Deaths and Funerals Walter Gulley 83
Walter Gulley aged 83 died at 5 45 am Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital formerly of Christopher. Rites Saturday at 2 pm Russell Funeral Home Christopher with burial in Garrison Cemetery. Survived by four daughters and four sons. widow Claudie Meeks preceded in 1962. He belonged to Fouts Christian church near Irvington.
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Walter Gulley
Good Samaritan Hospital
Mr. Gulley
Christopher
Lowry Nursing Home
Gulley
Claudie Meeks
Fouts Christian Church
Irvington
Elsie Bradley
St. Louis
Stella Warford
East St. Louis
Ruth Davis
Bonnie
Ruby Bledsoe
Woodlawn
Elmer Gulley
Carl Gulley
South Haven
Mich
Abe Gulley
Johnny Gulley
Centralia
Graveside Rites At Ashley For Bryan Morgan
Bryan Morgan 69 of Seattle Washington died January 23 in Veterans Hospital. Graveside rites set for 2 00 p m Sunday Ashley Cemetery with Rev John Nall officiating. Hogan Funeral Home Ashley open 11 00 a m to 2 00 p m. He was long employed at Ashley State Bank. Born November 17 1896 in Ashley to McCleland and Finas Morgan. Survived by cousins Nida Legendre sister-in-law Oka Morgan and nephew Warren Morgan.
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Bryan Morgan
Ashley Cemetery
John Nall
Hogan Funeral Home
Ashley
Mr. Morgan
Seattle
Wash
Veterans’ Hospital
Ashley State Bank
McCleland and
Finas
Wheelas) Morgan
Nida Legendre
Oka Morgan
Richview
Warren Morgan
Centralia
C R Griffith Dies Funeral At McLeansboro
Charles R Griffith of Broughton died at 9 00 p m Thursday in Hamilton Memorial Hospital McLeansboro Funeral will be at 100 pm Sunday at Gholson Funeral Home McLeansboro with Rev Leo Walton and Rev Ernie Essary officiating Burial will be in Glendale Memorial Gardens Friends may call after 600 pm today He was born July 26 1880 in Hamilton County son of James and Rachel Mattock Griffith Married to May Varney he is survived by two sons Paul Griffith of Broughton Lawrence Griffith of Granite City a daughter Mrs Freda Thompson of McLeansboro two brothers Albert N Griffith of McLeansboro and George Griffith of Rector Ark
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Charles R. Griffith
Broughton
Hamilton Memorial Hospital
McLeansboro
Gholson Funeral Home
Leo Walton
Ernie Essary
Glendale Memorial Gardens
Hamilton County
James
Rachel
Mattock) Griffith
May Varney
Paul Griffith
Lawrence Griffith
Granite City
Freda Thompson
Albert N. Griffith
Mclansboro
George Griffith
Rector, Ark
Earl Simpson Dies, Engineer At Stove Co
Earl Leslie Simpson chief engineer and stove designer for Vernois Inc. died at 1 05 p m Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital after a two week illness He was 70 years 10 months and 24 days, a Mt Vernon resident for 30 years and longtime staffer at the local furnace and manufacturing firm Call period 7 00 to 9 00 pm Myers Chapel Private funeral 1 00 pm Saturday at Valhalla Chapel St Louis. Memorials suggested to Cancer Research Department Washington University in St Louis He was born March 3 1895 in Nodaway Iowa son of Silas J and Nellie Bullock Simpson He married Ann Hoyer August 26 1922 at Stillwater Minnesota She survives with their daughter Mrs Mary Ray Lafayette Ind and two grandchildren He was a member of First Presbyterian Church Rotary Club and Elks Lodge.
