Deaths Nancy Downen Of Sims Dies
Nancy Edna Downen of Sims died yesterday at Ashley. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. in Richardson Chapel Wayne City with Rev. Mayberry and Rev. Schlag officiating. Burial in Garrison Cemetery. She leaves three sons Russell Downen Fairfield Joseph Downen Sims Art Legg Sims and six daughters Ida May Butler Lola McCormick Fairfield Cora Hatchcraft Dorothy Headin Clarice Rawls Mabel Austin Wayne City, two brothers Cecil Legg Fairfield Ralph Legg Wood River, 51 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.
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Sims
Ashley
Richardson Chapel
Wayne City
H. H. Mayberry
Rudolph Schlag
Garrison Cemetery
Art Legg
Ida May Butler
Lola McCormick
Fairfield
Cora Hatchcraft
Dorothy Headin
Clarice Rawls
Mabel Austin
Cecil Legg
Ralph Legg
Wood River
Illinois Legislature Highlights Friday Session Actions
Springfield AP highlights: Senate passed a bill to curb public demonstrations and sent it to the governor. The House approved eight credit reform bills, six returning to the Senate and two to the governor. A bill requiring school children be immunized against five diseases was sent to the governor.
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Springfield
Ill
Senate
House
Leopold at Church Meeting in Eugene Faces Quiet Fame
At a Church of the Brethren world conference in Eugene Oregon Nathan Leopold attends as a quiet participant. Known for the 1924 Chicago murder with Richard Loeb, Leopold was paroled in 1958 after 33 years and later pardoned. He remains Jewish while involved with the church.
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Eugene, Ore
Church of the Brethren
Nathan Leopold
Leopold
Richard Loeb
Bobby Franks
Chicago
Ilinois
Puerto Rico
Hospital Notes and Admitted Discharges List
Hospital notes show admissions for Tommy Ashby and Mary Angeline Harlow with several other patients listed at Good Samaritan and local facilities. Discharges include Richard J. Birkner Charles Herbert Quinn Kevin Alvis and additional names, with multiple addresses throughout Bluford Keenes and nearby streets.
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Jefferson Memorial
Tommy Ashby
South 4Th
Mary Angeline Harlow
Lamar
Richard J. Birkner
Welkins
Charles Herbert Quinn
Perkins
Kevin Kim Alvis
Tolle Road
William Carroll
Hickory Grove Manor
Mart Turner
South 9Th
Maxine McDaniel
Causey
Frank Hamilton
RFD
Ewing
Mary Ann Moore
Flo Robertson
Bluford
Iva Smith
South
Craig Mowrer
Avonell Baldwin
Elizabeth Pendelton
Peggy Youngblood
Keenes
Chloe Thomason
Betty Wilkins
Lugene Smith
Frank Baker
North
Cassie Hungate
Johnson Kosygin Meet Again Sunday
Johnson and Kosygin met again in Los Angeles with both leaders expressing hope for world peace for their grandchildren. The President cautioned that deep differences remain and a single meeting does not seal peace, though they agreed they understand each other.
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Los Angeles
Johnson
Kosygin
Special Meeting Notice for Mt Vernon Lodge No 31
Mt Vernon Lodge No 31 calls a special meeting Monday June 26 at 7 30 PM with Third Degree work led by Bill Salyer WM Byron Weld Sec 6 26 F C E Auxiliary Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 2791 meets Tuesday June 27 at 7 30 PM in club rooms members with April May or June birthdays will be guests and others should bring a dollar gift
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A. M. Mt. Vernon Lodge
Bill Salyer
W. M
Byron Weld
Order of Eagles
Aerie
Illinois Republicans push final plan to fund Kerner budget
In Springfield Illinois Republicans announced what they call the final tax plan to raise 207 million of 685 million in new money for Gov Kerner. Sen W Russell Arrington said Democrats may reject it and Kerner signaled willingness to modify exemptions. The plan includes a one cent cigarette tax increase a 1 percent utility tax boost and doubling the corporation franchise tax plus various revenue adjustments. The legislature meets a week from adjournment while GOP House leaders consider a special committee to refine the revenue position.
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Illinois
Otto Kerner
W. Russell Arrington
Evanston
House
Thomas A. McGloon
Chicago
Arrington
Kerner
GOP
Ralph Smith
Ralton
Senate
McCormick Place
John Parkhurst
Peoria
Appropriations Committee
Parkhurst
Smith
William Pollack
Richard Walsh
Oak Park
Ban Rush Hour Demonstrations in Illinois Senate Bill
The Illinois Senate approved a bill restricting public demonstrations to avoid rush hour times and forbidding protests in multiple localities on a single day. Penalties include fines from 100 to 1000 dollars and up to six months in jail. The session also advanced a measure holding parents liable for damages caused by delinquent children and a proposal to raise county school superintendent salaries by 3000 dollars.
