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

a a a 2 THE REGISTER- MT. VERNON, ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1956 HEART- -LUNG FUND WORKERS GO TO A PARTY. 14 The youngsters above were guests of Harry Henn and the American Logion last night at an enjoyable party at the Legion Home. The party was their reward for hours of work mowing lawns 10 earn money heart-lung machine fund" campaign. The young people made $127.50 and turned it over to the fund.

At left Phyllis Henn, leador of the lawn-mowing project. 10 Fire Chief Paul Partridge. presents the hard money The local fire 'department conducted the six-day campaign here. Young people in the picture above are: row, from the left Ricky Ilayes, Russell Bowling. Steve Kiss.

Second row, from the left Beverly Spillman, Sharon Hayes. Mary Heidenreich, Kathy Robinson. Phyllis lenn, Myra Sue Cummings. Carolyn Brookman. Judy ('Block.

Third row. from the left -Judy Hanna. Janet Blackard. Mary Ellen Hutchison. Barvie Thatcher, Millicent Ledbetel.

Doris O'Block. Carolyn Ziegler, Johnny Jackson. Back ow, from the left Keith Painter, Charles Yearwood. (Leitzell Photos) Red Cross To Meet On United Fund Proposal Directors of the local R.ed Cross chapter will meet in the -conditioned directors room at the First National Bank Friday to discuss the United Fund situation. Board members include: John Kirk.

J. Curtis Starr. Mrs. Jerry Bond. Ben Bullock.

Al Ansorge, Dr. R. A. Alexander, Al Berg. Paul Broyles, Mrs.

Howard Casey, Charles C. Croup, Lyle Endicoit, David Gerrish. Fred llawkins. John Howard. George Heidenreich.

Mrs. Philip Newkirk. Mrs. Claude Schmidt, Jess Stringfield. Claude Schoch, Roger Smith.

Ray Tibbs, Lynn O. Welge and Guy Wood, Jr. Due to the importance of the business to be discussed chapter officers are urging all directors to attend the meeting. AIRPORT NEWS Larry Forrestal made a flight to Galesburg and return today. Frank Smoot flew to Springfield, Ill.

this morning. Gene Tumbleson made a flight from Alton to Mt. Vernon today. President Signs Bill For Funds For 'Cold War' WASHINGTON (P President Eisenhower has signed a bill supplying $3.766.000,000 to 54 nations for the next year to reinforce their armed services and economies in the cold war with Communism. Bank Robbed At Campbell Hill CAMPBELL HILL.

Ill. (P--The First State Bank of Campbell Hill was robbed today by two armed men who escaped in a florist shop truck believed stolen in Murphysboro. A report of the amount stolen was not immediately available. Campbell Hill is in Jackson County about 20 miles northwest of Murphysboro. COUNTY SAFETY COUNCIL FORMED HERE LAST NIGHT from Page One) him or some member of the Executive Committee as soon as possible.

It is believed that the Council is one of the first county-wide Safety Councils to be organized in Illinois. It is epected that the group will become affiliates of the Illinois Traffic Safety Council and of the National Safety Council. The organization is the result of two prior meetings of interested persons and organizations called by the Mt. VerBusiness and Professional Womans Club whose primary civic project for the year is the At a meeting held 12 promotion of traffic representatives of twenty-seven groups decided that a Council should be organized. By-laws and nominating committees were appointed and reported at last night's meeting.

Members of the By-laws committee were Jim Trammel, Mrs. Esther Firebaugh, Mrs. Jean Koziara, ard Phillips and Eugene Baker. The nominating committee consisted of Charles Covington, Mrs. Josie Lambert, Sobel Davis.

Mrs. Maxine Higgins and David Underwood. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bohnenkamp of St.

Louis are the parents daughter born Sunday, July 29, at Christian Hospital in that city. She weighed nine pounds four ounces and has been named Cindy Catherine. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oliger of Belle Rive.

Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Piper of Ft. Benning, are the parents of a son born July 30 in the Army Hospital at the Base. He weighed seven pounds three ounces and has been named Joseph Nelson.

The mother is the former Miss Cleta Riley of this city and the grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Riley and Charlie Piper all of Mt. Vernon. A daughter was born to Mr.

and Mrs. Delmar McDonald of Kell at 9:23 o'clock last night in Good Samaritan hospital. She weighed seven pounds twelve ounces and has been named Debra Jean. Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Frederick Ramsey, 411 south 6th street, are of 8 daughter born yesterday afternoon at 3:07 o'- clock in Good Samaritan hospital. She weighed seven pounds eight ounces and has been named Catherine Diane. A daughter was horn to Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Benjamin of Woodlawn at 1:05 o'clock this morning in Good Samaritan hospital.

