Death of Potthast Infant Graveside Rites Held
Graveside rites were held today at St Marys Cemetery for infant Elizabeth Ann Potthast who was born dead at 1 45 p m Thursday in Good Samaritan Hospital to Lester and Patricia Potthast of 16 Edgewood Road. Survivors include brother Matthew sister Lucy Ann and grandparents William Potthast and Mrs Norma Grimmer of Highland.
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Elizabeth Ann Potthast
St. Mary's Cemetery
James Burke
Good Samaritan Hospital
Lester Potthast
Edgewood Road
Lester
Patricia Joan (Grimmer) Potthast
Matthew
Lucy Ann
William A. Potthast
Norma Grimmer
Highland, I
Grace Donoho Dies by Self Inflicted Gunshot Wound
Mrs Grace Donoho 74 took her own life this morning at her rural Farrington township home in Dix RFD. Coroner Ray Hefley said she shot herself in the right temple with a .22 rifle. the pistol was in her hand and a note lay on a desk. Neighbors found the body in the front yard as officers investigated. She had been in poor health and was the widow of Her wche Donoho, living alone. Body sent to Osborn Funeral Home Kell. funeral plans incomplete.
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Grace Donoho
RFD
Dix
Farrington
Ray Hefley
Ina Resident's Father Dies At Benton Today
Dorpus Hungate 85 of RFD Benton died at 10 35 am Friday at his home He was a paired coal miner at Orient 0 2 Funeral services set for 2 00 pm Sunday at Mitchell Funeral Home Benton Burial in Ten Mile cemetery near McLeansboro Body lying in state at Mitchell Funeral Home Benton with calling after 11 00 am Saturday Survivors include son Gus Hungate Benton daughter Lena Ligon Inc two brothers Ray Hungate McLeansboro John Hungate Benton one sister Nancy Rogers McLeansboro and three grandchildren Walter Burnett Kenneth Wayne Hungate Martha Turnage He preceded in death by wife Oria one son Robert Hungate and one daughter Mabel Burnett He was member of local 1265 U M W of A.
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Dorpus Hungate
RFD
Benton
Orient
Mitchell Funeral Home
Ten Mile Cemetery
McLeansboro
Mitchell Funeral
Gus Hungate
Births in brief for Cravens Barr Rominger and others
Mr and Mrs Norman Cravens Elgin welcome a son born July 5 at 3 47 am weighing 5 14. Grandparents O P Cravens and Mrs Ray Jones of Dahlgren. Michael R Barr North Kingston Rhode Island and Peggy Russell of this city welcome a daughter born June 29 at 1 30 pm weighing 6 15. Father serving in U S Navy. Rominger Des Peres Missouri welcome a son born Thursday at St Luke's Hospital weighing 6 11 sample named Richard Wallace. Grandparents Corlew and Isom. Gaston Bluford welcome a son born 9 00 am weighing 9 7 1/2. Named Michael Floyd. Neideffer 417 South Sixth Street welcome a son born 10 20 am weighing 6 8.
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Norman Cravens
Elgin
O. P. Cravens
Ray Jones
Dahlgren
Michael R. Barr
North Kingston
Rhode Island
Peggy Russell
Ph Russell
Bill Barrall
Mt. Vernon
U. S. Navy
Herbert E. Rominger
Armat
Des Peres
St. Luke's Hospital
St. Louis
Richard Wallace
J. J. Corlew
W. P. Isom
Maysville
Lowell Gaston
Bluford
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Michael Floyd
Leonard Neideffer
South Sixth Street
Good Samaritan Hospital
Benson Considers Run for Congress in Utah
Reed A. Benson 34 son of Ezra Taft Benson says he is weighing a Republican bid for Congress and will likely decide this weekend. He notes the September primary filing deadline is Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
Reed A. Benson
Soceraty of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Congress
Benson
Hatton man dies in fall from church steeple
Dale Hov land, 37, of Hatton North Carolina died Thursday after falling six feet while working on a church steeple AP report notes the accident. Sunspots in 1960 caused a major communications blackout affecting the United States Europe and the Far East for days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Hovland
Hatton, N.C
United States
Europe
Far East
Hog Market Prices Slip at Mt. Vernon Market
Prices at the Mt. Vernon livestock market were down 15 cents. The top price for 190 to 220 pound hogs was 17.85, with sows at 14.75 for 300 pounds, 14.25 for sows 300 pounds and over, and boars at 8.50 to 9.30.
