Nancy Miller Dies at 85 In Opdyke Funeral Sunday
Nancy Isabell Miller 85 of Route 1 Opdyke died yesterday at her daughter's home 1509 South 10th Street. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Myers Chapel with Rev. Marsh Harpole officiating. Burial in Opdyke cemetery. Visitation after 4 p.m. Saturday. Born June 19 1880 in Farmington Missouri to James and Mary Beatt. Survived by son Russell Miller of St. Louis daughter Mrs Arch Mandrell foster daughter Isabell Hamblin 10 grandchildren 23 great grandchildren. Preceded in death by a son and a daughter.
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Nancy Isabell Miller
Route 1
Opdyke
Arch Mandrell
South 10Th Street
Myers Chapel
Marsh Harpole
Opdyke Cemetery
Miller
Farmington, Mo
James and
Mary (Harvey) Beatt
Howard Chapel
Eastern Star
Royal Neighbors
Mrs Hamel of Mattoon Named Mrs Illinois in 1966 Pageant
Mrs Mary Hamel 30 of Mattoon wife and mother of three was chosen by judges as Mrs Illinois for the Mrs America finals. She will compete April 29 to May 8 in San Diego along with contestants from 50 states and the District of Columbia. Hamel, wife of Mattoon Journal Gazette publisher William B Hamel Jr, was lauded for her chicken salad luncheon and hospitality. She is active in hospital auxiliary PTA Rotary Anne Panhellenic Society community theater and United Fund.
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Chicago
Ilinois
Mary Hamel
Mattoon
Mattoon Journal-Gazette
San Diego
Calif
States
District of Columbia
Hamels
Hemal
Hospital Auxiliary
PTA
Rotary Anne
Panhellenic Society
Community Theater
United Fund
Hospital Notes Admitted and Discharged Names Listed
Admission and discharge notes list multiple individuals by name and residence. The record cites Madge Elizabeth Doughhette and others admitted, with many others discharged to homes or rural routes, including Mary M. Dickey, Edward Leon Shaw, Debra Jo Merriman, and numerous addresses across Bluford, Salem, Nason, and surrounding towns.
Weather snapshot for MT VERNON and nearby areas
MT VERNON forecast shows Thursday high 55 low 34 with rain from 7am Thursday to 7am Friday totaling 28 inches. Year comparisons list 1966 rainfall to date at 6.47 inches. past highs and dates noted. Saturday sunrise 5 33 CST sunset 6 32.
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MT. Vernon
Albany
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fairbanks
Fort Worth
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Hoolulu
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Ore
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Richmond
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Salt Sk. City
San Diego
San Fran
Seattle
Tampa
Washington
Winnipeg
Weather Outlook for Illinois from April Fragments
Northern Illinois sees stubborn spring with cloud cover while southern counties endure typical April showers on Food Friday. Temperatures range from the 40s to low 50s with cooler southern winds. Easter Sunday looks fair as high pressure moves in from Canada.
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Illinois
Ohio River Plain
Canada
Belleville
Chicago
O'Hare
Cairo
East Dubuque
Metropolis
Ohio
Paducah
Watch Stolen At Junior High
Mrs Kenneth Cross reports her son's Lord Elgin watch stolen at junior high. The timepiece valued at 125 dollars was taken yesterday afternoon, prompting a police report.
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Kenneth Cross
South 20Th Street
Lord Elgin
Mt Vernon Lodge 31 AF and AM Sets Special Meeting
A special meeting of Mt Ver non Lodge No. 31 AF and AM is scheduled for Friday April 8 at 7 30 p m. Work in the third degree. Members urged to attend. Visiting brethren welcome. Thomas O Glover W M Byron Weld Jr K Sec y.
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A. F. Ryan
Mt. Vernon
Thomas O. Glover
W.M. Byron Weld Jrk
Viking Princess cruise liner incident near Florida
Rescue 470 reports 10 missing and 1 known dead after the Viking Princess, a 470 passenger capacity liner, sails from Miami headed toward Florida. The 16 year old ship, Norwegian registry, carries 627 potential passengers in 228 cabins on five decks with diesel twin screws. It follows the Yarmouth Castle disaster that killed 90 in 1965 and prompted Coast Guard inquiries.
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Yarmouth Castle
Miami
Nassau
Coast Guard
U.S
Line Agency, Inc
Berge Sigval Bergesen
Oslo
Norway
Florida
Johnson and family on sunset ranch visit
President Johnson and Mrs Johnson spend a leisurely sunset ride at a ranch. Daughters Luci's fiancé Patrick Nugent of Waukegan Illinois visits with Phylis Nugent of San Diego. Marine Lt Gerard Nugent, based near Da Nang, is reported to be in good health after Operation Double Eagle. The President planned a call on Huffman Baines in San Antonio during a city stop.
