Death of Dahlgren resident Mrs Mary Belle Webber at 88
Mrs Mary Belle Webber 88 of Dahlgren died at 12 20 am at Lowry Nursing Home. Funeral services are set for 2 pm Sunday at Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church near Dahlgren with Rev Howard Mayberry officiating. Burial follows in the adjoining cemetery. Body lies in state at Gholson Funeral Home Dahlgren after 10 am tomorrow. Born December 7 1872 in Dahlgren she was daughter of Robert and L P Tillman. Survived by son August Webber of Dahlgren two sisters Mrs Jacob Grey of Mt Vernon and Mrs Janie Humph rev of Muskogee Okla 17 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
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Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church
Dahlgren
Howard Mayberry
Gholson
Webber
Robert
L. P. (Atchison) Tillman
Bomber Blows Up Over Utah Five Missing on Wreck
A B52 jet bomber blew up high over the southeast Utah desert at dusk Friday night scattering fiery debris. An Air Force officer from Illinois is missing while two of seven aboard parachuted to safety. Witness Ken Bailey of Monticello saw parts of two or three bodies near the flaming wreckage. Sheriff deputies search in near zero weather for additional survivors. Biggs Air Force Base identified the two missing crew members as Lieutenant Stoutte and co pilot from New Orleans, with navigator Jerome R. Calvert of Phoenix. Other listed missing include radar navigator Harold Bonneville, electronics warfare officer Ivan Petty, gunner David Forsythe, aircraft commander John March, and passenger Lionel Terry. Captain Charles Searle of the Civil Air Patrol reported the crash site and the plane’s disintegration after a fiery flash.
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Utah
Air Force
Illinois
Ken Bailey
Sheriff's Deputies
Biggs Air Force
el Paso
Tex
Stoutte
Flee
Enemas A
New Orleans
Jerome R. Calvert
Phoenix
Ariz
Harold S. Bonneville
Los Angeles
Ivan G. Petty
Pekin
Ill
David Forsythe
Haverhill
Mass
John P. March
Edgar Springs
Lionel A. Terry
Athens
Ala
Charles Searle
Civil Air Patrol
Cortez
Colo
Kennedy Is In Excellent Health Ahead of Inauguration
Washington AP reports doctors say President Kennedy’s health is excellent after a routine exam. The statement, signed by Dr. Eugene J. Cohen and Dr. Janet Travell, follows inquiries two hours before his swearing in. Travell previously treated Kennedy for a back ailment linked to injuries from World War I.
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John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Eugene J. Cohen
Janet Travell
New York
Travell
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admissions and Discharges
Admission list includes Mrs Barbara Sue Gibbs of McLeansboro Mrs Lulu Marie Shehorn of Johnsonville and Master Leslie Leroy Reynolds. Discharged patients include Morris Edgar Miller Leona Mildred Burkhead Ina Peter Alfred Lauris and Clarence Ray Glenn. Good Samaritan admits Edgar Verner Bean Marilee Summers Ethel Hyers Opal Elizabeth Black Beverly Sue Partridge Robert Clark Shuktes Marion Elmo Rector Millard Green Ulrich Harlan Roy Sledge. Discharges include Dalton Wade Donald Ray Hayes David Alan Holdman Marion Francis Yarber Mary Ellen Hutson Edmon Herman Davenport Ransom Clarence Doty Cathleen Sue Waters Verina Emma Rubenacker Lula Witchell Doris Ann Stoltz and baby Alan Lee Ferdinand William Jaegers.
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Jefferson Memorial
Barbara Sue Gibbs
McLeansboro
Lulu Marie Shehorn
Johnsonville
Leslie Leroy Reynolds
Morris Edgar Miller
Leona Mildred Burkhead
Ina
Peter Alfred Lauris
Clarence Ray Glenn
Good Samaritan
Edgar Verner Bean
Marilee Summers
Ethel Hyers
Opal Elizabeth Black
Beverly Sue Partridge
Robert Clark Shuktes
Marion Elmo Rector
Millard Green Ulrich
Harlan Roy Sledge
Dalton Wade
Donald Ray Hayes
David Alan Holdman
Marion Francis Yarber
Mary Ellen Hutson
Edmon Herman Davenport
Ransom Clarence Doty
Cathleen Sue Waters
Virinfla
Emma Rubenacker
Lula W.tchell
Doris Ann Stoltz
Baby
Alan Lee
Ferdinand William Jaegers
Births in McLeansboro Mt Vernon and Cahokia area
Mr and Mrs Roy Lewis Gibbs of West Star Route McLeansboro welcomed a son born at 8 34 last night in Jefferson Memorial hospital weighing seven pounds eleven ounces. Twin daughters were born to Mr and Mrs Lester Shelton of RFD 7 Mt Vernon last night at Good Samaritan hospital with three readings 8 49 weighing four pounds fourteen ounces and one o clock weighing four pounds. Mr and Mrs Max Van Dyke of Cahokia IL are parents of a son born January 8 weighing seven pounds and named Gary Scot. June and Mr and Mrs Walter all of Mt Vernon and other families are referenced in a fragmented notice.
