Death notice for Reinhard Rixmann retired lumber dealer
Reinhard Rixmann a retired Centralia lumber dealer died Sunday at Centralia Services set for 1 30 p m Wednesday at Queen Boggs Funeral Home Friends may call after 4 p m Tuesday Burial planned in Hoyleton Survivors include Walter Rixmann Mr Vernon daughter Clara Evans Somers Mont two brothers Diedrich Rixmann St Louis and William Rixmann Hoyleton sister Mrs Mamie Clausmeyer St Louis and six grandchildren
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Reinhard Rixmann
Centralia
Queen-Boggs Funeral Home
Hoyleton
Walter Rixmann
Vernon
Clara Evans
Somers
Mont
Diedrich Rixmann
St. Louis
William Rixmann
Mamie Clausmeyer
Father of Mt. Vernon Resident Dies
Marion Kirk of Route 1 Johnston City died at 4 00 a m Sunday in Herrin Hospital after a long illness. He was the father of Mrs Almeda Sanders of 3001 Jamison Mt Vernon. Funeral services Tuesday at 130 p m at Johnson Funeral Home Herrin with Rev Ben Stripling officiating. Burial in Herrin. Survived by wife Stella two sons Woodrow Kirk of Carterville and Paul Meredith Kirk of Columbus Ind three daughters Mrs Eliade Satterfield Herrin Mrs Irene Childers Murphysboro and Mrs Almeda Sanders Mt Vernon ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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Marion Kirk
Johnston City
Herrin Hospital
Almeda Sanders
Jamison
Mt. Vernon
Johnson Finneral
Herrin
Ben Stripling
Kirk
Stella
Woodrow Kirk
Carterville
Paul Meredith Kirk
Columbus
Ind
Eliade Satterfield
Irene Childers
Murphysboro
Grant
Borsenberger Rites Tuesday In Wayne City
Mrs. Nora Borsenberger died Saturday at Schumm Nursing Home in Bluford. Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Richardson Chapel Wayne City with Revs. George Wolfe and W. W. Colvin presiding. Burial follows at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Visitation at Richardson Chapel. Born January 17, 1831 in Wayne County to William and Catherine Ellis, she leaves a son Howard Borsenberger Paducah Ky a daughter Bertha Marpel St Louis a sister Winnie Milem Vernon four grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Nora Borsenberger
Bluford
Schumm Nursing Home
Richardson
Paducah
Bertha Marpel
St. Louis
Winnie Milem
Vernon
Alva Trotter of Dahlgren Dies at 85
Alva Trotter 85 of Dahlgren died Saturday at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were held today at Gholson Funeral Home Dahlgren with Rev. Rudolph Schlagg officiating, burial in Dahlgren IOCF Cemetery. Born October 14 1879 in Hamilton County to Joseph and Caroline Trotter, he married Thresia Garrison who preceded him. Survived by six sons Gailon Ernest Walter Kenneth Eugene Willie four daughters Lillian Kathryn Ethyl Margaret, 26 grandchildren, a brother and two sisters. He belonged to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.
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Dahlgren
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Gholson
Rudolph Schlagg
Mr. Trotter
Hamilton County
Joseph and
Caroline
Jines) Trotter
Thresia Garrison
Gailon
Louisville
Ernest
Mt. Vernon
Walter
Detroit, Mich
Kenneth
Lenzburg
Iil
Eugene
Blytheville
Ark
Willie
Barry
Margaret Phillips
Belle Rive
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
Bertha Byars Dies at 86. funeral Tuesday at Wells Chapel
Bertha E Byars former Farrington township resident died at 10 35 p m Saturday in Jackson Nursing Home Centralia She was 86 years two months 21 days old and survived by three sons a brother six grandchildren 11 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren Funeral services set for Tuesday 2 p m at Wells Chapel Church with Rev Rolla Eller officiating Burial in Wells Chapel Cemetery Friends may call at Osborn Funeral Home Dix after 4 pm today She was born March 28 1879 in Jefferson County to Samuel and Ellen Greenwalt married Barney J Byars August 24 1895 husband died 1960.
