Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 2

THE REGISTER-NEWS VERNON, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1911 FUNERALS Maggie Cross Of Belle Rive Dies At" Age 86 Years Mw. Margaret "Maggie" of Belle Rive, died at 10:30 this morning at the home of her son, T. Rosier Cross of 1000 Pace Avenue. Slie was 86. years, two months and 25 days of age.

Funeral services will be held Thtirsday at 2:00 p. m. at the Belie Rive Baptist church. The Rev. Bird Green and the Rev.

Grover Dorris will officiate and burial wlE be in Opdyke cemetery. The body will remain at Myers Chapel, where friends may call after 10 a. m. Wednesday. At noon Thursday the body will be moved to the church, to lie in state until the funeral hour.

Mrs. Cross was bom February 22, 1869 in Jefferson county, the daughter of Thcmias F. and Catherine (Scrivner) She was married to George Albert Cross, who preceded her in death November 5, 1941. Mrs. Cross was a member of the Belle Rive Baptist church.

She is survived by one son, T. Rosier Cross of Mt. Vernon; one brother, Homer Moore of Bluford; one sister, Mi-s. Cora Taylor of Mt. Vernon; and a grandson.

Alice R. Nooner Dies At Age 76; Funeral Friday Mrs. Alice R. Nooner of Flora, a former resident of Mt. Vernon, died at 11 o'clock last night at the Carmi hospital.

She was 76 years, ten months and 22 days of age. Mrs. Nooner resided in Mt. Vernon until five years ago. Funeral services will be held Friday at 1:30 p.

m. at Myers Chapel. The Rev. Bayne Wilson win officiate and burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. Friends may call at Myers Chapel after 2:00 p.

m. Thursday. Mrs. Nooner was bom June 24, 1878 in Moores Prairie township. She was married to William C.

Nooner, who preceded her in death. Her only survivors are grandchUdren, Jack Archer of Eldorado and Mrs. Richard Cas- bum of Flora, and eight great grandchildren. Harold Osborn Dies Suddenly At Age 56 Years Harold Osiwrn of RFD 2, Mt. Vernon, a well known former restaurant operator, died suddenly from a heart attack at 11:45 a.

m. yesterday. He was 56 years, two months and 20 days of age. Mr. Osbom was stricken while riding in a car on west Main street which was driven by his wife, Gladys.

They were on their way to visit a daughter. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p. m. in the Chapel of the Pulley Funeral Home. The Rev.

Bird Green will officiate and burial will be in Old Shiloh cemetery. The body will remain at the Pulley Funeral Home, where friends may call at any time. Mr. Osborn was born February 26,1899 in Jefferson county, the son of I. C.

and Ollie (Allen) Osborn. On February 28, 1925 he was married to Gladys Starky, who survives. Besides his wife, he is survived hy two sons, Charles F. and Kenneth both of Louisville, two daughters, Imogene McCoy and Robinson both of Mt. Vernon; seven grand children; two brothers, Clarence of Centralia and Glen of Mt Vernon; and four sisters, Ethel Saylor, Maud Bogan and Martha Jolly, all of Centralia, and Lora Bond of Pasadena, Calif.

He was preceded in death by a sister, Anna Sorenson, and two brothers, Homer and Thomas. Hoppa Child Dies; Rites Wednesday Carol Ann Hoppa, little daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hoppa of Ashley, died at 7:30 p. m.

Sunday in Children's Hospital in St. Louis. She was one year and three days of age. Carol Ann Had been ill for the past month. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at p.

at St Michael's church in Radom. Friends of the family may call at any time at the Kringer Fu neral Home in Ashley. Surviving, besides the parents are a brother, Jimmie, and a sis ter, Janet Sue. butch At Raise In Rents THE HAGUE, Premier Willem Drees' government lost a vote of confidence today on a proposal to boost some housing rents by 10 per cent. The lower house turned down the proposal 50-48, It is expected that Drees' ca binet, made up of Laborites and Catholics, will submit its resignation to Queen Juliana.

