Deaths Edith J Fortune Dies At Age 66
Edith J Fortune 66 of 3116 Apple died 11 10 am Wednesday in Good Samaritan Hospital Ashland burial in Ashland cemetery and funeral services planned in Ashland born March 27 1910 in Pikeville daughter of Frank and Nell Wayland married to W G Fortune in 1928 survived by son Richard A Fortune member of First Presbyterian church and Newomers Club
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Edith Jane Fortune
Apple
Good Samaritan Hospital
Ashland
Ashland Cemetery
Fortune
Pikeville
Frank and
Nell
Sword) Wayland
W.G
Dick) Fortune
Richard A
Obituary: Arla Faye Marshel 1897 69 Sims
Mrs Arla Faye Marshel 69 of Sims died Wednesday in Fairfield Memorial Funeral services set for 2 00 p m Saturday at Sims Christian Church Rev Oakley Miller to officiate Burial in Thomason Cemetery Body lies in state at Richardson Chapel Wayne City after 3 00 p m Friday Survivors include two sons Nelson and James Marshes three daughters Bess Fenton Lois Patterson and Doris Cunningham two brothers Mort and Maurice Carrell 15 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren
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Arla Faye Marshel
Sims
Fairfield Memorial Hospital
Sims Christian Church
Oakley Miller
Thomason Cemetery
Richardson Chapel
Wayne City
Marshel
Nelson
Etta (Parkinson) Carrell
Ephriam Marshel
James Marshes
Bess Fenton
Lois Patterson
Neponset
Til
Doris Cunningham
Decatur, Ill
Mort
Maurice Carrell
Fairfield
Maine mother acquitted by insanity in bathtub drownings
Constance Fisher, 38, found innocent by reason of insanity in the murders of her six children in a repeated pattern from 12 years earlier. A nine by three jury concluded she was insane and must be committed to Augusta State Hospital. Dr. Rohm testified she suffers from a mental disease marked by desperate gloom and hopelessness.
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Skowhegan
Maine
Constance Fisher
Fisher
Albert Knudsen
Fairfield
Maine Commissioner of Health and Corrections
Augusta State Hospital
Nathalie
Kathleen
Michael
Walter Rohm
Custer Hotel Fixtures to be Auctioned in Galesburg
In Galesburg Illinois auction will sell fixtures of the Custer Hotel a 159 room six story brick building opened in 1910 once a hub for travelers from Burlington and Santa Fe depots. After years of financial trouble the property under receivership since 1965 was bought in 1966 for 145000. An emergency fire prevention order may cost thousands if the building stays in use.
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Galesburg
Ill
Custer
Burlington and
Santa Fe
Four fined in Circuit Court for traffic offenses
Circuit Court fined four persons for traffic offenses. David M. Reeves of Waltonville paid $10 for careless driving. James William Francis of Perkins paid $25 for disturbance. Rickie J. Newton of Kankakee paid $20 for speeding. Vincent J. Oberhofer of Ashley on Route 2 paid $25 for reckless driving.
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David M. Reeves
Waltonville
James William Francis
Perkins
Rickie J. Newton
Kankakee
Vincent J. Oberhofer
Ashley
Weather update from MT and Vernon on Wednesday
Mild upswing across Illinois after a frigid wave. Temperatures rose into the teens and 20s with a few places near zero overnight. Readings at Stockton and Wheaton showed about a 30 degree increase from the prior day, with highs around 25 to 26 in Cairo, Vandalia and Belleville and a low near zero in East Dubuque. Light snow lingered in northern sections, while the Ohio River area remained around 19 degrees. Frigid conditions eased as milder Friday forecasts predicted 40s in Southern Illinois.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Stockton
Wheaton
Joe Davies
East
Dubuque
Ohio River
Cairo
Vandalia
Belleville
Lawmaker Guilty On Tax Charge Details In Court
Former legislator McCormick faced tax charges linked to a “little big dollar” store venture in his community. He admitted filing late for 1961, filed 1964, and worked on 1963 return as federal agent arrived. Prosecutor Eagleton cited cooperation and lack of tainted funds or kickbacks in recommending sentence.
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Eagleton
McCormick
Meetings A M Mt Vernon Lodge No 31 Special Meeting
Mt Vernon lodge No 31 calls a special meeting Friday January 20 at 7 30 p m. Work in the third degree. W M Bill Salyer and Byron Weld presiding.
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MT. Vernon
Bill Salyer
W.M
Byron Weld
Senate fails in bid to curb filibuster rules
In Washington the 61 to 37 vote halted a bipartisan push for a stronger anti filibuster rule. The action leaves only a two thirds vote option to end debate, with Dirksen signaling opposition and Mansfield avoiding a forecasted outcome.
