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Dixon, If nois, Monday, May 19, 1952 DIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH Six A Two Dixonites Injured When Car MENDOTA-Leland Cook, 29,, 518 First st. Dixon, is in Mendota Community hospital today after receiving possible spinal injuries when the car in which he was ridwent out of control and ing ed over about four miles west of here on Rt. 52. The driver of the car, Reuben Winebrenner, 51, 1414 First Dixon, received minor cuts bruises and was treated and dismissed from the hospital. Saturday night.

The two were apparently on their way to Dixon 1 when the cident occurred, about 7:30 p. m. Saturday. Damage to the car was estimated at $1,800. Cook was treated for shock, cuts -and bruises, but the full extent of his injuries, hospital authorities said, would not be known until X-rays had been taken.

He is employed by a construction company. Winebrenner is a foreman at the Reynolds wire mill. The two were apparenuy thrown from the car when it turned over. The car was found resting on its top. Strike Ends at Laboratory With 8-Cent Pay Boost PEARL RIVER, N.

compromise wage agreement early today brought an end to a picket-line siege at the Lederle Laboratories, where an airlift was used to feed self- plant workers and research animals. Automobiles and employes started moving in and out of the plant through token picket lines only a few minutes after Federal Mediator Thomas Daugherty announced the settlement. The strike started Wednesday, and on Thursday the company reported picket line disorders. Since then, no one had gone through the picket lines, and two small planes were used to take food supplies to humans and half million animals in the plant. Daugherty said an eight-cent-anhour across the board wage crease had been reached at an allnight, 14-hour bargaining session between representatives of the company and the AFL Chemical Workers' union.

A company official said the increase would amount to $3.20 for the 40-hour week worked at the plant. The company said wages previously averaged $58 week. The union originally had demandled 8. $5.60 weekly. pay boost, and the company countered with a $2.40 offer, the Paul Nettinga family receive emergency treatACCIDENT AFTERMATH four members of behind stalled auto on Chicago's Outer ment in hospital following accident in which their car, stopped Helen 41; Carol, Paul, 44, and a Drive, was struck by a third Paul, car.

Left 6, to being right are treated Mrs. by nurse at Nettinga, right." F. X. Newcomer has returned from a visit in the west. Charles R.

Jenkins has returned to Akron, after a. visit in Grand Detour. Dr. and Mrs. Drew of Chicago were guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Jenkins at Grand Detour. Mrs. Leroy Welhe spent the weekend at Beloit college with her daughter, Janet Baries. This was Mothers' weekend at the college.

Richard Joslyn was in Dixon Saturday for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Warner, Elgin, were guests at the George B. Shaw home Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Walt Cryer, paign, are the parents of a daughter, 'Catherine, born May 17, in Champaign. Mrs. Cryer is the forPatricia Wagner, daughter of mer Rev.

and Mrs. C. L. Wagner, Dixon. Mr.

and Mrs. Erikson, Rockford, visited their son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. R. E.

1 Erikson, Grand Detour, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Moats and Danny and Larry, and the sons, Misses Allene Huffman and Marian Butterbaugh motored to Goshen, Sunday where they visited the Rev. and Mrs.

Clarence B. Fike. Dr. H. D.

Burke left this morning to attend the three-day meeting of Illinois State Dental association in Springfield. Dr. Burke is member of the public welfare committee and is of the Northwest district of the committee. MARKETS. Chicago Livestock (By the Associated Press) Salable hogs market fairly active; 25.

to 50 cents higher choice lightweights; otherwise market on butchers steady to 25 cents higher, rather slow; sows mostly 25 cents higher; top 23.25 for few choice 190-220 lb; most choice 180-220 22.50-23.00: 230-250 lb. 21.75-22.50; 260-280 lb. 21.25- 21.85; heavier weights scarce: lots up to 360 lb. down to 20.00; most sows 400 lb. under few 18.50; bulk 400-500 lb.

