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Last night's low: 55. Sunday: high, 88; low, 60. Tuesday. Low tonight 64. Saturday: high, 86; low, 55.

MT. VERNON REGISTER- -NEWS in temperature tonight and TEMPERATURE WEATHER Partly Cloudy. Little change High Tuesday 88. Low TuesNoon temperature: 88. day night 66.

MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL SPECIAL FAVORS TO NONE A NON PARTISAN PAPER VOLUME 241 MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS MONDAY, JULY 13, 1953 25c PER WEEK BY CARRIER TRIPLE FUNERAL FOR CRASH DEAD RHEE GIVES PROMISE TO BACK TRUCE Pledges Support to Armistice in Writing; Gets U. S. Promise For Defense If Attacked. By Associated Press SEOUL A well-informed souce said today President Syngman Rhee has pledged in writing that South Korea will not oban armistice and Rhee indicated his country has relaxed its demand for unification by force. Meanwhile the the Communists charged at Panmunjom meeting Monday that Allied planes stafed and bombed a prioner camp north of Pyongyang last Friday, killing fvie U.

N. prisoners and wounding 15. There was no immediate U. N. reply to the charge.

No other results of the meeting were announced. Rhee said in a statement that South Korea may change its methods but objective of unifying the country. A well-informed source Associated Press Tokyo Bureau Chief Robern Eunson that President Eisenhower's special envoy TRUCE POSSIBLE--DULLES By Asscelated Press WASHINGTON tary of State Dulles told Britain the foreign ministers of and France today that armistice in the Korean War "is now posible if the Communists want one." won sweeping concessions from pledge that South Korea would Rhee-. including the written not obstruct an armistice Rhee reportedly agreed not to free any more prisoners. His orfreeing 27,000 POWs held by Allies last month stalemated the nearly completed negotiations.

The envoy Assistant 'S. S. Secrefused to agree to Rhee's retary of State Walter Robert son, demand that the United States walk out of a post-armistice political conference. if it failed to 90 days on unimake fying Korea, the source said. In return, Eunson said, Rhee reportedly was assured that the United States would hold another Korea top-level after conference a truce signing with South to work the out United a States would a dejoint policy and that South Korea if it were atfend tacked.

Gets Military Aid These assurances. Eunson learned, were addition to previous S. promises of economic and military aid and efforts to unify Korea peacefully. Optimism for an early truce was strengthened also by an order of the U. S.

Information Service dispatching its photographers to the truce conference site at Panmunjom "by Wednesday." The picture was clouded, however, by a hostile Communist reaction ot the result of Robertson's 12 conferences with Rhee, as reflected by correspondents at Panmunjom and broadcasts be- by the official Red radio, heard fore latest statement. Robertson told newsmen on his arrival in Japan after his talks with Rhee: "We do have agreement with Rhee to a point, where we are ready to go ahead with an armistice and sign it." Different Version Published However, he expressed concern over an interview published in the United States in which Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jim Lucas quoted Rhee as saying: "We will not accept the armistice, but we have agreed not to obstruct it for a period of three months." Newsmen's queries on this interview prompted Rhee to issue the statement in which he said method but not objectives, of unifying Korea might be changed, and added, "Some questions require further exploration at another government level." The Allied and Communist truce negotiators met twice in secrecy at Panmunjom Monday and scheduled another session for Tuesday. Communist correspondents at Panmunjom and the official Red Peiping Communist radio two usually good indicators of official opinion, indicated the Red dele. gates are far from satisfied with U. N.

assurances that South Korea will obey a truce. FATAL ACCIDENT By Associated PreSS FAIRMONT CITY A 53- -old East St. Louis, man, John Sayers, was killed in Fairmont City Sunday when his car and a truck crashed on U. S. Highway 40.

40,000 CHINESE ATTACK ALLIED LINES Search for Survivors of Lost Plane Carrying 58 Giant Aircraft Flying From Guam to California Goes Down Near Wake Island; Eight Children Among Passengers. Wreckage and Flare Sighted. By clated Press HONOLULU -The spurred a massive search today tor survivors of a -engine airliner which plunged into lonely Pacific waters with 58 aboard. A green flare was sighted by 8 search ship just before midnight Sunday in the general arca miles east of Wake Island where the Transocean Air Lines DC6B was last reported. More than 10 planes converged on the spot, but the searchers, hampered by pitch darkness and rain squalls, reported no further sightings.

