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The Daily Times from Davenport, Iowa • 10

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The Daily Timesi
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Davenport, Iowa
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Tuesday, March 28, 1961 THE DAILY TIMES Davenport Bettendorf, Iowa 10 Death Notices John Wall, Ex-Salesman, Dies at 69 John K. "Jack" Wall, 69, retired salesman, died at 11:15 p.m, Monday in Mercy Hospital, His home was at 2618 Harrison Davenport. Funeral serv-1 ices will be held at 8:30 Thursday from Halligan Funeral Home with funer al bless- Wall ing at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church at 9 a.m. There will be a funeral mass Tuesday, April 4, at St.

Paul's at 9 a.m. The Rosary will be recited at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Halligan's. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today.

Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Mr. Wall was a native of Philadelphia and had lived in Davenport for 48 years. He married Rose Behncke in San Francisco Jan. 28, 1913.

He at one time was a member of the Davenport Police department, Surviving are the wife: a daughter, Mrs. Mary Feddersen of Davenport, and six grandchildren. A daughter preceded him in death. HARRY WEAVER Harry Weaver, 75, of 1327 Perry died at 11:15 a.m. today in Mercy Hospital after an extended illness.

He was born in Clinton. Dec. 11, 1885, and had been a resident of Davenport for the past 62 years. He is survived by one grandniece, two great grandnieces, and two great grand-nephews. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m.

Thursday in the Runge Chapel. Burial will be in Dav. enport Memorial Park. DEWITT MALVERN PAARMANN DEWITT. Iowa Services for Malvern A.

Paarmann, 57, DeWitt farmer, who died Monday in DeWitt Community Hospital, will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Grace Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Clinton Memorial Park Cemetery. His body is in the McGinnis Funeral Home from which it will be taken to the church at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Mr. Paaraman was born in Clinton County and married Aulda Block Feb. 23, 1927 at Grand Mound. A life long resident of Clinton, he engaged in farming. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Mrs.

Norman (Carol) King, Davenport; three sons, Wayne, Glenn and Kenneth, all of DeWitt; four brothers, Joe, Linley, Harry and Virtus, all of DeWitt: two sisters, Mrs. William Rathmann, DeWitt; and Mrs. Anna Sweet, Charlotte; and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, one sister and four grandchildren. MOLINE MRS.

E. DRUCILLA CROUCH Crouch, Services for Mrs. E. Drucilla 42, of 3116 3rd Moline, who died Monday in Moline Public Hospital, will be Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Esterdahl Chapel, Moline.

The Rev. Raymond Carter of First Baptist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Greenview Memorial Gardens. Friends may call tonight at the chapel, Born in Detroit, Edith Dillingham married Carson R. Crouch June 21, 1957 in East Moline.

She had lived in the area 25 years and had been co-owner of the Clothing Co. for 20 years Survivors include her husband; a son, William E. Hamerly, East Moline, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.

E. Dillingham, East Moline. BELCHER INFANT Graveside services for George Goeffrey Belcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F.

Belcher, 41 Eastmoreland Decatur, formerly of Moline, were conducted Saturday by Dr. William Cutlip in Un-1 ion Cemetery, Lincoln. The child died at birth Thursday. Surviving are the parents, a brother, Danny, at home, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

George Oltmanns, Lincoln. EAST MOLINE MILLER SERVICES Services for John J. Miller, 65, of 347 22nd St. East Moline, who died Sunday in Moline Lutheran Hospital, will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in Watertown Baptist Church, East Moline, with burial in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline.

Masonic services will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Primm Sullivan Funeral Home, East Moline, where friends may call. ALBERT ALLEN Funeral services for Albert Allen, 61, Chicago, a former resident of Moline, will be at 2 p.m, Wednesday in Mt. Zion Baptist Church. East Moline.

Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Moline. Mr. Allen died Sunday in Chicago. Nicholson Funeral Home, Davenport is in charge of arrangements. A native of Slayten, Mr.

Allen resided in East Moline until moving to Chicago 20 years ago. Surviving are two brothers, Sam Allen. Rock Island, and Joe Allen, Nashville, and three sisters, Mrs. Pherson Law. rence.

