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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1976
Page
1
Paris R-2 voters rejected a 30 cent tax levy increase, 505 to 438, in a special election. Board of education meets to review budget impact. superintendent says no action yet on re submission. Current operating levy is 2.75, proposed total would have 3.80 including debt service, below regional averages.
Columbia Missouri AP report details drought reducing corn and soybean yields to their poorest in six years. 97 percent of cropland short of moisture. 95 to 100 percent for corn and soybeans. Heat quickened maturity. alfalfa third cut at 81 percent with poor yields. Sorghum about 20 percent mature three weeks early. Bronson and Siegel team for MGM spy thriller Telefon with Walter Wager novel adaptation.
State Lottery Director Gus Harrison announced a new instant lottery starting next Tuesday aimed at boosting turnout for the November 2 election. The top prize equals one dollar per vote for the winning presidential candidate in Michigan and is guaranteed at least 1.25 million dollars, the largest prize in Michigan lottery history.
Commerce Secretary Elliott Richardson will receive the 1976 Thomas Hart Benton Award from the Kansas City Art Institute. The honor, named for the late Kansas City artist, recognizes a living American whose life and values reflect Benton's ideals. Richardson was announced as the winner on Tuesday. last year’s recipient was John W. Gardner, founder of Common Cause.
Former Gulf Oil chief lobbyist Claude Wild Jr repudiated a report that he gave Senator Bob Dole $2000 in 1970 to pass to other Republican candidates. Dole denied receiving such funds in 1970 or 1973 and stated he had no recollection of a check or involvement with the funds. Wild apologized, citing confusion over a $2000 cash claim and a $2000 check, and said he made the remarks without proper records.
Supporters of the Humphrey Hawkins jobs bill push a revised measure through the House Education and Labor Committee while aiming for floor passage before adjournment. The watered-down plan lowers unemployment goals to adults only, delays public works programs, and limits government planning to public sector actions, with costs estimated between 8 and 30 billion dollars annually.
The Senate voted 46 to 25 to exclude Senators and House members from an automatic Oct 1 pay raise for federal workers. House action would also block raises for judges and top officials. the final outcome awaits a conference on the fiscal 1977 bill.
Willard Shaw Jr., 26, of Moberly, arraigned on capital murder in the strangling death of Laurene Garver, 59, whose body was found on a rural road after her home burned. Bond set at 250000. Shaw not pleaded. He faces burglary and kidnapping charges in Boone County and a preliminary hearing is planned for Sept. 21 in Moberly.
DES MOINES IOWA AP One beaver kept working through Labor Day gnawing a tree that fell across power lines in southern Des Moines cutting electricity to 600 homes. Power restored to most customers within an hour as city and utility crews cleared debris and repaired lines.
Soviet air force Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MIG 25 in northern Japan and seeks asylum in the United States. He is to depart for the US within a day or two if delays do not occur. U.S. experts and Japanese authorities study the jet while the Soviet Union demands return of pilot and aircraft. The White House notes the pilot would be welcomed if asylum is requested.
In Montgomery City two of six teenagers injured in the accident that killed Michael Dale Powell remain in critical condition at University Medical Center in Columbia. Marjorie B. Wessel and Melinda Schmidt are listed as critical, with Mary Wessel in satisfactory condition. Other patients include Ted Engleman and Sally Moore in satisfactory condition at Audrain Medical Center, and Charles A. Vincent who was released.
Jonesboro Arkansas mayor announces city auction of 1017 cans beer and 75 pints whiskey seized in a raid. Under state law the city must sell to wholesale or retail liquor distributors, though the teetotaler mayor would prefer disposal at a city dump.
In Soweto the eight block Mzimhlope hostel housing 11 000 Zulu bachelors was set ablaze with gasoline bombs by blacks from a large ghetto area. Two charred bodies were found as violence swelled across Cape Town and Johannesburg area. The unrest follows clashes two weeks earlier amid an antigovernment work boycott and escalating attacks between Zulus and black militants, with a growing toll of deaths and injuries.
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