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1 2-A THE REGISTER-NEWS MT. VERNON, ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1970 DEATHS and FUNERALS 3 sh Sli it eii ki ct a of th in re en tri fii wit At th of al yc e's se to til al; th bl. sn if sp in th th, Harry T. Peeck Ashley T. Peeck, of Ashley.

at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Washington County Hospital in Nashville at (he age of 84. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Thursday at the Funeral Home in Ashley, with the Rev. Josept Treet officiating.

The body will lie in state at the funeral home, where friends call after 7 p.m. today. Mr. Peeck was born in Ash- on Mar. 21, 1886, the son of Henry T.

and Mary K. (Thon) He was a member of the Ash- fey Methodist church. Survivors include a son, Harbison of Sunnyvale, a daughter, Thelma Cooper of Anselma, two bro" fliers, Percy of Nashville and "Neal of Ashley; four grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. Homer N. Loman Sesser Homer N.

Loman, 80, of Sesser, died at Pinckneyville Hospital Tuesday Funeral services for Mr. will be held at U00 p.m. Friday at the First Bap- list church in Sesser. The Rev. E.

G. Sommers will officiate burial will be in Maple Hill cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Brayfield Funeral Home in Sesser where friends may call after 6:00 p.m. Thursday. Mr.

Loman was born Nov. 16, 1889, the son of William and America (Brawn) Loman. His wife, Lela, preceded him in death in 1969. Survivers include two sons, Rodney, of Battle Creek, and James, of Decatur; two daughters, Lucille Summers, of West Frankfort and Evelyn Eu- banks, of Sesser; 15 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren. Michael Terry Mt.

Vernon Pvt. Michael Eugene Terry, a 22-year-old Mt. Vernon soldier, died at 11:25 a.m. yesterday from an apparently self inflicted gun wound. The young man died at the John Cochran Veterans Administration Hospital in St.

Louis, where he was rushed Monday night by Litton Ambulance. The body will be taken to Myers Chapel. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. Pvt. Terry was born May 29, 1947 in Mt.

Vernon, the son of Lester E. and Dollie (Weils) Terry. He was stationed in the U.S Army at Camp Polk, La. He was married to Roberta Stover, who survives. Besides his wife, he is sur vived by one daughter, Robin, at home; his mother, Mrs.

Dollie Terry of Mt. Vernon; two sisters, Mrs. Marsha Webb and Mrs. Marilyn Stewart, both of Mt. Vernon; three bro thers, Mark, Marty and Montie, all of Mt.

Vernon; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Wells and Mrs. Anna Terry, all of Mt. Vernon.

Markets Mt. Vernon Hog Market Open 7:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon. Prices paid until 12:00 noon were up 50c. U.S.D.A.

200 to 220 lb. meat type hogs were: No. 1 hogs 25.25. No. 2 hogs 24.75.

No. 3 hogs 24 .25. Sows were 16.50 and 1900. 2-County Budget Meeting On Special Education NAACP Leader Slaying Solved ha he gr po to; fir al th in foi CO sii hi; un er bo Pith vi a fo: th Joseph Bullard Keenes Joseph A. Bullard of Keenes died at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday at his home at the age of 78. He was a retired farmer. Funeral services will be held at 2' p.m. Thursday at the Christian Home Church in Orchardville, with the James Pennington officiating. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.

The body will lie in state at tiie Richardson Chapel in Wayne City, where friends may call after 5:30 p.m. today. Mr. Bullard was born in Mar; ion county on Mar. 18, 1892, the son of William and Hattie (Jones) Bullard.

He married iSssie Jones, who survives. I He was a veteran of World 5Var I. 11 Other survivors include two -sons, Marshall and Hershel Bul- 4ard, both of Keenes; a foster ion, Glen Jones of Kell; a "-daughter, Mildred Tittle of 3Crete; a foster daughter, yia Hutchcraft of Wayne City; sisters, Lillie Williamson of £entralia and Ollie Rollinson of JMt. Vernon; 27 grandchildren; I and four great grandchildren. Esrella Johnson Mt.

Vernon Mrs. Estella Carrie Johnson, 89, of 317 Main, died at 8:10 a.m. today at Mt. Vernon Manor. Funeral services for Mrs.

Johnson will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Myers Chapel. The Rev. Mervin Chadbourne will officiate and burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. The body will lie in state at Myers Chapel where friends may call after 4:00 p.m.

Thursday. Mrs. Johnson was born Nov. 6. 1880, the daughter of James M.

and Drusilla (Maxey) Swift. She was first married to Walter C. Westcott, who died in 1926. She was later married to J. L.