Mt Vernon Grain Prices Quoted This Afternoon
Mt Vernon reported commodity prices with Wheat at 1.99 dollars Soybeans at 2.38 dollars and Corn at 1.09 dollars in the early afternoon market update.
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Mt. Vernon
Livestock market report from National Stockyards Ill
National Stockyards Illinois shows cattle and calf demand with loads of slaughter cattle and feeder cattle. Prices range across weights with calves sheep and hogs listed. strong activity noted for high quality slaughter weights and spring lambs while utilities and cull categories show broader, lower ranges.
Egg and Poultry Price Report for St. Louis Area
In St Louis area market data show consumer egg grades with large A 27 to 30 cents, medium A 21 to 25, small A 116 to 118, B large 23 to 24, wholesale standards 2114 to 24, unclassified farm run 2044 to 22, checks 17 to 1. Hens heavy 12 to 13, light over five pounds 8 to 10, and boilers and fryers 2.5 percent to 3 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sh Louis
Chicago Butter and Egg Prices Steady at Mercantile Exchange
Chicago Mercantile Exchange reports wholesale butter prices holding steady with scores and grades listed. butter and eggs show little change overall. Prices for A whites, mixed, mediums, standards, and dirties vary by grade, with buying and selling figures noted alongside quality descriptors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Grain market report shows mixed prices and notes
Chicago AP reports no wheat or oats sales with corn at No 5 yellow 1.11 and sample grade 1.04 percent while barley malting trades around 1 2 3 4 with feed at 193 1 15n and soybeans at 75 in a volatile session
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wall Street Falls Amid Profit Taking Across Market
Profit taking pushed the stock market into a loss with moderately active trading at about 3.3 million shares. IBM led declines near 5 while Polaroid Xerox and Eastman Kodak shed about 2 points. Ford GM and Chrysler also slipped as auto sales news failed to lift buyers. Bonds showed little movement as volume remained light.
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ED Morse
AP Business News
NEW York (Ap
IBM
Polaroid
Zerox
Eastman’ Kodak
General Electric
Union Carbide
Zenith
Phelps Dodge
Trans-World Finance
Financial Federation
United Financial of California
First Charter Financial
Motors
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
U.sovernment
Lockjaw Cured By New Method
Chicago Heights AP Camile Varsalle released from St James Hospital Thursday apparently cured of acute lockjaw a disease almost always fatal in the past The 15 year old girl had undergone oxygen pressure treatment a new technique adopted from a Dutch devised treatment for gangrene The girl was the second victim of acute tetanus treated at the hospital recently and apparently cured Part of the treatment used by doctors at St James was to administer oxygen to the patients who were placed in a sealed ice shade three times normal atmospheric pressure The girl was admitted to the hospital June 17 Bloomy Township farmer Ralph Douma 7 was brought in earlier and given pressure treatment for acute lockjaw He was released last week
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Chicago Heights
Camile Varsalle
St. James Hospital
St. James
Bloomy Township
Ralph Douma
Troops Quell Brazil Food Riots in Rio de Janeiro
Tanks and troops restored calm after mobs looted more than 100 stores in Duque de Caxias and nearby Rio suburbs. Mayor said 15 were killed and over 100 injured as 1st Army moved in. Riots followed a general strike over price controls on staples amid inflation.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Duque de Caxias
Adolfo Daci
1St Army
Rio
Sao Joao Do Meriti
Nova Iguacu
Joao Goulant
Goulart
Rio Grande Do Sul
Leonel Brizola
Gouart
Niteroi
Sen. Auro de Moura Andrade
Andrade
Hospital Notes and Good Samaritan Patient Admissions
Admission and discharge lists from Jefferson Memorial and Good Samaritan hospitals. Names include Randall McKinley Smith Katherine Staley Lindel Bell Alice Hill and others. Discharges feature Beulah Garrison and multiple listed patients.
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Jefferson Memorial
Randall McKinley Smith
Katherine Staley
Edwardsville
Lindel Bell
Dahlgren
Alice Hill
Frances FE. Hill
Lockport, Ill
Hazel Millenbine
Sandra Sigworth
Delmar Hester
Lorraine Gaston
Bhsford
William A. Woolridge
Beulah Garrison
British court delays Soblen return and death-penalty talk
In London, spy Robert Soblen won at least a 10 day delay on his removal to the United States after a writ of habeas corpus. A hearing is set for July 16 as Soblen, who stabbed himself aboard a flight en route to the U.S., remains in a London hospital under court protection.
