Deaths Lloyd Pepple Dies Today at 65
Lloyd V. Pepple of 400 south 15th street died at 11 this morning at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. A retired school teacher aged 65 years four months and 27 days, born August 17 1892 in Jefferson county. Survived by wife Anna Richardson. stepmother Mrs Donna Peple of Mt. Vernon. a granddaughter. one son predeceased. Funeral arrangements incomplete. body to Myers Chapel.
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Lloyd V. Pepple
South 15Th Street
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Pepple
Jefferson County
Ulysses
Mary
Ethington) Pepple
Belle Rive
Anna Richardson
Christian Church
St. Elmo
Donna Pepple
Mt. Vernon
Myers Chapel
Former Opdyke Resident Alice Miller Dies
Mrs. Alice Miller of Leland Tit a former Opdyke resident died at her home yesterday. She would have been A years old next Friday March. Surviving are two sons Lester Miller of Leland and Herbert Miller living nearby. Funeral services at Thorsen Funeral Home in Leland tomorrow at 1 30 p m.
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Alice Miller
Leland, Tit
Opdyke
Lester Miller
Leland
Herbert Miller
Ving
Thorsen
Mother Of Mt V Area Resident Dies In Eldorado
Mrs. Vesta Rhine aged 68 mother of Mrs. Bernard Moore of Bethel neighborhood Vernon died last night at 10 30 at Pierce Hospital Eldorado She was a resident of Broughton wife of Joe Rhine Funeral arrangements await a brother arriving from Los Angeles Surviving also are a daughter Mrs Ethel Durbrow of Chicago and three grandchildren The body will lie in state at Donelson Funeral Home MecLeansboro
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Vesta Rhine
Bernard Moore
Bethel
Vernon
Pierce Hospital
Eldorado
Broughton
Joe Rhine
Los Angeles
Ethel Durbrow
Chicago
Donelson Funeral Home
MecLeansboro
McMillan Named Executive at Wausau Iron Works
R H McMillan of Mt Vernon State Tuberculosis Sanitarium has word his son R H McMillan will join Wausau Iron Works Wisconsin as vice president in charge of production. Wausau Iron Works is a major maker of heavy duty snow equipment and heavy weldments.
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C. McMillan
Mt. Vernon State
State Sales Tax Revenue Higher in February 1957
Revenue Department reports February 1957 state sales tax receipts rose to 22,636,247 adding 1,662,33 in value. Nine major tax sources totaled 43,568,404, up 118,001 from the same period last year. Other major receipts included motor fuel tax 11,666,645 cigarette tax 2,550,397 and liquor revenue 2,115,064.
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Commany
Hospital Notes Dellerson Memorial Admissions List
Admitted patients include Lloyd Pepple Pechaeta geebam Hays and many others from Good Samaritan Edgewood Belle Rive and local addresses. Discharges list Mrs Edna Virginia Spitler Glenn J Manuel Ben Wolters and multiple others with names and infant notes.
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Good Samaritan Admitted
Violet Elizabeth Mudler
Glenn J. Manuel
Ben Wolters
Gilbert Martin
Porter Davis
Willa Mae Jones
Emma Williams
Charles Edward Gathing
Martha Jane Hilliard
Addie Wakefield
Grace M. Smith
Bertha Samona
Edna Virginia Spitler
Sue Alice Burton
Wilma H. Garrison
Leonard, Easton
Ollie Cates
Inda C. Black
Ralph Wesley Alexander
Elmer Cates
Harriet Schroeder
Mary Jo Scott
Barbara Ann
Nedra Claire Hayes
Eeven Lee
Patricia Ann and
Mary C. Grant
L. A. Schumacher
Helen Irene Coberly
Cynthia Kay
George C. Pierce
Richard Stanley Froelich
Birth at Samaritan Hospital Rickie Lee Ellis
Mr and Mrs Dale Ellis of Nashville welcomed a son at 8:48 last night at Samaritan hospital. The baby weighed six pounds ten ounces and was named Rickie Lee.
