Death Rites Set for Howard C Edmison
Funeral services for Howard C Edmison are listed for 2 p m tomorrow at East Salem church with Rev Lloyd Trotter and Rev Harold Conroyd officiating. Burial follows in the adjoining cemetery. The body lies in state at Myers Chapel after 4 p m today for viewing. Edmison of 211 Opdyke Avenue died yesterday at 11 55 a m at age 43 years eight months and 17 days.
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Howard C. Edmison
East Salem Church
Lloyd Trotter
Harold Conroyd
Myers Chapel
Edmison
Opdyke Avenue
Roxie Whitlock Dies At 63 In Villa Grove
Roxie Whitlock age 63 of Villa Grove died at 5 20 am Sunday at her daughter Virginia O Connor residence in Hazel Crest Illinois Funeral services were set for 10 am Monday at Fry Funeral Home Waltonville with Rev T A Shaffer officiating Burial will follow in Old Baptist Cemetery south of Waltonville She was born December 18 1896 in Elk Prairie Township daughter of Oscar and Sarah Dare She married I N Whitlock in Vincennes Indiana in 1937 who preceded her in death in 1952 Survivors include two daughters Virginia O Connor of Hazel Crest IL and Hil Jeena Todd of Lockport IL a brother Guy Dare of near Bonnie IL and one grandchild She was a member of the Villa Grove Methodist Church and of the G W Ritter Womens Relief Corps the Womens Club Rebekah Lodge the W C T U the W S C S and the American Legion Auxiliary
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Roxie
Dave) Whitlock
Villa Grove
Virginia_O’Connor
Hazel Crest
Fry Funeral Home
Waltonville
T. A. Shaffer
Old Baptist Cemetery
Whitlock
Elk Prairie Township
Oscar
Sarah (Knowles) Dare
Vincennes
Ind
I. N. Whit Jock
Virginia O’connor
Hil- Jeenna Todd
Lockport, Til
Guy Dare
Bonnie
Methodist Church
G. W. Ritter Women’s Relief Corps
Women’s Club
Rebekah Lodge
W.C.T.U
W.S.C.S
American Legion Auxiliary
Clifford Harvey Dies in Media Illinois Former Resident
Clifford W. Harvey age 65, longtime Mr. Vernon native, died suddenly February 21 in Media Illinois while shoveling snow. Funeral services were held at Media Methodist Church with burial in East Dundee cemetery. He served as assistant farm adviser for Henderson County and formerly farm adviser for McHenry County. Survived by wife Pearl Pflaum Harvey of Dundee and brother Ray W. Harvey of Texas.
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Clifford W. Harvey
Mr. Vernon
Methodist Church
Media
East Dundee
Mr. Harvey
Henderson County
Illinois
McHenry Coun
Kentucky
Pearl (Pflaum) Blarvey
Dundee
Ray W. Harvey
Texas
Brown leaves 10000 to Historical Society in will
Min L Brown of Flora and widow of Charlie Brown leaves an estate near a quarter million dollars. The will filed in Claycone Court lists 10000 each to the Wayne County Historical Society and the local library, with other charities and more than a dozen relatives named. Mrs Brown formerly lived in Fairfield.
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Louisville, Ill
Min L. Brown
Flora
Spearly
Claycone
Rero Library
Wayne County Historical Society
Brown
Fairfield
Charlie Brown
Train Hits Car Eight Youths Escape
Eight youths escaped serious injury when their car was struck by a locomotive at an East St. Louis crossing Monday night. Carla Wright 13 and Lawrence Dough ty 15 of Caseyville were admitted to St Marys Hospital but not in serious condition. Locomotive engineer Robert Martin 41 told police the warning whistle was sounding as the engine approached the crossing on tracks serving the Peabody Short line Railroad.
