Jail fugitive surrenders in Indiana after manhunt
Illinois jailbreaker William A. Bender, 30, who escaped from Macoupin County jail, surrendered meekly to Indiana officers in a Somerville freight car. He had fled after armed robbery charges and a prior escape, was arrested with gun in hand but compliance given after orders. He faces extradition talks.
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Illinois
Somerville
Indiana
William A. Bender
Springfield
Ill
Macoupin County
Carlinville
Howard Lytton
Pike County
Wilmer Whitehead
Lytton
Bender
Saxton Mine
Standard City
George Caulfield
Mattoon
Caulfield
Whitehead
Jewel McVeigh 38 Dies in Albany Hospital
Services will be held Friday at 2 pm in Horse Prairie Church near Lesser for Jewel McVeigh 38 who died Friday night at General Hospital in Albany after living there for years. Burial in Horse Prairie Cemetery. She leaves husband Jesse son Jimmie Hamilton Navy Port Smith NH mother Maggie Atchison siblings William Whittington James Buckner and several sisters. Body arrived Brayfield Funeral Home Wednesday and friends may call.
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Jewel McVeigh
Horse Prairie
Lesser
Lepton Harpool
Vernon
Hugh Moore
Horse Prairie Cemetery
McVeigh
Sesser
General Hospital
Albany
Jesse
Jimmie Hamilton
U. S. Navy
Port Smith
N. H
Maggie Atchison
William
Whittington
James
Buckner
Freda Barber
Jackson, Mich
Beulah Hudson
Chesta Sulcer
Sadie Lewis
Brayfield Funeral Home
Egyptian Music Camp students visit St Louis Opera
More than half of the Egyptian Music Camp students, with faculty, attended the Municipal Opera in St Louis to view The New Moon. The trip aimed to inspire ideas for their own July 2 and 3 presentation of The New Moon at the camp.
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Municipal Opera
St. Louis
Joppa Plans Special Election On Sewer District
A July 8 special election will decide if Joppa residents want a sanitary district to fund a sewerage disposal system. A June 9 court ruling allowed only part of a nearby power plant to be included for tax purposes in district assessments. total plant cost cited as 197 million dollars.
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Joppa
Rites Held for Creal Springs Wreck Victim Edna Caughlin
Funeral services for Edna Caughlin 65 of Creal Springs were conducted at Mt. Moriah Church. She died in a head on collision east of Creal Springs Tuesday. Husband John Caughlin and Webb Deaton were injured and listed in fair condition at Marion Memorial Hospital. An inquest by Coroner Sam Sim mons is pending.
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Edna Caughlin
Creal Springs
Mt. Moriah Church
Cauglin
Malden
John Caughlin
Webb Deaton
Marion Memorial Hospital
Sam Simmons
State C of C backs flexible farm price supports
The Illinois State Chamber of Commerce representing 12,000 businessmen went on record supporting flexible price supports to replace rigid high price supports. Chamber president Waldo B. Ames urged a six point program to restore a sane basic farm policy and urged at least a 5 percent annual drop in support prices until surpluses are eliminated.
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Chicago
Illinois State Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Waldo B. Ames
Ames
Eldorado Citizens Inaugurate Action Band Wagon Day
Eldorado citizens will inaugurate Citizen Action in Operation Bootstrap Monday pledging to support the permanent Eldorado Community Development Association. The day follows an appraisal of the city life in economic development efforts with the slogan Keep the wheels rolling.
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Eldorado
Eldorado Community Development Association
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