Home This Weekend For Yank Fliers
Eleven U S airmen freed from Communist captivity will depart Wednesday aboard two C 4s to Travis Air Force Base via Midway and Hawaii Their arrival is planned for Friday with further transport to homes The group requested no mass homecoming, while at Travis an orchestra and floor show will greet them.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
U.S
Air Force
John Knox Arnold
Red China
Travis
Births Report From Local Hospitals
Mr and Mrs Raymond Le Roy Raygurn of Wayne City welcome a daughter at 6 25 this morning in Jefferson Memorial Hospital weighing nine pounds. Mr and Mrs Charlie Vaught of 602 North 7th street have a son born at 2 37 this morning at Jefferson Memorial Hospital weighing six pounds nine and a half ounces. A son to Mr and Mrs Charles B Atchison 1305 Harrison born at 12 09 this morning weighing six pounds one ounce named Charles Barnett Jr. Mr and Mrs Richard Donoho RFD 3 Bluford have a son born at 12 47 Monday afternoon in Good Samaritan Hospital weighing eight pounds one ounce named Craig Alan. Mrs Ray Black RFD 1 Mr Vernon had a son at 7 23 Monday night in Good Samaritan Hospital weighing six pounds ten ounces. Mr Weschel Shaw of Belle Rive has a son born at 7 07 this morning in Good Samaritan Hospital weighing seven pounds two ounces. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Fred Young RFD 1 Opdyke at 9 45 this morning in Good Samaritan Hospital weighing seven pounds and named Betty Joan.
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Raymond Leroy Raygurn
Wayne City
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Charlie Vaught
North 7Th Street
Charles B. Atchison
Harrison
Charles Barnett, Jr
Richard Donoho
Bluford
Good Samaritan Hospital
Craig Alan
Ray Black
RFD
Vernon
Weschel Shaw
Belle Rive
Fred Young
Opdyke
Betty Joanm
Hospital Notes and Discharges at Good Samaritan and Jefferson Memorial
The record lists admissions and discharges for multiple patients across two hospitals. At Good Samaritan: admitted Vera Emeline Place Nettie McIntire Fred Eugene Swayze Hallie Mae East Rose Mary DeWitt Ray Henry Brown Marsh Gun ter Benton Otis Edward Orndorff James B. Winters. discharged Louis William Miller Mabel Gerspacher Katherine Melinda Neal and baby Susan Ella Barbara Ann Von Behren and little son Dale Ames Caldonia Mildred Bowman Ernest Harold Manley. At Jefferson Memorial: admitted Artie Cluck Wilma Lee Rayburn Wayne City Bill Oliver Robert J. Winston Bluford Irene Vaught Roberta Atchison Master Larry Dean Moehlenkamp. discharged Theola Ceg-Hinski Leona Gregory Lois Hogart.
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Good Samaritan
Vera Emeline Place
Nettie McIntire
Fred Eugene Swayze
Hallie Mae East
Rose Mary DeWitt
Ray Henry Brown
Marsh Gunter
Benton
Otis Edward Orndorff
James B. Winters
Crossville
Louis William Miller
Mabel Lucille Gerspacher
Katherine Melinda Neal
Susan Ella
Barbara Ann von Behren
Dale Ames
Caldonia Mildred Bowman
Ernest Harold Manley
Jefferson Memorial
Artie Cluck
Wilma Lee Rayburn
Wayne City
Bill Oliver
Robert J. Winston
Bluford
Irene Vaught
Roberta Atchison
Larry Dean Moehlenkamp
Theola Ceg- Hinski
Waltonville
Leona Gregory
Alma
Lois Hogart
McLeanshoro
Air travel movements across cities from Mt Vernon to Chicago and others
Air and rail style notes list several travelers with city pairs. Bill Sims flew to St Louis. Hap Bolar went to Oklahoma City. Derbert Scott flew to Mt Clemens Michigan. Don McLean took Harold Watson to Chicago Monday night. They returned to Mt Vernon today. Jim McCoy and Joe Hadileck flew from Springfield to Mt Vernon this morning.