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East ST. Louis, MI
East St. Louis
Carla Wright
Lawrence Doughty
Caseyville
St. Mary's Hospital
Robert Martin
Census clock puts US population at 179,690,586
The Census Bureau estimates the nation's population at 179,690,586 as of 8 a.m. EST today for its census clock, a counting device installed in the Commerce Department lobby.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Bureau
Commerce Department
Hospital Notes Good Samaritan Admissions and Discharges
Admissions include Opal Mae York Arthur Mathis Ewers William Lawrence Daniels Michele Lee Conaway Darlene Alice Jones Carol Margaret Wolters Arminda Reams Agnes Elizabeth ene Jerry Eugene Overbey Nelle Yearwood Lydia Ruth Smith Ida Luella Carpenter Estel Verl Discharged include Gus Whitson Nellie Pearl mn Willie E Hoffman Mrs Elizabeth Davis and baby Dora Mae Hope Watkins Mrs Janet Sue Bass and baby Evan Denise Shirley Ann Pigg D Wayne Shelton Willard Leon Cont Bene Lynn Cox Aanutieds etree Carbott Stenberg Richview IL Mrs Lucy Mor Bonnie
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Good Samaritan
Opal Mae York
Arthur Mathis Ewers
William Lawrence Daniels
Michele Lee Connaway
Darlene Alice Jones
Carol Margaret Wolters
Arminda Reams
Agnes Elizabeth Ene
Jerry Eugene Overbey
Nelle Yearwood
Lydia Ruth Smith
Ida Luella Carpenter
Estel Verl
Gus Whitson
Nellie Pearl Mn
Willie E. Hoffman
Elizabeth Davis
Dora Mae
Hope Watkins
Janet Sue Bass
Evan Denise
Shirley Ann Pigg
D Wayne Shelton
Willard Leon
Lynn Cox
Ae Aanutieds
Etree Carbott Stenberg
Richview, Il
Lucy Mor
Bonnie
Weather Report for Illinois Cities
Regional forecast lists conditions for Belleville Moline Peoria Quincy Rantoul Rockford Springfield Vandalia with temperatures ranging from 13 to 21 degrees. City differences indicate localized readings across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
ESOS
Belleville
Peoria
Quincy
Rantoul
Rockford
Springfield
Vandalia
Cold Weather Hits Wide U S From Rockies to Atlantic
The Associated Press reports a harsh March entry with ice and snowstorms spreading from the Southwest to the Atlantic. Sub zero readings prevail in Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and parts of Michigan, Iowa and Illinois, with notably cold zones in Pellston Michigan and Miles City Montana.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Atlantic
Midwest
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Iowa
Illinois
Pellston
Mich
Miles City
Mont
Vandalia
Springfield
Madison
Wis
Chicago
Ohio Valley
Florida
Southern route backed for national highway plan
A Mt Vernon Illinois group urged support for a southern route through Illinois and Indiana for the national highway system. They cited wartime defense logistics and rural alignments avoiding towns, and urged leaders to attend a Princeton Indiana hearing March 24 25. The group adopted a resolution backing the southern route and planned future meetings in Carmi. Mayor Virgil Bailey proclaimed March United Cerebral Palsy Month and urged citizens to support the drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil T. Bailey
United Cerebral Palsy Fund
Marie Shumaker
March
Floyd Schumm
Mayor Bailey
Jerry Gott
Jefferson County
Delo
Illinois
Indiana
Southern Illinois
Southern Indiana
Bureau of Public Roads
Princeton
Ind
Ilinois
Carmi
McLeansboro
Albion
Grile
Mt. Carmel
Wayne City
Golden Gate
Mill Shoals
Geff
Crossville
Mt. Vernon
Lesser
Okanville
Barnhill
Fairfield
Evansville
United Cerebral Palsy
Ulnon
United States
Central
Virgil Bailey
Mt Vernon
NAACP Meeting Tonight At Masonic Hall Grand Avenue
The NAACP chapter will meet tonight at the Masonic Hall on Grand Avenue. All members and visitors are welcomed. Charlie Edwards serves as president and Mrs Estella Stokes as secretary. Also, Varnell Rebekah Lodge Past Noble Grands Club gathers Thursday at 7:30 PM at 1603erry home of Mrs Maude Miller with Alice Collins as president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NAACP
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Masonic Hall
Grand Avenue
Charlie Edwards
Estella Stokes
Varnell Rebekah Lodge
Noble Grands’ Club
Varnell
Rebekah Lodge
Maude Miller
Alice Collins
Effie Marlow
Tepovichs Welcome Son At Good Samaritan Hospital
Mr and Mrs George Tepovich of Nasan welcomed a son at 10 59 this morning at Good Samaritan hospital weighing eight pounds PMID not provided in text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Tepovich
Nasan
Good Samaritan Hospital
Blizzard Presses South Colorado Ranchers Needing Aid
In southern Colorado about 100 ranchers and 4000 cattle are isolated by a blizzard. Army units based at Ft. Carson mobilize two convoys of Weasels bulldozers and trucks to reach Las Animas County 275 miles southeast of Denver. An advance party scout is determining equipment needs to clear 12 foot drifts and restore feed deliveries amid subzero conditions and heavy snowfall. Two weeks of ongoing severe weather have battered the area. Some cattle have died or weakened due to lack of forage and access to feed.
