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rjfE REGISTER-NEWS MT. VERNON, ILLINOIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, ATHS and FUNERALS Markets Everett Ellis Mfr. ernon i Eyerett Ellis, 79, of 601 Harrison Street, died at 12:40 a.m.'" today'at Good Samaritan Hospital. He was a real estate selesman In Mt. Vernon for 45 years.

Funeral will be held i at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Myers I Chapel, with the Rev, Howard Flota officiating. Burial will be in Garrison Temple cemetery. Irvin Hammond Sesser Irvin Hammond, 82, of Sesser, died yesterday at his home Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Brayfield Funeral Home in Sesser, with Rev.

Charles Owen and Rev. John Plunkett officia ting. Burial will be in Mitchell cemetery near Sesser. Friends may call at the fun eral heme after 4:00 p.m. today.

Mr. Hammond was born in Franklin county on March 9, 1888, the son of Matthew and Martha (Wayman) Hammond. He was married in 1920 to Laura Hamilton. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Laura and two sisters, Mrs. Nellie Knapp, Tamaroa, and Mrs.

Emma Knapp, New Troy, Michigan. Births Mr. and Mrs. Ciyde Maxey of Route 3, Mt. Vernon are the parents of a son born at 6:22 o'clock Thursday morning, January 7, In Good Samaritan Hospital.

He weighed seven pounds and ten and one-half ounces. r. G. EVERETT ELLIS I The body will lie in state Myers Chapel, where friends i may call after 5:00 p.m. day.

Masonic rites will be ducted at 8:00 p.m. Saturday at Myers Chapel. I Mr. Ellis was bom December 11, 1891, in Wayne county, the i son of James W. and Martha (Melton) Ellis, On April 10, 1915, he was married to Mary Olive Young- I blood, who died in 1957.

On I December 7, 1967, he was mar- i ried to Blanche Allen, who ceded him in death in 1970. Survivors include three sons, Emmett and James, both of i Mt. Vernon and Parker of Mr. and Mrs. Gary W.

Huntman of 1200 south 28th street are the parents of a daughter born at 3:40 o'clock this morning, January Good Samaritan Hospital. She weighed five pounds and she ounces. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Adcock of 220.

Grant are the parents of a son born at 4:42 o'clock this morning, January 8, in Good Samaritan Hospital. He weighed eight pounds and seven ounces. I Springfield, one daughter, Lula Pyle of Lexington, two sisters, Mrs. Laura Steppe of Rochelle and Mrs. Minnie Rei ling of Mt.

Vernon; four sisters, Mrs. Susie Duncan of Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Elsie Gam of Keenes, Mrs. Laura Mc- fCormick of Wayne City Mrs.

Florence White of Spring- afield; two-half-brothers, Arthur Ellis of Mt. Vernon and Hubert Ellis of Keenes; nine grandchil- dren and 13 great-grandchild- ren. I Mr. Ellis was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Wayne City. He has been associated with the real estate firm of George (D.

Williams, realtor, for the past 20 years. Helen Morton Mt. Vernon Helen Elizabeth Morton, 52, 1224 South 10th street, died yesterday at 10:45 p.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:00 p.m.

at the Lively Stone Pentecostal church, 1215 South 10th, Mt. Vernon, with Rev. FreM Edwards officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. Friends may at the church from 7:00 p.m.

to 9:00 p.m. Sunday and from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the day of the funeral. The body may be viewed only during visiting hours.

Mrs. Morton employed at the candy plant in Ashley, and for 14 years was the elevator operator in the Rogers building. She was born in St. Louis on Jan. 1, 1919, the daughter of Edward and Pearl (Moss) Smith.

She wa? married in 1941 to Russell Harold Morton. Mrs. Morton was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and ot the Mt. Vernon Gospel Chorus. She is survived by her mother, Pearl Smith, her husband Russell Harold Morton; a son Russell Harold Morton St, Louis; two daughters, Muriel Lemorris Norman, St.

Louis, and Karen Eloise Morton, at home; and a brother, John Noble Smith, Chicago. Site was preceded in death by one daughter. Gillifand Auction Co. Aaytatag At Aacttsa Wateil Hffl, OL nut 4- Hospital Notes JEFFERSON MEMORIAL Admitted: Freda Moulin, 16 Northbrook Discharged: Lyle Ingram, Route 7, Mt. Vernon Frank McKenzie, Springerton, Lula Kelley, 417 South 10th Lpuis Adams, Springfield, Mo.

