Deaths Mrs Myrtle Ivy Irwin 75
Mrs Myrtle Ivy Irwin 75 died at 1:00 p m Wednesday at her Keenes home after a heart attack. Funeral 2:00 p m Friday at Garrison Temple with Rev Delbert Goff. burial in adjoining cemetery. Body in state at Richardson Chapel Wayne City. call anytime. Born Sept 23 1888 in Hamilton county to John and Hissie Williams. married Fred Irwin in 1921. survived by four brothers Rawls J R Williams Keenes Charles Williams of St Louis Claude Williams of Mill Shoals and a sister Mrs Maude Erwin of McLeansboro.
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Myrtle Ivy Irwin
Keenes
Garrison Temple Church
Delbert Goff
Richardson
John and
Hissie
Holly) Williams
Fred Irwin
Rawls and
J. R. Williams
Charles Williams
St. Louis
Claude Williams
Mill Shoals
Maude Erwin
McLeansboro
Florence Burns Funeral Saturday in McLeansboro
Mrs Florence Anderson Burns a Gainsville Florida resident and former McLeansboro resident died at Gainsville Hospital Her funeral is set for 11 am Saturday at Donelson Funeral Home McLeansboro with burial in Oddfellow Cemetery The body lies in state at Donelson Funeral Home Friends may call before the service Survivors include two brothers Wallace Anderson Anniston Alabama and Russell Anderson Chicago and six sisters Martha Jeffers Wilmington Mary Colomb Chicago Gene Smith Taylorville Hazel Mooney Gainesville Florida Evelyn Stringfellow
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Florence (Anderson) Burns
Gainsville
Fla
McLeansboro
Gainsville Hospital
Donelson Funeral Home
Oddfellow Cemetery
Burns
Hamilton County
Harry and
Minnie (Wilson) Anderson
Wallace Anderson
Anniston
Ala
Russell Anderson
Chicago
Martha Jeffers
Wilmington
Mary Colomb
Gene Smith
Taylorville
Hazel Mooney
Evelyn Stringfellow
Rites Saturday For Mary Hall At McLeansboro
Mrs Mary Hall of 15 Silas Avenue McLeansboro died at home. Funeral services 2 p m Saturday at Donelson Funeral Home with Rev Carl Davis officiating. Burial in Oddfellow cemetery. Call after 3 p m Friday. She was born July 20 1870 in Hillsboro Ohio. Survived by son Dr Ralph Hall and daughter Mrs John Dowd both of McLeansboro. Member of PEO Sisterhood and First Glenodie Church of McLeansboro.
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Mary Hall
Silas Avenue
McLeansboro
Hall
Donelson Funeral Home
Carl Davis
Oddfellow Cemetery
Hillsboro
Ohio
Sylvester and
Arali
Odis) Stoddard
William W. Hall
Ralph Hall
John Dowd
P. E. O. Sisterhood
McLeansro
Negro Teachers Lose Their Jobs in Giles County
In Pearsall Va plan to integrate Giles County public schools leads to the elimination of the counties two Negro schools and 130 pupils sent to all white schools. Laurence Leftwich, principal of the two schools for 15 years, calls it discrimination against Negro teachers. Six other teachers also informed their jobs are being cut as the county moves to close the separate schools.
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Pearsburg
Giles County
Laurence Leftwich
Virginia
Leftwich
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admitted to Ward
Jefferson Memorial reports admissions including Wilma Lee Austin and discharges listing Neva Morgan Robert Feldtman Josie Lambert Bennie Weaver and Wilma Lee Austin. Good Samaritans lists admitted Ella Martin Steven Wicks Minnie Goodale Norton G Warren Keith Huston James Robert Eidson Jackie Ray Chambliss Fred Andrew Holland Danny Lee Bayer Christine Pool and discharges Sylvia Pogue Verna Buhler James Rogers Louise Newman Ruth Kendal John Thackery Robert Tate Grace Webb Janet Owens Nancy Ham and baby Kelley Renee.
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Jefferson Memorial
Wilma Lee Austin
Neva Morgan
Robert Feldtman
Josie Lambert
Bennie Weaver
Good Samaritans
Ella Martin
Steven Wicks
Minnie Goodale
Norton G. Warren
Keith Huston
James Robert Eidson
Jackie Ray Chambliss
Fred Andrew Holland
Danny Lee Bayer
Christine Marie Pool
Sylvia Ann Pogue
Verna Everett Buhler
James Cassel Rogers
Louise Augusta Newman
Ruth Elizabeth Kendal
John Milton Thackery
Robert Kevin Tate
Grace Webb
Janet Sue Owens
Nancy Lee Ham
Kelley Renee
Births in Good Samaritan Hospital Name James David II and Pamela Sue
Mr and Mrs James D Ellis of 804 Oakland are parents of a son born at 10 52 Tuesday morning in Good Samaritan hospital weighing six pounds two ounces named James David II Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Howard Summers and Mr and Mrs Emmett Ellis of this city Mr and Mrs Robert Arnold of Woodlawn are parents of a daughter born at 6 15 last night in Good Samaritan hospital weighing eight pounds nine ounces named Pamela Sue
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James D. Ellis
Oakland
Good Samaritan Hospital
James David II
Howard Summers
Emmett Ellis
Robert Arnold
Woodlawn
Pamela Sue
Mt Vernon Hog Market Prices Unchanged On Local Market
Mt Vernon markets show hog prices steady with top at 15.75 for 190 to 220 pound hogs. Sows priced at 12.75 for 300 weight down, 12.50 for 800 weight and over, with boars at 8.00 and 9.00.
