Deaths Mrs Evelyn E Schalter 63 in Illinois Auto Crash
Evelyn E Schalter 63 of 221 West Washington O Fallon Illinois died Monday from injuries in an auto crash on Highway 159 near Edwardsville en route to Wood River Township Hospital. Funeral at 2 PM Wednesday Wolfersberger Meyer Funeral Home O Fallon with Rev A E Klemme. burial in O Fallon cemetery. Survived by son Robert G Schalter Mt Vernon. brother Ellsworth McGeechen O Fallon. sister Mrs Eugene Culvey Walsh. She was librarian, member of O Fallon United Church of Christ, Mary and Martha Society and O Fallon Eastern Star Chapter 487.
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Evelyn E. Schalter
West Washington
O'Fallon
Wood River Township
Wood River
Highway 159
Edwardsville
Robert G. Schalter
Mt. Vernon
Wolfersberger - Meyer
A. E. Klemme
O’fallon
Schatter
Samuel
Louisa (Wittig) McGeehan
Julius G. Schatter
Ellsworth McGeechen
Eugene Culvey
Walsh. I
Schalter
O'Fallon City
Bloomington Adopts Open Housing Ordinance
Bloomington City Council passed a comprehensive open housing ordinance with fines up to 500 dollars and 90 days jail for violations by real estate brokers owners and lenders It prohibits refusal to sell or rent based on race color religion or national origin and bans insinuations that property values will fall due to integration The measure drafted by the human relations committee was supported by the local NAACP and may be tested in court.
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Bloomington
Frank Hartenstein
The
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admissions and Discharges
A list of patients admitted or discharged at Jefferson Memorial includes Mary Evelyn Compton and Mary Delphine Rohde with baby Renee Colleen, along with many others such as Clayton L. Sledge, Glen Beal, Ed Phillips, Paul Lovan, Grace Ann Yeargin and Benjamin Speck. Names cover La mar Clayton Bluford Rinard Des Moines and multiple streets.
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Jefferson Memorial
Mary Evelyn Compton
Lamar
Clayton L. Sledge
Bluford
Glen Beal
Rinard
Ed Phillips
South 27Th
Paul Lovan
Perkins
Delphine Joyce Rohde
Renee Colleen
Carlyle
Birth Announcement for Bonnie Couple's New Son
Mr and Mrs Lowell Allen of Bonnie are the parents of a son born at 5 53 yesterday afternoon in Good Samaritan Hospital. He weighed seven pounds three quarters of an ounce.
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Lowell Allen
Bonnie
Good Samaritan ‘Hospital
Weather Summary For MT VERNON And Nearby Areas
The bulletin notes a hot unsettled period with highs near 99 in MT VERNON and widespread readings around 90 statewide. It records rainfall from 7:00 am Monday to 7:00 am Tuesday totaling 0.24 to 0.31 inches, with cloudy skies and thunderstorms possible tonight. Temperatures ranged from 63 at Moline to 72 at Vandalia.
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Moline
Vandalia
Golf clubs stolen in Mt. V. burglary at Franklin Ave house
Police report two sets of golf clubs taken in a break in at 1708 Franklin Avenue. The burglary was reported by a relative of owner Mrs Joe Monical, who is not living there. A window was broken to unlock the rear door. full loss inventory awaited next week.
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Franklin Avenue
Joe Monical
Monical
Roadless Rome’s Appian Way Still handles modern traffic
Ancient Appian Way built before 300 B C from Rome to the sea remains durable after two millennia. The road carries heavy traffic today, showcasing remarkable engineering longevity.
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Rome
Markets Mt Vernon Hog Market Report
Market notes from Mt Vernon show hogs selling at top 21.5 with sows around 18.05 for 300 pounds and butcher hogs near 13.00. Barrows and gilts ranged about 18 to 21 dollars with prices set after 12:30 pm and basing on next day’s market.
Mt Vernon Market Prices Reported This Morning
Mt Vernon traders quoted grain prices in Mt Vernon this morning with Wheat at 1.31 per bushel Soybeans at 2.60 and Shell corn at 1.23.
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Mt. Vernon
Chicago Produce Butter Eggs and Poultry Prices Report
Chicago Mercantile Exchange notes butter prices steady with wholesale buys unchanged to 5 percent higher across grades AA to C. Eggs steady with whites and yolks priced by grade from 75 percent or better to standards. Live poultry roasters and special red white rock fryers shown with set price ranges for 1944-22.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Asda
Grain price quotes from Chicago market report
Chicago AP data shows Wheat No 2 hard at 1.58 and No 2 red at 1.50 per bushel, Corn No 2 yellow at 1.28 to 1.29, Oats No 2 heavy white at 71, Soybeans at 2.78 and Soybean oid at 9.00. Prices reflect the latest market moves for traders and farmers.
