Death of Alonzo Hammond of Sesser in 73rd year
Alonzo Hammond 73 of Sesser died Thursday at Good Samaritan Hospital Mt Vernon after prolonged illness. Funeral services Sunday at 2 pm Brayfield Funeral Home Sesser with burial Maple Hill Cemetery. Survived by wife Mima. sons Wayne Dwight Lester. daughter Georgena Wells. 14 grandchildren 16 great grandchildren. brother Irvin. sisters Ora Spann Emma Knapp Nellie Knapp.
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Sesser
Brayfield Funeral Home
Maple Hill Cemetery
Hammond
Good Samaritan Hospital
Mt. Vernon
Franklin County
Mima
Wayne
Dwight
Ina
Lester
Gary
Ind
Georgena Wells
St. Charles
Irvin
Ora Spann
Emma Knapp
New Troy
Mich
Nellie Knapp
Tamaroa
Orville Hawkins Dies In Salem Rites Saturday
Funeral services for the Rev. Orville Hawkins former pastor of the First Christian church now Central Church of Christ in Mt. Vernon will be held at 2 p m at McMackin chapel in Salem. He died Thursday night in Salem Memorial Hospital after an extended illness at age 76. Burial will be in East Lawn cemetery. Surviving are his wife a son Robert of Salem two daughters Mary Sweny of Salem and Mrs Gennelyn Perkins of Jackson Tenn two brothers Oscar of Salem and Duke of Texico and a sister Lucy Hawkins of Texico.
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Salem
Orville Hawkins
First Christian Church
Central Church of Christ
Mt. Vernon
Hawkins
Salem Memorial Hospital
McMackin Chapel
East Lawn Cemetery
Christian Churches
Naleeheet
Vernon
Fairfield
Ind
Carter
Robert
Mary Sweny
Gennelyn Perkins
Jackson, Tenn
Oscar
Duke
Texico
Lucy Hawkins
McGehee Funeral Sunday Held at Pulle Chapel
Funeral services for William Oscar McGehee will be held at 2 p m tomorrow at the Pulle Funeral Chapel with Rev E Allison and Rev John Hurt officiating. Burial will be in Bethel Memorial cemetery. The body lies in state at the Pulle Funeral Home and may be viewed by friends. McGehee of 715 Perkins died at 1 42 a m yesterday at Jefferson Memorial hospital.
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Pulle Funeral
E. Allison
John Hurt
Bethel Memorial Cemetery
Mr. McGehee
Perkins
Yesteray
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Gowler Rites In Centralia For William E Gowler
Funeral services for William E Gowler a former Jefferson county resident were held Friday at Queen Boggs Funeral Home Centralia. Burial followed at County Line Cemetery. Gowler aged seventy four is survived by his wife Minnie Robert son John H Gowler and three granddaughters.
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William E. Gowler
Jefferson County
Queen Boggs
Centralia
County Line
Gowler
Minnie Robertson
John H. Gowler
Snow Delays Mt. Vernon Garbage Collection
Snow piles 10 to 12 inches crippling alleys in Mt. Vernon and stopping the city’s standard free pickup this week. Public Works superintendent Emmit Lemay said crews have used all equipment to clear streets and assist motorists, with hopes to resume regular collection if weather allows.
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Mt. Vernon
Birth Born to Mr and Mrs Cyrus Dunlap in Opdyke
Mr and Mrs Cyrus Dunlap of Opdyke welcomed a son born at 8:36 last night in Good Samaritan Hospital weighing nine pounds.
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Opdyke
Good Samaritan Hospital
Hospital Notes Admits and Discharges Mixed in List
Good Samaritan unit admits Marion Osborn and Mari Jee Summers. Discharges Opal Mae York and Jackie Lou Strain. Jefferson Memorial admits Allen Alexander of Bluford. Discharges Trena Ann Medders and John Lewis Laird of Opdyke, plus Mrs Clara Katherine Hopkins and Bertha Quinn Hayes.
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Marion Osborn
Mari- Jee Summers
Opal Mae York
Jackie Lou Strain
Jefferson Memorial
Allen Alexander
Bluford
Trena Ann Medders
John Lewis Laird
Opdyke
Clara Katherine Hopkins
Bertha Quinn Hayes
Mt. Vernon Meets and Legion Post 141 Gather
Mt. Vernon No. 31 AF and AM will meet on the third. presiding officers Taylor R. Mabry and James Apgar. American Legion Jefferson Post 141 will meet at the Legion home at 8:00 PM. adjournment noted.