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Bill Sims
St. Louis
Hap Bolar
Oklahoma City
Ola
Derbert Scott
Mt. Clemens
Mich
Don McLean
Harold Watson
Chicago
Mt. Vernon
Jim McCoy
Joe Hadileck
Springfield
Bathing beauties ordered to cover in Tokyo shops
Police in Tokyo mandated modest dress for women in certain sandwich shop lap seating areas described as a new come-on. The report notes the women wore tight bathing attire and were told to cover up.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Meeting Tonight
The Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet tonight at 7 30 at City Hall. All members urged to attend. E M Medders secretary Amvets Meeting Wednesday Evening at 7 30 in club rooms Executive meeting at 7 Refreshments after. Leo Luty commander Royal Arch Masons Andrew D Webb Chapter 160 meets Wednesday August 10 at 7 30 P M Lester C Myers H P Cecil N Lovin Secy 8 9
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Y. F. W. Auiliary
Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars
E. M. Medders
Amvets
Leo Luty
Royal Arch Masons
Andrew D. Webb
Lester C. Myers
H. P
Cecil N. Lovin
Segy
Plans for 1956 March of Dimes Begin Here
Jefferson County National Foundation and chapter leaders discussed plans to broaden polio aid and the 1956 March of Dimes drive. They noted funds are needed as vaccine benefits will be limited this year and that aid to patients has reached about $2,200 already.
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Jefferson County
National Foundation For
Jack Mathews
National Foundation
Frank Fellmeier
Mathews
Fettmeier
Girl stowaway on warship to be sent home
Joycelyn Joan Pilapil a 16 year old Hawaiian girl stowed away aboard the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan. She is charged with delinquency for secreting herself and remaining aboard. A U S commissioner ordered her held in juvenile hall on $500 bail pending a full hearing next Monday. The U S Attorney and probation service will seek repatriation to her parents in Hilo. She asked to contact an uncle in San Francisco to visit the West Coast if bail is posted. The hearing was closed and the uncle’s name was not disclosed.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
California
Joycelyn Joan Pilapil
Athabaskan
U. S
Hilo
San Francisco
No Decision On Transferring Of Mt. V Airport
The city council and the airport authority discussed transferring Mt. Vernon Municipal Airport property from the city to the airport group. No definite decision was announced and it appeared likely the groups would meet again to discuss the transfer of property. Councilmen in informal session also debated water rate increases and other city problems.
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Airport Authority
Mt. Vernon Municipal Airport
Bartender Rules Water Adds Whisky Not Whisky
The U S Court of Appeals rules a bartender may add water to whisky but cannot add more whisky. In a 2 1 decision handed down Monday the court said federal law forbids adding any substance to a partly filled liquor bottle on which a tax is due. Water bears no tax. The ruling stems from the government’s appeal of eight cases dismissed in St Paul Minnesota.
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ST. Louis
U. S. Court of Appeals
St. Paul
Martin and Lewis Stay Together as Comedy Duo
Hollywood reports Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis met at Paramount to settle feuding and agreed to continue as America's highest paid comedy team. Martin said they would fulfill contracts and return to work. Lewis had no comment.
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Hollywood
Martin and Lewis
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Paramount
Y. Frank Freeman
America
Martin
Lewis
Judge Hudgins Pays Back State Tax Debt
Fairfax Va Trial Justice Ernest N Hudgins paid 342 in back Virginia income taxes today and then returned to the bench to judge 100 delinquent taxpayer cases. Hudgins owed from 1948 through 1953 and a judgment motion had been pending.
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Associated Press
Fairfax
Ernest N. Hudgins
Virginia
Hudgins
Youths Attend Farmers Union Summer Camp
Sebel Davis president of the Jefferson County Farmers Union and four youths from Jefferson and Hamilton counties returned from a week at the Farmers Union summer camp in Eagle Falls Wisconsin. The group included Ronald Shafer Keith Billy Davis Jimmy Niksach and Laura Lou Boyer. One hundred ten youngsters from six states attended the camp run by the national Farmers Union with instructors from Colorado Oklahoma and Texas guiding crafts swimming boating and other activities.
