Death of Mrs Ernest Kell in Gary Indiana
Mrs Alice Cummings and Miss Nell Kell learned that their sister in law Mrs Ernest T Kell died yesterday at her Gary Indiana home. Funeral services set for 3:00 p.m. Saturday at Lin ton McColly Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Gary. Survivors include son Ray Kell of Princeton New Jersey daughter Mrs Dorothy Foose of Palo Alto California a grandchild and a great grandchild. She was preceded in death by husband Ernest T Kell. She belonged to First Methodist Church Gary and D A R. Former Mt Vernon Benton resident.
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Alice Cummings
Nell Kell
Ernest T. Kell
Gary
Indiana
Linton-McColly Funeral Home
Ray Kell
Princeton
N.J
Dorothy Foose
Palo Alto
Calif
First Methodist Church
D.A.R
Kell
Mt. Vernon
McGehee Dies at 53 in Jefferson Memorial Hospital
William Oscar McGehee of 713 Perkins Avenue died at 1:42 a.m. at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. He was 53 years, seven months, and 15 days old. Survived by his wife Louella Rockett. two sons Billy Tom and Jimmy Don. two daughters Barbara and Carolyn. three sisters Mary Carter Madge Carter and Mabel McGehee. two grandchildren. and his parents Albert and Della McGehee. A carman with the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, he was born July 22 1906 in Hamilton County. Funeral arrangements are pending at Pulley Funeral Home.
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William Oscar McGehee
Perkins Avenue
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Pulley Funeral Home
Mr. McGehee
Hamilton County
Albert and
Della (Rankins) McGehee
Belleville
Louella Rockett
Billy Tom McGehee
Vanalla
Jimmy Don McGehee
Flora
Barbara
Carolyn McGehee
Mary Carter
Evansville
Ind
Madge Carter
Fairfield
Mabel McGehee
Mt. Vernon
Albert McGehee
McGehee
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Mary Connaway of Bluford Dies at 71 Rites Tomorrow
Mary Olive Connaway 71 of Bluford died at 3:00 am at Schumm Nursing Home Bluford Funeral services set for Saturday 2:00 pm Richardson Chapel Wayne City Rev Roscoe Hathcraft to officiate burial in Oakdale cemetery Body lies in state at Richardson Chapel after 3:00 pm today Surviving husband Lee Connaway Mt Vernon son Guy G Wood Bluford daughters Bernita Benz Carmi Bernice McCallum Fort Lauderdale Fla eight grandchildren 17 great grandchildren four sisters.
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Bluford
Schumm Nursing Home
Richardson Chapel
Wayne City
Roscoe Hathcraft
Oakdale Cemetery
Connaway
Indiana
George and
Jane (Jones) Billups
Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church
Lee Connaway
Mt. Vernon
Guy G. Wood
Bernita Benz
Carmi
Bernice McCallum
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Symphony Has A Square Dance in Camdenton
A Dallas Symphony Orchestra group en route home from Cedar Rapids stopped at Buford Foster's nighthawk roadhouse in Camdenton. About 50 dancers gathered as the square dance caller led the crowd to Red River Valley while snow halted two of the three bass players. The remaining bassist connected to Springfield on the trip back.
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Camdenton
Buford Foster
Nighthawk
Red River Valley
Foster's
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Springfield
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admissions and Discharges
Jefferson Memorial notes list admitted patients Miss Trena Ann Med ders Mrs Dorothy Roane Op dyke Harvard Herbert of Cen Discharged Mrs Margaret Fry and baby Judy Kay Good Samaritan admits Opal Lee Miller John Russell Grigg William Oliver Stuttle Discharged George Neal Kite Walter Arthur Gardner
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Jefferson Memorial
Trena Ann Medders
Dorothy Roane
Opdyke
Harvard Herbert
Cen
Margaret Fry
Judy Kay
Good Samaritan
Opal Lee Miller
John Russell Grigg
William Oliver Stuttle
George Neal Kite
Walter Arthur Gardner
Sanderses Welcome Son At Good Samaritan
Mr and Mrs Dwight A Sanders of Waltonville are the parents of a son born at 12 05 pm at Good Samaritan hospital. The baby weighed seven pounds ten ounces.