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Bertha E. Byars
Farrington Township
Jackson
Centralia
Wells Chapel
Rolla Eller
Osborn
Dix
Byars
Ivar Bluford
Jefferson County
Samuel
Ellen
Harvey) Greenwalt
Barney J. Byars
Clair O. Byars
Keenes
Roger Byars
Walter Byars
Chicago
John Greenwalt
Mt. Vernon
Weather roundup for Illinois and Chicago area
Chicago area saw its first rain in two weeks with a thunderstorm causing minor power failures and small boat buffeting on Lake Michigan. Central Illinois faced flash flooding near Jacksonville evacuating at least 40 people as Mauvais Terre Creek rose. Gusts reached 60 mph in Chicago and Jacksonville, while northern Illinois cooled with highs 74 to 80 and southern Illinois enjoyed mild weather. Local normals and upcoming showers noted for the period Tuesday through Saturday.
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Chicago
Illinois
Lake Michigan
Jacksonville
Ilinois
Winois
Veterans of World War 1 meet in King City Legion Hall
King City chapter notes a Legion Hall gathering for VFW World War 1 group at 7 30 p m on Tuesday June 22 with all members urged to attend and invitees who served in 1917 18. Ralph Baskin is adjutant. Rome Chapter Order of Eastern Star also meets at 3 00 p m in Dix Masonic Temple with Friends Night planned.
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King City Barracks No. 10
Legion Hall
Rome
C. E
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Dix
Hog Market Prices Rise at Mt Vernon
Markets from Mt Vernon show hog prices up to 25.00 for 200 to 220 lb hogs and 20.50 for 300 lb sows, with sows 300 weight and over at 20.25 and boars at 13.50 to 14.00. Prices after 12:30 p.m. will reflect next day’s levels.
Mt Vernon Grain Prices For Wheat Soybeans And Corn
Mt Vernon market notes quoted prices for wheat at 1.27, soybeans 2.76, shell corn 1.35, and ear corn 1.32 in an afternoon report.
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Mt. Vernon
Egg and Poultry Prices Reported by St Louis Dealers
St Louis AP reports egg and live poultry price ranges by grade and size for consumer and wholesale markets. Eggs grades A large 29-30 cents per dozen, A medium 23-24, A small 18-20, B large 24-26, wholesale 24-26, unclassified 21-23. h en s heavy 12-14, light over 5 pounds 9-10, under 5 1-5. broilers and fryers 18-20, 14.
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ST. Louis
Livestock Receipts at National Stockyards Tuesday
Estimated receipts show cattle 4000 head, calves 400, hogs 6500, sheep 500 with hogs at 22.00 to 25.75 for 210 to 290 pounds and sows 20.50 to 22.25 for 300 to 625 pounds. Cattle 4500, calves 200, steers 26.00 to 50.00, heifers 24.25 to 26.50, calves 18.00 to 22.00, vealers 25.00 to 30.00. Sheep 600 with spring lambs 22.00 to 26.00 and ewes 4.00 to 7.00.
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National Stockyards
Chicago Produce prices and live poultry report
Chicago wholesale prices for butter and eggs hold steady with minor variations across grades and products. Live poultry prices drop 45 to 144 points with roasters at 24 to 26 and special fed white rock fryers at 19 to 20.
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Chicago
USDA
Chicago Grain market snapshot report
Chicago AP notes Wheat No 3 hard at 1.45 percent. No 2 red at 1.41 percent. Corn No 2 yellow 137 percent. Oats No 2 heavy white 73 percent. Soybeans No 1 yellow 3.00. Soybean oil 9.9 percent. Market update on grain prices and percentages.