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Denver
Colo
Husky
Colorado
Ft. Carson
Las Animas County
Carson
Civil Rights Marathon Stirs Senate Filibuster Mockery
Sen Spessard L Holand of Florida forced a 3 30 am quorum call after speaking for over three hours and 20 minutes in a middle of the night filibuster style test of Senate resolve. He mocked the notion that a heavily Democratic Senate would adopt a Republican civil rights bill and let the minority leader credit the gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Spessard L. Holand
Dfla
Holland
Funeral services for FBI manhunter Melvin Purvis held
Florence AP report notes Melvin Purvis 56 died by suicide after a period of ill health and low spirits. Funeral at St John s Episcopal church followed by burial in Mount Hope Cemetery. Purvis famed for leading agents who shot Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in the 1930s. He owned Florence radio station WOLS and had recently prepared federal justice reforms for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Family physician cited flu and an arm injury during a Washington trip. Wife Rosanne Purvis discovered the body after hearing a gunshot.
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Florence, S.C
Melvin Purvis
FBI
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Mount Hope
Purvis
John Dillinger
Pretty Boy Flo
Florence
WOLS
Washington
Federal Justice Administration
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
Oroner William T. Eaddy
Rosanne Purvis
1,400 Killed In 1954 Quake
Paris AP reports Orleansville Algeria suffered the worst North African quake of recent years with about 1,400 deaths. The Me ousa quake on February 21 this year killed 40. Historic quakes are listed with massive losses in Shensi Calcutta Kansu Tokyo and Messina, highlighting the global seismic history.
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Paris
North Africa
Orleansville
Algeria
Meousa
Far East
Shensi
China
Calcutta
Kansu
Tokyo
Messina
Khrushchev to Meet Nehru in Calcutta Talks
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Calcutta for talks with Prime Minister Nehru and Burma’s U Nu amid hopes he would carry word on the India China border dispute. He flew from Jakarta for an overnight stay en route to Afghanistan, with Nehru arriving from New Delhi for a second meeting in under three weeks.
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Calcutta
Nikita Khrushchev
Nehru
U Nu
Burma
Heiping
Khrushchev
Jakarta
Afghanistan
New Delhi
This Rebel Breed premiere in Philadelphia this week
Morris Lee Green, former Mt. Vernon resident, wrote the script for the Warner Brothers picture This Rebel Breed, his first full length movie. He left a Chicago Trib une news desk job for Los Angeles freelancing, with CBS television and radio work including a San Quentin interview with the condemned Daryl Chessman. Moore, known for TV westerns, is the producer on the film. Green toured on the Mobilgas Economy Run film company. The piece also catalogs county tax data, farm statistics, and local commentary on federal aid versus self reliance in Marion and Jefferson counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Lee Green
Warner Brothers
Morris Lee
Ethel Geen
Mt. Vernon
Green
Ben
Mobilgas Economy Run Film Company
Mt Vernon church votes to buy $27,300 pipe organ
At a special meeting Mt. Vernon's First Presbyterian Church voted to purchase a new pipe organ for 27,300 dollars. Casavant Freres Co. Ltd of Canada signed contracts. completion targeted for Easter 1961. The organ will have 20 stops, two manuals, reeds, mixtures, and mutation stops, designed from Emerson specifications.
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Mt. V. Church
Mt. Vernon
First Presbyterian Church
Casavant Freres Co. Ltd
Canada
Robert Freytag
Presbyterian Church
Durin
Lynn Weilge
Ivan Cox
Cox
Emerson
Margaret and Tony Take Drive to Buckingham Palace
Margaret and Tony, newly engaged, traveled from the Royal Lodge at Windsor to Buckingham Palace today. The announcement of their engagement was made by Mother Elizabeth last month, and the couple has since kept to seclusion while receiving thousands of congratulatory messages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margareony Armstrong
Jones
Buckingham Palace
Royal Lodge
Windsor
Elizabeth
Five Mt V Area Young Men Enlist in U S Army
Five Mt Vernon area youths enlist in the U S Army with basic training at Fort Leonard Wood. Enlistees are Tommy Holloway 18 Ronald Ayers 23 Lloyd Dagg 18 Nelson E McCormick 18 and Courtland Leneave. all from Mt Vernon. Recruiter SFC Ivan L Nelson notes multiple career fields and invites local volunteers to contact him at the Granada Theatre building.