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Dwight A. Sanders
Waltonville
Good Samaritan Hospital
Veterans of World War I District Three Meeting Canceled
The March meeting of District Three Department of Illinois Veterans of World War I planned for March 3 at Mt. Carmel has been canceled per district headquarters. All members of King City Barracks No. 102 and Ladies Auxiliary are urged to note the change. Ivan Howe, Dist, Comdr.
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Department of
Mt Vernon Lodge Special Meeting Notice
A. F. and A. M. Special Lodge No. at 7:30 p.m. Mt. Vernon is hosting a meeting at the Mount Vernon lodge. Members urged to attend the session and participate in organizational matters.
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Mt. Vernon
State job merit exams set for March 15 in Mt Vernon
A state personnel official announced March 15 exams for nine titles including child guidance counselor I clerk I stenographer I and nurse. Interviews and counseling will be offered from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Illinois State Employment Service office 225 S Ninth St Mt Vernon. Additional exams available, some requiring no prior experience.
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Robert E. Perz
Illinois State Department of Personnel
Illinois State Employment Service Office
S. Ninth St. Mt. Vernon
Joseph P. Bradigan
ISES
SIU Purchases E St Louis Working Girls Residence
EAST ST LOUIS AP A spokesman confirms sale of the Beulah residence to Southern Illinois University. SIU to receive the three story building on Sept 1 after the trustees approved the purchase at 190800 dollars with 19664 dollars for equipment. The Beulah residence has served as a home for working girls since 1928 and holds 85 occupants.
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East ST. Louis
Southern Ilinois University
Illinois Health Foundation of Chicago
C. N. Wesley
Foundation
SIU
Beaulah
Washington Expected to Name Replacement in FCC
Ford 51 a Bluefield W Va native and 1934 West Virginia Univ law graduate has served as a government lawyer and official since 1939 and on the commission since 1957 Doerfer was the third Eisenhower era official to quit under House subcommittee pressure Adams left long ago as Eisenhower's chief assistant Richard A Mack left two years ago as an FCC member
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Washington
Ford
Bluefield
W. Va
West Virginia University
Law School
Air Force
Commission
Doerfer
Eisenhower
Sherman
Adams
Richard A Mack
FCC
More Ice and Snow in Vast Area Continues
Western Kentucky and parts of Tennessee were buried in snow with Missouri and northeast Kansas also seeing heavy coverage. The Weather Bureau projected a broad snow belt from Wisconsin to Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, while a mix of rain sleet and snow threatened the Gulf and Atlantic states. North and Northeast stayed cold with near zero temps in New England as the storm's aftereffects lingered. At least 32 deaths attributed to the stormy weather prompted North Carolina Governor Hodges to deploy National Guard equipment to the snowbound Ashe Watauga Alleghany and Wilkes counties. The Army from Fort Bragg aided exhausted highway crews amid stranded families and blocked roads.
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Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Gulf States
South Atlantic States
New England
Missouri
Iowa
Atlantic Coast
South
Luther Hodges
North Carolina
National Guards
Snowhound Mountain
Ashe
Watauga
Alleghany
Wilkes
Iie
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Illinois highways remain slippery south of line through Galesburg Bloomington Danville
As of 5 am, the Illinois Division of Highways reported packed snow made all state highways south of a line from Galesburg to Bloomington to Danville slippery. A new snowstorm moving eastward affects western and extreme southern parts, while north of the line roads were generally clear.
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Springfield
Illinois Division of Highways
Galesburg
Bloomington
Danville
Five Day Illinois Forecast With Mild Change
Temperatures will average 8 12 degrees below normal with normal highs 40 to 45 in the north and 49 to 57 in the south. Normal lows run 25 to 29 in the north and 30 to 40 in the south. Precipitation totals from a quarter inch in the north to about a half inch in the far south. Snow likely again Sunday or Monday, possibly mixed with rain in the extreme south.
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Illinois
Snow Blocks Highway 66 and School Closures
Snowfall across southeast Missouri and southern Illinois disrupts travel with 6 to 6 inches in places and tractor trailers jack-knifing on slick hills near Rolla and Lebanon. Schools close for the second time in a week as patrols warn of an icy underlayer. St Louis reports ongoing snow with forecast cold and more accumulation into Sunday or Monday.
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Rolla
Lebanon
Weather Bureau
Fourth Day Of Coal Mine Entombment
West Virginia officials said Donald son could direct survival tactics by putting up canvas walls to block heat and fumes as eight-man teams poured water over the 200-foot long mass of smoldering coal and rock. A bypass air system hoped to sustain blocked miners, with 20 000 cubic feet of air per minute pumped through passages beyond the fire.