The Cabinet was formed Sept. 1952. Bulganin Says Russia Lags On Tool Output AtSMlattd Prtit LONDON Premier Nikolai Bulganin has warned the Soviet Union that it is lagging seriously in the production of sudi major inductrinl items as machine tools, oil, metals and chemicals. The Premier addressed the opening session Monday of a national conference in the Kremlin on increasing productivity. Moscow radio broadcast the speech today.

The importance of the conference was underlined by Che attendance of Bulganin, Communist party chief Nikita S. Khruschev, Deputy Premier Georgi Malenkov and other top leaders. Bulganin announced that to improve production, planning of the Soviet economy would be split into long-term and short-term aspects. A separate commission would be set up for each lipase, he said. MEETING ATTENTION SIB BaiTIGHTS A stated conclave of Patton Commandery No.

69 will be held Thursday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. Pot luck supper 6:30. George H. Ogletree, E. C.

Cecil N. Lovln, Rec. 5-18 SUGAR CEMETEBY will be a meeting at the Sugar Camp Cemetery on Saturday evening, May 21, to elect a new Trustee and there may be, some work to do around there fixing scats for the Memorial Day. Everyone come that can and help. The Memorial Day at Sugar Camp Cemetery will be on Sunday, the 29th day of May the afternoon.

Trustee. Wheel, Cigaret Tax Adopted; May Boost License For Clubs (Continued from Page One) BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Homer Campbe! 1405 White, are the parents of flaughtw born at 11:00 yesterday momlnSr in Good Samaritan hospital The infant weighed five pounds thirteen ounces and has hot been named. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles W. Cates the parents of a tyur bom at yesterday aftemcwi In Good Ittiwuritan hospital. the city 's arterial ing oil on streets The price, at .0939 cents per gallon, totals $3,230.16. The contract was awarded subject to approval of the state highway department.

City Manager Chester Lewis said that grading oi streets in the southwest part of the city has already started and that several blocks will be ready for oiling by Friday of this week. Annexation Problems With areas petitioning for annexation to the City of Mt, Vernon at a rapid rate, the city council last night discussed many of the complex problans connected with annexed areas. They decided to start work soon on an ordinance which would require areas seeking annexation to the city to meet certain standard, minimum requirements. Subdivisions made up by developers in the future, they pointed out, would have to live up to certain specifications before that area would be eligible for annexation. The council also instructed the city attorney to prejjare an amendment to the zoning ordinance stipulating that all property when annexed to the city would automatically become Class A residential zones, until such time as a public hearing could be held within a 90 day period.

The city manager was instructed to keep a constant check to see that newly annexed areas are properly carried on the tax books. Hospital Complains Residents residing in the area of Good Samaritan Hospital presented a petition to the council stating that foul, disagreeable and nauseating odors emanate from the chimney at Good Samaritan Hospital and that, at times, they must close their doors and windows and turn off their ventilating fans. Also, they said, the odor is sometimes accompanied by an oily soot which blackens clothing on lines. The petitioners asked that the city council do something to relieve the situation. City Manager Lewis said the situation has investigated and that the hospital board plans to spend several thousand dollars to take care of the situation, by installing a boiler for the hospital to be used during the summer months.

The city council last night also: the mayor's appointment of William C. Rack- away as city civil defense director. (Rackaway is already ing as Jefferson county civil defense director.) an ordinance annexing three lots in a Highlands to the city, and heard first reading of an ordinance which would annex the Earl D. Jamison home property to the city. Qty Attorney Alvin Lacy Williams explain that state statute requires a petition by 60 per cent of the footage property owners of a street before name of the street can be changed.

(The clarification was given after a request was made that the name of Centralia Road be changed to Wilshire Drive.) 4r-Appropriated $5,000 of motor fuel tax funds for the widening of Harrison street, frwn Tenth to Ninth, from the present 32 feet to 42 feet. increasing the theatre license but decided agahist a raise this year. a simplified method of numbering city ordinances. to adjourn until next Monday, May 23, to hear first reading of an ordinance for a census of newly annexed areas, for the purpose of increasing the dty's allotment of motor fuel tax funds. Decided to fellow next Monday night 's official meeting with an informal session to discuss this year 's appmniaticm dinance.