Johnson, who died in 1962. Mrs. Johnson was a member of the Epworth Methodist church. Survivors include two sons, Herman Westcott, of Mt. Vernon, and Emory Westcott, of El Monte, three stepsons, Lester Johnson, of Harbor Springs, James Johnson of Colo-, and Knox Johnson, of Atlanta, a stepdaughter, Helen Schmitt, of Mt.

Vernon; 13 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. Mt. Vernon Grain The following prices were quoted in Mt. Vernon this morning." Wheat 1.25. Soybeans 2.58.

Corn 1.26. By MIKE AARON St. Louis Produce ST. LOUIS (AP) Eggs, consumer grades: A large 27-32, A medium 19-28, A small 11-19, large 26-30; wholesale grades: standard 21-22, medium 18-19, unclassified 19-20. Hens: heavy 11, light over lbs under 4Vi; ready to cook broilers and fryers 27.5028.25, this week's delivery.

Chicago Produce CHICAGO (AP) Chicago Mercantile Exchange Butter wholesale selling prices: 93 A A 92 A 69 90 67 Eggs wholesale buying prices: grade A whites 32; mediums 25; standards 30. Chicago Grain Livestock NATIONAL STOCKYARDS, 111. for Thursday: Hogs cattle 600; calves 100 and sheep 50. Hogs barrows and gilts 50 to 1.00 higher; 1,047 head 210 lbs 26.00; 1-3 200-230 lbs 25.5025.75; 23.25 250 lbs 24.75-25.50 23 240-260 24.00-24.50; 1-2 170-180 lb 23.50; sows 1-3 300-400 lbs 19.00-20.25; 400-500 lbs 18.50-19.25; boars 18.50-19.25. I Cattle calves 50; steers and heifers steady to 25 higher; steers average and high choice near 1,075 lbs 30.85; load choice with few prime 1,225 lbs 30.75; choice lbs 30.00-30.50; heifers choice 800-925 lbs 29.0029.50; cows 21.50-23.00 utility Holsteins 23.50; bulls 26.50-29.00; choice vealers 41.00-45.00, couple 46.00.

Sheep 50; no test. Hospital Notes Jefferson Memorial Admitted: Mary Hollenkamp, 24 0 3 Cherry. Jacqueline Roberston, 408 Opdyke. Discharged: L'eroy Hunt, Route 3, Mt. Vernon.

Claude A. Coil, Keenes. Shirley V. Neel, Broughton, 111. William Schuster, 209 South 4th.

ur te UC Al th ta th Vearne Tucker Ashlev Vearne Tucker, 73, of Ashley, idied at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at 3he Washington County Hospital jn Nashville, el arrangements are in- at the Hogan Funeral i pome in Ashley. Tom L. Kellog Arizona Funeral services were to be at 2:00 p.m. today, in Arizona, for Tom L.

59. Mr. Kellogg died Saturday from injuries suffered in an accident near Prescott. He is survived by his wife, -the former Lillian Reid of Mt -Vernon. tt el h.

ti hi Donald Sneed Arthur, III. Good Samaritan Admitted: Nova Payne, Wayne City. Ralph Hoffman, 626 Oak. Chole Thomason, Bluford. Sewell Hurst, Sesser.

Jerald Mayberry, McLeansboro. Lois Firebaugh, Route 2, Mt. Vernon. Leslie Armstrong, 300 South 10th. Henry Clark, Dahlgren.

Virgil Bushong, Wallonville. James Bundy, Hickory Grove Manor. Discharged: Earl Skelton, Nason. Mrs. Joyce Porter and baby son Richard Lee, 903.

Cleveland. Naomi Brookman, Benton. Jacob Bowyer, Keenes. Zelda Shelton, 912 South 25th Myrtle Pulley, Ina. Mrs.

Marilyn Nadolski and baby daughter, Patricia Fay, Centra lia. Myrtle Pigg, 325 South 2nd. Elisha Oscar Dixon, South 10th. Ceiestine Bullock, Ashley Road. Wall Street NE YORK (AP) The stock market early this afternoon managed to retrieve a good share of the sharp losses ssffered in the morning session.

At noon, the Doc Jones average of 30 industrials was off 5.54 at 685.86. The average had been iff 8.21 points an hour earlier at 686.20, the low for the session. That was below the seven-year closing tow of 684.79 set last Thursday. Declining issues on the New York Stock Exchange led winners by more tran 4 to 1. That was an improvement, however, since the losers had held a 6-to-l advantage only an hour earlier.