Mt Vernon Grain Prices Quoted This Afternoon
Mt Vernon reported grain price quotes with Wheat at 1.26, Soybeans 2.34, and Corn 1.20 for this afternoon.
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Mt. Vernon
Chicago produce price report unclear and uncertain
Chicago Mercantile Exchange butter prices steady with wholesale buyers unchanged amid mixed odd figures. Eggs show irregular wholesale prices with whites grading high and mixed lots reported, but exact figures are unclear from the fragment.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Livestock Receipts Report From National Stockyards IL
Estimated receipts for Friday list hogs 5,500 cattle 300 calves 100 sheep 50. Hogs priced at 16.75 for barrows and gilts and 13.75 for sows. Cattle 1,200 calves 150 with steers 23.00 heifers 22.00 cows 14.50 choice vealers 25.00 calves 20.00. Sheep lambs 24.00 ewes listed.
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National Stockyards
Egg and poultry price list from St. Louis AP release
St Louis AP bulletin lists egg grades and poultry weights with consumer and wholesale price ranges. Entries include large medium small bee unclassified checks and hen weights for heavy light and under five pounds, plus broilers and fryers.
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ST. Louis
Chicago Grain market report summary
Chicago grain prices show no wheat oats or soybean sales. Corn prices No 1 yellow 1.2714 and No 2 yellow 1.27 2734. Soybean oil at 8.25 per bushel.
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Chicago
Wall Street Narrow Gains Amid Mixed Trading
Wall Street extended a string of advances as profit taking paused. Volume neared 4.9 million shares with gains and losses in leading issues from fractions to about a point. Du Pont and Goodrich rose, Texas Gulf Sulphur sparked activity on mineral strike notes, while oils and steels showed mixed moves. Dow Jones noon averages: 30 Industrials at 26.51 up 3.49. 20 Rails at 206.00 up 0.59. 15 Rails at 112.03 up 0.23. 65 Stocks at 292.16 up 0.88.
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New York
du Pont
Goodrich
Texas
Gulf
Ontario
Chrysler
G. D. Searle
American Stock Exchange
U.S
Indus
Testify They Saw Walker Lead Rioters
Fort Worth Texas API attorneys expected to complete testimony in Edwin A Walker’s 2 million dollar libel suit against The Associated Press. Witnesses testified Walker led student segregation rioters at the University of Mississippi in 1962. Two men died during the night-long rioting.
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Fort Worth
Tex
API
Edwin Aa. Walker
Associated Press
Walker
University of Mississippi
James H. Meredith
Weather Review Mt Vernon Rainfall and Temps Snapshot
Rainfall from 7:00 a.m. Wednesday to 7:00 a.m. Thursday totals 23.76 inches for the year. Temperature records show highs of 85 and 80, with lows of 7 and 58 in prior periods. Friday sunrise 4:31 a.m. and sunset 7:31 p.m. CST.
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MT. Vernon
Oil Association Office Is Moved
The Office of the Illinois Oil and Gas Association moved from 715 Main to 713 Main one door east to provide room for better services. Everett C. Rue of Mt. Vernon is president, Hills of Mt. Vernon is secretary, Walter Price of Mt. Vernon is treasurer, with six other Southern Illinois officers.
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The
Illinois Oil and Gas Association
Main
Charles Pardee
ILOGA
Everett C. Rue
Mt. Vernon
IOGA
Hagerty Backs TV Vote Law
James C. Hagerty, former White House press secretary and broadcasting executive, spoke at Ft. Slocum on approving a bill to bar TV networks from declaring presidential returns in Eastern states while West Coast polls are open. He noted Republicans claimed early Eastern victory in 18 and 1952 as a factor to sway West Coast voters.
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New Rochelle
N.Y
James C. Hagerty
White House
Hagerty
American Broadcasting - Paramount Theaters, Inc
Army
Ft. Slocum
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Navy to name carrier USS John F. Kennedy in tribute
The Navy will christen the 80,700 ton Forrestal class carrier USS John F. Kennedy after the assassinated president. The contract for construction was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. A destroyer named for Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. now serves, honoring the Kennedy brothers.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
White House
Johnson
Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydocking Co
Newport News
Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr
Europe
Ellis To Speak To School Chiefs At June Conference
The third annual supervision conference for Illinois southern counties meets at the Travelodge in Marion on Friday June 19. Ogie Ellis president elect of the Illinois Association of County Superintendents of Schools will offer greetings. State Superintendent Ray Page will address the group followed by panels on the Master Plan for Higher Education junior colleges evaluation supervision and the new building code.
