Deaths Walter Williams Mt Vernon Illinois
Walter Williams 67 of Country Aire Estates died at 5 55 am at Good Samaritan Hospital. Retired TP and W Railroad employee. Funeral 1 pm Tuesday June 3 Kerr Funeral Home Harvey Illinois with burial Homewood Memorial Cemetery. Visitation 2 5 pm and 7 10 pm Monday Hughey Pulley Mt Vernon. Born August 4 1907 Centertown Kentucky. Survived by six sons Lucian Kansas City Maurice Chicago Walter V Muncie Oval Lee Posen Dennie Villa Park Linus Mt Vernon 18 grandchildren and two brothers H P Williams Creve Coeur Oren Williams Chicago.
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Walter Williams
Country Aire Estates
Good Samaritan Hospital
TP & W Railroad
Kerr Funeral Home
Harvey, Ill
Homewood Memorial Cemetery
Hughey-Pulley
Mt. Vernon
Mr. Williams
Centertown
Oliver
Mamie (Brown) Williams
Opal Lee Brown
Lucian B
Kansas City
Maurice
Chicago
Walter V
Evansville woman Lela Gillenwater dies at 71
Lela Gillenwater 71 of Evansville Indiana died at 7 55 a m Friday at Deaconess Hospital. She was a housewife and former Hamilton County resident. Services at 2 p m Sunday at Gholson Funeral Chapel McLeansboro with Rev Kim Weaver officiating. Burial in Enfield City Cemetery. Survived by husband William Elisha Gillenwater five sons eight daughters a brother five sisters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Burial details show extensive family ties across Indiana Kentucky and Arkansas.
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Lela Faye Gillenwater
Evansville
Ind
Deaconess Hospital
Gholson
McLeansboro
Kim Weaver
Enfield City Cemetery
Delores Faye Bray
Odessa
Texas
Betty Upchurch
Peggy June Alvers
Cabot, Ark
Patty Joyce Donley
Linda Sue Wells
Wadesville
Arthur Tucker
Akron
Ohio
Ferne Bach‘man
Freida Musgrave
Freida Musgrave, of ‘Lawrenceville, Ind
Hildreth Bosher
Enfield
Edna Minor
Osage Beach
Louise Garman
California
Nobody Home In Washington
AP reports Washington quiet as Memorial Day holiday keeps politicians away. Ford vetoes a 5.3 billion jobs bill while President absent in Europe. Rockefeller stays in New York with family as Kissinger travels, reducing diplomatic chatter and media access.
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Lee Byrd
Associated Press
Washington
Potomac
Humdrum
Ford
Europe
White House
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Henry A. Kissinger
First Cambodian Refugees Arrive In North Illinois
Eleven Cambodian refugees, including two families and two single men, arrived from Camp Pendleton California and were housed in a vacant convent on Lewis University Law School campus in Glen Ellyn. They will be screened by social workers and assisted to find jobs and homes in Joliet area. The Joliet Diocese expects 22 more refugees Monday and a total of 200 by September end. The four adult men in the first group speak English.
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North Illinois
Chicago
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Lewis University Law School
Glen Ellyn
William F. Irwin
Joliet
U.S. Catholic Conference
Progress In Greece And Turkey Talks
In Brussels the Greek and Turkish prime ministers reached major progress after nearly three hours of talks. They agreed the Aegean oil rights dispute should be settled by the International Court at The Hague and Greece affirmed support for Vienna negotiations under UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to ease Greek Turkish community tensions in Cyprus. Talks are set to resume in early June.
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Brussels
Belgium
Greece
Turkey
Suleyman Demirel
Aegean Sea
International Court
The
Hague
Constantine Caramanlis
Vienna
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Cyprus
IRS Office in Mt Vernon Opens Mondays for Tax Help
Taxpayers needing in person tax help can visit the Mt. Vernon IRS office at 105 S. 6th St each Monday from 8:00 to 11:30 a.m. and 12:15 to 4:45 p.m. Manager Kingsley Bennett notes toll free support 800-252-2921 is available statewide Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
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Internal Revenue Service
Mt. Vernon
Kingsley V. Bennett
IRS
S. 6Th St
Hearst Sister Pleads Guilty On Drug Charge Probation Four Months
Anne Randolph Hearst, 19, sister of fugitive Patricia Hearst, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a misdemeanor drug charge and was placed on four months probation. Judge Curtin allowed dismissal later if probation succeeds, while co-defendant Donald Moffett had the charge dropped.
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Anne Randolph Hearst
Patricia Hearst
U.S. District Court
Buffalo
N.Y
Miss Hearst
Rainbow Bridge
Niagara Falls
Canada
United States
Buffalo, N.Y
U.S
John T. Curtin
Five Injured In MLV And County Accidents
A Mt Vernon house robbery yielded $300 stolen in cash from Dixie West. A car battery was taken from Willi ven e Meadow’s vehicle at Mt. Vernon High School, and a General Radiator guard reported a phone missing. A Woody Hicks truck was searched but nothing taken while he fished nearby. Five people suffered minor injuries in four of five major damage crashes across the city and county, with names, ages, and locations listed for each incident.
