Deaths Mrs Baltzell of Mt Vernon Dies at 73
Mrs Bessie May Baltzell aged 73 died at Good Samaritan Hospital after a few days illness. Funeral services will be at Myers Opel at 3:30 p.m. with Rev. David Lynch officiating. Burial in Bethel Cemetery. She was born July 10 1887 in Jefferson County. Survived by three sons Dearwood Lester and Ray Baltzell, one daughter Mae Dixon, and many relatives. She was a member of the First Church of God.
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Bessie May Baltzell
Puth 13Th Street
Good Samaritan Hosital
Myers Opel
David Lynch
Bethe Cemetery
Myers Chapel
Baltzell
Jefferson County
Zachariah
Sophia [Risley
Mrs Maryfean White Funeral Services Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Maryfean White, 67, of McLeansboro, will be at 2:00 p.m. Friday at Ten Mile Baptist Church near McLeansboro with Rev. R. L. Schlagg and Rev. John B. Maulding officiating. Burial in I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Body lies in state at Gholson Funeral Home. She died Tuesday at Hamilton Memorial Hospital. Born October 14, 1892, in Hamilton County, daughter of John and Lillie Hindman. She was married to Cloyd White, who survives.
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Maryfean White
Ten Mile Baptist Church
McLeansboro
R. L. Schlagg
John B. Maulding
Everett Williams Rites Saturday
Funeral services for Everett Williams of Benton Road will be held at Myers Chapel at 9 30 Saturday morning conducted by Rev. Robert Freytag Burial will be in Vermilion Grove cemetery Vermilion Grove Friends may call at Myers Chapel after 3 p m Friday
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Everett Williams
Benton Road
Myers Chapel
Robert Freytag
Vermilion Grove Cemetery
Vermilion Grove
Fil
Fear Deepens Over Luzon Flood Toll
Manila dispatch reports flood waters receding in central Luzon but a provincial official fears hundreds more bodies may be found after two weeks of relentless monsoon rains. At least 42 deaths are confirmed with hundreds injured or missing across three central provinces.
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Manila
Luzon
Births Reported at Good Samaritan Hospital
Mr and Mrs Delmar Farthing of 911 Jones welcomed a son weighing six pounds seven ounces born at 1 00 yesterday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Harry Sharer of 1021 Fairfield Road welcomed a daughter Julianne Clare born at 11 40 yesterday morning weighing six pounds eight ounces. Mr and Mrs Richard Spearman of 1216 South 10th Street welcomed a daughter born at 10 20 last night.
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Delmar Farthing
Jones
Good Samaritan Hospital
Harry Sharer
Fairfield Road
Julianne Clare
Richard Spearman
South 10Th Street
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admissions and Discharges
Jefferson Memorial admitted Mrs Edna Mildred Martin of Bluford and Mrs Mary Lou Kenley of Xenia. Discharges include Mrs Bertie Cros no and Mrs Orpha Marie Rector. Good Samaritan admitted Jo Ann Osborn Carol Sue Tate Velma Fletcher Breazeale and others. Discharged list includes Ruth May Fraz ier Mrs Joe Rice and baby Maria Donette and several others.
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Jefferson Memorial
Edna Mildred Martin
Bluford
Mary Lou Kenley
Xenia
Bertie Crosno
Orpha Marie Rector
Good Samaritan
Jo Ann Osborn
Carol Sue Tate
Velma Fletcher Breazeale
Donald Lee Maas
Susie Marie Koeberlein
Ruth May Frazier
Joe Rice
Maria Donette
Edna Mae Monaghan
Charles Clifton
Delores Stokes
Shirley Marie Wilson
Peggy Sue
Janet Sue Parrish
Alison Renea
Almeda Teresa Runnels
Royal Neighbors Meet and Masonic Session Aug 19
Royal Neighbors of America Fern Leaf Camp 694 will meet at I C O F Temple at 7 30 p m August 19 All members urged to attend Special meeting Mt Vernon No 31 AF and A M Friday evening August 19 9 30 p m Work in second degree Brethren welcome Officials Mabry Apgar and James R.
