Deaths of Robert Cates in Glendora Calif
Robert Cates 41 died Thursday morning at his Glendora home from an apparent heart attack. Former Mt. Vernon resident, born in McLeansboro, son of David and Susie Malone Cates. Survived by wife Sally, two sons, one daughter, sister Mrs. Jack Wehunt of Rochelle Ill. Funeral Saturday at Noakes Funeral Home Glendora, burial in Glendora. He worked with Prudential Life Insurance in Glendora.
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Robert Cates
Glendora
Calif
Mt. Vernon
Noakes
West Alasta Street
Cates
McLeansboro
David
Susie
Malone) Cates
Sally Cates
Jack Wehunt
Rochelle
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Alva Beal Dies At 77 With 85 Descendants
Alva Jake Beal 77 of Route 5 died at 5 35 am today at Good Samaritan Hospital. A farmer and former car shops employee he had 85 descendants. Funeral at 2 pm Sunday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with Rev Roy Beal and Rev Leslie Hall officiating. Burial in adjoining cemetery. Body lies in state at Osborn Funeral Home in Dix after 3 pm Saturday. Beal born in Field Township son of Rev E M and Isabelle Beal, widow of Bessie Whitson. Survivors include eight sons Thel Dix George Mowea ua Til Oscar East Gary Ind John Mort Fred Jim all of Mr Vernon, four daughters Ysabelle Champ Maude Connelly Bessie Elliott Lillie Arnett, three brothers Charles Rob ert Mr Vernon Joe Lombard Ill, three sisters Louise Van Allen Collinsville Maude Claybourn Kell Julia Kate Mountain View Mo, 45 grandchildren 28 great grandchildren. Preceded in death by one son Thurston and four others. Beal member of Oak Grove Baptist Church.
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Alva
Jake) Beal
Vernon
Good Samaritan Hospital
Beal
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
Roy Beal
Leslie Hall
Osborn Funeral Home
Dix
Mr. Beal
Field Township
E.M and
Isabelle
Smith) Beal
Bessie Whitson
Thel
George
Mowea Ua
Til
Oscar
Atwater
Aldo Bob
East Gary
Ind
John
Mort
Fred
Jim
Ysabelle Champ
Maude Connelly
Chicago
Bessie Elliott
Wauconda
Lillie Arnett
Texico
Charles
Robert
Joe
Lombard, Ir
Louise van Allen
Collinsville
Maude Claybourn
Kell
Pranga 72 Dies Leaves 42 Descendants in Illinois
Anton Pranga aged 72 of RFD 8 Ashley dies at St. John’s Hospital St. Louis at 1 00 pm. He leaves nine sons and five daughters, 25 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at St Michael’s Radom with Fr John Terepka officiating. Burial in St Michael’s cemetery. Body in state at Kringer Funeral Home Ashley. Rosary Monday 8 00 pm. Born Oct 22 1899 in Ashley to John and Joan Deering Pranga. married Sophia Maszka Sept 6 1911 who survives with numerous children and siblings.
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Anton Pranga
RFD
Ashley
St. John’s Hospital
St. Louis
St. Michael’s Catholic Church
Radom
John Terepka
St. Michael's Cemetery
Kringer
Mr. Pranga
John
Joan (Deering) Pranga
Sophia Maszka
Ernest
Joseph Pranga
Harry Pranga
Evansville
Ind
Leo Pranga
East St. Louis
Albert Pranga
Chicago
Edward
Eloise Pranga
Casimer Pranga
Oswego
Ill
Richard Pranga
Italy
Tillie Thomas
Clara Robaczewski
B&O Weighs Ending Passenger Trains Amid Losses
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad considers dropping passenger service as it faces severe financial trouble. President Jervis Langdon Jr. said no decision yet on seeking state and federal permission, but losses of about 8 to 9 million dollars annually push toward a possible halt.
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Pittsburg
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Jervis Langdon Jr
Langdon
National Association of Civil Retired Employees Meet
The organization will hold a meeting Monday evening March 19 at the American Legion Hall. A potluck dinner starts at 6:30 with a business meeting to follow. All members and federal civil service retirees are urged to attend. John Kell, Pres. Mae Warren.
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National Association of Civil Retired Employees
American Legion Hall
Weather update across Illinois with mixed conditions
The Associated Press reports Southern Illinois enjoyed sunny mild pre spring weather while northern areas stayed winter bound. Temperatures reached near 50 in far south counties, with snow flurries and temperatures just above freezing in the north. Thursday highs ranged from 28 in Moline and Rockford to 41 in Belleville and Vandalia. low temperatures dipped to 17 in Moline and Peoria.