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Illinois
Marion
Ogie Ellis
Illinois Association of County Superintendents of Schools
Ray Page
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Page
Driver Ticketed After Accident
John H. Sturtevant an 18 year old resident of 5104 Blackberry was charged with driving too fast for condition after an afternoon collision at 26th and Logan. He hit a car driven by William R. Hart 55 of 720 Magnolia. Estimated damage to both vehicles was 500.
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John H. Sturtevant
Blackberry
Logan
Sturtevant
William R. Hart
Magnolia
Fills Bond In Assault Charge
Ivan Milton Dodson aged 41 of 1313 South 24th Street faced aggravated assault charges after a fight at the Top O Town Tavern on South Tenth. He allegedly attacked Gene McDaniel with a knife, leaving McDaniel needing 33 stitches. Dodson posted a $1500 bond.
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Ivan Milton Dodson
South 24Th Street
South Tenth
Dodson
Gene McDaniel
Kell
McDaniel
Goldwater Boosts GOP Hope for House and Senate
Washington AP reports fifty four House Republicans say Barry Goldwater's presidential nomination could help elect more GOP lawmakers to both chambers. Rep. John A. Rhodes says many Republicans support Goldwater but have not yet announced. the GOP caucus includes 178 House members.
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Washington
House
Barry Goldwater
Congress
Capitol
John A. Rhodes
Arizona
Goldwater
Yale student hides in ventilation shaft for seven months
Allan Kornfeld, a Tulsa student on a four year Yale scholarship, lived in a ventilation shaft at Silliman College for seven months after housing ran out. He covered the entrance with brick wallpaper, used an electric blanket in winter, and slept with a mattress, bureau, clock, and radio. He revealed the stunt after graduation.
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New Haven, Conn
Allan Kornfeld
Yale
Tulsa
Okla
Kornfeld
New Haven
Silliman College
Standard Oil marks 75th anniversary in Chicago
Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) celebrates 75 years with no fanfare. President John E. Swearingen emphasizes heritage and future growth. From 1889 capital stock of $300,000 to over $3 billion in assets today with international subsidiaries in the United States, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
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Chicago
Standard Oil Co
Indiana
John E. Swearingen
Span
United States
Latin America
Europe
Middle East
Murder In New York Elevator
Leonard Simpson a 63 year old New York lawyer was found stabbed to death in his apartment building elevator on 90th Street near Broadway. Mrs Selma Simpson found his body as the elevator returned to the lobby and two men nearby said a gaunt Negro ran from the scene. Police recovered his wallet with little cash and personal items on the body.
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Richard F. Whalen
NEW York
Selma Simpson
Simpson
Victor
Aberdeen Typhoid Nightmare Ends
Aberdeen health officer Dr Tan MacQueen announced the typhoid epidemic has been contained after a month long scare. About 447 remain under treatment with no new infection sources evident. The city lifted quarantine easing tourism and reported only one death thanks to antibiotics.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Tan MacQueen
MacQueen
Fire destroys barn at Harris farm near Belleville
Lightning sparked a blaze at Eugene Harris's barn near Belleville Illinois. The fire consumed the barn about 700 bales of hay and five truckloads of used lumber.
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Belleville, Ill
Belleville
Eugene Harris
Trailer Burns After Crash North Of City
North of Mt. Vernon propane blaze after a collision on Route 37 at 6 20 pm yesterday. William B Cook 46 of Dahlgren drove a truck into a house trailer being pulled by Claude Dean Gambill s Carlyle car Gambill tried to pull into a lot when struck Firemen said propane bottles burned under the wreckage Gambills wife and four children were in the car James Gambill 5 was injured requiring emergency treatment
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Mt. Vernon
William B. Cook
Dahlgren
Claude Dean Gambill
Carlyle
Gambill
Smith Aquarium
James Gambill
Jefferson County 4-H Livestock and Dairy Judging Schools
A 4-H dairy judging school will meet Monday June 22 at George McCauley farm near Mt Vernon at 9 30 a.m. The following day June 20 a regional judging session will run south west of Mt Vernon with stops at Hubert Danner farm for beef cattle Louis Schmidt farm for hogs and Darwin Eubank farm for sheep. Earl D Peterson of National Stockyards will instruct on market grades. Teams will represent Jefferson County at the state contest in Urbana on June 30.
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George McCauley
Mt. Vernon
Kent Farms
Route 460
Jefferson County
Hubert Danner
Louis Schmidt
Darwin Eubank
Earl D. Peterson
National Stockyards
Urbana
Rocket Engines To Expel Water From Sub Tanks
The Navy awarded a 2 million dollar contract to Lockheed Propulsion Co of Redlands to develop solid propellant rocket engines for submarine ballast tanks. The plan aims to expel water quickly in deep sea emergencies and could be fitted to a Thresher class submarine with up to 16 engines triggered from the control room.
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Redlands
Calif
Navy
New England
Lockheed Propulsion Co
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