Mrs. Clara Dotson and Miss Ruth Allen, all of East Moline. LOUIS VANDER GINST Louis VanderGinst, 49, of 623 18th East Moline, died today in Veterans Hospital, Iowa City. The body is at VanHoe Funeral Home, East Moline, He was a drill press operator at Rock Island Arsenal 24 years. ROCK ISLAND BRADLY FIGLE Bradley Wayne Figle, two-anda-half year old son of Marvin and Dorothy Brinkman Figle, former residents of Rock Island, died Friday afternoon at Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Funeral services were Monday afternoon at the Lady Sargent Funeral Home, Macomb, with burial in Oakwood Cemetery.

Among survivors are the parents and a sister, Tammy Lynn. GREEN ROCK Mrs. Aubrey Hemphill, 56, of Green Rock, died at 9 p.m. day in her home. The body was taken to Fairman Funeral Home, Green Rock.

Elizabeth Reineman, a native of Grand Junction, Iowa, was married to Aubrey Hemphill in 1923 at Estherville. Surviving are the husband; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Reineman; four sons, Lyle and Robert of Green Rock, David, at home and Donald of Silvis; a sister, Mrs. Roy Elwood of Estherville; two brothers.

John of Grand Junction and Andy of Boone, and 13 grandchildren, MRS. AUBREY HEMPHILL. Contest Prize Mrs. Larry Siegel, of 2131 Koh. ler Davenport, has won third prize of $25 in a book review contest sponsored by The Rotarian, a magazine published by The Rotary Club.

A free-lance writer, Mrs. Siegel has had several articles published in various other magazines. PLEDGE FRATERNITY Two area students, James Steffen, Davenport, and Keith Seifert, Grand Mound, were among 33 students at Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, named as pledges to Theta Chapter of Phi Sigma Epsilon, national SOcial fraternity. FUNERAL INFORMATION Thursday HARRY WEAVER, 75 1327 Perry Street Chapel, 1 p.m. the RUNGE MORTUARY 824 West 3rd Street Dial 322-6249 Staves Off New Mobs FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

(AP)-Police laboriously booked a big, new batch of college boys today while city fathers pondered how to head off more mob revelry by thousands of student vacationists. An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 beerdrinking, hooting collegians kept the entire Fort Lauderdale police department on the jump Monday night. Officers collared more than 100 young people and said they would charge them with disturbing the, peace and public intoxication, Boycott BOWLING GREEN, Ohio, (AP) A classroom boycott was undertaken today at Bowling Green State University after two nights of student demonstrations. Some 2.000 000 students, after running wild through this city's down town area last night, took the suggestion of a minister that a more sedate demonstration be held to protest their grievances against university policy. Composer Plans Kansas Musical Iowa Composer Meredith Willson has completed the score for a dramatic and musical spectacular to be produced in Kansas in June.

David Dardis, 4438 Brady was informed today. Willson told the Central Hi School student that the score for "The Kansas Story" includes a march, "My State, My Kansas, My Home." He said his future writing "does not include an Iowa musical as yet." Willson is best known for his Broadway musical, "The Music) Man," which has its locale the mythical Iowa "River City," patterned after his home town of Mason City. Dardis received the letter as part of his class' project of obtaining correspondence from famous personalities. The letters will be placed in the school's "Hall of Trinity Pupils To Make Gifts For Mission Children of Trinity Lutheran School will present contributions from their "self denial" banks (in a special ceremony in Trinity Lutheran Church at 9 a.m. Thursday.

Contributions will go toward building a new mission church at Newton. Pastor Fred Ilten will officiate at the ceremony. The school's two choirs will participate in Good Friday afternoon services at the church. EX-PUBLISHER DIES CRANFORD, N. J.

(AP) Leonard Franklin Sawvel, 77, former owner and publisher of the old Elizabeth N. J. Evening Times, died Saturday. Sawvel, who at one time owned a daily newspaper in Waukegan, was the founder of the national magazine of the Loyal Order of Moose. He was born in Canfield.