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Dale Ellis
Nashville
Sen Sd
Rickie Lee
Ben Franklin store owners meet at Parkmore Grill
Thirteen Ben Franklin Store owners and their wives gather at Parkmore Grill for a zone meeting and dinner to discuss merchandising techniques and operating ideas. E D Kelser conducts with Larry L Raybourne assisting as Butler Brothers sponsors feature 18 such meetings nationwide.
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Ben Franklin
Parkmore Grill
E. D. Kelser
Ben Frandin
Larry L. Raybourne
St. Louis House
Butler Brothers
Alaska
Hawaii
Kelser
United States
America
A. C. Steffey
Butler Bros
Ralph Davis
Albion
Harry Ludwig
Benton
W. Hindahl
McLeansboro
B. Hindahl
Luebke
Nashville
Oscar Hunter
Pinckneyville
Ernie Hoover
Vernon
Raybourne
Keiser
Heart Fund Campaign Reaches $523.44 Total
Vernon and Jefferson county total to date is $523.44 announced by campaign chair Mrs. Pat Lee Fields. Tag day netted $144.25 with recent donations from Vincent J. Duncan Gatewood & Fields Rae M. Self Jr H W Faulk ner Emanuel Livanos Harold Howard C D and Bertie Ham Leonard Wood Optimist Club Mr and Mrs James Moore Emmitt Ellis Laird Jewelers Hanarose Eschelbacher Mom's Cafe Van Doren Unit of Home Bureau Waldo Foster East Salem Friendship Club Shields Home Bureau Mrs Ferne Lee.
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Heart Fund
Vernon
Jefferson County
Pat Lee Fields
Vincent J. Duncan
Gatewood & Fields
Rae M. Self, Jr
H. W. Faulkner
Ce — Opdyke Home Bureau
Nit
Emanuel Livanos
Harrold, Howard
C. D
Bertie Ham
Leonard Wood
Optimist Club
Mrs. James Moore
Emmitt Ellis
Laird Jewelers
Hanarose Eschelbacher
Mom's Cafe
van Doren
Home Bureau
Waldo Foster
East Salem Friendship Club
Shields Home Bureau
Ferne. Lee
Chicago Poultry Market Racketeers Trial Opens
Government arguments near end in U S District Court trial of five men accused of labor racketeering in Chicago Fulton Street poultry market. Witnesses testified payments were made to avoid labor trouble and to keep out of town kosher poultry from entering Chicago.
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Chicago
U. S. District Court
Fulton Street
Solomon G. Boris
Philip Shiffman
Shiffman
Chicago Poultry Board
Joseph
Joey) Glimco
Pleas Taxicab Drivers Union Local 777
Teamsters Union
Max Podolsky
Egg Handlers’ Union
Martin O'Brien
Daniel Considine
Poultry Workers Union
Edgar Friedheim
Schiffman’s Poultry Board
Frank J. McGarr
Friedheim
Meyer Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Installment Debt Reaches 31 5 Billion in US Economy
A massive Federal Reserve Board study, requested by President Eisenhower, questions risks of installment credit expansion. It notes 45 percent of American families owe installment debt, with higher use by those earning over ten thousand dollars, and suggests debt as a form of saving while maintaining liquidity. The report remains neutral on standby controls and warns against possible spiraling inflation.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Coness
Butt
Federal Reserve Board
FRB
Leas Lkely
Nauida- Itlon
Reserve Board
Congress
Buamegamen
F.R.B
Britain accepts NATO mediation on Cyprus crisis
Britain signals willingness to accept NATO conciliatory efforts among Britain Greece and Turkey over Cyprus The government hopes Archbishop Makarios will halt violence and consider a truce in exchange for his release from the Seychelles Officials note EOKA’s offer to end attacks hinges on Makarios’ publicly stated call for peace and a path to self rule for Cypriots while Turkish fears of minority rights remain unresolved.
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London
Britain
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Cyprus
Alan Lennox- Boyd
House of Commons
Greece
Turkey
Lennox-Boyd
Makarios
Union-With- Greece
Mediterranean
Eoka
Seychelle Islands
Indian Ocean
Seycheles
Greence
Zhukov Warns Reds Would Wield Hydrogen Bombs on U.S.
