Deaths Mrs Minnie Stonemetz Dies At Fairfield Home
Mrs Minnie Stonemetz age 88 dies at her Fairfield home. She was widow of Dr Guy Stonemetz and mother of three daughters Mrs Lester Starr, Mrs Marshall Hall, and Miss Lila Stonemetz. Funeral at Nale Chapel in Fairfield tomorrow at 2 PM.
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Minnie Stonemetz
Fairfield
Guy Stonemetz
Gary Stonemetz
Lester Starr Ard
Marshall Hall
Lila Stonemetz
Nale Chapel
Anna May Little Dies in Hamilton County at 34
Anna May Little 34 of Smith Chapel northeast of McLeansboro died at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Jefferson Memorial Hospital Mt Vernon. Funeral Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at Smith Chapel with Revs Luther Upton and David Goddard officiating burial in I O O F cemetery McLeansboro Donaldson Funeral Home in charge. Surviving are husband William two sons Ronnie and Michael two daughters Yvonne and Sandra sister Mrs Eldon Hamilton of McLeansboro and her parents John and Maud Browning of McLeansboro.
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Anna May Little
Smith Chapel
McLeansboro
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Mt. Vernon
Luther Upton
David Goddard
Donaldson
Maud Browning
William Little
Ronnie
Michael
Yvonne
Sandra
Eldon Hamilton
Jet Plane Noses Into Living Room In Daring Landing
Maj. Roy H. McDonald Marine Reserve pilot and McDonnell Aircraft flight test engineer landed a Navy F9F after engine flameout over St. Ann Missouri. He set down in snow narrowly missing an approaching car then nosed over a car and slid wrecking three vehicles. The plane rammed into the living room of Frank S Kibler Sr. causing minor injuries to Kibler while McDonald escaped unhurt.
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Associated Press
St, Louis
St. Ann
Roy H. McDonald
Trest
Frank S. Kibler Sr
Kibler
McDonald
McDonnell Aircraft Corp
St. Louis
Egypt complains of border fire notice from UN
Egypt says Israeli patrol opened fire on an Egyptian post east of Gaza. Egyptian spokesman said Egyptians returned fire and the exchange lasted about half an hour with no casualties reported.
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Gaza
Palestine
Egypt
United Nations Mixed Armistice Commission
Hospital Notes Good Samaritan Admissions and Discharges
Good Samaritan Hospital admitted Mrs Rado Bean Jeffrey Joe Echols Leroy Leon ard Reuffer and Mrs Essie Lee Gaddy. Discharges include Mrs Carmen Lee Self and baby Lena Lee Miss Amy Pierce Mrs Blanche Mae Lisenby Mrs Paulina Mae Gerecke and baby Sandra Lee Mrs Cora Madeline Wood Jefferson Memorial admitted Richard Jones Mrs Goldie Carroll Ina W Guy Gibson. Discharged Veda Sut ton McLeansboro Robert Ald rich Mound City Joel Sechrest.
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Good Samaritan
Rado Bean
Jeffrey Joe Echols
Leroy Leonard Reuffer
Essie Lee Gaddy
Carmen Lee Self
Lena Lee
Amy Pierce
Blanche Mae Lisenby
Paulina Mae Gerecke
Sandra Lee
Cora Madeline Wood
Jefferson Memorial
Richard Jones
Goldie Carroll
Ina
W. Guy Gibson
Veda Sutton
McLeansboro
Robert Aldrich
Mound City
Joel Sechrest
Births in the region bring new Iowa ties and Nova Jean
Mr and Mrs Charles Rankin announce the birth of a son at 1 31 this morning at Good Samaritan Hospital weighing seven pounds Reverend and Mrs Vernon Johnson of Madison Wisconsin are the parents of a daughter born January 17 in that city She weighs eight pounds three ounces and is named Nova Jean The Reverend and Mrs Ace Summers of this city are the maternal grandparents The mother is the former Miss Patricia Summers This is the Johnsons first child
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Charles Rankin
RFD
Vernon
Good Samaritan Hospital
Vernon Johnson
Madison
Wis
Nova Jean
Ace Summers
Patricia Summers
Johnson
Dan G Melton Encampment Ladies Meet Friday
Members of the Dan G Melton Encampment Ladies Auxiliary No 3 will meet at the I O O F Temple Friday evening January 27 at 7 30. Special business includes installation of officers with Lillie Dorris and Effie Marlow listed as officers.
