Death notice for Frank Mayberry in Decatur area
Relatives notified of the death of Frank Mayberry. Survived by his wife Viola Kennedy Mayberry one brother and three sisters. He was nephew of Mrs Isaac Wells and rover Smith. Funeral will be held Saturday at 3 00 p m at Cason Whitoff Funeral Home West Wood Street Decatur.
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Frank Maybe
Danville Til
Clanoesennedy
Walterer Mayberry
Wayne County
Viola (Kennedy) Mayberry
Isaac Wells
Rover Smith
Waave Kx Ei Me Ltd
Cason-Whitoff Funeral Home
West
Wood Street
Decatur
Roy G. Stewart Rites Saturday
Funeral services for Roy G. Stewart, 75, will be held Saturday at 2 00 p m in the Chapel of the Pulley Funeral Home with the Rev Bird Green officiating Masonic services will be conducted and military rites at the grave will be in charge of Jefferson Post 141 American Legion The body will remain at Myers Chapel where friends may call Mr Stewart a Spanish American War veteran died yesterday He resided on RFD 7 Mt Vernon
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Roy G. Stewart
Pulley Funeral Home
Bird Green
Jefferson Post 141
American Legion
Myers Chapel
Stewart
RFD
Mt. Vernon
Funeral Sunday for Eathel Beeson
Funeral services for Eathel Beeson who died Thursday will be at 2 p m Sunday at Myers Chapel with Rev Bird Green officiating. Burial follows at Richardson Hill Cemetery Hamilton county. Friends may call after 2 p m Saturday at Myers Chapel. She was 69 and widow of Abraham Lincoln Beeson. Survived by foster son Claude Porter Mt Vernon and foster daughter Mrs Noma Krueger Chicago.
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Eathel Beeson
Myers Chapel
Bird Green
Richardson Hill Cemetery
Hamilton County
Beeson
Abraham Lincoln Beeson
Claude Porter
Mt. Vernon
Noma Krueger
Chicago
Mt Vernon Lodge to Hold Special Meeting Friday Evening
A special meeting of Mt Vernon Lodge No 31 A F and A M will be held Friday April 22 at 730 p m Work in First Degree Visiting brethren welcome R Apgar W M Wm E Reavis Secy A second note: Mil dred Sherrod Federated Club meeting at Pavey Chapel C M E Church Sunday at 509 pm Business of importance Ruth Wright pres
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Mt. Vernon Lodge
A. F
A. M
Ee R. Apgar
W. M
Wm. E. Reavis
Sec'y
Mildred Sherrod
Hospital Notes at GOOD SAMARITAN and JEFFERSON MEMORIAL
Admits include Mrs Janie Goldie Grisham from Eldorado and Wilbur Holland at Jefferson Memorial. Discharges feature Byron Lee Rucker and Mrs Ruth Fenn with infant son Charles Fenn, plus Mrs Mary Ton dini. Names and places reflect routine hospital admissions and discharges across two facilities.
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Good Samaritan
Janie Goldie Grisham
Eldorado
Beulah M. Stover
Gladys LaVerne Creel
Lee Kniffen
Byron Lee Rucker
Hilda Mary Huston
Virginia Lee Johnson
Robert Lowry
JoAnn Eleanore Henn
Rochelle
Catherine Mary Harvey
Ruth Fenn Pene
Charles Fenn
Jefferson Memorial
Wilbur Holland
Maxine Sneed
Whittington
Letha Garren
RFD
Dix
Nadine Augusta Dodge
Opdyke
Mary Tondini
Burns Reelected As Sparta Mayor and Slate Victory
Sparta Mayor J. M. Burns won reelection with his full slate of four commissioners by a large margin. Burns defeated Edward W. Haury 1092 to 592. The rival candidates had backed a city manager form of government but dropped that plan after the primary, and Burns victory ends advocacy for the manager plan locally.
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Sparta
J. M. Burns
Burns
Edward W. Haury
Mt V Youth Enlists in United States Air Force
Gail R. Bullock of Mt. Vernon announces son Mount Vernon Route 1 resident has enlisted in the U S Air Force. Airman Bullock reports to Lackland AFB Texas after four years in the U S Army.
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Gail R. Bullock
David S. Bullock
Route 1
Mt. Vernon
United States Air Force
T/Set
Alvin J. Byrne
Air Force
Bullock
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Texas
U. S. Army
North Carolina Red Leader Is Given 6 Years
Communist party leader Junius I. Scales was sentenced to six years in prison for advocating violent revolution. He will not receive bail pending appeal as Judge Albert V. Bryan set the final outcome and noted the maximum possible sentence was 10 years and a $10,000 fine. Scales, 35, chairman in the Carolinas, argued beliefs cannot be tried in court while claiming innocence and comparing the trial to a medieval heresy proceeding. Claude Lightfoot, another admitted Communist, had been convicted earlier in Chicago and received five years and a $5,000 fine.
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Greensboro
N. C
Junius I. Scales
U. S. Federal Dist
Albert V. Bryan
U. S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Scales
Communist Party
Carolinas
Lightfoot
Claude Lightfoot
Chicago
North Carolina
Cyclist Fleeing Police Loses Foot
Associated Press reports 18 year old Harry Nelson of Springfield lost his left foot Thursday after his motorcycle skidded under a passing freight train during a police chase. Nelson fled after a radar speed check, attempted a turn beside Gulf Mobile and Ohio tracks, and was hospitalized with reckless driving charged filed by police.
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Springfield
Harry Nelson
Nelson
Gulf, Mobile
Ohio
Theft reported of 14 foot Arkansas Traveler boat
John Manion of No 2 Hinman Place reported to the sheriff yesterday the theft of his 14 foot Ark ansas Traveler boat from Camp Kingman at the reservoir four miles north of Mt Vernon. It was not known when the boat was stolen.
