Deaths Mary Belle Dyer 72 Funeral Friday
Mary Belle Dyer 72 of 606 S. died at Jefferson Memorial Hospital after a two day stay. Born in Golconda Illinois on August 27 1883 she was married to Eddie Dyer who preceded her. Survivors include two sons Elwood Tige Dyer and Rev Howard E Dyer two daughters Mrs Edwin Bowers and Mrs Ted Moses nine grandchildren. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Friday at Myers Chapel with Rev Ace Summers officiating burial in West Salem Cemetery. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Thursday.
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Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Mt. Verps
Dyer
Golconda
Ill
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Martha Sexton
Eddie Dyer
Bethel Tabernacle Church
Myers Chapel
Elwood “Tige
Minneapolis
Howard E
Newark
Ohio
Edwin Bowers
Carbondale
Ted Moses
Ace—Summers
West Salem
Funeral Thursday For Doc Scott
Funeral services for Daniel Doc Scott will be held at 2 p m Thursday in the chapel of the Pulley Funeral Home. He died yesterday morning at his home at the age of 84 years 8 months and 8 days. Burial will be in Williams cemetery. Survivors include two sons Fran cis of Springfield and Alvin of Mt Vernon five daughters Mrs Florence McClure Mrs Edith Staley Mrs Maude Morris Mrs Corene Story and Mrs Lorene Green all of Mt Vernon 26 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren.
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Pulley Funeral Home
Bird Green
Harold Conroyd
Williams Cemetery
Francis
Springfield
Alvin
Mt. Vernon
Florence McClure
Edith Staley
Maude Morris
Corene Story
Lorene Green
Rites Tomorrow For J R Miller
Funeral services for Joseph Richard Miller 49 will be at 2 p m tomorrow in Myers Chapel. The Rev Otho Williams to conduct with burial in Memorial Gardens cemetery. Miller died Monday night at 8 55. A Mt Vernon resident for 40 years he lived at 2206 Lamar. Survived by Grace Duncan Miller wife son Richard L Miller Mt Vernon two brothers Otto and Perry three sisters and three grandchildren.
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Myers Chapel
Otho Williams
Memorial Gardens
Miller
Mt. Vernon
Lamar
Grace (Duncan) Miller
Richard L. Miller
Otto
Perry
Oliver Dalton Dies Near Wayne City
Oliver Dalton a farmer near Wayne City died yesterday at 6 45 p m at his home. Funeral services will be held Friday at the Dickeyville church north of Sims with burial in Dickeyville cemetery. The body lies in state at Richardson Home after 7 p m. Jo n Dalton born March 21 1889 in Wayne county was the son of D W and Phoebe Jane Dalton. Surviving are sisters Mary Dalton of Wayne City and Etta Johnson of Keenes.
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Wayne City
Dickeyville Church
Sims
Dickeyville
Richardson A
Jon Dalton
Wayne County
D. W
Phoebe Jane (Anderson) Dalton
Mary Dalton
Etta Johnson
Keenes
Hospital Notes Good Samaritan Admissions and Discharges
Hospital notes list admissions at Good Samaritan including Regna Kuykendall Vicki LaLamandier Ethel Garren Eulalia Catton Robert Squier Isadore Rapp and several others. Discharges include Harriet Kinsey and baby Richard Ernest Mary Souers Patricia Taylor and baby Kenneth Floyd Carlyle Garrison plus many more. Master Gary Gene Williams and Master Jimmie Black admitted. Discharged include Minnie Crunk Coy Bennett Ora Adcock Ferne Schlagg.
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Regna Kuykendall
Vicki LaLamandier
Ethel Gayanne Garren
Eulalia Faye Catton
Robert Harold Squier
Isadore Rapp
Sarah Priest Harrison
Beatrice Elizabeth Morris
Harriet Louise Kinsey
Richard Ernest
Mary Frances Souers
Patricia Joann Taylor
Kenneth Floyd
Catherine Carlyle
Matthew Brian
Iris Rose Garrison
Barbara Jean
Stewart Matthew Chambers
Carolyn Elizabeth Hamilton
Phyllis Ann Sigworth
Gary Gene Williams
Jimmie Black
Minnie Crunk
Coy D. Bennett
Ora Bumpus Adcock
Ferne Schlagg
Airport arrivals and departures noted at regional fields
Gene Tumbleson completed a morning flight to Alton while Herb Grubb flew from Springfield to Mt. Vernon today, marking routine air movement between local airports.
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Gene Tumbleson
Alton
Herb Grubb
Springfield
Mt. Vernon
Woman commandsNC Veterans group in Concord
Mrs. Alice Perry of Wingate a nurse in the Spanish American War was installed to command the North Carolina department of the United Spanish War Veterans in Concord.
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N. C
North Carolina
Alice Perry
Wingate
Truman Receives Oxford Honorary Degree in Tears of Pride
Harry S. Truman, once too poor for college, received an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from Oxford amid applauding 94 professors. He thanked the university, recalled his farm background, and joked that he never expected to be a yank at Oxford as Mrs. Truman wiped tears from her eyes.
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Oxford
England
Harry S. Truman
U. S
Lord Halifax
Missouri
Sheldonian Theater
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Earthmoving Machines Demonstration Set Near Mt Vernon
A noon to 8 pm demonstration of earthmoving and material handling equipment will be held at Crown View Pub division west of Mt. Vernon. Dealers from Benton Fairfield and Salem are invited to see cement mixers rotary cutters bulldozers and post hole diggers. More than $50 000 of equipment will be on display sponsored by Holman Sanders Ford Tractor Co.
