Deaths Frank F. Meyer Dies at 76 in Indiana
Frank F. Meyer former Mr. Vernon resident died at 5 00 am Sunday in Brookville Indiana where he resided with his sister Mrs Laura Ruf He was 76 a heart attack victim He survived by two sons Paul of Honolulu Hawaii John of Anchorage Alaska a daughter Mrs Mary Kewish of Rockford Illinois a stepdaughter Mrs Charles M Lucas and three grandchildren Funeral services will be held at Lamb Funeral Home in Gibson City Illinois with burial in Gibson City cemetery Arrangements pending arrival of his sons
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Frank F. Meyer
Vernon
Brookville
Ind
Laura Ruf
Meyer
Charles M. Lucas
Larry
Jimmy
Danny
South 29Th Street
Lucas
Paul
Honolulu
Hawaii
John
Anchorage
Alaska
Mary Kewish
Rockford, Il
Mt. Vernon
Lamb Funeral
Gibson City
Reverend George Jackson Dies at 78 in Mt Vernon Area
The Rev. George Jackson, 78, of 1014 Herbert Street, died this morning at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church on South 11th Street. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. body to Parker Funeral Home. Survived by two stepchildren, Jessie Montgomery and Mrs. Marie Meredith, both of Mt. Vernon.
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George Jackson
Herbert Street
Good. Samaritan Hospital
Jackson
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
South 11Th Street
Parker Funeral Home
Jessie Montgomery
Marie Meredith
Mt. Vernon
Grissom and Chaffee Laid to Rest in Local Cemetery
Remains of Grissom and Chaffee were brought to the cemetery here while crowds of Air Force personnel and citizens stood at attention when the plane later landed at Newburgh New York with White's body.
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Grissom and Chaffee
Newburgh
N.Y
White
Air Force
Say Astronauts Lived 12 Seconds NEW YORK AP
The New York Times reported the last words from Apollo 1 astronauts were We're on fire Get us out of here. The tape described 12 seconds of frantic struggle to escape the hatch as fire erupted in the cockpit. Capt. Virgil Grissom Lt Col Edward White and Lt Cmdr Roger Chaffee fought to open the hatch with no time to escape.
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NEW York
New York Times
Navy
Cmdr
Roger B. Chaffee
Times
Cape Kennedy
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Chaffee
Virgil I. Grissom
Edward H. White I
Air Force
Col. White
Donald K. Slayton
Wheels Stolen From Garage, Cravat Man Says
Dean Beadle of Cravat told the sheriff yesterday five automobile wheels were stolen from a garage at his home, the report shows, detailing the local theft.
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Dean Beadle
Sheriff's Office
Weather summary for MT. VERNON and nearby areas
Monday high 52 and low 41. Rainfall for 1967 to date 1.42 inches. Compare: one year ago high 26 low 16, five years ago high 40 low 27, ten years ago high 36 low 10. Wednesday sunrise 7 09 CST and sunset 5 18 CST.
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MT. Vernon
Hospital Notes shows multiple admissions and discharges
Jefferson Memorial admitted Charles Rolland Cunningham Fairfield TI Newton Jackson 1011 South 25th Clarence E Estes 2413 Perkins Helen Lucille Elkins RFD 7 Virginia Irene Austin Wayne City Discharged Nevera Shadoan 601 Salem Road Good Samaritan admitted Hazel Memmer RFD 5 Grace Ann Yeargin 19 North 6th Milburn Lee Warren Wayne Terry Lee Moore McLeansboro Mary Donna Eagan 509 South 19th Virginia Scruggs 601 Nora Ivan William Rightnowar RFD 3 Ruby Ann Williams 820 South 12th Georgia Dixon 421 Herbert Joseph McCandrew 1300 West Cott Norma Thomason Bluford Ira Rash 716 Herbert Discharged Elliott Eiler 1110 Park Ruby Germann Woodlawn Roy Joseph Hunt 408 Opdyke Roger Lynn Mullinax 400 North 6th Loretta Linville 1021 Tolle Rd Joe Crowe 909 Lamar Anna Crowe 909 Lamar Harold Burwell 420 South 17th
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Jefferson Memorial
Charles Rolland Cunningham
Fairfield
Newton Jackson
South 25Th
Clarence E. Estes
Perkins
Helen Lucille Elkins
RFD
Virginia Irene Austin
Wayne City
Nevera Shadoan
Salem Road
Good Samaritan
Hazel Memmer
Grace Ann Yeargin
North 6Th
Milburn Lee Warren
Terry Lee Moore
McLeansbo
Mary Donna Eagan
South 19Th
Virginia Scruggs
Nora
Ivan William Rightnowar
Ruby Ann Williams
South 12Th
Georgia Dixon
Herbert
Joseph McCandrew
Westcott
Norma Thomason
Bluford
Ira Rash
Elliott Eiler
Park
Ruby Germann
Woodlawn
Roy Joseph Hunt
Opdyke
Roger Lynn Mullinax
Loretta Linville
Tolle Rd
Joe Crowe
Lamar
Anna Crowe
Harold Burwell
South
Births in Springfield and 1107 Lamar families
Mr and Mrs John McCarthy of Springfield TV are the parents of a daughter born at 10 25 yesterday morning in Good Samaritan Hospital. She weighed nine pounds four ounces and is named Shannon Ann. Mr and Mrs Dequincy Taylor of 1107 Lamar are the parents of a daughter born at 7 24 last night in Good Samaritan hospital. She weighed seven pounds eight and one half ounces.