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John Manion
Hinman Place
Sheriff's Office
Camp Kingman
Mt. Vernon
$20,000 Lawsuit Settled Here
A $20,000 lawsuit was compromised and settled out of court and dismissed in circuit court yesterday by Circuit Judge Charles T. Randolph. The case: Judith Ann Crowder by her mother Doris Crowder and Charles Crowder versus O. P. Hirons. Damages were sought after Crowder girl was kicked by a pony at the Hirons farm.
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Charles T. Randolph
Judith Ann Crowder
Doris Crowder
Charles Crowder
O. P. Hirons
Crowder
Hirons
Vaccinations At Lowry School
Vaccinations for children and adults at Lowry Consolidated School No. 99 will be held on Wednesday April 27 commencing at 2 00 p m.
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Lowry Consolidated School No. 99
Ticket-Happy Cop Battles 4 Wins As Usual
Chicago officer Jack Muller reported four arrests after stopping a car going the wrong way on a one way street. He detained Mrs. Joan Walters Miss Betty Ann Sturm Edward Stevenson and Thomas Smith. Smith faced assault and battery complaints from two photographers and was held without charges with Stevenson for further investigation. Sturm and Walters faced drunken driving and related charges after bond was posted.
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Chicago
Jack Muller
Stevenson
Muller
Miss Sturm
Walters
Judge Directs Verdict in 1953 Collision Suit
Judge Charles T. Randolph directed a jury to return a verdict for the defendants in a $3,000 damage suit brought by Charles L. Smith against Mid-States Construction Co. and Jim Taylor after a collision at the overhead bridge on State Route 37 north of Mt. Vernon on February 10, 1953. The judge ruled the defendants not guilty after the plaintiff's case.
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Charles T. Randolph
Mt. Vernon
Charles L. Smith
Mid-States Construction Co
Jim Taylor
Taylor
Randolph
Fire Destroys Tourist Boats At Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls Ontario fire destroyed the two Maid of the Mist cruise ships built in 1885 and 1891 leaving hulls. Owner estimates loss at 45000 and replacement value at 350000 with only 25 percent insured. Welding torch blamed. service may be disrupted for summer.
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Associated Press
Niagara Falls
Ont
Maid of the Mist
Niagara River
Horseshoe Falls
Rainbow Bridge
Bey
Carters
Frank Lablond
Maid of the Mist Steamship Co
Lablond
Senators demand quick review of Dixon-Yates Ebasco contract
Two U S senators urged Congress to scrutinize the AEC decision to use Ebasco Services as architect engineer and construction manager for the Dixon Yates process plant at West Memphis The project worth 107 million dollars will supply TVA with power replacing existing TVA supply and has faced strong opposition from TVA area Democrats and defense from Republicans The GAO criticized Ebasco for Joppa Mil report and lawmakers cite need for full explanation from the commission
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Dixon- Yates
AEC
Dixon Yates Utility Group
Ebasco Services, Inc
West Memphis
Ebasco
New York
Joppa
Mil
Paducah
Electric Energy, Inc
General Accounting Office
Congress
Sen. Jackson
D-Wash
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Eisenhower
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Hypnosis Advised for UK Medical Training and Use
Experts in Britain approve hypnosis for medical use and urge training for all future students. A British Medical Association report by three psychiatrists and a family doctor argues hypnosis can ease pain and aid anxiety, stammering, headaches, sleeplessness, and dental and surgical pain under supervision.
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London
Britain
British Medical Assny
British Medical Journal
Association
Wolfson Controls Ward Board Fight Amid Conflict
Wolfson, a towering figure in finance, challenges Ward & Co. for board seats. Ward reports 53,000 employees, 46 states, and sales of 887 million last year. The CIO, formed in 1935, stands for Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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Ward
Adament Avery
Wolfson
University of Georgia
Florida
Montgomery Ward & Co
The
CIO
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Boy brings grandad's money to school in Bronx briefcase
Seven year old Henry Morales from Public School 124 shows up with a money filled briefcase each day. He gives friends cash as his classmates and a candy store rise to a police question. Principal Gallo notes the boy's habit of handling money. Grandfather Pedro Morales arrives from Puerto Rico with 4500 dollars. After the disappearance, the funds are recovered and deposited in a bank.
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Associated Press
New York
Henry Morales
Bronx
Henry
Paul
Johnnie
Pete
J. Roland Gallo
Pedro Morales
Puerto Rico
Grandfather Morales
Airport News Flight Briefs From Fairfield Chicago Springfield
Bill Heidinger flew in from Fairfield today. Donald McLean made a quick trip to Chicago. Frank Weatherford is en route to Springfield.
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Bill Heidinger
Fairfield
Donald McLean
Chicago
Frank Weatherford
Springfield
Mt V Soldier In Movie Scene Here
Mrs. Harry Coberly of Alt Vernon reports her son Pfc.Harry E. Coberly appears in three scenes of the film Battle Cry now at Granada Theatre.He was at Camp Pendleton Calif when made and is now stationed at Bridgeport Calif in Cold Weather Battalion with 53 Aggressor Platoon f 1457009 after 15 months in service.
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Harry Coberly
Jefferson, Alt. Vernon
Harry E. Coberly
Granada
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Bridgeport
Warry E. Coberly
Mindanao Volcano Makaturing Erupts Evacuations Begin
Residents of two Mindanao villages began evacuations as Mt Makaturing spouted smoke and fire. The 5025 foot volcano had not erupted in 50 years. Yormites have lifespans of 30 years or more.
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Associated Press Manila
Mindanao
Mt. Makaturing
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