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Sebel Davis
Jefferson County
Ike Makes Good Ladies Day Score
Gettysburg PA President Eisenhower played golf at Gettysburg Country Club for Ladies Day. He posted a four over par 39 on his second nine holes, his best score there in weeks, walking the course with Brig. Gen. Arthur Nevins instead of using carts. Temperature was 75.
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Associated Prosa
Gettysburg
Gettysburg Country Club
Eisenhower
Arthur S. Nevins
City Workers Halt Strike at Metropolis Plant
Metropolis Illinois union officials said the International Operating Engineers agreed to submit the grievance to the Illinois Department of Labor for arbitration. Picket lines had blocked coal delivery to the water and power plant, threatening an immediate shutdown of city services.
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Associated Press
Metropolis
Ill
Metropolis Water and Power
International Operating Engineers Union
Clinois Department of Labor
Beauty Speaks 6 Words In Benny Goodman Story
Miss Universe Sweden's Hillevi Rombin begins film career with a six word line in The Benny Goodman Story. Her line Just one more, please, Mr Goodman wraps a scene with Steve Allen. She shares the frame with Darlene King Johnson, Miss Vermont and later Miss U S A.
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Associated Preys
Hollywood
Sweden
Hillevi Rombin
Benny Goodman
Mr. Goodman
Universal - International
Steve Allen
Darlene King Johnson
Vermont
Rambi
Long Beach
Mourn Nagasaki A Bomb Victims Ten Years Later
In Nagasaki Japan a memorial day gathers 300000 mourners paying tribute to the 70000 killed by the second atomic bombing ten years ago. Bells toll and citizens bring incense and flowers in remembrance.
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Associated Press
Nagasaki
Japan
Olney Reports First 1955 Polio Case
Eddie R. Gard, 26, of Olney, is Richland County's first polio victim of 1955. Relatives said attendants at St. John's hospital in Springfield report his condition satisfactory. Gard, the father of three children, was taken to St. John's Monday.
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Associated Press
Olney
Eddie R. Gard
Richland County
St. John's Hospital
Springfield
Gard
St. John's
Blinney reports severe Australian blizzard hits southeast
Wintry gales swept New South Wales and Victoria as southeast Australia faced its worst blizzard of the year. The storm disrupted transport and weather offices warned of worsening conditions across major cities.
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Associated Press
Sydney
Australia
New South Wales
Victoria
Barbs by Hal Cociran on hostess duties and manners
A humor column notes decorators treating painting as play for husbands and questions guest help with hosts. It jokes about perfection, peaches, and postcard greetings amid summer heat and shared domestic tasks.
Decree Death For Korean Who Questioned Dean
South Korean army court-martial condemned Lee Chang Kwang to death for aiding the enemy by passing information from Maj. Gen. William F. Dean during the Korean War. Rhee and higher tribunals must approve the sentence, likely by firing squad. Lee, 25, was an intelligence officer for the local Communist party near Taejon and was arrested in July after Dean's capture.
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Seoul
Lee Chang Kwang
William F. Dean
Lee
Dean
Rhee
Communist Party Committee
Taejon
No Clues Found In Kansas City Kidnap Slaying
Kansas City area police and federal and state authorities investigate the slaying of 34 year old Mrs Wilma Allen wife of William R Allen Jr a wealthy automobile dealer found nude in a pasture 20 miles southwest of Kansas City Abduction and sexual motive suspected robbery and ransom questions remain unreadable among hundreds of tips
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Wilma Allen
FBI
Motorcycle Stolen From Lot On North Ninth Street
Gardner Edwards of 2408 Casey Avenue reported a 1953 red Harley Davidson motorcycle stolen from a lot on North Ninth Street. License 16150. He parked it while he went to a movie and returned to find it missing.
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Gardner Edwards
Casey Avenue
North Ninth Street
Edwards
Cars Collide West Of Dix In Jefferson County
A minor accident on a rural gravel road about a mile west of Dix left no injuries. Calvin D. Paisley of RFD 9 and Joe Wegmann of RFD 5 drove the cars. Deputy Sheriff John Richardson investigated the 7:00 PM collision.
