Mt Vernon Grain Prices and Market Patchwork
Mt Vernon quotes show soybeans at 5.68, wheat 2.75, corn 2.89, oats 5.3, and various feeder figures. National Stockyards reports hogs, cattle, and sheep in light supply with steady to lower bids. New York markets edge lower after Tuesday rally led by GM and AT&T. Dow near 90.5, volume around 41 million shares at noon.
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MT. Vernon
Mt Vernon
Chicago
National Stockyards, Jr
New York Stock Exchange
General Motors
American Telephone
At&t
Telephone
American Stock Exchange
Humane Society seeks extensive donations for office and kennels
The society requests cabinets, office equipment, supplies, and gear for boarding livestock and on call horse or stock trailers. Items include desks, chairs, filing, typewriter, calculator, office tools, cleaning supplies, and transport equipment. Donors may call free pickup at 244-1983, 242-4800, 242-5861, or 242-6518.
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Bobbie Durkey
Judy Parr
Nan Robinson
Flood toll nears 100 as disaster widens in Colorado
Reports from Chicago and Loveland detail political clashes over oil drilling influence and a governor race. In Colorado Gov. Lamm tours flood zones where nearly 100 people died in the Big Thompson Canyon as rescue workers continued a multi-day search, with deaths likely to rise. Debris, missing, and hundreds injured mark a vast recovery effort and up to 100 million dollars in damages.
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Jim Thompson
Howlett Chicago
James R. Thompson
Thompson
Daniel Walker
Michael J. Howlett
Olney
Howlett
Hy Kaskin
Raskin
Walker
Secretary of State
Chicago
Downstate
Loveland
Colo
Big Thompson Canyon
Richard Lamm
Lamm
Larimer
Robert Watson
National
Watson
Robert Rosenheim
Federal
Department of Housing and Urban Development
State Approves Budget For City Housing Authority
The Mt. Vernon Housing Authority learned it would receive 1550 from the state for 1976 77, rejecting a 2000 request to handle legatees and funding 1590 of a requested 3550. The authority seeks HUD recognition to control Mt. Vernon housing projects from Jefferson County Housing Agency.
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Mt. Vernon
CIA tested drugs on unwitting subjects in MKULTRA program
Newly declassified documents reveal the CIA funded narcotics cases with the U S Bureau of Narcotics to test behavior altering drugs in real life settings. Tests produced illnesses and discredited subjects while refining covert delivery methods, with records later destroyed and the program phased out by 1967.
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Dave Riley
Associated Press
Washington
CIA
Rockefeller Commission
Senate Intelligence Committee
Center For National Security Studies
Technical Services Division
U.S. Bureau of Narcotics
Inspector General
Narcotics Bureau
Narcotics
U.S
Driver Ticketed In One Of Three Traffic Mishaps
City police ticketed Jessie A. Kikta after she backed her car into Mitch W. Cole at 18th Street and Broadway. Minor damage to Kikta’s car, major damage initially thought on Cole’s, later labeled minor. Two other collisions occurred on Broadway at 11th Street and Main Street involving Adams Meadows and Bohlen Henry with major damage in both cases.
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Jessie A. Kikta
Cherry St
Mitch W. Cole
Perkins Ave
18Th Street
Broadway
Jessie Kikta
11Th Street
Meadows
Dale L. Bohlen
S. Zend St
Bohlen
Charles F. Henry
Opdyke Ave
Main Street
Henry
Viking 1 Arm Jams Delaying Mars Soil Analysis
Viking 1’s bulky robotic arm jammed for the second time delaying organic analysis of Martian soil. Officials said a failsafe mechanism may halt movement as they seek a remedy. Oxygen gas from a soil test cell is likely from a chemical reaction, not life, though certainty remains elusive.
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Pasadena
Calif
Viking
Larry King
Frank Bristow
Viking News
Bristow
Mars
Harold P. Klein
Viking Biology
Four Teens Injured In One Car Crash Near Mt Vernon
Four teenagers were injured when a car left the road on a curve along Old Centralia Road ten miles north of Mt Vernon around 7 30 p m Tuesday. Driver Rodney Braun 19 of Route 5 refused treatment at Good Samaritan Hospital emergency room. Passengers Lisa Powell 15 Janet Owens 14 and George Ireland 18 were treated and released at Good Samaritan. The car sustained major damage.