She weighed seven pounds five ounces and has been named Debra Carol. PLENTY FRESN MILK YOUR FAVORITE FLAVOR 3 DIPS Ask for Your Favorite Soda, Sundae or Malted Milk Made With Delicious STARR'S ICE CREAM AT Side North Davis Drugs 123 Phone of PRESCRIPTIONS Frank Square Davis Phar. in DEATHS Elsie Clark, 79, Former Resident, Dies At Ashley Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie a former resident of Mt. Vernon.

will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday in the chapel of the Pulley Funeral Home. Mrs. Clark was 74 years, 10 months, and 16 days of age.

The Rev. George H. Shelton will conduct the services. and burial will he in Abner cemetery. near Nason.

Friends the Pulley Funeral Home at any time. Mrs. Clark died at 9.40 A. m. Monday.

at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Lorena Swanson of Ashicy. She had been in fail. ing health for five scars.

and had been critically ill for the past three weeks. Mrs. Clark was born August 15. 1881. in Jefferson county.

the daughter of William L. and Mary Cates. June 3, 1900. she was mar. ricon in Mt.

Vernon 10 Charles O. Clark, who survives. She was a member of the United Brethren church. Surviving. besides her husband are three sons.

LeRov Mt. Vernon. Clyde Clark Clarions duke and Chiton Clark of Bellerille: three daughters Lorena Swanson of Ashley. Mareta Pace of Dix. and Lottie Raines of Mt.

of Portland. and 11 grandVernon: one sister. Susan Elkins 8 8 8 children. She was preceded in death 1: two sons. three brothers, and two sisters.

R. T. Whitener Dies At Age 48; Funeral Friday Roligh Whitener, of 900 Bledsoe. Mt. Vernon.

died at 3:10 this morning at his home. He was 48 years old. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at Chapel.

The Rev. Cooper and Rev. Virgil Huffstutler will conduct the services, and burial will be in Bethel Memorial cemetery. Friends may call Myers Chapel after 3 p. m.

Thursday. Mr. Whitener was born May 16, 1908. in Wayne county the son of Henry and Debbie (Hodge) Whitener. In 1938.

the was married to Dora Overturf Cape Girardeau, Mo. A veteran of World War II, he served in the army. He had been a shear operator at the Car Company for 25 years. Surviving are his wife: one daughter, Mrs. Mabel Dornin of Poplar Bluff, three sons, Clifton Norvell of Pontiac.

and Warnie, who is with the U. S. Air Force in Japan; half brother, Edgar Robison of East Prairie, and four grandchildren. Arthur Smith Dies At Age 79 At McLeansboro Arthur Smith, a retired farmer of RFD 5, McLeansboro, died at his home at 12:30 this morning. He was 79 years old.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time, but the body will lie in state at the Gholson Funeral Home in McLeansboro. Mr. Smith was born July 4, 1877, in Hamilton county. He was married to Ellamae Sparks, who survives. was a member of the New Salem Baptist church, and a member of the Masonic lodge.

Surviving, besides his wife, are two sons, Robert of California and Eugene of Missouri: two daughters, Mrs. Alice Irene Brown and Newell Childs. both of California: and two sisters in McLeansboro, Mrs. Daisy Lockwood and Lorene Smith. Bertha Hindman Of McLeansboro Dies At Age 80 Funeral services for Mrs.

Bertha Hindman of will be held at 1 p. m. Friday at the Presbyterian church in McLeansboro. Mrs. Hindman died a1.

10:30 p. m. yesterday at the Pierce Hospital in Eldorado. She was 80 years of age. The Rev.

Allen F. Vinton will conduct the services. and burial will be in the 1. 0. F.

tery McLeansboro. Friends may call Funeral Home in Nolcansboro atter 2 p. IN. today. Mrs.

Hindman was born Septtember 26. 1875. in Hamilton county, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Harris.

She WAS married to James Hindman, who preceded her in death. She was a member of the Presbyterian church in Mcleansboro. She is survived by five nieces and three nephews. McLeansboro To Have Jubilee MCLEANSBORO, MI. (P McLeansboro has a community juhilee scheduled Aug.

10 to celebrate the dedication of a new plant for the Elder Mig. 8 St. Louis Elder making had 8 branch in Micfirm. Leansboro since 1922 and is one of the city's major industries. for When the firm announced plans expansion, citizens formed the McLeansboro Industrial Development Co-p.

and bought the sompany's existing plant for $35,000. This amount coupled with a 000 loan from onetime governor John Steele McLeansboro enabled the firm to build 8 new $125,000 factory building. The McLeansboro Industrial Development Corp. hopes to lure a new industry into the old Elder building. Elder now employes 236 workers.

