Deaths Frank Copple 73 Centralia
Frank Copple 73 of Centralia died at 10:00 a.m. Friday in St. Marys Hospital Centralia. Former Walnut Hill resident, body at Queen-Boggs Funeral Home Centralia. Funeral arrangements incomplete. Survived by wife Myrtle Copple Centralia, three daughters Floyd Pigg Mt Vernon, Walter Gean Centralia, Jack Habrock Centralia, a sister, 10 grandchildren, one great grandchild.
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Frank Copple
Centralia
St. Mary's Hospital
Walnut Hill
Queen-Boggs
Copple
Myrtle Copple
Floyd Pigg
Mt. Vernon
Walter Gean
Jack Habrock
President Johnson Pushes Coin Reform and Jobs Plan
The piece notes President Johnson asking Congress to remove all silver from dimes and quarters and reduce silver in half-dollars, a major coinage change since 1792. It also reports May unemployment at 4.6 percent, with teen unemployment high, and details a Bogalusa shooting that killed Deputy Moore and wounded Deputy Rogers, with suspect McElveen arrested in Mississippi.
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Johnson
Congress
United States
Labor Department
George Stelmar of Sesser Dies at 83
George Stelmar 83 of Sesser died 11 05 am Friday at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. Funeral 10 00 am Monday Fry Funeral Home Waltonville with burial Maple Hill cemetery. Body lies in state after 6 00 pm Sunday at Fry Funeral Home. He was born March 6 1882 in Jefferson county to Michael and Mary Stelmashewski. Survived by three nieces and one nephew and six cousins.
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George Stelmar
Sesser
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Fry Funeral Home
Waltonville
Maple Hill Cemetery
Mr. Stelmar
Jefferson County
Michael and
Mary (Stoninsky) Stelmashewski
Luci Johnson Seen At Milwaukee Marquette Prom Night
AP report notes Luci Johnson, 17, daughter of the President, attended a Marquette University prom in Milwaukee with Marquette student Patrick Nugent. John Dunn confirms the sighting. Luci did not comment. Details place her earlier plans shifting from Whitefish Bay to Chicago.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Marquette University
Luci Johnson
John Dunn
Luci
Patrick J. Nugent
Marquette
Waukegan
Beth Jenkins
White House
Miss Johnson
Nugent
William J. Feldstein
Whitefish Bay
Chicago
Washington
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admitted and Discharged
Jefferson Memorial admits John Kelso Webb Elizabeth Hardin. Discharges include Marie Campbell George Roy Winegartner and Donald Ray Williams. Good Samaritan admits Cynthia Louise Harrison Helen Geraldine Taylor Fred Smith Juanita Lee Rich Lois Marie Koerner Karen Sue Hopper Joseph G Schilling Debra Kay Morlan Charles Thomas Braddy Clara Angline McKenzie Mary Joyce Laur Nancy Elizabeth Mygott Anna Mae Crow. Discharged include Robert Michall Zeraldine Jackson baby Kenneth Robert Bill Mor Jan William Schuster Mary Frances Kujawa Clifford Louis Stafford Goldie Elizabeth Huntman Clara Angline McKenzie Martha Louise Womack Jury Francis Smith.
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Good Samaritan
Cynthia Louise Harrison
Helen Geraldine Taylor
Fred Smith
Juanita Lee Rich
Lois Marie Koerner
Karen Sue Hopper
Joseph G. Schilling
Debra Kay Morlan
Charles Thomas Braddy
Clara Angline McKenzie
Mary Joyce Laur
Nancy Elizabeth Mygott
Anna Mae Crow
Robert Michall
Zeraldine Jackson
Kenneth Robert
Bill Mor Jan
William Schuster
Mary Frances Kujawa
Clifford Louis Stafford
Goldie Elizabeth Huntman
Martha Louise Womack
Francis Smith
Rome Chapter of Eastern Star to Meet Monday Night
Members of Rome Chapter Order of Eastern Star will meet Monday at 8:00 PM in the Masonic Temple at Dix. Laving Keele serves as W M and Nellie Hawkins as secretary.
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Rome
C. E
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic
Jerseyville Officials Ordered To Appeare At Sewage Hearing
Jerseyville village officials must appear at a hearing on the discharge of sewage into the D Arcy branch. The Illinois Sanitary Water Board announced the action on Friday.
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Springfield, I
Jerseyville
D-Arcy Branch
Illinois Sanitary Water Board
Fulbright Proposal Would Give OAS Foreign Aid Power
Senators split over J W Fulbright plan to route Latin American military aid through the OAS under joint plans. The amendment, part of a two year 3 35 billion aid bill, would authorize up to 25 million for an inter American force under OAS control and require maximum feasible disbursement with internal security defenses. многие
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Washington
J. W. Fulbright
Organization of American States
U.S
Latin America
Arkansas Democrat
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
OAS
John Sparkman
Dala
Fulbright
Sparkman
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Frank E. Moss
Utah
Sen
Clifford P. Case
R-N.j
Weather Roundup Mount Vernon Friday Forecast High 85
Mt. Vernon weather reports a Friday high of 85 and low 66 with year to date rainfall at 11.93 inches. Historical highs and lows are noted: past day 72/62, five years ago 90/68, ten years ago 83/63. Sunrise and sunset times are listed for Sunday and Monday.
