Deaths Susan G. Taylor Dies at 94 in Whittington
Susan Gertrude Taylor, 94, of Whittington, died at 8:00 am Sunday in Benton Skilled Care Nursing Home. Funeral 2:00 pm Tuesday at Johnston Funeral Home Whittington with Rev. Harold Conroyd officiating. Burial in Shiloh cemetery. She was born May 17, 1872 in Franklin County to Jacob and Patsy Winemiller. Survived by son Wayne Taylor of Taylorville Illinois, three daughters Helen Thomason Lena Spencer and Cleta Owens, 12 grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Member of Whittington Baptist Church.
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Susan G. Taylor
Whittington
Susan Gertrude Taylor
Benton
Johnston Funeral Home
Harold Conroyd
Shiloh
Johnston Funeral
Ft. Myers
Fla
Taylor
The
Baptist Church
Former Resident Virgil Smith Dies in Denver
Virgil Smith, 72, a former resident, died Sunday in Denver, Colorado. Born February 25, 1894 in Shiloh township, he was the son of the late Nelson and Mary Smith. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. the body will be returned to Mt. Vernon for burial. Survivors include three sisters Mrs. Fred Puckett East St. Louis Mrs. Sam Dowdy Los Angeles and Mrs. Dora Clark Seal Beach California, and one brother Joe C. Smith of this city.
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Virgil Smith
Denver
Colorado
Mr. Smith
Shiloh Township
Nelson and
Mary Smith
Mt. Vernon
Fred Puckett
East St. Louis
Sam Dowdy
Los Angeles
Dora Clark
Seal Beach
California
Joe C. Smith
City
Rose A Harris of Pinckneyville Dies At 61
Rose Alene Harris 61 of Pinckneyville died at 10 5 p m Sunday in Franklin County Hospital Benton She lived formerly in Ewing Funeral service 2 00 p m Wednesday at Williams Chapel near Ewing with Rev Harold Conroyd officiating Burial in Ewing cemetery Body lies in state at Johnston Funeral Home Whittting after 6 00 p m Tuesday Harris born Nov 7 1904 at Ina daughter of John R and Io(a) Carr McDuffy Married to Rev Earl Harris survives with two sons Robert D Harris of Mahomet Sr and John P Harris two daughters Loretta J Hanshaw of Champaign and Magda L Brown of Ewing three brothers John McDuffy McLeansboro James McDuffy Ewings and Billy McDuffy Champaign four sisters Helen Ilmore Mattoon Emma McAfoos Champaign Elsie Bryant Lebanon Ind Ruth Johnston Milmore Mich and eight grandchildren She was member of Second Baptist Church Pinckneyville and Order of Eastern Star.
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Rose Alene Harris
Pinckneyville
Franklin County Hospital
Benton
Ewing
Williams Chapel Church
Harold Conroyd
Ewing Cemetery
Johnston Funeral Home
Whittington
Harris
Ina
John R
Ioa (Carr) McDuffy
Earl Harris
Robert D. Harris
Mahomet
John P. Harris
Loretta J. Hanshaw
Champaign
Magda L. Brown
John McDuffy
McLeansboro
James McDuffy
Ewings
Billy McDuffy
Helen Ilmore
Mattoon
Emma McAfoos
Elsie Bryant
Lebanon
Ind
Ruth Johnston
Milmore
Mich
Second Baptist Church
Order of Eastern Star
Mary Ruffino Dies in Pinckneyville
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Ruffino aged unknown died yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Doerr Funeral Home in Pinckneyville after arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Elizabeth Ruffino
East Casey
Good Samaritan Hospital
Doerr
Pinckneyville
Mt Ver non Eastern Star meeting on September 27
Mt Ver non Chapter 233 of the Order of the Eastern Star will hold a stated meeting at the Masonic Temple on Tuesday evening September 27 at 7 30 o clock. Post officers and anniversary night. Veterans of World War I King City Barracks 102 meet at Legion Hall at 7 30 pm Tuesday September 27. Attendance urged.