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London
Robert Soblen
United States
Soblen
Britain
New York
Soviet Union
Israel
Hillingdon Hospital
Elwyn Jones
Peter Solomon
Justice Mocatta
St. John's Wood
Home Office
Kennedy outlines foreign aid and tax cut priorities
President Kennedy urges Congress to pass foreign aid and medical care measures and to curb lobbying by sugar interests. He defends U.S. nuclear policy under NATO, backs a limited atomic program, and calls for a broad fallout shelter drive. He hints at campaign strategy and civil rights action on federally aided housing. He also notes Japan investments and balance of payments effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Kennedy
American Medical Association
Istill
Soviet Union
United States
Free World
Khrushchev
Robert S McNamara
France
NATO
Western
Europe
California
Edmund G. Brown
Richard M.nixon
Japan
U.S
Tonsils and Doll Eye Surprise Surgeons in Chicago
In Chicago AP report, surgeons removing Kristine Gaytland's tonsils yesterday found a blue plastic doll's eye among the tissue. The eye, dime-sized, startled the doctors and mirrored a lost eye from a doll Mrs. Mary Gartland discarded about three years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kristine Gaytland
Mary Gartland
Kristine
Mundt and Freeman in Estes Spat Sparks Senate row
Washington AP Sen Mundt and Freeman clash over Estes case as subcommittee questions witnesses. Freeman denies evidence of collusion while Mundt accuses Democratic links to grain storage and Estes. McClellan may recall Freeman after others testify as the investigation proceeds. Freeman says the Estes matter requires six months to finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Milton Kelly Washington
Billie Sol Estes
Democratic
Orville L. Freeman
Karl E. Mundt
RSD
Freeman
Subcommittee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Freeman-Mundt
Mundt
Estes
Department of Agriculture
Department J
Curtis and
Stelle and Horner Fight Split Illinois Democrats in 1930s
John Stelle a World War I veteran and lawyer from McLeansboro shaped Illinois politics as treasurer and lieutenant governor. He opposed Horner, challenged his regency, and briefly acted as governor during Horner’s Florida absence. The 1940-41 turmoil included resignations, investigations, and a shift in party leadership amid a major intra party clash.
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Democratic
Horner
Stelle
General Assembly
Stele
McLean
Dean
Joseph Sam Perry
Glen Ellyn
Illinois
John Stelle
Edward J. Kelly
Patrick A. Nash
Chicago
Kelly-Nash Machine
Harry B. Hershey
Taylorville
Hershey
Herman N. Burdesen
Kelly-Nash
City Hall
Florida
Legion
France
American Legion
Downstate
Democratic ‘State Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington University Law School
St. Louis
McLeansboro
Edward J. Barrett
Wilma Wise
Heart of
Weather Report Mt Vernon Illinois Thunderstorms Possible
Pleasant summer weather prevailed across most of the state but southern Illinois saw thunderstorms. Temperatures rose from morning 60s to 80s with considerable cloudiness. The Weather Bureau warned of possible intense thunderstorm activity by evening. Highs reached 82 at Mt Vernon, with records noting 89 at Vandalia and 88 previously, while lows ranged around the mid 60s to mid 70s.
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Tlyanois
Associated Press
Illinois
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Grant Park
Vandalia
Rockford
Mercay
Belle ‘Ville
Five Day Forecast for Northern and Southern Illinois
Northern Illinois will run near normal with highs 83 to 87 and lows 62 to 65. Slight cooling possible Monday. Rainfall totaling about one half to one inch, mainly Sunday and Monday and again late Tuesday or Wednesday. Southern Illinois warms to near normal or above with highs near 90 and lows around 70. Rainfall over one inch with several showers and thunderstorms.
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Ilinois
Illinois
High Bomb Shot Delayed A Day In Pacific Test
Honolulu AP reports a 24 hour postponement of the third high altitude nuclear test above Johnston Island after two 90 minute holds. Officials offered no explanation, with unofficial notes suggesting technical problems. The plan was for the largest blast in the Pacific series, part of 25 tests since April 24, mostly dropped from aircraft near Christmas Island.