GOOD SAMARITAN Admitted: James Poston, 1010 South 7th Richard N. Mason, Dahlgren Ernie Pigg, 819 Lamar Robert Waller, Route 3, Mi. Vernon Cecil Gtadney, 724 Bell Susan Johnson, 2000 Richview Road Stanley Miloshewski, Scheller Rodney Shull, 1709 Briarwood Barbara Land, Box 228 Ethel Smith, Salem Nell Jackson, 513 E. Harrison William Muhlenbruch, Jersey ville Debra Gordon, 425 North 9th Sheridan Meadows, 607 N. 7th Marcella Farthing, 1417 N.

10th Alice Simmons, Kell Christina Heifner, Wayne City Harold Chambliss, Bluford Discharged: James Poston, 1010 South 7th Mrs. Barbara EUiston and ba by son, Russell Duane, Texico. James Barker, 711 Opdyke Mrs. Beverly Byars and baby daughter, Karen Marie, Itika Kenneth Buchanan, 1411 White Richard Mason, Dahlgren Claude Kirk, 1502 North lllh Dorothy Brummitt, Bonnie J. T.

Standford, 1711 S. 13th Gladys Hussong, 628 Kensington Marilyn Leneave, Route 7, Mt Vernon Frank Nowland, Waltonville Velda Gerstkemper, Hoylton Lula Campbell, 1010 S. 23rd Mrs. Florence Morris and baby son, Robin Eugene, 606 S. 23rd Kathy Winslow, St.

Louis, Mo. Clarence Farris, Route 2, Mt. Vernon Georgia Brennecke, Benton Road. Mt. Vernon Hog Market Open 7:00 a.m.

until 12:00 noon. Prices paid until 12:00 noon were up 50 cents. U.S.D.A. 200 to 220 lb. meat type hogs were No.

1 hogs 16.00. No. 2 hogs 15.50. No. 3 hogs 15.00.

Sows were steady 9.50 to 11.50. Mt. Vernon Grain The following prices were quoted in Mt. Vernon this morning. Wheat 1.49.

Soybeans 2.82. Shelled Corn 1.58. Livestock NATIONAL STOCKYARDS, 111. (AP) Estimates for Monday: Hogs cattle calvei 100; sheep 900. Hogs barrows and gilts fully 25 higher; 145 head 210-220 lbs 1-2 200-230 lbs 16.75* 1-3 200-230 lbs 16.50-16.75 230 lbs 16.00-16.5;0 2-4 220-240 lbs 15.75-16.25 240-270 lbs 14.50- 15.TJ; sows steady to 29 higher; 1-3 300-400 lbs 12.75-13.25 2-3 400800 lbs 12.25-12.50; boars 10.7511.50.

Cattle 200; calves 25; largely cows and these steady; cows utility choice vealers 38.00-40,00. Sheep 200, lambs choice and prime 103 lbs shorn No. 2 pelts 25.00, few choice wooled 100 lbs 24.50. St. Louis Produce ST.

LOUIS (AP) Eggs, cdl- sumer grades: A large 33-40, A medium 29-37, A msall 16-27, large 32-36; wholesale grades: standard 23-25, medium 19-21, unclassified 17-19. Hens: heavy light over lbs under 3. Ready to cook broilers and fryers 25.25-26.25 for next week's delivery. Chicago Grain CHICAGO (AP) Wheat No 2 hard red 1.68%n, No 2 soft red 1.72%n. Corn, No 2 yellow 1.58n.

Oats, No 2 extra heavy white 80n, Soybeans, No. 1 yellow 2.94H. Soybean oil 11.85n. Chicago Produce BANANA'S FOOD VALUE The banana, which is eaten both raw and cooked, contains about 20 per cent of starch and si gar. Pound for pounnd, it has a greater food value than other common fresh fruits.

CHICAGO (AP) (USDA)Butter: wholesale selling prices 93 score AA 69.71; 92 A 90 67.71-68. Eggs: prices paid delivered ot Chicago: grade A whites 33; mediums 33; standards 34. Wall Street NEW YORK (AP) The stock market drifted indecisively in fairly active trading early this afternoon. There was little reaction to the Federal Reserve Board's after the mar- et's close Thursday that it had approved a cut in the discount ate to 5Vi per cent from per cent by 10 Reserve banks. The effect of an earlier reduction by commercial banks in the prime lending rate to per cent from per cent had worn thin.