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Mt. Vernon
Dixie West
Parkview Trailer Court
Willivene Meadow
Mt. Vernon High School
South 12Th Street
Woody Hicks
Casey Ave
Nelson
Hicks
Steven T. McMaster
N. Chesterfield Commons
Bernice L. Price
Pace Ave
17Th Street
Broadway
Bernice Price
Good Samaritan Hospital
McMaster
Doctor’s Park
Randy L. Fitzferrells
Route 1
Bonnie
Nasan
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Fitzferrells
Richard W. Isbery
S. 15Th St
William R. McKee
Ina
Ibery
Marlene Fred
Ilbery
Sumner R. Tucker Jr
Leslie P. Garrison
Opdyke
Tucker
Norma Jean Tucker
Garrison
Charles F. Lowell
Charles C. Barnett
Jerseyville
Rockaway Street
C & el
Bakerville Road Gas Fire Spoils Fence but Not Tractor
B. B. Wiggins family on Bakerville Road escaped damage Friday evening as 250 gallons of gasoline spilled from a storage tank and ignited along a small incline. Firefighters said the blaze burned fence posts but spared the tractor and the gas tank.
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Bakerville Road
B. B. Wiggins
Jefferson
Violent Storm Smashes Quincy Businesses
A violent wind and hail storm hit Quincy shortly after 2 p.m. Friday, tearing 61 windows from fronts on one Main Street block. No injuries reported. power lines down, trees toppled onto autos, and hail the size of table tennis balls peppered the area.
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Quincy
Main Street
Illinois Dry Period Shifts Into Midweek Outlook
Illinois Weather Forecast shows a dry start to the week with cool Monday highs 65 to 75 and lows 45 to 55. A warming trend follows Tuesday and Wednesday with daytime highs near 75 to 80 by Wednesday and cooler nights.
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Illinois
Mt Vernon Weather Snapshot Friday Outlook and River Level
Mt Vernon reports Friday highs around 83 and 62 with 63 recorded at 7:00 am. Rainfall for Friday expected at .33 inches. year to date rainfall totals reach 25.06 inches as of 1975. Previous years show varied highs and lows. sunrise at 5:33 and sunset at 8:15 DST. Rend Lake main dam water level measured at 409.05 feet above mean sea level.
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Mt. Vernon
Rend Lake
Main Dam
Kerner's Supporter Defends Prison Treatment and Leaves
Mrs Sutton, 38, says Otto Kerner spoke with her regularly during volunteer work and disputes criticisms of his parole. She notes he refused a furlough to Chicago but could visit Lexington, and praises the minimum security prison as deanlike with courses and sports. She recounts Kerner's comments on political favoritism and medical care, and mentions his current consulting role on prison reform.
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Sutton
Kerner
Otto Kerner
Chicago
Lexington
University of Kentucky
Regular OES meeting honors fifty year members
Jefferson Chapter 686 O.E.S. holds its regular stated meeting Tuesday June 3 at 8 00 p m in the Masonic Temple Opdyke. The event honors fifty year members Melba Clark W M and Beverly Adams secretary with the session led by the chapter officers.
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Jefferson Chapter
O.E.S
Masonic Temple
Opdyke
Melba Clark
W.M
Beverly Adams
Scott Not Running Shapes Illinois GOP 1976 Ticket
Peoria Mayor Richard Carver says Scott’s withdrawal leaves the governor candidate field open. U.S. Atty. James R. Thompson and U.S. Sen. Charles Percy note the move may clear a path for a leading Republican figure in Illinois.
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Peoria
Richard Carver
Scott
U.S
Ilinois
Richland Beauty Culture Program Opens June 3
Richland Academy of Beauty Culture and Bend Lake College invite applications for a beauty culture class starting Tuesday June 3. The program offers at least 1,500 contact hours with practical training in hair styling manicuring and facials enabling licensure as a registered beautician. Contact Larry Frank at 1120 Main St Mt Vernon 244 1428 or Bend Lake College Admissions at 437 5321.
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Richland Academy of Beauty Culture
Bend Lake College
Larry Frank
The
Richland Academy
Frank
Main St
Mt. Vernon
Centralia Man Suffered Acid Burns From Truck Leak
Henry J. Rogers Jr. of Centralia Illinois received minor acid burns after a truck southwest of Little Rock leaked papa cresol. Four truckers, including the acid truck driver, contacted the substance and were treated at a hospital.
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Centralia
Little Rock, Ark
Henry J. Rogers Jr
Little Rock
Rogers
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Lela Gillenwater
Evansville, Ind
Hamilton County
Mrs. Gillenwater
Felix and
Belle (Malone) Tucker
Morrow, Ark
William Elisha Gillenwater
Washington Avenue Missionary Baptist Church
Long Prairie
Mike Thomason
Les Sinks
Terry Buchanan
Terry Helpingstine
Georgie Moore
Litton
Anslinger
Holida In
Todan
Patty Hearst
Regis College
Denver
Donald R. Moffett
Moffett
Roger P. Williams
Newsmen Today
Williams
Miss Hearst Is
Randolph A. Hearst
San Francisco Examiner
Symbionese Liberation Army
Patricia
Aire LI
Kenner
WBBM
Martinzwe Pena
New Hope
Free Will Baptist Church
First Free Will Baptist Church Trio of Benton
Jack Kettaman
Larrie Shaw
Uts
Richland Beauty Culture Program
Tate Rani
State Farm Insurance Companies
Bloomington
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