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Earl Leslie Simpson
Vernois, Inc
Good Samaritan Hospital
Mr. Simpson
No. 3
Sleepy Hollow
Mt. Vernon
Myers Chapel
Valhalla Chapel of Memories
St. Charles Road
St. Louis
Robert Freytag
First Presbyterian Church of
Cancer Research Department
Washington University
Simpson
Nodaway
Iowa
Silas J
Nellie (Bullock) Simpson
Stillwater
Minn
Ann Hoyer
First Presbyterian Church
Rotary Club
The
Elks Lodge
Mary Ray
Lafayette, Ind
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admits and Discharges
Jefferson Memorial lists admissions including Wilburn Chestine Tate Don L. Morgan John M. Gray Arlie G. Hayes and discharges Thomas Theron Johnson Cecil Trotter of Dahlgren Brenda Louise Simms. Good Samaritan records admissions Violet A. Carder Mina Lou Roach Annie Lucille Rankin Nora Ethel Williams Beulah Mae Cox J Car Neal Ausby S Atkinson and discharges Carmella Hicks Dorothy Faye Higgins Johnetta Ruth Smart Esther Louise Kirkpatrick Loyd Bradford Nina Gladys Lancaster Jackie Lou Murphy Beaver Jean Robinson.
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Jefferson Memorial
Wilburn Chestine
Tate
Don L. Morgan
John M. Gray
Arlie G. Hayes
Thomas Theron Johnson
Cecil Trotter
Dahlgren
Brenda Louise Simms
Good Samaritan
Violet A. Carder
Mina Lou Roach
Annie Lucille Rankin
Nora Ethel Williams
Beulah Mae Cox
J. Car Neal
Ausby S. Atkinson
Carmella Hicks
Dorothy Faye Higgins
Johnetta Ruth Smart
Esther Louise Kirkpatrick
Loyd Bradford
Nina Gladys Lancaster
Jackie Lou Murphy
Beaver Jean Robinson
Former Resident Dies In Milwaukee
Miss Alfredie Porter, 47, formerly of Mt. Vernon, died Thursday at her Milwaukee home. She was a niece of Mrs. Mose Stokes of Mt. Vernon. The notice places her at 2443 North 21st Street Milwaukee.
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Alfredie Porter
Mt. Vernon
North 21St Street
Milwaukee
Wis
Mose Stokes
Notorious World War I Draft Dodger Bergdoll Dies
The longtime figure who evaded the 1917 draft and fled across continents died Thursday. He became known for hiding from authorities, court martial, and a series of paroles and appeals. His life spanned exile in Germany, marriage to a German woman, four children, and a fortune seized by the U.S. government. He was imprisoned again in 1939 and released in 1944.
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Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Maryland
Canada
Germany
U.S
Ft. Leavenworth
Johnson weighs troop use in Vietnam advisory talks
President Johnson conferred with war advisers on Vietnam strategy to avoid a pure holding action while denying limited troop use. He favors keeping Viet Cong off balance and fears Hanoi misreading his peace efforts as weakness, signaling possible renewed bombing. A debate continues within his administration about how to counter Communist plans while pursuing a settlement.
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Viet Nam
U. S
James M. Gavin
Johnson
Hanoi
United States
Southeast Asia
South Viet Nam
Weather Here And Elsewhere
Thursday high 26 and low 6 with rainfall 38 inches year to date inches inches Ches. One year ago high 38 low 15. Five years ago high 30 low 10 below zero. Ten years ago high S low 34. Saturday sunrise 7 12 sunset 5 15 CST.
Five day forecast for Southern Illinois cold spell
Temperatures in Southern Illinois will average 8 to 12 degrees below normal from Saturday to Wednesday with the coldest period early next week. Normal highs reach the upper 30s to low 40s and the lows in the upper teens to low 20s. Little precipitation is expected though a chance of snow exists in southern areas Saturday.
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Illinois
Wirtz links fair employment to full opportunity in speech
Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz told 1,700 at a $50 dinner for Sen. Paul Douglas in Belleville Illinois that fair opportunity has been added to full employment. He praised five years of prosperity as decent and urged Americans not to take it for granted. Douglas, seeking re election, urged patience over Viet Nam peace efforts and discussed a possible resumption of bombing, hoping North Viet Nam would be targeted only at military sites and not Hanoi to avoid retaliation.
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Belleville
W. Willard Wirtz
United States
Wirtz
U.S
Paul Douglas
D-Ill
Douglas
Viet Nam
Johnson
Hanoi
China
Russia
Illinois union membership exceeds one million in 1964
There were 1,394,000 union members in Illinois during 1964, representing 37.9 percent of the state's workforce. Adolph Berger, Chicago director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, announced that Illinois was among five states with more than a million members.