Housewife Wins $375,000 Prize Sy AiisclaKd Priu NEW YORK A Califomia woman and man were named today as winners of total of 000 in two infoi-mation contests. Thej' are: Mrs. Lelia Boroughs, 47-ycar- old housewife, of Beverly Hills, winner of S37 .0 (X) and a auto as top scorer in the American puzzle contest, sponsored by a year book publishing firm Unicorn publishers of the Unicorn Book of the year. FelLx Waldo Meeker. 65, of Reseda, winner of and a 52,500 auto for rankinc highest in an encyclopedia New- Funk Wagnalls Encyclopedia) puzzle-quiz contest sponsored by the Unicorn Press, Inc, The encyclopedia quiz, open to subscribers to the set, contained questions based on information it contains.

The American puzzle contest, open to subscribers of the year book, consisted of 114 puzzles in addition to original word and picture puzzles that the contestants were required to create. Third prize in the American puzzle contest went to George Edgar of Chicago, $75,000 and an auto. High School Senior Killed By AuMfiUd Prm KANKAKEE. A two car collision on Route 54, at nearby Bradley, Monday night caused the death of 18-year-old Kankakee High School senior and injuries to foiu- other persons. The dead youth was David Gast.

18, of Kankakee. Injured were Cast's two companions, Emerson Blackstock and Ronald Jenkins, both 18 and seniors at Kankakee High, and Kenneth W. Statler, 48, and his wife, Mary. 42, of Champaign, 111. All the injured were reported in "fair" condition at St, Mary's Hospital in Kankakee.

Authorities said the automobile occupied by the three high school youths turned over after the collision and caught fire. Other motorists pulled them from the car. REPORT ON POLIO VACCINE MUDDLE Oveta Culp Hobby, secretnrj- of Welfare, point to rrcsldent Eisenhower nt Washington, D. as brought an ll-point recommendation to the White House on polio situation. One proposal Is for 28 million dollar federal fund to help states provide vaeome (or children In low income fiimilies.

(AP Wircphoto) Japanese School Children Injured By A Prw special train carrying 1,400 school children slammed into a stalled U. S. Marine truck and trailer loaded with inflammable paint today. The train jumped the rails and burst into flames. PoUce said two were injured seriously and at least 31 others were hurt.

Scores of sleeping students were shaken up. In another accident, on Kyushu, Japan's southernmost island, a bus loaded with 54 primary schoolchildren caught fire today and 37 youngstere were burned in the blaze. Police said several may die. The train plower into the huge Marine truck and 25-ton trailer near the slopes of Mt. Fuji.

The trailer was stalled on the tracks while trying to negotiate a tricky S-tum. In God We Trust" On Paper Money By Atsoctatsd Pr9in WASIilNGTON The Hou.so Rnnkinp Comniiilec today appiovixt a bill to put the itiscription, "In God We Trust." on all U. S. money. The in.scripllon now appears on all coins.

Tlie bill sponsored by Rep. Bennett (D-Fla) would provide that the iascription be added to paper money when new dies are out. New dies are being planned now, Bennett said. $2,000,000 NEEDED FOR INSPICTOM (Continued from page One) STILL ON JOB -No retirement for her, says Marie Windsor, movie star. Her new hubby.

Jack Hupp, wants her to on before the cameras. Introduce New Bill To Purchase Polio Vaccine By Atlscllttd Prass SPRINGFIELD, now bill appropriating one million dollars for purchasing Salk polio vaccine was Introduced today in the Illinois House, Rep, John Lewis of Marshall. Republican floor leader, e.vpltiin- ed that a hitch had developed in a previous bill passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov, Stratton, The old bill also appropriated a million dollars but beoause it was approved as an cnierneiK 'y measure the money had to be spent or committed by next 30 when the presotit two-year state budget period ends. Lewis said it may be impossible to buy vaccine by that time. Consequently, a new bill avithor izing expenditure of the federal Rovenwient should be in eonti-ol." Shots Start Again Menmviiile, mass Inoculations of school ehildven were getting underway again after week-long halt by the govern- men I to Public Health Service teams to recheck manufnctuiers' safety standards.

