Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 2

THE REGISTER-NEWS MT. VERNON. ILLINOIS MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1964 DEATHS aiHh FUNERALS Cove Walker, 69, Dies Suddenly; Rites Wednesday Cwe Walker, 69, of 1117 south 21st street died at 4:00 p. m. Saturday following an heart attack.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Myers Chapel witfa the Rev. Everett Leoiay officiating. Burial will be In Menuvial Gardens. The Ametiean Legion will conduct graveside military rites.

The body will lie in state at Myers Chapel where friends may call after 4:00 p. m. Tuesday. Mr. Walker was bom Aug.

1895, at Vienna, 111., the son George and Belle (Stout). Walk- Nov. 1, 3957. at Kankakee, he was married to Susan Gregory McClanahaa, who survives. He is also survived by four sons, Williard (Bud) Walker of (George Antkteh.

Kenneth and Nonnaa Walter, of JElioenix, six daughters, Mrs. Doris McCSibbLns and Mrs. Mazie Clymore, both of Ludlle Raai Manteno, yin. of Phoenix, violet Hubbard of ChiHicothe, RDss Frances Walker of Phoenix, and Mes. Betty Reece of Mt Vernon; three sisters, Mrs.

Beulah Mills of Milan, Mrs. Betitrlee Doyle of Muscatine, andJiIrs. Pemelia Claric of Portland, griandchildreh; four grandchildren; and a daughter, Donna Walker of Antioch, 111. Mr. Walker was a member of fee Missionary Baptist church.

He was a retired plumber and steamfitter. He was -a veteran of World War One and was a manber of the American Legion. Gladys West, 62, Of Sesser Dies; Funeral Tuesday Mrs. Gladys Myrtle West, 62, of 202 East Matthew street in Sesser, died at 7:30 pjrt. Saturday in Franldln County Hospital at Benton.

Funeral services win be held at 2:00 pjn. Tuesday at the Methodist diurch in Sesser, of which she was a member, with the Rev. Charles HiU ofificating. Burial will be la Maple HiU cemetery. The body wffl lie In state at the Brayfield Funeral Home in Sesser where foiends may call after 4:00 pjni.

today. Mrs. West was bom Sept. 29, 1902. In Franklin county, the daughter of John and Mary (Silkwood) Stevison, She was married to Hollie West, who survives.

She is also survived by two sons, West of Sesser and Hollis Dale West of Charleston, W. two brothers. Luther Stevison and Uoyd Stevison. both of Sesser; and eight grandChadren. Mima Hammonds Dies At Age 79; Sesser Funeral Mima Mbierva Hammonds.

79, 203 East ence street in Sesser. died at 11:05 a.m. Sunday in Ft-ank- lin County Hospital at Benton. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of Christ in Sesser.

of which she was a member, with the Rev. Daryl Busby officiating. 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 3:00 p.m. Tuesday.

Hammonds was bom Mar. 25, 188S, in Frainklin county, the daughter of WO- liam and MiUssa (Kirkpatrtck) Cockruni. Shew as married to Alonzo Hammonds, who preceded her in death in 1960. She is smrvived by three stepsons, Wayne and Dwight Hammonds, both of Ina, and Lester Hammonds of East Gary, a step-daughter, Mrs. Georgenna Wells or St.

ciianes, and three sisters. Mrs. Nancy Baker and Mrs. Trilby Bradley, both of Sesser. and Mrs.

Gertrude Crouch of East Gary, Ind. Two More Boys Admit Thefts Two more young boys, ages 12 and 13, have admitted to police that they took part in a number of burglaries and thefts in Mt Vernon in the past three months. In the past week police have obtained confessions from six boys to clear up a niunber of burglaries. After questioning, the boys were tuined over to parents. The weekend arrests in clearing up on burgUuy which had been unsolved, a break-in some time ago at a gas statical.

Police said the two boys also admitted implication in other burglaries which had been cleats ed up previous confessions. Zelma Carter, Former Resident Dies At Age 50 Mrs. Zebna Carter, 50, of Golconda, died at 5:15 p.m. Saturday, at Rosidare Hospital. Mrs.

Carter was a former Mt. Vernon resident Funeral services will be held at 1:00 pjn. Tuesday at Rott- raans FUneral Home in (kil- ccHida. body will lie in stole at the Rottmans Funeral Home, where friends may call at any time. She was married to Porter Carter, who survives.

