Deaths Miss Mollie E Murray Mt Vernon Nurse
Miss Mollie E Murray a well known Mt Vernon registered nurse died at 1 10 yesterday at Letzekorn Nursing Home aged 78 3 9. She lived at 805 North 12th street and had retired due to illness after many years of service. Funeral 1 30 p m Thursday at Myers Chapel burial Oakwood cemetery. She lay in state at Myers Chapel after 7 00 p m today. Born December 18 1883 Blissville Township daughter of David A and Mary Murray. Survived by sister Maude Metcalf Hammond Ind and brother Sam Murray Davenport Iowa. The body was taken to Myers Chapel.
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Mollie E. Murray
Mt. Vernon
Letzekorn
Murray
North 12Th Street
Myers Chapel
Oakwood Cemetery
Miss Murray
Blissville Township
David A
Mary Murray
Maude Metcalf
Hammond
Ind
Sam Murray
Davenport
Iowa
Gertrude McCord Dies at 78 Funeral Friday
Gertrude McCord Crowder died at Good Samaritan Hospital at 5 20 am aged 78 years eight months and 15 days. Funeral at Myers Chapel Friday at 1 30 pm with Rev Earl Myers officiating. Burial Arnold cemetery. Born July 45 1883 in Jefferson county she lived there all her life. Survived by four daughters four sons two brothers and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was widow of James Crowder and James McCord. Church member at 15th Street Church of Christ.
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Gertrude (Crowder) McCord
Good Samaritan Hospital
Myers
Earl Myers
Arnold Cemetery
Myers Chapel
McCord
Jefferson County
Bennett
Elizabeth
Olemna) Adams
James A. Crowder
James McCord
Mildred Gibson
Sterling, UL
Lillie Wood
Mt. Vernon
Eva Williams
Port Hueneme
Calif
Creetia Beebe
Michigan City
Ind
Charles Crowder
Vantage
Wash
Arthur R. Crowder
Baldwin, NL
R. Ross Crowder
Chicago
John I. Crowder
Washington, TI
W. W. Adams
Cactus, Ariz
Ed Riggs
Caldwell
Ark
Pies 15Th Street Church
Father Dies at Freeport in Illinois
Mrs. Charles Crouch of RFD 1 Bluford has learned her father Norman Smeathers 69 of Freeport died at 4:00 p m Tuesday in a Freeport hospital. The Seals Funeral Home in Marseilles will conduct services Friday with burial in Marseilles.
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Charles Crouch
RFD 1
Bluford
Norman Smeathers
Freeport
Seals Funeral Home
Marseilles
Mrs Alma Son 85 Dies in Danville Former Resident
Mrs Alma Son 85 of Danville Illinois died at 1 00 am today in a Danville nursing home. She was born February 15 1877 near Ina the daughter of Stephen and Sarah Cockrum. Survived by three sons Hard Son Jensen Beach Florida Gail Son Milwaukee Wisconsin and Mel Son Danville and a niece Mrs Elva Casey Mt Vernon. Burial Friday at Edmund Dixon Funeral Home Danville. Body lies in state at the funeral home with viewing Thursday.
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Alma Son
Danvile
Edmund Dixon
Danville
Son
Ina
Stephen
Sarah
Lance) Cockrum
W. F. Son
Hard Son
Jensen Beach
Fla
Gail
Milwaukee
Wis
Mel
Elva Casey
Mt. Vernon
Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admissions List
Jefferson Memorial records admit Mrs Iva Corene Johnson Fred Schlag Belle Rive William Robert Degenhart and the child Kathy Jean Flora. Discharges include Albert Kreher Dahlgren Lola Bell Spangler Woodlawn and others. Good Samaritan admits multiple patients and discharges follow.
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Iva Corene Johnson
Fred Schlag
Belle Rive
William Robert Degenhart
Kathy Jean Flora
Albert Kreher
Dahlgren
Lola Bell Spangler
Woodlawn
Waltonville couple welcome daughter Ronell Leanne
Mr and Mrs Ronald Shurtz of Waltonville welcomed a baby girl at 6 08 PM in Good Samaritan hospital. The infant weighed eight pounds four ounces and has been named Ronell Leanne.
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Ronald Shurtz
Waltonvile
Good Samaritan Hospital
Ronell Leanne
Mt. Vernon Hog Market Prices Decline
Prices at the Mt. Vernon live stock market fell today with hogs 190 to 220 pounds bringing 15.50 top. Sows for 300 pounds dropped to 14.25, heavier sows down to 13.75. Boars ranged 9.75 for 250 pounds and 8.25 for 250 pounds and up.
Mt Vernon Grain Prices Quoted This Afternoon
Mt Vernon reported commodity prices with Wheat at 1.93 a bushel Soybeans 2.37 and Corn 1.08 in the afternoon quote The figures reflect local market activity and offer a snapshot of grain values in the region.