The green flare was the type carried in aircraft liferafts. An empty raft and seat cushion were found earlier on oily waters in the same arca. Eight Children Aboard The planc, hound from Guam Oakland. carried eight children under 10 years old its 50 passengers and among eight crewmen. lt.

disappeared Saturday night on the Wake-toHonolulu hop. It was the first commercial transpacific plane crash in that section of the Pacific since World War II. The Navy transport Barrett, of at least. 10 ships combing waters where the plane reported its position, found an abandoned life raft and seat cushions it positively identified coming from the liner. Comdr.

T. O. Murray, Hawaiian Sea Frontier operations officer and search coordinator, there is a "good chance there is life around there." "We will continue the search with that in mind as long as necessary," he said. "There was plenty of room on four other life rafts carried by, the plane and still unaccounted At its height Sunday, the huge search included more than 20 planes and 10 ships. They crisscrossed the bleak Pacific in a desperate race against approaching darkness.

Just before dark, the Barrett spotted the inflated life raft. which carried carbon dioxide bottles stamped with the initials "TAL," meaning Transocean Air Lines. Hear Distress Signals Earlier, weak distress signals were picked up for two hours in the lonely Wake- Honolulu lane where the plane disappeared. Although the signals were too faint for an accurate bearing, the Navy widened its search to sweep a greater expanse. RAIN IN OKLAHOMA By Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY News photographers, assigned last week to shoot pictures illustrating the state's two-year drought, have given up in frustration.

It has been raining intermittently ever since. HOLD FARMER, HOST TO YOUTHS IN WILD PARTY Elgin Man, 64, Accused of Contributing to Delinquency of Minors. By Associated Press ELGIN, 111. A 64-year-old farmer faced a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minors today after 22 youthful revelers were seized al his home -midnight raid Sunday. Kane county deputies and police rounded the state, and their host.

Louis Koth. at Koth's house seven miles west of Elgin. 'Three girls and two youths were booked with Koth for appearance Thursday morning before County Judge Charles G. Seidel at Geneva. Two of those held were 16- year-old girls charged with delinquency.

The others, charged with contributing delinquency of minors are Mrs. Shirley Schmidt, 19, Thomas A. McNeill. 18, and Donald L. Heine, 18, all of Elgin.

The others were released. All of those questioned were ordered by State's Attorney John C. Eriedland to appear at Thursday's hearing. They ranged age from 14 to 26. Of the entire group, seven were girls.

Friedland said the raid culminated an investigation into rowdyism among teen-aged following two reported fights last Thursday. Battles Eagle On Water Tower Nest in Indiana By Associated Press HOWE. Ind. A steeplejack today told of a battle he had with a mother eagle atop a 110- foot water tower where she had built a nest for her eight cagles. Earl Bowman of Elkhart found the eagles' nest when he went to the top of the tower at Flowe Military School to repair a winddamaged tank r'00m.

The 55- old steeplejack said the mother eagle and two eaglets. which apparently were hatched some time before the others, attacked him and scratched him with beaks talons. He drove the mother and two larger birds off, made the necessary repairs and brought the caglets down with him. He fed them a pound of raw hamburger turned them over to Frank Test. an Elkhart garage owner, who has a small private zoo.

Mt. V. Police Open Drive Against Traffic Violators A drive against "hot rod" drivers and all traffic violators is under way in Mt. Vernon, it was announced today by Police Chief Verner Pigg. "The accident record in Mt.

Vernon last month and for the first half of 1953 is a bad one and we are taking, every step possible to streets of Mt. Vernon safer for the public," Chief Pigg said. He pointed iut that statistics compiled in the police department show that 54 persons were injured and one killed as 314 I accidents occurred in this city the first six months of 1953. "We had another had traffic record for June when eight persons were injured as 56 arcidents occurred," the police chief said. Chief Pigg said that he has instructed each officers to strictly enforce all traffic laws.

"The drive is not only against speeders and reckless drivers but will include violations of parking regulations, double parking and all other such the chief said. 2,878 JEFFERSON county. Only 37.6 per cent of the families reported incomes of less than $2.000, while 11.2 per cent reported incomes of more than $5,000 a year. Total retail trade in the county for 1948 was $29.392,000.00 through 399 stores. 63 Persons Per Square Mile The land area of the county is 514 square miles, and the average density of population is 63 per square mile, compared to an Illinois average of 156, and a nationwide average of 50.7 per square mile.