17.75-10.00; odd heavies down to 16.50; good clearance. Salable cattle salable calves 400; choice and prime steers over 1,100 lb. slow; steady to 50 cents lower; other weights and grades steers and yearlings along with heifers moderately active; steady to 25 cents higher; accows fairly active: firm; bulls tive, steady to 25 cents higher; other classes steady; high choice and prime steers 34.75-37.50; load or so held higher: bulk good and choice steers 30.50-34.50; Commercial to low good grades 27.50-30.00; choice to low prime heifers 33.00- 35.75; prime load held higher; commercial and good heifers utility and commercial cows 22.00-26.50; bulk canners and cutters 18.00-21.75: utility and commercial bulls 25.50-28.00; good heavy and medium weight fat bulls 25.00-28.50; commercial to prime vealers 31.00-38.00. Salable sheep bulk slaughter lambs unsold; short load 89 lb. No.

1 skinned, mostly good. grade. steady; most slaughter ewes 9.00- 12.00; with choice handy offerings 13.00: culls 7.50-9.00. Estimates livestock receipts for tomorrow: 11.000 hogs, 6,000 cattle, and 1,500 sheep. Chicago Produce DA -Poultry firm; May cipts 1,734 coops; F.O.B.

paying prices heavy hens 21-24: light hens 19-20: roasters 30-31; fryers old roosters 18-19; ducklings 29. Butter unsettled; receipts (two day) wholseale buying prices unchanged to cent 68.25; 8 pound lower. 93 score AA 92 A 68; 90 66: 89 65.25; Cars: 90 67: 89 66. Eggs steady; receipts (two days) 32.147; wholesale buying prices unchanged; mediums 32: U. U.

S. S. extras stand34: U. S. ards 32; current receipts 30; dirties 29: checks 28.

Storage eggs: Sep 42.20-15: Oct. 42.10-45: Nov. 42.50. Butter storage: Nov. 69.50.

Onions: Nov. 1.73. Potaties: arrivals 157; on track 143; supplies increasing, no market firm; U. S. shipments availlb.

sacks Alabama California Triumphs 5.82- able: no track sales reported; is 100 5.96: few 5.45; long whites, 3.82-6.18.1 Noon Stocks New York, May 19-(AP)-Noon revised stock list: Allis Chal A TI Anaconda Bendix-; Beth St 4 9245 Dixon Woman Says Boxcar Strikes Auto The collision of a North Western railway boxcar and the automobile operated by Mrs. Paul Beckman, 1311 Second was one of three acidents reported to Dixon police over the week-end. Mrs. Beckman, who reported the accident to police Saturday, a day after it occurred, was uninjured. She told police that she was trav.

eling south on Depot avenue and the box car struck her auto at the Ninth street, and Depot avenue crossing. Considerable damage was reported to the car. She said that a flagman was not present at the crossing. The dent occurred p. m.

Friday. 'A three-car mishap occurred at 8:45 p. m. Saturday when the car operated Howard McCracken, Ashton, failed to stop behind other cars halted for a stop sign on Galena avenue. McCracken's car slammed into the rear of the car driven by Fred Beach, Ashton, pushing it into the back of the one operated by Dale O.

Robbins. Rt. 1, Amboy. According to Dixon police the McCracken car had faulty brakes. Officers on the scene were Jack Van Meter and Earl Kelchner.

In the other accident, cars driven by LeRoy S. Davidson. Rockford. and Mrs. Agnes Malack, 714 Hennepin collided at the intersetion of North Galena and Everett.

Little damage was reported. Tudge Grants Use of Auto For Church George Scully, Harmon, who was arrested March 22 on a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor, was fined $100 and costs in county court this morning and had his license suspended--except that he could drive back and forth to -for one year. Scully had been arrested py Dixon police after his car had struck two other parked autos. Judge Grover W. Gehant also allowed Scully to drive his car to obtain farm supplies.