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Chicago
Wall Street stocks slip as market logs slow session
Prices sagged in the slowest trading of the year with about 3.6 million shares changing hands. IBM fell 5, major groups including steels, motors, rails, oils and chemicals declined, while Bristol-Myers and Johnson & Johnson rose about a point. Dow noon averages show declines across industrials, rails, and utilities as traders await Monday’s low test.
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New York
IBM
du Pont
Boeing
American Airlines
Zenith
United Aircraft
Xerox
Polaroid
Reynolds Metals
Texas Instruments
G.D. Searle
Pennzoil
Minnesota Mining
McDonnell Aircraft
National Airlines
Owens - Illinois Glass
Alcoa
Avon Products
Borden
Copper Range
Delta Air Lines
Financial Federation
Litton Industries Common
Bristol-Myers and
Johnson & Johnson
American
Goodrich
Allied Chemical
General Dynamics
American Can
American Stock Exchange
U.S. Treasury
DROWNS IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEAR NAUVOO
Harold Chenoweth 41 of Macomb drowned when a boat overturned on the Mississippi River near Nauvoo. Three other Macomb men were rescued from the water.
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Mississippi
Nauvoo, DL
Harold Chenoweth
Macomb
Mississippi River
Nauvoo
Meanor outlines Rend Lake development and recreation plans
Meanor says Corps will coordinate with local interests to zone uses for public benefit. Plans include three major access areas plus dam abutments and spillway. State to develop a park along Inn Peninsula and Lesser site near Jackie Branch, plus four hunter fisherman access areas around Big Muddy and Casey Fork arms. Private enterprise via leases expected at major sites, creating jobs. Rend Lake will be a fine reservoir changing living patterns and energizing citizens.
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Meanor
Corps
Inn Peninsula
Jackie Branch
Highway 183
Big Muddy
Casey Fork
Rend Lake
U S Marines suffer casualties in Viet Nam clashes
The report details multiple engagements around Saigon and Bien Hoa, with U S Marines and other forces suffering killed and wounded. Viet Cong units attacked government outposts, causing deaths and missing soldiers, while air and naval actions targeted Viet Cong positions near Da Nang and along main routes. Senior officials changed leadership in Saigon and families near Da Nang faced harassment from crank callers about U S actions.
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Saigon
Bien Hoa
New China News Agency
My Tho
U.S
Phan Khac Suu
Phan Huy Quat
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Suu
Quat
da Nang Air Base
Viet Nam
Town Overrun by Cyclists Sparks Street Riot Near Park
About 15,000 motorcyclists gathered for a 100 mile American Motorcycle Association race, roving crowds climbed store rooftops and tossed beer cans and smoke bombs. Police used clubs tear gas and rock salt to disperse rioters as crowds formed near Whalum Park and the penny arcade.
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American Motorcycle Association
Penny Arcade
Laconia
State Line
Lunenburg
Mass
Whalum Park
Car Train Crash Fatal to Mt. Vernon Man
Carla Mullinax survives the wreck while the Mt. Vernon man is killed. Survivors include his wife and his parents A L Chuck Chick and his wife. The deceased is identified as Tommy Eugene Jr and he leaves three brothers Donald Chizk Jerry Chizk Max Chizk and five sisters Barbara Todd Carol Chambliss Rosemary Sherry and Margie Chizk.
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A. L
Chuck
Chick
Mt. Vernon
Hammond
Tommy Eugene, Jr
Lisa Renee
Donald Chizk
San Diego
Calif
Jerry Chizk
Chicago
Max Chizk
Ind
Barbara Todd
Carol Chambliss
Bruford
Rosemary
Sherry
Margie Chizk
Baruch Dies Adviser to Presidents Was South Carolina Born
Baruch, adviser to Woodrow Wilson and later urged debt cancellation to Harding and Coolidge, died leaving a German and Confederate Army lineage. His father, a Confederate surgeon and Klan leader, emigrated to South Carolina in 1835. Baruch became a New York physician and War Industries Board chair. He died after 1961 with two of his three children surviving.