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AF & AM
Taylor R. Mabry
W. M James Apgar
American Legion
Jefferson Post
Ace Me Legion
Medvers
Adj
Illinois Weather Brisk Sunny Skies Give State Near Seasonal Warmth
The Associated Press reports sunny skies lifted Illinois temperatures to around 30 and above in many areas marking one of the first near seasonal days this month. Overnight lows were below normal across much of the state with Moline at 6 below zero and Rockford at 8 above. Bradford fell to 7 below while Peoria stood 5 above. Springfield registered 3 above and Vandalia 11. Snow is expected to develop in the southwest by Sunday night with little temperature change anticipated.
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Associated Press
Mercury
Illinois
Moline
Rockford
Bradford
Peoria
Springfield
Vandalia
Raise Pay Of City Workers At McLeansboro
McLEANSBORO A revised pay period was approved by the City Council Tuesday night. City employees will move to a biweekly pay schedule at the same rate, effectively boosting annual pay by about one extra month. The change starts April 1 and covers those hired by the city.
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Mcleansboro
Warrants Issued For Unpaid Parking Tickets In Mt Vernon
The City of Mt Vernon issued warrants against 20 car owners for unpaid overtime parking tickets. Police began serving the warrants, signed by meter maids Luella Luster and Joe Anni Piercy.
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Mt. Vernon
Luella Luster
Joe Anni Piercy
Senate Kills Lausche Plan On Integration
Washington AP report on a Senate action that killed a major civil rights provision aimed at federal court school integration orders. The move followed Lausche’s bid to broaden protection to labor injunctions. southern lawmakers opposed the broader scope and blocked the section.
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Washington
House
Senate
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Aew
TBS
Land
Nate Even B. Johnson
D-Tex
Figuring Your Income Tax three schedules for groups
Editor note explains IRS rules on husbands and wives widows and head of household. The piece is the third in a series detailing which category a taxpayer belongs to and how it affects tax liability.
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Internet Revenue Service
Tax tips for 1959 filings and head of household rules
James Marlow outlines filing rules for 1959 income tax, detailing $600 exemptions per person, schedules 1 to 3, and how spouses widows and head of household status affect exemptions. Rules cover filing jointly or separately, itemizing deductions, and who qualifies as a dependent or survivor.
Red Cross Aids Soldier On Snowbound Funeral Trip
A weary soldier en route from Fort Gordon Georgia to Missoula Montana to attend his father’s funeral was helped by Mt Vernon Red Cross volunteers. He and his wife and two young children faced deep snow and fatigue before Lin call arranged train reservations and car storage, allowing them to reach Montana in time for the funeral.
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Mt. Vernon
Missoula
Montana
Campe
Red Cross
Miss St
Billy Graham Tours Cairo During Egypt Visit
Billy Graham toured Cairo with a four day Egypt visit to end Sunday in a giant evangelistic rally. He held a long discussion on Christianity in Africa with Kyrillos VI patriarch of Egypt's Coptic and Ethiopian churches before heading to the Jordan sector of Jerusalem.
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Cairo
Billy Graham
Egypt
Jordan
Jerusalem
Africa
Kyrillos VI
Changes Mind About Adopting A British Child
A childless South Carolina couple cancel plans to adopt an Englishwoman's unborn baby after a visa for Yvonne Moore of Luton is withdrawn. Mrs Prescott says publicity harmed the deal and the couple, both older, chose not to proceed.
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Charleston
S.C
South Carolina
Wilbur Prescott
North Charleston
U.S
Yvonne Moore
Luton
England
United States
Prescotts
James Dunbar Not Indicted By Federal Grand Jury
Springfield trucker James W. Dunbar was not indicted by a federal grand jury after a probe of his income from June 1952 to April 1955. He held a contract to haul federal surplus foods to Illinois schools and institutions. A congressional committee examined whether profits were excessive, while an Illinois Attorney General suit seeks recovery of alleged excess profits tied to surplus foods.
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Springfield, II
James W. Dunbar
Springfield
Dunbar
Gressional
Dunber
Ilinois
Harris Accused Of Blocking Clark Probe By House Panel
WASHINGTON AP The ranking Republican on the House payola investigating subcommittee accuses chairman Oren Harris of sidetracking questions about Dick Clark and challenges his secrecy order on Clark files. Harris says he will summon Clark after the inquiry is completed. Clark denies payola payments but Bennett says Clark admitted in sworn statement to playing records for personal financial gain.
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Washington
Subcommittee Today
Subcommittee
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Dick Clark
John B. Bennett
R-Mich
Harris
Clark
Bennett
Robert W. Lishman
House
Philadelphia
Douglas backs Kerner as Illinois primary nears
Senator Paul Douglas endorses Otto Kerner for governor, saying he rarely takes sides in primaries but supports Kerner and the state ticket. Kerner campaigns in western Illinois on mental health reforms, proposing a potential separate state mental health department. Stephen Mitchell criticizes the Daley machine and primary decline in Illinois Democratic votes.