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Royal Neighbors
Fern Leaf Camp
Royal Neighbors of
America
Mt. Vernon E No
de- Orisi Bretheren
Taylor R. Mabry
W. M. James R.”Apgar
Sec'y
U2 Pilot Testifies 80 Minutes in Moscow Hearing
The U2 pilot Powers testified for 80 minutes reacting to questions about the Pakistan mission and possible NATO tensions. He described a deadly curare-like needle and noted the plan could have aimed to provoke a summit conference disruption. Prosecutors pressed Pakistan’s knowledge and the flight path toward Bodoe Norway.
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Ivan Zhaanov
Oliver W. Powers
Powers
Soviet Trade Union
Barbara
Oliver W. Poivers
Pound
Ida Ford Powlers
Roman Rudenko
Rudenko
Bodoe
Turkey
Greece
Italy
France
Austria
Switzerland
West Germany
Denmark
Norway
Mikhail I. Grimov
Col
William Shelton
Grimov
Col. Shelton
Barbara Powers
Moscow
Ingar Sverdlovsk
Weather summary for Illinois region as heat continues
The Associated Press reports sticky warm weather across Illinois with mainly cloudy skies. Temperatures hovered in the 80s and 90s and humidity stayed between 70 and 90 percent, gradually easing. Scattered thunderstorms dropped rain in localities including 0.34 inch in Springfield. Wednesday highs ranged from Chicago 78 to 93 at Vandalia, while today’s lows spanned 62 at Rantoul to 73 at Moline.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Chicago
Vandalia
Rantoul
Moline
Albany
Albuquerque
Anchorage
Atlanta
Bismarck
Boston
Buffalo
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Iort Worth
Helena
Honolulu
Iidnapaolis
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St. Paul
New Orleans
New York
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Omaha
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Ore
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Richmond
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Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tampa
Washington
Illinois
Belleville Moline
Kennedy Struggles to Advance Elderly Medical Care Plan
Senator Kennedy, the presidential nominee, faces Democratic and Republican resistance to funding elderly medical care via social security taxes. President Eisenhower denounced the idea as compulsory medicine, while urging broader action on his 21 point legislative program presented after the conventions.
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John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Democratic Congress
Nixon Will Not Use Religion as Campaign Issue
In a televised news conference Nixon said he supports sit-in demonstrations begun by students this year and spread to other states. He hopes religion will not be a major campaign issue, noting his opponent Senator John F Kennedy is a Roman Catholic and stating he will focus on other issues.
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Nixon
John F. Kennedy
M Essachusetts
France's Duclos Warns US May Strike Cuba Over Nationalized Property
Havana AP report states Jacques Duclos a leading French Communist warned that American anger over Cuba's nationalization of U.S. property could trigger a U.S. military attack on Cuba. He spoke Wednesday night describing the tense moment in Cuba and U.S. policy.
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Havana
Jacques Duclos
France
United States
Fidel Castro
U.S
Cuba
Damaged Plane Witnesses Describe Rescue and Captivity
Witnesses testified to a loud explosion on May 1 as a parachute descended, and they rushed to aid Powers before discovering he was a foreigner. He carried a long barreled pistol and a hunting knife, and villagers handed him to local security police after deflating his parachute. Powers thanked the man who helped him, prompting laughter in court.
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Powers
America
P. E. Asabin
Asabin
Ald
Start Work On New Penal Farm In Vienna Illinois
Johnson County reports 1600 acres under option for a new one million dollar state penal farm with construction planned to start next month. Sheriff Dallas says officials aim to options 3050 acres, with a 2000 acre minimum security facility and extra land. Average option price cited at 65 dollars per acre.
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Vienna, Lll
Johnson County
Miami
Vienna
Glenn Dallas
Dallas
Echo Tonite Times For Illinois NASA Satellite
NASA lists Echo satellite appearances across Illinois with slight regional timing variances. In Chicago area windows include tonight at 7 46 p m low in south horizon and 9 56 p m high to south, plus Friday early morning slots 12 02 a m and 2 08 a m with high north and southeast trajectories and a 4 15 a m south mid level pass.