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Honolulu
United States
Johnston Island
Thor
Johnston
Hawai
Pacific
Christmas Island
Delinquents Punished With Public Spanks In Whiting Beach
Three youths and six others were subject to unusual punishments by City Judge William Obermiller in Whiting Indiana. Spankings of 15 hard strokes were administered to Steve Shorr Peter Welcome and James Hunt as 250 onlookers watched. They were also ordered to shave their heads perform beach cleanup and study for exams on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The sentence includes haircut restrictions and ongoing beach duties through Labor Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel M. Cardona
Whiting Beach
Obermiller
Floyd R Loss Enlists in U S Marine Corps
Floyd Ray Loss, 19, son of Mr and Mrs Lenar Earl Loss of 1201 South 27th Street, has enlisted in the U S Marine Corps and begins recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. He elected the 120 day delay program and the Aviation Program, with aviation technical school in Memphis after leave. Contacts: Sgt Talley or Sgt Cavitt at 91834 Main Street Mt Vernon, or call 242 4870 after 4 30 p m and 12 noon Saturdays.
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Floyd Ray Loss
Lenar
Earl Loss
South 27Th Street
U. S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
California
Jomer Talley
Pvt
Loss
Mt. Vernon High
Floyd Loss
Marine Corps
Marine Corps Aviation
Aviation
Memphis
Tenn
Marine
Talley
Cavitt
School Band Of America Tours Europe For Understanding
A 73 member student band from Illinois called the School Band of America tours Europe at their own expense to perform American music and foster Franco German American understanding. They performed in Bonn for the Fourth of July, faced initial skepticism, but won praise with Sousa marches and selections from Flower Drum Song and Porgy and Bess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John 0. Koehler
Bonn
Germany
Europe
Uniteates
Illinois
School Band of
America
Sesident
John F. Henkett
Pep Am Vane
Edward T. Harn
Bloomington
Ill
Bonni
U.S
John Philip Sousa
Rhine
Harn
Frank W. Thompson
Normal
Bloomington Public
Secret Army Organization Killers chief executed in Paris
Roger Dequalans, condemned for commanding the Secret Army Organization Killers in Algiers, was executed by firing squad at dawn in Paris. The case concludes a high profile anti colonial crackdown tied to colonial conflicts and extremist activity in North Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Roger Dequalans
Algiers
Tot Drowns in Tank in Quincy Illinois
Lisa Walker three, daughter of Mr and Mrs Kent Walker, drowned after slipping into a horse watering tank at a neighbor s home Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy, Ill
Lisa Walkler
iKent Walker
Monk Hanged for 1959 Prime Minister Assassination
In Colombo Sri Lanka Buddhist monk Tal duwa Somarama was executed by hanging for the murder of Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike in 1959. The case ends a long drama over the high profile political killing.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Talduwa Somarama
Solomon Bandaranaike
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Ina
Mt. Vernon Grain
National
Coe
Fey
Wall Street
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Newark
N. J
FBI
New Jersey
Joseph
Newsboy
Mooriarty
By Tom Masterson
Good Samaritan
Linda Jane Dennis
John Henry Russell
Dixie Paylette Dennis
Sue Nell Dennis
Pauline Compton
Hattie Meafows
Doris Arlina Crowder
Russell McPherson
Ralph Dean McPherson
Jack Dennis Marshall
Walton W. Tennyson
Herbert G. Downey
Florence H. Marks
Charles Albert Swain
Mary E. McCarthy
B. B. Holman, Sr
Salem
Jo Alice Walker
Marsha Kay
Karen Elaine de Moss
Diane Kathleen Ward
Willie Leroy Browder
Doris Leona Morlan
Kelli Renee
Shelbi Malae
Avis Ann Short
Robert Eugene
Betty Ann Brown
Wanda Marie White
Nancy Ellen Riley
Anita Gail
Edna Lurene Hall
By Arthur L. Srb
Springfield
Atomic Energy Subcommittee
George Drach
State Atomic Energy Commission
Drach
William G. Stratton
Atomic Energy
Franklin Yoder
Edward C. Logelin
U.S. Steel
Harvey Pearson
River Grove
Argonne National Laboratory
Dresden
Morris
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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Oak Ridge
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Clarence Klassen
I Mundt
Estes Spat
M.leansboro
Malta
Africa
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Albuquerque
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Boise
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Cleveland
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Omaha
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Portland
Ore
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Richmond
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Tampa
Washington
Oline Pathe Hert
Peoria
Floyd R. Loss
Marines
Jefferson County Women’s
Democratic Club
Tot
GALE
Mercury
Arnold Ethridge
Southern Minors Speedway
Marion
Alton
Muarlow
iGo Mercury
Gale Monroe
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