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Old Centralia
Mt. Vernon
Rodney Braun
Good Samaritan Hospital
Lisa Powell
Brownsville Road
Janet Owens
Route 6
George Ireland
Route 5
Good Samaritan
Auto Insurance Rates Jump Across Major Firms
CHICAGO AP Kemper Corp plans nationwide auto rate hikes around 20 percent this year. Allstate to raise Illinois auto premiums about 3 percent, State Farm previously increased 8.8 percent last October, with potential further rises this October. Kemper cites unfavourable jury awards and repair costs as drivers. homeowner premiums may rise 15 to 20 percent. Allstate reports record H1 1976 earnings but ongoing auto underwriting losses remain.
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Chicago
Kemper Corp
Allstate
Illinois
State Farm Insurance Co
State Farm
Kemper
Archie R. Roe
Stolen 1963 Buick Wildcat and Zenith TV Reported
Police logged thefts from Bluford and Mt. Vernon area residents. Donald England reported 9:57 am Saturday that his white 1963 Buick Wildcat with Illinois tag RTH75 was stolen from My-O-My Tavern on 10th Street, wallet inside. George Michael said his 19 inch Zenith TV was stolen from 617 Harrison Street after hearing someone run from the house.
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Route 1
Bluford
Mt. Vernon
Donald England
My-O-My
1017S
10Th St
England
Zenith
Lord Thomson, famed newspaper tycoon and TV pioneer
Roy Thomson, later Lord Thomson of Fleet, built empires in newspapers and commercial television. Born to a barber, he claimed journalism to be a money making venture and ran Scottish Television with a license to print money. He bid for Pravda in 1962 in a Khrushchev exchange. He married Edna Irvine in 1916, she died in 1951, and his heirs Kenneth Roy Thomson and Phyllis Audrey Campbell survive.
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Casion
News
Britain
Thomson
Herbert Thomson
Alice Maud Coombs
Roy Herbert Thomson
Roy Thomson
Pravda
Soviet Communist Party
Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Edna Alice Irvine
Drayton
Ontario
Kenneth Roy Thomson
Phyllis Audrey Campbell
Illinois coal miners back at work demand WV dispute resolve
About 250 miners gathered at a West Frankfort rally voicing support for West Virginians and urging action to end the stalemate. A Kincaid meeting was set with Illinois UMW leaders urging steps to bring workers back. Pat Burke said the strike was just beginning in his subdistrict as workers aired grievances against federal judges.
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West Virginia
West Frankfort
West
Mt Vernon Weather Report
Mt Vernon forecast shows Tuesday high 81 and low 56 with 7:00 am reading 56. Rainfall to date 19.97 inches for 1976. On this date last year high 85 low 64. Five years ago high 7H low unavailable. Ten years ago high 85 low 48. Thursday sunrise 6:01 sunset 8:02 DST. Rend Lake main dam water level 405.26 feet above mean sea level.
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MT. Vernon
Rend Lake
Litton Tragedy Sends Shock Across Nation
Litton, a millionaire from Missouri born near Lock Springs, was elected to Congress in 1972 as a moderate. He reportedly died after a surprising event, stunning his family who were at his Chillicothe home before he left for the airport.
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Litton
Lock Springs
Chillicothe
Federal plan backs nationwide flu vaccination effort
Congress moved toward passage of a federal insurance plan to back a nationwide flu vaccination program. The House subcommittee backed a measure demanded by vaccine makers that would place government liability for any damages from the shots. The health secretary warned of a possible link between deaths in Pennsylvania and swine flu first seen after the Philadelphia Legion event.
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Congress
House Health Subcommittee
David Mathews
Health, Education and Welfare
Pennsylvania
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Drake
the Canyon
James Morgan
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Albu
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Hughey-Pulley Funeral Home
Mark Best
Okla
City
Omaha HS
Orlando St
Lord Thomson
Kane
Charles E. Hughey
Charles
Hughey
Hughey, Hughey Pulley Funeral Home
Main
Philadelphia Legion
Legion
Wally
Wally Ashbaugh
Broadway Call
Copyriouts
WO Motors, Inc
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