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Chicago
Illinois
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Markets Livestock at National Stockyards AP report
National Stockyards market results show hogs 8 500 head with prices across weight ranges from 13.25 to 35.00 per cwt. Sows and bears listed with weights and prices. cattle and calves include yearlings around 24.25 and assorted cows from 12.00 to 26.00. Sheep offerings 600 head with spring lambs 17.00 to 19.50 and other grades 14.00 to 16.50. slaughter venison values noted 3.50 to 4.50 for venes.
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National
USDA
Market notes show grain bids and prices
In Chicago the AP reports no wheat or soybean sales while corn No 2 yellow stands at 1.20 and oats No 1 heavy white at 68.34. Soybean oil trades at 54 ba, barley priced making choice 1.10 to 1.20 and feed at 85 to 1.00.
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Chicago
Chicago Produce Butter and Eggs Report
Chicago Mercantile Exchange shows butter steady with receipts of 586000 and wholesale buying prices unchanged. Eggs firm with receipts of 10200 and prices 1 to 3 higher. grade A whites 37 cents, mixed 36, mediums 30, standards 30, dirties 28.
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Chicago (Ap
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago Poultry Receipts Reported at 32000 Lbs
Chicago poultry market reported yesterday's receipts at 32000 pounds with no prices due to insufficient lots. The note from AP and USDA signals limited data on live poultry transactions in the region.
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Chicago
USDA
Egg and live poultry prices and grades in St. Louis
St Louis AP lists eggs and live poultry prices and grades. Consumer grades show A large to A small ranges from 35 to 18 cents per dozen. wholesale and farm run lines from 60 to 28 cents for various categories. Hens heavy 15 to 16 cents per pound. light hens over 5 pounds 12 to 12 percent. under 5 pounds 10 to 12. old roosters 9 to 11.
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ST. Louis
Mt. Vernon Grain Prices Quoted After Noon
Mt Vernon grain prices were cited with Wheat at 1.70 dollars Soybeans 2.03 dollars and Corn 1.05 dollars for this afternoon.
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Mt. Vernon
Wall Street Day Ends Mixed as Profit Taking Rises
In quiet trading on Wall Street, stocks edged mixed with a modest gain at the open fading to small changes. Volume totaled about 2.8 million shares versus 3.09 million Wednesday as autos and aircraft rose early then faltered. Major names like American Motors, Martin, United Aircraft, Lionel, and Lorillard saw mixed moves while government and corporate bonds held firmer late in the session.
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New York
American Motors
Martin
United Aircraft
Lionel
American Tobacco
Lorillard
U.S
Unemployed in Mt. Vernon May Get $427500 Aid Fight
Springfield AP Witwer charges Sen Douglas plan neglects small towns. He cites Dirksen plan as directed to downstate Illinois, listing Mount Vernon with 2850 unemployed and proposed funds of 427500 versus 195000 under Douglas. He asserts both bills total about 75 million for rebuilding industry in distressed areas.
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Springfield
Ill
Samuel W. Witwer
U.S
Paul Douglas
D-Ill
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Illinois
Witwer
Douglas
New York
Philadelphia
Dirksen
Congress
Centralia
Mount Vernon
Harrisburg
Murphysboro
Herrin
West Frankfort
Type O Blood Donors Urgently Needed in Mt Vernon
Type O blood donors are urgently requested during the Red Cross Bloodmobile visit to Mt. Vernon on August 22 and 23. Regional Red Cross headquarters notes O negative is in very short supply and needed in the area. The Bloodmobile opens Monday and Tuesday from noon to 6 p.m. for all donors.