Other survivors include her step-father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Wharry of West Frankfort; one son, Thomas Carter of Elgin; one daughter, Mn. Betty Sanders of St Ann. three sisters, Mrs.

Emma Gray of Araia, Mrs. Geraldine Claric and Mrs. Vina Dethrow, both of Mt Vemon; two stepbrothers, James Whany West Frankfort and Elmer Wharry of New Mexloo; and five grandchildren. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs.

lini of RFD 1. Texico, are the parents of a daughter bom at 12:29 o'clock Sunday morning in Ciood Samaritan hospital. She weighed six poxmds 11 ounces and has been named Laura Kathleen. Mr. and Mrs.

Bobby of 101 Stems in Cresthill, are the parents of a daughter bom at 7:45 o'clock. Sunday morning in Good Samaritan hospital. She weighed seven pounds 13 ounces and has been named Holly Christine. Mr. and Mrs.

James Grant of RFD 4, Mt. Vernon, are the parents of a son born at 10:18 Sunday morning in (lood Samaritan hospital. He weighed seven pounds nine ounces and has been named James Andrew. Mr. and Mrs.

John Wesley Cnaxton of RFD 5, Mt Vemon, are the parents of a daughter born at 5:10 o'clock last in Good Samaritan hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. White of 1109 south 24th street art the parents of a son bom at 8 :25 last niglit ih Samaritan hospital.

He weighed five pounds nine ounces and has been named William Kenneth. Lt (jg) and Mrs. Robert T. Firebaugh of New London, are the parents of a son bom Saturday morning at 2:00 o'clock in a hospital in that cHy. He weighed eight pounds ounces and has been named Robert Montell, The father is serving at tiie U.S.

Navy Submarine Base in that city. and Mrs. TrenV Ballard off Decatur are the pairehts. of a daughter bom Friday roaming at 8:04 o'clock in hospital in that city. She' weighed seven pounds four ounces and has been named Julie Ann.

Hospital Notes JeffersoB Memorial Admitted: Phyllis.Smifh: Robert Oldham of McLeansboro; Gilbtert Hoffman: Juanita Max- Ine Sweetin of Bonnie. Discharged: Uel Edmondson; Rite Hamblin; Willis Kelle; Julia Pat Webb; Mrs. Lhida Scott and baby, Patricia Jo. Good Samaritan Admitted: Marvin Chapman Rust; Vinnie Pierce Anderson; Ruljy Belle Eldridge; AUce Allen Short; Franklin William Feltmeier; Jay Vincent Rapp; E. Downard; Byford Deiiham; Edward Mc- Effie Newby; Samuel King; Joe Loulk Young; Sophia L.

Heck. Discharged: Claude Wiggins; Wilma Mae Keele; Roger Dale Herriman; Edward Grewe; Elr mer Dale Robertson; Erma Marie Dixon; Judith Allen Gregory; Michael Kevin Morgan; Jean Martin Rettig; Mrs. Carrie Lee Wallace and baby. Otis Sugene; Betty Pauline Pate: Gladys Ruth Costley; Jay Vincent Rapp; Mabel Downard; Mabel Pavey; Charles A. Moore; Mrs.

Emily Edith Bushong and baby, Rhonda Sue. Aged Resident Injured In Fall Effie Newby, 89, of 315 south 15th street, suffered a hip injury in a fall on ice Saturday evening at 15th and Casey. She was reported in good condition today at GooA Samaritan Hospital. CIRCUIT 0017BT Traffic fines assessed in dr- cuit court included: Harold R. Vuichard, $100 on charge of driving while intoxicated; Edwin T.

Heil, $10 on charge of failure to yield right-of-way; Herbert L. Perry, $10 on ispeied- ing charge; Dennis Ray Elliott. Texico, $10 on careless driving charge; James A. Bohlen, South Holland. III.

$15 on speeding charge. MARKETS Mts VMiMn Hog Markot Mt Vemon Hog Market Prices paid until 12:30 p.m. today were 15c higher. top was 16.15 for 200 to 220 lb. hogs.

Sows were up 25c to 12.50 for 300 weight down; sows SOD weight arid over 12.25, down. Boars were 7.50 and 8.50. After 12.30 p.m. today prices will be based on next day's prices. Mti Vernon Qrain The following prices were quoted in Mt Vemon this afternoon: Wheat 1.42.

Soybeans 2.75. Shell com 1.25. Ear com 1.22. St. Louis produce ST.