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West Star Route
McLeansboro
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Lester Shelton
RFD
Mt. Vernon
Good Samaritan Hospital
Max van Dyke
Cahokia
St. Louis
Beach
Fla
Aty i
Gary
Scot
June
Walter
Marion Alcatraz Contract Award
The General Services Administration awarded Blount Brothers Construction Co. of Montgomery Alabama a 7.9 million dollar contract to build a new federal penitentiary at Marion Illinois. Construction is expected to take about two years with a 600 inmate initial capacity potentially rising to 1000.
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Marion
Blount Brothers Construction Co
Montgomery
Ala
General Services Administration
GSA
Congress
Bureau of Prisons
Bureau
Herrin Eligible For U S Help
Rep J Gray announced Herrin in central Illinois is eligible for federal aid under the housing act. Washington office notes Herrin received approval for a proposed community improvement program from the housing and home finance agency.
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Centralia, Ill
Market Prices In Mt Vernon This Afternoon
Quotations list Wheat at 1.99 Soybeans at 2.28 and Corn at 1.02 observed in Mt Vernon this afternoon.
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Mt. Vernon
Mt Vernon Hogs Prices Down at Local Live Market
Prices at the Mt Vernon live hog market fell about 25 cents. Top quote reached 17.00 for hogs weighing 190 to 210 pounds. Sows traded around 15.00 for 300 pound classes and boars ranged from 10.00 to a fall in quotes.
Livestock Prices at National Stockyards Report
National Stockyards AP market summary shows hogs at 8,700 head with most steady to weak values. Hogs ranged 14.50 to 17.75 per cwt with various weights, sows 13.25 to 15.75, boars 11.75 to 12.00, cattle and calves mixed with vealers 27.00 to 36.00, and sheep bids around 13.00 to 17.00 for different lots. Utilities and stock cows cited 11.00 to 16.00, good to high choices noted, with lambs around 15.75 to 17.00 and pelts up to 16.00.
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National Stockyards, II
USDA
Chicago Poultry Receipts Reported at 8000 Lbs
Chicago AP USDA live poultry receipts totaled 8000 pounds yesterday with no prices reported due to insufficient receipts.
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Chicago
USDA
Chicago Produce Market Report Butter And Eggs Steady
Chicago Mercantile Exchange notes butter steady with receipts 637000 and wholesale buying prices unchanged. Egg prices steady with receipts 141900 and wholesale prices unchanged across grades with A whites at 70 percent or better and mixed, mediums, standards, dirties, checks listed.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Market notes show mixed grain futures in Chicago
Cash grain report from Chicago notes no wheat or soybean sales. Corn prices list No 3 yellow at 1.10, No 4 yellow at 1.07, No 5 yellow at 98 1.05. Oats prices for No 1 extra heavy white at 69 69 14, No 3 extra heavy white at 67. Soybean oil 11b at 11 1/2. Barley making choice at 1.20 to 1.23 and feed at 75 to 90.
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Chicago
Wall Street Gains Lifted By Industrials And Utilities
Wall Street rose in moderate trading as gains in select industrials and utilities outweighed losses. Volume around 3.2 million shares, below Thursday’s 4.74 million. Baltimore and Ohio lagged after a delayed opening due to a surge of sell orders sparked by New York Central’s buying. B&O fell about six points, and Chesapeake & Ohio linked stock slipped about eight. New York Central’s merger role appeared reduced as buying waned. Most steel and auto issues posted fractional gains amid irregular bond activity during a blizzard.
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Adult Education Registration In Mt. Vernon
Registration for the second semester adult education courses at Mt. Vernon high school and community college will be held next Monday evening January 3. Evening classes include art typing bookkeeping shorthand electrical homemaking service station repair welding and woodwork. Officials said details of registration and organization meetings will be announced tomorrow.