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South Carolina
Ku Klux Klan
New York
Woodrow Wilson
War Industries Board
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Cooledge
Harding
Coolidge
B. M. Baruch Jr
Robert Samstag
Belle Wilcox Baruch
Boy Drowns Wading in Kankakee River at State Park
Raymond Buski, 15, of Oak Forest, drowned Sunday while wading across the Kankakee River at Kankakee River State Park north of Kankakee Illinois. He lived at 15936 Vera Court in Oak Forest, a southwest suburb of Chicago.
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Kankaakee
Ill
Raymond Buski
Oak Forest
Kankakee River
Kankakee River State Park
Kankakee
Vera Court
Chicago
School official Roy Clark dies in Springfield
Roy Clark deputy superintendent under State School Supt Ray Page died Sunday in Memorial Hospital Springfield. Clark, 61, had resigned his post effective July 1 due to poor health. He served 25 years in the school superintendent's office.
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Roy Clark
Ray Page
Memorial Hospital
Clark
Illinois Conference to Hold 21st Session at Naperville
Mrs Alda Aharp and Rev Vivian Threlkeld among nearly 400 ministers and lay members from 46 000 Illinois EFBC delegates to the 21st annual Illinois Conference session at North Central College Naperville June 22 24 Bishop H R Heininger of Minneapolis to preside with theme Jesus Christ Renews its Church and worship hour periods throughout the conference
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Alda Aharp
Vivian Threlkeld
First Evangelical United Brethren Church of
Mt. Vernon
Illinois
Illinois Conference of the
Evangelical United Brethren Church
North Central College
Naperville
H. R. Heininger
Minneapolis
Jesus Christ
Hourat
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admitted Patients
Admitted at Jefferson Memorial Leroy Gover Centralia Mary Ann Decker McLeansboro Jerry Bernard John Lee Back Darlene Pickett Discharged: Donna Mae Willmore Good Samaritan Admitted Mary Kathryn Richardson Clyde William Ellis Ruby Irene Yon Ellen Sarah Lambert Aleta Alene Elliott Beverly Jean Wilson Ethel Fitch Etha Darlene Dycus Norma Virgene Browder Alice Mae Kelly Myrtle Martin Gala Eleanor Rust Wilma Lou Sudduth Michael Gene Blankenship Nellie Powell Discharged Bertha Brown James A Stonecipher Elbert Harrison Fullerton Jerry Carson Kolmer Roberta Louise Patterson Ola Mary McKitrick Manford Alexander Logan Anna Henrietta Pope Ruby W Sinks Harold Bell Wilson Nellie Mae Durkee Michael Kevin Telford Lena Vern Overbey Jake Wallace Charles William Campbell Cynthia Ann Solomon Eunice Ellen Armstrong Clark Dean Michels Della Ruth Royce Juanita Lee Rich Willie Adams Fred Smith Carla Sue Hall Gerard Harvey Dion Jr
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Good Samaritan
Mary Kathryn Richardson
Clyde William Ellis
Ruby Irene Yon
Ellen Sarah Lambert
Aleta Alene Elliott
Beverly Jean Wilson
Ethel Fitch
Etha Darlene Dycus
Norma Virgene Browder
Alice Mae Kelly
Myrtle Martin
Gala Eleanor Rust
Wilma Lou Sudduth
Michael Gene Blankenship
Nellie Powell
Bertha Brown
James A. Stonecipher
Elbert Harrison Fullerton
Jerry Carson Kolmer
Roberta Louise Patterson
Ola Mary McKitrick
Manford Alexander Logan
Anna Henrietta Pope
Ruby W. Sinks
Harold Bell Wilson
Nellie Mae Durkee
Michael Kevin Telford
Lena Vern Overbey
Jake Wallace
Charles William Campbell
Cynthia Ann Solomon
Eunice Ellen Armstrong
Clark Dean Michels
Della Ruth Royce
Juanita Lee Rich
Willie Adams
Fred Smith
Carla Sue Hall
Gerard Harvey Dion, Jr
Veteran of Two Wars Dies Here
Veterans death reported with affiliations to Church of Christ American Legion Mt Vernon and Masonic Lodge Eldorado. Survived by two sons Robert Stinson Tulsa Oklahoma and Karl Stinson at home two daughters Mrs Joan Howerton Garden City Michigan and Carol Sue Stinson at home one brother Clarence H Stinson Wood River Illinois a half sister Edith Baker Denver Colorado and eight grandchildren.