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Johnson
Luci
Patrick J. Nugent
Waukegan
Phylis Nugent
San Diego
Calif
Gerard Nugent
South Viet Nam
da Nang
Huffman Baines
Huff
San Antonio
FIELD FIRE ENDANGERS HOUSES NEAR BETHEL
Rural firefighters fought two separate blazes nearby with all available units. One fire at Norman Clark’s home near Bethel School involved scrap lumber and caused damage confined to the lumber pile. Fire department officials said crews were active throughout the afternoon.
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Rural Fire Department
Norman Clark
Bethel School
Charge racial use Dixie quarrels over U S school funds
Washington AP report portrays a clash over federal education funding linked to desegregation. Harold Howe Jr. issues guidelines tying aid to progress in desegregation, drawing Southern opposition led by Sen. Sam Ervin Jr. and Sen. James Eastland. The dispute centers on Title VI and potential legal challenges.
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Dixie
U.S
Raymond J. Crowley
Washington
Connecticut
Commissioner of Education
Harold Howe OU
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N. C
Howe
Office of Education
Supreme Court
Centaur Rocket Misfires In Space
Cape Kennedy officials investigate why a Centaur rocket failed to ignite a second time after reaching a 100 mile orbit. NASA reports only one of two engines fired, altering the plan for a dummy moonship and delaying moon mission timelines.
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Space
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Space Agency
U.S
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Atlas
Earth
NASA
H Bomb Recovered From Sea Damaged by Dents
Palomares Beach Spain AP reports the one meet on bomb recovered from 2850 feet deep after crash last January 17. Admiral Guest said CURV device freed the carrier parachute entanglement and the eight ton nuclear weapon showed dents at one end. It will be returned to the United States.
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Harold K. Miles
Palomares Beach
Spain
U.S
Disater
Mediterranean
Petref
Albany
Adm
William S. Guest
Guest
United States
Frisco hunts slayer of two Vallejo cops
In Vallejo California a motorist killed two patrolmen Calvin Thacker 36 and William Eas son 31 after officers trapped him on a dead end street and tried to cite him. Police locked down exits from the city and both bay area bridges while chasing a restaurant worker linked to Napa Oakland and El Cerrito records. An unseen witness said four people were in the car.
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Vallejo
Calif
Calvin Thacker
William Easson
California Highway Patrol
San Francisco Bay Area
el Cerrito
Napa
Oakland
Three Die In Missouri Highway Crash NearMississippi
TRIPLE FATAL WRECK ON U S 24 west of the Mississippi River claims Roy Fouts 60 of Palmyra and Berniece Fouts 5, both killed in a head on collision with a pickup driven by Leonard Campbell 36 of Tulsa Oklahoma. Campbell dies later at Blessing Hospital Quincy Indiana. Passenger Elmer Jones 56 Tulsa in serious condition with leg and arm injuries.
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Taylor
Mississippi River
U.S
Roy Fouts
Palmyra
Fouts
Berniece
Leonard Campbell
Tulsa
Okla
Campbell
Blessing Hospital
Quincy
Elmer Jones
Four Illinois Men On Death List
Washington AP Four Davis servicemen are on the latest Defense Department list of military personnel killed in Vietnam. They are Army WO Phillip C. Smith of Highland Park, Army Pfc Richard Coleman of Chicago, Army Pfc Larry E. Rose of Warsaw and Marine Pfc Stanley G. Vurgaitis of Chicago.
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Davis
Defense Department
Viet Nam
Army
Phillip C. Smith
Highland Park
Richard Coleman
Chicago
Larry E. Rose
Warsaw
Marine
Stanley G. Vurgaitis
Good Friday Worship Global Observances and Pilgrimages
Christians mark Good Friday with somber services as pilgrims flood Rome and the Holy Land. Pope Paul VI leads a mass at St Mary Major and a torchlit procession in the Colosseum. In Jerusalem, pilgrims reenact the Way of the Cross at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher with about 25,000 worshippers. Eight Soviet priests join the Holy Week rites, and Easter coincides for Eastern and Western churches. President Johnson journeys to Johnson City, Texas, for Easter weekend, planning Good Friday services at San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio.
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San Antonio
Mexico
Columbus Sails From Palos In First voyage to New World
On his initial voyage Christopher Columbus departed from Palos Spain bound for the New World. The text also notes Mohandas Gandhi once ran a successful law practice in South Africa.
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Columbus
New World
Palos
Mohandas Gandhi
South Africa
Market Prices From Mt Vernon After Noon
Prices quoted in Mt Vernon show soybeans at 2.80, shell corn at 1.27, and ear corn at 1.25.
