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Newspaper
Mexico Ledger
Location
Mexico, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1972
Page
8
Forecaster notes 70s highs and 40s to 60s lows with showers likely tonight. Temperatures and precipitation trends described for Missouri and Kansas City region with a cool, unsettled pattern into Wednesday. Lake of the Ozarks stage listed at 655.0 feet, 5.0 feet below full reservoir. other lake levels unchanged.
The Daily Record lists deaths including Albert Bailey 83 New Florence and Herbert Fountain 68 plus Beverly Dean Gol Harris Maupin Sr 95. Police note a minor two car collision at Mexico Roller Rink and several local incident reports including attempted entry, window damage, a rock throwing incident and stolen hubcaps from a Vandalia Route 1 resident.
Audrain Medical Center officials reported admissions including Bertha L. King Harold E. Rice Douglas P. Balser and many others from Mexico Madison Fulton Centralia and other towns. Also noted are births at Mexico and nearby communities and numerous discharge updates along with highway patrol incidents and court actions.
MIAMI Florida AP Brother Helms is saved and knows he has nothing to worry about as Dean Blakeney a 27 year old youth pastor and karate expert demonstrates the strength of God by cleaving a watermelon and a potato on staged stomachs at the New Testament Baptist Church cafeteria a thousand youngsters watch in awe Blakeney says he reads scriptures and preaches self discipline to the Sunday school crowd while using daring acts to draw people to church
New York stock prices showed little movement with the Dow at 943.03 as declines edged advances 568 to 525 amid slow trading. The NYSE reported about 1,486 issues changing hands while the Averages and the AMEX indices held steady.
President Nixon urged thorough reform of the world monetary system at the World Bank IMF meeting in Washington. He pledged the US would not turn inward and asked other nations for a similar commitment while linking monetary reform to trade and investment. Security was heightened as officials gathered amid controversy over IMF leadership.
The Ozark chapter of the Sierra Club sues in federal court to stop a dam across the Meramec River near Sullivan Missouri. The Army Corps of Engineers would flood the lower Huzzah and Courtois rivers and upper Meramec, creating a 12600 acre reservoir with 175 miles of shoreline.
Montgomery City led by Steve Steffans clocking 10 02 won the triangular cross country meet, finishing with 20 points to Warrenton's 38 and Clapton's 73. Montgomery took four of the first five places, while Clapton won the junior-varsity meet with 34 points, narrowly beating Warrenton and Montgomery City. Major finishers include Steffans and Montgomery City runners in top positions.
Wellsville banker and civic leader Harry L. Burwell died at St. Louis hospital after transfer from Aldrain Medical Center. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at the Christian Church in Wellsville with burial in Wellsville Cemetery. He leaves wife Martha and other relatives. memorials to the church heart fund are requested.
New Florence. Albert L Bailey 83 died Saturday at Audrain Medical Center Mexico after a stay since Sept 18. Services held at Bellflower Presbyterian Church with Rev Thomas Higging officiating. Burial in Bellflower Cemetery. Survived by sister Mabel Bailey. Former farmer and longtime New Florence restaurant operator.
Services for Emmett L Morris 83 of Wellsville were held Sunday afternoon at the Arnold Funeral Home The Rev George Wraith pastor of the First Christian Church officiated Burial was in East Lawn Memorial Park Pallbearers were John Simpson Lester Yelton Herman Frehm Butler Armstrong Elmer Fennewald and Warren Clayton Payne Mrs John Willer was organist.
Memorial services for Louise Renner Barton 49 of Sarasota Florida were held Sept 19 at Keene New Hampshire Unitarian Universalist Church with cremated remains buried there. She was daughter of Agnes Renner of Montgomery City and widow of Theodore S Barton. Surviving are four sons Kenneth Allan Dale and David of Sarasota and brother Melburn Renner of Montgomery City. She graduated from Montgomery City schools and Central Business College Sedalia. She belonged to Siesta Key Lions Auxiliary Florida Xi Beta Rho Beta Sigma Phi and Forest Lakes Country Club.
In South Charleston West Virginia two rattlesnake bites during a church snake handling service killed 59 year old Beulah Bucklen of Charleston Eight days after being struck Sept 16 at Jesus Pentecostal Church in Frazier's Bottom Putnam County the fatal incident shocks the community.
In Chattanooga four million gallon storage tanks exploded after leaking gasoline ignited. Flames shot 400 feet high as seven people were injured, four seriously. Tanks held gasoline, diesel fuel and ACLUSTAT. FAA redirected air traffic due to risk of further explosions.
Jefferson City Missouri AP Judge James T Riley of Cole County Circuit Court dismissed a suit by State Rep Robert E Young challenging Missouri s new free textbook law ruling the plaintiff failed to show damage from the foreign insurance tax proceeds used to buy textbooks for public and parochial schools. The court noted officials have no control over funds after sent to county treasurers and about 13 million for textbooks will be mailed Friday. A similar suit is pending in St Louis Circuit Court. The law passed last session over Young s protest alleging constitutional prohibitions on state support of private schools.
A gunman peppered the Foothill Division station with rifle fire for over an hour beginning Sunday night. Michael Grant, 25, of Glendale, was wounded in both legs and one hand and taken to Pacoima Lutheran Hospital in fair condition. He was arrested and to be booked for assault with a deadly weapon. No others injured.
Albany AP The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says polluted air in Brooklyn and Albany harmed nylon panty hose. After five years of exposure by its air resources division the department calls acid soot, sulfuric acid and other pollutants the prime destroyers of nylons.
City Manager Neill Nielsen returned from the 58th annual International City Management Association conference held September 17 to 22 in Minneapolis. About 1,800 registrants, including 900 city managers, discussed urban problems, block grant topics with HUD, revenue sharing, urban renewal, public housing, neighborhood development, and law enforcement council support. Highlights included appearances by Spiro Agnew, Sargent Shriver, and Senator Edmund Muskie on intergovernmental relations.
General Motors President Ed Cole announces a new emission control system using catalytic converters and reactors to break down pollutants into carbon dioxide and water. He notes cost details are undisclosed but must meet federal standards and rely on platinum and palladium from South Africa.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Clarence R. Huebner who commanded the Big Red One across Normandy and into Germany during World War II has died at Walter Reed Army Hospital. He was named commanding general of the U S Army in Europe in 1949.
Senator George McGovern denounces President Nixon as bought by special interests and demands naming of donors to a reported ten million dollar secret campaign slush fund. He cites ITT, Lockheed loans, grain sales to the Soviet Union and bank oil and utility ties as proof of big business influence. McGovern challenged Melvin Laird over POWs and said Nixon’s aides refuse to identify donors, while polls show he trails Nixon but with pockets of support.
Eighty-one new registrations were processed after hours by Mrs. Pauline Harrison. Cards will be added after the Oct 3 school bond election and other post month book closures. Mexico voters have until Oct 9 to register. Some registrants sought address changes Oct 4 to 9. The drive drew youths under 21 and adults over 50.
An investigation was ordered into the hanging death of 38 year old James E Shirley in a St Charles County Jail holdover cell. Sheriff Koester said a jailer found Shirley with a belt around his neck attached to a bunk. Shirley had been arrested about four hours earlier on a driving while intoxicated charge.
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