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Mt. Vernon
Livestock Prices From National Stockyards Tl AP USDA
National Stockyards reports hogs 9 500 head with varied weights and prices across Nos 12 and 13 categories. Cattle and calves show high and bulk price ranges for slaughter steers and cows, with stocker and feeder steers, calves, and bulls also listed. Sheep totals around 900 with best and average ranges for slaughter lambs and lighter offerings.
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USDA
Chicago Produce prices hold as eggs and poultry shift
AP reports Chicago Mercantile Exchange prices for butter mostly flat with minor lower ranges, eggs steady with unchanged rates across grades, and live poultry wholesale prices showing a mixed move from 1 percent lower to 1 percent higher. Roasters mix 27 to 29 cents, mostly 28. Special fed white rock fryers around 19 to 20 cents.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
USDA
St Louis Produce Prices Mixed Across Egg and Poultry Grades
AP reports varied consumer and wholesale grades for eggs and poultry in St Louis. Egg sizes range from A small to A large with specific weight and dirties standards. Hens and broilers prices and weights are listed across several categories.
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Or Louis
Broilers and Fryers
New York Stocks End Higher In Moderate Trading
The stock market finished the afternoon with gains across sectors led by Jones & Laughlin and Youngstown Sheet. Notable movers included US Steel Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel up more than a point, while Carter Products slipped a couple of points. Oils and oils firms rose as Royal Dutch traded heavily and up nearly a point with General Tire and Pittsburg & West Virginia Railway gaining over two points. Rails were steady to modestly higher and International Nickel declined more than a point as U.S. government and corporate bond prices edged up.
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New York
Jones & Laughlin
Youngstown Sheet
Bethlehem
Republic Eel
Lorillard
American Tobacco
Royal Dutch
General Tire
Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway
Carter
Union Carbide
Johns Manville
U.S
Cuba Becomes a Military Giant in Caribbean
The State Department reports that Communist arms have transformed Cuba into a formidable Caribbean military power, with about 100 million in Soviet and Czech aid. Most weapons come from the Soviet bloc. there is no evidence of missiles or Soviet bases, though advisers have arrived since Mikoyan’s 1960 visit.
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Washington
Cuba
Caribbean
State Department
Department
Latin America
Soviet Union
Fidel Castro
Anastas Mikoyan
Truck Driver Killed in Collision With Train Near Morrisonville
Richard Pritchard, 5, of Pana, died early today when his truck collided with a southbound Wabash Railroad passenger train near Morrisonville. The truck was demolished. train resumed its journey to St Louis. Engineer H T Peters of Decatur reported by state police.
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PANA
Morrisonville
Richard Pritchard
Louis
H.T. Peters
Decatur
Detailed Weather Report for MT Vernon and Illinois
Northern Division will see average highs 2-5 degrees below normal with colder Thursday and Friday then warmer weekend. Southern Illinois near to slightly above normal with cooler Thursday and Friday and showers Friday. Five day forecast calls for one tenth inch rain Thursday and again Sunday or Monday in the north, half inch showers Friday in the south. Illinois outlook: mild today with 60s to 70s, encore expected Wednesday, colder Thursday.
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Illinois
Associated Press
General Lemnitzer visits village of refugee soldiers in South Vietnam
America's top military commander Gen Lyman Lemnitzer toured Binh Hung near the southern tip of Vietnam and met with Father Nguyen Lac Hoa and his 915 irregulars called sea swallows. He praised the village as an example for the free world and said communism cannot win against courage.
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Binh Hung
South Viet Nam
America
Lyman Lemnitzer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nguyen Lac Hoa
Father Hoa
China
Viet Nam
United States
Free World To Emulate,’ Lemnitzer
American Oil Strike Set to Avert Work Stoppage
Negotiators for the Independent Oil Workers Union and American Oil Co. met again to avert a strike by 7,000 refinery workers across six states. A 4 p.m. deadline looms as Musa? Bertard O'Keefe leads the federal mediation to secure an agreement before midnight.
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Wwood Ri Ti
SAP
Oi Worker Union
American Oil Co
Bertard O’keefe
Argentina as military demands Frondizi resignation
The article reports a tense crisis in Argentina as military leaders press President Frondizi to resign. Interior Minister Vaca Narvaja claims calm remains externally, while plans for a veto over decrees and potential parliamentary reform surface. Generals discuss overthrow plans, with some officers moving to force, others delaying, amid Peronist election gains.
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Hugo Vaca Narvaja
Defense
Rodolfo Martinez
iGen
Raul Pogg
Fron Ldizi
Navy
Congress
Argentina
Capiital
Juan D. Peron
Peronists
National Assembly
Spoon vaccine for all forms of polio
Availability of polio vaccines may determine rollout. Salk vaccine is produced at 5 to 6 million doses per month, with uncertainty about large scale production and timely local supply for the oral vaccine.
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Terry
Five Old Soldiers Left In Jefferson County
Five aging veterans remain from Jefferson County's World War I era volunteers. One lives in Mt. Vernon, two in Ina, one in Waltonville, and one in Woodlawn. The notes recall J H Clark 84 of 1300 13th Street who served in the Philippine Insurrection and was discharged 1901, and William O Bourland of Waltonville who recently turned 86 and served as a corporal in the 9th Infantry.