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Illinois
Associated Press
Ilinois
Weather Bureau
Moline
Rockford
Belleville
Vandalia
Peoria
Midwest
Rantoul
Rebel Army Role Set At Trace Talks
In Evian France, talks between French and Algerian negotiators produced progress toward a cease fire. Rebels would keep interior positions with some freedom of movement, while individual amnesty cases were to be reviewed by a three member commission including rebel representatives. Casualties rose as violence intensified.
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Joseph EK
Ynan Evian
France
Charles de Gaulle
Ben Youssef Ben Khedda
Pay
Deadock
Evian
Algeria
Five Day Forecast for Northern Unos and Southern Minors
Northern Unos expect 5 to 8 degrees below normal with highs 43 to 46 in the north and 45 to 50 in the south. Lows 27 to 30 with a slow warming into weekend, then a colder trend Monday. Precipitation of 0.25 to 0.50 inch as snow or rain around Tuesday. Southern Minors run 4 to 8 degrees below normals, highs near 58 and lows in the 30s, gradually warming then turning colder next week. Precipitation about 0.25 inch, mainly late Sunday or Monday.
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Unos
Vast sea air search in Pacific continues
Clark Field and U.S. 7th Air Force with the Air Force at Okinawa sent additional planes to scour a 750 mile by 100 mile search area east of Guam along the transport plane route. The airliner piloted by Capt Gregory P Thomas left Travis base in California en route to Saigon and South Vietnam.
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Clark Field
U.S. 7Th Meet
Air Force
Okinawa
Guam
Gregory P. Thomas
Red Bank
Travis
California
Pacific
Flying Tiger
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Castro to Speak at Graduation Ceremonies in Havana
Fidel Castro will deliver his fourth public appearance of the week at graduation ceremonies for a group of future teachers who completed a year of revolutionary instruction, as Havana radio reported from Key West.
Hospital notes list admissions at Jefferson Memorial and Good Samaritan
Jefferson Memorial admits Mrs Arzettie May Starkey. Good Samaritan admits Judy Ann Young George Willis Whobrey Patsy Ann Weems Olive Eva Combs Josie Mae Baugh. Discharges include Callie Cecile Henderson Mary Ann Hayes Dorothy Mae Henry Mrs Corliss Kehrer and baby Tina Marie Dale Dwain Stations James Very Anderson Caldonia Lee Bowman and Douglas August Sapper Ih.
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Jefferson Memorial
Arzettie May Starkey
Good Samaritan
Judy Ann Young
George Willis Whobrey
Patsy’ Ann Weems
Olive Eva Combs
Josie Mae Baugh
Callie Cecile Henderson
Mary Ann Hayes
Dorothy Mae Henry
Corliss
Ail Kehrer
Tina Marie
Dale Dwain
James Very
Anderson
Caldonia
Lee Bowman
Douglas August Sapper
Model Space Ship Given To Glenn
In St Louis John H Glenn Jr and fellow astronauts Alan Shepard and Walter Schirra toured McDonnell Aircraft Corp. where a small scale model of the Friendship Seven capsule was presented. Glenn called the Mercury craft a confidence builder and thanked the firm’s workers as rivets and drills fell silent for the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
John H. Glenn Jr
Land
America
Glenn
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Walter Schirra Jr
McDonnell Aircraft Corp
McDonnell
Chanines Incorporated
JS. McDonnell
Suere
John
McDonnell Aircraft
Free World
Illinois Democrats elect Rep Thomas J OBrien to steering committee
In Washington AP reports Illinois Democrats unanimously chose Rep Thomas J OBrien, the party deputy dean at 83, to the new Democratic steering committee. In Kansas City AP says Fred Taylor coach of top ranked Ohio State will coach the West squad in Shrine East West college all star game here March 3 or 4.
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Washington
Llinois
Democrats
Rep
Thomas J. O'Brien
New Democratic
House
Kansas City
Fred Taylor
Ohio State
Embezzler Pleads Guilty In West Plains Bank Case
SPRINGFIELD MO AP El sie Houck Stone 57 pleaded guilty to embezzling at least 311331 from the First National Bank of West Plains The shortage may grow as audit unfinished Judge Richard M Duncan scheduled sentencing for April 9 Stone a 470 monthly vice president admitted theft starting in 1952 to cover hospital bills for her husband Victor Bonding company returning partial restitution Maximum penalty five years in prison and 5000 fine per count
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Springfield
Elsie Houck Stone
First National Bank of West Plains
U.S
Stone
Calvin K. Hamilton
Hamilton
Victor
Kennedy signs pension fund protection bill into law
Congress sent President Kennedy legislation to tighten safeguards for about 60 billion dollars in pension and welfare funds. The Senate approved a compromised version by voice vote after the House passed it 283 to 108, with a later failed bid to send it to conference. The bill empowers the Labor Secretary to demand accurate operation details, investigate violations, bond administrators, and impose criminal penalties for crimes or bribes in fund management.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
Senate
House
Senate House
Jon
White House
Secretary of Labor
Slayton Replaced by Carpenter in Mercury Program Shakeup
Slayton was replaced by Carpenter while remaining a Mercury program member. Further study will determine if he continues in it. Slayton phoned his Sparta Wisconsin parents after the news. His father, 74, expressed relief. his mother, sorrow for the near miss. Florence Carpenter in Boulder said she was thrilled for her son Scott and that it was a shocking but welcomed development.