The total population of the county as of April 1950 was 35,892. Between 1940 and 1950 the Adlai After Brush With Soviets Adlai Stevenson shakes at a camp in Spennserstrasse, (July 12). The day before point by an East Berlin threat of being shot. Pictures had taken were confiscated to the West Berlin sector. (AP 900 CONVICTS HOLD OUT IN PRISON YARD Continue Oregon Mutiny After Sunday Supper--First Food Since Friday.

By Associated Pr is aCtion. SALEM. Prison officials and son 900 convicts remained in virtual deadlock as a of prisoners went into its fourth day at the Oregon Penitentiary today. 'The men. confined to a fencedin baseball field inside the prison walls, seemed about to surrender once Sunday A night, but turned restless and abusive after Warden Clarence 'T.

Gladden issued soup and bread them Orst meal since Friday night. "Now wove got the warden on the the cries after the Soup had been distributed and guards had boon conducting men from the chill outdoors area to the cells Gladden at stopped the removal of the men from the field About 125 had peon searched and conducted to the cells before the ball. The warden said there would be no meals at all for the 900 outside and the 100 men now' 111 their cells. Nearly 300 In the cells have been there since Friday. when they answered Gladden's call to give up the revolt then.

Gladden said all would remain locked up. Gladden said the remainder would stay In the baseball field where armed guards are watching them from the walls until the convicts give assurance there will he no further revolt. The men broke up bleachers on the field to construct windbreaks as a chill breeze swept the fiold Sunday night They also built bonfires with the wood. Guards noted that the men apparently had found a rache of tools under the bleachers. 100, for many had axes and picks this morning.

Despite the new defiance of the men. the warden left the water supply turned on for a faucet 'on the baseball field. It had been kept shut off for two days and a night. That was after the men had caused $100,000 damage in Saturday rioting. Ringleaders Surrender Twenty-one telons.

identified by Gladden as ringleaders of the revolt. gave themselves up earlier Sunday night. Their surrender was the condition Gladden set for turning on the water supply to the area. COUNTY county was 17,955, including calves. Farm expenditures in the county in 1949 for feed.

for livestock and poultry amounted to $1,080.000, while the amount expended for hired farm labor was $280.000. 2.6 Per Cent Non- White Only 2.6 per cent of Jefferson County's population was tabulated as non-White. The state figure is 7.6 per cent, and for nation as a whole the White population is 10.3 per cent. The county's urban population w'as 13.600, the rural population 9.137, and the rural farm population 10,855. 4 KILLED IN COLLISION, 3 FROM MT.

V. BAPTIST WOMEN OPEN CONVENTION IN MT. V. TODAY National Auxiliary Sessions Today, Tuesday at Mt. V.

High School. As Free Will Baptists of many states began gathering here today for their 17th annual national convention, the Woman's Auxiliary opened its national meeting at the high school auditorium. The women's sessions will be held this afternoon and tonight and all day tomorrow. On Tuesday evening the moderator, the Rev. E.

E. Morris Oklahoma City, Okla. will officially take of the vention. Sessions, will be held and through Thursday morning. The program for the Women's Auxiliary convention: Monday Afternoon 1:30 Executive committee meeting.

Prayer. Reports: (1) State Field Workers. (2) Executive Secretary Treasurer. Discussions: (1) Reports. (2) Plans for 1954.

4:00 Adjourn. Monday Evening 7:00 Everyone registers. 7:15 Hymn, "Co-Laborers." Invocation. 7:30 Organization of convention. 1.

Seating delegates. 2. Reading minutes. 3. Committees appointed.

7:45 Hymn, "Take Life and Let It Be." "Good Stewardship Makes Fruitful Servants," Mrs. Homer Willis, Ky. Prayer. Welcome Address, Mrs. W.

Waggoner, Ill. Response, Mrs. Lester Jones, Ala. A Stewardship States, Speaks, Cleo YPA's Purfrom all cell, ter." Hymn, leader. "More Like the MasRecognition through awards.

Stewardship Challenges, Movie film. Benediction. Tuesday Morning 9:00 "'The Missionary Command-Our Challenge," Barbara Willey, Cuba. Discovering Who's Who. President's Message, Mrs.

H. B. Sloan. 10:00 Fulfilling Our Task, Representatives from each state. 11:00 Hymn.

Prayer. Solo, Darlene Bunton, Ill. "A Lost World-Our Challenge" -Zalene Lloyd, India. Offering and announcements. Benediction.

Tuesday Afternoon 1:30 Let Sing! "His Command Stimulates Use of All Talents," Mrs. Edith D. Shiver, 2:00 Reading minutes. Recognition of WNAC officers. Digest of Field Reports, Mrs.

