Deaths Edgar L Moore of Centralia Washington
Edgar L Moore 86 of Centralia Washington former Jefferson county resident died Friday night in a Centralia hospital. He was born December 1881 in Shiloh township Jefferson county son of Tomas and Sarah Moore and married Mabel Ward in 1906. Survived by daughter Florence Lozier of Roseburg Oregon sister Maggie Allen of Mt Vernon a nephew and three nieces. Funeral arrangements incomplete. body to lie in state at Newell Haerling Funeral Home Centralia.
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Edgar L. Moore
Centralia
Washington
Jefferson County
Newell - Haerling
Wash
Shiloh Township
Tomas
Sarah
Frost) Moore
Mabel Ward
Florence Lozier
Roseburg
Oregon
Maggie Allen
Mt. Vernon
Elmer Glover WW veteran dies at 71 in Mt. Vernon
Elmer Cates Glover of 800 20th Street died 8:15 p m Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital at age 71. Funeral 1:30 p m Monday at Myers Chapel with Rev Frank L Trotter. burial in Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Survived by wife Virgie Mullins, son Maurice Glover, daughters Helen Huey and Dorothy Morgan, stepson Everett Mullins, brothers Norman and Clarence, sisters Helen Mathus Jesse Keefe Lottie Fitzferrell Clara Glover, and 10 grandchildren. He was a member of VFW Post 1376 and American Legion Post 141. He was born January 27, 1897, in Dahlgren to Charles M and Louisa Jane (Cates) Glover.
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Elmer Cates Glover
Good Samaritan Hospital
Myers Chapel
Frank L. Trotter
Memorial Ganlens Cemetery
Glover
VFW
American Legion
Dahlgren
Charles M
Louisa Jane (Cates) Glover
Virgie Mullins
Maurice Glover
Woodlawn
Helen Hughey
Centralia
Washington
Dorothy Morgan
Bonnie
Everett Mullins
Springfield
Arch Stull Dies Rites On Sunday in Mt Vernon
Arch Stull 79 of Mt Vernon died Friday at Letzekorn Nursing Home. Funeral held 2 p m Sunday at Gholson Funeral Home McLeansboro. Burial Cub Cemetery near Mt Vernon. WWI veteran and Pleasant Hill Baptist member born Feb 7 1899 in Dahlgren. Survived by brother Lee Stull in Virginia and sister Mrs Kate Kniffen of McLeansboro.
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Arch Stull
Mt. Vernon
Pleasant Hill
Dahlgren
Andrew J
Mary
Cates) Stull
Mr. Stull
Lee Stull
State of
Virginia
Kate Kniffen
McLeansboro
Frank Halfacre Dies At His Home At Age 35
Frank Halfacre of Farrington township died at his Kell home at 2:00 p.m. Sunday after a lingering illness. The funeral will be at Donoho Prairie Christian church with Rev. Roy Gill officiating. Burial follows in the church cemetery. Survivors: Winnie Halfacre afwell his wife Neva a son Jerry Don and a daughter Vicky Lynn at home a brother Joe Halfacre of Kell and a sister Lena Michaels of Well.
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Frank Halfacre
Farrington Township
Donoho Prairie Christian Church
Roy Gill
Osborn Funeral Home
Kell
Winnie Halfacre
Neva
Jerry Don
Vicky Lynn
Joe Halfacre
Lena Michaels
Well
Break-Ins Reported At Dix and Ball Park
Sheriff's officers investigated two break-ins near Dix and at the Little League ball park yesterday. Vosier Implement Co. was entered by breaking a back door glass with several drawers rifled but no money missing. At the east concession stand six boxes of candy and two cases of soda disappeared.
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Vosier Implement Co
Dix
Everett Thompson
Little League Ball Park
Yank Arrested for Draft Card Burning in Saigon
A 23 year old American tourist Mark W Rankin of Annapolis Maryland burned a draft card in Saigon to protest the Vietnam War and was arrested by South Vietnamese police then released after questioning by the U S vice consul He said he came to Vietnam as a tourist and hoped to speak with soldiers about the war The police said Rankin would likely be deported and the crowd dispersed by armed officers
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Saigon
Mark W. Rankin
Annapolis
Vietnam
1St Precinct
U.S
Francis
Rankin
South Vietnam
Marine Corps
National Assembly
University of Maryland
Seven Children Wed 50 Years
Flora area families note seven McGrew children, all married at least fifty years. Six sons stay local. daughter Sophia thriving in Scottsburg, Indiana with Pearl Campbell. Marriages span 1904 to 1918 led by Frank and Roy McGrew in 1905 and 1910. Sophia’s sister links to Peal Campbell.