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Slayton
Charles Slayton
Sparta
Wis
Boulder
Colo
Florence Carpenter
Scott
Local Livestock Market Prices Plummet Noted
Prices were unchanged on the day’s market. Top hogs 190 to 220 pounds sold at 15.85. Sows at 300 pounds and under 14.25, sows over 300 pounds 13.75, down. Boars ranged from 9.00 to 10.00.
Mt Vernon prices show grain quotes this afternoon
Prices quoted in Mt Vernon this afternoon list Wheat at 1.34 Soybeans at 2.36 and Corn at 1.08.
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Mt. Vernon
Nineteen Twenty Two Underground Test At Nevada Site
A low yield underground nuclear shot, not exceeding 20 000 tons of TNT, was conducted at the Nevada test site as the 22nd announced in the current series. The blast prompted Western and Soviet diplomats at the disarmament talks to push for broad inspection measures while navigating deep rifts over how to verify compliance.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
John M. Hightower
Geneva
Soviet Union
United States
Semyon Tsatapkin
Kremlin
Brazil
India
Mexico
United Arab Republic
Sweden
Burma
Nigeria
Ethiopia
V. K. Krishna Menon
U.S
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
Moscow
Kennedy
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Soviet’ Union
Tsarapkin
Arthur Dean
Joseph Gober
Lord Home
Rusk
Gromyko
Antonio Segni
V. XK
Krishna Menon
Menon
United Nations
U.N
Livestock Market Report Prices For Hogs Cattle And Sheep
Livestock: US hogs 8 500 sold with No 1 2 hogs 190 230 lb at 16 60 to 16 85, 75 head at 16 90. No 2 3 240 270 lb beans at 16 70 to 16 25, 1 3 240 250 lb 16 35 to 16 50, 2 3 270 200 lb 15 50 to 15 78, No 1 2 150 170 lb 14 50 to 16 00, 120 150 lb 11 50 to 14 50. Sows 1 3 250 350 lb 14 75 to 15 25, 350 400 lb 14 25 to 15 00, 2 3 400 600 lb 13 75 to 14 50, boars over 250 lb mostly 11 75, lighter around 13 00. Cattle 500 Ives 150 utility and commercial cows 16 00 to 17 50, few 18 00, utility and commercial bulls 19 00 to 21 00, good and choice dealers 28 00 to 34 00, high choice and prime 35 00 to 36 00, good and choice slaughter calves 20 00 to 24 00. Sheep 300 good and choice wooled lambs 17 00 to 18 50, utility and good 12 50 to 16 00.
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USDA
Chicago Produce Prices Report
Chicago Mercantile Exchange bulletins show butter and eggs steady with wholesale prices unchanged. Butter grades AA through B hold near 59 to 58 cent ranges, eggs listed by grade and weight with whites and yolk levels noted, miscellaneous figures for mixed, mediums, standards and dirties.
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Chicago (Ap
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Grain Market Reports Mixed Prices In Chicago
AP dispatch from Chicago notes no sales for wheat corn oats or soybeans. Soybean oil prices are listed with barley showing choice and feed grades at 1.35 to 1.55 and 1.10 to 1.30 per unit respectively.
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Chicago
Wall Street Mixed As Market Closes Mixed
Wall Street in late trading showed a mixed tone with moderate volume around 3.2 million shares. Major movers included Studebaker-Packard and American Motors higher, Pfizer up about 2, Du Pont up, while Polaroid and Amerada fell about 2 points and Dow declined. General Motors barely rose, Chrysler and Ford slipped, Royal Dutch and Shell Oil posted fractional gains or losses.
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New York
Studebaker-Packard
American Motors
Polaroid
Amerada
Pfizer
U.S. Gypsum
Ampex
du Pont
Dow
Chrysler
Ford
General Motors
Benguet
Royal Dutch
Shell Oil
American Stock Exchange
U.S
Vote Boost In Relief Payments
The House passed a 325 million welfare bill with a 140 million boost in relief payments not sought by Kennedy. It would raise the federal share to 70 dollars monthly for some recipients and expand programs for work training, day care, and child payments while extending aid for children of the unemployed.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
Senate
Moon laser beam to be sent from Ann Arbor
American scientists plan a lunar experiment by firing a powerful red laser from the University of Michigan near Ann Arbor. The beam may appear as a red needle in the sky and could bounce off a moon crater to return to Earth in about 2.5 seconds, illustrating early laser uses.