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John McCarthy
Springfield
Good Samaritan Hospital
Shannon Ann
Dequincy Taylor
1107
Lamar
Tractor Death Reported North of Wilneis Farm
Charlies Hill, 53, died in a tractor accident on his Winnebago County farm north of Wilneis 70. He was dragged into the power takeoff shaft and found by his son Lyle.
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Rockford, Dr
Charlies Hill
Wilneis 70
Winnebago County
Hill
Lyle
Mt Vernon City Manager and wife snowbound in Chicago
Mt Vernon City Manager Chester Lewis and his wife Mary were trapped in Chicago for days during a 26 inch snowstorm. They spent 24 hours at a Park Forest fire station after riding out hip deep snow to reach their daughter's home in Chicago Heights. They described lengthy detours, bulldozer crews clearing streets, and finally returning home last night amid heavy drifts.
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Mt. Vernon
Chester Lewis
Mary
Chicago
Lewis
Park Forest
Jane Pell
Chicago Heights
Effingham
State Highway Department
Mrs
Mrs. Lewis
Kankaknee
Reagan submits California budget with tuition demand
Governor Reagan unveils a 4.62 billion spending plan for California, calling for new taxes and tuition for UC and state college students for the first time. He cuts university and college appropriations by about 30 percent and argues tax measures are needed by April 1 to cover a deficit. The plan faces opposition and a two thirds legislative hurdle.
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Sacramento
Calif
Ronald Reagan
California
University of California and
State College
Reagan
University of California
Clark Kerr
Kerr
Senate
Assembly
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
Atascadero Board Bans Boys Earrings At School
In Atascadero California the Board of Education approved a policy banning earrings for male students after Superintendent L Edward Holden reported growing numbers of boys wearing them. Any disciplinary action will be upheld as needed.
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Atascadero
Calif
Atascadero High
Board of Education
L. Edward Holden
Holden
Chicago Schools Open After Storm
Chicago area roads remained treacherous after a 23 inch storm with 600 miles of Cook County highways affected. Iowa and Wisconsin sent 63 snow removal units to aid Illinois. A Chicago judge handed stiff sentences to three youths for looting unattended stores during the storm, with two sent to the Vandalia prison farm and one to jail. Overcrowding filled Cook County Jail as more than 200 looting arrests increased inmates to about 2,200. Taxi firms reported many cabs back in service, while O Hare was at 8 percent capacity and Midway and Meigs adjusted to flight limits. Rain fell from Oregon to Southern California with snow inland and driving warnings in Utah and eastern Nevada. Elsewhere, dry, clear conditions prevailed across the South and East.
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Cook County
Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
Vandalia
Ill
City House of Correction
Jack Johnson
Yellow and
Checker
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Midway Airport
Meigs Field
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Oregon
California
Utah
Nevada
Record Firm Pays $32500 For Powell
In New York Jubilee Records Inc. handed a $32500 check to State Supreme Court for the defamation judgment against Harlem congressman Adam Clayton Powell. Attorney Seymour Barash said the sum covers the remaining amount of the original 45500 judgment issued to Esther James, with penalties and interest raising the total to over 170000. Barash said payment comes from advance royalties on Powell’s record Keep the Faith Baby, featuring six sermons. Powell is a Harlem minister.