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Flora
Marion McGrew
Sophia
Peal Campbell
Scottsburg
Ind
Dewy McGrew
Miles McGrew
Ray McGrew
Roy McGrew
Frank McGrew
Bert McGrew
Weather Here And Elsewhere Mt Vernon Friday Forecast
Mt Vernon Friday high 92 low 65 with rainfall to date 1968 at 17.84 inches. Comparisons note past highs and lows from one to ten years ago. Sunday sunrise 4 32. sunset 7 33 CST. State temps show cities like Moline Peoria Springfield Rockford and Chicago area with varying cloud cover and recent rainfall amounts.
Hospital Notes Admissions and Discharges Summary
Admissions and discharges listed for multiple patients across hospitals including Retha Bundy Walnut Hill Co and Good Samaritan. Entries name patient names and addresses such as Irene Dillon RFD 7 Martha McKee 404 Herbert Eugene Loker RFD 7 Dorothy Brummitt Bonnie Brenda Scherer 2702 College Roy Sprouse 813 north 24th Kenneth McPheeters RFD 6 Joseph Stelmaszewski Scheller Lola Hutchcraft Fairfield Letha Manly 105 north 5th Nellie Yearwood 715 Harrison Doris Golightly Belleville Bruce LaRue 426 south 23rd. Discharged include John McCarthy 1212 Casey Flora May 1208 Conger Walter Stovall Fairfield Joseph Mayes 1115 Park Avenue Minnie Dawson 301 Bell Fern Mendenhall 1018 south Sixth street Loren Dixon 421 Herbert Lillian Hanes Dahlgren Roy Smith 309 south 11th Fred Harris 621 Lamar Tina Miller RFD 1 Edward Hertenstein 1001 Sa Jom Road Coletta Reyling 115 north 4th Hazel Owens RFD 3 Fred Jones 819 north 4th Street William Stringfield 2214 Cherry Maxine McClinton 815 Highland View Joseph Ellis 806 Williams Harry Lynch 219 south 19th Emma Hawthorne 1220 south 6th street.
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Lola Hutchcraft
Fairfield
Letha Manly
North 5Th
Nellie Yearwood
Harrison
Doris Golightly
Belleville
Bruce LaRue
South 23Rd
John McCarthy
Casey
Flora May
Conger
Walter Stovall
Joseph Mayes
Park Avenue
Minnie Dawson
Bell
Fern Mendenhall
South Sith Street
Loren Dixon
Herbert
Lillian Hanes
Dahlgren
Roy Smith
South 11Th St
Fred Harris
Lamar
Tina Miller
RFD
Edward Hertenstein
Sa Jom Road
Coletta Reyling
North 4Th Street
Hazel Owens
Fred Jones
North 4Th St
William Stringfield
Cher
Rural road death near Effingham claims Wheeler man
Harry C. Schottman, 62, of rural Wheeler was killed Friday night in a two car collision on a country road east of Effingham. The crash occurred on a rural route as emergency responders arrived. Authorities investigated the scene and identified the other driver involved.
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Effingham, Ill
Harry C. Schottman
Wheeler
Effingham
Named for Them Names of Elements Einsteinium Fermium Mendelvium
The chemical einsteinium atomic No 99 was named for Albert Einstein fermium atomic No 100 was named for Enrico Fermi and mendelvium atomic No 101 was named for Dmitri Ivanovich Menreleev.
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Einsteinium
Albert Einstein
Fermium
Enrico Fermi
Mendelvium
Dmitri Ivanovich Menreleev
Ten Finalists In Battle Of Bands
Ten teenage finalists from 3 states advanced in the national battle of the bands contest in Atlantic City New Jersey sponsored by Jaycees. The list includes Symbols of Time Hawthorne California Miserious Littleton Colorado Soul Rockers Avon Connecticut The Reasons Why Tallahassee Florida The Chessmen Braintree and Hingham Massachusetts The Outcry Bedford Michigan The Alpines Wynesville North Carolina The Far End Alliance Ohio The Uproars Blue Mountain Pennsylvania The Wrest Butler Wisconsin.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Jaycee
Hawthorne
Calif
The
Littleton
Colo
Avon
Crosses Sea Alone Homeward Quest Ends in Rescue
Hugo Vihlen faced a grueling day trip as he aimed for Homestead Florida alone at sea. After a weeklong ordeal the Coast Guard boarded his boat Sea Wolf II and hauled him to safety amid family concern and relief from his father Edward and wife Johnnie.