LOUIS (AP) Eggs aad live poultnr: Eggs, ednsiBner gndes, A large 33-34. A medium A small 25 -as, large: 37-29, whcdesale grades; standard 9729, tndassified 334i ehecta v- Hens, hetv; liljit 5 lb 8-9. undeir 5 bntlerB and fryers 17-19. Chicago Grain CHICAGO (AP) No wheat, oats or sales. Cm No 3 yellow L25.28; 'no 4 yjj.

low 122-24. Soybean oU ILTi Chicago Produce CHICAGO (AP) Chicafo Mercantile Exchange Butter steady; wholesale buying prices unchanged; 93 score AA 92 A 90 89 S5)i; cars 90 89 EgBi fully steady; prices unchanged to 1 higher; 70 per cent or better glide A whites mixed 33 mediums 28; standards 26 dirties unquoted: checks CHICAGO (AP) Live poultry: wlwlesale buying prices unchanged to 1 roasters 23-26; special fed white rock fryew 18.19%; young hen turkeys 29-31. LIvostocIc NATIONAL STOCXYARDS, Bl. Estimates for Tuesday: Hogs cattle calves 400; 900. Hogs barrows and gUts lbs 16.0fr-mO: Sam 300400 lbs.

11 .75 CatUe calves 175; choice steers good and ciwiee steers good to choice heifers 18.00-22.25; good to choice vealers 16.00-30.00; good and choice calves 12.0016.00. Sheep 900; choice and prime wooled lambs 19 good and choice wooled lambs 1S.0O- 19.50; choice and prime ahom lambs 19.00-20.00; ewes 3.50- 5.S0. Wan street NEW YORK (AP) An ly stodc market advance was faltering late this aftemocn but the list remained irregulariy Trading was moderately active. Volume for the day was estimated at 4.5 mHUog shares compared with 4.64 milUon Friday. Gains of fractions to a point or so outnumbered losers.

DuPoht helped Oie averages with a 2-point rise, (toieral Motors trimmed an early 1- point rise. (Chrysler faded to a fractional loss after advancing early in the day. Ford was steady. Steels abandoned an initial advance and moved lower. Down fractionally were U.S.

Steel, Bethlehem and Jones A Laughlin. Schering touched a high It made a 1-point rise. Caterpillar added about a point, Anaconda more than that. Comsat looked like the volume leader and sank about 2 pobits. A leading investment advisory service reconmended it be sold.

Armsbong Rubber and United Shoe Machinery gained 2, Great AAP nearly 2, Ahead a point or so were Tail Broadcasting, Royal Crown Cola. A 1 a n's Department Stores, (jeneral Cigar. Mack Trucks, Lockheed, Boeing. Utton Industries, R. H.

Macy and North American Aviation. Down a point or so were Re- Datoiled W(Mfhor Report Saturday high 30. kwl above zero. higii42, low RainfaU 1994 to date 96.86 inches. One year ago high IS, kw 3 below jtero.

Five'years age high 37, low 37. Ten years afo high 30. 22. Tuesday sunriw 7:19, stmaet (C.8. CHICAGO (AP)-A southerly flow (d air made the first day of winter a conwwattvely mild throunhoot IiUnoiis today.

Teniperaturet mostly were in the middle 30B under partly cloudy skies. Tonight's kws are likely to range from 15 to 20 degrees in nwthem Illinois and in the 20s in the soatlien) part of the state. No amm mu prtdjcted and litfle change in tcnperatores war forecast for The mereury sank to mvm degrees aero at CU- eagb 't Oltee poft Ms ncvjiiug and Bockfcrt reoorded 13 above. Vandaitt bad SaBdaft Ugh to ihe state -41 degrees. The Weaflwr: Paewbere 9r nas AsaocuTED noESB Albany, cloudy 22 Albuquerque, clear 39 35 Atlanta, rata 43 37 .09 Bismarck, cloudy Boise; ckndy Boston, Buffalo, rata' Chicago, ctear Ctactanati, ckudy Cleveland, doudy Denver, cloudy 5 -3 S7 38 .02 39 31 30 26 40 19 31 24 98 37 Des Mcrfnes.

dear 37 Delxolt dear 31 36 Faiifettiks. doudy -14 Fort WorO. foe 38 Helena, 34 30 .09 Honolulu, cloiidy 80 75 .03 tadianapolis, dear 37 31 JadoHnvaie, rata 88 97 Juneau, dear 30 7 Kansm Qty, dear 38 30 Los Annies, doudjr 99 56 .45 Louisville, doody 40 32 Memphis, doudy 43 28 Miami, cloudy 69 J.4 Milwaukee, clear 23 7 dew 14 New Orleans, doody 62 53 New Yoik. dear 33 Okla. City, fog 48 31 Omaha, dear 27 24 Philaddphia, doudy 36 36 .12 Phoenta, dear 65 42 Plttsbogh.