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Mt. Vernon High School
Mt Y Youth Hurt In Embankment Crash Near Bloomington
Harry Lynn Shields 18 of Mt Vernon was slightly injured when his car skidded on ice and went down an embankment about 30 miles from Bloomington. A former Mt Vernon high school football star now at Cape Girardeau College he suffered non serious injuries and returned home last night.
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Mt. Vernon
Bloomington
Harry Lynn
Harry W. Shields
South 20Th Street
Mt. Vernon High School
Cape Girardeau, MO
102 SURVIVE JET CRASH FOUR DEAD
Police tentatively identify four dead aboard a DC8B jet after a chilling crash at the airport. Capt. Ricardo Gonzales the pilot First Officer Antonio Ruiz Bravo Second Officer Javier Alvarez Bacha and purser Gloria Sanchez Herrejon named among the victims. Passengers fled into subfreezing air as responders aided injured travelers and recovered bodies. The incident echoes a prior Staten Island crash involving a United jet and a TWA Super-Constellation in similar landing conditions.
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House
Subcommittee On
Ricardo Gonzales
Antonio Ruiz Bravo
Javier Alvarez Bacha
Gloria Sanchez Herrejon
Staten Island
United Air Lines
Trans World Airlines
East Coast Blizzard Strikes With Heavy Snowfalls
A massive midwestern storm burying Newark New Jersey and Staunton Virginia under snow reached the East Coast. Newburgh and Allentown reported 11 and 7 inches, Boston 18 inches, with mountains in eastern West Virginia heavily blanketed. Temperatures plunged to as low as -20 in Maine and -19 in Limestone Maine. A jet airliner skidded off Idlewild Airport in a snowstorm, 106 aboard, 102 escaped. Newark airport closed. Baltimore and nine Maryland counties closed schools. Kentucky and Indiana reported snowfall varying from 1 to 6 inches.
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Limestone
Alpena
Mich
Sault Ste. Marie
Green Bay
Wis
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Baltimore
Maryland
Kentucky
Lexington
Tennessee
Indiana
Sinatra gala show for president lights up armory
The Kennedy victory fundraiser at an armory drew stars like Bette Davis, Olivier, and Sinatra. Despite delays for Oliver and Eleanor Roosevelt missing, the 13,000 capacity venue filled as performers including Merman, Nat King Cole, Belafonte and Kelly delivered a two hour program amid cold, with tickets aimed to raise about 1.3 million dollars to defray campaign debt.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Kennedy
Bette Davis
Frederic March
Sidney Poitier
Anthony Quinn
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Sinatra
Ethel Merman
Helen Traubel
Louis Prima
Ella Fitzgerald
Nat King Cole
Harry Belafonte
Joey Bishop
Alan King
Jimmy Durante
Milton Berle
Gene Kellys
Juliet Prowse
Takes Oath of Office in Bitter Cold Inaugural Day
John F Kennedy took the oath amid a snowbound Washington scene. The crowd roared as he pledged to faithfully execute the presidency. Jacqueline Kennedy and the Kennedy clan stood nearby as Eisenhower joined the applause and a demanding day continued with mass and parades delayed by the storm.
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Hertenstein And Richard Named Jaycees Of The Year
Mt Vernon Jaycees name Jim Hertenstein and Loren Richard as Jaycees of the Year for 196N at a ladies night dinner during National Jaycee Week. Hertenstein led Miss Illinois Pageant promotions and Christmas lighting. Richard chaired the Miss Illinois Pageant house staff and the children's shopping tour. New members Web Wkassebaum and Jerry Wilson joined. Kent Gibson presented Korea and Japan slides.
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Loren Richard
Mt. Vernon
Vance Mayse
Hertenstein
Arnold DeWitt
Richard
Dean Parker
Delo Phote Craft
Sunset Drive
Casey Avenue
Irvin Mac J
Web Wkassebaum
Jerry Wilson
Jayceen Kent Gibson
Korea
Japan
Jaycee
Realtors Install Officers at Parkmore Grill
The Egyptian Realtors met Tuesday evening at the Parkmore Grill. Walter Rhein, immediate past president of the state board, presided at the installation ceremony. New officers installed were Harold Williams of Marion as president, Vernon Carbondale as vice president, Savy Dungey of Marion as secretary and treasurer, and Robert Borathni of Marion as board member. Rhein spoke on high taxes and noted 68 percent pay all taxes while 12 percent get a free ride. Williams was handed the gravel and conducted the meeting. The next Tarap tian Board of Realtors meeting will be at the Marion Motel on March 14 at 6:30 p.m.
