Death notices for Frank Carpenter services in Dahlgren
Funeral services for Frank Carpenter will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday at Gholson Funeral Home in Dahlgren with Rev. Ray Wilkey officiating. Burial follows at Opdyke cemetery. The body lies in state after 2:00 p.m. today at Gholson. Carpenter, 63, died at 1:45 a.m. Tuesday from a gunshot wound in a personal safety related incident. He was born January 21, 1900 in Carpenter, Wayne county. Survivors include his wife Hazel of Rochelle Illinois, three sons Wayne of DeKalb, William L. in U S Air Force, John M. of Wisconsin, four daughters Dorothy Rice of Phoenix, Zola Faye DiAno of Chicago, Orma Grace Ingle of Portland, Edna Anderson of Rochelle, a brother John L. of East St. Louis, a sister Grace Shaffer of Waller, and 17 grandchildren. He was a member of the Laird E U B Church.
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Frank Carpenter
Gholson Funeral
Dahlgren
Ray Wilkey
Opdyke
Mr. Carpenter
Carpenter
Wayne County
Lafayette
Beulah
Former Resident Reed Throgmorton Dies At 70
Reed Throgmorton 70 died at his Kansas City home after long illness. Born July 8 1892 in Mt Vernon he lived in Kansas City nearly 20 years and was a retired carpenter. Surviving are his wife two sons six daughters a stepdaughter two brothers 23 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. Funeral services are set for 3 p.m. Thursday at Mellody Eylar Funeral Home Kansas City. He belonged to Swope Park Baptist Church and was a Mason and Odd Fellow.
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Reed Throgmorton
Kansas City
Mt. Vernon
Throgmorton
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Mellody-Eylar
Lynnwood
Woodland
Mr. Th
Virgil
Doris Cole
Velma Vallowe
Maxine Rogers
Bonnie
Evelyn Tracey
St. Louis
Reedagmorton
Tillie Brislin
Bronres
Glen
Herbert
Swope Park Baptist Church
Negro Steno To Wed Nigerian Prince In LA
A two year old stenographer at a local aviation plant will marry Nigerian Prince Otuokere Paddy Njaka, 22, a Loyola University student. He will stay in Los Angeles to complete electrical engineering studies in 1965, then they will move to Nigeria. The prince's father, Chief Maduneme G Nijaka, rules 50,000 tribesmen in Kaokwa, eastern Nigeria.
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Los Angeles
Sa Ay
Otuokere Paddy Njaka
Loyola University
Linda Faye Lee
Nigeria
Maduneme G. Nijaka
Kaokwa
Kennedy in West Berlin Captures World Attention
President Kennedy met West Berlin crowds during a 110 mile flight over East Germany. He saluted two million Berliners at the checkpoint and praised their morale as a beacon for the free world. General Lucius D. Clay accompanied Kennedy as a longtime envoy during Berlin tension.
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Kennedy
East Germany
West Berlin
Wiesbaden
West Germany
Brandt
Free World
Clay Kennedy
Lucius D. Clay
Berlin
Hospital Notes Admits and Discharges List
Jefferson Memorial admits Edna Mae Dement. Discharges include Leon Shreve Arthur Webb Lee Dennis. Good Samaritan admits Eula Pearl Dunavan Fred Andrew Holland Ora Joy McCraw Sylvia Marie Osborne Dixie Marlene Browder Delbert Ira Hilliard. Discharges Edward Dewayne Hiatt Lawrence Guffey James Alvin Martin George Edward Mescher Mrs Eula Jean Richardson and baby Lawanna Gail Mrs Phyllis Ann Beard and baby Homer Edward Jeannine Marie Osborn.
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Jefferson Memorial
Edna Mae Dement
Leon Shreve
Arthur Webb
Lee Dennis
Good Samaritan
Eula Pearl Dunavan
Fred Andrew Holland
Ora Joy McCraw
Sylvia Marie Osborne
Dixie Marlene Browder
Delbert Ira Hilliard
Edward Dewayne Hiatt
Lawrence Guffey
James Alvin Martin
George Edward Mescher
Eula Jean Richardson
Lawanna Gail
Phyllis Ann Beard
Homer Edward
Jeannine Marie Osborn
Local livestock markets show price declines and varied hogs
Market notes record 15 cent drop in livestock prices with hogs at 190-220 pounds topping 17.50. Sows steady with 14.50 for 300 pounds and up, 14.00 down for lighter weights. Boars listed at 8.50 and 9.50.
Mt Vernon Grain Prices Quoted This Afternoon
Mt Vernon quoted prices for the day with Wheat at 1.70, Soybeans at 2.50, and Corn at 1.28. The figures reflect market activity reported from Mt Vernon this afternoon.
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Mt. Vernon
Livestock Prices Report From National Stockyards
AP dispatch from National Stockyards notes hogs totaling about 7,000 with various weights and prices for barrows gilts sows and boars. Cattle 2,900 with steer heifer and dairy classifications, vealers and calves priced. Sheep 500 head with spring lambs and prime selections observed.