doudy 35 28 ckwdy 31 15-13 Pdnd. rate 40 33 RaiAi aty, snmr 49 35 Ridanond, dear 43 28 .04 St Louis, cloudy 41 25 Salt Uc aty, cloudy 51 44 San Mego, dear 67 50 San rate 63 60 .06 Seattle, rata 39 34 .32 Tampa, dear 78 61 Washtagton, doudy 38 27 Winnipeg, snow 9 3 (T-Trace) nVE-DAT POiOXlAfit Northern Illinois Temperature is expected to average near normal. Normal high 29-S. Normal 14-23. A Uttie colder Tuesday, warmer Wednesday and minor day to day changes thereafter.

Total predpitatton expeded about one-tentb tech. ChanCe of some snow about Wednesday and agate Friday or Saturday. Southern Illinois Temperatures will average 5-10 degrees above normal Normal highs range from the upper 30 to the middle 408 and normal lows are mostly ta the 30s. UtUe or no precipitation is expected during the period. Meetings A.F.

A.M. A stated meeting of VO, Vernon Chapter No. 233. Order tfie Eastern Star, will be held te the Masonic Temple, Tuesday even- tag, December 22, at 7:30 pjn. A fifty cent gift exchange wiU follow the dose at Chapter.

CANDACE DOUGHERTY, W. M. NAOMI R. BOGAN. Secretary.

vere Copper it Brass, Xerox and Canvbell Red Lake. Prices turned mixed on fte American Stock Ebcchanfe after an early advance. Tradtag was acUve. Corporate bonds were mixed ta light toadinv. VS.

ment bonds drifted lower. Congo Rebels Kill 31 More Hostages Goldwater Stands Pot For Burch WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Wlliam E. MlUer, said after a conference with Sen. Barry (Soldwater today that GOP Chairman Dean Burch should hang onto his job even if he has only a one vote majority of the 132-member national committee.

MiUer, the (30P vice presidential nominee, told a news conference after he and Rep. Bob Wilson of California had conferred with Goldwater at his apartment that the presidential nomtaee is standtag firmly behind Burch. Burch's replacement at national chairman has been demanded by party progressives en the ground he represents a symbol of the disasterous Republican defeat te tha Nov. 3 election. Former Vice President Richard M.

Nixon. Gov. George Romney of Michigan, and others have said Burch should resign unless he can turn up a substantial majority favor of his retention at a Jan. 22-23 show-down meeting of the national committee in Chicago. Miller said he does not agree with that viewpotat He said if Burch cart summon even a bare majority he should stay on the job because any replacement then would represent only a Biinority of the oommittee.

SantaClaus Growing Fast SANTA CLAUS, Ga. (AP) Santa Claus is on the move this Christmas season. "We're dotog rather well Santa Qaus, we fed." Mayor Bill Salem said today. "We have our first street being paved Retedeer Street." The mayor said the populatldn of the dty has tecreased from 5 ta 1960 to 28 at present "We've issued permits for three or four new homes and are looktag forward to an additional 13 to 16 soon," he said. During the Christmas season.

Salon said, letters from all over the world arrive to be postmarked. Italy Deadlocked On Presidency ROME (AP) Italy's deadlocked Parliament failed agam today to dect a president. It was: the ntath ballot and sixth day of vottag with no wta- ner In. sight Four Socialists. Denlocratic SodallSts and Republicans of the centep-left coalition government and the Fascist Italian Social Movement to ballot te protest over the stalmate.

The ballottag is to select a successor to Antonio Segni who resigned after being tecapaci- tated. Israeli-Jordan Fighter Clash TEL JiiVIV, fcrad (AP) Four Israeli jets clashed today with four Jordan fighter plfutes which Israel claimed had penetrated Israeli airspace over the Judean Desert on the western shores of the Dead Sea, the gov- enunent announced. Iliere was little shooting and none of the bradi planes was fait the-official report added. 25 WEEKEND DEATHS ON HIGHWAYS (Conttaued from page one) a head-on crash en nitaois 33, near DeKalb. Neal Raines, TO, of Gorham, died Saturday when his car skidded on Dlteois 149 near MurphyrtMTo and left the highway.