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Era
West Virginia City Company
Donaldson
Insects Hamper U S Workforce By Estimates
Fragmentary text notes insects nullify work of about a million American workers yearly. Other garbled lines refer to Britain detaining prisoners, Boer era details, and missile rocket engines, with unclear context and connections.
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Britain
Oo. Berenags
Call Halt To Demonstrations In Montgomery
Negro discontent over segregated lunch counters has spread to Arkansas but Montgomery Alabama eased as Negro student leaders voted to suspend integrated food service demonstrations until after spring vacation at Alabama State College. A state govt order triggered a full investigation of the college while a college official said about two thirds of ASU’s 2300 students would refrain from further protests. Five students faced arraignment in Little Rock Municipal Court on charges tied to a lunch counter sit in. more than 50 students sat at a downtown counter, five jailed then released on bond without violence noted.
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Montgomery
Ala
Integrated Food Service
Alabama State College
John Potter
L. B. Sullivan
Patterson
State Board of Education
Alabama
Little Rock
L. C. Bates
National Assn
Rothschild Plotted Prison Break From South Carolina penal
Charles Rocky Rothschild a 35 year old convicted murderer was linked by SC penitentiary officials Thursday to an escape plot. The former Cairo policeman confessed to a Georgia robbery case and faces three more years for robbery conspiracy before a Georgia life term. They planned to use the hospital as an escape route by feigning sickness after stealing a wrench.
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Columbia
S.C
Charles
Rocky) Rothschild
South Carolina
Rothschild
Georgia
Cairo, I
Fire Destroys Pekin Motel
Pekin Ti AP early morning blaze nearly levels Mineral Springs Motel causing about 200000 dollars in damage. Only six units remain but damaged by smoke and water. two people injured not seriously. Injured include Mrs Don Gumm and Capt Harry Hoerr. State Trooper Byron Desh reported, guest extinguishing a mattress fire prior to spread. Lafayette Escadrille sentence appears unrelated to event.
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Damag
Fred Nolte
Mineral Springs
Don Gumm
Harry Hoerr
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Pekin Hospital
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Hoerr
Byron Desh
Teacher paddled 30 pupils in Pittsburgh schools
AP report from Pittsburgh says Bohdan Pashkowsky, a 30 year old social studies teacher at Langley High School, paddled about 30 boys from four eighth grade classes after a quiz on Middle Atlantic States. He says he warned detentions or more paddling for wrong answers and exempted those with very low IQ or weak health. He was suspended and to face a reinstatement hearing likely March 17.
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Langley High School
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Wilkes Barre
Ike Seeks 5 Cents First Class Mail Rate Increase
President Eisenhower sent a message to Congress urging a 5 cent per ounce rise for first class mail as part of a 500 million dollar postal rate boost. Air mail would move to 8 cents per ounce. post cards to 4 cents. second and third class rates would climb 40 and 25 percent respectively. Congress action deemed essential to make the Post Office self supporting, though political timing may block passage this year.
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Eisenhower
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Arthur Summerfield
Restrict Russian Travel In Reich
In Heidelberg Germany the U S Army restricted travel by the Soviet military liaison mission to the vicinity of Frankfurt in retaliation for Moscow refusing to issue acceptable travel permits to the American liaison mission in East Germany. General C D Eddleman announced the restriction until further notice amid a dispute over new passes issued January 30 for Western missions in East Germany. The old passes allowed travel in the quiet zone. the new ones cover the German Democratic Republic. Western powers do not recognize East Germany's government.
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Guns Of The Timberland At The Granada Theatre
Warner Bros drama features Alan Ladd Jeanne Crain and Gilbert Roland with Frankie Avalon in his film debut. Technicolor tale follows a rugged logger amid forest danger and mountain roads. Premiere saturation runs across Missouri Kansas Iowa Nebraska Oklahoma Texas and beyond.
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Gilbert Roland
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Chicago Students Protest Daley over four year campus plan
About 1,500 students from the University of Illinois two year Navy Pier branch protested for a four year campus in Chicago. They floated a casket labeled Daley's promises and later laid a cornerstone at Garfield Park asking where the rest is. Daley favors a site south of the loop. railroad land consolidation efforts lack commitments. The Navy Pier branch has offered freshmen and sophomores for 14 years. the pier lease term ends in June.