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Jefferson County
Calvin D. Paisley
RFD
Joe Wegmann
RFD 5
Dix
John Richardson
North Carolina Virginia In Storm Path
A weather update describes a storm moving through North Carolina and Virginia with the center shifting 120 miles north and east and 30 miles southwest. Gales extend 350 miles north and east and 150 miles southwest. A Navy flier who piloted a plane into the eye calls it the biggest storm seen. Lt. R. T. Pittman of Covington, Georgia, notes the eye is 38 miles across.
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Ward
Navy Fiier
Navy
R. T. Pittman
Covington
Illinois Atomic Power Plant Plans Approved
Washington approves two privately drafted atomic reactor projects led by Detroit Edison Co and Commonwealth Edison in a bid to advance nuclear power know-how. Plans include a 100,000 kilowatt fast breeder plant in Detroit Edison's service area by 1959 and a 180,000 kilowatt boiling water reactor near the Kankakee and Des Plaines Rivers by 1960, with license considerations and no government financial aid.
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Washington
Detroit Edison Co. and Associates
Nuclear Power Group
Commonwealth Edison Co
Chicago
John von Neumann
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Detroit Edison and Associates
Detroit Edison
Kankakee
Des Plaines
von Neumann
Nuclear Group
Detroit Edison Group
Navy Secretary to Review Landy Case Over Communist Ties
Secretary of the Navy Thomas will personally review Eugene Landy’s record after a board twice recommended against granting him a Naval Reserve commission. Landy, 21, of Bradley Beach, New Jersey, sailed Sunday as a deckhand on the Western Sun. His mother, Deborah Landy, admitted membership in the Communist party during World War II.
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Associated Press
Washington
Thomas
Eugene Landy
Naval Reserve Commission
Landy
Bradley Beach
N. J
Western Sun
Marcus Hook
Beaumont
Tex
Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point
N.Y
Navy Reserve
Navy Department
Deborah Landy
Communist Party
Murphy Chain Expands As Earnings Rise Year Half
W W C Shaw chairman and J S Mack president reported G C Murphy Company earned 2 712 935 for six months to June 30 1955 equal to 1 20 a share versus 2 488 886 or 1 07 in 1954. July sales climbed 7 8 percent to 14 641 078. Two new stores opened in first six months and a third on July 21 with four more planned. Plans show twenty more stores in 1956 57 and six in new adjacent states. Expansion funded without using shareholder borrowing authorization.
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W. C. Shaw
J. S. Mack
G. C. Murphy Company
Three-Car Collision At 15th And Broadway
Mt. Vernon police reported two accidents Monday at 15th and Broadway. Kathryn McCarty of Benton stopped for a left turn, Vance Mayse struck her car, and Neil Rombough’s car then hit McCarty’s. Mayse charged with careless driving. a separate hit-and-run occurred when a driver unknown backed into Madelyn Creek’s car near the crossing.
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Mt. Vernon
15Th
Broadway
Kathryn McCarty
Benton
Vance E. Mayse
Mannen
Neil R. Rombough
Main
Rombough
McCarty
Mayse
15Th and Broadway
Madelyn Creek
Cherry Street
Flood in Dacca Leaves About 2200 Homeless
Floodwaters continued to rise in Dacca East Pakistan driving about 2,200 people from their homes. The slow advance of the waters swelled over parts of the city as relief efforts began.
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India
Associated Press
Dacca
East Pakistan
Marriage Linkage for Raymond Majewski and Marcella Ochap
DuBois resident Raymond Majewski obtained a marriage license to wed Marcella Ochap of Waltons. Records show the couple filed the necessary documents and will proceed with the ceremony in the coming weeks.
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Raymond Majewski
Dubois
Marcella Ochap
Waltonsville
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Ike
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Minn
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N.D
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Miami
Fla
United States
Royal Air Force
Defense Department
Britain
Department
Walter Wohlford
Freeport
Susan
Anne
Sandra
Wohlford
Connie
Lloyd Drennan
Champaign
Greenwich Village
New York City
Washington Park Square
N. Carolina
Johncan Motor Co
9Th and
Harrison Streets
Illinois Atomic Power Plant
Commie
Florist
D. H. Wise Clothing Company
Bostonian
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