LYLE SAYS: "Fresh As A Howwr ID Jost One SPECIALS 21, 22, 23 LADIES' AND MEN'S SWEATERS LADIES' PUIN SKIRTS SUCKS VONOHBI. Dear friends, For few weeks at Christnaa time, we arc treiated to gentle, inspiring Christms carols, stories and plays that uplift the spirit that set the aood for true Christian living. Sone wise person once said, "Let ne write the music for a nation, and I care not who stakes the laws." If this finer Christmas Rusic were extended throughout the year, sight not our juvenile and adult delinquency give way to wore creative livinjg in the spirit of Christ? fiheerely. Montsrty Mticury Spteial $1795 Bcaatlftal one owner IMS Monterey Cnstota door sedaa. Traded In by one aw beat owners.

Eqoipped with aatonoatlo drive, power steering power brakes. Tbe qnaUty this aatnoobDe aasnres yon nway yewra ef fine perfonoaaoe and pride oC onnerslilpw Open jHgkts oata a Lyft Wood W-Q MOTOm "nm Vsed Oar By lonm MANNOCX LEOPCJLDVILLE. the Ctongo (AP) Thirty more white hostages, all missionaries and their families, are believed to have been killed rebds ta the northeastern Congo, refugees arriving here said Sunday. The missing tadude an American, Mary Baker ol Richmond, Va. She was last reported at Banalia, 82 miles north of Stanleyville, on Nov.

20. Fifteen other missionaries were missing.from Banalia and 14 more from Bafwasende, 150 miles northeast of Stanleyville. Fourteen refugees freed at Bafwasende by white mercenary troops said they were not sure the other hostages ta the town had been killed. "We heard one volley of rifle fire." said Dolena Butk of Calgary, "but later the sfm- bas (rebd soldiers) promised us they had not been killed." Mrs. Bulk's husband is among the missing.

Other refugees said the mercenaries told them they found traces of a recent massacre at Banalia. Children's clothes, the habits of a nun and a priest and splashes of blood were dlscov- ered on the slope leading up to Banalia's feiTyboat, the soldiers told them. Besides Mrs. Burk, the survivors tacluded 11 Italian Roman Catholic nuns and two British women missionaries. They were rescued Saturday.

Mrs. Burk said the slmbas became furious after central government planes raided Bafwasende. All the white hostages, who had been crammed for three days in a stagle room, were taken out to be shot, she said. "They separated us and the nuns from the others," she said. Eight Dutch Catholic priests, her husband, a British family and an Australian and a British woman were in the other group.

Canadians To TORONTO The movie "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home." will not be shown in Canada while an tajunctlon against it is ta force ta New York State, a spokesman for 20th Century Fox said today. The movie was scheduled to open Christmas Eve In 11 Toronto theatres and eight others in Ontario province. The New York State Supreme Court Friday issued an injunction against its showing on the request of the University of Notre Dame. The university daims 20th Century Fox misappropriated its name and reputation for commercial exploitation. II Name Chicagoans Rhodes Scholars SWARTHMORE, Pa.

(AP) Two Chicago-ai -ea men have been named as Rhodes scolars- elect Ben W. Jr. of Chicago, a senior at Harvard University, and John J. Gearen of OaJc Park, a Notre Dame University senior, were among 32 in the nation selected for two- year study grants at Oxford Un- versity, England. The selections were announced Sunday Dr.

Courtney Smith, American secretary of Rhodes scholarships and of Swarthmore College. Hetaeman is the son of the diBuman of the Chicago and North Western Railway, OH Men Killed Jets Shoot Down Yank Plane Bv GEORGE MOARTHm CAIRO (AP) The Egyptim government said today a U.S. oil' company plane shot down near Alexandria Saturday ignored repeated orders to land. Its American pilot and Scandinavian copilot were killed. They were identified only as Hovt Williams.

44, of Texas, and Kejel Grup, 35, a Scandinavian. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said the olane, a twta-englne FairchHd (S2, belonged to the John W. Mecom Oil Co. of Houston, Tex.

The plane was on a flight from Amman, Jordan, to Benghazi, Ldbya, to buy drilling detergent for Mecom's operations ta Jordan, a company spokesman said. The Esyptlan government said two Egyptian MIG fighters tatereepted the plane as it started across the Staai Desert south of Aqaba, Jordan, and ordered it to land at Cairo Airport After starting to set down, offidal reports said, the plane resumed its northwesterly course. It was shot down over LaJce Idku, on the shores of the Mediterranean, the government said. The pilot apparently tiled a flight plan an hour before taking off from Amman. Egyptian authorities normally take a week to approve a flight plan and there appeared Uttie doubt that offidals here were not promptly Informed of the flight The U.S.

