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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1971
Page
1
Official morning readings report highs in the 60s and 70s with rain today and tonight, south areas possible thunderstorms, cooler Sunday. River stages in several cities show slight rises or falls. hospital admissions and births listed. Police and highway patrol reports include theft, minor accidents, and a fatality involving cattle on Highway 54. marriages, dismissals, and deaths noted in local notices.
Prince Hitachi and Princess Hitachi toured NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston with Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa as guide. Roosa briefed them on space program details, showed a lunar lander model, a space suit, and moon rocks before the royal pair departed for Los Angeles.
Justice Hugo L Black announces retirement at 85 while in ill health. Nixon expected to nominate a conservative Southerner to bolster the Court’s slim majority. In another item, Capt Medina faces reduced murder charge in My Lai case and acquittal verdict in a boy’s death. Other reports cover Israeli Egyptian exchanges and Senate cloture fight over draft extension. Meantime in Vietnam, no new fighting reported in U Minh forest though heavy losses noted over three days.
Over the counter trades show A B Chance 28 percent bid 29 ask, Commerce Bancshares 46 bid 47 ask, Wetterau 26 bid 27 asked. On the NYSE Robbie Brooks 15 percent, Dresser Industries 33 percent, Interco 47 up 4, Kaiser Aluminum 27 unchanged, Panhandle Eastern 32 down, Ralston Purina 33 up, US Gypsum common 68 down, US Gypsum preferred 35 unchanged.
Egypt and Israel exchanged missiles and gunfire along the Suez Canal in the most serious fighting since the August 1970 ceasefire. Israeli jets reportedly returned fire after Egyptian ground to air missiles were fired against planes over the Sinai. No casualties or damages were reported by Cairo, and it remained unclear if Israeli aircraft crossed the canal.
Government troops near Saigon suffered heavy losses after a double Viet Cong ambush at a Michelin rubber plantation 35 miles north of Saigon. Three American advisers were killed and one wounded. 15 South Vietnamese troops died, 25 wounded, three missing. Eight Viet Cong were reported killed. A jeep was ambushed first, followed by an attack on a relief column with mortars rockets and machine guns. A helicopter gunship was shot down on the Bong Son plain, with one American crewman killed and three wounded.
Actress dancer Joey Heatherton files divorce suit in Los Angeles citing irreconcilable differences with professional football player Lance Rentzel. The action marks a high profile split involving a well known screen star and an NFL athlete amid public attention and legal proceedings.
Walter Cochran 82 of Middletown died at 12 50 p m Friday at Audrain Medical Center after strokes. Born October 9 1888 in Lincoln County Missouri he married Orpha Ulah Smith in December 1916. Survived by wife two sons Herbert and Raymond nine grandchildren one great grandchild and a brother and three half brothers. Funeral 2 p.m. Monday Middletown Baptist Church burial Fairmount Cemetery. Friends may call 2 6 p m Sunday Waters Vandalia or 9 a m to 2 p m Monday at the church.
Mrs. Sally Roberts 75 died at her daughter’s Centralia home. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Monday at Fenton Funeral Chapel Centralia. burial in Union Cemetery. Survivors: two daughters, three sons Donald Roberts Grand Rapids Francis Cicero Kenneth Manteca, sisters Elwood Adams Centralia Isle Bryson Montebello. Born April 1 1896 to S J and Elizabeth Jennings. Member of Centralia Church of Christ. Visitation 2 p.m. tomorrow until service time.
A bomb damaged restrooms in an Albany building housing state prison officials. No injuries were reported. Investigators and congressmen visited Attica State Prison to study disorders that left 40 inmates dead. A caller claimed Weatherman ties. The House Crime Committee planned to return to the prison to continue inquiries.
Gov. Warren E. Hearnes said he will disclose his future political plans in St. Louis next week at a Truman Day Democratic event on Sept. 24-25. He refused to discuss the resignations of all six members of the State Training Schools Board, saying only that he had no comment. The board quit amid criticism over operations at the Boonville Training School for Boys as Hearnes prepared to leave office in January 1973.
A Minnesota man argues he need not serve in Southeast Asia absent a formal war declaration. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard Perkins v. United States, with state attorney general Spannaus seeking to reopen a Minneapolis hearing. The panel weighed limits on courts over congressional military authorization and potential Supreme Court review.
Sen. Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma, amid California campaigning for a possible run, says a Black man could be elected vice president in 1972. He asserts that any qualified person can be elected president or vice president.
Salt Lake City AP reports Thorvald Peterson, 93, charged with first degree murder in a blaze at Lil Haven nursing home that killed six patients, including 71 year old John Opdahi. Peterson has been committed for psychiatric evaluation after investigators said the fire began in a first floor bedroom aided by a flammable liquid used to treat mops.
Ron Karenga founder of Us Organization was sentenced to one to ten years in state prison after a May conviction for felonious assault and false imprisonment in the torture of Deborah Jones, a 20 year old follower, at his home amid allegations he believed she and another woman planned to poison him.
A Mexico youth was stabbed in the chest after a high school football game. Kym Billington, 18, was treated at Audrain Medical Center with a three stitch wound and was listed in satisfactory condition. Police questioned Ellis Ford, who allegedly started the disturbance and returned to stab Billington. no arrest had been made.
Paul Fisher of the University of Missouri Freedom of Information Center filed suit against Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to release all 47 volumes of the Pentagon Papers. Joining as citizens are Reps. John Moss and Odgen Reed. The case, in U S District Court in Washington, seeks primary records on U S Vietnam policy decisions from 1967 to 1968.
New York AP RCA Corp announces it will exit computer manufacturing citing heavy capital outlays and a leveling market. Chairman Robert W. Sarnoff said the move will extend profitability timelines and trigger up to 260 million in charges comparable to Ford Edsel write-off. RCA expects overall losses this year. Computer sales were about 6 percent of last year’s 3.2 billion in sales. No buyers seen for RCA computer properties. layoffs uncertain for up to 10,000 employees. Contracts for existing sales and maintenance will be honored.
A truck carrying about 100000 dollars worth of musical instruments and uniforms for 46 members of the U S Marine Band was stolen from a motel parking lot in Woodbridge New Jersey. The band had just performed in Plainfield and planned further shows in Ridgefield Connecticut and New Haven Connecticut. Tour manager Robert Williams said the loss would likely cancel today's Ridgefield and Sunday's New Haven concerts.
Jefferson City AP Carlton J Lorberg a Cape Girardeau Republican has been appointed by Gov Warren E Hearnes to the Missouri Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors replacing Ren W Gibson of Carrollton whose term expired Lorberg will serve the term ending in 19 Ren W Gibson of Carrollton term expired
President Nixon will extend his trip to Alaska next weekend to also visit Montana Oregon and Washington. He will be welcomed there by officials including Walter J Hickel who served as Interior Secretary.
The Agriculture Department extended the reseal period for corn under price support loans to May 31, 1973. Farm-stored corn from 1969, 1970, and 1971 crops, totaling up to 600 million bushels, will be kept off the market to lessen price competition amid record production.
Two five week old leopard cubs stolen from Ringling Circus were found Friday night in Portland Oregon unharmed. One cub wandered a mile from Memorial Coliseum and the other in Overlook Park four miles away. The circus offered a 200 dollar no questions asked reward. One finder declined payment while the other accepted part of the reward.
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