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Mt. Vernon
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Mary Blades
W. M
Naomi R. Bogan
Sec’y
King City Barracks No
Legion Hall
W. D. Isaac
Birth of Charles Russell York Jr. at Good Samaritan Hospital
Mr and Mrs Charles York of 18 north Sixth street welcomed a son at 7 24 Saturday morning in Good Samaritan hospital. The newborn weighed eight pounds one and a half ounces and was named Charles Russell York Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles York
North Sixth Street
Good Samaritan Hospital
Charles Russell, Jr
Weather Summary For MT VERNON And Region
MT VERNON weather shows Saturday high 76 and low 43 with Sunday 72 and 33. Rainfall from Saturday 7:00 a.m. to Monday 7:00 a.m. totals .02 inches. year to date 25.80 inches. Normal highs range from the low 50s north to upper 70s south. normal lows from low 50s north to upper 50s southeast. Precipitation expected half to an inch in several shower periods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Vernon
C.S.T
Clinois
Illinois Weather Report From The Associated Press
Temperatures in northern Illinois neared freezing with 36 at O Hare 38 at Moline and East Dubuque 39 in Rockford readings in the 40s and low 50s elsewhere. Showers and thundershowers likely Monday and Tuesday in Southern Illinois with Monday highs near 70 and nightly lows 48 to 56.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Associated Press
O’hare International
Chicago
Moline
East Dubuque Area
Rockford
Weather Bureau
Ulbricht Arrives in Belgrade for State Visit
East Germany president Walter Ulbricht arrived in Belgrade for a seven day state visit.
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Ulbricht
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Walter Ulbricht
East Germany
Bomb scare delays Mafia grand jury in Queens
New York AP says a bomb scare halted a grand jury plan to question 12 reputed Mafia leaders on a day following their arrest at a forest Hills restaurant. Witness Carlo Gambino was ill. 13 total were released on bail as material witnesses.
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New York
Queens Court House
Dist
Atty
Nat Hentel
Grand Jury
Carlo Gambino
Gambino
Forest Hills
Queens
Hentel
Underworld
Apalachin
N.Y
Marion Gets A New Warden
Washington AP reports the Justice Department reassigns several federal prison wardens after leasing the Chillicothe reformatory to Ohio. Effective in early October Warden John A. Mayden of Chillicothe becomes warden of Marion Federal Penitentiary. Warden Greig V. Richardson of Marion moves to Terminal Island California Federal Correctional Institution.
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Washington
Justice Department
Federal Reformatory
Chillicothe
Ohio
John A. Mayden
Federal Penitentiary At
Marion
Greig V. Richarson
Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island
Calif
Markets Mt Vernon Hog Market Prices Unchanged
Prices paid until 12 30 p m today were unchanged with top at 22 25 for 210 to 240 lb hogs Sows 20 50 for 300 weight down sows 300 weight and over 20 00 down Boars 14 00 and 14 75 After 12 30 p m today prices paid will be based on next day prices.
Mt Vernon Grain Prices Quoted This Afternoon
Mt Vernon market notes quoted soybeans at 2.85, shell corn at 1.45, ear corn at 1.42 this afternoon.
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Mt. Vernon
Chicago cash grain prices mixed across outputs
Chicago AP reports on Chicago Mercantile Exchange values for butter eggs and grains. Butter grades show high percentages around 74 to 90 with various subgrades listed. Eggs indicate favorable whites and yolk percentages. Wheat No 2 hard and No 2 red prices near 1.78 and 1.77. Corn No 2 yellow at 1.42. Oats No 2 heavy white at 0.73. Soybeans No 1 yellow at 2.985. Soybean oil quoted at 11.25.
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Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
St Louis Produce Egg and Poultry Prices Report
St Louis AP bulletin lists consumer egg grades and weights with prices for large medium small and wholesale grades. Hens heavy and light categories priced, under 5 pounds not priced, broilers and fryers without price.
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ST. Louis
Inez Strengthens as Hurricane Heads for Leeward Islands
Tropical storm Inez intensified into a hurricane with 80 mph winds and moved toward the Leeward Islands. Hurricane warnings were issued from Mario Galante to Antigua, with the storm expected to reach the Leewards Tuesday and threaten Puerto Rico. The center was 350 miles east of Guadeloupe and 670 miles east-southeast of San Juan, about 2,100 miles east-southeast of Florida.
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Miami
Fla
Inez
Weather Bureau
Caribbean Sea
Mario Galante
Antigua
Puerto Rico
Guadeloupe
San Juan
Florida Coast
Chicago Produce live poultry price report index
A market brief lists Chicago live poultry roasters price range 2414 to 2644 and special red white rock fryers at 1844 to 21. The AP USDA weekly circular notes current figures for poultry dealers and producer quotes.