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Spring F
Ill
Illinois Senate
Senate
Otto Kerner
Arabs Deported By Israelis Say Palestinians Charge
Palestinian refugees in Amman allege Israeli troops occupying the West Bank systematic deportations from villages along the 1949 armistice line. They describe force, intimidation, and “terror tactics” driving people across the Jordan River. two villages, Qalqilye and Imwas, are named as demolished or damaged amid ongoing cease-fire tensions.
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Jordan
Allenby
Jordan River
Amman
Elias N. Antar
West Bank
Israel
East Jordan
Qalqilye
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Imwas
Kafr Jammal
Tulkarm
Jetliner Explodes Killing 34 People in Mountain Crash
Witnesses report a jetliner decimated on a mountain top near Cuorning New York about 30 miles south of town. Survivors described engine trouble and a wing on fire as debris rained down. Postmaster Louis Schultz and others recalled a whistling sound before the plunge. Gene Schultz saw the fuselage vanish as if blown apart by dynamite.
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Cuorning
N.Y
Blossburg
Louis Schultz
Gene Schultz
Former Nazi camp commander Stangl ordered arrested in Germany
Franz Paul Stangl a 60 year old former SS captain and former commander at Treblinka and Sobibor appeared before an examining magistrate in Duesseldorf who formally ordered his arrest for alleged war crimes. He was flown in from Rio de Janeiro after Brazil granted a West German extradition request.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Franz Paul Stangl
Treblinka
Sobibor
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
King Opposes Weston Site Atom Smasher
Open housing activists plan a rally at the Weston site of a proposed 350 million atom smasher. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr spoke at a tent-in with eight demonstrators protesting the lack of a state open housing law. He urged pressure on Illinois lawmakers and Congress. King warned Weston selection would undermine Title VI and mean government subsidizes discrimination, predicting longer nights of disruption.
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Weston, Ill
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Weston
Illinois
U.S. Congress
Los Angeles
Illinois House passes shots requirement for school entry
Springfield Illinois AP reports the House finished action on a bill requiring immunization for measles smallpox tetanus diphtheria and whooping cough for children entering school. Exemptions include poor physical condition or parental constitutional objections. The bill was sent to Gov Otto Kerner after Senate amendment approval.
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Springfield
Illinois House
House
Senate
Otto Kerner
Johnson Kosygin meet noted on Pravda front page
Moscow reports a seven word item stating President Johnson and Soviet Premier Kosygin met. It was the Soviet press only mention of the Glassboro New Jersey summit. Other papers apparently rushed to press. Tass dispatch brief and brief.
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Johnson
Alexei N. Kosygin
Pravda
Glassboro
N.J
Communist Party
Tass
Father wins 19 cents in newspaper payment suit
William Carter of Bossier City won 19 cents in his suit against T B Friday in Bossier City Municipal Court. Carter, father of a local newsboy, claimed Friday owed 26 cents for four papers but the court ruled only three papers were paid for and awarded Carter 19 cents.
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Shreveport
William Carter
Bossier City
T. B. Friday
Carter
Louis Lyons
Hussein Heads to U.N. Emergency Session in New York
King Hussein of Jordan is en route to New York for an emergency U.N. General Assembly session on the Middle East crisis. He flew his own plane from Amman to Rome and then joined a Pan American jet for the transatlantic leg.
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Rome
King Hussein of Jordan
New York
U.N. General Assembly
Hussein
Amman
Logan Street Baptist Church Dedication Chronicle
A historical account details the Logan Street Baptist Church evolution from quarter time preaching to full time services, key leaders, and multiple buildings. It covers 1922 half time preaching, 1938 full time preaching, a 1937 brick sanctuary, 1949 educational building, 1958 second educational unit, and a 1967 sanctuary opening under Rev. F L Trotter.
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Logan Street
Adooph Chrisman
Adolph Chrisman
J. H. Mattox
Kyle Wyatt
James M. Baldwin
S. Otho Williams
F. L. Trotter
Car and motorcycle crash near Jamestown claims two lives
A Friday night collision on Jamestown Road near Jamestown in Clinton County left two motorcycle riders dead. The victims were Thomas H. Tebbe, 18, of Breese, Illinois and Thomas A. Liening, 20, of Pocahontas, Iowa. Richard Liening, 15, was in critical condition, while the car driver Morris Sidwell, 17, of Pocahontas, Iowa, was also injured.