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Crown View
Marilyn Monroe's Wedding Pending Amid Passport Row
New York Post reports Marilyn Monroe intends to wed playwright Arthur Miller within days after his testimony before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. They weigh a quiet ceremony at Miller's New Milford home versus publicity. Miller seeks a passport to join Monroe in England for a film with Sir Laurence Olivier, while authorities cite alleged subversive ties.
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New York Post
Marilyn Monroe
Arthur Miller
House Committee On UN American Activities
the Post
Miller
New Milford
State Department
Miss Monroe
England
Sir Laurence Olivier
U S Plans To Maintain Yugoslav Aid Despite Tito Ties
Washington reports the Eisenhower administration will continue economic aid and some military assistance to Yugoslavia totaling about 65 million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30. Yugoslavia has also received 71.2 million dollars worth of surplus farm commodities paid in local currency. Tito denies any secret military deal with the Soviet Union amid Moscow’s tightened links.
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Eisenhower
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Bulgarin- Khrushchev
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Stalingrad
Soviet Union
Judge Pushes Dress Rules for Jurors in Heat
Chicago Superior Judge Edward B. Casey seeks new jury rules to require male veniremen to wear suitable attire in court. He protested coatless jurors on a hot humid day, noting court robes and non air conditioned rooms with signs ignoring attire.
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Maleurors
Edward B. Casey
Superior
Circuit Courts
Casey
Mattoon Firm In Patent Suit
In Chicago a Mattoon furniture maker was ordered by Judge John A. Barnes in U S District Court to halt production and sale of school furniture alleged to infringe Brunswick Balke Collender patents. Brunswick officials testified they designed the line and contracted with Kuehne Manufacturing Co. for manufacture.
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Mattoon
U. S
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Kuehne Manufacturing Co
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Mattoon Company
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Kuehne
Keehne
Kefauver Open to No 2 Spot on Ticket
Chattanooga dispatch reports Kefauver associates believe the Tennessee senator would accept the No 2 position on a national ticket. They say he prefers Stevenson over Harriman, with Kefauver seen as strengthening a Stevenson ticket due to his popularity in the Farm Belt.
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Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Chattanooga Times
Adlai) Stevenson
Harriman
Ina
Washington
Charles Bartlett
Kefauver
Stevenson
Report Decline In Auto Layoffs
Ford Motor Co and General Motors Corp, two of the nation’s Big Three, said unemployment at their plants has peaked and is declining. They spoke at a conference with government, business and labor officials addressing auto industry unemployment. Michigan’s Employment Security Commission shows 207000 idle statewide and 133000 in the Detroit area, over seven percent of the labor force.
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Ford Motor Co
General Motors Corp
Michigan Employment Security Commission
Michigan
Eisenhower Gives No Hint About Race
President Eisenhower's press secretary said the president has given no staff member any hint about remaining in the race. Hagerty noted no message to the Republican convention group and no discussion of politics with aides. He also said Nixon is the only visitor outside family and Adenauer with no political talk. Eisenhower spent time on government business signing nine bills and allocating $100,000 for North Carolina hurricane damage.
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Fisenhower
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Hagerty
Sherman Adams
Nixon
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Incomes Top $4,000 For Half Of U S Families In 1955
Half of all spending units in 1955 earned more than four thousand dollars, covering both families and single individuals. The figure highlights widening income levels and economic distribution during the mid fifties.
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U. S
Remorseful teen booked for aunt’s fatal shooting in Bronx
Seventeen year old Richard Greenwald City College freshman clasped hands in prayer as he was booked on homicide charges at a Bronx police station. The youth allegedly fired a .22 rifle through his bedroom door wounding his aunt Isabel Polensky who pleaded for him to surrender after threats against his girlfriend.
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Richard Greenwald
City College
Bronx
New York
Isabel Polensky
Plane Crashes Mention Big Fatal Losses In History
The clipping recalls a 1950 Wales charter flight disaster with 80 soccer fans, notes higher death tolls in two military C124 crashes near Tokyo in 1953 and Washington in 1952, and mentions Venezuela's Linea Aeropostal Venezolana founded over 25 years ago and earning American Safety Council awards in 1949 to 1951 for injury and fatality free operations.
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Tokyo
Washington
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
American Safety Council
McLeaish Denies Charge After FHA Meeting Testimony
McLeaish says a agency reorganization caused office consolidations and layoffs at the Federal Housing Administration. He asserts orders to employees prohibited drinking on duty, though he admits having a few drinks after meetings and official business. Kathryn Carter testified about intoxication at a Montana FHA meeting two years prior.
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Montana
FHA
Kathryn Carter
McLeaish
Tibetans Petition Nehru Says 4000 Tibetans Killed
A petition to Prime Minister Nehru by Tibetan anti Communist leaders including the Dalai Lama's brother accuses Red China of killing more than 4000 Tibetans in the Litang bombing last April. Tibetan insurgents continue guerrilla actions in eastern Tibet across a dozen districts.
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Kalimpong
India
Nehru
Dalai Lama
Litang
Gyalo Dhondup
Tibet
ICC approves abandon R R to Reevesville
The Interstate Commerce Commission today authorized the Illinois Central Railroad to abandon 29 miles of track linking Mantle and Reevesville TI. Local business interests opposed the move but the ICC said traffic on the line was too light to warrant continued operation.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission Today
Illinois Central Railroad
Mantle
Reevesville
ICC
Ancient Edison Pencils Fit In Vest Pocket
A report notes Edison's lead pencils measured 314 inches or less to fit his vest pocket. A 1954 statistic shows Mexicans smoked over a billion packages of commercial cigarettes. U S draft programs deferred workers across more than 200 skilled occupations during World War II.
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Edison
Bible parts translated into 1092 languages sponsored by ABS
Parts of the Bible have been translated into 1,092 languages under the sponsorship of the American Bible Society.
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The
American Bible Society
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