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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1954
Page
1
Arvella Parrott died at Hester Nursing Home Ina at 12 45 am age 77. She lived in Ina six years. Survived by daughter Mrs E G Seasward of Oak Park Illinois and brother Ross Youngblood of East St Louis Illinois. Body at Myers Chapel. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
Mrs. W G Wodicker of 310 Main street reports the death of her uncle C A Bell age 67 who died at St Louis County Hospital Tuesday evening from injuries suffered in a ladder fall last Saturday. A Brentwood Missouri resident and former leather goods salesman, Bell often visited Mt Vernon for International Shoe Company. Funeral services are set for Friday at Jay B Smith Funeral Home Maplewood Missouri. Survived by wife Emma son Robert daughter Mrs Marjorie Menke four grandchildren and brother Hugh.
The Rev Russell L Richardson, once of Mt Vernon, earned a B D at Garrett Biblical Institute during the 97th convocation. He is the son of Mrs Pearl Richardson and formerly taught at Moran Kilmore and Sedalia churches in Moran Indiana. He previously attended Asbury College Purdue University and Southeast Missouri State Teachers College. He worked over a decade for Illinois Power in Mt Vernon. The ceremony saw 90 graduates receive B D and 22 receive M A degrees. The Trans Iranian railway features 24 tunnels and 4102 bridges.
Frank Mason of St Louis and his two sons James 14 and Richards 12 will depart today in an aluminum canoe for a 1050 mile voyage down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Mason says lower river dangers worry him little, noting a similar trip last summer from Chicago to St Louis with towboats and narrow channels. Mason must reach New Orleans by July 2 to return to work as a clerk with the Terminal Railroad Association.
McCarthy pressed Congress on handling a classified FBI summary amid questions about security laws. Senator Symington demands details on weak security on McCarthy subcommittee staff while Dirksen raises a moral issue. A potential overtime session is discussed as hearings wind down. A line notes burial importance in the Ryukyu Islands.
Twenty seven Minnesota 4-H Club delegates spend tonight in Mt Vernon en route to Mississippi. They will stay at Hotel Emmerson, returning a visit paid last year by Mississippi 4-H members. Traveling by bus, they left Minneapolis yesterday and won’t return until July 13, with most time spent on Mississippi farms.
Admitted and discharged lists from Good Samaritan and Jefferson Memorial note multiple patients. Names include Cletus Joseph Kirsch Willie Preston Ellis and Mrs Dororthy Catherine Tuttle among admissions. discharges include Mrs Helen Ruth Lemon infant Bon DeQuenicy Jr and Mrs Hattie Mae Taylor, with several infant cases.
A Stated conclave for Patton Commandery No 69 is set for Thursday June 17 at 7 30 p m with a 6 30 p m pot luck supper. Jefferson Post Unit 141 American Legion Auxiliary meets at 7 30 p m in the Post Home 818 Broadway with annual reports and officer elections. Amvets Auxiliary meets at the Amvets Home 3th and Broadway Thursday at 8 p m all members urged to attend.
Gen James A. Van Fleet said the Geneva peace conference breakup was no surprise and he was glad it happened. He urged proving you cannot believe the Communists and planned a Formosa visit after arriving from Korea. Eisenhower is using Van Fleet to pressure South Korea to stay in line after the talks failed.
Southern Paper Corp. is testing equipment at its multi million dollar newsprint plant near Calhoun Tennessee as it readies for production in coming weeks. A progress report will be issued June 24 during the Tennessee Press Association convention in Johnson City. The first newsprint will come from wood grown on J. L. Horne’s tree farm in Rocky Mount North Carolina, with logs already at the mill.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Richards of Keenes welcomed a six pound twelve ounce son born at 12 02 PM at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. Mr and Mrs Robert B Johnson of STA south 18th street welcomed an unnamed son born at 10 22 AM today at Good Samaritan Hospital.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill leaves Windsor Castle after Queen Elizabeth II invests him as a member of the Order of the Garter Britain's oldest chivalry. The ceremony elevates the war leader without granting a peerage. AP Wirephoto from London.
Bids opened last night on a west side elementary school in Carmi costing $235,000 with construction contracts awarded. The project completes the city’s school building program. All Carmi elementary schools were designed by D. Clarence Wilson of Mt. Vernon, architect. The text notes the firm has over 40 schools under construction in Pinas.
When teaching a child to use the phone it is courteous to say who he is when he calls a friend and when the friend's parent answers. Identifying oneself on the telephone is a basic manners lesson that some people never learn.
The season's longest heat wave shows no sign of breaking across the central and southeast. daytime highs in the 90s in Chicago set a June record with 95. Cooler relief in Rockies and New England, heavy showers in Iowa Wisconsin Florida Georgia Texas. Mt Vernon Township HS seeks sealed bids for coal 1954 1955 with specs from the Principal. bids due June 21 1954 Arthur Milward Principal.
Transcript reveals Dean and other scientists recounts a secret push and pull over launching a large H bomb after the 1949 Soviet test. It covers Truman's 1950 order, stalled program, and a June 1951 Princeton meeting where Oppenheimer and peers concluded earlier premises collapsed and Teller’s discovery shifted the effort.
Oppenheimer testified that enthusiasm grew as the project accelerated and the gadget, once thought impractical, emerged as viable. He described the late 1952 production of a hydrogen explosion as a miracle of speed after key discoveries in 1951.
Bob Adams and Jake Rupp flew to East Alton Illinois while H. T. Howard came from Bloomfield Kentucky. Perry Clark arrived from Carbondale yesterday and Will I. Lewis Jr. along with L. L. Tuck, from Denver, Colorado, traveled today to Bloomington and Chicago.
Arizona achieved statehood on February 14, 1912, becoming the 48th state admitted to the Union. The milestone marked a historic expansion of the United States with Arizona joining as full state governance and representation.
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