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Associated Press
Paul Douglas
D-Ill
Otto Kerner
Kerner
jState
Stephen A. Mitchell
Chicago
Joseph D. Lohman
Douglas
Quincy
Emily Taft Douglas
Mitchell
Lohman
Hand Daley
Wlinois
Ilinois
Winois
Illinois
Daley
la Salle County
Soraya May Marry Shah
Tehran official denies reports that Prince Orsini seeks audience with the Shah to discuss objections to a marriage between Soraya and Raimondo Orsini. The Shah “certainly will not have any objection” to the union, the imperial court stated.
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Iran
Soraya
Raimondo Orsini
Italy
Imperial Court
Orsini
Khrushchev to Arrive in Paris for Two-Week Visit
Paris officials prepare a welcome for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arriving Tuesday for a two week stay. No official itinerary has been released due to security concerns, though major tour points are known unofficially.
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Paris
France
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Snow Removal Costs Given Toll on City Budget
Chattanooga Tennessee reports snow removal expenses climbed to about 40,000 this season after years of budgeting only about 2,000. Total snowfall rose to 20.6 inches, 1.6 inches below the record, as officials note the higher cost to clear streets.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Pat Wilcox
Negroes Cancel Protests in South Carolina and Alabama
The speed of court actions and warnings shifts halted Negro protest plans. In Columbia South Carolina and Montgomery Alabama students canceled marches and demonstrations, while a Dallas school desegregation plan was ordered within 51 days by the Fifth Circuit. At Austin Texas about 20 students protested and 32 at Alabama State College were fined for disorderly conduct. Trials set for Philander Smith College lunch counter demonstrators in Little Rock. Demonstrations at the University of Texas continued with about 200 Negroes among 17,000 students.
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Associated Press
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South Carolina State House
Columbia
Montgomery
Ala
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New Orleans
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
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Austin
University of Texas
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Little Rock
Ark
Four killed by gas burner in Yonkers apartment
Yonkers authorities report a woman babysitter Jean Wicht 36 and three of Theresa Alfano’s children Theresa 5 Joseph 3 and Margaret 2 found dead in an apartment from gas burner exhaust near a hot water tank. Alfano’s other three children Vincent 7 Angela 6 and Gerard 15 months were hospitalized in serious condition after the tragedy.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Jean Wicht
Theresa Alfano
Beggars Operate In Russia Too
The Literary Gazette reported astonishment at beggars in the Soviet Union noting 12 were working a cemetery at Novosibirsk. It questioned how a country with unemployment still has beggars. A Gazette reporter found each beggar had a home or apartment and a pension, yet they earned 50 to 200 rubles daily by begging.
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Literary Gazette
Soviet Union
Novosibirsk
the Gazette
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Engaged Princess Margaret Hangs With Fry Heir in Bath
Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones visit the Bath home of Jeremy Fry a wealthy engineer heir to the Fry chocolate fortune amid wedding speculation Fry might be best man at the May 6 Westminster Abbey ceremony.
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England
Margaret
Anthony Armstrong-Jones
Jeremy Fry
Fry
Westminster Abbey
Licks Traffic Walks To Work
Charleston AP report notes George Litsinger, 60, solved city traffic and parking by walking two miles to work and back since 1940 after buses and parking frustrated him. He occasionally rode a taxi, only when he overslept.
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Charleston
W. Va
George Litsinger
Berry Sentenced Five Years For Immoral Transport
ST. LOUIS AP Judge George H Moore on Friday handed Charles E Berry the maximum five year term after his conviction for transporting a 14 year old Indian girl from El Paso Texas to St Louis for immoral purposes. Berry was ordered held without bail pending appeal.
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ST. Louis
U.S
George H Moore
Charles E
Chuck) Berry
Berry
el Paso
Tex
Moore
More Personal Tax Suits Are Filed Here
Jefferson county files delinquent personal tax suits in county court. Names and amounts cover 1954 to 1958 across towns including Grand Prairie Shiloh Elk Prairie Mt. Vernon Dodl Spring Garden Webber Pendleton Rome and more with totals ranging from $1.66 to $147.48. Alva Mellett, county civil defense director, discusses a disaster preparedness institute at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Masonic Temple, canceled due to the institute hosted by the Red Cross.