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MT. Vernon
Severe Thunderstorms Hit Central Kansas and Missouri
Severe storms with damaging winds hail and heavy rain swept central and eastern Kansas into north central Missouri. Eleven people died in highway accidents as trees and power lines downed and windows shattered. Flooding closed highways and prompted evacuations while Wichita saw nearly four inches of rain in six hours and Haven area farms suffered damage including one home destroyed.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Missouri
Wichita
Kansas City
Haven
Kan
Illinois Weather Report Clouds and Storms Across State
The report notes northern Illinois mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms spreading from the south tonight and Sunday. Southern Illinois remains partly cloudy and humid through Sunday as showers grow, with a sudden storm at Quincy Municipal Airport dropping half an inch of rain in 15 minutes but causing no damage. Daytime highs range from the upper 70s in the north to the 80s in the south, with tonight in the 60s statewide.
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Illinois Weather Chicago
Ilinois
Missssippi
Olinois
Tlinois
Dlinois
Quincy
Gemini 4 astronauts plan seven day spaceflight challenge
NASA prepares for a seven day mission as Cooper and Charles Conrad aim to surpass the Soviet Bykovsky flight. Medical data from McDivitt and White will determine August timing. Recovery aboard the carrier Wasp, artificial gravity talks, and radar rendezvous readiness shape the plan.
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Bermuda
Valery Bykovsky
United States
Cooper
Charles Conrad
McDivitt
White
Earth
Wasp
Bykxovsky
Bykovsky
Christopher C. Kraft Jr
U.S
Reports Sale Of Horse Plasma To Dr Durovic
In Chicago AP report, Rockford scientist Winfield Foster testifies about preparing horse blood plasma for Dr. Stevan Durovic as part of Kre biozen fraud case. Foster details 400 horses treated in 1959 1960, plasma held for delivery, invoices link to Duga Laboratories and Promak Laboratories. Trial resumes Monday before Judge Julius Hoffman.
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Chicago
Rockford
Stevan Durovic
Krebiozen
Winfield Foster
Kennel Products Division
Quaker Oats Co
U.S. District Court
Foster
Dr. Durovic
Pittman-Moore Division
Dow Chemical Corp
Duga Laboratories of
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Brooklyn coin collector dies. $13,000 saved in coins found
Dominick Berlingieri, 68, a longtime Brooklyn waterfront restaurant operator, was found dead of natural causes in his two room apartment. Neighbors discovered the scene amid jars and bottles containing $13,000 in quarters dimes and nickels. Police borrowed a coin counter from the Transit Authority to tally the sum.
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NEW York
Dominick Berlingieri
Berlingieri
Brooklyn
Transit Authority
Bank Hold-Up Slays Three In Nebraska
A gunman killed three people during a bank hold-up in Nebraska. He exited the bank and, after a casual greeting to farmer Otto Mauser, climbed into a 1965 model car and drove away.
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Nebraska Bank
Otto Mauser
Mauser
Malaysian forces capture three Indonesian raiders in Johore
Malaysian troops in southwest Johore State captured three armed Indonesian raiders today and searched for others. Defense Ministry said the raiders were part of a small band that landed on Johore's coast May 30.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Johore
Defense Ministry
Copper Wire Theft At Mt. Vernon Drive-In Theate r
The Jefferson County sheriff's office investigated a theft of copper wire from the Mt. Vernon Drive-In Theater on Waltonville Road. No arrests reported at this time.
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Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Mt. Vernon Drive-In
Waltonville Road
Alarm Clocks In Space Helmets For Astronauts
Houston AP reports astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II have built in alarm clocks in their helmet visors for synchronized wake up. Ground stations worldwide can trigger the buzzer to summon them via radio signal.
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Houston, Tex
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
Johnson urges rights action for equality at Howard
President Lyndon B. Johnson urged a renewed civil rights push to turn equality from theory into fact at Howard University. He announced a White House conference for next fall and pressed for swift voter rights legislation and a broad registration drive, framing equal opportunity as essential and not enough on its own.
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Washington
Johnson
Howard University
White House
All America
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Hubert H. Humphrey
University of Maryland
Humphrey
Two More Mt Vernon Boys Charged In Burglary
Mt Vernon police charged two additional boys ages 15 and 16 with involvement in a May 16 burglary at Krebs Drug Store. They allegedly helped dispose of stolen items. Jerry Taylor, 14, previously charged in the case, awaits delinquency proceedings as bonds for the other two minors stood at 1000 dollars.
