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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1972
Page
1
Audrain Medical Center reported admissions including Paul Reinerd and Mrs. Beamer among many others in Mexico. Police note arson inquiry at Blue Room, with break in details and a soda machine incident. Highway Patrol covers two crashes near Mexico with minimal injuries. court actions include divorces, speeding fines, and arraignments across circuits.
The West German government pledges a crackdown on resident Arabs amid threats from Black September after the Olympic bloodbath. In the Middle East, Israeli aircraft down three Syrian bombers over the Golan Heights and claim to sink an Arab guerrilla boat. Syrians report two Israeli planes lost. Hoffa may still go to Hanoi for POW talks despite a revoked passport. Proxmire cites four Air Force sergeants accusing officials of involvement in an accidental Cambodian bombing. Americans lose 1,800 meters as two teammates barred for insulting the anthem. Rick Dement ordered to return his gold medal for asthma medication. Viet Cong sapper raid hits a Da Nang refugee camp. 20 dead, 94 wounded, 200 homeless. Watergate inquiry ends with no current officials implicated. grand jury likely indictments against those involved in the Democratic National headquarters break-in.
LeRoy Grimmett of Vandalia was found dead at his home this morning. Audrain County Sheriff Harold Sulgrove, acting as coroner, was called to the scene. He was a brother of Mrs. Juanita Cannon and nephew of Glen Grimmett of Vandalia.
Christine Vivion 55 of Auxvasse died from a gunshot wound to the head described as personal safety related. Her body was found in a barn behind the home by husband Joseph I. Vivion, a county road district employee. She worked at a shoe factory in Fulton and was in good health. A .22 rifle was the weapon. Funeral plans tentatively set for Monday at Maupin Funeral Home. She leaves two grown children.
Clayton Missouri. St Louis County Circuit Judge Orville Richardson says he will rule by October 2 on a suit challenging Missouri new textbook law.
A Richmond Heights woman misplaced a 20000 purse containing cash from a pizza parlor sale. Her neighbor found the purse scattered along the road and returned it, ending the loss.
The search for a small plane missing after a Sept. 1 takeoff from Searcy Arkansas to Davenport Iowa was widened into western Missouri. Pilot W C Callaway 54 Bald Knob Arkansas was believed to have crashed shortly after takeoff. Civil Air Patrol broadened the hunt potentially tracing a flight path from southeast Missouri toward the Kansas border. Search centered at Sullivan Airport.
John Willan Holloway 84 retired lumberman and farmer of Gamma died Thursday in Fulton. Funeral 2 p m Monday Schlanker Funeral Home burial Macedonia Cemetery near Gamma. Born July 4 1888 in Montgomery County to John and Martha Holloway. Survived by two sons James Bellflower Donald Independence five grandchildren two great grandchildren a step sister and step brother.
Funeral services for George F. Lierheimer age 87 of 403 E Promenade St were held today at Arnold Funeral Home with Rev Wallace Thurman of Vandalia Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial followed at Bethel Presbyterian Church cemetery north of Mexico. Mrs John Willer served as organist with grandsons James Lierheimer Eugene Lierheimer Donald DeVault Charles DeVault Gary Forsee and David Forsee as active pallbearers and Robert Kerr Kenneth Kerr James Botts William McCue Charles Wilson William Holtcamp P J Mudd Sr Roy Willingham and Henry Kombrink as honorary pallbearers.
Guy M Threlkeld 66 a Madison insurance man linked with Pemberton and Bryson Real Estate Agency Centralia died Thursday night at Woodland Hospital Moberly He was active in Freemasonry OES Royal Arch Masons No 91 Paris Malta Commandry 72 Shelbina Centralia Council 34 and the Moolah Shrine He leaves his wife Ann Ragsdale Threlkeld a son Robert of Park Forest Ill his mother Susan Tipton of Madison two sisters Gladys Powell Madison Genelle Davis Los Angeles and three grandchildren Funeral services 2:30 p m Sunday at Madison Christian Church Rev T W Coran Thompson Mackler Funeral Home in charge burial in mausoleum
Funeral services for Hugo Doerge 82 of Mexico Route 4 were to be held at 2 p.m. at the Arnold Funeral Home with the Rev Ivan O Donaldson of the Mexico Methodist Circuit officiating. Burial followed at Elmwood Cemetery with Mrs John Connor to be organist. Pallbearers included Richard Lierheimer John de Liehheimer Kim Luther David Potter Dr Elly Phillips and Howard Pehle. honorary pallbearers were Bernard Coil Harm Aswegan Ernest Schrader Raymond Snook John Gage Walter Doerge Herbert Petty and Clyde Ruse.
Independence Mo AP The William Chrisman High School football team will not go topless in tonight's opener with Van Horn High School after a midnight meeting between coach Ron Bruch and an informant. The 27 jerseys stolen last weekend were returned by a teenage boy who arranged the meeting.
In Osage Beach Missouri entomologist Dr. Wilfred Craig says oak leaf caterpillars face heavy parasitic wasp control and should cause little harm. In Columbia, Jerry Lynn Stout’s murder retrial is postponed indefinitely after Sheriff's Lt. Roy Gallemore relapsed with serious heart illness, delaying by Cass County Circuit Court in Harrisonville with possible January reschedule.
Terry Anne Meeuwsen of Wisconsin won both swimsuit and talent in the Miss America prelims in Atlantic City. Debby Robert of Louisiana won Friday’s talent event. The 45th Miss America will be crowned tonight as Bert Parks hosts the finale for a 25,000 seat crowd and a national audience.
Peggy Sue Griffith becomes the Navy's first sea going woman sailor reporting aboard the hospital ship Sanctuary at Hunter's Point. The Canton North Carolina native, 22, will be joined by 60 other women as the ship is outfitted for duty as a dependent support vessel following Adm Zumwalt's announcement that women would be accepted for sea duty.
Fort Leonard Wood investigators probe an alleged bootlegging ring at the Army base possibly involving military officers. State liquor control director Courtney Goodman says the operation may be large and linked to four recent deaths amid local hoodlum activity. Agents’ findings, including base shipment surveillance, go to Army officials for review. A Cuba resident reported being offered a haul of stolen liquor from the fort, allegedly by a Lebanon man.
Missouri lawmakers remain split over financing last spring’s enacted laws as a Senate panel votes 17 to 10 to table the appropriations measure. Gov. Warren Hearnes warns the action may end funding for education, health care and law enforcement, while House and Senate maneuvering and new governance rules threaten appointments and public defender funding.
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