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The Daily Register from Harrisburg, Illinois • Page 8

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Harrisburg, Illinois
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Charles Leonbcrger, 80, Tuesday at the Wright funeral ft K- home in ShaivneeUmn the OtGibsomaDies Kcv Ilunsaker hl chargc Charles Leonberger, SO-year-old' ar burial TM the Wcstwood ceme- resident of the Gibsonia conunun- tery. A daughter. Mrs. E. V.

ity southwest of Shawnectown. Snider of Ccntralia. died Sunday morning at the Ferrell hospital. England's Quetu Victoria reign- The funeral will be at 2 p. m.

'cd for 63 PRESENTS EASTER'S PRETTIEST 51 GAUGE 15 DENIER NYLONS SIZES 2 toll in the latest new' Spring Shades Seamless j) a ytime Sfieer DRESS SHOP Seek to Prevent of Higher Truck Fees SPRINGFIELD ilFi Charles F. Mansfield, manager of the Illinois Agricultural Transport Association, today announced the ATA has joined an interstate trucker in filing suit to keep Illinois from collecting higher truck license The suit charges the 1951 law making a S28.000.000 boost in fees is invalid. Mansfield said the suit was to 1 be filed today in Cook county superior court. The other party in the suit is Hilliard Waller. Wichita.

trucker, Mansfield said. The suit asked for an immediate injunction restraining the state from collecting for 1953 plates at the higher rates and from filing court Mills against truckers for unpaid 1952 license increases. I Mansfield said the suit was filed to "protect the smaller truckers arrests and lawsuits now- threatened by the present secretary of state." Charles F. Carpentier. The ATA was a backer of the case attacking the law which sultcd in decisions by the U.

S. and state supreme courts upholding the constitutionality of the statute. Mansfield said his lawyers "are much more confident of winning this suit." Cowaalcher The cowcatcher came Into usage in 1830 when the railroad engineers had to stop their trains and get help to lift a cow down from the engine grill work, and jump tne track was an expression applicable THEIR MAJESTIES--The 1953 King and Queen of the Carrier Mills to American train calamities Community high school are Randall Henson and Patsy Rice, seniors, who were crowned Friday night at the spring festival given in the i gymnasium by the school's music department under the direction of Miss Nancy Paddack. (Register Staff Photo) Mobley Rites Ncor Ridgwoy Thursday i Services for Mrs. Katie Mobley i of Ridgway will be held at 2 p.

in. Thursday at the Old Cottonwood Baptist church east of Ridgway with Elder T. Leo Dodd of Eldorado in charge and burial in the church cemetery. Mrs. Mobley died Wednesday night in San Diego.

where she was visiting her daughters. I Mrs. Lawrence Roc and Mrs. Joe Eaton. The body arrived by plane i in St.

Louis yesterday and is now at the T. B. Smith funeral home in The Daily Register, Harrisburjr. Illinois Page Eight Monday. March 30.

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25.00 i At a spring festival given Friday evening at the gymnasium of the Carrier Mills Community high school by the music department. Patsy Rice and Randall Henson i were crowned queen and king. The musical'program, under the direction of Miss Nancy Paddack, featured numbers by the band, the mixed choir and girls glee club and vocal and instrumental solos and i ensembles. Miss Wilda Lightfoot and Mrs. P.

W. Sherman were the pianists. 1 Leading the coronation proces- sional were Bill Whiting, student council president, and Robert Du- I vail, senior class president. Fresh- i men attendants were Ray Shirley and Marlene Turner. Sophomore attendants were Max Berns and Carol Felty.

Attendants from the Junior class were Ron Culbreth and Greta Collins and from the Senior class Jim Moore and Christine Tolbert. Little Darla Jennings and Janice Dunaway were flower girls. Doing vocal solos were Georgia Henson. Wanda Holloway and Jo Father Fearing eafh Kills Crippled Son CLIFTON, N. J.

IIP) An anguished father, fearing his own, death near, killed his crip-, pled five-year-old son in what police was "an act of mercy." Albert Sell, 44, a restaurant, faced arraignment today Jon a murder charge in the death; of his son. Albert a cerebral i 'palsy victim. i Sell, a World ar II veteran who underwent a major operation i 'last January, said he shot and i killed his son to keep him from, un helpless." Fie told police that he also feared he him-1 i self might die soon and he did not want the boy to become a 'burden on his ill wife. Sell and his dead son were found in Sell's automobile Sunday! parked on a wooded private road! i some two miles from the restau- rant Sell operates. The family had; I living quarters the restaurant.

'One Other Son Two special policemen. Fred' Von Hassc! and Frank Stagnitto, found the automobile. Sell was hehind the wheel. Staenittoj said. He was in a dazed condition, i "I shot the boy." Sell told them, "He's on the back scat." Sell told police that after visiting i friend Saturday he drove his son I to the private road and parked.

He said he got out and let the boy i sit behind the wheel, pretending to drive. Then he aimed a .30 caliber rifle at the back of the bov's head. i The boy apparently died instantly. Sell got back in the car and awhile cradled the dead body i of the curlv-haired boy in his I arms. Finally, he said, he put the I body on the back scat and sat i waiting for someone to come and find them Sell and his wife, Grace, have another son.

Joseph. 3. He is not afflicted with cerebral palsy. Hospital Notes Ann Henson. Georgia McCutcheon played a clarinet solo and Peggy Tolbert a solo on the trumpet.

A triff, Jo Ann Henson. Nancy Prather and Carolyn Jenkins, sang "Mood Indigo," and a trumpet i quartet, a saxophone quartet and a beauty shop octet each presented a number. In charge of making the programs were Fanny May Hodge and Nedra Lanton. Ushers were Lula Belle Parks, Shirley Stucker. Karlene Milburn and Alice McSparin.

Public Sale Paul Burks, having decided to quit fanning and to seek other employment, will sell at public auction, all of my farm and household furniture on Wednesday, April 1, 1953 beginning at 1 o'clock, located 2 1-2 miles Southeast of Equality, on the farm knotvn as the 1938 F20 Tractor, power lift; Cultivator to fit F20 tractor; 7 ft. Dunham Tractor Disc; two- bottom 14-inch AHis Chalmers Tractor Plow on rubber, used very little; 16 Disc Oliver Wheat Drill with fertilizer attachments; model AHis Chalmers Combine; International 1-row Corn Picker in good condition; Lot of Hoes, Shovels and Forks; Large Warm Morning Heating Stove; Incubator, 2100 egg size; Good Gas Range; Bedroom Suite: Breakfast Set; Two Kitchen Tables; Electric Sweeper, like new; Wardrobe; Lot of Curtains; Cream Separator; electric Lawn Mower; Girl's Bicycle; Other articles too numerous to mention. Not responsible for accidents. Terms of Sale: Cash. Paul Burks, Owner Herman Driskell, Clerk John Endsley, Auctioneer Harrisburg, ,111., R.

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