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Frank Carey Washington
Moon
Earth
University of Michigan At
Ann Arbor
Peter A. Franken
Optical Society of America
Franken
Michigan
Reds Might Not Let Americans Land On Moon
AP Los Angeles report cites Dandridge Cole of General Electric warning that if the Soviet Union reaches the moon first it could justify shooting down American landers by establishing bases at lunar poles and around the equator. He warns retaliation could be viewed as aggression and risk nuclear war.
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Los Angeles
Dandridge Cole
Missile and Space Vehicle Department of
General Electric Co
Institute of Aerospace Sciences
Russia
Girl Trapped on Church Roof Rescued by Firefighters
Coral Lee Conte, 26, spent about 90 minutes on the sloping tiled roof of Fourth Presbyterian Church after entering to pray. She followed two men, got locked inside, found a loft ladder and window, and cried for help as passersby largely ignored her until Arthur Desmond alerted police and fire crews who retrieved her.
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Chicago
Coral Lee Conte
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Near North
Ide
Miss Conte
Arthur L. Desmond
William Smith
Marriage Boom Predicted By Health Statistician
Washington AP reports Dr. Forrest E. Linder director of the National Center for Health Statistics told a House Appropriations panel a major marriage boom is coming to the United States as postwar high birth cohort reaches marrying age. He urged more funds to monitor trends.
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Washington
United States
Forrest E. Linder
National Center For Health Statistics
House
Linder
Reservists Wives Plan Picket at Pentagon in April
About 30 wives of Army reservists stationed at Ft. Devens decided last night to picket the Pentagon during the week of April 1 to protest the continued service of their husbands.
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Fitchburg, Mass
Army
Devens
Pentagon
SEC Inquiry Goes To All U S Brokers
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it is quizzing all 5,750 brokerage firms about dealings in 200 stocks to map the over the counter market. Aimed at volume, prices, and brokerage practices, the study requires return of completed questionnaires by April 9.
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Frank Cormier
Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
Milton H. Cohen
SEC
Ap 9
American Airlines
Anheuser - Busch
Bank of America
General Telemmone & Electronics
Hartford Fire Insurance
Lockheed Aircraft
Pacific Power & Light
Pocket Books
Royal Dutch Petroleum
Wisconsin Power & Light
City Buys Bus Company in Zanesville
In Zanesville Ohio residents formed a new company to take over the failing Zanesville Rapid Transit Co after raising 33 000 in treasury within days through donations from schools, students, seniors, merchants and the bus drivers union. The current firm plans to sell its 24 buses for 25 000 with a transaction date not yet set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zanesville, Ohio
Zanesville Rapid Transit Co
Rocky's Wife Divorces New York Governor in Reno
Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller obtained a quick Reno divorce from Governor Nelson Rockefeller after a six week residency at a guest ranch. She traveled in a station wagon with her lawyer William Woodburn and was accompanied by her son Stephen. The party drove from Washoe County courthouse to Woodburn's mother's home where Mrs. Rockefeller offered no comment.
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Reno
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Woodburn
Mrs. Rockefeller
Hergon
Mt Vernon Man Named to Illinois Junior College Panel
Ben S. Martin Jr. of 6 Westwood Mt Vernon was named to the Junior College Organization Committee of the Illinois Association of School Boards. The panel will study patterns of junior college organization and related problems, with another committee studying curriculum. Martin sits on the Mt. Vernon Township High School and Community College board. Four other state junior colleges are represented on the panel.
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Ben S. Martin, Jr
Westwood
Mt. Verenon
Illinois Association of School Boards
W. L. Taylor
Illinois
Martin
Mt. Vernon Township High School
Ashley Youth Enlists in Marine Corps at 17
Timothy David Cahill, 17, of Ashley, has enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and begins recruit training at San Diego. After training, he’ll go to Camp Pendleton for four weeks of advanced combat, then 20 days leave before a new duty station or school.
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Timothy David Cahill
Daniel David Cahill
Ashley
U. S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
California
Homer Talley
Cahill
Camp Pendleton
Marine Corps
Sgt
Talley
Sgt. Cavitt
Mt. Vernon
Dime Button Radiation Test Development in Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin radiology and chemistry labs developed a 10 cent plastic button to measure wearer radiation exposure. Dr John R Carterson says the button uses lithium fluoride to trap and store electron energy corresponding to received radiation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison, Wis
University of Wisconsin Radiology and Chemistry Laboratories
John R. Carterson
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American Cancer Society
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Jefferson County
Cancer Society
Delo
Pension Fund Control
Carpenter
Mt. Vernon Grain
REDS
Wall Street
Laird Jewelers
City Buys Bus Company
Gale
Mercury
Gale Monroe
W-G Motors
Rocky
Mt. V. Man
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Marines
Dime Button
McLaughlin
Broadway
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