announced belt tightening amid a coal strike. Ford said 32474 workers will be idled one to five weeks between Thanksgiving and March 1.
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Pentagon
Ford Motor Co
Charles H. Brune dies at 82 in Montgomery City
Charles Henry Brune, 82, of Montgomery City, died at Audrain Medical Center in Mexico. A retired dental supply sales manager, he served 47 years with the company. Services at Schlanker Funeral Home Monday at 2 p.m. Reverend Thomas Smith officiating. Interment Middletown Cemetery. Survived by wife Lee Flower, a niece LaVerne Dubel, and two nephews William Brune and Charles Godejohn. Moved from Florissant to Montgomery City June 1. WWI veteran.
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Montgomery City
Charles Henry Brune
Audrain Medical Center
Mexico
Schlanker
Thomas Smith
Middletown
Mr. Brune
St. Louis
Charles
Louisa Leik Brune
Lee Flower
LaVerne Dubel
Florissant
William J. Brune
Des Moines
Charles Godejohn
Alabama
Brunes
Brune
Evangelical Church
Perry Spurs Burial At Elmwood Cemetery
Funeral services for Perry Spurs were held Friday at Ward Chapel AME Church with the Rev. William Duncan officiating. Burial was in Elmwood Cemetery. Organist Mrs. C. A. Trotter and pallbearers Curtis Kelly George Harvey Taylor Curtis Walter Hayes W C Cooper and Clifford Moore were listed.
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Perry Spurs
Ward Chapel Ame
William Duncan
Elmwood Cemetery
C. A. Trotter
Curtis Kelly
George Harvey
Taylor Curtis
Walter Hayes
W.C. Cooper
Clifford Moore
Haiducek Rites At Perry
Mrs. Mary Ellen Haiducek of Perry Missouri died Tuesday November 19 born November 9 1898 in Moline Illinois She was a member of St Williams Catholic Church Perry Survivors include husband Frank several daughters sons sisters and twenty seven grandchildren Funeral services were held at St Williams Church Perry with burial in Laddonia Cemetery
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Perry
Mary Ellen Haiducek
Moline
Ill
St. Williams Catholic Church
Frank
Harold
Mary) Leake
Rt. 5
Fulton
Steve
Elizabeth) Sullivan
Douglas
Roberta) Morris
Dallas
Texas
Richard
Alberta) Lawson
St. Louis
Towny (Rose) Tully
Bloomington, Il
Raymond
Teresa) Waldkamp
Dorothy Haiducek
Quincy, Jr
Joe Haiducek
Laddonia
C C Seals 84 Dies in Arkansas
C C Seals 84 father of Mexico High School football coach Arthur Seals died Friday morning in a Springdale Arkansas hospital where he lived. He was a retired farmer. Funeral services are expected in Springdale Monday. Seals leaves six children nineteen grandchildren including Ronald and Richard of Mexico and ten great grandchildren.
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C. C. Seals
Mexico
Arthur Seals
Springdale
Ark
Mr. Seals
Ronald
Richard
Ralph Smith Named To Alan Woods Job
Jeff MO AP Ralph N. Smith a organizer with the Missouri Association of Counties is named assistant to Gov Bond to liaison with counties local governments and the state Senate Smith a Republican Senate candidate who lost to succeed retiring Senator Don Owens will succeed Alan Woods starting January 1.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Association of Counties
Christopher S. Bond
Senate
Bond
Ralph N. Smith
Don Owens
Gerald
Alan Woods
Waitress Refuses WIN Button Over Principles
Dee Wilson, 18, says she lost her waitress job for refusing to wear a WIN button, stating she does not support either major party. She picketed Longfellow's Restaurant for over an hour as fellow employees wore WIN buttons. Management comment unavailable.
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Philadelhia
Dee Wilson
Miss Wilson
Ford
TVA Plans Quotas On Electricity In Coal Emergency
TVA will announce a 20 percent rate increase and a quota system to limit electricity use by customer class. The plan, to be shared with 160 distributors in Chattanooga, aims to cope with a severe coal shortage caused by the United Mine Workers strike, which has drained TVA stockpiles by about 300000 tons since November 12.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Chattanooga
United Mine Workers
Mrs Straube Shows Crafts For Holidays At Mexico Optimist Club
Mrs Linda Straube owner of Home Maid Shop demonstrated easy inexpensive crafts for Thanksgiving and Christmas at the Mexico Optimist Club meeting at The Monterey. Dave Kemp president thanked members who helped decorate downtown. A series of board and committee meetings were announced with holiday plans including a Christmas book review and a $1 gift exchange.
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Linda Straube
Mexico
Monterey
Straube
Dave Kemp
Kemp
Pauline Nichols
Curtis St
Howard Richards
R. R. Carter
A. A. Scott
Mrs. Kemp
Youth Loses Hand In Bombing Plot
In Lemay Missouri a contractor William Baldwin aged 65 and three youths including a 15 year old were arrested after a plan to bomb a DeSoto house misfired. The blast injured a youth by losing most of his hand while another recipient required amputation. All four face bombing and attempted bombing charges.