His attorney was John Devine. Double Take LOS ANGELES (AP) The Finck brothers, Frank, 64, and Herman, 67, had an apartment to; gether. Frank spent last weekend with his employer, Jacob Samusick. Yesterday Samusick found Frank unconscious, apparently from a stroke. After taking Frank to 8 hospital, Samusick hurried to the Finck apartment to notify Herman.

There was no answer to his knock at the door. He and the landlady entered the apartment to find' Herman dead. KSB Hospital Admitted: Mrs. Irma McKean, Mrs. Tina Bingham and Mrs.

Wasson, Dixon; Mrs. Dorothy Brelsford and Mrs. Marjorie Noble, Amboy, and Miss Maxine Hoagland, Rock Falls. Discharged: Mrs. Annette Stoker, Frank Manahan and Terry Bennett, Dixon; Mrs.

Emma Grimm, Franklin Grove; Mrs. Alice Stiles, Mt. Morris; Daniel Hughes, Oregon; Samuel Gilber, Polo, and Mrs. Louise Cunniff, Sterling. Births: To Mr.

and Mrs. Randall Boyd, 521 E. Chamberlin Dixon, a son, May 17; to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jeanblanc, rural Orea daughter, May 17; to Mr.

gon, and Mrs. Harold Bell, rural Polo, a son, May 17, and to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hittlet, 805 Broadway, Dixon, a daughter, May 17. CLUB TO MEET The Wa-Tan-Ye will meet at 8 p.m.

Wednesday at Loveland Community House. Ice cream is placed between fine sheets of gold leaf before it is eaten by Indian rajahs. Cottle Returns ROBERT S. COTTLE this week and rejoined the adverchanged back to civilian clothes tising department, of The Dixon been' Telegraph. He has serving, with year the and was marine stationed corps for at Camp pa Pendleton, Oceanside, Calit.

for Cottle had previously worked The Telegraph and had also been connected with affiliated papers in Woodstock and Rock Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Cottle are again looking housing, since it was necessary for them to store left their furniture when they Dixon. Iowan Held for Molesting Girl In Dixon Theater Arrested Saturday night in a Dixon theater for molesting a young girl, 45-year-old Stanley F.

Russell, Davenport, will face charges of contributing to the delinquincy of a minor when he appears tomorrow in County court. Russell, whose Dixon residence is listed as the Keystone hotel, was arrested after a series of complaints had been received by parents about their daughters being molested. Russell was pointed out Saturday by a 10-year-old Dixon girl as she sat next to her father in the movie. He was arrested by Dixon Officers Ray Mortiz and John Woodyatt. The man is to appear before Judge Grover W.

Gehant at 10 a. m. tomorrow. Dixon Woman Gets Divorce Helen Decker, 1306 Seventh was granted a divorce in Lee county circuit court Saturday by Judge Robert Bracken on charges of cruelty filed against her husband, George. Both the plaintiff and the defendant were ordered to pay $15 a week for the support of the two children, who are to be in the custody of Mrs.

Decker. She also is receive the property located at 1306 Seventh st. They were married Nov. 10, 1944, in Dixon and separated March 15, 1952. State Optometry Law Will Stand SPRINGFIELD (AP) The Illinois supreme court today fused to reconsider its March term decision upholding validity of the 1951 optometry act: The new law imposes strict curbs on advertising by firms and persons in the business of examining human eye troubles and prescribing for them without use of druge, medicine or surgery.

One section of the law prohibits, effective July 1, advertising by illuminated street or window signs. Another already in effect bars window display of glasses, and cle frames. Constitutionality of the law was challenged unsuccessfully by Robert Klein, a Chicago optometrist. IKE VISITS PARIS -(AP)- Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower went to The Netherlands today to bid farewell to Dutch forces under his NATO command. Rain or Shine Don't Miss This GIGANTIC AUCTION SALE MAY 21-Rain or Shine 7:30 p. LONE ELM SKATING RINK 1 Mile W. of Dixon, Alt. 30 $10,000 Stock of NEW STANDARD MERCHANDISE Chrome Dinette Sets Sewing Machines Kitchen Mixers Heavy Duty Tarps Televisions Radios Cookware Vacuum Cleaners Jewelry Electric Saw Drills Hand Tools, etc.