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NEW York
Adam Clayton Powell
State Supreme Court
Harlem
Seymour Barash
Powell
Jubilee Records Inc
Esther James
Barash
Newsmen
New York Democrat
Three Deaths In Chicago Fire
An 18 year old mother Marion Johnson her infant son Mario three and nephew Shane Hinton two died in a two story frame house fire on Chicago's far South Side. Two others Dane one and Michael Hinton four were critically burned. The interior was burned out and the cause is not known.
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Chicago
Marion Johnson
Mario
Shane Hinton
Dane
Michael Hinton
Markets Mt. Vernon Hog Market Prices Hold Steady
Prices paid at Mt. Vernon hog market through 12:30 pm were unchanged with 190 to 220 lb hogs topping 19.00. Sows fell to 15.50 for 300‑lb and 15.25 for 300 lb plus, boars at 13.00 to 13.50. After 12:30 pm decisions shift to next day’s pricing.
Mt Vernon Grain Prices Corection Afternoon Quotations
Mt Vernon quotes show soybeans at 2.75 per unit, shell corn at 1.32, ear corn at 1.30 this afternoon. Prices reflect local market activity and are typical for regional grain trading.
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Mt. Vernon
Grain futures: wheat corn oats soybeans prices listed
Chicago AP notes closing bids for grain markets with No 2 hard wheat at 1.62 1.63 per bushel No 2 red wheat 1.62 1. 63 bid No 2 yellow corn 1.40 1.41 No 2 heavy white oats 78 79 Soybeans No 1 yellow 294 4n Soybean oil 10 25n.
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Chicago
St Louis Produce Prices Listed by Size and Grade
The St Louis Produce listing from AP shows consumer grades for Exzel items with ranges for large medium and small sizes, plus wholesale grades and chicken broilers and fryers prices. It notes hens heavy and light weights with corresponding price ranges and marks no price for under five pounds.
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ST. Louis
Exzel
Livestock Prices Report From National Stockyards
Estimates for Wednesday show hogs at 7,000 head with 7,500 hogs traded and barrows and gilts 200-240 pounds at 19.00 to 20.25 while sows at 300 pounds range 15.00 to 16.75. Cattle numbers around 3,500 with calves 200 head, good to prime steers 22.50 to 25.75, good to choice vealers 27.00 to 38.00, and good to choice calves 19.00 to 24.00. Sheep around 500 with good to choice wooled lambs 20.00 to 23.75 and choice shorn lambs 22.25. wooled ewes 9.00 to 8.00.
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National Stockyards
Chicago market notes on poultry eggs and dairy
AP report from Chicago markets lists live poultry roasters at 23 to 25 cents per pound and red white rock fryers at 19 to 24 cents. CME butter prices show AA 65 percent at 93, A 65 percent at 92, B 63 percent at 90, C 61 percent at 89. Egg grades are 70 percent or better for whites at 29 cents, mixed at 29, and other grades at 27.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Wall Street higher as IBM probe unsettles computer shares
Wall Street rose in heavy afternoon trading as the Dow gained 5.45 to 853.56 on the last day of January 1967. IBM dropped after the Justice Department’s computer-industry inquiry, while others in electronics and tech edged higher. The AP average rose 1.2 to 316.9 as industry sectors like aviation and savings and loans led gains. circuit court fines were issued for four drivers in separate traffic offenses.
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Science-Technology
IBM
Honey Well
Burroughs
Sperry Rand
Associated Press
Avco
American Stock Exchange
Contractor Sued Over Area Road Work Payment Totals
The suit cites rock furnishings totaling 32,197.31 with 8,064.75 unpaid. Nelson Concrete claims a 10,296.80 bill with 1,196 paid, detailing disputed charges and partial payments in the case.
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Nelson Concrete
Red Cross Appeals Over Gas Attacks in Yemen War
The International Red Cross Committee expressed extreme concern over air raids against civilians and alleged use of poisonous gas in Yemen and nearby areas. It urged all authorities to uphold morality and law, directing the appeal to those involved in Yemen’s civil war as reports of gas casualties and bombings mount.