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Homestead
Fla
Vihlen
Edward
Coast Guard
Hugo
Florida
Johnnie
Dana
Sea Wolf II
Sea Wolf
North Korea claims sinking of spy ship near Pukpo Harbor
Pyongyang radio reported that a U S imperialist spy vessel intruded near Pukpo Harbor prompting KRA to sink the ship and its crew. The account cited an anchor mother vessel near Yompyong Island and followed six months after the Pueblo seizure. Kyodo noted uncertainty over whether the ship was American or South Korean.
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Pyongyang
U.S
Joint Military Armistice Commission
Panmunjom
38Th Parallel
North
South Korea
Korean Peoples Army
KRA
Pukpo Harbor
Yompyong Island
U.S. Navy
Pueblo
Wonsan
United States
North Korea
Kyodo
Okyo
Permit For Hot City Ends On Sunday
Washington AP reports the Poor People’s Campaign faces a Sunday deadline to vacate Resurrection City near the Lincoln Memorial. The permit expires 8 p.m. Sunday after a one week extension. Abernathy refuses to leave, resigning his Atlanta pastorate to devote himself to the campaign. 77 arrests with tear gas and night sticks marked Thursday’s violence, which Abernathy blames on paid infiltrators. He questions why Senator Eastland earns 13 000 a month not to grow food while a Mississippi child earns nine dollars.
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Washington
Lincoln Memorial
Resurrection City
Ralph David Abernathy
Abernathy
Atlanta
America
Department of Agriculture
Washington Post
National Park Service
Resuurection City
Johnson
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Mississippi
Eastland
SCLC
Soul Force
Looter Arrested Policeman And Negro Shot In Denver Disorders
In Denver a Negro youth and Patrolman Moravek exchanged gunfire in a shopping center parking lot early today, sparking about three hours of disturbances with police using tear gas. Nathan Jones, 19, was gravely wounded. Moravek was treated for a head graze. One looting arrest was reported as calm briefly returned after a pre-dawn news briefing by Police Chief George Seaton.
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Denver
Colo
Nathan Jones
Robert Moravek
George Seaton
Seaton
Holly
Jones
Mayavelt
Moravek
World Color Press and City Investing merge in St Louis
Stockholders approve a merger between World Color Press Inc and City Investing Co in St Louis. Spokesman says closing date is June 25. World Color Press is among the world’s largest printers of newsstand magazines.
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ST. Louis
World Color Press, Inc
City Investing Co
World Color Press
SIU Awards 3.7 Million Family Housing Contracts
Edwardsville Illinois SIU board awards 2.2 million general construction to Consumers Construction Chicago 887 600 plumbing to Thomas J Fleming Co Alton 158 840 heating and air to Lavin Sheet Metal Chicago and 454 777 electrical to Rite Electric Granite City for 248 unit graduate student staff housing. Interim financing via SIU foundation bonds 4.5 million loan from First National Bank of Chicago funds underground garage at Carbondale as market rates or legal limits change.
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Edwardsville, Ill
Edwardsville
Southern Illinois University
Illinois
SIU Board of Trustees
Consumers Construction Co
Chicago
Thomas J. Fleming Co
Alton
Lavin Sheet Metal Co
Rite Electric Co
Granite City
SIU
SIU Foundation
Steffy Returns From Rochester
Mt. Vernon furniture store owner Bill Steffy flew home from Rochester Minnesota where he had been a Mayo Clinic patient since mid May. He arrived by Ozark plane yesterday and is convalescing after surgery following the May 12 visit to open his second downtown store at 10th and Broadway.
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Bill Steffy
Mt. Vernon
Ozark
Rochester
Minn
Steffy
Mayo Clinic
10Th and Broadway
Minister Denies Gangs Involved In Police Theorizing
The Rev. Fry testified from Chicago that there is no truth to gang leader Rose's claim of a minister ordering a narcotics killing. He called Rose's testimony outrageous and malicious and said Rose was expelled from the Blackstone Rangers in September for associating with crime.