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Chicago
Illinois
Adolph 0. Berger
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Iliois
Johnson Says War Shortages Unlikely Under War Spending
Washington AP economic advisers told President Johnson that peacetime allocation will let military orders take priority without civilian shortages. The council said defense outlays will be about 7.6 percent of national output in 1966 and 1967, similar to 1965, and no new powers are needed when renewal of the Defense Production Act comes up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnson
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Council
Congress
White House
Pentagon
Korea
DMS
Commerce Department
Business and Defense Services Administration
Hormel to Build $4 Million Hog Slaughter Plant in Bureau County
George Hormel & Co plans a 100000 square foot slaughtering plant in Bureau Jct Illinois. to employ 250 workers, process 300 hogs per hour using carbon dioxide gas for killing. The site spans 100 acres on the Illinois River opposite Hennepin, near a Jones & Laughlin Steel project. The plant signals Bureau County’s strong hog production and places Henry County as top in Illinois.
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Bureau Junction, II
George Hormel & Co
Austin
Illinois River
Hormel
Hennepin
Putnam County
Jones & Laughlin Steel Co
Bureau County
Illinois
Henry County
Bureau
Two Killed In Aurora Wreck
A head on collision on the U.S. 30 bypass near Aurora left two dead. The victims were Lila Still 49 and Marian Siebens 36 of Elburn. The other driver Robert Konicek 27 of Plano was hospitalized in satisfactory condition at Copley Hospital.
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Aurora
Ill
API
U.S. 30
Lila Still
Marian Siebens
Elburn
Robert Konicek
Plano
Copley Hospital
Special Meeting Mt Vernon Lodge 31 AF and AM
A special meeting of Mt Vernon Lodge No 31 AF and AM is set for Friday January 28 at 7 30 pm. Work will be in the first degree. Members are urged to attend and visiting brethren are welcome. Signed A Glover W M Byron Weld Jr Secy. 128
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A. F. AS
Mt. Vernon
A. Glover
W. M. Byron Weld Jr
Sec’y
Markets Mt Vernon Grain Prices Slashed
Mt Vernon markets report after noon quotes show wheat at 1.65 a bushel soybeans at 2.70 per bag shell corn at 1.24 and ear corn at 1.21. Prices indicate grain traders moved in light trading volume with steady demand and cautious bids.
Mt Vernon Hog Market Prices and Weights Update
Prices paid at Mt. Vernon Hog Market up to 12 30 p m today show a top of 28 00 for 200 to 220 lb hogs Sows 24 00 for 300 lb down and 23 75 for 300 lb and over Boars 18 00 to 18 50 After 12 30 p m tonight prices will be based on next day values.
St Louis Produce Prices For Eggs And Poultry
Eggs and live poultry prices listed by consumer grades A large 38-10 A medium 35-36 A small 30-32 B large 33-35 wholesale grades standard 33-35 unclassified 26-28 checks 22-24 Hens heavy 19-20 light over 5 Ibs 12-13 under 5 Ibs 7 broilers and fryers 20-22 13.
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Albany
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Bismarck
Boston
Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fairbanks
Fort Worth
Helena
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Juneau
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
St.p
New Orleans
New York
Okla City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Ptind
Ore
Rapid City
Richmond
St. Louis
Salt Sk. City
San Diego
San Fran
Seattle
Tampa
Washington
Winnipeg
Chicago Produce Market Report Summary
Chicago Mercantile Exchange notes butter remaining steady with prices 93 score AA 59 and 92 A 59 while eggs stay steady with grades A whites at 70 percent or better. Prices include butter 89 C 5649, cars 90 B 58 percent, eggs mixed 3912 and mediums 3512, standards 35.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Livestock Receipts At National Stockyards Monday
Estimated receipts listed for Monday at National Stockyards in Th. include cattle 5 000 calves 200 hogs 8 000 sheep 800 plus hogs 4 500 with 190 240 lb barrows and gilts 26 75 29 00 330 625 lb sows 23 51 25 50 Cattle 400 calves 200 cows active strong and prices tested by dealers with cows 16 00 17 50 good to choice dealers 27 00 38 00 and good to choice calves 20 00 22 00.
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National Stockyards
Chicago Grain prices report from AP
Chicago markets show wheat No 2 hard 1.6844 No 2 red 1.714n and corn No 2 yellow 1.3154n with oats Nos 2 heavy white 76 77 and No 1 extra heavy white 78 No 2 extra heavy white 76s Soy beans No 1 yellow 2.864 and soy bean oil 11.75n.