Wall Street analysts also said that profit taking was gnawing at the price rises of recent sessions. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials at noonr had slipped 75 to 837.08. The Associated press 60-stock average at noon had risen .9 to 293.5 with industrials off .2, rails up 1.3, and utilities up .7. Advances held only a slim edge over declines among issues traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Among big-block trades was a transaction involving 52,100 shares of U.S.

Gypsum, up to Rubber issues, mail order-retails, aircrafts, utilities, and chemicals were mostly higher. Motors, electronics and drugs were generally lower. Prices of most key issues were limited to fractional changes. NEW YORK (AP) Dow Joles noon stock averages: 30 Industrials 837.08 off 0.75 Laird Is In Saigon; More Yanks Leave By GEORGE ESPER SAIGON (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird arrived in Saigon today to discuss more big cutbacks in America's forces in Vietnam, including withdrawal of the last 25,000 Marines by June.

Laird and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived from Thailand after a meeting there with Premier Thanom chorn and a visit to Taphao, the big coastal air base used by American B52s bombing the Ho Chi Minh trail. Disengagement of American forces from the war wis the major item on the agenda for Laird's three-day visit to Vietnam. U.S.

strength in Vietnam last week was 335,800 men, and President Nixon has ordered this reduced to 284,000 by May 1. Informed sources said another cutback is being planned to start immediately after that date to reduce the American force to 250,000 men or less during the-summer. Half the Marines still in Vietnam, the 12,500 men of the 5th Regiment and support units, are already listed for withdrawal by May 1. The sources said the other 12,500 Leathernecks of the 1st Regiment and its support units would be pulled out during the summer. U.S.* troop strength in Vietnam reached a peak of 943,400 in April 1969, two months before Nixon announced the progressive reduction of American forces in Vietnam.

En route to Saigon, Laird told a news conference in Paris that the first phase of the administration's Vietnamization program I would be completed by mer and thereafter American forces would be limited to logis- tics, air support and security roles. Laird's schedule called for meetings with President Nguyen Van Thieu; U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker; Gen. Creigh-. ton W.

Abrams, commander of American forces in Vietnam, and Gen. Frederick C. Weyand. the deputy commander. RECOMMEND TURN TB SAN OVER TO GOOD SAMARITAN (Continued From Page One) Discuss Drugs On Centralia Radio Program Four members of the Jefferson County Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission will discuss drug use and abuse Monday mornjng on radio station WILY.

Celtralia. Commission chairman Paul D. Giamanco, Trinity Episcopal church Vicar the Rev. Eckford J. de Kay, Register-News reporter Mike Aaron, and Rend Lake College student Peter Irwin will be on the "Hotline" 1 program from 10:15 a.m.

to 11 a.m. During the broadcast, listeners can call in questions to the participants at 532-1904. AIDES TOOK PAPERS FROM POWELL SAFE (Continued From Page One) Register-News DANGEROUS HOT BOX Mt. firemen were called at p.m yesterday by the railroad v-hen a hot box developed on a fank car carrying liquified petroleum gas north of Main Street. Damage was linv ited to the hot box.

BOARD OKAYS NEW OFFICE FOR SHERIFF (Continued From Page One) bert W. Sloke, state coordinator of health services. The recommendation to lease the state hospital to Good Samaritan came from a task force appointed by Dr. Snoke, including Dr. Bruce A.

Flashner, assistant to Dr. Snoke; David M. Bankard, executive assistant of the Department of Public Health; Dr. Maxine Rosenbarger, regional director of the Southern Illinois Health Services Coordination Program; Dr William Anderson, Springfield zone director of the Department of Meltal Health; and Robert Poisall, manager of the Mt Vernon Chamber of Commerce. In its report the task force noted that a new approach to th treatment of the TB patient provides a method by which patients can be cared for by a partnership arrangement consisting of the ambulatory TB clinic facility and the patient's physician.

Many of these patients, after their initial treatment in a hospital facility, can reside at home while obtaining care from a nearby clinic. The task force recommended that Illinois shift the emphasis for the treatment of the TB patient from specalizied tuberculosis institutions to selected general hospitals, and that this change be coupled with strong outpatient clinic program. 20 Transport 175.32 up 0.18 15 Utilities 122.41 up 0.22 65 Stocks 274.60 up 0.02 cash hoard in his Springfield hotel suite and State Capitol office. The finding pushed Powell 's estate to more than $2.1 million, Ciaccio said that several envelopes containing "personal effects" were removed from a locked filing cabinet before the public learned of Powell 's death. "We wanted the contents to be turned over to his executor intact," he said.