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Rose
Chicago
Fry
Watusi
Maliciou
Blackstone Rangers
Rangers
SIU Bids $139.88 Million Budget For 1969 71
The Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees approved a proposed capital appropriations budget totaling 139.88 million dollars for 1969 71 for Carbondale and Edwardsville campuses. It includes 87.8 million for Carbondale and 41.4 million for Edwardsville with 10.5 million for a vocational technical institute near Carbondale.
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Edwardsville
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees
Carbondale
Illinois Board of Higher Education
State General Fund
Ilinois Building Authority
Viet War Expansion: Saigon Shelling Hits Ship and Area
Nine shells landed around Saigon with one damaging the cargo gear of the British ship London Statesman and killing a civilian. The rounds, possibly from US or South Vietnamese artillery, fell short of Viet Cong targets near the Saigon River and in a swamp. US commanders reported 100 North Vietnamese soldiers killed at anti aircraft sites 25 miles north of Mu Gia Pass as air observers noted destroyed fuel tanks and 17 trucks.
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Binh Duong
Saigon
U.S
London Statesman
Gating
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Mu Gia Pass
North
Marine Pfc Vernon Brown Jr. Killed in Viet Nam
The Defense Department released the name Friday of a Rockford man killed in action in Viet Nam. Vernon Brown Jr. was a Marine Pfc., son of Vernon Brown Sr. of 1015 Hopkins Court.
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Washington (Ap
Defense Department
Rockford, TL
Vietnam
Vernon Brown Jr
Vernon Brown Sr
Hopkins Court
Four Accidents, Four Arrests Reported in Mt Vernon
Four accidents, three involving three cars each, caused over $100 in damage in Mt Vernon. Charges included faulty brakes on a tractor-trailer driven by David McNealey and disobeying a traffic signal for Walter Hayes, following too closely for Louis Brother, and careless driving for Peggy Borland. Multiple drivers were cited and several vehicles sustained damage exceeding $100.
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Mt. Vernon
David McNealey
South 20Th
Mary J. Jones
East Peoria
John R. Hughey
North 7Th
11Th
Jordan
Thomas J. Korte
Centralia
Kansas
Walter T. Hayes
Normandy Heights
Korte
Broadway
10Th
Hayes
Louis V. Brother
Charleston
Carl L. Anderson
Salem
George E. Felton
RFD
Salem Road
Linnview Drive
Peggy Borlardt
Walnut Hill
Billy D. Eubanks
Peoria
John S. DePauw
Washington, Tl
Park Ave
Peggy Borland
Rock Upset at Indiana Democratic Gathering
A female wrestler forced Shorthouse into submission and then released him on the condition that he and his associates linked with Democratic Voters for a New Direction exit the hall. Indiana delegates to the national convention are mainly Humphrey aligned but officially uncommitted.
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Shorthouse
Indiana
Hubert H. Humphrey
Marriages Reported Across Local Communities
Marriage licenses issued for several couples this week include Gary Alan Hayes of Mt Vernon and Suzanne Lee Fairchild of Bruford on Monday. Fred Sodders of Dahlgren and Dorothy Louise Hardin of Mt Ver non on Wednesday. Terry Lee Joy of Bonnie and Loretta Marie Story of Opdyke on Thursday. Kenneth Lee McKitrick of Fairc field and Jewell Elaine Talbert of Cisne plus Avin Arthur Elliston of Mt. Ver non and Rennia Pearl Miller of Mt. Vernon. David Garrett Terhune of Mt. Vernon and Wanda Lee Fuller of RR 1 Woodlawn.
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Gary Alan Hayes
Mt. Vernon
Suzanne Lee Fairchild
Bruford
Terry Lee Joy
Bonnie
Loretta Marie Story
Opdyke
Kenneth Lee McKitrick
Faircfield
Jewell Elaine Talbert
Cisne
Avin Arthur Elliston
Rennia Pearl Miller
David Garrett Terhune
Wanda Lee Fuller
RR 1
Woodlawn
Electric tragedy in Paris man electrocuted repairing home
Walter Craig aged 29 died Friday while fixing his Paris Michigan home after crawling under the house and contacting a live wire. Police said the incident occurred during routine repair work at the residence.
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Paris
Walter Craig
Craig
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