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Mt. Vernon
Krebs
S. 10Th
Fred Dedman
Jerry Taylor
Cleveland
Taylor
Perkins
J. Rex Taylor
Exemptions Lifted In Senate Action On Several Bills
Sen W Russell Arrington GOP leader was cited after the indictment of former State Revenue Director Theodore Isaacs on charges of collusion and conflict of interest in state envelope purchases. A finance department stockroom plan aims to centralize distribution for multiple agencies. A note on budget impact is now required with legislative proposals. Vision service plan corporations may form to offer public insurance and contracts with optometrists and ophthalmologists for eye testing. A Shawnee town Regional Port District gets 50000 for a manager and studies to attract 20 million in private capital for grain and coal facilities. The Illinois Indiana Air Pollution Control Compact was ratified and sent to the governor.
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GOP
State Revenue
Theodore Isaacs
Finance Department
Vision Service Plan
Kerner
Senate
Shawneetown
Roy Small
Harrisburg
Small
Diver Falls at Mt Vernon Club Leaves Teen In Fair Condition
Roger Glasco 18, Mt Vernon Township High School senior, is in fair condition at Good Samaritan Hospital after a diving board accident at Mt Vernon Recreation Club. He was at an after graduation party when he dove or slipped from a diving board, hitting his head on concrete and suffering skull wrist and vertebrae injuries.
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Roger Glasco
Mt. Vernon Township High School
Good Samaritan Hospital
Mt. Vernon
Young Glasco
Oral Glasco
S. 21St
Seabee Beating Victim Tom Henry Talks With Parents
Mt Vernon parents of Seabee 19 year old Tom Henry say they spoke with him by phone last night after he was found unconscious along an Arizona road. He remains blind from a beating and says two men forced him into a car to be taken 400 miles through the desert before dumping him near Prescott.
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Mt. Vernon
California
Prescott
Ariz
Arizona
Tom Henry
Lester C
Divorces Sought In Two Petitions In Circuit Court
Two petitions filed in circuit court seek divorces. Leah May Carr charges cruelty by Terry B. Carr. married April 19, 1964 and separated May 22, 1965. Juanita L. Upton charges Clyde David Upton Jr. with cruelty. married November 3, 1952 and separated May 18, 1965.
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Leah May Carr
Terry B. Carr
Juanita L. Upton
Clyde David Upton Jr
Tax Delinquency Suit Is Filed Against Knotty Pine Case
A tax judgement suit seeking 1292.89 in taxes and penalties has been filed in circuit court. The state of Illinois sues Lorraine M. Trenary as operator of the Knotty Pine Case Waltonville as defendant for delinquent sales taxes.
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Lorraine M. Trenary
Waltonville
Illinois
24 Injured In Bus Collision Near McClure
A Continental Trailways bus and a car collided on Illinois M46 near McClure. Twenty four people were injured, with one driver, James S. Batson of Jonesboro, Illinois, in critical condition. The bus overturned after the crash. 23 passengers had minor injuries and were treated and released. Passengers were removed through bus windows.
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McClure
Continental Trailways
James S. Batson
Jonesboro
Ilinois
Summer Speech Correction School To Open
A summer speech correction school sponsored by United Cerebral Palsy of South Central Illinois will open Monday for six weeks at Dr. Andy Hall. Mrs. Mary Ann Piper will be the speech clinician, offering free services to all children with speech defects, regardless of cerebral palsy. Financing comes from UCP contributions. plans were discussed at a Nashville meeting of the UCP board for a July 1930 day camp for handicapped children and young adults.
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United Cerebral Palsy
South Central
Ilineis
UCP
Andy Hall
Mary Ann Piper
Piper
Dorothy Glover
Vernon
Nashville
UCP Board of Directors
Powell brothers set for June 16 in assaults
Preliminary hearings for Mt. Vernon suspects Edgar Sonny Powell and Jerry Powell on aggravated assault aggravated battery and intimidation charges tied to a May 1 Jaycee Lake incident. They allegedly threatened five young couples with a knife and a bludgeon during an outing. Hearing at 10 am June 16 before Associate Judge Alvin Lacy Williams.
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Mt. Vernon
Jaycee Lake
Edgar
Sonny) Powell
Conger
Jerry Powell
South 11Th
Edgar Powell
Powells
Alvin Lacy Wiliams
Youth Arrested On Assault And Liquor Counts
Gary W. Powell age 16 of 1317 N. Ulth was arrested after a complaint of a knife threat in the Bus Depot parking lot near 10th and Main. He was charged with aggravated assault and illegal possession of liquor by a minor. police say a whiskey bottle was found behind his belt.
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Mr. Vernon
Gary W. Powell
Traffic fines in circuit court for two motorists
Two drivers appeared in circuit court yesterday and were fined ten dollars each for traffic offenses. L. C. Barnes of South Bend Indiana was cited for passing in a no passing zone. Vivian Evelyn Highsmith of Route 7 Mt Vernon faced a $10 penalty for failure to yield right of way.
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L. C. Barnes
South Bend
Ind
Vivian Evelyn Highsmith
Mt. Vernon
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