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Red Cross
Mt. Vernon
American personal income hits record annual pace
Washington AP reports that individual American income rose to a record annual rate of 407 billion dollars for last month. The Commerce Department attributed the gain to a federal pay raise and a surge in construction, offset by declines in farm income and manufacturing payrolls. The June year rate increased by about one billion dollars, roughly a quarter of one percent.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Hammerstein II Described As Very Sick Man
DOYLESTOWN PA AP Os car Hammerstein II noted by Dr Raymond Tice as a very sick man due to recurring stomach cancer. Age 65, regressing in weeks but not in critical condition. Hammerstein, at home, had abdominal surgery last year for cancer. He collaborated with Richard Rodgers on major musicals. Lumber production has long history in Oregon.
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Doylestown
Oscar Hammerstein II
Raymond Tice
Hammerstein
Tice
Richard Rodgers
U S Lutherans Told To Accept Mission Work
About 2 600 delegates at the Luther League Convention of the American Lutheran Church urged youths to commit two years to foreign mission work. Rev. Caroll L. Hinderlie of Minneapolis called on teens to persuade peers to join and to lobby their congressmen for support and subsistence funds. The convention aims to merge Luther Leagues into a single unit Jan 1 as a new constitution is adopted.
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Milwaukee
American Lutheran Church
Caroll L. Hinderlie
Minneapolis
Hinderlie
Luther League
Lutheran Leagues
Senate rejects two wage bill coverage cuts
The Senate votes 56 to 39 to reject a retail exemption and 54 to 39 to defeat a Dirksen substitute, keeping Kennedy's plan to raise the minimum wage to 1.25 dollars and extend coverage to about five million workers, mainly in retail, hotels, and restaurants, while negotiations continue on other amendments.
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Joe Hall Washington
Senate
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Sen
Spessard Ie Holland
D-Fla
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
A. S
Mike Monroney
Okla
Waltonville District Opens August 29 Schools
Three Waltonville community unit district schools Waltonville high school Waltonville grade school and Nason grade school will open Monday August 29 Supt Sidney S Hirons announced Registration for all grades is at 9 00 a m on opening day Students will be dismissed after registration Buses run August 29 on last year routes with changes to follow after the first day of school
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Waltonville Community Unit
Supt
Sidney S. Hirons
Waltonville
Nason
Plane crash in Casablanca kills 20 aboard
A four engine military transport plane exploded and crashed in southern Morocco killing all 20 aboard. The victims were French sailors and their families en route to a base near Agadir.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Agadir
CORE trainees arrested after attempting to eat in Miami cafe
Eighteen CORE students and one instructor were arrested in Miami after entering Shell's City Restaurant to sit at four tables as part of a three week nonviolent integration course. Twelve chose jail over bond while six were released on $100 bonds posted by CORE.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Florida
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Shell’s
City
James R. Robinson
New York City
Vintage pop hits and album prices listed
A retro catalog of long play albums and stereo prices begins at 1.49 dollars and 2.98 dollars. The note lists artists such as Roy Orbison Ricky Nelson Elvis Presley Dion the Belmonts Johnny Burnette Frankie Lymon and Sam Cooke among others with related song titles.
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Quiy the Lonely
Roy Orbison
Ricky Nelson
Laura
Ray Peterson
Johnny Prestont
Elvis Prestey
Sandy Stewart
Over the Rainbow
Demensions
Little Bitty
Pretty One
Frankie Lymon
Dion & the Belmonts
Jimmy Jones
Annette Dreamin
Johnny Burnette
Red Salts In
the Platters
Big Boy
Pete
Donnie Brooks
I Met
You Baby
Bobby Vee
Vaquero
You
Sam Cooke
Connie Francis
Mr. Custer
Larry Verne
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Labor Department
Mt. W
Hammerstein II
Oregon
Judi Meredith
Isenate
Monroney
Lumumba
Leopoldville, the Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Katanga
United Nations
Ghana
Soviet Union
Hammarskjold
Congo
U.N
Boy's Dept
the Twist
Freddie Cannon
45 RPM
Paci
Munsingwear and
LeRoy
New Fall Cottons and Cor
Duroys
Ivy
Tal Styles
Levi's
Farah
Texas
Buckaroos
Big Smith
Levi
Kaynee
the Mammoth Dept. Store
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