Toasters Waffle Irons Elec. Coffee Makers Ironing Boards Electric Shavers Silverware Lamps Dishes Paints Yard Goods Leather Goods Furniture And Hundreds of Other Articles Too Numerous to Mention Come Early Buyers and Don't Forget Rain or Shine Sale Starts at 7:30 LONE ELM SKATING RINK On U. S. Alt. 30 Ike's Backers Expect to Win On Second Ballot NEW YORK The New York Times said today that supporters of Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower claim a probable first-bal-ling lot strength of '624 votes for him at the Republican national tion. The backers, the Times added, expect Eisenhower to win the GOP presidential nomination with the necessary 604 votes on the second ballot. Supporters of Sen. Robert A.

Taft for the GOP nomination claim he is within "striking distance" of having enough delegates to win on the first ballot. The Times is supporting Eisenhower for the GOP nomination. Obituaries MARLA YOUNG Marla Young, five-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ace Young, 709 E.

Graham, died at 4:10 p.m. Sunday at Dixon Public nospital following a brief illness. Surviving are the parents, two brothers, Terry Lee and Willian Ace; the maternal grandmother, Mrs. William Hanson, Dixon; and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Lewis Young, Dixon. Services are to be at 5 p.m. today at the Preston funeral home with burial in Chapel Hill cemetery. The Rev. Ronald French, St.

Anne's church will officiate. GUSTAVE WERNBLED OREGON-Gustav Wernbled, 85, retired blacksmith, died at 9 p.m Friday at Warmolts clinic, Oregon. Funeral services were held at 2 Monday at the Farrell funeral p.m. home. Rev.

Paul R. Bollman, St. Paul's Lutheran church officiated. Burial was in Riverview cemetery. OTTO C.

FISCHER Otto Carl Fischer, 52, Rt. 2, died suddenly at his home at 4 a. m. Sunday. Mr.

Fischer was employed by the Freeman Shoe Co. He was born at Marengo, July 31, 1893, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fischer. Sept.

26, 1949, he married Marjorie Phelps. Mr. Fischer was the stepfather of Don Phelps, 15, who was killed a week today when a tractor he was driving plunged into ditch. He is survived by his widow; three sons, Harold, Hampshire; Elmer, Whitewater, and Lawrence, a member of the armed forces; two daughters, Mrs. Fred Mittman and Mildred Fischer, Hampshire; two stepsons, Leslie and Phelps, at home; three stepdaughters, Mrs.

Lou Finkle, Rock Falls, and Irene and Barbara Phelps, at home; two brothers, Walter and Albert, Marengo, and a sister, Mrs. Minnie Barker, Belvidere. Services will be at 2:30 p. m. Thursday in the Melvin funeral home.

The Rev. Harry Shiffer, Rock Falls, will officiate. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. MRS. ELIZABETH MARCH OREGON-Services for Mrs.

Elizabeth March, 85, who died Saturday morning, are to be held Tues. day at 4 p. m. from the Farrell funeral home here. Mrs.

March died at the Golden Rule home from a heart ailment. A daughter, Mrs. Edna Gustafson, Webster Grove, survives. The Rev. Edwin S.

Hunt, Methodist church, will officiate. Burial is to be in Riverview cemetery. Sheriff-State Police Team Capture Youth A team-up operation by the Sterstate police office and Lee County' Sheriff Charles Redebaugh led to the arrest early Saturday afternoon of a 16-year-old Downers Grove youth and the returning of the automobile he had allegedly stolen Friday night. Donald Bresley was arrested at 12:30 p.m., by Deputy Sheriff John, Stouffer one mile west of Dixon on the Rock Island road a few minutes after a radio tip by the state police. Bresley had been noticed in Sterdriving in a reckless manner with the car which had been stolen in Downers Grove and, according to the state police, was last seen heading for Dixon.