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Walter Rhein
State Board
AL Harold Williams
Mit
Vernon
Charles Murden
Carbondale
Savy
Dungey
Marion
Robert Boratrhni
Rhein
A. Harold Williams
Taraptian Board of Realtors
Marion Motel
Lawsuit Against Local Store Ends
A Mt. Vernon case ended in court when Louise Jones dismissed her $19,500 claim against G. C. Murphy store and manager Franz XX. Sablon after agreeing to settlement. Trial was halted as the jury was discharged until Monday for a related condemnation case in Mt. Vernon.
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Louise Jones
G. C. Murphy
Franz XX. Sablon
Randall S. Quindry
City of
Shawnee Street
Truman Offers No Advice To Kennedy In Meeting
Washington AP report on President Kennedy’s inaugural address marking renewal and a new generation. Former President Truman says he told Kennedy he will serve if asked, praising Kennedy as brilliant and decent while offering no specific guidance. Truman, 77, says he will assist in any capacity Kennedy desires.
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Film Misery Of Cairo For TV News Segment
CBS News crews filmed in Cairo and surrounding towns as part of Eyewitness to History. The segment, prompted by Sen. Paul Douglas, highlights redevelopment aid amid unemployment. Reporter Charles Kuralt interviewed residents and captured street scenes while Sig Mickelson, Cairo Evening Citizen alumnus, headed CBS Cairo unit.
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Columbia Broadcasting Co
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Paul Douglas
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CBS News
Cairo Evening Citizen
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Citizen
Maybelle Brown
Johnson Takes The Oath First
Washington AP reports Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas takes the oath as vice president in a brief prelude to the inauguration. Richard Milhous Nixon of California becomes a private citizen and calls himself a senior statesman after losing the presidential race. Johnson will chair the Senate and oversee Cabinet appointments, while leading a space advisory council and a government contracts job equality panel. Nixon departs for a Nassau vacation with Pat, then plans to join a Los Angeles law firm.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
Texas
Richard Milhous Nixon
California
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Senate
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Nassau
Los Angeles
Postman In Swimming Pool In West Covina
West Covina California AP report the postman Ralph Thunderburk wandered into a swimming pool while sorting mail on his route He emerged soaked and later returned to duty The substitute carrier completed the route Thursday
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West Covina
Calif
Railroad Tax Case Before Supreme Court in Illinois
Springfield AP The Illinois Supreme Court has the railroad tax dispute from Lee County under advisement, a case that could reduce local tax revenue by about 16 million dollars annually. The case contends CB&Q was taxed on 100 percent value while other properties used 55 percent, with the Revenue Department seeking to overturn the railroad's protest.
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the Winds Supreme Court
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High Court
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Lee County
Revenue Department
Willard Ice
John H. Bishop
Chicago
C.b.&q
The
Ice
Supreme Court
Acquit Link on Self-Defense Plea
Hermann Missouri AP reported veteran St. Louis Post-Dispatch crime reporter Theodore C. Link, 55, was acquitted of first degree murder by a Circuit Court jury on the first ballot. He claimed self defense in the July 11 slaying of Clarence W. Calvin, 35, at a burned summer home near St. Albans, after Calvin attacked with a hoe and knife. Link said he shot Calvin with a shotgun and revolver.
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Calvin
Legally Dead’ He Turns Up In Prison Version
David T. Driver, once declared legally dead in 1957, is found serving a 5 month term for vagrancy at Vandalia state penal farm after vanishing from Lexington NC in 1949. His wife seeks social security benefits, and abandonment charges loom when released.
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Vandalia, Ill
David T. Driver
Driver
Vandalia State Penal Farm
Lexington
N.C
FBI
North Carolina
Five Day Forecast for Northern Illinois Temperatures Below Normal
Illinois weather outlook shows five days with average temperatures 8 to 15 degrees below normal. Lows near zero in northern counties, highs from 25 to 35, with frequent light snow and minor day to day changes. Snow flurries possible, with limited total precipitation, and lake effect bumps near Lake Michigan.
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Associated Press
Peoria
Moline
Rockford
Chicago
Belleville
Quincy
Motorist Fined After Accident at 21st and Perkins
Lee Gower of Danville II and Harry E Harper of 2302 Perkins were involved. Gower was fined five dollars and costs by Police Magistrate J R Thomas for failure to yield right of way. Damages to the vehicles were not heavy.
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Lee Gower
Danville
Harry
E. Harper
Gower
J. R.thomas
Arrest Man On Girl's Charge
Howard Edward Joslin age 23 is held in county jail on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a 15 year old girl. A similar charge has been filed against another young man who has not yet been arrested.
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Howard Edward Joslin
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