Ohio. Oakdale A Cordial Invitation to visit beautiful Oakdale, Cemetery, one of the most beautiful burial grounds in the Mid West. place of natural beauty and peace, Oakdale Cemetery, a profit organization, hos been serving Davenport and Scott County for more than century. On Oakdole's tree-clad hills there space available for another hundred years. Let us show you why Oakdale has been the cemetery of high tradition, good taste and reasonable cost throughout the years.

Let us tell you about our pre-need and petual care plans. City buses stop at cemetery gate. Phone 324-5121 More Storms Blast Nation; 2 Are Dead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Winds diminished and skies cleared in most of the Midwest today but more rain dampened soggy areas in the South in the wake of Monday's violent weather. Flood conditions appeared worsening in sections of Iowa and Wis. consin, Hundreds of persons have been forced from their homes by overflows of rivers and streams.

Tornadoes, thunderstorms, hail and gale-force winds battered wide areas of the South and Midwest Monday and Monday night, causing extensive property dam- Tornadoes struck in Texas and Louisiana and winds up to 100 m.p.h. lashed northern Illinois. Tornadie winds, heavy, rain and Scaffolding Collapses, 4 Are Hurt IOWA CITY (AP)-Four workmen were injured and a fifth escaped injury in the collapse of scaffolding on which they were standing high inside a huge coal storage silo being constructed at the State University of Iowa. The extent of their injuries was not immediately determined. They were working for the Winger Construction Co.

of Ottumwa, on one of two such silos at the SUI power plant. Taken to the hospital were Bob Schlesseman, 35, Victor; Gale Shaver, 34, Kalona, both bricklayand helpers Bill Skriver, 22, hers; Coralville, and Ronald Reynor, 19, Lone Tree. Harold Henkelman, 34, Oxford. another bricklayer, was rescued from about 55 feet above the ground while holding onto some of the pipe scaffolding which remained erect. Area Ranks 2nd in Home Construction Davenport Bettendorf ranked second in the state in amount of home building permits and value during February.

This was the report today of the of. Public Health Engineering, State Department of Health. Davenport issued 26 permits for new homes valued at $354,637, and Bettendorf had seven permits for $102.879. Total was 33 permits for $457,516. First in the state, as usual, was Des Moines with 62 permits for $982,800.

Davenport Building Inspector AI Bargmann predicted that More For Your Dollar The value of your burial estate in Davenport Memorial Park is measured not by the cost of the land but the continued maintenance of all of its services including developments, drainage, care of lawns, flowers, music and perpetual care. It costs no more to have a family burial estate in Davenport Memorial Park than in any other cemetery. Davenport Memorial Park Citus most brautiful park polar Cemetery 1022 East 39th St. Phone 323-9773 THE CEMETERY OF TOMORROW (March also will be an TO FIGHT BANK MOVE CHICAGO (AP) The Illinois ing month for building permits. Bankers Association it will says He said his office has been fight a proposal to permit branch "swamped" with work all month.

banking in the state. hail pounded the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas region. Two persons were killed in a tornado which destroyed five homes in the hamlet of Appleby, in east Texas. A twister the northern part of Shreveport, damaging one -home, while huge hailstones damaged 75 small airplanes at the city's airport. The strong winds which lashed Illinois and other Midwest states caused heavy property damage scores of injuries.

One death and 19 injuries were reported in Illinois, where the wind was clocked at 100 m.p.h. in Joliet. The gust toppled the wind instruments from the Weather Bureau's station at the airport. All Alone Most people, who by circumstances or choice, are without relatives in the community find that the making of definite funeral arrangements in advance of need gives them that peace of mind which comes from the discharge of a worrisome obligation. Our reputation is your assurance that your every wish shall be respected.

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The obvious differences in these cars are Dart and Lancer have an optional three-speed pushyou can see, Dart is the larger car, outside and inside. better than two. Another difference between Dart and However, we feel that mechanically what is good for Lancer is price, of course. Dart is priced model for model one size Dodge is equally good for the other, and for with Ford and Chevrolet. Lancer is priced down the line you.

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