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Chicago
Wall Street Holds Near Pause as Johnson Decision Looms
Wall Street opened with uneven trading and profit taking ahead of President Johnson's Vietnam policy decision. The Associated Press average held at 369.4, Dow slipped 1.50 to 988.86, and Standard Oil New Jersey dropped after reporting eight year earnings decline. Long term airline profits fell asInvestors weighed aerospace and defense issues.
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New York
Wall Street
Johnson
Viet Nam
Associated Press
Dow Jones
Standard Oil
New Jersey
American Telephone
American Stock Exchange
U.S. Treasury
Prince Charles Heads to Australian School for Exchange Program
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, flies to Australia to join Geelong Grammar School in Sydney as an exchange student at 17. He travels via the United States, the longest journey away from home he has yet taken. Upon return he will finish at Gordonstoun in Scotland where he has studied since 1963.
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London
Prince Charles
Australia
Prince Philip
Princess Anne
Sydney
United States
Geelong Grammar School
Gordonstoun
State Makers Meet Four Seek GOP Nod For Treasurer
More than 1,300 delegates at a Springfield Wisconsin Republican conference pursue endorsements for state treasurer. Four candidates claim enough votes for party backing: Robert Hatch Robert Dwyer Harris Rowe and Arthur Falls. Also backing Charles H Percy for U S senator and Ray Page for state superintendent. Endorsements hinge on 60 percent majority with potential tenballot rule. Champaign County boycott noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Robert Hatch
Chicago
Robert Dwyer
Winnetka
Harris Rowe
Jacksonville
Arthur Falls
Ashland
Champaign County
GOP
L. J. Jack Martin
Martin
Everett M. Dirksen
Percy
Deep water search for missing nuclear bomb off Almeria
The United States sends two deep diving midget submarines and a bathysphere to locate a lost nuclear bomb after a Ba2 collided with its tanker off Spain's southern coast. Submersibles and a San Diego tested bathysphere are en route from the United States. The bomb is thought to lie about 1,000 feet underwater in the Mediterranean east of Almeria.
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Almeria
Spain
United States
U.S
America
San Diego
Calif
Mediterranean
Void Grades On Stolen Exam At University Of Miami
The University of Miami voided a final exam after it was stolen from a professor’s office and sold. About 1,600 students will not retake it. instead, the dean’s council set semester grades in the natural science course based on earlier exam grades. An official probe points to one student as the thief, with unclear access to the exam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami, Fla
University of Miami
Armin H. Gropp
Local Group Hopes for Washington Aid for Industrial Park
The Industrial Commission seeks over a half million dollars in aid to build an industrial park in the county. Plans include sewer and water utilities plus partial buildings to attract new industries and create at least 300 jobs. Mayor Martin noted federal officials asked for extra background information to support the bid, with a two week deadline. Mt. Vernon Airport Authority chair Stan Koziara and airport manager Earl Outland joined the discussions with Martin and Lewis.