Ciaccio said that between 12:30 ad 1 on Oct. 11, he, his wife and three Powell aides went to Powell's Springfield office to remove members and per sonal documents they did not believe should be made public. "To my personal knowledge," there was no cash in the file cabinet, he told a news conference. Authorities opened the filing cabinet again Thursday and found $145,000 in bonds received by the secretary of state's office after Powell's death. Officials said the bonds, which were received long after Powell's death and were not linked to his fortune.

No other valuables were found in the cabinet, officials said. Ciaccio said the bonds were placed in the cabinet for safekeeping until they could be turned over to the state treasurer's office for new registration. Misleading Death Report -Ciaccio also said it was secretary, Mrs. Margaret who notified doctors of Powell's death. Ciaccio pre viously told newsmen that he, his wife, his secretary and Mrs.

Hensey "were unable to rouse Powell." Ciaccio said he deliberately misled newsmen to avoid the implication that Powell and Mrs. Hensey were staying together in the total. He added that Mrs Hensey contacted him in Springfield about Powell's death. He said he then chartered a plane and arrived In Rochester later that day. "I did it as an act of kindness," he said of his earlier statements to newsmen.

"If I'm going to be harpooned for this, then I'll just have to be harpooned." "What I did for him when he died was the last thing in the world 1 could have done," he said. Mrs. Hensey Missing The Illinois Bureau of Investigation, which is probing into the accumulation of Powell's $800,000 hoard, said Mrs. Hensey is missing. Powell bequested to Mrs.

Hensey his 15,440 shares of Chicago Downs Association racetrack stock. It is valued in excess of $100,000. She also received Powell's I960 Buick and $19,000 in cash. The Internal Revenue Service also is investigating the fortune amassed by Powell over his 36- year political career. The IRS is seeking to determine if any income tax is due.

Richard Holiis, Sangamcn County state's attorney, said Thursday he is studying the facts surrounding the Powell estate to determine if a grand jury should be impaneled. "I am looking to see whether there is any crime and whether there are things to go to a grand jury with," Holiis said. county will get a permanent three fourths mile section on one of the most heavily traveled roads in the county. Trotter said the average daily traffic count on Richview road is about 950 cars. Trotter said he has met with state highway director William Cellini and local state legislators about the state taking responsibility for Richview road from Rt.

51 into the city. But he said after the meeting, he's doubtful the state will take that responsibility. To blacktop the remaining 11 miles of gravel-surfaced Richview Road will cost about $lp! million, he said. If the state doesn't take charge of the road and the county hag to, it woud take a ten-year spending program, he added to blacktop it. TB Levy? Several months ago, the county board voted to abolish the four per $100 levy for the county tuberculosis board.

This morning, deputy county clerk Roy Holt told the board he thought he was still suppose to be collecting on the TB levy. Board Chairman Charles Waite told Holt not to include the levy on 1970 taxes, to be collected this Now, county treasurer Bill Holloway told the county board, the tuberculosis fund has over $115,000 in the bank. Use of that money is up to the county tuberculosis control board. Committees Appointed Waile appointed members of, the county board to two com-: mittees He appointed Paul Ted Marlin, Ross Max Shurtz, and himself to meet with city officials next Wednesday to discuss combining city and county police ej mergency communications fa-i cilities. He appointed Virgil York, Vance Skinner, Marlin, Loreri Pittman, and Guy Compton to a committee to study recommendations presented to the! board last month by the Jefferson County Youth Commission.

Those recommendations ask the board to seek permission from circuit judges in this circuit to hire a full-time probation officer for'Jefferson county and to establish a youth detection facility, where juveniles would be held here during before and after sentencing. At present, the county shares a probation officer with Hamilton' and Franklin counties. Reports Open Marlin reminded county residents that monthly, six month, and yearly reports submitted to the board by all county officers are open to the public in the county clerk's office. Explodes; 9 Die B52 Falls Into Lake Michigan CHARLEVOIX, Mich. (AP) An Air Force B52 bomber with nine men by witnesses to have exploded in a ball of into Lake Michigan night off the northwest tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

Coast Guard aircraft and vessels at the scene reported finding wreckage and debris from the aircraft, including two empty life vests and a helmet, but no sign of survivors. A Strategic Air Command investigating team was to arrive today. The eight-engine bomber was unarmed and on a training flight from Westover, Air Force Base when it crashed about 11 miles northeast of Charlevoix, an Air Force spokesman said. Area residents reported hearing an explosion and seeing flaming debris falling into the water about 6:30 p.m. An Air Force spokesman said the plane was on a practice bombing mission over the Bay Shore radar bombing scoring site, located on a hill overlooking the Little Traverse Bay about eight miles north of Charlevoix.

