Capitol Notes Highlight Ethics Probe and Pension Trends
The Associated Press report notes a Senate committee inquiry into campaign funds used personally and a plan to sell a Georgetown house for 90000. The Labor Department cites rising pension-plan eliminations affecting about 225000 workers from 1955 to 1965. Rep H R Gross objects to a 993000 State Department appropriation item, calling it wasteful and proposes diplomats drink tea instead.
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Associated Press
Senate
Committee of
Georgetown
Labor Department
Rep
H.R. Gross
Iowa
State Department
Maj Reno Cleared of Custer Massacre Record
The Army corrected Maj Marcus A Reno’s record to show honorable discharge on April 1, 1880, ending long controversy over his conduct at the Little Bighorn battle. An 1879 court martial had convicted him on several charges, including improper conduct with a fellow officer’s wife.
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Washington
Army Today
Marcus A. Reno
Custer
Stanley Resor
Reno
George Armstrong Custer
Little Big Horn
Montana
Dakota Territory
Duplicate Bridge Disaster Over Sevens and Hearts
In a rubber bridge session South underbid to seven hearts against five spades. South finally racked up 13 tricks for 710 points while East and West defended, with seven spades going down four. North balked at South’s logic. East wagered North-South tied for first.
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South
East
North
Judge Limits Decatur Pickets at Firestone Plant
In Decatur Illinois Judge Rodney Scott issued an injunction restricting Local 713 striking members to six pickets per plant gate at Firestone Rubber Co. Police arrested four people for resisting police amid a broader nationwide stoppage involving Firestone Uniroyal and B F Goodrich.
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Decatur, Ill
United Rubber Workers Union
Rodney Scott
Firestone Rubber Co
Decatur
Scott
Firestone
Uniroyal
B.F. Goodrich Co
Community visitors and residents in Mt Vernon area notes
Multiple short notices list visits by residents to relatives and friends across Mt Vernon, Salem, Elgin, Joliet and Henderson Kentucky. Names include Donoho Fleethart Duncan Byars Knauss Pierce Bond Fox and others. Casual mentions include patients at Lowry Nursing Home and Mt Vernon Hospital and a death of Ira Greenwalt.
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Joe Donoho
Salem
George Donoho
Floyd Fleethart
Elgin
Clyde Ellis
Ruby Duncan
Herrin
Maggie Knauss
Ricky
Ronnie Angle
Henderson
Gleason Byars
Thelma Donoho
Lowry
Mt. Vernon
Lowell Rainwater
Home Extension
Shield
Francis French
Meda Fox
Jessie Holloway
Lowell Pierce
Danny
Oscar Pierce
Mary Mills
Randy
Marty
Sue
Loraine Donoho
Jeffrey
Craig
Pamela
Marsha K. Johnson
Inéz Bond
Brenda Finley
Hargraves
Edith Smith
Mary Lois Brinkman
Carlyle
Frances French
Gary -Gene Pierce
George Breeze
Bobby
Chucky Rosenburger
Wayne City
Inez Bond
Kelley Sledge
Dewey Pierce
Joliet
Wells Chapel
Ira Greenwalt
Mt. Vernon Hospital
Cor
Itch Me Not Quick Dry Remedy at Ross Drugs
The ad promotes ITCH-ME-NOT a fast drying antiseptic itch reliever priced at 48¢. It claims to deaden the itch and kill germs to speed healing for eczema insect bites foot itch and surface rashes available at Ross Drugs.
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Ross Drugs
Lottery Begins In New York
Tickets for the New York State lottery went on sale at 12 01 am. in New York City with patrons lining up at the Americana Hotel. Purchasers include Patricia Nelson and Robert Goldfarb as the program aims to raise funds for education. The plan expects 30 million monthly sales, 360 million annually, with monthly drawings offering 300 000 in prizes per million sold plus a yearly 250 900 superprize. Winnings are determined by fishbowl drawings and a horse race result, tying state lottery to a horse track event.
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John Mulligan
New York
Americana
Patricia Nelson
Bronx
Robert Goldfarb
St. Thomas
V.S
Albany
New York State
New Hampshire
Fifty Years Ago Dirigo Sunk By U-Boat Near England
In Bath Maine AP report recalls the first steel sailing ship built in the United States the four masted Dirigo launched 1894 sunk by a German submarine off the Cornwall coast on May 31 1917 after a storied career. The vessel measured 312 feet and 3005 tons carrying vast canvas and trading from Seattle to Sweden. A Bath Marine Museum model honors Dirigo with notes on its English steel plate fabrication and its final voyage.
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Don Guy
BATH
Maine
United States
State of Maine
Atlantic
Pacific
Dirigo
Seattle
Sweden
Scotland
Britain
Cornwall
England
Public Auction in Macedonia Offered Wide Antique Lot
Col Geo White auctioneer offers a Macedonia public sale featuring outstanding antiques including a clock china washstands kettles coffee mill and a large tools and lumber collection along with fencing red lamps and Gone with the Wind bottles. Many good items too numerous to mention.
Germans Scuttle Graf Spee in Montevideo Harbor
A 1939 event reports the German pocket battleship Graf Spee being scuttled by its crew in Montevideo harbor after battle actions. The act marked the end of the ship’s forces in the early phase of World War II.
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Montevideo
Curious Squirrel Chooses Careful Climbing Path
A squirrel descends a tree head first, moving with deliberate care. It places each foot carefully and tests each grip as it proceeds.
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Abou Enzart
Sona Corp
Mount Vernon
Ross
Mr Dowrs
Veda
Bud
Mt. Vernon, Illinois
Maj. Reno
Jacoby
Oswald
James Jacoby
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
West Oak
West
Jamison
Western Gardens
Southern
Illinois
Earl Jamison
Jamison Real Estate
Judge Limits Decatur
Farrington Center
South 16Th
Logan
Cherry Drive
South 18Th Street
Salem Road
Lincoln School
Crownview
Jack London
San Francisco
Cape Horn
London
Yacht Club
America
East Boothbay
Bath Marine Museum
Sewell
Museum
Harold Brown
Saint Nicholas
Lee
Macedonia
Ben Blackward
Col
Geo. White
Dahlgren
Bernadine Obrisman
Virgil T. Bailey, Inc
West Side
North 8Th Street
St. Mary’s Church
Lincoln School District
Pole Dam
Field Consolidated School
Mt. Vernon High
FHA
Tenth
Harrison
Inn
Spring Garden
Thomas Farmer
H. B. Vandel
Toledo
Koch Gas Smoke House
ajTeak
Cherry Street
Ted
Lincoln
Olive Straet
Wen
Broadway
Crownview Drive
South 18Th St
Atoker
18Th Street
South 23Rd Street
Adams Court
A. Harold
Logan C
Williams & Richardson
Leland Elliott
Royal Story
Emil Hoffman
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