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Dan G
Mt Vernon Lodge to Hold Special Meeting Jan 27
Special meeting of Mt Vernon Lodge AF and AM No 31 set for Friday January 27 at 730 pm. Work in the third degree. Members urged to attend and visiting brothers welcome. Refreshments after. Geo H Border W M and E Reavis Secy listed.
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Mt. Vernon Lodge
A. F
A. M
Geo. H. Border
W. M
E. Reavis
New Peace Offensive by Kremlin Seen
Washington reports indicate Bulganin and Khrushchev are launching a new peace offensive to revive the Geneva spirit and curry Western goodwill. A Bulganin letter to Eisenhower was described as friendly and suggesting ideas to study for world peace, while Khrushchev told Marshall MacDuffie in Moscow that Western leaders seek peace and do not want war.
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Associated Press
John M. Hightower
Washington
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikita
Khrushchev
Geneva
Ton
Eisenhower
Eden
Bulganin
White House
Communist Party
Moscow
Marshall MacDuffie
New York
MacDuffie
Red
Russia
Anthony Eden
Edgar Faure
Former resident in Tokyo hospital illness update
Mrs. Virgil E. Murphy the former Blanche Dethrow of this city has been a patient for a month in a Tokyo hospital. She is the wife of S/Sgt. Virgil Murphy stationed in Tokyo with the U S Air Force. Sgt. Murphy wrote to his mother that she is improving.
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Virgil E. Murphy
Blanche Dethrow
Tokyo
Japan
Virgil Murphy
U. S. Air Force
Murphy
Bennie Murphy
Rocket Engine Test Heard Over Large Area Near L A
A North American Aviation test at the Santa Susana plant produced a 40 second rocket engine blast heard up to 50 miles away. A company spokesman said the firing was ordered under a secret program with no further details released.
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Los Angeles
North American Aviation
Santa Susana
Navy Lays Keel for Its Fourth Atomic Sub Swordfish
The Navy has laid the keel for its fourth atomic powered submarine the first built at a naval shipyard the USS Swordfish named for a WWII submarine lost in the Pacific after sinking enemy ships and damaging others The event marks a milestone in U S nuclear submarine construction and naval capability
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Portsmouth
N. i
Navy
Aubmarine
Farm Agency In All Day Meeting At Hotel Emmerson
The United Farm Agency held an all day gathering with a noon luncheon at Hotel Em merson. Twenty representatives and their wives attended from Illinois and Indiana. Evening attendees included E H Taylor and Max G Edwards from Kansas City Mo and Mr and Mrs Les Wimberly of Dix.
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United Farm Agency
Hotel Emmerson
Ilinois
Indiana
E. H. Taylor
Max G. Edwards
Kansas City
Les Wimberly
Dix
Varmint Raiders Hit Ilinds Herds Near Utica
Farmers in LaSalle County report a large unknown varmint raiding cattle calves and pigs. A half eaten calf was found in a pasture and a witness saw wild cat tracks near Starved Rock, close to Utica, in the wild countryside.
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Utica
Ford Stock Sale Yields 642 600 000 To Foundation
A check for 642 600 000 was given to the Ford Foundation as the final act in selling 19 200 000 shares of Ford Motor Co stock. The payment, handed to H Rowan Gaither Jr by Charles R Blyth, funds the foundation and syndicate fees. The foundation plans reinvestment in government and high grade securities and expects about 30 000 new Ford shareholders. Receipts were issued to recent buyers pending stock certificate distribution.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Ford Foundation
Ford Motor Co
H. Rowan Gaither Jr
Charles R. Blyth
Blyth & Co
Blyth
Ford
Peleason
Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit
Blue Lustre Carpet Cleaning Promises Easy Shine
The advertisement touts Blue Lustre as the greatest scientific advancement in home carpet cleaning. It claims simple steps vacuuming, applying foam with a brush, then drying with the vacuum, likening the process to playing shuffleboard. Douglas Drug promotes the product as an early offering.