Ralph Stires, Recording Sec'y. Committee reports: Appreciation. Registration. Finance. Resolutions.

Nominating. Miscellaneous busines: Installation. Vandal Messes Up Swimming Pool By Associated P-Cos BELLEVILLE, vandal spoiled swimming for about 1,000 persons at a pool a half-mile south of here Sunday by dumping a chemical into the water. the A watchman discovered reddish brown water during a routine check early Sunday. The pool was closed for cleaning.

Richard Hilgard, owner of the pool, estimated the number of potential swimmers turned away during the day. CENSUS CROP SALES FOR YEAR RUN $5,401,000 WASHINGTON D. The Long-awaited statistical report on farm valuations, family income, housing and standard of living for Jefferson County, Illinois, based 1950 census the county, has been made interviews with every, family in public by the United States Bureau of Census. On the basis of its first-hand information, the Census Bureau ANGRY ROW IN HEARING OVER POSTAL RATES Two Republican Congressmen Try to Halt Plea for Rate Increase. By Associated Press WASHINGTON.

An angry row broke out today over an unsuccessful effort to recess hearings of the House Postoffice Committee before Postmaster General Summerfield could present his case for proposed postal rate increases. For several minutes the net official and committee members all talked at once, yelling be heard above the uproar. Rep. Murraye (Tenn), senior Democrat committee, declared he was "mortified" at such procedure and called the recess movement by Rep. Hagen (R-Minn) and Rep.

Gross (R- Iowa) rankest kind of discourtesy to a Cabinet member." Rep. Catherine St. George (R- NY). termed the incident a "disgraceful exhibition." After 20 minutes of confusion, Committee Chairman Rees (R- Kan) restored order and Summerfield proceeded with his plea for an annual increase of 625,000 in postal rates to help erase the Postoffice He has asked for indeficient creases in first class and air mail rates, and other boosts for other types of mailing. As Summerfield started testimony, Hagen, second ranking Republican on the commitshouted, "I move we recess and go into executive closed session." "Nobody is recognized," Rees replied.

But Hagen shot back: "This is motion of the highest parliamentary order. It is always in order." Rep. Gross (R-Iowa) seconded Hagen's motion and called for a vote on it. Mrs. St.

George insisted that Summerfield proceed. Rees urged Hagen to withhold his motion. Hagen charged he was getting a "rush act here." Gross protested that what he and Hagen called the unexpected and abrupt scheduling of the hearing announced only last Friday--was a discourtesy to committee members. "Astronomical" Deficit In his testimony, Summerfield said the postal deficit since 1945 has amounted to the "astronomical figure of $3,800,000,000. He said the budget left by former President Truman proposed a deficit this year of 746 million dollars but that the new administration, through economies, has pared this down to 315 million.

Postal rate increases of $240 million, he said, would bring the books close to "realistic balance." Concerning his proposal for a four cent stamp on regular first class mail between cities, Summerfield said this rate has not been changed since 1932 and "the added cost to the average citizen will be extremely small." Salem Boy Flies To Rejoin Scouts By Associated Press KANSAS CITY. -Roger Jones 14-year-old Boy Scout from Salem, made a 300-mile airplane here Sunday to join his hometown troops on the way to the national Scout jamboree in California by train. Roger was stricken with tonsilitis just before the troop left Salem Saturday. His doctor released him Sunday morning and his father, Charles M. Jones, hired a light plane for the flight here to overtake the 12-county Illinois group of Scouts.

From the airport here they hurried to Union Station where the train was waiting for Roger to arrive. LISTS reported the average value of land and buildings for all farms in the county as $6,956 per farm. The tabulation shows a total of 2,878 farm in the county. Out of 3,070 counties in the U. Jefferson ranks 767th in population.

housing census showed 12,174 dwelling units in the county as of April 1950, with 69.5 per cent occupied by the owners. For the county as a unit 94.6 per cent of all dwellings reported radios in operation. One-half of all the families in the country reported incomes in excess of $2,473 for the year. this figure being reported as the "median" family income for the BIGGEST RED OFFENSIVE IN 2 YEARS Hand-to-Hand Fighting Rages Along Front Held By South Koreans After Heavy Barraqe. By Associated Press SEOUL (Tuesday) The Chinese Communists drove up to 40,000 men against Allied lines on the Korean East Central Front Monday night their biggest tensive since 1951.

frontline officers reported today. The battle opened at 10 p. 111 7 a. 111. Monday (CST) northeast of Sniper Ridge north of KumhW'A with tremendous artillery barrages.

