Deaths Mrs Mollie E Patterson Waltonville postmaster
Mrs Mollie E Patterson aged 86 by obituary found dead yesterday at her Waltonville home after a heart attack. She served as Waltonville postmaster 16 years retiring in 1950 and attended Hannibal Missouri Business College. Funeral at 2 p m Friday at Waltonville Methodist with Rev Marsh Harpole. burial Knob Prairie Cemetery. She was born November 30 1879 in Irvington Illinois married B R Patterson in 1916, predeceased by husband and parents. Survivors include son Frank Patterson and stepson Everett Patterson plus four grandchildren. Burial preparations at Fry Funeral Home Waltonville with viewing today after 6 a m and morning service on Friday prior to funeral.
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Mollie E. Patterson
Waltonville
Frank Patterson
Everett Patterson
Mt. Vernon
R W Cunningham Dies Suddenly At Whittington
Ray Walter Cunningham 40 died at 12 30 p m Wednesday at his Whittington home from an apparent heart attack. Funeral at 2 00 p m Saturday at Nazarene Church Whittington. Burial Mt Zion cemetery Thompsonville. Lying in state Johnston Funeral Home Whittington after 6 00 pm today. Born Sept 34 1920 in Thompsonville to George and Anna Cunningham. Survived by wife Ruby Spencer, father George Cunningham, brother Carl Cunningham of Warren Michigan, sisters Alene Wharvy and Ruth Hoit.
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Ray Walter Cunningham
Whittington
Nazarene Church
W. T. Johnson
Mt. Zion
Thompsonville
Johnston Funeral
Mr. Cunningham
George
Anna (Wilhite) Cunnningham
Ruby Spencer
George Cunningham
Carl Cunningham
Warren, Mich
Alene Wharvy
Ruth Hoit
Champaign
Hendrix Funeral Held in Centralia
Funeral services for the Rev. Arthur W. Hendrix were conducted this afternoon at the First Methodist church in Centralia. The Rev. Hendrix, who received his degree from McKendree College and Drew Theological School, was a faithful Methodist pastor in the Southern Illinois Conference for over 43 years. After retiring in 1958, he made his home in Centralia.
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Arthur W. Hendrix
First Methodist Church
Centralia
Hendrix
McKendree College
Drew Theological School
Southern Tinois Conference
Pole Refuses To Go Home Pole Refuses To Go Home
Aniela Wojtowicz, a cook for Bogdan Lewandowski Poland’s UN envoy, defected and sought asylum in the United States. Identified by Msgr Felix F Burant of the anti Communist Polish American Immigration and Relief Committee, she, 37, reportedly decided May 28 after being told to sail back to Poland on a freighter that day.
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New York
Bogdan Lewandowski
Poland
United States
Felix F. Burant
Births in Mt Vernon area include three new additions
Mr and Mrs David Gerlach of RFD 7 welcomed a son at Godd Samaritan hospital weighing eight pounds five ounces named Mark David. Rev and Mrs George Baldridge of Piqua Ohio welcomed a son at 11 30 last night weighing seven pounds to parents Mr and Mrs Charles Goddard and Mr and Mrs Waite of Mt Vernon are grandparents. A daughter named Lesa Renee was born June 6 in St Elizabeths Hospital Danville to Mr and Mrs Larry Drury with grandparents Mr and Mrs Jim Drury and Mr and Mrs Bob Dethrow of Mt Vernon.
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David Gerlach
RFD
Vernon
Godd Samaritan Hospital
Mark David
Phyllis Greenlee
Warner Greenlee
This City
Gerald Gerlach
Springfield
George Baldridge
Piqua
Ohio
Charles Goddard
Waite
Larry Drury
Danville
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Lesa Renee
Jim Drury
Bob Dethrow
Mt. Vernon
Hospital Notes and Discharges at Jefferson Memorial and Good Samaritan
Admissions list for Jefferson Memorial includes Mrs Mildred Lucille Fleener Miss Loretta Belle Riccett Mrs Leona Murphy and Mrs Ethel Catherine Abel with Miss Ramona Helena Beckman discharged. Good Samaritan adds patients Dorothy Juanita Talbert Homer William Crawford Loma Jewel Chizk Leroy Boone Tindle Frances H Green Lynn Benjamin Bevis Nadine Beulah Rightnowar Delia J Koons Scott Kevin Bevis Lena Elizabeth Minor with multiple discharges including Mary Elizabeth Vaughan Woodrow Wilson Grace Christina Russell Mich Leroy Knappier Eddie Kim Greer Diana Lynn Hamlin Edward Joseph Hertens tein Etha Laan Mary Madaline Webb Maxine Darnel.