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Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Mike Mansfield
George McGovern
D-S.d
Dirksen
Hubert H. Humphrey
McGovern
Humphrey
Hospital Notes list admissions and discharges at Jefferson Memorial
The Jefferson Memorial records show Walter Garrison and Vila Georgia Smith admitted, with numerous discharges including Debra Littrell Zelma Warren Victor Walker Moyle Gorham Lester Phillips Arthur Edmison Henrietta Rose Webb Cherryel Modglin Hazel Mick John Witter Grace Williamson Randy Harlan Minnie Phillips Vera Yearwood Earl Bechtel Flossie Ingram Laura Lee Meredith Mary Lou Hester Phyllis Flanagan and baby Robert Wayne Mary Jane Herrod Celia Pestka Jeff Palmer Irene Edith Jones Ina Lindell Book Ina and others.
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Zelma Dean Warren
Pace
Victor Walker
South
Moyle Augustus Gorham
North
Lester Phillips
Good Samaritan
Arthur Edmison
Hillcrest
Henrietta Rose Webb
Herbert
Cherryel Ann Modglin
Hazel Mick
Waltonville
John Witter
Grace Williamson
Bell
Randy Harlan
Minnie Phillips
Welkins
Vera Yearwood
Earl Bechtel
Belle Rive
Flossie Ingram
Dix
Laura Lee Meredith
Lamar
Mary Lou Hester
Oakland
Phyllis Flanagan
Robert Wayne
RFD
Mary Jane Herrod
South 9Th
Celia Pestka
Scheller
Jeff Palmer
South 2Nd
Irene Edith Jones
Ina Arthur Edmison
Lindell Book
Ina
Local births add two boys to city families
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Sledge of 308 South Ninth Street welcomed a son born at 10:09 last night in Good Samaritan hospital, weighing seven pounds. In Memphis, Tennessee, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Schultz had a son born Friday afternoon, December 30, at Baptist Memorial Hospital. He is named Harold Roy. The mother is Susan Glassman. grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Glassman of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Schultz of Memphis.
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Gary Sledge
South Ninth Street
Good Samaritan Hospital
Ken Schultz
Memphis
Tenn
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Harold Roy
Susan Glassman
Joe R. Glassman
This City
Raymond Schultz
Vernon Hog Market Prices Up at Midday
Prices paid until 12 30 p m today rose 75 cents with top hogs at 20 25 for 190 to 220 pounds. Sows gained 50 cents to 16 00 for 300 weight and down 15 75 for heavier sows. Boars rose to 13 00 and 14 00. After 12 30 p m today prices will reflect next day’s figures.
Mt Vernon Grain Prices Quoted This Afternoon
Mt Vernon market notes show soybeans at 2.71, shell corn 1.32, ear corn 1.27 in the post noon quotation.
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Mt. Vernon
St Louis Produce Egg and Poultry Prices Shown
AP notices St Louis market prices for eggs by consumer grades A large 33 35 cents A medium 28 30 A small 18 20 B large 28 29 wholesale 26 27 standard 25 26 unclassified 25 26 checks 14 16 hens heavy 13 light over 5 lbs 9 under 5 lbs no price broilers and fryers 25 26 cents
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Albany
Albuquerque
Aroveane
Atlanta
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Meansovene
Mewane
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fairbanks
Fort Worth
Helena
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Seem
Juneau
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Neevenenen
Miami
Milwaukee
St.p
New Orleans
New York
Okla. City
Omaha
Ptind
Ore
Rapid City
Richmond
St. Louis
Salt Sk. City
Eae
Livestock Quotations From National Stockyards Friday
Livestock prices at National Stockyards Friday show cattle 600 with calves 75 and steers good to choice 23.50 to 25.75 per hundredweight. Heifers 23.00 to 24.00, cows 15.00 to 17.00. Calves steady at 19.00 to 36.00 for top vealers. Hogs 6,000 with barrows and gilts 17.00 to 21.25 and sows 15.25 to 17.00. Sheep small offering with wooled lambs 22.50 to 23.25 and ewes 5.00 to 8.00.
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Til
Grain futures prices for Chicago grain trade
AP report from Chicago shows bid quotes for wheat No. 2 hard at 1.684% per bushel No. 2 red 1.6768, corn No. 2 yellow 1.3944, oats No. 2 heavy white 0.79454, soybeans No. 1 yellow 2.9276, and soybean oil at 10.07.