A company official said 50 more will be added when the firm begins operation in its sew plant. Governor To Speak Tonight On Hodge Probe mediaiely. SEE STRONG CHANCE FOR FIRST BALLOT (Continued from Page One) CHICAGO UP--Gov. Stratton will go on the air tonight on his ouster of State Auditor Otville Hodge. The governor will speak from 6:30 to 7 p.

m. EST over WBBM radio and television, the local CBS affiliate. The broadcast will be "tape recorded and carried later stations in Champaign, Springfield, Quincy, Decatur, Rock Island and Peoria. Stratton demanded Hodge's resignation after disclosure of check cashing scandal in the former state auditor's office. Herbert.

C. Paschen, Democratic candidate for governor, was also granted equal time by WBBM to respond to Stratton's report. Paschen's comment will be given next Wednesday at the same time. William Ray, NBC news director in Chicago, again asked Stratton to discuss the Hodge issue on the station's City Desk program. governor should be willing to face unrehearsed questioning from newsmen on this program, Ray said.

Stratton did not reply im- in any of the party preferential primaries with Stevenson and Kefauver, said. "The Democrats want a fighting leader and I am sure I can till that "I will not withdraw," he said. "Never." A suggestion that he do so came from Mark R. Holloran of Louis, a Democratic national committeeman and backer of Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri for the presidential nomination.

"It the race is over, Holloran said. "it is over and that's all there is to it." Holloran is a friend of former President Truman, who said Kefauver's withdrawal "does not change my position of neutrality" concerning the race for the nomination. Stevenson told newsmen at Chicago he had been trying to reach Kefauver by telephone "to express to him my gratitude for this gracious and spontaneous expression of his support," and he continued: "I respect Sen. Kefauver as thoughtful. liberal Democrat.

We share a grave anxiety about drift at home and deterioration abroad under faltering leadership and a divided party." Prior to Kefauver's withdrawal, the latest Associated Press tabucompared with 371 for Stevenson and 136 for Harriman. Nomina- Fall IKE SAYS HE CAN GO FOUR MORE YEARS tions during a 30-minute session sure voice and to be in a confident mood. On other subjects Eisenhower had this to say: Suez The international crisis generated by Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal is one which must be handled with great care. Eisenhower added We must make sure that certain rights of the world connection with use of the great waterway are not abused. On the question of the possibility of putting the canal under international control.

a reporter remarked that such a step might lead to suggestions by other tions that the U.S. owned and operated Panama Canal be internationalized. Eisenhower replied that conditions in the two cases are not the same. The great problem now, he said, to sure that the Suez is preserved as an international waterway. Doing that.

he added, is vital to the U.S. economy and welfare. Congress The record of the 84th Congress, which adjourned last Friday, leaves him with mixed emotions. The performance lawmakers pleased him in some respects, left him regretful in some. and frankly disappointed In others.

Some of the legislation he pro: posed in his January State of tho Union message was enacted. senhower commented without 20- ing any detail. Eisenhower said tat while: there was a whole list of legisla-: tion which Congress passed up. that W'AS one of those human things. He said he is not completely satisfied about, the record of Congress.

Racial A reporter told Eisen. hower that in connection with political primaries in te South there has been "violent talk of the race issue." The reporter asked whether the President feels that candidates who engage in such talk render a disservice to the country. Replying, Eisenhower said he had not been aware of such talk. didn't know it was going on. and that he deplores it.

The President called such activity a very grave error and disservice to the try. tion will require delegate votes. GENERAL HOME CONSTRUCTION Roofing. Siding, Remodeling Nothing Down-Up to 8 Years to Pay. Phone Bluford 3021.

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ana congressmen threw the state's politics into a spin today after humiliating Gov. Earl Long with smashing victories in their bids for renomination in the Democratic primary election. Rep. T. A.

Thompson defeated three Long-backed candidates in the 77th Congressional Dist. race and Rep. Otto Passman won over two -supported candidates in the 5th. Victory in Tuesday's balloting amounted to election in this state. Long was not available for comment on the outcome.

Fur other representatives won renomination in two-way races. Two representatives and Sen. Russell Long were unopposed. Interest was centered on the Thompson and Passman races, in which Long took a personal hand. There was little state interest in the other races.

Long's political prestige also took a beating in New Orleans and in the Sth Dist. Long's home district. Four Long-backed candirintes for judgeships Were roundly defeated in New Oroans and Long's sister (lara Long Knot of Many trailed Alexandria Ally. Harold MeSaeen In the 8th Dist. Board of Education race.

Thompson's explanation was that the results "showed the POOple's Arkansas Chief Is Easy Winner LITTLE ROCK. Ark. Orval Faubus sailed toward a sec. ond term today. the casy victor over four opponents in Arkansas' Democratic primary.

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Henry Mossberger Phone 4858 1732 Main Sgt. McKeon Weeps Under Questioning (Continued from page one; Crosses, second highest award this nation can bestow. Puller, who is slated 10 appear Thursday. is considered by Berman as an expert on Marine training methods. In his testimony, McKeon said the highest the water ever got him as he led the men through the mulch and water of the marsh WAS midway of his chest.