Health authorities in Los and Spokane, ported many parents in thOM areas had withdrawn previously permission for their chll- ii 'ren lo be vaccinated. Official! atirihiiled this development to the occurrence of polio among some children after they hadb inorulated. In Plioenix, State Health Director Clarence SaLsbury he knew of few parentg wlio had taken back permission to inorulate their youngsters, but that of those I have talked to said they would go ahead 73 Vollo Cases As of Monday, the Health Serv. ice said it had confirmed 73 post- inoculation polio cases. The health service has emphasized that no connection has been establi.slu'd between the Salk vaccine and the polio cases.

Marclano-Cockell Fight At Granado 2 Days This Week Movies of the Rocky Marclano Dim Cockcll championship the nionev i prize fipht will be shown this until June 30, 1957, was filed. i fnday and Saturday at the Gm- was advanced in the House with- I Theatre. GUNS DON'T INTEREST HIM ANY Gen. John Sailing, one of three surviving veterans of the Confederate Army, seems more interested in the camera than in little George Elkins' pistoL i The old soldier recently spent his 109th birthday quietly sitting at his Slant, home, wearing a new "Texas style" hat and eating from a 40-pound birthday calie. AVI AIR New French airmail coming out June 8th honors Maryse Bastic, first woman to fly the AtlanUc.

The Frenchwoman set many speed and distance records in early days Chinese Reds Reject Protest Over Air Battle out the usual reference for committee consideration. The million dollars is intended to buy the vaccine for di.stribu- H. M. (Gillyl Burnett, Fox Theatres said that all nine rounds of the fight will sliown and out.standing fight slow motion. uu.v tiic lur cf will be deplctcd 'ln tion to 250,000 of an 1,800,000 Illinois youngsters under 15 who do not qualify for free shots under the national program applying to first and second grade children.

Don't Pork Car In Intersections Tries To Collect Taxes On Mail Order Cigarettes By Alloclittd anCAGO -Richard J. vMth grading alreadv state revenue dlreclior, way for Mt. Vernon's he is asking out of stttc street oiiing program, moionsts were urged today not to park thr'r cars in intersections. Emmit Lemay, public superintendent, said that when streets are blocked off motorists- cigarette mail order houses furnish him the names of in Illinois who buy cigarettes by mall to avoid payment et state ta.x. Lyons estimated that the prac- Stratton Asks For Creation Of Welfare Dept.

By Aiisciaud Prtii SPRINGFIELD. Governor Stratton's House leaders today submitted legislation carrying out his recommendation that a state code department be created to run Illinois public aid programs. The job is now handled by the Illinois Public Aid Commission but Stratton has said that an agency in charge of such a major function should have department status under direct supervision of the governor. The new department would be known as the Department of Public Assistance, supervising distribution of about 280 million dollars for relief, old age pensions, child aid and other programs. The present Illinois Public Aid Commission would continue in existence but would have an advisory capacity.

TO EACH HIS Koringa, an animal trainer with a circus in Paris, talces tune out to wrestle an alligator. She's quick to remind us that the ugiy 'gator is not recobimended to the average person as a claymate. Slavs Close Two Catholic Schools By A5sor.iated Press Yugoslavia President Tito's Communist government has closed two Roman Catholic, high schools in the big north Adriatic port of Rijeka Fiume after conviction of five staff members of "ho.stile activities" against the state. The action was reported Monday night hy Borba, official nev.spaper of the Yugoslav Communist party. It said the theological school was closed for five yeai-s and the classical high scnool fur tiirce.

Borba said the order was issued after Josip Kapsh, perfect By AlsocMlfd MUNSAN, Korea Communists today officially rejected a I' protest over the May find parking places a.s tice costs the state between Yellow Sea air battle in which near to their homes a.s possible. j-iOO and in revenue two and possibly four Russian but that they must not park in pach vear. He said that demand, built MlGs were shot down. intersections. for paxment of ta.xes wiU be The MIGs attacked a flight ofl Sucli said, results to individual purchasers U.