With Rede-' baugh covering Alt. Rt. 30 and Stouffer on the Rock Island road, the youth, who had two passengers with him, was finally captured. This morning he was turned over to the Downers Grove and DuPage county authorities. The other two passengers in the car were released when they expressed no knowledge of the theft.

Personals 65; feed 1.20-30. Today's Grain Range CHICAGO, Mav 19 (AP)- Close Open High Low Borden Borg Sv8 Case 26; Chrysler Cities Wright 99; Du Corn Curt 81; I 67; Int Harv Johns Munv Pont a Ward 59; Nash Kelv 19; 73; Kimberley Clark Mont No Am Av Phillips Pet 55; A Stl Sers 53; St Oil A St Oil Tex Rubber 24; Studebaker Swift Steel 38: Woolworth Corp 9S. Chicago Cash Grain Wheat: (By None: Corn: No. 2 yelthe Associated Press) low, 1.87-.87½; No. 3 No.

yellow yellow 1.84¼. yellow 1.83; 1.77-80; sample grade yellow 1.71- 73. Oats: No. 1 heavy. white No.

1 Barley extra nominal: heavy Malting 1.28- white WHEATMay 2.47½ 2.47½ 2.45¾ 2.46¾ July 2.53½ 2.35⅝ 2.34⅝ 2.35⅝ Sept. 2.37¾ 2.37¾ 2.36⅞ 2.37¾ Dec. 2.41⅝ 2.41¾ 2.40⅞ 2.41⅝ Mar. 2.43⅞ 2.44¾ 2.43⅞ 2.44¾ CORNMay 1.83¾ 1.84⅝ 1.83½ 1.84⅝ July 1.84¾ 1.85½ 1.84⅝ 1.85½ Sept 1.80¾ 1.81½ 1.80½ 1.81½ Dec 1.70 1.70¼ 1.69⅜ 1.70¼ OATSMay July Sept Dec. RYE May 1.99¼ 1.99 1.99¼ 1.98 July 1.99% 2.00 1.98½ 1.99½ Sept.

1.95½ 1.96¼ 1.93¾ 1.96¼ 1.97 Dec. 1.97 1.97 1.97 SOYBEANSMay 3.02¾ 3.04¼ 3.01 3.04¼ July 2.93¼ 2.93⅜ 2.92 2.93¼ Nov. 2.73¾ 2.75 2.43¼ 2.75 Jan. 2.76 2.76½ 2.75½ 2.76½ LARDMay 12.20 12.20 12.10 12.05 July 12.30 12.37 12.20 12.30 Sept. 12.62 12.67 12.55 12.65 Oct.

12.75 12.80 12.65 12.72 Nov. 12.67 12.80 12.65 12.70 Dec. 13.20 13.20 13.10 13.10 (By the Associated Press) Markets at a Glance NEW YORK Stocks: steady, trading quiet. bonds: irregular; changes narrow. Cotton: higher; trade and mission house buying.

CHICAGO Wheat: Mixed; trade light. Corn: Steady: lofer most of the day, but rallied at close. Oats: Firm; did better than other cereals. Soybeans: Mixed; trading rather light. Hoga: Active, 25 to 50 cents higher, Cattle: Steady to 25 cents highor on most grades.

Hold Husband For Slaying His Bride, 19 BUTLER, PA. -(AP)- A mildappearing, bespectacled 'air force private was returned to Butler today to face murder charges in the strangulation of his 19-year-old bride. Pvt. Edward H. Rebilas WAS flown back from Sheppard air base near Wichita Falls.

by two state policemen. He is charged with knocking Mrs. Nancy Rebilas, 19, unconscious, stuffing a' tea towel down her throat and then burying her in a 10-inch deep grave last October. Rebilas admitted the slaying in a' written sttaement. He said he reported his wife missing and then joined the air force.