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USDA
Chicago Grain Market Report Glitches Amid Mixed Quotes
Chicago AP reports no wheat or oats sales with corn values at No 1 yellow 1.33, No 1 at 32 to 33, No 3 at 1.32 and soybeans showing activity described as often. The brief notes fluctuating prices and lack of reported grain sales.
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Chicago
Chicago dairy and poultry prices hold steady at wholesale
Chicago AP report shows butter and eggs unchanged at wholesale markets of the Mercantile Exchange with grades and numbers for AA to C and dirties listed. Live poultry prices also unchanged with roasters at 25 to 26 cents and various fryers priced from 21 to 49 cents.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
USDA
Egg and poultry price list from St Louis AP report
St Louis AP notes prices for eggs and live poultry with consumer grades and weights. It lists large and medium eggs, B grade, wholesale standards, farm run, checks, hens by weight, and commercial broilers and fryers price ranges.
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ST. Louis
Wall Street stocks fall sharply in late day market drop
Wall Street indexes slid as heavy selling hit trading with GM Ford and Chrysler down about a point and others such as Xerox IBM and Polaroid off several points. Industrials including steels chemicals and electronics led losses while volume reached about 4.5 million shares.
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New York
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
du Pont
Union Carbide
General Electric
Eastman Kodak
Woolworth
Xerox
IBM
Polaroid
Texas Instruments
Jones & Laughlin
Merck
Consolidated Natural Gas
Chesapeake & Ohio
Bell & Howell
Lockheed
U.S. Steel
American Telephone
Kennecott
Tank truck crash west of Tuscola kills driver
An empty tank truck overturned several times on U S 36 four miles west of Tuscola Tuesday killing 52 year old James T. Disher of Tuscola. Disher worked for Stahly Cartridge Co and was returning to Tuscola after hauling oil from Pana to Cisne.
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Tuscola, Ill
U.S
Tuscola
James T. Disher
Stahly Cartridge Co
Pana
Cisne
Mt. Vernon Weather and Nebraska Floods Update
Heavy rains threaten new floods in northeast Nebraska as a thunderstorm belt from Kansas to Wisconsin saturates the region. Three people killed, 295 families suffer property loss as floodwaters recede in headwater areas. Tornado sighted near Waldorf Minnesota with no damage reported amid widespread warm, unsettled conditions coast to coast.
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Associated Press
Nebraska
Kansas
Wisconsin
Gulf of Mexico
Midwest
Lincoln
Beaver Creeks
Big Blue River
Waldorf
Minn
Gulf Coast States
Rocky Mountains
Illinois Weather Sees 90 Degree Days Continue
Rising humidity and a persistent heat wave grip Illinois with no break in sight. Forecasts show temperatures 2 to 5 degrees above normal through the week end, with highs around 82 to 90 and scattered showers possible in the north and more general rain later in the week. Chicago hit 94, many stations stayed at or above 90 while Dubuque and Belleville reported 88. Northern Illinois will run about 5 degrees above normal through Monday, with minor changes anticipated. Southern Illinois, averaging 2 to 5 degrees above normals, expects less than a quarter inch of rain in scattered showers early next week.
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Illinois
Associated Press
Weather Bureau
Chicago
Ilinois
Dubuque
St. Louis
Belleville
Iinois
New Three-In-One Oral Polio Vaccine Is Approved
Washington AP The government approved a three in one oral polio vaccine from Lederle Laboratories combining Sabin strains to provide immunity against all three polio types after two feedings. The vaccine cuts administration steps and follows Sabin’s live virus approach. Field tests in Miami and Tampa reduced paralytic polio cases to zero.
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Washington
Lederle Laboratories
U.S
Surgeon General
Lederle
Albert Sabin
University of Cincinnati
Sabin
Herald R. Cox
American Cyanamid Co
Pearl River
N.Y
Miami
Tampa, Fla
Negro March On Capital Aug. 28
The planned integration march on Washington will be held Aug. 28, says Rev. George Lawrence of Brooklyn co chair of the march. He expects more than 300000 demonstrators and groups from 28 cities including New York Boston Cleveland Chicago Detroit Los Angeles San Francisco Atlanta Birmingham Miami and Washington.
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Albany
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Casey Buffalo
Chicago
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Spersmanesa
Gene Airbanks
Fort Worth
Helena
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Juneau
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Washington
George Lawrence
Brooklyn
San Francisco
Birmingham
Lawsuit Settled Over Perkins Avenue Auto Collision
A $1,683 lawsuit ended in circuit court yesterday as parties announced a compromise and out of court settlement. Gerald and Gracie Hampton sought the sum from the Jowie Tea Co. for a November 30, 1962 collision on Perkins Avenue near 15th Street involving a Hampton car and an agent’s station wagon.
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Gerald Hampton
Gracie Hampton
The
Jewie] Tea Co
Perkins Avenue
15Th Street
Hampton
Grant Divorce In Circuit Court
A divorce between Rose Buarylski and Michael Barlyski was granted in circuit court Tuesday with Judge Caswell J. Crebs presiding. The case reflects a finalized dissolution of marriage.