A measuring tape indicated the depth at 4 feet 8 inches. On A wooden foot mockup of the Ribbon Creek area, McKeon pointed out the death route of Platoon 71. The courtroom. muggy in the aftermath of a heavy rain, was filled and tense. Only McKeon's voice and the whirring of fans broke the silence.

"I went off the bank first. I turned and told the people to follow me. I took two or three steps out toward the center of the creek I took them right parallel 10 the bank approximately 25 feet. 30 feet, and made a left I don't recall how many steps I Meleon traced his horseshoe route into deep water and then: "There yelling a big, mad commotion. It was from right.

maybe 30 foot from my right and 20 feet behind me. (The commotion. therefore, would have been toward the center of Ribbon Creck. 1 turned around when all the shouting started. "I seen this group out there splashing the water "I told everybody to get out of the water and I started swimming out to this group.

A kid was headed back toward me. I latched onto his jacket and pulled him in where he could stand up. saw the top of a kid's head far Git and three or four others splashing. As headed out this boy latched in to 110 Ho had hold of my nock. We went down land came up.

I told him to keep his head and I'd get him out. WAS a colored boy. don't know who he was. I thought it was Pvt. Wood (Norman Wood.

a victim). We went a second time was pulling to the top when this kid lot 9'0. 'That was the last 1 Seen of him." At this point. wept. The court was briefly to let him regain his composure.

Subsequently, he told the court his solo purpose 111 ordering the march was to each discipline. "I-' beheved 'it would build up morale. Nothing else had scerned to Ky. Police Say Limbs Are Trees LOUISVILLE. Ky.

Any policemen who can't tell a tree from limb may find himself out one. Police Chief Carl Houstis complained that on two occasions emergency sanitation crew's were summoned by police cruisers to remove "a tree across the street" and that in each case all that was found was a small limb about an inch in diameter. FOR YOUR TOP VALUE USED CAR SEE CARR SERVICE GARAGE De Soto Plymouth 818 Main Street Phone 88 Open Till 8:00 p. m. Hospital Notes GOOD SAMARITAN Admitted: Mrs.

Ruth A. Gibson: Dan Morgan; Mrs. V. June Richard; Master Tony Raines Baldridge: Miss Karen Canterbury: Miss Carol Jeanne Hobbs; Mrs. Laura Elizabeth Estes.

Discharged: Mrs. Edith Linkon: Mrs. Alice Sexton: Mrs. Beulah Fullerton and baby, Arthus Morris; Mrs. Doris Marie Brown; Mrs.

Ruic Baltzell Prindie; Mrs. Jean Helen Burke and Clarence Garret; Mrs. Eva Riley: William Coombs: Mrs. Jennie Ruth Thompson and baby George Frank Jr. Mrs.

Colleen J. McDonald and baby, Debra Jean: Mrs. Oddie Bell Cooksie and baby, Nadine: Mrs. Virginia Maxine Masters and baby. BradIcy Gene: Mrs.

Mary Lou Sigwerth: Mrs. Mabel Mary Farmor; Mrs. Cleva Mardella Klebba and baby Billy Ray. JEFFERSON MEMORIAL Admitted: Clayburn R. Lampp: Walter Garrison, Keenes; Jack Smith, Bernadine Seibman, Salem: Finis Koontz; Mrs.

Esther Fields; Mrs. May Yardley, Bonnie. $32 Is Stolen From Mt. V. Home The theft of $32 from A Mt.

Vernon home was reported 10 police headquarters late Tuesday. Wilbur Mefford said a thief entered his home at 421 south street while the family was away and took $16.30 in dimes $16 in change from a vase and coin bank. The theft occurred either Sunday or Monday, he told officers. Gets 6 Months In County Jail John A. McCarthy.

58. WAS sentenced to six months in the county jail here yesterday by Judge Dale Andrews. Judge revoked McCarthy's probation which had previously been granted on a vagrancy charge. FURNACE CLEANING Flue Chimney Stokers Blowers Mobile Unit Vacuum Cleaner N. L.

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Box 33 Business 955 Residence Phone 2841 Road Oiling Is Progressing In County Areas, Despite heavy rains, the oiling of rural roads of Jefferson county is progressing well. One of the longest roads in the county has been completed. County Board Chairman Walter Rhodes said. It is the road which extends from Ina to Belle Rive and on to Bluford. Ed Champ, chairman of the State Aid Road Committee of the county, revealed that plans for opening a road west of Waltonville to connect this county with Perry county are progressing.

Test piling was driven yesterday for the new bridge on the road west of Waltonville. The contract for the construction was awarded by the state to C. J. Moritz of Effingham. A letting is scheduled in September for the road improvement work.

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