The crime was discovered when a farmer saw a red-painted toenail sticking out of the shallow grave on his farm near here. The soldier said the slaying tollowed an argument about his wife's attending a dance. Carlton O'Brien leaves her West HUSBAND MURDERED- with -Mrs. Leo McGown, after her husband Warwick, death in front of the home. O'Brien, a night club R.

home attorney was underworld informer being one of found shot to operator, the was principals in the $1,219,000 Brink's holdup. named by an Washable Sandpaper, Purple Snow New Products on Market New snow and washable sandpaper are just two of the new products on the market this week. And there are battery protectors, baby protectors, and glasses for use when driving. The snow is fizzed from a can by touching a button, and it comes not only in purple but also in blue, yellow, orange and green, pink. Just in case you want your to look like snow, it also snow in white.

Illinois Bronze comes Powder of is the marketer of this fluffy plastic preparation. Just Wash It The Bay State Abrasive' Pro ducts of Westboro, has developed an open mesh sanding fabric that doesn't become ed because the sanded particles fall through the mesh. It is called grithcloth, and it can be used wet dry by hand or in machines. To or clean you- just swish it in water. An automobile storage battery that captures escaping fumes cap and restores them to the battery and also warns against charging has been perfected by the University of Miami and Industrial Research Inc.

of Miami. Adds to Life The company says six: to 18 months is added to battery life and batter water stays at a safe level eight times longer than previously possible. To protect table tops from babies, the Hedwin of Baltimore has a flexible Vinylite plastic mat made in three demensions to look like a circus elephant. The mat is washable, lies flat, doesn't curl, and resists anything the baby can spill on it. Bausch Lomb of Rochester, N.

is making a pair of sun glasses for automobile driving that provides double protection against glare. The glasses have a metallic film at the top and bottom of the lens that filters overhead sun rays as well as sun glare from the road or metal accessories while leaving the center of the lens clear for vision. Youthful Speeder Fined $50 for Probation Break William Kemp, 16, of Dixon, received a $50 fine in county court Saturday by Judge Grover W. Gehant for violating his probation. He had been involved last week in a wild, 80-mile-an-hour chase by local police that ended five miles outside the city limits.

According to Probation Officer A. C. Handell, Kemp has been on probation since 1950, when he was arrested for first breaking into a residence and later into a Dixon schoolhouse. Tomorrow, in county court, schel Craft, who was arrested two years ago on a charge of adultery, will face broken probation charge. Craft was arrested in Ogle county last Friday on a charge of indecent exposure.

Dixon Man Held On Driving Charge Frank N. Collins, 1307 Ninth Dixon, was arrested by Dixon police about 10:30 p. m. today and turned over to the Lee county sheriff's office where he Was charged with driving while under the influence of liquor. Collins is to appear tomorrow in county court at 10 a.

m. BEGAN NIGHT SCHOOLS Kentucky originated the idea of evening schools in 1911. The state held classes on moonlit nights for the purpose of teaching adult 11- literates to read and write. We Will Discontinue Kitchen Service Beginning Monday, May 19th The Lounge Will Be Open as Usual THE TOWN HOUSE 117 Galena Ave. Lodges DIXON COMMANDERY Dixon Commandery Knights Templar will hold a stated meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 20. Refreshments will be served. The American legation at dad is a reproduceion of the White House in Washington. GET Terralac COMPLETE REPLACEMENT FOR SOWS MILE Save Time, Save MoneyRaise More Pigs with TERRALAC DIXON MILLS. Inc.

602 Depot Ave. Dial 4-9241 MEMBER FE LESS YE ANT FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION How Can I Get Ahead? It's easy, once you have made the start! 1. Open a Dixon National Bank Savings will do it. 2. Decide on a definite amountnot too large--to be added every payday.

3. No matter what happens, MAKE THAT DEPOSIT. 4. Cut out unnecessary expenses. Dixon National Bank has helped thousands of people throughout this district to get ahead financially--we'd be happy indeed, to help YOU! Don't miss the Big Circus Show May 23rd at the Armory DixON NATIONAL BANK 101 First St.

DIXON, ILLINOIS Phone 2-1381 IOn) saral 4 9245.

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