The plane was part of a unit which regularly simulates bombing of the site. Air Force spokesmen said the $8 million, 650 m.p.h. plane, a type now being used in Vietnam, was attached to the 346th Bomb Squadron of the 99th Bombardment Wing at Westover. Normally the plane is manned by a six-man crew. Air Force spokesmen said the extra men aboard were either instructors or students.

Estate Planning Seminar Here Next Monday An estate planning seminar for" "area Fam members will be held at 1:00 p.m. Monday, January 11 at the Illinois Power Cd. building meeting room. The seminar is designed to help members recognize the need for estate planning and periodic review; The State Farm Bureau Women's Committee, in cooperation with the Illinois Bar Association, is sponsoring similar seminars in 30 areas of the state. The seminar will feature a discussion of the advantages of various estate planning methods.

Questions will be answered by qualified lawyers. Arrangements for the Mt. Vernon seminar are being handled by the Jefferson County Farm Bureau Women's Committee. Lt. Governor Is Corning To Broyles Dinner The lieutenant governor of II- linois, Paul Simon of Troy, and Mrs.

Simon will be present for Saturday night's Senator Paul Broyles' testimonial dinner in Ramada Inn here at 6:30 p.m. The sponsor, Mt. Vernon Chamber of Commerce, also announced" today that among the latest dinner reservations were those of President Delyte Morris, Southern Illinois University, and Mrs. Morris, along with four members of the staff of Illinois Attorney General William Scott, Springfield, including William Obkamp, William Nettles, George Schafer and a fourth man whose identity was not reported to the sponsor. Vernon Soukup, department commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Springfield, and Mrs.

Soukup are others who will be present to honor the Mt. Vernon resident whf spent 28 years in the Illinois HuiiM of Representatives and the State' Senate. The dinner sponsor also has been notified by Richard Nicholes, department commander, The American Legion, Danville, 111., that he will make every effort to attend. The dinner will start promptly at 6:30 p.m. with invocation by the Rev.

Robert Freytag, First Presbyterian church. Then will follow singing of The National Anthem with audience participation, lead by Viola Suits, Springfield. Following dinner, Mrs. Suits will entertain as a vocalist, accompanied at the piano by W. H.

Beckmeyer of the Mt. Vernon Township High school music department. Mrs. Suits, prior to benediction by the Rev. Clyde Funkhouser, First United Methodist church, will sing, "This Is My Country" Atty.

Joseph Shawneetown will serve as master of ceremonies in the matter of presenting a number of testimonial speakers. Seated at the table with Senator Broyles will be Mrs. Broyles and their daughter, June Casey and their grandson, Paul Casey. MEETINGS Rebekah Installation Varnell Rebekah Lodge No. 296 will hold open installation at the new I.O.OF.

hall at the corner of 11th and Jordan, Saturday evening, January 9 at 7:30 o'clock. Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and friends are invited. Lola Mae Jones, N.G. Naomi R. Bogan, Sec'y.

Gar Hits Train NOBLE, 111. (AP) Dennis L. Herdes, 24, of rural Noble, was killed Thursday when his auto struck tarain at a secondary road crossing of the Baltimore Ohio Railroad line near Noble. HEART ATTACK AT WHEEL NEW LENOX, 111. (AP)-Fred Helmke, 77, of rural Mokena died Thursday when he was involved in an auto accident on U.S.

30 in New Lenox. Authorities said Helmke apparently suffered a heart attack, and that his auto went nut of control and struck a parked car. Mugwump, an Algonquian Indian word, has come, in American politics, to mean one who bolts the party. GLEN SAYS: ALWAYS AVAILABLE Our Skill and Knowledge YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO GET OUT OF YOUR CAlf TO PICK UP A PIZZA FROM BOBO'S PIZZA 1501 South 10th Street TRY OUR DRJVE-UP WINDOW Or Call 244-3336 and Well. Have It Ready AM VETS FAMILY NIGHT Friday, January P.M.

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