S. Sabre.iets 55 miles southwest of Sinuiju, North Korea. Maj. Gen. Harlan C.

Parks of the U. S. Air Force, senior UNMAC member, announced he had received a letter from the Communist members. "The Communist letter contains the usual outright false- in a dangerous fire in if the taxes are not that the fire truck may be blocked if called to a fire in the area. Hospital Notes IsrE.MORI.\L Admitted: Mrs, Bessie Fox, hoods and complete distortion of Keenes; Mi.ss Anna Ma.son, Mc- iacts Gen.

Parks said. I Leans bo ro; Master Stevie Strick- paid, the attorney general 's office will be requested to file for collection. He stated the letter claimed the incident took place over.) i a i Province, Northeast China. "The U. S.

Air Force has established by radar tracking, logs, pilot reports and other indisputable means that the Sabrejet-MIG battle definitely took place 55 miles southwest of Sinuiju," in North Korea, Parks said. AIRPORT NEWS of the theolorrical and fcur other defendants were sentenced to prison tcrm.s from one to years hy the District Court of Rijeka. It they had "slandered state authorities and fascism," The newspaper ai.so charged that foe Roman Catholic bishop flew hei-e yesterday and spent of Rijeka, Ivan Pavlasic, tried to the night. influence witnesses to testify I Earl Outland fleW Jerome falsely, 'Classman to Moline this morning. Jack Hughes of Abileen, Te.x., land, Claude Pickett, Mr.s.

Theda Shehorn Mrs. Belle Groves; William Albert Sanders. Discharged: Kern Masters, Kell; Larry Purdue, Kell; Mrs. Yvonne Lunnmann, Wayne City; Mrs. Audrey Gold.

GOOD SAMAKITAX Admitted: Mrs. Pearl Irene Wiggin.s, Rodgeway; Mrs. Helen Louise Fitzgorrell. Ina; Mrs. Jane Regina Kielbey, William Trinei, Mrs.

Marjorie Paulino Tliomp.son, Mrs. Lura Feme Eubank, Clyde Wright Reeves, Mrs. Lesta May Bruggen. Discharged: Mrs. Mary Laur, Thomas R.

Reed, Mrs. Phyllis Lee Young and baby daughter, Debra Ann; John Louis Willis; William Arthur Cochran; Eldon Richard Brown, Fairfield. MCLAUGHLIN'S CAFE 2ith Broadn-ftj 4M SPECIAL FOR ONLY BREADED PORK TENDERLOIN Served with of 3: Whipped Potatoes. Sliced Tomatoes and Onions, French Fried Onion Rings, Navy Beans, Corn Sticks. Former Justice Of Supreme Court Roberts Is Dead By Press PHOENIXVILLE, Pa.

Owen J. Roberts, retired former associate justice of the U. Supreme Court, died today at his home. He was 80 last May 2, and had retired from the bench in 1945. Roberts suffered a heart attack and died at 9:25 a.

m. (CST). His widow and an only child, Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, were at his bedside. The justice, named to the nation's highest court in 1930 hy former Presddent Herbert Hoover, had been ill for some time.

Until last weekend he had been a patient in a Philadelphia hospital. Friends quoted him as saying that if he was to die he preferred to he at home, at his estate in nearby Chester Springs, 30 miles west of Philadelphia. What more is there anyprice Perhaps you've told yourself: "Some day I'm going 'all out' on a the best that money can buy in style, luxury and comfort," Well, before you throw your money around, better ask yourself a few questions. Have you ever seen a car with more style distmction than this new and low and dashing? Can New Dodge Custom Royol Loncar 4 -Ooor lo 9 inches longer than other cars in lb class. any car, even the most costly, ofifer more roomy luxury, or more beautiful fabrics and appointments? THI Is there anything on the road to surpass the brilliant performance of the Dodge aircrafl-lype V-8 engine? NBW The answer to these questions is waiting at your dealer's.

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