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Jefferson Countty
Maine
Havana Harbor
Mt. Vernon
Ina
Waltonville
Woodlawn
J. H. Clark
13Th Street
Funston
Aguinaldo
Mr. Clark
Mattoon
Ina's Spanish American War Veterans Remembered
The Ina area honors two Jefferson County veterans, Harry Ward and Robert C. Settle, who served in a renowned regiment nicknamed the Squirrel Shooters for sharp rifle skill. In recent months James L. Johnson and Dr. Andy Hall have died, marking the passing of local World War era figures.
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Ina
Harry, Ward
Robert C. Settle
Jefferson County
Mr. Vernon
Andy Hall
James L. Johnson
Priest Fined Five Hundred Dollars And Costs
In Edinburg Texas 27 year old Rev John B Feit pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of aggravated assault and was fined 500 dollars plus costs for an attack on Miss Maria America Guerra at Sacred Heart Catholic church on March 23 1960. Guerra a Roma Texas teacher said she was assaulted as she knelt to pray and Bit the attacker on a finger before he fled.
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Edinburg, Tex
John B. Feit
N. McWhorter
Hidalgo County
R. L. Lattimore
Feit
Maria America Guerra
Roma
Tex
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Lands Mt. Vernon for Air Line Service
Congratulations to Mt. Vernon for obtaining airline service arrived this week from Naples Italy. Navy sailor Johnny McGill wrote a letter of congratulations to Chamber of Commerce president J Marvin Powers, praising the chamber for untiring work in securing the service.
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Mt. Vernon
Naples
Italy
Johnny McGill
U. S. Navy
J. Marvin Powers
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
County to Assess At Fifty Percent In Market Plans
County plans 50 percent assessment for equipment and non registered livestock based on market reports. Registered cattle hogs and horses will be valued by teams of assessors. County Treasurer Walter Ray Randall chaired the meeting with helpers George Harristes from the state revenue department and Sherman Winings.
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Ilinois Department of Agriculture
Walter Ray
Randall
George Harristes
State Revenue Department
Sherman Winings
Truck Driver Slugged and Robbed Near Carmi
AP report states truck driver John Pyron of Humboldt Tennessee was robbed of 68 dollars and knocked unconscious in his parked rig on U S 460 west of Carmi. He said two men approached, one struck him with a pistol after the theft, and the incident followed an earlier meeting note about assessor minutes to be mailed to assessors and filed for public viewing.
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Carmi
U.S. 460
John Pyron
Humboldt, Tenn
Humboldt
Rusk Reports on Geneva Berlin Talks at White House
President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk met at the White House to review Geneva disarmament talks and Berlin negotiations. Rusk briefed Kennedy after returning from Geneva, noting no major progress yet, but a willingness to continue talks. Lower level delegates stay for months of negotiations while Dober Dobrynin may join from Washington.
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Kennedy
Dean Rusk
White House
Geneva
Berlin
Rusk
National Security Council
Senate
House
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Moscow
Anatoly Dobrynin
Khrushchev
NASA seeks five to ten new astronauts soon
NASA plans to select five to ten new astronauts with room at the top. Civilian applicants welcomed, age limit likely lowered to 35. Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr is 40, the oldest in the current group named in April 1959. Original candidates were military officers with test pilot experience.
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Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
James E. Webb
John H. Glenn Jr
Spring Nitrogen Boost for Wheat Says County Adviser
Jefferson county Farm Adviser Don Lee warns that spring applied nitrogen boosts wheat yields when soil has adequate phosphate potash and lime. Experiments show 20 to 40 pounds of actual nitrogen per acre can raise yields from 35 to 44 bushels, with diminishing returns beyond.
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Jefferson County
Don Lee
Lee
Brownstown
Vandalia
Lively Mt. Vernon Chamber Group Meeting Reports 1962-63 Goals
President elect James E. Carter of Mt. Vernon Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced a work committee led by chairman George Heidenreich. Newcomers Club offered remarks praising new residents as police lay the groundwork for public relations recreation street ID junior college airline service and downtown development in the 1962-63 program with participation from Business and Professional Women's Club Jaycees Rotary and Newcomers Club. Recommendations will go to the Chamber board for incorporation.
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James E. Carter
Mt. Vernon
Chamber
Business and Professional Women's Club
Jaycees, Rotary
Newcomers Club
Chamber Board of Directors
Heidenreich
Mercury Monterey S Fifty Five sports luxury car debut
Come in today to meet the jewel of personal type cars the Monterey S 55 available as a hardtop coupe or convertible with bucket seats and luxury features including console transmission selector and Mercer Matic or four speed. Optional 405 hp Marauder V eight adds driving fun. Take a road test today.
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Mt. V
Gertrude McCord
Jefferson Memorial
Good Samaritan
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Anna’ Mae Fields
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