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Rose Buarylski
Michael Barlyski
Caswell J. Crebs
Miss Jefferson County Fair Queen Contest Plans Unfold
The Jefferson County Fair announces its queen contest with a tea on June 30 hosted by Mrs. Roy Maxwell. Eligible single girls aged 16 to 22 must submit applications, including a photo, ride a parade, and be willing to serve as hostess during the 1964 fair.
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Jefferson County
Roy Maxwell
Salem Road
Lambda Rho Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi
Births in Good Samaritan Hospital Welcome Rodney Allen
Mr and Mrs Alvin L German of Ashley Road are the parents of a son born at 6 14 this morning in Good Samaritan hospital He weighed seven pounds twelve ounces and named Rodney Allen Mr and Mrs Kenneth P Do noho of RFD 2 Bluford are 10 58 this morning in Good Samaritan hospital He weighed seven pounds five ounces
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Alvin L. Germann
Ashley Road
Good Samaritan Hospital
Rodney Allen
Kenneth P. Donoho
RFD 2
Bluford
Fined For Wrong Way Driving On One Way Street
Orville E Houseworth of Route 1 Belle Rive was fined 35 plus costs for driving the wrong way on a one way street and 10 plus costs for failing to report an accident after a collision at Ninth and Broadway with Jack Outland of Route 7 Mt Vernon. Police Magistrate Sherman Bullock imposed the penalties yesterday.
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Orville E. Houseworth
Belle Rive
Ninth and
Broadway
Sherman Bullock
Houseworth
Jack Outland
Mt. Vernon
Youth Arrested For Tavern Burglary at My-O-My Tavern
David C. Woods, 18, of 1113 Prairie, was arrested today on a charge of burglarizing the My-O-My Tavern at 1017 South Tenth Street. Police say $7 and four bottles of whiskey were stolen. Woods admitted breaking a window to enter the tavern.
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David C. Woods
Prairie
South Tenth Street
Woods
Special Meeting for Leamon Wingo Rites at Mt. Vernon Lodge
Mt Vernon Lodge No. 31 A F and A M holds a special meeting at Myers Chapel on Wednesday June 126 at 7 30 p m for Masonic rites of brother Leamon Wingo Brethren urged to attend. Carpenter W M James Nuns Secy. VARNELL REBEKAH LODGE No 296 to meet in I O C F hall Thursday evening June 27 at 8 00 o'clock with Rose Ann Buttrum N G Naomi R Bogan Sec’y.
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Mt. Vernon
A. FL
A. M
Myers Chapel
Leamon Wingo
Masonic Dae
Carpenter
W. M
Varnell Rebekah Lodge
Varnell Rebekah Lodge No
C.F
Rose Ann Buttrum
N. G
Naomi R. Bogan
Sec'y
Bid Opening Planned for Mt. Ver Non Project Work
State highway department in Springfield will open bids on July 12 for a Mt. Ver non project. The .06 mile widening and resurfacing on Tenth Street includes the L. and N and Missouri Pacific Railroad intersection south of Casey Avenue.
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State Highway Department
Springfield
Mt. Vernon
Tenth Street
L. & N.and
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Casey Avenue
Macken Harris Fined On Disturbance Charge
Macken Harris was fined ten dollars and costs by Police Magistrate Sherman Bullock on a disturbance charge.
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Macken Harris
Sherman Bullock
Four Teens Fined For Egg Throwing In Dixie Doughnut Shop Incident
Four youths were fined 10 dollars and court costs each after being charged by Police Magistrate Sherman Bullock with disturbance for throwing eggs. Henry Mannen aged 22 of 2005 Casey John Dennis 18 of 1711 Grove Benny Harlan 17 of Route 3 Mt Vernon and Vernon Whittenbrink 16 of 524 South 24th Street admitted egg throwing that splattered Dixie Creme Doughnut Shop on West Broadway and a truck on South 26th Street.
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Sherman Bullock
Henry Mannen
Casey
John Dennis
Grove
Benny Harlan
Route 3
Mt. Vernon
Vernon Whittenbrink
South 24Th Street
West Broadway
South 26Th Street
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Chicago Grain
Wall Street
American Stock Exchange
American Legion
Tom Mudd
Jefferson Post 141
Loyd Marlow
Loran Holtman
Ralph Scott
Rex Medders
Roy van Horn
Robert Goss
Fred Minor
A. L. Richards
Albert Scheppel
Delo
Bailey
Virgil T. Bailey
Illinois Retail Merchants Association
Joe Meek
Senate
Missouri
Pennsylvania
United States of America
Harry Kelly
Capital
William Lee
Johnnys
MCE Pharmacy
Doctors Park
Bob Anderson
A. F
MT. Vernon Monument CO
Dial
George M. Cox
Free Parking
Mt.v. Project
Ann Fogarty
Louise Suggs
Bermuda
Famous Name Brands
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