"There is hand to hand fighting all along our front." said a U.S. adviser to the South Korean division most heavily engaged. Earlier the Eighth Army had announced two Chinese divisions smashed against the east -central lines, largely manned by Koreans. The Eighth Army said only that "upwards of two divisions were attacking between Sniper's Ridge and the Pukhan River. This placed the heavy new action between Kumhwa on the Central Front Red held Kumsong, a distance of about 13 miles.

Another four Communist battalions were attacking near the Pukhan River itself. It was not known immediately whether the full front was in aCtion. It is nearly 20 miles from Kumhwa to the Upper Pukhan, scene of repeated heavy fighting in recent weeks. 'The Red attack was launched at 10:30 p. m.

(7:30 a. m. Monday CST) and built up rapidly in size. The front from Kumhwa runs due east past Sniper Ridge and then cuts sharply northeast 10 Kumsong where it drops southcast making a big bulge or salient in the Chinese lines. Most oi this area was won in Gen.

James A. Van Fleet's big Korean offensive in the fall of 1951. U. S. Sabre jet fighter-bomb.

ers and light bombers detected Red massing movements during daylight Sunday and siammed tons of explosives into Red lines along the East Central Front. Sabre fighter pilots Sunday scored their biggest MIG victory of July by shooting down seven of the Russian-made fighters. On the ground South Korean infantrymen, in a prodawn counterattack back an outpost northwest of Finger Ridge and scattered a company of Red troops who had held the EastCentral Front position since Friday. Du Quoin to Get Parking Meters Associated Press DUQUOIN. Ill.

The DuQuoin City Council meeting in special session today, adopted an emergency parking meter ordinance which, City Atty' M. C. Cook said will put meters on the down town streets here without delay. The measure declared parking meters necessary for immediate preservation of public peace, health and safety. Two previous city administrations have failed to get A parking meter ordinance into effect in DuQuoin.

Cook said the now measure also contains a clause which, under a new law signed by William G. Stratton last week, makes it impossible for citizens to petition for a referendum vote until the next general election in 1957. cent of the farms were tenantoperated. For the State as a whole 34.6 per cent of the farms were managed by tenants. The report revealed that 2,201 of the county's farms were served by central station electricity: and telephones were 1,281 farms.

2,232 Farm Autos There were 2.232 automobiles on farms in the county, and motor trucks on farms numbered 642. Tractors on the other hand, were counted at 1,57. Only 616 of the farms were reporter to Do without tractors, horses, or' mules. The cattle population of the Mr. and Mrs.

Olin Maxey and His Sister, Mrs. Edna Upcraft, Die Near Belleville. MRS. ADA THOMAS IS SERIOUSLY HURT New Baden Driver Also Killed. Funeral For Mt.

Vernon Victims Here Tuesday Afternoon. hands with refugee In British sector of Stevenson WAS held at policeman, and told not to move which Stevenson and his and all were permitted to Wirephoto via radio from BRITISH CLOSE OFF ISMAILIA ON SUEZ CANAL Claim Briton Was Kidnaped Brings New British- Egyptian Crisis. By Assoc'e ted Press ISMAILIA, Egypt Machine gun-armed British Tommies cordoned off the strategic Suez Canal town of Ismailia today and announced they would search all persons entering or leaving the town until a British airman missing since last Thursday turns up. Armed Egyptian troops at once took up posts around all government buildings in the town, near Britain's main Suez Canal zone I base, but the headquarters of Egypt's Army said they were only "routine patrols" and would "avoid any friction with the British Army." There were no immediate reports of any violence. though crowds of angry Egyptians gathered at the British roadblocks.

The British charged the missing soldier had been abducted and that they believed at least one Egyptian official had been involved. The Egyptians denied the charge. President Med Naguib summoned his Cabinet into emergency session in Cairo. Reports were current that a state of emergency had been proclaimed in the capital and in Ismailia, but the Army headquarters in Cairo denied this. Naguib emerged from the meeting for $15 minutes to confer with U.

Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. The ambassador said he had talked earlier with Robert Hankey, Britain's acting ambassador. In response to a question as to whether he would use his good offices to try to calm the things, Caffery said yes, he was ready to try. In London. a Foreign Office spokesman told reporters the British commander at Ismailia has the full backing of the government.