London reports cited Moscow radio quoting Marshal Georgi Zhukov, Soviet defense minister, saying any major war would erase hiding places and that the United States could no longer sit out over the ocean. He warned Russia would use atomic and hydrogen bombs as main striking force, replacing conventional arms, and dismissed the idea such weapons could mutually destroy both sides.
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London
Russia
United States
Moscow Radio Today
Georgi Zhukov
Europe
Zhukov
Asia
Red Cross Here Gets Donation From Texas
The Jefferson County Red Cross chapter received a $25 donation from Mrs. S. N. Hallowell Graham of Houston in gratitude for blood services aiding her mother at Good Samaritan Hospital. Total Red Cross contributions reached 6250.87 as March campaigns fund blood programs supporting patients at Mt. Vernon hospitals and nationwide.
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Noma Hallowell Graham
Vernon
Houston
Texas
Red Cross
E. H. Klein
Graham
S. N.hallowell
Good Samaritan Hospital
Delta Theta Tau Sorority
Kiwatus Club
Mt. Vernon
W. E. Richardson
Lena F. Duncan
Dorothy Woolsey
Robert Lindsay
R. W. Woodstock
William A. Grant
Ansley
Louis C. Paviedes
H. J. Bunchman
Hollywood Shop
Western Auto
Peerless Cleaners
Woolard Buick
American Laundry
Lloyd DeWitt
Tom Puckett
Elmer Faulkner
W. F. Runkle
Varnell Rebekah Lodge
Mt. Vernon Shrine
Vera
Robert L. Fry
Mom's Cafe
Ethel K. Sexton
J. H. Jacobsen
James Henneberry
Hugh Scrivner
Belle Rive, Jr
Earl D. Jamison
Acme
Gerald Williams
Nell Kell
Waltonville Home Bureau
Edra Snider
J. E. Hoffman
Lowell
Esther Little
Carol Whitney
Nada Warner
Reid Strkey
Voyle Gorham
Gary Hutchison
Strikes Hit Britain Delay Liner Queen Mary Travel
Strikes spread across Great Britain delaying the liner Queen Mary to New York by 24 hours and threatening a nationwide railway strike. Engineering workers consider a 2 percent wage rise and a 10 percent demand by the National Union of Railwaymen, with officials deferring further action pending a tribunal conference chaired by Sir Brian Robertson.
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London
New York
National Union of Railwaymen
NUR
Brian Robertson
Union Leader Paid As Stable Manager in Bribery Probe
Brewster testified about the Breel stables partnership with Newell dissolved in 1955. He described payments in stock worth about $5.00 a share as compensation for his role as stable manager and said Newell later bought the stock back. He also discussed possible letters and discussions about a job for Tait in San Francisco.
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Brewster
Kennedy
Newell
Brewster - Newell
Affiliated Fund, Inc
Western Teamsters
Robert Kennedy
Gov. Knight
Tait
San Fransco
Police Court Fines Imposed by Allan Dulaney
Fines were assessed before Police Magistrate Allan Dulaney including Donnie Rogers ten dollars and costs for disturbance Earl Atkinson ten dollars and costs on the charge of driving too fast for conditions and David Lee Webb five dollars and costs for having only one license plate on a car.
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Allan Dulaney
Donnie Rogers
Earl Atkinson
David Lee Webb
Political ties surface as hearings press Beck records
The Teamsters Union made a political contribution to Knight while current hearings probe President Dave Beck for personal financial records. Brewster cites Tait's appointment and Kennedy questions Harold Lopez's endeavor to join the California Board of Harbor Commissioners. Lopez is named as Local No. Brewster’s business manager and as linked to Knight’s appointment.