Embassy said it had requested a thorough analysis and review of the taddent. It said the U.S. and Egyptian governments were cooperating ta the tavestigation. Although embassy sources said they viewed the situation with the utmost gravity, both governments appeared to be trytag to prevent the tacident from increasmg the strata Jii U.S.-EgypUan relations resulting from the sacking a month of flie John F. Kennedy Memorial Library ta Cairo l(y a mob of African shidents.

David PrittJland, U.S. connd general at Alexandria, visited the crash site Sunday. Eyeirtt- nesses reported some of the wredcage appeared to be punctured by buMet holes. W. Angle Smith, the Mecom company's foreign representative, left Houston for Cairo Sunday.

Mecom, a multimillionaire Houston oil man, was reported to be "ta a highly nervous and upset state" ta Houston. Meoom earlier this year signed a 40-year contract giving him oil wildcatttag rights ta all of Jordan. He is a dose friend of King Hussein, and the young monarch visited him to Houston after they signed the contract. STATE TEMFERAItJBBi Moline 28 19 Peoria 2 Quincy 37 27 Rockford '2812 Springfield 35 Vandalla 41 East Dubuque 24 12 Chicago Grant Park 30 26 Chicago Midway 29 19 SPECIAL BARGAINS For Chrlstniaa Ointng OPEN TIL 8 :00 P.M. Mon.

THE BRIDE SHOP 1008 JORDAN Cheese From: RUM Tegs Sportsweer Von Reolfe and Pandore Lingerie Warm Sleepwear by Easter isles Junior Petite Dresses. tU 221 S. 10th Ftres Heavily Damage Two Mt. V. Homes Two Mt.

Vemon homes were considerably damaged by fires during the weekend. At 7:30 Satoday night fh-e- raen were called to the two- room apartmeftt of Bob Daniels, at the resr of 501 south 2itii street tinmen said no one was at home and that a pan left OR a stove caused the walls and cell- tags to Unite. Both rooms were considtraiUy damaged and all the contents were destroyed. At 6:15 ajn. Sunday firemen answered an alarm to the home of Everett Gray, 200 Castleton, where (ire damaged a bathroom and an endosed rear porch.

Sunday night firemen made a run to Cltofs. Cdn Wash, 609 Broadway, where a minor fire occurred ta a dothes dryer. 66 Multiple Fire Deaths In Three Days Wf im SSSMCKD nusM At least multiide fire deaths have been recorded over the nation ta the last tiu-ee days with more than half the victims children. House fires kUed six utd seven persons at a time as cold weather nlWed parts of the nation la advance of today's calendar start of the wtater. Home ftunaces were pushed to near maxhnum eapadty.

Hie death toO liy days: Sunday: At least 20 dead, 14 children and six adults; A mother and her six youngsters perished ta one upatate New Yoiic blaxe. Saturday: At least 38 dead, 23 children and three adults, with one fire kUltag six youngsters, and two others dalmtag five each. Fridasr: Jlre swept a nursing home ta Fooatatatown, killtag 90 ddeily residents. Ihe upstate New York fire kUled BITS. Paul B.

Breeden, 26, and her sfai diildren, aged 2 to te tiielr heme to Palmyra, near Kochester. The 31 )Id fattier returned home from a bustaess trip to Chicago an hour after the Haw mw discovered. Two adja- omt hemes also destroyed but the occupants Court House Will Close At Noon Thursday Offices ta the Jeffferson county court house will dose at noon Thursday for the mas holiday. Offices wUl be dosed all day. Saturday and will wspan Mani day momtag.

Court house offices will also close at noon on New Year's Eve and will remata cloacd UB4 ta Monday, Januaiy 4. Underwriters Meet Jan. 21 Roy J. May; president Of the Illinois Life Underwriters Association, will address the Central Southern Illinois Life Underwriters Association at its monthly meettag January 21 at tile 4 N. Cafe.

May, a State Farm acent hi Waterloo, has taught many insurance courses. Mcrnnion's on Bwilwi Road will bt eiosod Pec.25thtoDac.27tli incluiivc. SALES PERSON Experience at counter soles, preferably hard- wore or iioint, wanted for locol point store. Good working conditions fringe benefits. tunity for odvoncemenf.

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