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Mt. Vernon
U. S. Army
SFC
Ivan L. Nelson
Fort Leonard Wood
Tommy Holloway
Nadine Niederfer
South Fifthtreets
Ronald Ayers
Sandra Ayers
Route 1
Lloyd E. Dagg
Gerald Dagg
Nelson E. McCormick
Courtland Leneave
Lloyd Dagg
Ayers
Marine Corps
Nelson
Granada Theatre
Henneberry Attends New York Conference
Mr. and Mrs. James N. Henneberry of 7 Fairway Drive Mt. Vernon flew to New York City for a three day Metropolitan Life Insurance Company conference of officials and district managers. Henneberry, manager of the Mt. Vernon district office, will join Board Chairman Frederic W. Ecker, President Cecil J. North, and other Metropolitan officers at the Waldorf Astoria to review last year’s operations, services to policyholders, and future plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James N. Henneberry
Fairway Drive
Mt. Vernon
New York City
Henneberry
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
North Tenth Street
Waldorf-Astoria
Monay
Frederic W Ecker
Cecil J North
Gas Tank Blast Burns Four Cars in Kirksville
A large liquid petroleum gas tank behind a laundry leaked and exploded Monday night in Kirksville injuring a police officer and a 14 year old boy. Firefighters evacuated the area and fought the blaze for an hour. Four cars were destroyed, no buildings damaged, hospital in satisfactory condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirksville
Lady Is Naked Bandit Blushes In New York
Margaret Wortsman, 41, found a thief in her apartment after stepping from the bath. He asked for modest attire, tied her with venetian blind cord, and ransacked the place, taking $300 and $1,000 in jewels before fleeing. She had left the door unlocked for her daughters’ return from school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Margaret Wortsman
Reds Worn On High Altitude Berlin Flights
East Berlin said Western Big Three high altitude flights to Berlin would violate prior practice. Soviet fighter jets buzzed but did not attack U S supply planes last April as the ceiling above 10 000 feet remained. Allies planned to resume flights to demonstrate C130 cargo planes can supply West Berlin and oppose Moscow dictating flight levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reinhold Ensz
United States
Washington
Moscow
Gdr
East Germany
West Berlin
Berlin
Navy Doctors Aid Morocco Earthquake Victims
Two U.S. planes from Port Lyautey flew to Agadir with the first top doctors and emergency medical supplies. Pilots Cmdr. William Perry from Minneapolis Cmdr. Edward Scully from Brooklyn and Lt. Cmdr. James Waldron from New Orleans along with Capt. W. R. Dennings of Seattle aided the quake-stricken city.
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Port Lyautey
Morocco
U.S. Naval Station
Agadir
William Perry
Minneapolis
Edward Scully
Brooklyn
N.Y
W. R. Dennings
Seattle
James Waldron
New Orleans
State Employees Group To Meet Here Thursday
The Mt. Vernon chapter of the Illinois State Employees Association will hold its regular quarterly meeting at the Mt. Vernon TB Hospital on Thursday, March 3 at 7 30 p m. Merrill Emerick and Russell McClellan will be principal speakers. Chapter officers for the coming year will be elected. Joseph P. Bradigan urges all state employees to attend this important meeting as bills affecting health and welfare of state workers will be discussed for the next Legislature session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Vernon
Illinois State Employees Association
Mt. Vernon TB Hospital
Merrill Emerick
Russell McClellan
Joseph P. Bradigan
Seek Girl Here To Join WAVES
Local Navy recruiter notes Miss Nancy Ray of Anna Illinois plans to enlist in the WAVES but will not travel to St Louis for swearing in until another southern Illinois girl agrees to accompany her. Eligible ages 18 to 26 for a four year term. Post office Mt Vernon recruiter available. CH 2 4870.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Nancy Ray
Anna
Alhels
WAVES
St. Louis
Southern Illinois
Mt. Vernon
Deadline Set for Corn Price Support 1960
Parker Pierce, chairman of the local ASC county committee, announced the final date to obtain a loan or purchase agreement on 1959 corn. Loans require applications by March 15 for sampling, grade determination, and loan papers by March 31. purchase agreements applications are open through March 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Pierce
ASC County Committee
Old Slave Rescue Station Burns in Westmoreland Fire
A 143 year old two story Masonic temple in Westmoreland New York was destroyed by fire Monday night. The building formerly served as part of a Civil War era slave smuggling network. Sidney Mills of Rome lodge master said no injuries were reported and damage was estimated at 38000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westmoreland
N. Y
Sidney Mills
Rome
Canada
Lent Begins Worldwide Observance Now Under Way
Lent starts Wednesday for Christians worldwide with Easter Sunday April 17 marking the end of the 40 day period of self denial. Sundays are excluded from the Lenten observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Egg Month Declared In Illinois By Governor Stratton
March is named egg month in Illinois by Gov. Stratton. Illinois ranks among the top five egg producing states in the nation, highlighting the dairy and poultry industry profile for the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Illinois
Stratton
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