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Mildred Lucille Fleener
Loretta Belle Riccett
Leona Murphy
Ethel Catherine Abel
Ramona Helena Beckman
Good Samaritan
Dorothy Juanita Talbert
Homer William Crawford
Loma Jewel Chizk
Leroy Boone Tindle
Frances H. Green
Lynn Benjamin Bevis
Nadine Beulah Rightnowar
Delia J. Koons
Scott Kevin Bevis
Lena Elizabeth Minor
Mary Elizabeth Vaughan
Woodrow Wilson
Grace Christina Russell
Mich- Leroy Knappier
Eddie Kim Greer
Diana Lynn Hamlin
Edward Joseph Hertesntein
Etha Laan
Mary Madaline Webb
Maxine Darnel
Farmers In France Take Over Town Morlaix
About 4,000 Brittany farmers blocked Morlaix streets with tractors and trucks to protest farm prices. Police moved in with 130 riot officers as the local official fled to safety. The farmers warned of possible violence if demands aren’t met. The unrest follows long standing disputes over distribution and pricing in Brittany and nationwide reforms that have stalled.
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France
Brittany
French Interior Ministry
Paris
Jacques Seron
Illinois Air Reserve Units Set Up At Seven Airports
The Air Force will start July 1 establishing seven reserve recovery units in Illinois as part of 268 nationwide. Each recovery squadron, 19 reservists, will be at Midway Chicago Quad City Moline Greater Peoria Rockford and either Decatur or Champaign. Recovery groups, 40 reservists, will be at O'Hare and Decatur to provide fueling maintenance security and medical support for returning aircraft after an enemy attack.
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Air Force
Illinois
United States
Midway Airport
Chicago
Quad City
Moline
Greater Peoria
Greater Rockford
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University of Ilinois
Champaign
O'Hare International Airport
Decatur
Khrushchev Seeks Paris Accord with U S on Berlin
A lengthy war of words shows Khrushchev predicting no nuclear war, detailing five divisions for a conventional war, and hinting at Soviet support for anti tyrant movements while denying active backing. Kennedy notes frank talks with De Gaulle about a French nuclear capability and defense assurances amid changing NATO dynamics.
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Laos
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Soviet Union
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China
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Paris
United States
France
Filibuster Clash Triggers Trooper Breakup in House
A chaotic scene in the House as a filibuster flare up escalated to a guard response. State troopers arrived, positioning near the speaker and at the chamber entrances while the dispute subsided.
Tavern Owner Slain in Hold Up by Three Men
Granite City Illinois reports Twin Oaks tavern and service station owner Martin Dreno vac, 69, beaten to death during a holdup. Suspects fled across Chain of Rocks Bridge into Missouri in a blue or black over white Chevrolet or Oldsmobile, wallet missing, wife unaware until body found.
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Granite City
API
Twin Oaks
Chain of Rocks
Missouri
Martin Drenovac
U.S. Bypass 66
Samuel Drenovac
Drenovac
St. Louis
Markets Mt. Vernon Hogs Prices Steady
Prices on the local live stock market in Mt. Vernon were unchanged today with top hogs at 16.50 for 190 to 220 pounds, sows at 14.00 for 300 weight, and boars priced between 10.00 and 11.50.
Mt Vernon Grain Prices Quoted This Afternoon
Mt Vernon market notes show Wheat 1.68 Soybeans 2.73 and Corn 1.06 quoted this afternoon at Mt Vernon with traders watching grain values.
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Mt. Vernon
Chicago Produce Butter and Egg Prices Update
Chicago Mercantile Exchange reports steady butter with wholesale prices unchanged. Grade scores 93 AA 60, 92 A, 90 B 5715, 89 C 5, cars 9 B 58, 89 C 561s. Eggs barely steady with wholesale prices unchanged to 1 lower, 70 percent or better grade A whites 3216, mixed 3142, mediums 2915, standards 31, dirties 29, checks 284.
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Chicago
Chicago Merccantile Exchange
Egg and live poultry prices steady in St Louis
ST. LOUIS AP reports no change in egg and live poultry prices in the market today. Prices remained flat across major grades and sources remained cautious amid steady demand.
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ST. Louis
Livestock prices at National Stockyards Illinois sale
AP report from National Stockyards shows hogs trading at 13.00 to 17.50 per 100 pounds with varied loads and weights, while cattle and calves move from 11.00 to 29.00 per hundredweight. Sheep and lambs bring 17.00 to 19.50, with bids reflecting grade and weight distinctions across hogs cattle and lambs.
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National Stockyards
USDA
USS
Chicago Poultry Market Report No Prices Recorded
Chicago poultry market notes no prices reported due to insufficient receipts. The call indicates limited trading activity and unspecified price data across live poultry listings.
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Chicago
USDA
Cash Grain market report from Chicago AP
No wheat or soybean sales reported. Corn No 5 yellow 1.06 percent. Oats No 1 extra heavy white 704 to 34, No 2 extra heavy white trading. Soybean oil 12 n. Barley making free 1.10 to 1.20 n, feed 82 to 1.00.
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Chicago
Wall Street in Moderate Further Losses After Day of Trading
Wall Street markets moved irregularly in moderate dealings late this afternoon with about 3.6 million shares traded. Losses slightly outweighed gains with Dow components like Du Pont and General Motors posting fractional advances, while Bethlehem and Woolworth declined and Consolidated Edison fell. American Stock Exchange prices were mixed as government bonds rose and corporates fell.
