22 Jun 1950
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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1950
Page
1
Yavonne Canter returned home from St Louis Children’s Hospital after a heart operation. Several residents visited relatives in St Louis and other cities, including Barnes Hospital and Children’s Hospital patients. Families travel for visits, weddings, and medical care across Illinois and Missouri. some plan major operations Friday.
Soviet Russia lodged a second protest accusing American technicians of spying along the Russian Iranian frontier under the cover of oil surveys for Iran. The notice asserts United States involvement in frontier reconnaissance and presses Tehran to curb perceived espionage.
In Riverview Fila on June 22 a second lightning strike near the Little Manatee river killed 67 year old Charles Sappal. The fatal bolt came one year after a prior strike knocked a bottle from his hand at the same fishing camp.
Miss Wilma Lorene Pilson daughter of Mrs Ruby Pilson and Ona Pilson wed Kenneth Ray Holland son of T G Holland Route 1 Belle Rive on Sunday at four in the Belle Rive Missionary Baptist church. Rev Paul Cravens officiated. Attendants were Cyrus Webb and his wife. The bride wore a white street length dress with pink carnation corsage. Attendants wore blue with white corsages. M L Comton was pianist. Mrs Holland is a Mt Vernon Township High School 1950 graduate now employed at Corps Department Store. Holland a 1949 Mt Vernon Township High School graduate works at Tom's Standard Service and is a minister at Sugar Camp Macedonia and a church near Dahlgren. They will reside at 422 South 24th Street Mount Vernon.
Members and guests from southern Illinois including Jefferson County attended a Tuesday session of the Egyptian Chapter of the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers at Jackson County Club near Murphysboro. Rex V. Woodward and Setzekorn were present from the area. Guy Fairfield, chief engineer of the Illinois State Department of Conservation, spoke on the small pond and lake program.
Nashville Ill June 22 Washington county high among Illinois counties in wheat output expects only 50 to 70 percent of a normal crop this season farm adviser Wilbur Smith said today He ascribed the crop to poor growing conditions including two severe ice storms The county had a 2 000 000 bushel crop last year.
Regular Nu Phi Mu bi weekly meeting at Mrs Mary Shields home led by Martha Kirk with roll call treasurer report bake sale updates and new project assignments. July 5 meeting planned at Peggy Dares Ashley road. Bethel Home Bureau unit met with nine members and a sex education lesson. New member Opal Chester welcomed. Refreshments hosted by Mrs Ora Williams next host announced. Mrs Helen Hurst hosted bridge club potluck dinner at Sportsman’s Club with prizes to four members and guests. Liberty Club met at Mrs Lucille Kite’s for lunch with new member Winona Weather, anniversary and birthday gifts. Mt Vernon Park July 19 event hosted by Elia Martin. Royal Neighbor Social Club meets at Stella Ward’s with white elephant. Green Hills Country Club reservations for Tuesday ladies day golf luncheon cards. First Methodist Choir rehearsal at 7 30 tonight.
Jane Seifferth of Carlyle and Glenn L. Henn of Mt. Vernon united in marriage at St Marys church Carlyle in a nuptial mass. The Rt Rev Msgr B Hilgenberg officiated. Attendants included Catherine Seifferth Ruth Seifferth and Bob Schnieder. After a 11 am dinner at St Marys School hall a reception followed. The couple plans a home in Carlyle with Henn employed by Illinois Bell in Mt. Vernon and Miss Seifferth employed by Moran Shoe in Carlyle.
Good Samaritan Hospital admitted Glenn Murphy Fred Long infant son David Carl and Jefferson Memorial admitted Charles Wagener Salem Elsie Mattix Sheldon Walker Jewell Tittle Florence Shehorn. Discharged: Erma Dennis Harvey Sanders Bernice Barefield Opdyke.
On Saturday June 24 Mt Vernon hosts Junior Police Day from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the downtown district as youths sell tags to fund the junior police movement. Allan M. Dulaney leads the effort with John Wielt as assistant chief.
The Rev. and Mrs. F. Murray Haworth and family relocate from Wood River UK to the Evangelical United Brethren parsonage at 245 South 16th Street. He led the First Evangelical United Brethren Church in Wood River for two years. The family includes Murray Jr a music student Esther a high school junior and Donald in sixth grade. The Haworths have ties to Carthage College Illinois Wesleyan University and active community roles with Girls 4-H and Boy Scouts.
Paris dispatch reports Negro singer Lena Horne and MGM director Lennie Hayton, a white man, wed in 1947 Paris for professional reasons. Manager Ralph Harris said the couple now plan to make the union public. Hayton won an Academy Award for On the Town. Horne performs in Paris before a tour of England and Belgium begins July 3.
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