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Chicago
USDA
Livestock Prices at National Stockyards Illinois
National Stockyards Illinois reports Tuesday estimates for hogs cattle calves and sheep. Hogs 9 000 barrows and gilts 200-250 lbs 23 00-23 50 sows 19 75-21 50. Cattle 6 500 calves 300 slow high choice and prime steers 25 75-26 00 good and choice steers 23 00-25 50 good and choice heifers 22 00-24 00 cows 17 00-19 00 good and choice healers 24 00-32 00 good and choice calves 20 00-24 00. Sheep 500 choice and prime spring lambs 24 00-25 00 good and choice 22 00-24 00 good and choice shorn lambs No 1-2 pelts 23 00-23 50 shorn ewes 5 00-8 00.
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National Stockyards
Ill
Wall Street stock averages edge lower at noon
Wall Street narrow declines persist with the AP 60 stock average slipping to 284.5 and the Dow at 787.97, led by losses in autos chemicals drugs tobacco rails and oils while Polaroid and Zenith show strength on strong demand and sales. Fractional gains appear for United Eastern and Pan Am Airlines.
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New York
Associated Press
du Pont
General Motors
General Electric
Polaroid
Zenith
United
Eastern
Pan American Airlines
American Stock Exchange
Space Walk Proves Tiring For Gordon And Conrad
Space mission notes show Gordon finding zero gravity exhausting during brief simulations and Conrad lauding the Agena rendezvous as successful and precisely executed on the first orbit.
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Gordon
Conrad
Dinner Meeting For Industrialists At Mt Vernon Elks
Winds Manufacturers Association will sponsor a dinner for Southern Illinois industrialists at Mt. Vernon Elks Club tomorrow September 27. Principal speaker William C. Croft of The Pyle National Company will discuss Government Business and Public Opinion. Other speakers include IMA executives E Edgerton Hart Orville V Bergren and Quentin M Lambert. Invited firms span Mt Vernon Centra lia Fairfield Salem Flora Harrisburg Marion Vandalia Mt Carmel Pinckneyville Carlyle.
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C. J. Covington
Denzer Electric Machinery Works, Inc
The
Winds Manufacturers’ Association
Illinois
Mt. Vernon
U. S. Naval Academy
U. S. Navy
Croft
California
Pyle National Company
IMA
E. Edgerton Hart
Orville V. Bergren
Quentin M. Lambert
Centralia
Fairfield
Salem
Flora
Harrisburg
Marion
Vandalia
Mt. Carmel
Pinckneyville
Carlyle
Relief rolls decline as costs rise in Illinois
Illinois public aid rolls fell about 10 percent since summer 1952 while nationwide ADC recipients rose 10 percent, an Illinois Public Aid official said at a planning meeting. Swank attributed the drop to training for ADC mothers and added staff help. He warned living-cost increases could push benefits up and medical expenditures will keep rising from 28.5 million to 73.6 million annually over the past decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Harold O. Swank
Ilinois Public Aid Department
Tinois
Swank
Bombs and crashes as Vietnam hostilities surge
In a predawn raid, Air Force B52 bombers struck North Vietnamese infiltration routes and storage areas while U.S. sources report three helicopters lost in South Vietnam due to groundfire artillery and crash. Two crewmen were killed and two injured in a Bien Hoa mine-field crash. Flooding rises in the Mekong Delta displacing about 20,000 Vietnamese with thousands more evacua tions. A combat zone armed forces TV station opened at Qui Nhon to broadcast to about 24,000 U.S. troops.
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Demilitarized Zone
Air Force
B52
U.S
South Viet Nam
Bien Hoa
Saigon
Mekong
Chau Doc
An Giang
Kien Phong
Kien Tuong
Armed Forces
Viet Nam
Qui Nhon
Finger Caught In Vending Machine
Richard Melelio, nine, at a Dallas bowling center, put a finger into a quarter slot and was trapped for an hour and 27 minutes before firefighters freed him with a hacksaw and pliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas Tex
Richard Melelio
Richard
Mt Vernon Marine Killed in Viet Nam War
Cpl. Crouch from Mt Vernon died fatally wounded Friday during Operation Deckhouse Four in Viet Nam near Quang Tri. He volunteered for service and sent cheerful letters home, expressing pride in his country. He was born November 18, 1947, son of Jack E. and Mary Ellen Maynor Crouch Sr., survived by his parents a brother and two sisters, with funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Viet Nam
Quang Tri
Cpl
Crouch
Vernon Marine
Cpl. Crouch
Mt. Vernon
Jack E
Mary Ellen (Maynor) Crouch
Myers Chapel
Mike
Vicki Reid
Creve Coeur
Ill
Tami
Turner Maynor
Erhard Seeks To Cut Reich Arms Buying
West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard seeks postponement of a 675 million arms deal and asks Johnson to curb the 31.35 billion in U S military equipment planned for two years. He meets Rusk Ball and McNamara at the White House amid talks on sharing nuclear weapons and space ventures.