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Tral Church of Christ
American Legion of
Three Day Strike Called in Dominican Republic
Dominican workers were called out for a three day nationwide strike to show support for rebels. Labor leader Luis Henry Molina said there is no link to OAS peace talks. OAS negotiators met rebels to discuss a peace formula both sides accepted as a basis for negotiations.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Luis Henry Molina
Organization of American States
OAS
Sixman
Ben Bella Routed Sparks Algerian Turmoil and Prisoner Fate
Demonstrations were banned as Boumedienne’s Revolutionary Council met to discuss Ben Bella's fate. The ex-president, reportedly in an army prison, faced a possible treason trial while Boumedienne welcomed a top aide at Algiers airport. International reactions showed China India Syria Indonesia recognizing Boumedi enne regime with the US taking a wait and see stance.
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Ben Bella
Boumedienne
Revolutionary Council
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Abdel Hakim Amer
Algiers
Amer
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India
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Moscow
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Circuit Court Fines Reported in Local Proceedings
Circuit court fines include William E Milner of Johnsonville charged with toxication fined 15 dollars. Elsie OD Milner of Gilbertsville charged with driving while intoxicated fined 125 dollars. Douglas Sullivan of Benton fined 10 dollars for careless driving. Kenneth E Lowery of Wayne City fined 14 dollars for speeding. Aline M Green of 1911 Cherry fined 10 dollars for faulty brakes on a vehicle.
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William E. Milner
RFD
Johnsonville
Elsie OD. Milner
Gilbertsville
Douglas Sullivan
Benton
Kenneth E. Lowery
Route 1
Wayne City
Aline M
Green
Cherry
Girl Hurt as Cars Avoid Collision at 6th Street
A three year old girl in Vernon was injured Sunday when a car braked to avoid a crash and her head hit the windshield. Donna Faye Smith, 5, daughter of Bernard Smith, was treated for a head injury at a local clinic after the incident at 3:12 p.m. at the 6th Street intersection where Smith’s car and a vehicle driven by Jerry D. Fagen, 2, of Steeleville, neared the intersection but did not collide.
Public Library Reopens Today
The Mt. Vernon Public Library reopens after a two week staff vacation shutdown. Librarian Mildred Metcalf expects the return of several hundred books today as patrons borrowed more reading material during the closure and no overdues were charged.
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Mt. Vernon Public Library
Mildred Metcalf
Darting Birth in Dudley Adopts Baby John Thomas
Mr and Mrs Robert W Davey of Dudley Massachusetts welcomed a son by adoption on June 19 in Dudley He was named John Thomas Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Kenneth Beam of Pittsfield and Mrs Genevieve De Voy of Mt Vernon
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Robert W. Davey
Dudley, Mass
John Thomas
Kenneth Beam
Pittsfield
Mass
Genevieve Devoy
Mt. Vernon
Rock Island Lines Buys 2040 Freight Cars From Five Makers
Rock Island Lines has ordered 2040 freight cars at a cost of 26 million pounds from five manufacturers. President Jarvin Langdon announced on Sunday the firms include Pullman Standard General American Transportation Thrall Car Evans Products and American Car and Foundry.
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Chicago
Rock Island Lines
Rock Island
Jarvin Langdon
Pullman Standard
General American Transportation Corp
Thrall Car Manufacturing Co
American Car and Foundry Industries
Evans Products Co
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