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Chicago
Richard J Daley
University of
Firebugs described as mostly subnormal by psychiatrist
Austin AP report cites Dr. C J Ruillmann stating most firebugs are mentally retarded under 35, often under 20, with fires begun in early childhood. He notes nearly half are mentally defective and 60 percent are dull normal or below, defining pathological fire setters as driven by mental illness rather than financial gain.
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Tex
C. J Ruilmann
Texas
Mental Health and Hospitals
Ruilmann
India apologizes to U S actor over arrest incident
New Delhi government official gives unqualified apologies for the arrest of American actor Fredric March his wife Florence Eldridge and two friends on a prohibition charge in Madras State four ounces of liquor found at a roadblock. Charges dropped but criticism of tourist harassment grows as India seeks more visitors.
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India
Fredric March
Raj Bahadur
Transport Ministry
March
Florence Eldridge
Burrill Crohn
New York
Propose Gas Price Increase In St Louis Area
AP reports Mississippi River Fuel Corp plans a roughly 10 percent rise in natural gas prices for industrial users in the St. Louis region. MRFC, sole supplier to Laclede Gas Co and 40 other industrial customers, will implement the increase April 1 for those not yet affected. Chairman William G. Marbury cited maintaining profit margins and noted a rise last November.
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Mississippi River Fuel Corp
St. Louis
Laclede Gas Co
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William G. Marbury
Not Enforcing Mud Guard Law In Illinois
State troopers are not enforcing the mud guard law for trucks while an injunction on the statute is pending. Sixteen construction firms won a temporary injunction Jan 1 in Granite City, with the state seeking to lift it. The law requires rear tires to have flap or contour guards to prevent spray onto following vehicles.
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Springfield
National Basketball Association Playoff Schedule Update
The Associated Press reports end of regular season results with Minneapolis 133 New York 108. Friday’s playoff schedule Syracuse at Philadelphia first of a best of three. Saturday’s schedule Minneapolis at Detroit after noon first of a best of three.
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New York
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Minneapolist
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Senate Civil Rights Debates Narrow Penalties Shift
The Senate moved to standardize penalties for obstructing court orders, expanding to all cases beyond school integration. Key votes limited penalties and blocked broad powers for the attorney general, while Southern lawmakers pressed for broader applicability and a slower pace on civil rights measures.
Illinois education group urges $100 million aid boost
The Illinois Education Association calls for a $100 million increase in public school aid for 1961-63, with total state appropriations rising $150 to $250 million. Iriving F. Pearson says federal aid is essential as state taxes cannot cover needs, citing rising pupil numbers and costs for transportation special education and pensions.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois Education Assn
Irving F. Pearson
IEA
Midlothian
Pearson
Stratton
Daughter of Old Vet Is Destitute
Willie Mae Bowles, 52, daughter of Civil War veteran Walter Williams, says she is ill and destitute after his death. She lacks income, faces utility shutoffs, and wonders why state pension money ended with his death. county welfare workers will review the case.
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Houston
Tex
Walter Williams
Willie Mae Bowles
Two 7-Year-Old Boys Nabbed For Mailbox Robberies
Jefferson county officers arrested two seven year old boys who admitted stealing from mail boxes in north Mt Vernon. Sheriff Bob Ruddick said one letter contained a 150 dollar check that was recovered. The boys were placed in their mothers' custody as a postal inspector scheduled to visit Mt Vernon today.
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Jefferson County
Mt. Vernon
Bob Ruddick
Crippled Plane Rescued After Long Pacific Flight
An eight engine Navy patrol bomber with extreme tail vibration was escorted by Air Force rescue craft for three hours over the Pacific to Johnston Island. The overdue plane flew 850 miles from Kwajalein when the elevator broke, leaving the crew unsure how long it could stay airborne. Rescue aircraft from Hawaii 200 miles away reached the scene and assisted the pilot who later regained some control.
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Honolulu
Air Force
Pacific Ocean
Johnston Island
Kwajalein
Johnston
Hawaii
A Man Says Nervous Tension Ruined Home Life
A local man says his nerves were on edge and made him mean to his family. He tried tranquilizers with no relief before using Sys-Tone. He reports relief from nerve tension and better sleep. Sys-Tone is advertised as a vitamin iron tonic costing only a few cents daily. Available at all druggists in Mt Vernon and nearby towns.
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Systone
Sys-Tone
Mt. Vernon
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