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Mt Vernon Register News

Location

Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 01, 1960

Page

9

Pleasant Grove Community Notes and Visits

Pleasant Grove social updates record hospitalizations and illnesses. Mrs. Melton remains serious after Tuesday hospital transfer. Multiple visits and weekend stays span Marion Mt. Vernon Springfield and Belle Rive, with numerous relatives named. Memorial Day decorations noted and local prayers offered. Mentions of travel via St. Louis and Tennessee and reflections on life’s brevity.

James Glover H. A. McCormick Newton, Ill Farmington, Mo Effie [Partridge Mt. Vernon Verne Melton Ruby Jacobs iFred Earl Smith Fannie Wallace Hays St. Louis Fred Jacobs Springfield Mary B. Swift Barney McMeen Lela Smith Walter Biermann Compton Belle Rive Carl Green Ashton Albert Verheyen Richard Vogel Fostoria Ohio Viola Petth San Diego Cailif Leo Allen Tunas Wilber Mefford Merle Lynch Sonny Verheyen Helen.Lee Mae Scott Florence Wood Decatur Smith George Woodlawn Della Watkins Albert Hoover Doris Harvey Fred McMeen Herman Garrison Pleasant Hill Anna Melton FE. A. Driggers Chattanooga Tenn Birmingham Alabama

India eyes aid to fuel four year plan

An Indian spokesman says if India can obtain one billion dollars in outside aid each year during the 1960s, it could fund the remaining cost to put the economy on a self sustaining basis. The total required is estimated at about 50 billion.

India

Davy Jones Origin Tied to Jonah Ghost Phrase

The saying Davy Jones is linked to a nautical superstition and is thought to derive from the old sailors term Dappy Jonah meaning Jonah's Ghost, reflecting a legendary sea spirit.

Davy Jones Jonah

New Yorker James Bland Not Southern Native of New York

The composer of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, James A. Bland, was not born in the South but in Flushing, New York. The claim that Bellefontaine, Ohio, poured America’s first concrete paved street in 1891 is noted.

James A. Bland Flushing, New York America Bellefontaine Ohio

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