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General Motors
General Electric
Westinghouse
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Republic Steel
Jones &Laughlin
Woolworth
Consolidated Edison
American Stock Exchange
U.S
No Foul Play In Anna Death
An Illinois Welfare official said investigations at Anna State Hospital found no evidence of foul play in 82 year old Arthur Ellis of Murphysboro death. He disappeared from his cottage May 28 and was found at the bottom of a slope. coroner cited heart attack. Department backs hospital policy against patient confinement citing health and cost reasons.
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Anna, Til
Anna State Hospital
Illinois Department For Public Welfare
Lowell Sachnoff
Francis Gerty
Welfare Department
Sachnoff
Arthur Ellis
Murphysboro
Ellis
Duke of Kent Weds Commoner in York Cathedral
The Duke of Kent wed Katharine Worsley, a York shire commoner, at Yorkminster before Queen Elizabeth II and foreign royals. The Archbishop of York led the service amid intermittent rain and a hail shower, with 46 TV cameras present. Katharine, 28, is the daughter of Sir William Worsley, a well-to-do Yorkshire squire.
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England
Kent
Katharine Worsley
Britain
Yorkminster
Elizabeth I
William Ramsey
Margaret
Antony Armstrong-Jones
Duke of Kent
Yorkshire
Sir William Worsley
Bodies found of two Georgia women missing since Memorial Day
The partly unclothed bodies of Althea Ottavio and Patricia Ann Hewett were found Wednesday in palmetto and pine woods southwest of Jacksonville. Investigators say the women, from Valdosta, were throttled with their clothing. They had driven to Jacksonville for a dog race bet memorializing Ottavio’s birthday and Hewett’s birthday. The car was found May 31 on an unpaved road. search intensified after Hewett’s husband arrived.
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Fla
Georgia
Althea Ottavio
Patricia Ann Hewett
Palmetto and
Pine Woods
Sheriff's Office
Valdosta
Lville
Jackson
Adlai Receives Caution On Action Against Castro
Adlai E Stevenson, on a goodwill tour of South America for President Kennedy, was warned by Argentine officials that Latin America will not unite for action against Fidel Castro. Buenos Aires officials urged a policy of lie and let live while Stevenson discussed economic aid and avoided force. The visit to Frondizi and other leaders focused on economics, with no commitment to aggressive measures against Cuba.
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Frondizi
Adolfo Mugica
Romulo Betancourt
Dominican Republic
Betancourt
Organization of American States
Stormy Illinois Weather Strikes Chicago Area
A heavy thunderstorm hit the Chicago region Wednesday night with up to 145 inches of rain in parts of the city and suburbs. Power failures and flooding followed, winds uprooted trees and damaged signs, and a Deerfield lightning strike caused about 1000 dollars in damage. Rainfall varied across the state with widespread showers and highs in the 90s, followed by a calmer forecast for Friday with temperatures reaching the 80s in much of Illinois.
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Vandalia
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Golconda
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Alton
Chester
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Chicago Weather Bureau
Freedom Riders face jail in Jackson desegregation clashes
Nine more Freedom Riders remain jailed in Jackson Mississippi after failed tries to desegregate airport and bus terminal facilities. Police arrest eight others for breach of peace as riders from St. Louis and Nashville proceed with protests. NAACP leader Roy Wilkins urges lawful change while a white minister involved in rides denies abandoning the movement.
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Miss
Mississippi
Jackson City
St. Louis
Delta
Nashville
Tenn
Memphis
Municipal Airport
Gwendolyn Jenkins
Robert Jenkins
Ralph Washington
Webster Grove
Charles Jones
Campbell
Negro) College
City
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Freedom Riders
Wilkins
NAACP
Chicago
Richard Gleason
Mr. Gleason
Mystery abduction near Anderson shocks community
A 17 year old white girl was dragged from a parked car by two or three Black men and abducted to a farmhouse area after her companion Charles Gambrell was slashed. Gambrell and the girl escaped to safety. authorities say the girl was shaken and unable to give a clear account.
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Highway 81
Gambrell
W. J. Erskine
C. M. Ellison
Anderson
Gambrellibed
Shuman Doubts Farm Bill Vote in Congress
In Louisville for the Farm Bureau Information Conference, American Farm Bureau Federation President Charles B. Shuman said the Kennedy administration would have the omnibus farm bill out of committee if it could secure the votes. He questioned voting on the bill in its current form and warned against a national commodity marketing quota scheme that could regulate major farm producers.
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Louisville
Farm Bureau
Fourteen Free Cuba In Boat Arrives in Fort Lauderdale
Fourteen men women and a girl identifying as anti Castro underground members arrived in Fort Lauderdale after a three day trip aboard a 23 foot boat. The party refused to identify themselves to avoid reprisals against relatives in Cuba.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Cuba
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