Author W. Somerset Maugham Dies at 91 in Nice Villa
British author W. Somerset Maugham died at his Riviera villa La Mauresque after being moved from a Nice hospital. He was 91, suffered a stroke six days earlier, and had spent years writing novels, plays and stories including Of Human Bondage and Miss Thompson. He stopped fiction in 1953 and spent his final years in frailty.
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Library of Congress
America
Edith G Thorsen obituary of Dwight resident aged 45
Edith G Thorsen 45 of Dwight died suddenly in Streator at 11 20 p m Her service is at Immanuel Lutheran Church Dwight with burial in Round Grove Cemetery She was born November 2 1920 in Stanley Wisconsin and worked for Thatcher Co in Dwight Survived by six sisters Louise Nelson Selma Hosier Viola Porth May Mortvedt Hulda Thorsen Alice Thorsen and three brothers Howard Elmer Warren Funeral arrangements handled by Van Qualen Funeral Home.
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Louise) Nelson
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Selma) Hosier
Mike
Viola) Porth
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May) Mortvedt
Hulda Thorsen
Tinley Park
Alice Thorsen
Elmer
Naperville
Warren
Morris
James E. Kolar Sr. of Braidwood dies at 55
James E. Kolar Sr. 55 of Braidwood died at home on Wednesday. Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Patterson Funeral Chapel with Masonic rites Friday night. Burial is in Oakwood Cemetery. He was born June 21, 1910 in Chicago and worked as an electrician at Lockport Locks. He helped found the Braidwood Volunteer Fire Department and held offices in Masonic and civic groups. Survived by wife Irene, son James Jr., brother William Havlick, sister Mildred Stillwell, and two grandchildren.
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William Havlck
Mildred Stillwell
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Funeral services for John L. Gortner
John L. Gortner 76 formerly of Mazon died Tuesday at Open Arms Shelter Dwight. Funeral services conducted today at 2 p.m. at Davis Funeral Home with Rev. William V. Dorn officiating. Pallbearers named. burial in Mazon.
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Dwight
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Lawrence Jackson
Donald Misener
Edwin Bumgarner
Gordon Bell
J. H. Wilkinson
W. R. Wallin
Mazon Cemetery
Cuba expands food quotas for Christmas Eve meals
Havana radio reports Cuban shoppers on Christmas Eve can buy unlimited chest nuts and Albanian wine and rum, with olive oil and black beans quotas raised by half a pound, as Fidel Castro’s government adjusts civilian rations.
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Sun helmets become status symbols in Palau islands
United States naval officers in the Pacific Palau Islands wore sun helmets that became status symbols after the Americans left. Chiefs banned selling them to commoners.
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United States
Pacific
Palau Islands
Michigan bans sale of Hong Kong ice balls over contamination
Lansing officials ordered health departments to stop selling and using the Hong Kong ice balls used to cool drinks after lab tests found high bacteria levels and signs of pollution. Health Director Dr. Albert Heustis cited evidence of disease-associated bacteria in the imported products.
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Picketing Continues at Mac Dowell Elementary Site
Milwaukee civil rights group protests near Mac Dowell elementary school construction arguing location near a predominantly Negro neighborhood will worsen racial imbalance in the public school system.
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MacDowell
Koppers Co Awarded Multimillion Dollar Casting Contract
Koppers Co Inc said for two two strand continuous casting machines to be installed at the Chicago Heights plant of the Calumet Steel Division Borg Warner Corp. The award was announced Wednesday.
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Chicago Heights
Calumet Steel Division
Borg-Warner Corp
Offiers of DHIA Elected at Annual Grundy Meeting
New officers of the Grundy County Dairy Herd Improvement Association were elected at a Saturday night meeting in the Grundy County Farm Bureau building. Walt Kingman Gardner was chosen president Hilbert Dreschel Dwight vice president Kenneth Bannon Mazon secretary and Emmett Tabler Morris treasurer all serving one year John Davidson Minooka was elected director replacing retiring Curtis Riley Dwight. Dr Cecil Ingmire Joliet spoke and showed slides from a tour of Europe behind the Iron Curtain.
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Grundy County Farm Bureau
Walt Kingman
Gardner
Hilbert Dreschel
Dwight
Kenneth Bannon
Mazon
Emmett Tabler
Morris
John Davidson
Minooka
Curtis Riley
Cecil Ingmire of
Joliet
Europe
Iron Curtain
Canal closes delaying ships to winter berths
Close Canal Port Colborne Ontario leaves 20 vessels berthed for the winter after the Welland Canal between Lakes Erie and Ontario closes to incoming ships at midnight.
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Lakes Erie
Ontario
Gentle Kidney Tonic Ad Promises Quick Relief
An old ad claims nighttime urination pressure leg or back pains warn of functional kidney disorders. It touts BUKETS as a tonic diuretic that increases and regulates passage within 4 days, offering a 39 cent back guarantee at drug counters today.
Dick Gregory agrees to $10,000 settlement with press agent
Comedian Dick Gregory will pay Tim Boxer $10,000 to settle Boxer’s breach of contract suit for $250,000. Boxer alleged an oral agreement to pay $25,000 annually for promotional work was broken. The agreement was reached on Wednesday in Chicago.
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Chicago
Dick Gregory
Tim Boxer
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Boxer
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