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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1972
Page
9
AP dispatch reports tightened U S limits around Hanoi following damage to three foreign missions. Vietnam battles continued with South Vietnamese troops retaking Xom Suoi as combat waned near Saigon and air strikes targeted northern districts.
Lon J. Levins 87 former Audrain County prosecuting attorney died yesterday in Rockford Illinois after a brief illness. Visitation at Precht Pickering Funeral Home 7 to 8 30 tonight with services at 10 a m tomorrow conducted by Rev Robert Collins burial at East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
A 45 year old mother Marian Merrigan and her husband plus two children were found shot to death in their Nodaway County farm home near Maryville Missouri. A 15 year old youth was detained on suspicion and turned over to juvenile authorities. Autopsies planned in St Joseph.
Missouri governor candidates Democrat Edward Dowd and Republican Kit Bond debated before the Missouri Bar Association in St. Louis. Both opposed state aid to nonpublic schools and discussed insurance reform and government change, with Dowd opposing no fault auto insurance and Bond urging private donations to aid schools.
Seventeen Audrain County Historical Society members visited the Chatillon DeMenil House in south St. Louis with a police escort greeting. Esther Lee Bride, a longtime St. Louis resident and former Mexican home economist, appeared as a total surprise welcome guest amid a buffet lunch on the patio and gazebo. The tour party included leaders and members such as Mrs. Lawrence M. Barnes, Mrs. J. Earle Moore, Mrs. Charles Arnold, and others.
The NFL will televise Super Bowl VII locally in Los Angeles if all tickets are sold at least 10 days before kickoff on January 14. Congressional leaders have pressed for lifting blackouts when games are not sold out in advance, prompting Rozelle to submit the LA plan to Pastore and Staggers.
A contractor asks the doctor for a straight opinion and receives a blunt reply. The doctor says if the contractor were a building he would be condemned, delivering the humorous verdict in plain terms.
Henry Kissinger left Paris to return to the White House to report on peace talks with North Vietnam. White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler declined to comment on contents but said Nixon would receive daily and oral briefings, with a breakfast meeting set for Friday with Kissinger and Secretary Rogers.
The Senate shelved the House passed antibusing measure after a third failed attempt to break the filibuster. By 59 to 26, leaders chose to lay the bill aside and move to a general appropriation bill. President Nixon urged action before adjournment. The bill would limit desegregation busing to the second closest school.
In Hannibal Missouri Tricia Nixon Cox will speak briefly Friday during ceremonies at Mark Twain’s boyhood home to dedicate an eight cent stamp recalling Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn adventures. The Delta Queen paddle steamer will be tied up for the event and Captain Earnest Wagner will accept mail for first day issue posting aboard the ship. The stamp will be sold at post offices outside Hannibal starting Saturday and reproduces Norman Rockwell’s painting of the fence painting episode from his Tom Sawyer series.
The Bloodmobile will collect 12 noon to 4 45 p m tomorrow at Kaiser Refractories and Methodist Church basement. Audrain County must reach 113 units daily to maintain the Missouri Illinois district supply, with current shortfalls of 72 units O positive and 34 units O negative. The district averages 588 units daily across all types. appointments with Mrs. Ralph Johnson at 81 5433 or 581 4791 are encouraged, walk ins also needed.
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