Boulevard Paving Hopeful After Low Bid
Mexico City Manager Gary Elde expects West Boulevard street paving to start soon if Hardys Inc. is approved at the Monday council meeting. The Shelbyville firm bid 297,994.24, the lowest of four bids opened Aug. 24, covering a half mile from South Clark to Morris. Abutting owners pay 8 per frontage foot for the first 60 feet and 4 for each additional foot, funding about eight percent of costs. Major funding comes from 281,500 in the 1976 community development budget and 190,000 FAU funds. The project includes 45 foot pavement with curbs, sewers, sidewalks, and drainage. The council also weighs a five-home subdivision ordinance and a 911 emergency number system agreement with Southwestern Bell to possibly install by next July.
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West Boulevard Street
Mexico City
Gary Elde
Hardys, Inc
West Boulevard
South Clark
Morris Street
Hardys
Shelbyville
R.W. Booker and Associates
St. Louis
Mexico
Eide
Fide
Clark
Yale Streets
Thomas M. Johnson
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Southwestern Bell
Audrain Medical Center
Public Safety Central
Skyjacked TWA Jet Headed For Europe
Croatian nationalists hijacked an American airliner after a New York to Chicago flight. The plane, diverted via Canada and Iceland, carried a bomb in the cockpit and demanded independence from Yugoslavia. One police officer died in Manhattan from a bomb blast. four were injured.
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Keflavik
Iceland
New York
Yugoslavia
United States
Washington
Radio Belgrad
Chicago
Canada
London
Paris
Copenhagen
Trans World Airlines
Heathrow
TWA
New York City
mid-Manhattan
Bomb kills policeman during Grand Central standoff
Skyjackers aboard a TWA jet guided police to a pressure cooker bomb in a Grand Central locker. As officers attempted to detonate it the device exploded, killing one sergeant and injuring three others in critical condition. The hijackers, tied to Fighters for Free Croatia, warned newspapers to print their letter or another bomb would detonate nationwide.
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Sky
New York
TWA
Grand Central Station
Bronx
Fighters For Free Croatia
mid-Manhattan
U.S
Carter Grows Restless Over White House Campaign Mood
Jimmy Carter, exhausted after an 11 state tour, shows increasing annoyance at President Ford’s refusal to campaign from the White House. He returns to Plains, Georgia, after a Chicago parade amid anti abortion protests, calling for Ford to explain policies and engage in debate during the campaign. Ford avoids campaigning, focusing on duties and a single Washington appearance.
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Associated Press
Jimmy Carter
Ford
White House
Carter
Plains
Chicago
Midwest
B'nai B'rith
Washington
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Hollywood
Fla
One Chance In 10 Million Tragedy Grips Zagreb
Yugoslav authorities questioned air traffic controllers over the midair collision that killed 176 aboard a British Airways Trident and an Inex-Adria DC9 near Zagreb. Investigators seek ground-operator error in altitude readings as debris scattered over Croatian farmland.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Zagreb
British Airways
Inex-Adria
Mississippi River Traffic Grounded By Low Water Delays
Barge traffic on the Mississippi slows to a crawl as drought lowers the river channel to near unusable depths. Groundings spike, towing firms face higher costs and longer trips from St. Louis to New Orleans. Cities rely on river water. Minneapolis asks residents to curb usage through October. Dredging aids maintain a 12 foot channel from Cairo to Cape Girardeau as coast guard and engineers adjust buoys and operations.
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ST. Louis
Mississippi River
Coast Guard
Minneapolis
Mississippi
New Orleans
Tom Gladders
American Waterways Operators Corps of Engineers Liasson Committee
Jack Bullard
American Commercial Barge Lines
Jeffersonville
Ind
Bullard
American Commercial
Agri Trans Corp
Chicago
Agri-Trans
Cooperative Spirit
Cairo, Ill
Upper
Corps of Engineers
Cairo
Cape Girardeau
J.g. Gabriel Kinney
Bill approves emergency $1 billion postal subsidy
Washington AP Ford expected to sign a bill providing an emergency $1 billion subsidy to the Postal Service to keep it solvent until a study commission delivers its report next March. The measure bars rate increases or service cuts until then. House passed 276 to 33.
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Washington
Ford
House of Representatives
Congress
Postal Service
Study Commission
Edward J. Derwinski
R-ill
Bill Alexander
D-Ark
Rebel French Bishop Meeks With Pope Paul VI
Rebel Bishop Marcel Lefebvre met Pope Paul VI at Castel Gandolfo seven weeks after Vatican suspensions for defying decrees of Vatican II and changes to Mass. Lefebvre confirmed reception, left the Pope’s summer residence after a brief meeting.
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Castel Gandolfo
Italy
Marcel Lefebvre
Paul VI
Vatican
Lefebvre
Econe
Switzerland
Pope Paul
Lafe
Who Are The Croatian Nationalists
The piece discusses Croatian nationalists as a persistent challenge to Yugoslavia since 1918, noting Croatian discontent under Serb hegemony, Tito’s postwar independent course, and ongoing terrorism despite 1970s leadership purges. It highlights Croatian émigrés and rightwing factions using violent methods and Belgrade’s crackdowns.
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Josip Broz Tito
Yugoslavia
Croatian Communist Party
Belgrade
Missouri adds 36 counties to emergency loan list
Missouri farmers face a third straight drought as the federal government declares 36 grain belt counties disaster areas after USDA cut harvest estimates for corn and soybeans. Governor Bond announced the declarations, citing depressed yields though the national outlook remainsLedger corn was forecast at 63 bushels per acre and soybeans at 23, with total production around 181.4 million bushels. Experts warned yields are still overoptimistic and that many fields are in poor shape.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Christopher S. Bond
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
William Murphy
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