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Jamestown, Ill
Jamestown
Thomas H. Tebbe
Breese
Ill
Thomas A. Liening
Pocahontas
Liening
Richard
St. Joseph's Hospital
Highland
Morris Sidwell
Jamestown Road
Clinton County
Weather and Local Forecast From MT VERNON and Illinois
MT VERNON weather shows Friday high 90 low 71 with 18.44 inches rainfall year to date inches. Illinois forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms in northern areas with highs in the 70s to 80s and cooler conditions by Sunday. In Pittsfield Renato Victoria, 130, outpoints Hector Rodriguez, 131 1/2, to retain the New England lightweight title.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Pittsfield
Mass
Renaldo Victoria
Hector Rodriguez
Providence
R.J
Victoria
New England
Marine Corps Offers 2 Year Enlistment Here
Marine recruiter Staff sergeant Charles Lubbering in Mt. Vernon announces the Marine Corps has reopened its two year enlistment program and offers three and four year options with a 120 day delay. The Aviation Guarantee provides aviation schooling in Memphis for qualified four year enlistees. Call Centralia at 532-2532 or meet the recruiter at the courthouse in Mt. Vernon Thursdays noon to 4 PM for details.
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Charles Lubbering
Marine Corps
Mt. Vernon
Memphis
Tenn
Lubbering
Centralia
Court House
Two Motorcycle Riders Die in Illinois 117 Crash
Eureka Illinois reports two local riders Merl Yell Zimmerman 25 and Phil lip Gillan 20 were killed in a head on motorcycle collision on Illinois 117 on the town's north edge. Both men were residents of the Eureka area located about 15 miles northeast of Peoria.
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Eureka
Mer- Yell
Zimmerman
Phillip Gillan
Illinois
Berkeley church shifts Sunday service to Wednesday night
Arling ton Community church deacons and council vote to move services from Sunday morning to Wednesday night due to waning summer attendance. Deacon F W Price cites balmy Sundays as factor. The switch is set for the week of July 20.
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Berkeley
Cslif
Arlington Community Church
F. W. Price
Llama In The Backyard Returns To Neighbors
In Orlando Florida AP reports that criminal court Judge Warren Edwards was told by his wife of a lama in their backyard. The animal turned out to be a neighbor's Nama pet, and the judge said he was not upset about returning it. He already keeps a goat cat and dog.
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Orlando
Fila
Criminal Court
Warren Edwards
Mt Vernon Driver Held After Auto Hits Tree
A Mt Vernon motorist is charged with drunken driving after his car crashed into a tree at Herbert and Welkins. Frank lin L Beppler, 21, of 425 North 9th street, was held at the city jail. Two passengers, Charlotte E Fairchild and Tracey Bradford, were treated for minor injuries at Good Samaritan Hospital. Police noted 116 feet of skid marks before the crash occurred around 12:40 a.m.
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Mt. Vernon
Herbert and
Welkins
Franklin L. Beppler
North 9Th Street
Beppler
Good Samaritan Hospital
Charlotte E. Fairchild
Tracey Bradford
Herbert
Nixon Proposal for Jerusalem Vatican Style Autonomy
Former Vice President Richard Nixon urged that Old City of Jerusalem gain Vatican like status with autonomous rights for each faith. He insisted Israel must not withdraw from captured areas before a peace settlement, calling the issue non negotiable after talks with Israeli leaders. Nixon then departed for Athens and Rome, returning to New York Sunday.
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Tel Aviv
Richard M. Nixon
Old City of Jerusalem
Nixon
Israel
Old City of
Jerusalem
Athens
Rome
New York
Lightning Strikes Four Boys Killing One in Baltimore Park
In Baltimore Maryland a sudden rainstorm struck a park as David McCartin, 12, and two other boys chased fly balls. All three were hit by one bolt of lightning. McCartin died while another boy was knocked down and injured.
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Baltimore, Md
David McCartin
McCartin
Baltimore Fire Department
Oldest Air Force enlistee turns 74 at Travis Base
Sergeant M. Set. Stewart G. Hicks, 74, the Air Force's oldest enlisted man, celebrated his birthday at Travis Air Force Base California. Retiring July 17 after three wars, the construction inspector shared a quip about aging while his 60th Engineering Squadron mates hosted a cake and coffee gathering.
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Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
M.set
Stewart G. Hicks
U.S
Hicks
60Th Engineering Squadron
Reagan II Darling Of 4 Young GOP
Reagan II Darling Of 4 Young GOP. California Governor Ronald Reagan wins over Young Republican delegates as he blasts Johnson era policies and Vietnam, pledges no 1968 run but draws chants for his candidacy. McDonald widens conservative control as Betts and Cooper lose. Civil rights plank survives.
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Young Republican National Federation
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Ronald Reagan
Reagan
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Johnson
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Nashville
Tenn
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Ohio
Ray Cooper
Arkansas
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