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Chicago
Chicago Produce Butter and Eggs Market Notes
Chicago Mercantile Exchange report lists butter grades AA and A with scores and percentage targets, plus car grades and egg quality categories. Shows pricing and grade thresholds for the day, reflecting commodity assessments for butter eggs and related products in Chicago.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Wall Street makes net advance amid profit taking
Wall Street showed a narrow gain as reinvestment demand supported trading, with the Dow Jones industrial average at noon up 0.62 to 848.11 and the AP average up 0.2 to 313.3. Hilton International rose two points on consolidation news with TWA, while Du Pont helped lift the averages.
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Dow Jones
Associated Press
Hilton International
TWA
du Pont
International Telephone
American Broadcasting
Texas
New York Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange
New York
Indus
Jack Outland to Join Braniff as Airline Pilot
Dallas native Jack Outland will join Braniff International as an airline pilot. He thanked supporters after his father’s death, saying the Outland family appreciates the help they received during the difficult time.
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Jack Outland
Braniff
Dallas
Outland
Look Sues Chicago Daily News Over JFK Book Serialization
Look magazine seeks more than 200000 in damages in U S District Court Chicago for unfair competition and copyright infringement over Chicago Daily News excerpts from The Death of a President Look also targets Stern in Hamburg for breach of contract Look alleges premature publication and coercive attempts to scoop Look states it embargoed press release until January 10 author William Manchester co-plaintiff and Stern plans an ads campaign defending full serialization amid Mrs Kennedy objections to uncensored text Overall the case centers on unauthorized publication of JFK assassination material and Look's injunction requests against further installments
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New York
Look Magazine
Chicago Daily News
Look
U.S
Chicago
Stern
Hamburg
Germany
Roy Fisher
Fisher
William Manchester
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Look Look
Bonn
Gerd Bucerius
Bucerius
Ulrich Lothmar
Bundestag Committee For Science, Culture and Publications
Lohmar
Highest Award To War Hero At White House
Maj. Bernard F. Fisher of Kuna Idaho receives the Medal of Honor from President Johnson for conspicuous gallantry in Vietnam. He rescued Lt. Col. Dafford W. Myers under heavy fire near Ashau after Fisher landed on a wrecked airstrip to save his stranded colleague. About 2,000 Communist troops were nearby. Fisher’s prior Vietnam service and current base at Hahn AB West Germany are noted, with details on family.
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Bernard F. Fisher
Johnson
Fisher
Kuna
Idaho
Ashau
South Vietnam
Florida
Dafford W. Myers
Myers
San Bernardino
Calif
University of Utah
Air Force
Vietnam
Air Commando
Hahn Air Base
West Germany
Washington
Bella Jane
Cop Killer Witherspoon Loses Another Appeal
William C. Witherspoon, whose death sentence has been stayed seven times, lost another appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court. The court fixed April 21 as his execution date for the 1959 killing of Chicago officer Mitchell Stone. The case has lingered in state and federal courts since 1960.
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Springfield
Ill
William C. Witherspoon
Illinois Supreme Court
Witherspoon
Chicago
Mitchell Stone
Lawmaker seeks ban on university general merchandise store
Springfield Illinois AP reports Speaker Ralph R. Smith and Republican leaders introduced a bill to bar general merchandise sales by state institutions. The proposal would forbid operating stores on state property or leased space, while allowing continued selling of books food beverages and items directly connected with the institution as of January 1 1967. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville plans a 10000 square foot store in the University Center Building.
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Springfield
Ralph R. Smith
R-Alton
Smith
Southern Illinois University At
Edwardsville
University Center
Leftists Stone U S Offices in Bolivian City
In Cochabamba, student demonstrators attacked the U S consulate and other American offices Wednesday night. No injuries were reported. The government blamed leftist agitation over plans for private universities and said opposition leaders were arrested and the U S Embassy would be compensated for damages. Cochabamba lies about 140 miles southeast of La Paz.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
U.S
Cochabamba
Cochabama
146 Year Old Grist Mill Site Found in This County
A historical note describes a grist mill site in this county dating to about 1840. It traces the evolution from hand mill to stump, wind, tread, horse and oxen, water, and steam power, noting a common family likeness despite each year's improvement and varying speeds.
Lynda Johnson Stays in San Francisco Suite
In San Francisco Lynda Bird Johnson occupies a $150 a day presidential suite at the Fairmont Tower on the 23rd floor. A Secret Service agent blocks the hallway and says the trip is strictly business as she works on an undisclosed writing assignment for a national women's magazine.
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San Francisco
Lynda Bird Johnson
Secret Service
Fairmont Tower
Proposed Age 18 For Motorcyclist
Springfield AP report notes Illinois Senate Highways and Motor Vehicles Committee weighs bills to curb under 18 motorcycle riders with tests licensing and age rules. Sen John Gilbert sponsors 18 for drivers 17 learner permits, while Sen Robert Mitchler suggests 17 permit and 16 learner. State official Ciaccio opposes separate motorcycle licenses and differing revocation standards.