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Jefferson County Civil Defense
Alva Mellett
Civil Defense
Disaster Institute
Masonic Temple
Mellett
Disaster Preparedness Institute
Red Cross
Jefferson County
Grand Prairie
Robert Gutzler
Centralia
Force
Ald Hill
Herman Haley
Serre
Shiloh
Charles M. Jones
Mt. Vernon
McClellan
William Harrison
Elk Prairie
Cyril Dudley
Mobley
Texico
Harry Dillingham
Casey
Dod
Bates R
Spring Garden
Lawrence A. Bowman
North Sixth
Webber
Olyn Carson
Waltonville Road
Pendleton
Clyde Clark
Bsoreae
Rome
Walter Caldwell
North Seventh
Firefight at Michigan oil well near Jackson
Troubleshooters from Texas dropped a dynamite charge on an oil well near Jackson Michigan, snuffing out a blaze that had burned eight hours. A second blast ignited natural gas. Red Adair predicted a third blast would finish the job. Damages were estimated around half a million dollars.
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Jackson
Mich
Texas
Red Adair
Houston
Tex
Michigan
William J. Rosenaur
Indict Goldfine On Tax Charge In Boston
BernArd Goldfine a prominent friend of Sherman Adams is indicted for personal and corporate income tax evasion totaling more than 790000. He allegedly evaded personal taxes from 1953 to 1957 amounting to 450961 and corporate taxes from 1952 to 1957 at Strathmore Woolen Co totaling 340784. His secretary Mildred Paperman is charged with evading personal taxes in 1953 to 1957 totaling 25.
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Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Strathmore Woolen Co
Goldfine
Mildred Paperman
Cerebral Palsy March Tomorrow Drives Funds
The 53 Minute March on Cerebral Palsy will be held tomorrow to raise funds for United Cerebral Palsy of South Central Illinois. Chairman Jerry Gott notes gifts can reclaim lives and unleash talents of cerebral palsied individuals. General chairman urges neighbors to open hearts and purses.
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United Cerebral Palsy
South Central
Ilinois
Jerry Gott
Seeks Divorce And Alimony Between Thompson Spouses
SeVern Thompson files for divorce from Harold Thompson in circuit court charging cruelty and adultery. The complaint seeks a property settlement and alimony. The couple married August 31 1940 and separated December 28 1959.
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SeVern Thompson
Harold Thompson
Notice of Divorce Action in Jefferson County Court
In Jefferson County Circuit Court Cleve Garren files for divorce against Zula Garren in Chancery No. 60-2008. The plaintiff has issued a praecipe for summons. Zula Garren must respond to the complaint. The action remains pending in the court located at City Net Bank Building, Illinois.
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Jefferson
Jefferson County
Cleve Garren
Zula Garren
Five Boys Locked In Box Car Take Long Ride
Five African American boys aged 13 to 15 were locked in a Missouri Pacific boxcar in Dallas and rode about 600 miles to Dupo, Illinois, claiming a 30 mile trip. Identified as J D Stevenson 14 Dennis Earl Gal way 14 Leo Green 15 Ernest Lee Thomas 13 and James Beasley 14 all from West Dallas. They were kept in Dupo jail while authorities contacted their parents.
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Dupo
Missouri Pacific
Dallas
Greenville
Tex
J. D. Stevenson
Dennis Earl Galway
Leo Green
Ernest Lee Thomas
James Beasley
West Dalas
Frank Beck
Finch Jury In Eighth Day Finch Jury In Eighth Day
Los Angeles AP reports the Finch murder trial enters its eighth day of deliberations. Dr R Bernard Finch 42 and Carole Tregoff 23 face murder and conspiracy charges in the death of Finch's wife Barbara Jean Finch 36 on July 18. Jurors have spent 35 hours deliberating and 9 hours re hearing transcripts. They have Sunday off and will reconvene Monday if needed.
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Los Angeles
Finch
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Barbara Jean Finch
Son of Slave Was Catholic Bishop in U S
James Augustine Healy, born in Georgia in 1830 to a slave mother and Irish planter father, became the first African American Catholic bishop in the United States leading Portland Maine from 1875 to 1900. Despite travel hardships and social hurdles, Healy's career stood as a rare milestone in American church history.
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Roman Catholic College
Cardinals
James Augustine Healy
Healy
Georgia
United States
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Maine
America
Catholic Mission
U.S
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Accra
Ghana
James Healy
Sherwood
Patrick
James
New York
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Holy Cross College
Worcester
Mass
Sulpician Fathers
Montreal
Paris
Father Healy
Boston
Holy Cross
New Hampshire
Hecov
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S. J
Bishop Healy
Fines Assessed by Police Magistrate Thomas
Police magistrate J R Thomas ordered fines for two offenders. John Richard Ilbery of Route 3 paid 10 dollars and costs for driving without a license. Simon C Sisk of Belmont Miss paid 5 dollars and costs for making a turn in front of traffic.
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John Richard Ilbery
Route 3
Simon C. Sisk
Belmont
Miss
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