Analysts attributed the market's performance today to continuing investor disillusionment. The Associated Press 60-stock average was off 2.2 at 241.1. Industrials were off 3.4, rails, off .8 and utilities, off 1.2. Declines ran through mtoors, rubber issdes, mail order-retail, farm implements, electroncis, tobaccos, brilding materials and drhgs. Of the 20 most-active issdes on the Big Board, 7 were or issues, msot of which de- rlined.

Prises of these issues insluded Memorex, off 3 at Telex, up Vt. at University Com- plting, off at 22; Polaroid, off 2c at IBM, off at 254c; Fairshild Camera, up at 31; and Burroughs, off at 114. Other prices on the most-ac- Angelyn Cook, 908 Blueberry Donald Sneed, 39, a resident Hill of Arthur, and a former resident of Ina, was killed in a i-ar accident Monday in Texas. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Friday to Arthur.

will also be in Arthur. The body will lie in state at "ihe Fleming Funeral Home, friends may visit Thursday evening. Survivors include his wife; two children; his father, Nolan Sneed of Whittington; and sister, Norma Wisley of Springfield. Protest March On In Georgia FORT VALLEY, Ga. (AP) A march by predominantly black, demonstrators sets out today on the second leg of a 120- mile trek to Atlanta for Saturday's planned "demonstration against repression." The Southern Christian Leadership Conference tive list included Electronic Musical, off at Phillips Petroleum, up at Rev- Ion, off 3c at 51 Atlantic Richfield, off at Chrys Ier, off Yi at 22; and Columbia Pictures, off at Prices on the American Stock Exchange 's most-active list in eluded Research-Cottrell, off at 19; Automatic Radio, off at Digital Equipment, off 4 at and Alloys 1 Unlimited 1 up at NE (AP) Dow Jones noon stock averages: 30 Industrials 685.86 off 5.54 20 Transport 144 .58 off 1 .45 15 Utilities 102.38 off 0.73 65 Stocks 225 .86 off 191 of their journey, an 11-mile walk marchers from Perry to Fort alley completed Tuesday the first leg which took almost eight hours.

Representatives of the 32 school districts in Franklin and Jefferson Counties who sponsor the bi-county special education district will meet in Benton tonight to approve hiring a new director and okay the budget for the coming school year. Final approval of both the new director and the budget is up to the board of Mt. Vernon Grade School District 80, the administrating district for the special education district. AH unit, elementary, and secondary districts In the two counties, except for three in Franklin County, contribute toward the special education district. John Powell of Memphis, will be presented by the representatives of the two counties to succeed Heyden Cooper, who was administrator of the district for the two years it has been in existence Powell, before goint to Tennessee two years ago, worked in the special education department in the office of Ray Page, state supt.

of public instruc-l tion. Budget Consideration The other major item before the group, meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at the Benton Country Club, is approval of a budget for the coming school year. Some Jefferson County residents have expressed concern that cutting the special education levy from $8.80 to $4 appears to foreshadow a substantial program cutback. The levy is the amount charged per student to each of the districts who participate in the program.

But Edmison, and High School Supt. J. D. Shields, indicated Tuesday that while the levy is being cut in half, more than twice as much will be spent on special education programs in the two counties in the coming school year, as compared to expenditures for the present term. This year's budget called for, expenditures of $120,000 on a per student levy of $8.80.

Actually, though, only $80,000 of this was spent. The other $40,000, budgeted for speech patholigists, was never spent and will be surplus at the end of this term. Budget Breakdown The budget for the 1969-70 school term is just under $120,000, $40,000 of that will be the surplus from this year. Another $26,000 will come to the district from the state as special education reimbursement. This will be the first time state money has been available.

The $4 per student levy will generate about $54,000. Adding those three figures together ($40,000 plus $26,000 plus $54,000) equals the $120,000 196970 budget. In addition to this, local districts will expend on their own about $40,000 for speech pathologists. The pathologists will probably be paid for by some districts in co-operation with other nearby districts as the need for the service arises. So, on a per student levy of less than half the 1969-70 amount, twice the money expended during the current school year will be expended next year.

The special education program, manditory under state law, is designed to provide edu. cation to those people who can't take part in normal classroom education. This includes a wide variety of students, involving those with physical, emotional, and mental handicaps. If local districts for minform- al co-op's, as some school administrators want, programs would probably be paid for on a per student base by the par ticipating districts. For example, if a district had five students in a class of ten, it would pay half the total cost.

If another district only had one student, it would pay one-tenth of the cost. All public schood districts in the state must, under Illinois law, provide special education services to its students and must pay for the total cost of the services, minus state aic? for such programs. SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) A 16-year-old black youth has been arrested and is being held in connection with the shooting death of a Savannah official of the National Association for The Advancement of Colored People, police said today. Capt.