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Springfield
Illinois Senate Highways and Motor Vehicles Committee
John Gilbert
Carbondale
Robert W. Mitchler
Rowsego
Nicholas Ciaccio
Paul Powell
Ciaccio
Powell
Strangler Guilty and Insanity Claim in Bain of DeSalvo
AP reports attorney F Lee Bailey says he will challenge Massachusetts insanity law on appeal after Albert DeSalvo known as the Boston Strangler is convicted of robbery and attacking four women in 1964 and given 10 years plus life. Bailey calls it the law's fault and notes his prior defense successes.
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Cambridge
Mass
F. Lee Bailey
Massachusetts
Albert DeSalvo
Boston
DeSalvo
Bailey
Middlesex County Superior Court
Samuel Sheppard
Cleveland
Ohio
Carl Cappolino
New Jersey
Goldwater Ends Vietnam Visit
Barry Goldwater wraps up a four day trip to South Vietnam and says bombing restric tions on Hanoi must be altered to step up and win the war. He will make recommendations on his return to the United States. U S policy bans bombing inside Hanoi but allows strikes on military targets around the city. Some bombs have accidentally fallen in civilian areas near military targets.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Barry Goldwater
Vietnam
Hanoi
Air Force Reserve
United States
U.S
Police Warn Boys Off Mt. Vernon Pond Ice Dangerous
Mt. Vernon police chased a group of boys off the L. and N. pond at the town edge after a routine check at the city park lake. Officers warned ice is thin and dangerous and promised a public announcement when it is safe. Police Chief Fred Dedman urged everyone to stay off the lakes until thick ice returns.
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Mt. Vernon
L. and N. Pond
Fred Dedman
Fires Damage Homes on 9th Street and East Broadway
A kitchen fire at 8:05 last night heavily damaged an unoccupied house at 327 Broadway owned by Joe McDermott. The blaze started in the rear, spread to the attic, and the upstairs suffered heavy fire damage with smoke and water affecting the rest of the house and stored furniture.
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Broadway
Joe McDermott
Fairfield Road
Betty Fleming
South Ninth Street
Federal Public Housing Project
Jerome Leiss
Orange
Shaw Reports 3 Join Chamber
Mt. Vernon Chamber of Commerce adds three new members E.M. Self Sr oil operator Lowell Holloway of Holloway Heating and Byron Hawkins of Texico State Bank. Sam Shaw chair of the membership committee welcomes them to the organization aiding Jefferson County’s economy.
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Mt. Vernon
Car Sails Through Air Kills Driver in Peoria
A car ran out of control in Peoria Illinois and vaulted onto the roof of a home killing the driver identified as June M. Jones thirty of Peoria. The westbound vehicle crossed the centerline struck a culvert and sailed about 13 feet onto the roof, throwing Jones clear as a mirror pierced a kitchen window.
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Peorta
Ill
June M. Jones
Peoria
Washington Street
Larry Sheppard
Plane Down Heiress To $700 Million Lost At Sea
Audrey Bruce Currier, heiress to the Mellon fortune, and her husband Stephen Currier and pilot John D. Watson are missing after a 70 mile flight from San Juan to St. Thomas. Search planes and ships scoured the eastern Caribbean all day without traces. The FAA noted no filed flight plan and delayed launching the search. The missing trio had flown from New York and Miami with yacht and sloop aiding the hunt. They left three children behind in New York.
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San Juan
P. R
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Audrey Bruce Currier
Andrew W. Mellon
Stephen R. Currier
St. Thomas
John D. Watson
David K.E. Bruce
U.S
Britain
Ailsa Mellon Bruce
Pittsburgh
Curriers
FAA
Albert McGregor
Watson
Coast Guard
New York
Plains
Miami
West Indies
Andria
Lavinia
Michael
Case Society
Typewriter Bid Awarded To Local Firm for Schools
A bid of 4890 dollars for 30 typewriters was awarded to O Briens Office Supply of Mt Vernon by Project Uplift. The typewriters with primer style of type will be distributed to county schools for overhead transparencies and other visual media.
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O'Brien
Mt. Vernon
Theft report from Alvin Presley Inc at Mt Vernon
Alvin Presley Inc reported to the Mt Vernon sheriff's office yesterday the theft of a power saw and two electric drills. The incident details include the missing tools and the location of the report. Investigators may pursue leads to recover the items.
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Alvin Presley, Inc
Mt. Vernon
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