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Douglas Drug
Eisenhower Urges Health Bill Extensions and Cancer Funds
Eisenhower pressed for extending a federal program funding free Salk vaccine through June 30, 1957, and asked for 30 million dollars to finish it. He proposed a stepped up research budget: cancer 32,437,000. heart diseases 13,345,000. neurology and blindness 12,196,000. infectious and parasitic diseases 9,799,000. dental disorders 2,971,000. general NIH programs 11,922,000. He did not reference his heart attack last Sept. 24 and urged health personnel measures including nurse training, trainee ships for graduate nurses, and public health internships.
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Eisenhower
National Institutes of Health
Koreans to Brazil depart as war prisoners refuse return
Sixty two Koreans leave India for Brazil to start new homes after more than two years there. They are war prisoners who chose not to return to either South Korea or North Korea after the conflict.
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New Delhi
Brazil
India
South Korea
North Korea
Law officers meet in Mt Vernon elect officials
About 100 southern Illinois officers attended the Little Egypt Auxiliary Crime Preventive Association meeting at the Mt. Vernon Elks Lodge. Lester Harper Metropolis chief was elected president for 1956, with Delbert Carlton Mt. Vernon captain as first vice president and Charles Edwards Marion chief as secretary treasurer. Speakers included Joe Hogan Springfield and Tom Kennedy Peoria.
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Southern Illinois
Little Egypt Auxiliary Crime Preventive Association
Mt. Vernon
Elks Lodge
Lester Harper
Metropolis
Delbert Carlton
Charles Edwards
Marion
Joe Hogan
Springfield
Police Benevolent and Protective Association
Tom Kennedy
Peoria
Reads 66 Bible Chapters A Day At Spring Valley
SPRING VALLEY Tr Clarke Greener a deacon at LaSalle Baptist Church believes he may be the nation’s top Bible reader. In 1955 he read 24 222 chapters averaging 66 daily. He started a church contest aiming for a million chapters with a personal goal of 20 000. The group total reached 167 000 chapters.
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Spring Valley, Tr
Clarke Greener
LaSalle Baptist Church
United States
Greener
Sacks Would Give Governor Pay To Charity
Chicago politician Sacks pledges to donate his governor salary to charity if elected. He touts cost cuts in the treasurer’s office from 7 to 2a percent, claims rival Paschen misstates county salary rules, and notes city office budgets. Sacks currently donates his $1,000 monthly treasurer’s pay to charity.
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Sacks
Kincaid
Ab Morrison Sacks
Chicago
Cain Pal
Vance
Ieaths
Cook
Herbert C. Paschen
Fac Fis
Aetna
Paschen
Sacus
Richard J. Daley
Sachs
Reno
Agymnasium
Covernor
Hoax Letter Tied to Evansville Escapees Report
Evansville officials investigate a claimed hoax letter mailed from Brooklyn describing an escaped wire worker Devin. Philologists note educated phrasing while misspellings reveal cranks. The case ties to robberies and killings across multiple states, including a Mt Carmet suspect and a Posey County woman.
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Evansville
Ind
Bao Xvansville
Iis
Raith Patton
Devin
Vateydd
Patton
Missouri
Carmet von Disky
Searold Evans
Ghee
Princeton
Ming
Shennan
Mount That
Pennssylvania
Nevada
Omany
Wo Westuy Kerr
Evansville Fales
Posey County
Kentucky
Snow Fell Across Parts of State With Varying Depths
Fragments describe widespread snow in the southern region with packed snow and ice elsewhere. Temperatures near dawn showed light readings in several towns including Quincy Peoria Rockford and St Louis with Chicago close to freezing.
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Rehisson Olney
Mount Carmel
Moime
Quincy
Peoria
St. Louis
Chicaeo
Bowling Alley Burns in Salem Fire destroys six-lane alley in Salem
A Salem six-lane bowling alley was destroyed by a three hour fire. Firemen fought the blaze and noted a gas fault may have caused the flames. The one story stone structure remained standing and some equipment was salvaged. Proprietor Kenneth Carlson said damages are not yet determined.
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Salem
Kenneth Fel Carlson
Snowball Mission To Warm New Orleans
A Navy plane from St. Cloud Minnesota will depart February 23 for New Orleans carrying snowballs for a UNICEF style event. The New Orleans Recreation Department will stage a snowball fight for children who have never seen snow.
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New Orleans
St. Cloud
Minn
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