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Geneva
International Red Cross Committee
Yemen
United Arab Republic
Saudi Arabia
Andre Rochat
Egypt
Abdullah Al-Sallal
Imam Mohammed Al-Badr
Al-Sallal
Ketaf
International Red Cross
Associated Press
David Lancashire
Mao Forces Win Tsingtao Say Mao Forces Win Tsingtao
Mao Tse tung's forces claimed capture of Tsingtao, once U.S. Navy HQ in China, as part of a drive to seize major cities including Shanghai, Peking, and Taiyuan. The army said it beat back a counterattack by Liu Shao-chi supporters and staged a Jan. 28 demonstration of Mao’s support.
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Shansi
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Lin Piao
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Army
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Sinkiang
Wang En-mao
Lop
Adults In Charge At Teen Center Five Days A Week
Five volunteer adults supervise daily activities at Mt. Vernon Community Center Teen Center located at 7th and Main. Center hours are 3 30 to 5 00 p m Monday through Friday. Volunteers include Arvella Wood Marty Harris Betty Lipps Helen Harp and Maxine White.
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Mt. Vernon
7Th and
Main Streets
Arvella Wood
Marty Harris
Betty Lipps
Helen Harp
Maxine White
Cutting Torch Stolen From Used Car Lot
Theft of a cutting torch was reported to Mt. Vernon police Monday. The torch was taken from Kennedy's Used Car Lot, 1800 Shawnee Street.
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Mt. Vernon
Kennedy
Shawnee Street
Mt Vernon YMCA offers coat check to curb teen thefts
Mt Vernon YMCA launched a coat check service at dances to reduce petty thefts. Executive director James Adams says the five cent service places responsibility on the YMCA, but few teens use it. Police report thefts at Community Center and YMCA dances as crowds exceed 400. organizers urge use of the check system for protection.
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Mt. Vernon
Adams
YMCA
Percy And Gray Coming To Mt. Vernon Ozark Fete
Mt. Vernon marks Ozark Airlines 5th anniversary with an open house February 11 at Mt. Vernon airport. Earl Jamison bought 40 tickets at 5 dollars each for the event and fellowship outing. Persoy and Gray expected. Dirsken Kerner Percy Gray officials invited. follow sponsor Elks Club at Fairfield Road.
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Ozark Airlines
Mt. Vernon
House
Senate
Southern Illinois
Elks Country Club
Old Fairfield Rd
Ray Tibbs
Mt Vernon gains stop on new Ozark Airlines route proposal
The Civil Aeronautics Board rules Mt Vernon may be an intermediate stop on a proposed east west Ozark Airlines service from Louisville to Rochester with stops at Mt Vernon Springfield Quad Cities and Des Moines In two daily round trips to Louisville and eastbound to Rochester the plan seeks hearings in 40 to 60 days followed by a hearing to decide feasibility If approved service could begin in six to eight months Mt Vernon officials will prepare required exhibits for the pre hearing session
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Mt. Vernon
Ozark Airlines
St. Louis
Chicago
CAB
Louisville
Rochester
Minn
Springfield
Quad Cities
Des Moines
Louisville Air Board
Lewis
Mt. Venon
Fred Mosimann In Michigan Woman Hurt In Mishap
Two persons suffered minor injuries in a two car collision at 7:59 a.m. on 10th and Broadway. Fred Mosimann aged 50 of 711 Main was treated for bruises at Good Samaritan Hospital. Mrs. Floyd Lossing of Tawas City Michigan also reported minor injuries. Police said Mosimann and the injured woman’s husband were driving the cars. Damages were estimated at more than $100 to each vehicle.
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10Th and
Broadway
Fred Mosimann
Main
Good Samaritan Hospital
Floyd Lossing
Tawas City
Mich
Mosimann
Court Dismisses Charge Of Theft In Dix
A theft charge against James Ingram was dismissed in a preliminary hearing in Circuit Court. Judge Alvin Lacy Williams found probable cause that an offense occurred but insufficient cause to tie Ingram to the theft of a shotgun owned by William Quarterman of Route 1, Dix.
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James Ingram
Ingram
William Quarterman
Route 1
Dix
Alvin Lacy Williams
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