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Industrial Commission
Martin
Washington
Stan Koziara
Mt. Vernon Airport Authority
Earl Outland
Lewis
15 Demo Senators Oppose Bombings In Vietnam Debate
Fifteen Democratic senators urged President Johnson to seek collective judgment on resuming bombing in Vietnam. They argued for continuing the five week moratorium while critics questioned the military impact, citing ongoing North Vietnamese troop and supply movement across the border. The letter followed a White House consult, with Mansfield Fulbright and others publicly split over resumption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
House Armed Services
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
Viet Nam
Clark
Rusk
Mike Mansfield
Senate
J.W. Fulbright
Foreign Relations Committee
George D. A.ken
Jeter
White House
Mansfield
Fulbright
Everett M. Drksen
Forign Relations Committee
Frank Church
Idaho
Eugene J. McCarthy
Minnesota
Joseph S. Clark
Pennsylvania
Wayne Morse
Oregon
McCarthy
Traffic fines listed in circuit court action
Bert R Adcock of 500 Opdyke Dill ard of St Louis Mary L Greer of 512 Opdyke and Charles D Smith Peters Jr of 423 South 22nd were each fined $10 on traffic related charges including muffler violation faulty brakes leaving the scene and disobeying a traffic signal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert R. Adcock
Opdyke
James H. Dillard
St. Louis
Mary L. Greer
Charles D. Smith Peters, Jr
South 22Nd
Six Area Young Men Enlist In U S Army
Six Mt Vernon area youths enlist in the U S Army as announced by Sgt Andrew Carter recruiter The enlistees include Robert Troutt Theodore H Phillips Sir Kenneth L Mount David L Krietemeyer James R Carter and Robert J M Greathouse all listed as sons of local residents from Mt Vernon Kell Walnut Hill Centralia and nearby areas with varied paths including airborne school and mechanic training
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MT. V
Kell
Walnut Hill
U.S. Army
Mt Vernon
Andrew Carter
Robert Troutt
Arthur Troutt
Route 5
Mt. Vernon
Mt. Vernon Community College
Theodore H. Phillips
Allen Phillips
Walnut Fl
Airbourne School
Kenneth L. Mount
Harley Mount
David L. Krietemeyer
Kenneth Krietemeyer
Centralia
James R. Carter
Henry Carter
Robert J. M. Greathouse
Harry Greathouse
Artist tower on Sunset Strip protests war
Los Angeles artists oppose the Vietnam War by building a protest tower on a rented Sunset Strip lot. Sculptor Mark DiSuvero directs construction using welded rusty pipe and steel standards. The Artists Protest Committee aims to crown the tower with a painting from each of the world’s 1,000 most prominent artists. DiSuvero calls the act a symbolic expression of the cultural conscience of artists worldwide and asserts the war was not approved by Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Mark DiSuvero
New York
Sunset Strip
di Suvero
500 Americans To Leave Cuba Airlift Begins
In Havana AP reports more than 500 Americans and their Cuban families will depart Cuba on a special airlift starting February 5. The U S government will operate at least two planes each Saturday for four to five weeks, taking flights from Varadero to Miami. Many have waited over a year as Cuban refugees were moved to America while Americans stayed for family reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Cuba
U.S
Mami
Varadero
United States
Cold snap grips Woodstock Illinois with subzero temps
Weather reports place the thermometer at 20 below zero in Woodstock with a range from 4 to 12 above elsewhere along southern river borders. The Weather Bureau forecasts the cold through Saturday with light snow possible in Chicago and southern regions. Driving conditions are largely unchanged though drifting snow and icy spots appeared northeast of Rockford to Joliet.
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Weather Bureau
Prospect
Chicago
Rockford
Joliet
Divorce Not Granted In Vaughan Case
Glenda Faye Vaughan and Edward Vaughan remain married as of now with their divorce petition awaiting court action. The couple, married July 24 1965 and separated September 12 1965, faced cruelty charges filed by Mrs Vaughan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenda Faye Vaughan
Edward Vaughan
Register- News
Vaughans
Vaughan
Dedman Full Status as Chief in Local Department
Dedman gains full chief status after Chief John Wielt takes a one year leave in 1965. Wielt resigns from the local commissioners as he joins Illinois traffic department. The four officers gain permanent status February 1 by unanimous vote of the commission. Dedman, 13 year veteran and FBI Academy graduate, had been assistant chief since 1959 and acted as chief since 1965. Warren becomes assisting chief, Albright and Sims receive acting ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wielt
Wielt
State of Ilinois
Harry Shehorn
Jim McKenzie
Leland Hutson
Dedman
Warren
Albright
Sims
National
FBI Police Academy
Birth for Keenes couple in Good Samaritan Hospital
Mr and Mrs Bill Sledge of Keenes are parents of a son born at 601 last night at Good Samaritan hospital. The infant weighed six pounds fourteen ounces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Sledge
Keenes
Good Samaritan Hospital
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Garrison Cemetery
C. R. Griffith
Earl Simpson
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Seeeeme
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See Ee
East Dubuque
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Midwest
Green Bay Eesnenapeessence
Madison
Johnson Told
By Sterling F. Green
Mt. Vernon Grain
Chicago Grain
Indus
Prince Charlie
Charles H. Percy
Kenilworth
Ray Page
To Hunt
William R. Butler
Butler
Washington Parleys
Circuit Court
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Wild Cat
Bill Kniffen
Fidel Castro
Woodstock
Joella
Donn Kenny
Oella
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