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Mt. Vernon
Mt Vernon Hog Market Update Prices and Grades
Prices paid at Mt Vernon until 12:30 p m today show a 600 premium with top hogs at 23 35 for 200 to 220 lb. Sows rose to 20 00 for 300 weights with down 19 75 for 300 weight and over Boars quoted at 14 50 and 15 50 After 12 30 p m price basis shifts to the next day’s prices.
St Louis Produce Price Report From AP
St Louis reports wholesale and consumer egg grades with category ranges for large medium small and extra items. Includes hens broilers fryers and weight classes across standard and unclassified grades.
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ST. Louis
Livestock receipts and prices at National Stockyards
Estimated Monday receipts at National Stockyards include hogs 7,000 cattle 5,000 calves 150 and sheep 500. Hogs 2,500 in the 190 to 250 pound range traded at 23.50 to 24.50 per hundredweight. Cattle 200 and calves 50 with cows 16.00 to 21.00 and veal 26.00 to 35.00. Sheep 50 with no clear trend.
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National
Lit
Chicago Judge Sentences Man to Year for Kiss in Court
Anthony Tomas, 21, and his wife Anita, 19, faced a robbery charge in Circuit Court. After Tomas kissed his wife in court, Judge Herbert Friedlund held him in contempt and sentenced him to one year in the county jail despite the guilty emotion defense. Mrs. Tomas was later released on $3,000 bond.
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Chicago
Anthony Tomas
Anita
Herbert Friedland
Tomas
Friedlund
Fire destroys Wilburn Prince farm house and garage
A Tuesday morning blaze at the Wilburn Prince farm southeast of McLeansboro leveled a seven room house and a two car garage. The unoccupied house had been rented until recently. The McLeansboro fire department, hampered by water supply shortages, could do little to save the structures with losses estimated in the thousands. Good Friday church services are slated at First Baptist from seven to nine p.m. and at First Christian Church at seven. Several residents are listed in travel and family notes, including Marie Elliott in Ohio and Laurann King returning to Colorado, with many others visiting or returning from trips in Indiana Illinois and Florida.
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Wilburn Prince
McLeansboro
Marie Elliott
David Carlson
Okron
Ohio
Laurann King
Aurora
Colorado
Charles Trout
Indianapolis
Ind
Davenport
Iowa
Rock Island
Peoria
Bill Williams
Hammond
Car Overturns On Highway 37 Near Mt Vernon
A car skidded on wet pavement north of Mt. Vernon on Highway 37 at about 8 am, overturned but driver Jimmy Gladney, 46, of Mt. Vernon escaped injury. Major damage reported. In a second incident two cars collided nearby at 7:15 am at the intersection of Highways 460 and 51 west of Ashley, no injuries.
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Mt. Vernon
Jimmy Gladney
Ashley
Dee J. Russ
George O. Jones
Belleville
X Ray Unit Schedules Visits To Two Illinois Towns
The state Mobile Chest X-ray unit will be in McLeansboro on Tuesday April 12 from 1:00 to 5:30 p.m. on the north side of the courthouse. It also visits Nashville Public Grade School on April 13 from 10:00 to 1:00 and 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Free chest X rays are offered to anyone with a positive tuberculin skin test.
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State Mobile
Court House
McLeansboro
Nashville
Young Mr V Man Hurt By Falling Tree
Duane Allison, 23, of 2112 Cherry, was injured when a tree fell at 22nd and Perkins while he and David Flora felled it. The main branch struck a truck, sparing Allison from more serious harm. He sustained a severe left arm sprain, cuts, bruises, and a head laceration needing seven stitches, and was treated at Good Samaritan Hospital and released.
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Duane Allison
Cherry
Allison
David Flora
Perkins
Good Samaritan Hospital
Dana Pickett Seeks Bethel School Board Seat
Five candidates compete for two Bethel school board openings with voters casting ballots tomorrow. Dana Pickett of Benton Road runs alongside Jim Shrum Suzanna Gavette Arnold Burk and incumbent Eugene Ratajczyk who seeks re election.
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Bethel
Dana Pickett
Benton Road
Jim Shrum
Suzanna GaVette
Arnold Burk
Eugene Ratajczyk
Birth announcement for Geneva couple's daughter Tammy Lynn
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Davis of Geneva Illinois welcomed a daughter born Thursday evening April 7 at 6 45 in Community Hospital Geneva weighing seven pounds Tammy Lynn. The parents are former Mt Vernon residents.
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Gene Davis
Geneva
Ill
Tammy Lynn
Mt. Vernon
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Nelle B. Shanafelt
Salem
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Mary M. Dickey
Bluford
Edward Leon Shaw
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