E. Weaver said the youth had not been charged pending further investigation He said a gun believed used in the slaying has been recovered. The victim, James M. Floyd, 57, had been shot once in the chest. Floyd was a life member of the NAACP's Savannah Chapter and a long-time resident of Savannah.

Earlier, police said they had ruled out robbery as a motive because Floyd had money in his pockets. Local NAACP officials could not be reached for comment. W. W. Law, president of the local NAACP chapter, said Floyd had been working Tuesday night in the office, located in an area of town where there are frequent robberies and muggings.

Floyd was employed as a maintenance man for an apart ment complex. Picture On Page 9- A Agnew Beans More Tennis Partners Chamber Group Feasts On Steak An evening of relaxation was experienced by representatives of 13 business firms of the Mt. Vernon Chamber of Commerce Personnel Management club Tuesday night at Jefferson county game farm. They feasted on steaks prepared on Siegler grills, manufactured at Centra lia. Following participation in the picnic prepared goodies, a movie was shown of the 1969 Hambleton- ian races at DuQuoin State Fair.

Firms represented included Siegler Heater, Centralis; Cen- Iralia Container Olsen Magnetic, Shapiro Bros, of Illinois, Illinois Bell Telephone General Radiator Cross- Rippy real estate, Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Illinois State Employment Service, Social Security Administration, Dura Containers. Herrin; H. B. Williamson Wayne City, and WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Spiro T. Agnew isn't too particular about what sport he uses to bean a partner.

But tennis hold's the edge over golf 2-1. Agnew's latest victim was Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford, his doubles partner in a Tuesday charity match against Sen. Jacob K. Javits of New York and Rep. Lowell Weicker R-Conn.

Agnew's team lost 6-1, 6-1, after he double faulted 10 times, causing some courteide wags to remark the serve off Blatchford's head was the vice president's best shot. During the Bob Hope Desert Golf Classic Feb. 7, Agnew's ball went astray and smacked pro Doug Sanders on the back of the head. Agnew's first victim, howev er, was reliably reported to be his tennis partner during the Governor's Conference at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, last year. Blatchford had fair warning to be on his guard before Tuesday's match.

C. Alphonse Smith, the match's sponsor and referee, read a mock telegram that was supposed to have come from Sanders in which he warned the Peace Corps director: "Wishing you better luck than I had. Keep ducking." Blatchford, himself, also came prepared for any eventuality. As soon as he was hit, he ran to the fence around the court, got a motorcycle helmet, and put it on, to the laughter of the gallery and Agnew. He discarded it moments later.

ROBBERY ATTEMPT A Tennessee man told local police that two men tried to rob him in a Mt. Vernon service station last night. Steve Lancin, of Route 3, Woodbury, said that two men threatened to rob him while he was in the restroom at Hines Standard Service, 800 South 10th street. He said they left without taking any money. Lancin drives for Tennessee- Carolina Transport Company.

HURT IN ACCIDENT Ralph Hoffman, 57, 636 Oak, was reported in satisfactory condition at the Good Samaritan Hospital as a result of injuries suffered in a one-vehicle accident yesterday. Hoffman was rushed by Litton ambulance to the emergency room at the hospital when the pickup truck he was driving went off into the ditch on the Tolle Road, near old Route 15, at 11:10 am. Damage to the truck was not estimated. CIRCUIT COURT Mike Baldridge was fined $10 in circuit court here yesterday on a disturbance charge. Say McCormack To Step Down BREAK-IN, THEFT A break-in and a theft were reported to county officers late yesterday.

At 9:30 last night Wilma Suddeth, Route 1, Woodlawn, reported that someone broke into her home and took a small amount of canned goods and soft drinks. They got into the house by breaking a window. At 4:00 p.m. Edna Liptrap reported that someone stole a hub cap off her car while it was parked at her home on' Route 4, Mt. Vernon.

Rural Fire Call Rural firemen were called to Regency Motors, located on the Salem Road, at 5:47 p.m. Tuesday. A pot of oil had. caught fire, causing damage to a wall and ceiling. Home Burglary One burglary was reported to Mt.

Vernon police on Tuesday. David Etley, of 1009 South 9th street, told officers that someone had stolen a. stereo tape deck, a portable television set, and a .22 rifle and box. of shells from his home sometime yesterday. The tape deck and TV'were valued at $240 and $130 respectively.

POSTS $1,000 BOND Cotrell 42, )011 south 13th street, posted $1,000 bond at the sheriff's office yesterday on a charge- ol theft. He is charged with taking a case of Scotch whiskey, valued at $70.37 from the Central Wholesale Liquor warehouse, 718 Shawnee street. SPARKS FLYING OVER DECISION ON WATER BILLS (Continued From PagOiQnp) WASHINGTON (AP) Reports appeared today that House Speaker John W. McCormack was about to announce his retirement, but he declined to discuss them. The 78-year-old speaker told newsmen "I can't help that" when asked about printed state- Mt.