The British Cabinet also met in emergency session and details were sent to Washington, where Lord Salisbury, the acting foreign minister, is attending a Big Three conference. An Army spokesman said the Egyptian troops in Ismailia were "armed only for defense" and that the town was "fully under the control of the British FARMS The total number of families in the county was placed at 9,860 The "median" age of all persons the county was 31.2 years, in, against statewide "median" age of 32.7 years. During 1950 residents of the county purchased $473.000 worth of Treasury Savings Bonds. Total bank deposits in the county as of December 30, 1950, were $13,511,000. $4,864 Median in Homes Of the 12,174 dwellings, 8,618 were classified as non-farm units, with a value of $4,864 per single-family unit.

The of residents gain(Continued on Page Two) youngsters Berlin gununder party return Berlin) A tragic head-on collision five miles east of Belleville, at 3:10 p. m. Saturday took the lives of three well known Mt. Vernon residents and a young New Baden. Ill.

man. Fatally injured were: William Olin Maxey, 58, of 804 north 12th street, shop foreman at the De Witt-Maxey Motor Co. here for the past 25 years. His wife, Mrs. Goldie Lorraine Maxey, 50.

Mrs. Edna Amanda Upcraft, 67, of 800 north 12th street, a sister of Mr. Maxey. John Rousseau 25, of New Baden, Ill. A fourth passenger in the Mt.

Vernon automobile, Mrs. Ada Thomas, 65, of Medford, Oregon, was critically hurt and was. in serious, Hospital condition in at Belleville. St. She suffered severe head and body injuries.

Mr. and Mrs. died instantly from broken necks and Mrs. Upcraft died about one hour after the crash In St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Rousseau, who resided in New Baden and worked at a foundry in Belleville, was alone in his car. All five persons were trapped in the wreckage. They were taken to Belleville in three ambulances. Mrs. Thomas, the former Ada Dedman of Mt.

Vernon, is cousin of Maxey and was visiting the Maxeys here. They had been to Louis on a shopping trip and were en route home when the tragedy occurred. The Maxey car was headed east and Rousseau was driving west when the head-on collision occurred on a stretch of highway near the radio range of Scott Air Force Base. News of the tragedy was heard in Mt. Vernon Saturday night and came as a shock to the many friends of the Maxeys and Mrs.

Upcraft. Triple funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Maxey and Mrs. Upcraft will be held Tuesday at 2:00 p.

m. at Myers Chapel. The Rev. Bayne Wilson will officiate and burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. The bodies will lie in state at Myers Chapel, where friends may call after 4:00 p.

m. today. William Olin Maxey was born March 17, 1895, in Jefferson county, the son of Captain Samluel T. and Sarah C. (Piercy) Maxey.

He was married in April, 1925, in Pinkneyville, to Goldie Blackburn. Mr. Maxey was a veteran of World War 1. He was a member of the Pleasant Grove Methodist church. He was also a member of Mt.

Vernon Lodge No. 31, A. F. A. Royal Arch Masons.

Eastern Star, White Shrine and the American Legion. His only survivor is a sister, Mrs. A. R. Swift of Mt.

Vernon. Mrs. Goldie Lorraine Maxey w'as born January 26, 1903 in Jefferson county, the daughter of Alsom and Bertha (Norman) Blackburn. She was a member of the Eastern Star, Past Matrons Club of Eastern Star, White Shrine, Rebeccahs and the American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs.

Maxey was bookkeeper fr the Inland Oil Co. here. Her only survivir is a sister, Mrs. Gilbert T. Redman of Granite City, Ill.

Mrs. Edna Amanda Upcraft was born November 26, Jefferson county, the daughter of Captain Samuel T. and Sarah C. (Piercy) Maxey. In January, 1919 she was married to Frederick James craft, who preceded her in death in 1945.

Mrs. Upcraft was nurse here for many years. She was member of the Pleasant Grove Methodist church, the Eastern Star and the White Shrine. Mrs. Upcraft is survived by one son, Fred J.

Upcraft of Mt. Vernon and one sister, Mrs. A. (R. Swift of Mt.

Vernon. county showed an increase of 4.4 cent in total population. For per the entire State of Illinois the increase for the decade 7.6 per cent. and for the nation, 14.5 per cent. Total value of products sold by Jefferson County farms in 1949 was reported as 000.

The principal items were: All crops, livestock and products, other than dairy products, poultry and poultry products, $830,000. Land in the county totaled 293,000 acres, according to the census report, while crops were actualy harvested in 1949 from 139,000 farmland acres. During the year 1950, 12.9 perl.