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Teamsters Union
Knight
Dave Beck
The
Teamsters
Brewster
Tait
Kennedy
Harold Lopez
California Board of Harbor Commissioners
Lopez
Teamsters Local No
Talk of Reductions in Income Tax Revived in Congress
Washington today saw revived talk of income tax cuts as budget cuts could create a multibillion dollar surplus. House leaders say a three to four billion dollar surplus might spur tax relief, but many officials expect tax cuts to wait until 1958 to gauge actual fiscal data.
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Washington
Congress
House
Eisenhower
Appropriations Committee
Capitol Hill
Rep
Mills
D-Ark
Ways and
P. McCarthy
D-Minn
Rep. Reed
New York
Ways and Means
Gambler's Fort Island straddles two Illinois counties
EAST ST. LOUIS Ill The island owned by rackets boss Frank Buster Wortman spans St. Clair and Madison counties. Sheriff Reinhardt and State’s Attorney Hoban plan a joint inspection after reports furniture moves into a fortlike building. Police had raided Wortman taverns seizing gambling gear and a man named Sam Magin says he is building a boys club on the island.
Weather snapshot and spring forecast across states
An Associated Press style weather digest lists conditions for multiple U.S. cities from Albuquerque to Traverse City, noting cloudiness, clear skies, snow, and rain. Five day forecast calls for temperatures 2 to 4 degrees above normal, weekend showers, with Missouri mostly fair today and rising temps toward spring. First day of spring brings rising temps across Illinois, with highs in upper 40s to mid 50s and scattered rain possible south.
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Associated Press
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Bismarck
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Fort Worth
Grand Rapids
Helena
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Louisville
Marquette
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
St. Paul
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Portland
Ore
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
S. Ste. Marie
Seattle
Tampa
Traverse City
Missouri
Illinoistoo
Mercury
Rockford
Moline
Quincy
Marilyn Monroe Raid Night Of Terror Targeted Victim Testimony
Springfield Illinois widow Cassie Reeves named Illinois Mother of 1957. Her family faced debt after husband died. she taught 27 years and raised four children while managing farm burdens. Separate account describes Marilyn Monroe raid testimony by Florence Katz Ross and others to a county grand jury, detailing a chaotic night with Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio linked to a raid on Monroe’s associate.
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Springfield
Til
Dewitt County
Illinois
Cassie N. Reeves
Weldon
Reeves
Everett
Colon
Hinsdale
Inland Steel Corporation
Richard
Decatur
Decatur Pump Co
Robert
Des Moines
Frye Manufacturing, Co
Roland Brough
Jnia
Los Angeles
Marilyn Monroe
Florence Katz Ross
Miss Monroe
Crooner
State Senate
Phil Irwin
Sinatra
DiMaggio
New York
British Seek Unity Over Middle East Crisis
British diplomats urge unity as tensions rise in the Middle East. Israel may retaliate if border raids from Gaza resume while Egypt shifts UN forces. Britain and France face Suez Canal control under Nasser, with the United States seeking a nonpoliticized operating setup to be discussed at Bermuda.
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Cairo
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Gaza
Gulf of Aqaba
Suez Canal
Middle East
New York
Hammarskjold
Israel
Egypt
Nasser
Suez
U.N. Emergency Force
UNEF
Golda Meir
David Ben-Gurion
Strip
Mahmoud Fawzi
U.N
Ralph Bunche
Hassan Abdel 'Latif
Suez Canal Authority
World Bank
Ish
Gaza Strip
Britain
France
United States
Bermuda
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Lloyd Pepple
Mt. V. Area
R. H. McMillan
Iron Works
Amvets
Betty Hinckle
Roy Taylor
Ben Franklin Store
Airport News
Larry Forrestal
Ill
Gene Tumbleson
Alton
Terre [Hall Ind
BY Sterling F. Green
U.S
Dag
Aqaba
Great Britain
B. L. Livingstone
Gambler's Fort
Island
Ike
Kisco Boiler and Engineering CO
Dekalb
St. Louis, Mo
Rockfo Moline
Peoria
Rantoul
Sprite van
Scott Ae
Lucien A. File
Chester
Ilinois
ASK Unity
Mid East
McLaughlin
Carl W. Little
Broadway
Alcan Highway
Chevrolet
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