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Washington
Ludwig Erhard
Johnson
Erhard
White House
State Department
Dean Rusk
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Bonn
U.S
Rusk
George W. Ball
West Germany
Germany
United Nations
Johnson Advisers See No Recession
Washington AP two top Johnson economic advisers say recession unlikely next year. Secretary Henry Fowler notes a tax increase remains possible while Gardner Ackley expects demand to stay strong unless Viet Nam defense tabs shrink. Fowler cites stabilizing financial markets after inflation warnings.
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Washington
Johnson
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Gardner Ackley
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Viet Nam
Fowler
ABC
Ackley
CBS
Illinois Medical Record Librarians Meet in Springfield
The fall meeting of the Illinois Association of Medical Record Librarians focused on Medicare and its relation to Blue Cross hospital and medical records. Attendees included Mrs. Sylvia Bean and staff from Jefferson Memorial Hospital. The group consists of registered medical record librarians technicians and others involved in hospital record systems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Association of Medical Record Librarians
Sylvia Bean
A.R.T
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Springfield
Holiday Inn East
Marriage Licenses Granted in State Area
James R. Witt age 21 of Mt Vernon area wed Kathryn Shannon 18 of Route 3 Mt Vernon. Paul Czerwinski 25 Scheller married Janet Panzier 19 Waltonville. Albert E. Kohute 25 Nason wed Glenda Border 24 Route 1 Herbert. Larry D. Sherwood 2 South 26th 19 Paula Ann Williams Bonnie Garry Thomason 19 Brenda Venters 16 Sims. Loyd C. Johnston 31 Whittington wed Katherine Pantaleo 35 Route 3 Benton.
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James R. Witt
Marteeny
Kathryn Shannon
Mt. Vernon
Paul Czerwinski
Scheller
Janet Panzier
Waltonville
Albert E. Kohute
Nason
Glenda Border
Herbert
Larry D. Sherwood
South 26Th
Paula Ann Williams
Bonnie
Garry Thomason
Brenda Venters
Sims
Loyd C. Johnston
Whittington
Katherine Pantaleo
Benton
Humphrey Seeks Ticket Spot As Kennedy Race Probes California
Vice President Hubert Humphrey toured California promoting Democratic candidates including Gov. Edmund G. Brown. He contrasted Johnson and Kennedy, said Viet Nam financing is affordable with restraint, and hinted at a possible place on the 1968 presidential ticket. A high school variety show at Mt. Vernon HS runs Thursday and Saturday, featuring 20 acts and new stage equipment.
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Boyarsky
Los Angeles
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S
Robert F. Kennedy
California
Johnson
Kennedy
Humphrey
Edmund G. Brown
Ronald Reagan
Viet Nam
Mt. Vernon High School
YMCA Sets Tribal Registration Night for Local Schools
Mt. Vernon YMCA will recruit and supervise the creation of Indian Guide and Princess Tribes at Mt. Vernon Old Union and Summersville schools. Registration opens with girls at 7 p.m. and boys at 8 p.m. Kindergarten through second grade are eligible with a father or substitute adult accompanying children. Jim Adams notes local participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Tribes
Mt. Vernon City
Old Union
Summersville
Mt. Vernon
German Ship Fire Could Have Been Disaster
A Coast Guard board found a diesel oil fire on the German liner Hanseatic at a New York pier would have been a catastrophe at sea. The blaze disabled power, pumps, and sprinklers within 15 minutes, risking total loss with 64 hours of fire control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coast Guard Board of Inquiry
Europe
Hanseatic
Hudson River
New York
New York City
Namath Compared to Waterfield by AFL Official Mel Hein
Mel Hein the American Football League supervisor of officials says Jets quarterback Joe Namath releases the ball so quickly he reminds him of Bob Waterfield. Hein notes Namath’s quick release as a key attribute in evaluating his play and potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mel Hein
American Football League
Joe Namath
Bob Waterfield
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