Vernon Chamber of ments that he would announce merce COLLEGE MAY DELAY MOVE TO NEW CAMPUS (Continued From Page One) morning with district officials of the department of highways, and county and township officials. None could offer any assistance, he said, in improving the north-south access road onto the campus. Unless raised, it will be covered by iaterloday h7woulFgive'7p" Ws from Rend Lake part of seat in Congress' He represents BIRTHS Mr; and Mrs. Ralph Hollenkamp of 2403 Cherry are the parents of a daughter born at 3:55 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, May 19, in Jefferson Memorial Hospital. She weighed seven pounds and one and one-half ounces and has been named Tammy Ann.

a Massachusetts district. ATTACK LAST ENEMY NEST IN CAMBODIA (Continued From Page One) Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dean Robertson of 408 Opdyke are the parents of a son bqrn at o'clock this morning, May 20, in Jefferson. Memorial.

He weighed eight pounds and one ounce. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Pettit of 213 South 22nd are the parents of a daughter born at 4:24 o'clock Tuesday morning, May 19, in Good Samaritan Hospital. She weighed eight pounds and one ounce.

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Maynor of 1516 Salem Road are the parents of a son born at 4:45 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, May 19, in Good Samaritan Hospital. He weighed nine pounds and one and one-half ounces. Astrobiology is the study of living organisms on celestial bodies other than the earth.

Tinh Bien. A South Vietnamese nique said 96 North Vietnamese soldiers were killed Tuesday and 100 sampans and 30 storage huts were destroyed. Eight South Vietnamese troops were reported killed and 25 wounded. I The major' part of the task force was reported about 35 miles south of Phnom Penh midway between the Cambodian capital and the border. It was not known how far north the South Vietnamese planned to go.

The Cambodian army on Tuesday was reported battling Viet Cong and North Vietnamese platoons about 12 miles farther north on Highway 3. Advisers Leave Many of the 200 American advisers who entered Cambodia with the force left their South Vietnamese units two days ago, presumably because the Vietnamese were moving past the 21.7-mile limit President Nixon set on American penetration into Cambodia. Elsewhere, North Vietnamese forces in the Fishhook region, near the rubber plantation town the time. Snyder said after the meeting that district nine highway department engineer Jim Newton of Carbondale told him an access road could be made onto the college campus from the Jefferson-Franklin county line road for 30.000 to $40,000. Snyder said he did not see why this couldn't be done by September.

Snyder said he became worried that the college might not have an access road into the campus in January. Before that time, he said, he had pinned most of his hopes on the Corps of Engineers raising the present north-south access road across the lake into the campus. Snyder also said water could not be provided on the campus until at least July 15. Water will be provided to the campus by the Rend Lake Conservancy District, which opened bids on the water system last week. and make it work, for the best advantage of the city and water customers.

The commissioner said the council had been in commission meeting minutes, that the commission wpuld make a recommendation to' the council at the May meeting of the commission. The council acted, 'he said, without waiting for the commission's Perfecting of the computer system, he said, was to be done without cost to the city. The cost, he said, was to be paid by the Bank of Illinois, who has the billing contract for the city. The commission member.said he is confident that with' Mt. Vernon growing, the billing system used at city hall, by employes, is far inferior to the computerized system.

At least one membeir of the commission indicated he is planning to resign from the commission because of the action of the council. "We are going back to the horse and buggy days," he said. MT. V. AIRPORT TO GET SEWER SYSTEM of Mimot briefly attacked troops of the U.S.

25th Infantry Division searching for war 'stockpiles half a mile inside Cambodia. Two Americans were killed and eight wounded, the U.S. Command said; enemy losses were not known. Troops of the 1st Air Cavalry Division uncovered two big food caches that the U.S. Command said yielded nearly 400 tons of rice.

(Continued From Page One) thority's share of the cost of the project will be somewhere between $8,000 and The greatest share ''of the cost, in' the neighborhqbid of $30,000, will be borne by the State Department of Aeronautics. Tunnel Under Runway Construction of the new sewer system will be a difficult task because workmen will have to tunnel under the main runway, ramp and taxiway. Sealed bids are to be submitted to the department office in Springfield not later than 10 a.m. June 1. Plans £nd proposal forms may be examined at the office 'of the Department of Aeronautics or at the office of Harold Roffman, engineer, 713 Harrison street, Mt.

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