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Chicago
St Louis Egg and Poultry Prices Listed
St Louis release from AP details consumer egg grades A large 30 to 34 cents A medium 21 to 26 A small 12 to 15 B large 21 to 24 wholesale 20 to 22 standard 17 to 18 hens heavy 12 light 7 to 8 under 5 pounds 4 44 broilers and fryers 25 14 to 26 percent
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ST. Louis
Livestock Estimates at National Stockyards Stock Report
AP estimates for Wednesday show cattle 2,000 calves 150 hogs 6,000 sheep 400. Hog weights 210 to 240 pounds at 22.50 to 23.00. sows 300 to 550 pounds at 17.00 to 19.75. Cattle 4,000 calves 250 slaughter steers good to choice 24.00 to 26.50. heifers 23.00 to 25.50. cows 16.00 to 18.50. vealers 25.00 to 33.00. calves 18.00 to 21.00. Sheep 500 spring lambs 19.00 to 24.00. shorn ewes 4.00 to 7.00.
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National Stockyards
Wall Street Mixed as Market Consolidates Gains
Wall Street opened weak intraday trading with the Dow down 2.43 at 902.10 as some blue chips slipped. Eastman Kodak tumbled on its first earnings drop in a decade while Lorillard and Shenley moved on merger news and Polaroid rebounded, keeping the market uneven across indices and sectors.
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New York
Eastman Kodak
Owens Illinois
Dow
Savings and Loan
Associated Press
McDonnell Douglas
Shenley
Lorillard
Pennsylvania Railroad
Polaroid
Outboard Marine
Great Western Financial
American Stock Exchange
Store Owner Fires in Pontiac Riots Blames Romney
Pontiac confronts violent looting and arson as two youths die and police report a wounded patrolman. State Rep. Arthur Law says he shot at youths during market damage in Pontiac’s Negro district after earlier Detroit unrest. Governor Romney urged martial law, while a white legislator faces questions over the shooting.
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Arthur J. Law
Law
Alfred Taylor
George Romney
Santiago Serna
Negro District
Bobby Reeves
Pontiac General Hospital
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Francis B. Burch
H. Rapp Brown
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Rochester
N.Y
General Hospital
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Ohio
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Automotive Center
Flint
Tucson
Ariz
Houston
Tex
Third Ward
Texas Southern University
Englewood
N.J
Portsmouth
Minneapolis
Minn
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Arthur Naftalin
Black Power Conference
Newark
Cairo
Mississippi
Sandburg Library Acquired by University of Illinois
The University of Illinois has acquired Carl Sandburg's personal library, including thousands of volumes and his Lincoln Library pamphlets manuscripts and correspondence, under a 1955 contract. Sandburg died Saturday at his Flat Rock North Carolina home. Mrs. Sandburg will arrange transfer.
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Champaign
Carl Sandburg
University of Illinois
Robert B. Downs
University
Sandburg
Lincoln
Flat Rock
N.C
Downs
Dow Jones Noon Averages Slip Amid Mixed Gains
New York AP reports Dow Jones noon averages show the 30 industrials at 902.10 down 2.43, 20 railes at 271.37 down 0.52, 15 utilities at 132.70 up 0.13, and 65 stocks at 331.37 down 0.64 as gains cluster among select issues.
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New York
Dow Jones
Indus
Util Eee
Hyde Files Suit For Divorce In Circuit Court
Leslie Loren Hyde filed suit for divorce against Edna Mae Hyde in circuit court yesterday charging cruelty. He also asks the court to approve a property settlement. The couple married July 30, 1965 and separated July 18, 1967.
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Leslie Loren Hyde
Edna Mae Hyde
Marriages Filed In Several Areas In State
Preston E. McKee of Carbon dale and Jacqueline A. Fitz hugh of Centralia. Hosie M. Wilson Route 1 Bonnie and Roma L. Morgan Mt. Vernon. James Allen Becker Route 3 Iluka and Linda June Melvin Salem. Charles William Fuller Route 1 Dix and Martha Sue Ger mann Woodlawn. Ricky Lee Roberson and Luetta Rae Harrell both of Mt Vernon.
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Preston E. McKee
Carbondale
Jacqueline A. Fitzhugh
Centralia
Hosie M. Wilson
Bonnie
Roma L. Morgan
Mt. Vernon
James Allen Becker
Iluka
Linda June Melvin
Salem
Charles William Fuller
Dix
Martha Sue Germann
Woodlawn
Ricky Lee Roberson
Lu‘etta Rae Harrell
Mt . Vernon
No Flowers At Sandburg Rites
FLAT ROCK NC AP Relatives and close friends attended a 15 minute funeral for Carl Sandburg at St Johns in the Wilderness Episcopal Church with no flowers on the casket a single pine bough placed by Edward Steichen. Sandburg 89 died Saturday at his goat farm near the church. Cremation in Atlanta and ashes to be scattered near Remembrance Rock by his birthplace Galesburg.