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St, Louis
Lemay, Mo
William Baldwin
John Daniel Placher
Affton
Billy Ray Maxwell
Baldwin
DeSoto
Maxwell
Placher
St. Louis
Virginia Wilson
Trucker Killed In Tractor Collision near Palmyra
Jerome D. Lapolice 32 of Clyde Kansas died Friday afternoon when his truck collided with a farm tractor a mile south of Palmyra on U S 61. The crash site was reported by AP and details list the vehicle types and location.
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Palmyra, Mo
Jerome D. Lapolice
Clyde, Kan
Palmyra
U.S. 61
Harold Berrey Acquitted In 2 Day Trial
Harold E. Berrey was found not guilty by an eight women eleven men jury in Audrain County Circuit Court after a two day trial. The case involved an alleged strike against Mexico Public Safety Officer Bill Taylor at the Mexico city jail following a public intoxication arrest.
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Audrain County
Harold E. Berrey
Ed Erdel
Ronald W. Hudson
Robert Miller
Ray Wayne Simcoe
Harold Holsheiser
Roy Guile
W. L. Collens
David Lewis Miller
Vanessa
Mr. Berrey
Wanda Lou
Ed Hodge
Bill Taylor
Mexico
Callaway County
Berrey
Vernon Schneider
Ralph Edward Bertels
Ronald Lucas
Richard Wayne Patrick
Robert Greene
Cavett Plans Move to New Network After ABC Exit
New York AP reports late night host Dick Cavett will leave ABC when his contract ends December 31. He did not name the new network or provide a reason for the switch.
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New York
Dick Cavett
ABC
Cavett
Community chest nears goal as Drive reaches 84 percent
The Mexico area Community Chest reports $46,161 raised, 84 percent of its $55,000 goal. Northeast area led by Ken Wyatt hits 101 percent at $707 and Northwest area led by Stan Erdel reaches 106 percent at $846. Three firms Kline's Department Store Citizens Savings Association and First National Bank contributed strongly with full employee participation. Don Dempski urges a final push to surpass last year and hit the all time high goal.
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Mexico Area
Orvie Nix
Drive
Northeast
Ken Wyatt
Stan Erdel
Kline
Citizens Savings Association
First
Wing Flaps Cause 747 Crash at Nairobi Airport
Frankfurt based AP reports Lufthansa says faulty wing flap positioning caused the Boeing 747 crash at Nairobi airport. The disaster left 59 dead and 98 aboard, with 20 survivors hospitalized.
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Frankfurt
West Germany
Lufthansa
Nairobi
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J. Frank Powell
Elva L. Gibbs
Glen Atchison
Robert Williams
Wallace Spurling
Thomson
William C. Dunn
Centralia
Henry Holt
Terry Weir
Louis Lovell
Vandalia
Wilford
Tomi Claywell
Lawrence Puntney
Walter Moore
Terry Seiger
Kenneth Young
Dena Minnick
Roy Althiser
Donald Alverson
William Fountain
Alfred Durham
Lewis Foster
Robert Phillips
Robert Tribble
Dakota Stevens
Robert Dunlap
Forrest Brown
Auxvase
Melbern Haislip
Chantell Jones
Floyd Welch
Vernon Love
Richard Townsend
Dwight Thies
Rebecca Rasmussen
Iowa
Jimmy Hurst
Santa Fe
Oscar Maddox
Charles Brune
Monte Dunnery City
the Daily Record
John William Salmons
Edwards
Seigfreid
Runge
Hodge
Melvin William Coester
Coester
van Matre
Donald Ray Majors
Daniel B. Howe
Michael Keith Lambert
Richard Oscar Cassidy
Herschel Eugene Megown
Ronald L. Flowers
Karl Eugene Hall
Commerce Bancshares
Wetterau
New York Stock Exchange
Robbie Brooks
A.B. Chance
Downs
Combustion Engineering
Dresser Industries
Interco
Kaiser Aluminum
Panhandle Eastern Pipeline
Ralston Purina
US Gypsum
Wal-Mart
Gray
Slater and Fowles
Sun
C. H. Brune
Montgomery
Elmwood
Arkansas
Ralph Smith
Chen’s Cove
Chen's
Katherine Sue
Chen's Cove Pre
Liberty
Mrs. Straube
Happa- Carbera-Sagitarus
Paramount Phyras
White
Onggih
SAT
Columbia Pictures
Spelling Goldberg
Robert Altman
George Segal
Elliott Gould
California
Joseph Walsh
Padua
Panavision
Povsky
Harold Berrey
Community oNee
Cass
Babe
Smitty
Hiway
Kelly People
Kelly
Kelly's
Carpet City
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