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Flat Rock
N.C
Carl Sandburg
Lonesome Prairies
St. Johns
Wilderness Episcopal Church
Edward Steichen
Sandburg
Ralph McGill
The
Atlanta Constitution
Harry Golder
A Riot of Thieves in Detroit Sparks Weekend Looting
Detroit scenes of looting cross neighborhoods as middle aged women leap over shop windowsills to seize lamps and furniture while Negro leaders seek reasons for the sudden festive violence. The patchwork city reveals white incursion into predominantly Black areas fueling the unrest on Saturday and Sunday.
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Detroit
12Th Street
Retailers Praised For Special Sales
King City Retailer Association members heard a review of upcoming promotional projects after an association golf event during a post dinner period. President Bill Steffy urged expansion of membership and stronger efforts to keep Mt Vernon’s shopping lead in southern Illinois.
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King City Retailer Association
Mt Vernon Chamber of Commerce
Bill Steffy
Kermit Willmore
Arthur Laird
Fred Ballard
James Jackson
Association
Miles Chappell
Sears, Roebuck
Robert Nassauer
Steffy
Chappell
Mt. Vernon
Sun
Illinois
King City Retailers Association
Don Shafer
Musgrove Shoe Store
Albert Parker
Albert’s
Roger Smith
Security Bank
Robert O’brien
O'Brien Office Supply
Virgil Pigg
Pigg’s Insurance Agency
Chester
Cairo considers hires to curb segregation in police and fire units
City Council promised immediate hiring of a Negro police officer and a Negro fireman plus a Negro on the force to a new assistant chief post. Earlier, Pyramid Courts residents gave Mayor Lee Stenzel a 72 hour ultimatum to end alleged segregation policies as reward for arsonists at Cairo continued from Page One.
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Ewing
Pyramid Courts
Lee Stenzel
Circuit Court Traffic Fines Listed for Local Offenders
Traffic fines assessed in circuit court include Carroll A Firebaugh Route 2 ten dollars for failure to yield right of way. Charles W Dees Bonnie ten dollars for driving too fast for conditions. William E Ketteman Benton ten dollars for speeding.
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Carrol A. Firebaugh
Route 2
Charles W. Dees
Bonnie
William E. Ketteman
Benton
Fire crews respond to shorted lights at W G Motors Co
Mt. Vernon firemen were dispatched at 9 08 p m to the W G Motors Co on South 10th street where electrical lights shorted on the auto sales lot.
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Mt. Vernon
WG Motors Co
South 10Th Street
Three Injured In Mt Vernon Traffic Crashes
Three persons were injured in Mt Vernon traffic incidents yesterday. James Pettis 11 of Des Moines was admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital after a 12 07 p m three car collision at 27th and Broadway. Pettis rode with his mother Grace Edwards Pettis 41 in a car driven by her. other drivers were Pearl Edwards 71 Route 3 Mt Vernon and Betty H Bolerjack 39 of 3267 Cherry Street. Damages exceeded 500 to Bolerjack vehicle and over 400 to Pettis vehicle and more than 100 to Edwards car. Mrs Pettis was charged with driving a car with faulty brakes. Helen E Bayer 56 of 1708 South 13th Street and Evan Curry were injured in a 507 p m collision at 14th and Wescott involving a pickup truck driven by Buford E Smith 43 of 513 South 18th Street. Bayer was admitted in satisfactory condition. Curry’s injuries were not serious. Damages were over 500 to Bayer car and over 200 to the truck. Charles O Bassett 57 of 820 Dewey Avenue and John D Johnson 43 of 400 Harrison drove together in a collision at Harrison and Johnson around 604 a m today. Bassett was charged with failure to yield right of way.
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Mt. Vernon
James Pettis
Des Moines
Iowa
Good Samaritan
Cherry Street
Bolerjack
Pettis
Edwards
Bayer
14Th and
Wescott
Buford E. Smith
South 18Th Street
Evan Curry
Helen Bayer
Good Samaritan Hospital
Curry
Charles O. Bassett
Dewey Avenue
John D. Johnson
Harrison
Harrison and Johnson
Bassett
Harold Howard Heads Anniversary Celebration
Harold Howard is named leader of Mt Vernon Sesquicentennial events with Mrs Ruth Maxwell directing a beaut y pageant and Mrs Earl Hanes handling souvenirs. A county publicity panel studies symbol concepts for Days of Plenty horn of plenty theme as 1968 observances begin with a pioneer day supper and dance in December.
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Ruth Maxwell
Salem Road
Earl Hanes
Sesquicentennial
King City Retailers Assn
Mt. Vernon
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